Dave's Picks Vol. 48: Pauley Pavilion, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA (11/20/71)

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"Basketball and music have always been alike for me, the celebration of life and all other good things. These two art forms represent the best of teamwork, constant motion, creativity, leadership, communication, focus, execution, friendship, loyalty, cooperation, hope, opportunity, purpose, sacrifice, discipline, honor, and fun. Fun to play. Fun to practice. UCLA and the Grateful Dead embody the highest levels of this celebratory joy. At UCLA, it was endless fun, every day, in every way. We couldn’t wait to get there, to get going — though it was never as much fun as when the Grateful Dead came to play with and for us." - Bill Walton

Is there anyone who knows the acoustics of Pauley Pavilion better than Bill "Grateful Red" Walton? We think not, so we signed him on as a liner note scribe for DAVE'S PICKS VOLUME 48, the complete previously unreleased show from UCLA's Pauley Pavilion 11/20/71. He was there, after all, "driftin' and dreamin'" as the Dead shape-shifted through a first set of Americana classics from WORKINGMAN'S DEAD and AMERICAN BEAUTY into their second one featuring truly primal psychedelic jams (a 23+ minute "The Other One"). They peppered in hot takes on tracks from the recently released SKULL & ROSES ("Bertha," "Me And My Uncle," "Not Fade>GDTRFB") and road-tested tunes like "Ramble On Rose" and "Tennessee Jed" that would make the cut on the following year's EUROPE '72. It's all delivered with such precision that we've had to come up with some overtime for disc three. There you'll find 75+ minutes of music from the Kiel Opera House, St. Louis, MO, 10/24/70, with the rest of the show due sometime in the near future.

Limited to 25,000 numbered copies, DAVE'S PICKS VOLUME 48: PAULEY PAVILION 11/20/71 was recorded by Rex Jackson and has been mastered to HDCD specs by Jeffrey Norman at Mockingbird Mastering.

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October 20, 2023 - 5:52pm

#911

wissinomingdeadhead

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49

I've narrowed it down to 2 real good possibilities based on DL's 1st of the year selections so for DP 49, I am guessing it'll be 7/25/74 or 6/22/91 of course I could be totally wrong. As of I am going with 7/25/74.
October 20, 2023 - 4:32pm

#912

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Albums for Rolling

The undisputed best album for cleaning/de-seeding/rolling is Bob Marley's "Rastaman Vibrations". It even gives you instructions. If you turn the album sideways while it is open, on the edge it says "This album jacket is great for cleaning herb". My other favorite is the Live/Dead album, which on the back, the words "acid" are sort of highlighted. Looking forward to Dave's 48. After my first boxset purchase (HCSS), I still prefer the individual releases.......not as much repitition. Not sure if I will go the boxset route again, but I DO LOVE it as Fall '73 was the beginning of my GD journey.
October 20, 2023 - 4:05pm

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proudfoot

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posting on this board has gotten difficult

looks like I can post again
October 20, 2023 - 2:12pm

#914

daverock

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Vinyl

Doing - I'd definitely like to take you up on that - thanks very much. I have just typed a typically long PM, only to be told "Hey now we are going to block your message" or something. See if this message gets through. I'll try with the PM again either later on or tomorrow.
October 20, 2023 - 1:51pm

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daverock

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Vinyl

Doing - that's very kind of you, thanks - I'll head on over now!
October 20, 2023 - 1:01pm

#916

Doingtheneedful

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DP2 Vinyl

Do not fear Dave! I’m fortunate in that I hooked up with an American acquaintance who inherited my Mother’s house over there, and they have kindly agreed to be a “proxy” for me on this one. Hopefully that’s taken care of but I’ll consider it done when it’s in my hands! At least the Band Camp option will be useful in the future.

I’m all set for DP’s original CD releases up to the early 20’s (I think) at least, but here’s something about vinyl being cut from the original reels and not the digitised masters that really floats my boat. DP 2 is delicious and deserves to be heard as close to source as it’s possible to get, along with a meaty cover to slobber over!

Thanks for thinking of me though. I’m sending you a DM re another Vinyl release that might tempt you. I ordered two to cover my bases (well actually, by dint of a snafu from dead.net shop at the time) and decided not to cancel or return the dupe as I had you in mind…:-)
October 20, 2023 - 12:45pm

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JimInMD

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I'm pretty stoked too

All three discs. They do take quite a bit of criticism for not always picking the exact 71 show we want. I bet 71 takes a bigger role in future releases and they begin to improve.. think of it as a 1971 Wack-a-Mole. Eventually they are going to begin hitting more 1969 too. I had a banana this morning, great source of potassium and the boxes make great storage containers for 10" reel to reel tapes.
October 20, 2023 - 11:51am

#918

Angry Jack Straw

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DaP 48

Dave played a portion of this earlier today. Count me in as prematurely excited. Joke all you want. Love the 71 sound. TOO sounded awesome.
October 20, 2023 - 9:40am

#919

Gary Farseer

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Reflecting on this week.

How many joints are in a lid?

60...I was going to a Blue Oyster Cult concert in 1981. At this point we were getting high quality home grown. So there were a few seeds but not like the Mexican brown. After I cleaned the few seeds and one large stem I was left with nothing but pure smokeable. (Hmm spell check doesnt get it) Any way at that time, I had one of those automatic joint rollers, you know with the 2 horizontal wheels with a piece of material to load into. Roll the wheels to get it tight! Then take a paper, once area between the wheels was packed full, and twist one wheel one rotation, you were ready to lick and then finish the wheel rotation to seal it shut. The night before the concert I sat in my room and cranked out 60 beauties. Now remember this was a so called lid, probably more than an ounce, maybe 1.5. I took all 60 joints into the concert. It was smoke fest in our section, balcony, right in the dead middle. I ended up selling about 30 of those for $5/each. So, paid for my ticket and my smoke, and went home with around 20 of those for later.

So much more to tell about the guy who I bought smoke from, and my home town arena which had incredible sound for a hockey, as Bob always called them. More l8tr.
October 20, 2023 - 8:18am

#920

uncle_tripel

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wanted to post earlier, but REJECTED for inaccurate vernacular..

must say I thoroughly enjoyed all the posts this week:) from comments about Pauley #48+filler to lids (double-albums with stems & seeds lol) to 3CD vs 4CD releases to Jessie “Lonecat” Fuller to being surprised at how much “hippiedom” in BTV to comments of DL's Relix's interview
All great reading!

Last weekend, thought I'd move out of the 70's for a stretch, did a ton of shows from
'73, '74, & '77 SO FAR this year, and as #48 will arrive in a couple of weeks, I decided to move on for a couple of weeks to…

6/14/85: GREEK, at the end of drumz> "Do you call that music?, Yes, I fah king do!"

Robbie Robertson: Storyville

6/15/85: GREEK

8/14/94: JGB: Warfield

6/16/85: GREEK

5/10/91: Shoreline, still prefer the 5/11 show

last week's 5 & followed those up this week with the next 5:

Beatles: Abbey Road

7/14/85: VENTURA; man, forgot all about this one, so glad its' back on my "hit parade"

Buddy Guy: Damn Right, I've Got the Blues

4/5/82: Spectrum (attended with friends, some no longer with us, great memories), and chose it because I was inspired by Garcia's playing at Nassau 4/11/82 especially on Let it Grow from "Tapers Section"

10/20/90: Berlin, Dark Star is the reason I went back to EU'90

hmm..at some point, when St Louis’s well has run dry, which locale’s well will they to tap next?
Buffalo, Rochester, Providence, Worcester, Miami
or tap the well of a venue:
Avalon, Boston Tea Party, CalExpo, Capitol, Electric Factory, Frost, Greek, Kaiser, Shoreline, SPAC…………….

Peace All!
Uncle_Tripel

Almost forgot...Garcia did an interview, believe it was '84, where he mentions the band's intent, and how everything they do is done "intentionally". Gotta believe that still holds water.

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"Basketball and music have always been alike for me, the celebration of life and all other good things. These two art forms represent the best of teamwork, constant motion, creativity, leadership, communication, focus, execution, friendship, loyalty, cooperation, hope, opportunity, purpose, sacrifice, discipline, honor, and fun. Fun to play. Fun to practice. UCLA and the Grateful Dead embody the highest levels of this celebratory joy. At UCLA, it was endless fun, every day, in every way. We couldn’t wait to get there, to get going — though it was never as much fun as when the Grateful Dead came to play with and for us." - Bill Walton

Is there anyone who knows the acoustics of Pauley Pavilion better than Bill "Grateful Red" Walton? We think not, so we signed him on as a liner note scribe for DAVE'S PICKS VOLUME 48, the complete previously unreleased show from UCLA's Pauley Pavilion 11/20/71. He was there, after all, "driftin' and dreamin'" as the Dead shape-shifted through a first set of Americana classics from WORKINGMAN'S DEAD and AMERICAN BEAUTY into their second one featuring truly primal psychedelic jams (a 23+ minute "The Other One"). They peppered in hot takes on tracks from the recently released SKULL & ROSES ("Bertha," "Me And My Uncle," "Not Fade>GDTRFB") and road-tested tunes like "Ramble On Rose" and "Tennessee Jed" that would make the cut on the following year's EUROPE '72. It's all delivered with such precision that we've had to come up with some overtime for disc three. There you'll find 75+ minutes of music from the Kiel Opera House, St. Louis, MO, 10/24/70, with the rest of the show due sometime in the near future.

Limited to 25,000 numbered copies, DAVE'S PICKS VOLUME 48: PAULEY PAVILION 11/20/71 was recorded by Rex Jackson and has been mastered to HDCD specs by Jeffrey Norman at Mockingbird Mastering.

Meaningful Tripe

The dictionary definition of trip is "the first or second stomach of a cow or other ruminant used as food." Pretty interesting, eh?

Hey Now!

Tripe Face Boogie

Gonna boogie my scruples away

'79 Box

Agreed '79 is due, bring on 12.1

I give up....

I tried to keep it simple by only posting my last five listens. Seems like that was too radical.

This really sucks now!

?edoC

?yaw siht ti yrt I fi tahW

Sey

Ti yrt

....ekorb ton s'ti fi

?ti xif t'nod....

No...

..I mean yes - they cobbled my last 5 too. Maybe it's the choices that are too radical. Here's the last one -
A Monstrous Psychedelic Bubble Exploding In Your Mind - volume 3 - Pagan Love Vibrations by The Amorphous Androgynous.
Put that in your pipe and smoke it, Deadnet!

New Year’s Performances!

.. speaking hoping everyone is having a grateful new year so far, I would Love another News Years Release from the Vaults! Way over due! So many primo shows! in my deadhead !
I Love Everything they released so far! I listen to a lot of new years gigs every now a then. You always get something special. My last was at Oakland Coliseum arena! Special guests WithBranford Marsalis on tenor sapransosax! & Hamza El Din on Percussion! 1990! What a Rock’n Show!!! Or did they release this, I can’t remember? I’m getting old from my head to my cowboy boots! ;) Phil is playing awesome tonight! Really primo stuff!

Sadly Brent had passed away by this Tim. So they has keyboards and piano tonight

you guys...

thanks. Working on it.

Last Five

Just to test the Hey Now:

James Brown and the JBs: Funky People
King Crimon: Vroom Vroom
Herbie Hancock: The Prisoner
Little Feat: London show from the Waiting for Columbus box
Allman Brothers: A&R Studios

(Wot, no GOGD?)

I am STILL not a robot!

"And now for something completely different..."

Man, I'll probably never get that feeling I used to get watching Monty Python's Flying Circus. Or Fawlty Towers. English humor is... different, absurd, hysterical.

I had managed to never hear Taylor Swift (or know it was her) until this past Christmas Day at the in-laws. The wife and teenage daughter had Swift on in the kitchen while the lads watched football in the living room. The food was in the kitchen, so I was exposed to it a fair bit. I knew, in my mind, before I asked that it was her. It just had to be. A lot of acoustic, bland, dispassionate... I could go on and on with the negative adjectives but it wasn't like I hated it, like, say, Bro Country or Gangsta Rap, it was just mildly annoying because Taylor Swift music is so void of energy it can hardly alchemize into anything else.

Most people here are passionate enough about music to probably not be Swifties. I harbor no ill will at all toward her for her incredible industry success, she's a pop culture phenomenon and now with the Travis Kelce thing it's just taken it to the next level... beautiful girl, handles herself well in public and I do believe she has a large hand in creating her music, unlike, say, Britney.

Last 5:

Pink Floyd - Pulse (currently on next to last song on disc 2, Comfortably Numb. DG never gets old).
Montrose - Montrose
Van Halen - Women and Children First
John Mellencamp - Strictly a One-Eyed Jack (check this out! It is so far from Jack & Diane it'll blow you away)
Soundgarden - Down on the Upside

Be well, all of you.

\m/

Currently

Dave's 37
Love this William & Mary show.
Never saw the Dead there, but I did see The Cure and Love & Rockets at the college.

Pulse

Had it on DVD for years, got the restored and re-edited Blu-ray a while back.
Saw the same setlist second night at the Pontiac Silverdome (went both nights, on floor both nights).
Good stuff.

The official Gamehendge video....

....is up on the toob.
🥳.
Tela, Tela.
The 42 minute mark. Lordy.
If I ever want goosebumps, I'll play that.
Thumbs up to the production crew. 👍
Unsung heros.
Edit.
I tried to edit this with Swift/Football/Dolphins vs Chiefs and got hey nowed.
It was a good rant.

Dolphins vs. Chiefs?

Go Dolphins

1/10/79

Ja, gerne

Folk in hell

Great triple cd of John Lee Hooker on Ace records - "The Sensation Recordings 1948-1952". These sides have never sounded better.

Daverock & The Hooker

Thanks, that post just cost me 30 bucks! :-)

1/1o/79

Hi Proudfoot - are you from Denmark ? "Ja, gerne" means "yes, please" in Danish.. Happy new year - all..

Last 5

George Harrison-Disc 5 from ATMP Deluxe box
Ambrose Akinmusire-Owl Song
Iron Butterfly-Live at Fillmore East-Disc 1
George Harrison-Disc 3 from ATMP Deluxe box
The Babys-Live From The Bottom Line 1979

Music is the Best!!

Yo Dane

I'm straight outta the USA

I do speak a good bit of German

Ja, gerne is German for, you guessed it, yes please

Apologies to Marye

But

Women
Are
Crazy

Sixtus-billerica-beer cat

The Billerica forum tape was given to me from a guy named BJ in1987 who lived in Natick. We met somewhere and had a few beers, and a bone while hanging at his apartment. He was a die hard deadhead. I was pretty happy, because this was the first time I actually started to listen the dead. The set list was so great that we poured a beer over his cat. The cat didn't really care much. Maybe we did it since we popped a purple micro-dot.

30 bucks well spent

Dennis - foundational. Check out "Burnin' Hell" track 22 cd 1. There can't have been many other records made in 1949 that sounded like that.

Music is the best !!

Someone should remind my neighbour of that when she hears my guitar playing. She can be very judgemental. Ears like a bat.

Burnin’ Hell

The last 40 seconds alone is worth the price of admission!!

re: Beercat / Carlos

Gettin' Hey Now'd on my reply but wanted to acknowledge how awesome a story that is!! If I can get my initial thoughts into this here 'puter without rejection, I will.
I know Marye is on it.

Sixtus

Slopeside chat

Makes me want to go skiing.

Sounds like DaP51 filler will be the rest of 10-24-70 (at least that’s my interpretation).

Phish dropped a new archival release today....

....Sacramento 11.30.96. A show I happened to attend and it's a scorcher and the mix is spot on.
In fact, the last two releases were ones I was at.
Thank you Kevin Shapiro! (Phish's Lemieux).

Negative 30 degrees in KC for tomorrow's game....

....frozen fish sticks anyone?

Faulty towers

The funny episode where they had German guests, and basil took their dinner orders while making references to nazi Officers like one "eva prawn," one "herman goring", and two Colditz salads.

Negative 30 is no joke

That's some serious cold rain and snow.

Any favorite shows with Cold Rain and Snow out there? Love the phat chords in the 12/26/79 show in Oakland, for example. Show's with great Weather Report Suites fit nicely in the days when "Seasonal" weather goes a bit too far.

Edit: Notice posts with the work "Negative" flow right on through the crackpot evil algorithms developed by Dr. HeyNow.

VGUY/Phish

It’s always fun when a show you attended gets an official release. I was at the Brooklyn show in (2004??) and an Atlantic City show in (2010-2011??) I’m not sure if it’s drug/alcohol related but I can’t remember shirt anymore!!

Area 51

Mr. McGuire: I just want to say one word to you. Just one word regarding 51.

Benjamin: Yes, sir.

Mr. McGuire: Are you listening?

Benjamin: Yes, I am.

Mr. McGuire: Bruce.

Neg thirty

They shouldn't play

1 20 79

Mixed feelings about that show

Kinda good

Kinda meh

Two previous Dark Stars are great

1 20 79 meanders and then disappears

15 degrees in seattle

That's really cold for here

I recommend

Listening on that u t oo b

To Led Zeppelin
Live
r n r into celebration day

Yummy

12 9 71

I am re listening to LTTR box

Nice

Anniversary show 1/13/80 Oakland

44 years ago I was was up in Oakland for a show with the Grateful Dead. Also on the bill was Santana, The Beach Boys, John Chipollina, and Joan Baez, it was a Benefit show for Cambodian refugees. The Dead played great!

1/14- 24

Hello all - great day in Denmark; we have a new King - Frederik X - his mother (at 83) stepped down - and we have a new queen - Mary of Australia.. BW from (royal) Copenhagen..

Paste - Best Dead Songs

Check out the list of best Grateful Dead songs in the most recent Paste newsletter. Just give Paste a Google, enjoy the list and let the controversy begin...
I still like Wharf Rat the best!

No Day Job on that list?

Rubbish

Funny kind of question

When I think of best songs, I tend to think of the studio versions - of which "Box of Rain" and "Ripple" shine very brightly indeed.
Because The Dead's songs were so fluid, a more interesting question might be -which is the best version of songs.

A more informative list

Studio songs that are better live.
Probably all of them.

I personally cant choose one best song

Listening currently to 1 17 79

The recording starts with Bobby saying Garcia is sick and on a respirator and the show is cancelled and will be made up later. (From the cancelled Fall 78 shows )

Then the recording switches to 1 17 79.

Interesting.

Studio v Live

For the most part I would agree - Live Dead is where it is at. But for me there are a few exceptions - I can think of 4 from American Beauty - Box of Rain, Ripple-Brokedown Palace and Attics of My Life. I don't think I have ever heard any live versions of those songs that I prefer to those studio cuts.
American Beauty as a whole is amazing, of course!

1 17 79

Black Peter

Slowest one I have ever heard

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