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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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  • icecrmcnkd
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    Portal to the vault?

    Sweeeeetttttt!

    Putting on my foil hat tomorrow and snorting some chemtrails.

  • Vguy72
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    Soooooo, there is another eclipse tomorrow....

    ....along with a CERN haldron collider test.
    Conspiracy theorists are having a field day.
    Possible portal being opened. I saw that in the Hellboy movie.
    I should know.
    My wife is one of them.
    Yeah....
    Marlins won a game today, so I guess anything is possible.

  • billy the kiddd
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    Deadvikes. October 1978

    Yeah I was there, I it was a blast.

  • Crow Told Me
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    I was the world's forgotten boy

    Was. Not so much anymore.

    People who knew me in the '70s when I was totally into the Stooges, Ramones, Clash, X (but also going to Dead shows) are sometimes surprised that I now spend a lot more time listening to the GOGD. ABB, Little Feat, TTB, jazz, and bluegrass. But I just tell 'em: my heart's just not as full of napalm as it used to be. Which is probably a good thing overall.

    Love the Gun Club. Fire of Love is absolutely worth getting for those random punk rock moods that still strike now and again. There's a vinyl reissue that included a nice live set, btw.

    My fave Road Trip is probably the Fillmore East 1970 one. Wonderful acoustic set, the Live Dead suite, excellent New Speedway (a song they never played enough, IMO), Cosmic Charlie. Just fantastic. Don't leave home without it.

    Last Five:

    Flaming Lips: Soft Bulletin Companion
    Joshua Redman: Wish
    GOGD: Lyceum '72 (the last night, whatever date that was)
    Maceo Parker: Mo Roots
    ABB: 3/28/2009 with Bob and Phil!

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    Road Trips

    I agree with Billy, 3.3 is one of the best.
    1.4 is one of my favorites as well. The Got My Mojo Working is spectacular. Always gets me moving. All three CDs are great. If I Had the World to Give.. Were you at these shows Billy? Five nights in October 78, box them up.
    Spring 78 is great and post Egypt 78 just rocks!
    Would love more.

  • jonathan918@GD
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    Denver 73

    I agree, this is probably my pick for top RT release!

    The Road Trips had a ton of great music!

    rock on, gang

  • Charlie3
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    Good description for the Gun Club. The cover of Run Through the Jungle on Miami really works for me. I'll have to check out Fire of Love, because sometimes that punk or punk adjacent vibe fits the mood. You know, when you feel like a streetwalking cheetah with a heart full of napalm.

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    Favorite Road Trips

    Volume 2 #2. 2/14/68 Carousel Ballroom & volume 3 #3 5/15/70. Fillmore East, both have fantastic bonus discs which you only got if you bought them early , which I did. Lots & lots of other great road trips also.

  • That Mike
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    It’s hard to disagree that Road Trips Vol. 4 No. 5 is one of the better Road Trips, not sure if it is one of their all time best performances, but it’s terrific, and segues nicely into the June 76 box set. Over 20 months off the road, the band comes back absolutely charged that June. I know Phil remarked that the band never got their consistency back after the 75 break, but you wouldn’t know it from these releases.
    My personal favourite Road Trips was Denver, Vol 4 No 3, primarily recorded November 21, 1973. The bonus disc is a beauty, too, with a 43 minute Dark Star > a sublime Eyes. While the Dave’s Picks have had a few “meh” bonus discs, Road Trips had some gems, like this one.

  • JoeyMC
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    76 box

    I don't get into that one as much as I should, but I'll always remeber how happy I was when it came. Man that was sweet.

    Ya know, I think that the Road Trips Vol. 4 No. 5 is it? 6/9, I think that may be the most perfect release ever. The show, the recording, the playing...it really is something. I feel like the people who play music and don't like the Dead have never heard that one.

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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.

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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!

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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

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

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

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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...

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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.

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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.

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

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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.

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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!

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

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....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.

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

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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

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....it?

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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.

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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.

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

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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

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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.

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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?

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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.

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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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So far just listened to first set day one. Great mix, great energy. Yahoo I was at these shows!

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bought dp 2 vinyl from experience, one album had chip. Took two months, but they got me a new one and with a better number

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A Book Signing with Robert Hunter - Menlo Park, CA. Nov. 4, 1990

World Premier of a 18 minute Q and A with Mr. Hunter.

Now available on dreamswedreamed dot com.

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No shipping confirmation here yet either. In N.Y.C., North West Bronx.

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