Dave's Picks Vol. 49: Frost Amphitheatre, Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA (4/27/85 & 4/28/85)

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Anyone who has ever seen the Dead can testify that one of its shows will add quite a bit of color to the environment here at Stanford. Anyone who has not seen one of these spectacles should have the opportunity to do so. The Grateful Dead are an important part of the Bay Area's cultural history. Those of us who saw them last week can testify that the Dead are alive and well. The Concert Network would be hard-pressed to find an act which would bring Frost Amphitheatre to life as the Dead would. - The Stanford Daily

As you know by now, we'd certainly have voted aye on this motion, so much so, that we've loaded up DAVE'S PICKS 49 with not one, but two complete Grateful Dead shows from the Frost Amphitheatre, Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA 4/27/85 and 4/28/85. The first shows from '85 in the series, these back-to-back hometown performances couldn't be more different while delivering the same level of passion and precision, five hours of it, in fact.

In 1985, the band were celebrating "20 Years So Far," a feat that found them on these particular nights confident with invention in terms of both setlists and playing. There are old songs renewed, rare covers revived, undeniably nuanced Jerry moments, and a few surprises from Brent Mydland too. While it's impossible to select highlights, we can say with certainty that the overall clarity of these shows is unparalleled, courtesy of Dan Healy's recordings.

Limited to 25,000 numbered copies, DAVE'S PICKS VOLUME 49: FROST AMPHITHEATRE, STANFORD U, PALO ALTO, CA 4/27/85 & 4/28/85 has been mastered to HDCD specs by Jeffrey Norman at Mockingbird Mastering.

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February 7, 2024 - 5:00pm

#801

ronmarley1

Joined:
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49 and…

Shared love for the transition out of Space into Wheel. Very fluid.
Also nice to see BÖC in the comments. My first concert was them with Aldo Nova opening, 1982. I was 15.
February 7, 2024 - 4:44pm

#802

wharfrat6969

Joined:
May 16, 2016

So many great moments!

D>Beautiful S>Wheel!
Truckin'>Other One transition!
Black Peter!

Just for starters.

Team Dead firing on all cylinders!

The recording, the recording!!!
February 7, 2024 - 3:47pm

#803

Vguy72

Joined:
June 29, 2007

From personal experience....

....my last fives have been blocked.
Lets see....
Taylor Swift - Red
Pink Floyd - Obscured By Clouds
Pink Floyd - Meddle
GOGD - The Second Frost Show
Blue Oyster Cult - Tyranny And Mutation
Hey now!! He likes it! Hey Mikey!!
February 7, 2024 - 3:23pm

#804

billy the kiddd

Joined:
November 8, 2021

I saw Willie Dixon....

Play at the S.F. Blues festival, he put on a great show. "I'm Ready and Hoochie Choochie Man" two great songs Willie Dixon wrote done by Muddy Waters.
February 7, 2024 - 2:57pm

#805

daverock

Joined:
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1stshow

First hand evidence suggests you were actually right. I do like that version of "Same Thing" from 1966 that is either on "Vintage" or Historic" Dead.
February 7, 2024 - 2:50pm

#806

1stshow70878

Joined:
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I stand corrected

Thanks HF and others. A little knowledge is a dangerous thing and I should check my sources better. That GD cover of Same Thing from 1967 is sure rough and ready.

Edit: I was unaware that they did that song way back in the primal era. I do remember an interview with Bob about working with Willie. I liked the song Eternity in the later era. Was that Rat Dog or GD?

Cheers
February 7, 2024 - 2:25pm

#807

daverock

Joined:
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Who wrote what - Willie Dixon

There's a documentary on and with Buddy Guy, in which he states that Willie Dixon routinely amended other peoples songs, changed a word here and there, and then claimed authorship. In the same film Muddy Waters agrees that such behaviour was common practice around the blues scene in the 1950's. And he should know - "Rollin' and Tumblin" is often credited to him - yet it was first recorded by Hambone Willie Newbern in 1929.
February 7, 2024 - 2:05pm

#808

Gary Farseer

Joined:
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HF

Thanks for the warm welcome back. I spent several weeks down in Margaritaville. So away from net for the most part and phones. Holding close to my 5 oclock somewhere attitude; as well as, 420 somewhere attitude. Had some friends come down to visit at various times. Mostly welcomed the year blotto. Gulf Coast is lots of fun off season.

And yeah, i needed a break from hey now. Think it actually raised my blood pressure. But yeah, feels good to be home again and home here again.
February 7, 2024 - 1:56pm

#809

Angry Jack Straw

Joined:
October 2, 2012

Dmcvt

My intention was not to demean VT in any way. I love Vermont and get back there quite often. I actually spent quite a bit of time outside of Burlington. My point was simply to illustrate the volume of traffic. When you’re hitchhiking on the New York State Thruway you have access to about 100 cars a minute. When you’re hitchhiking on the back roads of Vermont, you’re lucky to get one car every couple of minutes, often interspersed with farm equipment. That’s all.

My apologies for any misunderstanding.
February 7, 2024 - 1:13pm

#810

estimated-eyes

Joined:
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willie dixon

I would have to go back to some of the blues biographies in my collection to confirm, but it was pretty well established that Willie Dixon would get new, young players in Chicago Chess sessions and proceed to take writing credits for the songs artists brought in. He knew the real money was in the songwriting credits. This is why he was so prolific. He wasn't the only one doing that in the music industry of the 1950s, but it is pretty well known.

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Anyone who has ever seen the Dead can testify that one of its shows will add quite a bit of color to the environment here at Stanford. Anyone who has not seen one of these spectacles should have the opportunity to do so. The Grateful Dead are an important part of the Bay Area's cultural history. Those of us who saw them last week can testify that the Dead are alive and well. The Concert Network would be hard-pressed to find an act which would bring Frost Amphitheatre to life as the Dead would. - The Stanford Daily

As you know by now, we'd certainly have voted aye on this motion, so much so, that we've loaded up DAVE'S PICKS 49 with not one, but two complete Grateful Dead shows from the Frost Amphitheatre, Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA 4/27/85 and 4/28/85. The first shows from '85 in the series, these back-to-back hometown performances couldn't be more different while delivering the same level of passion and precision, five hours of it, in fact.

In 1985, the band were celebrating "20 Years So Far," a feat that found them on these particular nights confident with invention in terms of both setlists and playing. There are old songs renewed, rare covers revived, undeniably nuanced Jerry moments, and a few surprises from Brent Mydland too. While it's impossible to select highlights, we can say with certainty that the overall clarity of these shows is unparalleled, courtesy of Dan Healy's recordings.

Limited to 25,000 numbered copies, DAVE'S PICKS VOLUME 49: FROST AMPHITHEATRE, STANFORD U, PALO ALTO, CA 4/27/85 & 4/28/85 has been mastered to HDCD specs by Jeffrey Norman at Mockingbird Mastering.

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Does anybody know who this is?
I don't.

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Does anybody know who this is?
I don't.

Limited Edition: 21996/25000 in the house

Just received mailbox candy, yum, burning into iTunes as we speak. Nuggets game on, wife on the couch, dog on the floor (is that backwards?) ;-p

I shall have to pour a glass and prepare for an enjoyable listen...

Past five:

Queens of the Stone Age - Queens of the Stone Age
Sonny Rollins - Saxophone Colossus
Led Zeppelin - Presence
Aerosmith - Night in the Ruts
Art Pepper - Art Pepper Meets the Rhythm Section

Cheers!

\m/

Hiya Folks...

Just got an email from HendrixFreak...he wanted me to say hi to everyone and let all of us know that he has been snafued to the nth degree trying to log in...password recognition is driving him crazy and sucks him into a vortex of insane endless loops...other than that he is doing fine ....hasta

Hooray for hendrixfreak

Boo to the Hey Now shyte

Born X I'd

No idea
A tattoo?
Where'd you find it?

I've tried last five's....

....but I get blocked.
They were decent.
I'm not one to usually give up, but there is a limit.

Born Cross Eyed

It looks like a portrait of Walter Becker to me. Perhaps, for a tattoo?

Great googily moogily

I stumbled upon a Treasure of ABB recordings, many of which I have had on tape and some on mp3, others brand new to me. One of them 11-22-69 features a 55 minute Mountain Jam that is one of the most spectacular things I have ever heard. At one point in what's tracked as a Will the Circle Be Unbroken Jam, Dickey is raging it toward The Other One type licks. Berry also has a longer, and more impressive bass solo. Long Bo Diddley Jam section, too, but this is just amazing stuff. Also, the 3-13-70 Warehouse show is included, which I've only had the 45 min Mountain Jam from before, so was excited to check the sound on that. Quite good, but best thing may have been the intro to Liz Reed where it's drily introduced as "Dickey Betts's composition... "I've Got Peanut Butter Caught In My Pubic Hairs", to which a refinement of Crunchy Peanut Butter is offered before Duane jokes that "You can dance the Funky Chicken to this song... if you have a mind to" while Dickey is playing a figure like the lead lick in The Eleven. They proceed to rip through what is now one of my favorite versions of Liz Reed. No shipping notice, so gonna dive into the Allmans for a while...

Dave's Picks #49

Number 3002 has arrived!
Earlier than the email notice anticipated as well, which was still not too slow at all.
Very impressive start to the subscription year indeed! Thank's Dave.

Last 5

Goals by the R e d W i n g s.
Take that VGK.
:)

"Come hear Uncle John's Band..

by the riverside. Got somethings to talk about , here beside the rising tide" Go 49ets!

Wowza

More gold nugget finds: 7-15-71 a short show without Gregg, Duane sings 2 songs, and and 2 instrumentals, but the second song he sings is the old blues Goin' Down Slow which he, Berry Oakley, and Johnny Sandlin (Jaimoe not being comfortable in the studio yet) recorded for the project that would have been his solo album, but became the ABB instead. The recording of Goin' Down Slow was one of two songs released on Duane Allman Anthology and then re-released on the Dreams box, Trouble No More Box, Skydog Box, but so worth it. And at a Montreal show 9-3-71 between Whipping Post and Revival is a Jam that features a snippet of Duane doing the Layla lick, then Dickey doubles it, and they do it for a couple bars. Made me wish they had done that back then, they had two fairly competent guitarists and Gregg could have sung the absolute shit out of that. I'm in hog heaven over here. Also, found one stinging regret in missing the Raleigh show in Sept 2000 with Jimmy Herring (did catch Charlotte 3 months prior and Xmas Jam 3 months later), where they did Loan Me a Dime, a Boz Scaggs song Duane played a 6 minute solo on. Never knew they did that outside a few Beacon shows.

Alvar

How do you post so much without getting Hey Now'd?

No clue

I just try it and see. I can get Hey Now'd for one sentence, as well. There have been several days where I tried posting recently and was forbidden by the Hey Now overlords. Yet these snuck through. I don't know, man. I just don't know.

oooh getting close

ryxs your post made me go check my own shipping status, and I see it reached my local PO earlier this afternoon and now has a delivery date of Monday. This does seem faster than last year, that's for sure... fingers crossed ofc, as it ain't here yet!

It is as healthy to enjoy sentiment as to enjoy jam.....

Hey rockers!

Alvarhanso check PM.

Every good jam tart deserves the finest preserve........

Rock on,

Doc
Any kind of peanut butter/chocolate concoction is my jam......

Tuesdayish

Still no shipping notice, but USPS had it in my account. Just showed up today in UPS, with an estimate of Tuesday.

That Mike and Phish

thanks for the heads up on Spectrum 97

The more you drive, the less…

The more you drive, the less intelligent you become, RM

Daves #49 has landed in the Bay Area

2 great shows that I was fortunate to be at ( along with alot of other great folks who post here.)

Try a last 5 non GD

China White danger zone
Acid Mothers Temple p l l
Various singles
Mothers of invention burnt weeny sandwich
Nazareth hair of the dog

No H N

Cool

Phish Spectrum '97....

....arguably their best year. I'm firmly in the '94 - '98 best five years camp. They were en fuego. All the practice came to fruition.
Pink Talking Fish are playing tonight at The Brooklyn Bowl. $30. Seriously thinking of going.

Forensicdoc, check your PM

59 degrees today

Wow

Warm for January, y'all

Shipping notice MIA

I have not received a shipping notice yet. Should I be concerned? And yes the weather has been mild here in N.Y.C..

Waiting in a long line to drop off stuff at Goodwill

Disc 2 of 9 27 72

Interesting musical accompaniment

59 in Seattle

80 in dc the other day

Quite a hoax

There was a 79 degree day in DC on the same date in the 50s, i read

Still

Mild

Ever consider how much waste there is?

A lot

I....

....went.

Worth...

....it?

Literally got Hey Now'd...

Opening the page. That's a new twist, a pre-emptive warning...

I am

VGUY72 I am partial to phish 92 started seeing them back then first show was chestnut cabaret on the campus of Drexel University where I went the next two for me where arrowhead ranch and Amy’s farm. Was so laid back back then Chestnut Cab was such a small venue hey it was a great show between dead tours.

Dickus Pickus

I notice that Dicks Picks 1 and 2 - on vinyl - are now available on Amazon UK. I've already got the 2nd - which is immaculate, but number 1. is calling my name too.

fourty-nine

eta today before 1900 hours, fingers-crossed. better half works tomorrow so this house will be a rocking so don't bother knocking
here's to you all!

Peace All!
uncle_tripel

Alvar

Facepalm. If you happen to remember what page it was you got this, please let me know. Thank you.

Daverock

What's DiP 1 vinyl going for over there? RGM had it very limited for $99 for the 4-LPs and now others have it for $149 now. (Experience vinyl and private parties) Even our A ma zon wants $141. I just can't go there. My limit is $25 per LP so I'm out on that one.
Cheers

Unfortunate

This high percentage of harmless posts that are still getting heynowd.

AngryJack was right, it's become pointless censorship.

It seemed to let this one through though, but not any of the variations of the one I wrote regarding 1985 Grateful Dead so I just gave up and wrote this instead.

Unfortunate. We have become part of a dysfunctional corporate bureaucracy

It is a bit pricey

1stshow - I've just looked it up, and it comes to 176.54 dollars. I'm still tempted though. I haven't subscribed, so...that justifies it !
On the other side of the scale is the cd that arrived today - "Slick! Live at Oil Can Henry's" by Grant Green. A great sounding live cd from 1975, with a chunky little book. Yours for 8.66 dollars.

NegativeLand

anyone have a massive collection?

Continue

left last one short just in case.

I've been asked about the group,,, I have random cuts. I see the archive has some. Anyone out there have all, in order?

It was this page

I visit often enough, I just start typing "daves"and see which appropriate numbered Dave's Pick forum page comes up, and as the page loaded, right at the top was a big red Hey Now message. A few hours before that, I did have some trouble sending a PM, and got an error that referenced something about a server error, not the typical Hey Now admonition from our unseen Hank Kingsley overlord. But it's funny, as proudfoot had rightly questioned how the hell such long, verbose messages of mine had gotten through as others were denied. Maybe the Hey Now was just catching up with me, or giving me a pre-emptive strike of shock and awe.

Waiting, wondering

Still no Frost shows shippee confirmee here.

OT but here’s a fun fact for the day. The neighborhood of South of Market in SF Bobby sang of as the “land of ruin” in 1989 on Picasso Moon is, as of December 2023, the most expensive neighborhood in the country in terms of price per square foot at $5,415 a square foot. Number 2 is $4,415.

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