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 14, 2024 - 8:22am

#681

Oroborous

Joined:
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It would be one thing if they did the right thing and something went wrong etc, but to basically kill another human being because of what? Greed?
I’m all about moving on and not getting hung up on past shit that you can’t change, but this motherf@##$& needs to feel real pain!
February 14, 2024 - 8:21am

#682

Oroborous

Joined:
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My goodness, that’s a horrible story and can’t imagine what your going through!
I’ll I can recommend is keep busy, long walks, and lots of Dead…if you get confused just listen to the music play.
Eventually, time may not fully heal, but like all the heavy shit you’ve been through in life, this will pass.
February 14, 2024 - 8:20am

#683

Oroborous

Joined:
June 19, 2007

Needful

Tried to respond but this ridiculous nonsense won’t let me post!
February 14, 2024 - 5:24am

#684

Doingtheneedful

Joined:
June 11, 2007

Thank you!

Thanks vguy and Dave! Your words mean a lot. Kevin was indeed special. Incredible social conscience and extremely intelligent. Never once raised his voice and was always measured and deliberate when he needed to be, and fun and surprising when he felt like it. The fact that we were solid and firm friends since the early 90’s speaks volumes. I tend to piss off most folk within weeks! lol. I’m not nasty at all, but I somehow seem to be a bit obvious when suffering fools… Precious little poppet that I am.

My wife grew up with Kevin in Carshalton when they were kids. They even dated for a while a long time before I appeared on the scene. In one of life’s funny little co-inky dinks, we probably passed each other all the time when I was living in Putney as a young teen. Turns out we even used the same video store!

It just destroys me that the coroner concluded he would almost certainly be with us today had he been admitted and given intravenous antibiotics. It’s one thing to be a hoity insecure pillock, but when a life is lost, and it’s not a “mistake”, then surely there’s something that needs to happen there. It won’t bring him back and I won’t claim sheer altruism in the “just so it doesn’t ever happen to anyone else” vein. No. I want the SOB to pay the price out of sheer anger and venom. I wish I could be a bigger person about it. I’m just not there yet. Nor do I expect to be any time soon. Sorry, but a line was crossed when it comes to my ability to forgive.

For what it’s worth, I genuinely feel good about how my wife and I have picked up his widow and given her the safe space and sanctuary she needs. And she’ll have it forever. We’re even giving the spare bedroom in the place we’re moving to a name… “Julie’s Room”. She’s such a good and kind person. Just like Kevin. It makes us feel a little better that we can at the very least give her our unqualified support and affection and always have a place for her to feel safe in. And, she’s using it, so that in itself shows that it’s needed and that it’s a good thing for her.

Anyway. Thanks again. Sincerely. It needs to be shared so I can lessen the empty anger that the finality of it all brings.

I’ve been dwelling on the nature of “void” and the fact that I’m terrified of it - and no, the argument that I won’t be around to miss it just makes it worse. Even typing this is making my chest tighten, breathing laboured, and skin feel like it’s slow burning - anxiety to the max. How do you rationalise the unacceptable? All I can take from it is that if I feel this bad about losing life, I must really love it, and I’m trying oh so hard to use that as my “FU” to the reaper…

Still. One of the terrible compromises that we’re all born with. “I’m going to give you something so magical, that when I take it away, and I WILL take it away, you’ll have never existe”. Jesus. Sorry, but now I’m having a full blown panic attack. Any ideas anyone? I don’t even drink anymore nearly two and half years sober, and thank god because if this wasn’t an excuse to bury myself in a bottle, then I don’t know what would be. So, if I qualify that question to “Any holistic ideas anyone?” Then maybe that’s better.

One thing I can say with utmost confidence. The music of the good old Grateful Dead certainly helps. One thing I was really apprehensive about with sobriety and “being straight” was how it might alter my relationship with and enjoyment of the music. Turns out, not a jot! If anything it’s better than ever. My playing is improved and I can add thought to my guitar playing that allows for more “play” and less “see what sticks”. I guess the analogy would be the painter who knows how to use texture and layers as opposed to your Jackson Pollocks who luzz stuff everywhere and see what happens. They both produce interesting results and there is nothing to stop the chucking it about but, but having that extra layer in the arsenal gives you more toys to play with.

How I got here from there I don’t know. But let’s end on a positive… Anyone considering changes around chemical self medication… I will assure you that YOU will still be YOU on the other side. You might do things a little differently, or require yourself to get “there” a different way, but don’t worry about losing yourself. I think it’s a bit of a common thing that folks can worry about when they’ve become dependant on certain addictive behaviours. That loss of one’s self. I’m here as living proof that you’ll still be there on the other side and what’s more, it’ll be earned and more valued, and dare I say, it’s not inappropriate to feel a little smug about it.

Right. I’m much happier for having let all that out so thanks again all! It’s really, really appreciated.

Now back to “how do I get my undelivered copy of DP48?” Again, any pointers would be brilliant. I’ve no doubt it was sent, but I’ve lost a few packages in the last six months or so… Never been a problem until recently, and ties up with when Evri started doing the “last to the door” legs. They recently (last week) put a watch in a “safe place”. Well. They threw it in the recycling wheelie bin actually. But hey, could have been a bush, right?

:-)
February 14, 2024 - 2:59am

#685

daverock

Joined:
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Doingtheneedful

Great to see you back on here - I wondered what had happened, and am sorry I didn't reach out earlier. You have absolutely no need to apologise at all - it sounds as though you have been to hell and back since we last communicated. Terrible what happened to your mate Kevin. He sounds as though he was a great person to have known and hung out with. What a tragic thing to happen to him. My heart felt condolences to you and his wife.

Yup- I am still interested in the 1978 Daves Picks on vinyl - I'll send you my address by email - if not now - I am due out in a minute - but later today.
As you guessed, I have got Dicks Picks 2 on vinyl - but thanks for thinking of me.
My eyes lit up when I saw Ozric Tentacles in your post - but dimmed again when you talked of Phish. I have never heard them really - I'm not quite sure, but the very idea puts me off. Very unfair -I'm sure they'll survive ! Ozric Tentacles on the other hand - I've seen many great gigs by them over the years. Incidentally - they also sound great on vinyl.
All the best - cheers - Dave
February 14, 2024 - 2:32am

#686

gratefulgerd

Joined:
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#49 Scarlet...

This Scarlet... is absolutely top tier. Jerry is taking off and gets 'lost in the ozone'. I think.
Wunderschön!
G.
February 13, 2024 - 8:52pm

#687

Vguy72

Joined:
June 29, 2007

Neil Young & Crazy Horse....

....announced their Spring Tour.
Guess I need to gas up and set my sights for Phoenix.
Edit. Khruangbin is playing here.
Nevermind.
February 13, 2024 - 7:52pm

#688

Vguy72

Joined:
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Rant away doingtheneedful....

....doesn't sound like a very good way to go imo. So sorry your friend went through that. Having a life saving surgery delayed twice in a year is unacceptable. Sigh.
Just remember this. Surround yourselves with kind people.
Turn away from the people that spew hate and vitriol.
And drink plenty of water.
Comicons are awesome. So many cool nerds. And I mean that as a compliment.
Phish's Ocelot and Scents And Subtle Sounds are, imo, their most "Dead" like songs. I get the lyrical nonsense point though. Until Gamehendge comes around lol.
I'm still on my Mavis Staples thang.
February 13, 2024 - 7:22pm

#689

Doingtheneedful

Joined:
June 11, 2007

Daves 48 ALARM! Help from GD CS if possible please?

Hi. If anyone on the CS side sees this (or if anyone else can point me in the right direction). With 49 arriving on Friday, I literally just realised that 48 hasn't ever turned up. I was looking at the library to double check my naming conventions etc. for ripping, and nada. No 48, no bear on a skateboard. I revisited my physical stash where everything goes immediately after digitising, again nothing. No JPG cover art in my cover art folder. I checked the tracklist again and I guarantee I haven't listened to this release. It occurred to me that I'd just let it be in the knowledge that sometimes they can take a little longer to get here, but I've obviously put it "out of sight, out of mind" too far! It will be the first actual non receipt I've ever had from dead.Net since I first used them in the beginning. I had one cross over where a package was shipped gain and arrived the same day as the very delayed original. Something always turns up in the end. Not this time though.

I've had some pretty heavy stuff going on back in the real word. No sympathy required, but lost my best friend out of nowhere and way too early and suddenly. Sadly avoidable too if not for the ego and pride of a duty consultant at a south London A&E who failed to recognise sepsis in an otherwise very healthy man my age who was due Gall Bladder removal very soon and who had a recent history of Gallstones and Pancreatitis issues.

He was being admitted for emergency surgery, but the surgical team were overridden literally on the way to prep by this fool consultant whilst my friend, Kevin, was in the lift being taken to a holding high dependency ward, and sent home with Morphine to wait for the surgery due date ten day later... After being delayed twice by almost a year.

The Consultant got shirty after being challenged by Kevin's wife who is about 4 foot nothing and very unassuming and quiet, as to why he has overriding what everyone else was calling serious. His response was to say, and I quote "It's not that complicated. I'm in charge and the Surgical Team would admit everyone if they had the chance."

Genius. Bloody fool. Kevin survived five or so more days in agony at home before suffering a fatal heart attack induced by critical sepsis and organ failure due to multiple internal abscesses and blockages caused by Gallstones.

What hurt so badly was that at his funeral, there was a huge turnout, and in every other slide projected during the celebration part, my wife and I were with kevin and his wife, doing something stupid and fun. My favourite being myself carrying him across a flooded road in the New Forest like Friar Tuck. He and his wife carrying the hand carved and decorated hiking sticks I made for them back in 1995 or so.

So, that happened... Sorry to unload, but I still find myself having anger splurges... That and other things like moving and job loss (mutual divorce), I can see why I was distracted on this one. So basically, DP 48 isn't here and I'd like to sort it out if possible please?

One of the last conversations I had with Kevin, it came up that he'd picked up Terrapin Station. He knew I was a dead head and he had "dabbled"... He was massively into his music. That's why he stayed in Wimbledon when he could have moved out of the city. Right there next to the tube station with easy and ready access to gigs. He averaged at least a show of some type or other a week for the entire time I knew him, and it was pretty normal for him to do 10 on the trot, brief pause, Glastonbury, a few world cinema festivals, more gigs. And a happy marriage. A CD collection the size of small house and a Vinyl stash to rival. I remember myself and a few other fellas meeting up to see Phish at Shepherds Bush then crashing on his living room floor, utterly spent, stoned, drunk and happy. He was like that. Phish? never heard of them! Let's go check it out! I recall the main man of Ozric Tentacles being there and checking it out to his approval. I'm not sure he was into the music so much as appreciative of the musicianship.

I'm a bit like that with Phish. I can dig the sounds and the cleverness and craft, but lyrically they're a mess in my limited opinion. Billy Breathes is pretty spot on, but outside of that album, there' a lot of nonsense waltzing as wit. Guilty of playing "clever" because they can, not because it sounds great, sometimes.

Anyway, Terrapin. It was coming back from ComiCon London and he mentioned that he liked the idea of a whole album side being one long suite, and really enjoyed it. I of course immediately jumped in and tried to sell him on "Everything Dead Ever" realised that was a disservice (baby steps) and steered him towards the Terrapin suite on the many disc'ed "tribute" from a few years ago that The National were heavily involved with. It's a great recording. played as live in studio I think (certainly the side of that session seems to point that way), the entire suite with percussion as originally intended (I imagine, based on the whole production overdub that Olsen (it was Olsen wasn't it? laid down causing Mickey to go mental...).

It's a very airy performance. Open space, cavernous, but warm and familial. One of the better and more realised Grateful Dead covers, made great by the "as live" recording and mic placing. I really do need to get that set. It's readily available streaming and it's a bit of a monster. Not everything hits, but there's enough good grist to warrant hard copy in the collection in my opinion.

Let's face it. if "Ready or Not" can get a place in your home, then this certainly can. Sorry, but firmly in the camp of "Ready or Not" is "Not". In fact I can't listen to it, and when I try, I just can't fathom how the Samba in the Rain on it wasn't thrown in a river in a burlap sack full of rocks.

I went to an Aston Martin owners' club meet when I was a kid, and we parked up next to a DB6 which looked like an unloved overworked tractor. My dad said it was a joke by a cheeky someone who wanted to demonstrate everything NOT to do with a classic car. That's how I feel about that Samba'. It's almost like it's on the record as a cautionary tale. "Are you sure you want this foks? Cos' this is what you've got coming if you start playing in those particular weeds!" "Grateful Dead. The Poison Ivy Years" or perhaps more obscure a reference, "The grateful Dead. Warts...."

Be good y'all. Thanks for giving me the space to stream my addled thoughts.

And oh yeah. DP 48... Can you help me out here please? Thank you in advance!
February 13, 2024 - 7:02pm

#690

billy the kiddd

Joined:
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2/13/70 & 2/14/70

Wow, what a couple of great shows. It would be nice if they released them in complete order and remastered them.

John Perry Barlow

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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.

This

One of These Days>Other One

So 60 years ago tonight...

The Beatles were on The Ed Sullivan Show...I was 13 and it was all over after that...

Nappy

Thanks for the reminder. A lot of the time I miss the dates of anniversaries. So this is a huge one!

49

Seem to recall Dan may have switched over to recording to Digital video tape. Wonder because the sound is excellent!

Wharfrat6969

That is a fantastic GD cover idea!! I can hear the band going to town on that

The Card Cheat....

....they did cover The Clash's I Fought The Law. IMO, not one of their best songs.
I can see Brent singing that one though. Hell yeah.
I was on Tickmaster ten minutes prior to Dead & Co tix going on sale.
After thirty minutes of stupid futility, my blood pressure told me, "Log off. Move on." Bastards.
Back in my day, the fans that wanted good seats camped out at Tower Records at 6 AM. Simpler times for sure.

1stshow, it's UPS Mail Innovations,

not "USPS Mail Innovations"; it's UPS's interface with the Postal Service, which for instance gets packages to my p.o. box though having originated with UPS.

Anniversary show 2/9/73. Maples Pavillion

51 years ago today I wasn't at Maples Pavillion, but my brother sure was, and he had a blast. Its not if this show gets released , but when will it be released.

Vguy

Last time I lined up for tickets was November 1982 for the Who? Like seeing Rolling Stones on their first final tour in 1981, this was the Who?s first final tour. They played the same cities as their 1967 debut tour. And yes, it was an exceptional concert. You can look it up, but they only played about 36 or dates.

2 9 73

please, oh please

Yes, Correct Mark

UPS answer to being too busy for small packages. UPS claims 49 was handed off to USPS, but USPS is not acknowledging that. It has helped the USPS bottom line but worse for us unfortunately. Been getting slower and slower after the handoffs the last two years. Gets rerouted 5 hours drive away to the Denver hub when it was only 1 hour away on day 3. On day 15 now.
Cheers

Hey, Ho, Let's Go!

The Dead shoulda covered Blitzkrieg Bop. You know Weir would've been up for it. Probably Mickey too.

But seriously now. I've often thought the Dead did too many covers, not too few. Especially in the later years. Especially since we're talking about a band with one of the all time great songwriting teams in Garcia-Hunter. (And Weir Barlow being non-slouches, too.) There were many Dead-penned tunes that never got played enough. Mountains of the Moon, Mason's Children, Till the Morning Comes, to name just a couple. Why yall playing Louie Louie, fer chrissake, when you coulda pulled out Mission in the Rain?

Pigpen's blues tunes don't count as covers cuz Pig owned 'em.

I'm not a robot!

Or Maybe Inna-Gadda-Da-Vida??

Hey Ho, Mr. Crow. THANKS for saying something I have struggled to stifle. Bout the latter period songs. One of the things that made the Dead so special were their own songs, lyrics and music like no one else. Sure, I like Chuck and Bobby songs, little red roosters, but hey now.

Or maybe. Just maybe....

....Little Bunny Foo Foo.
Frost Amphitheater. 5.3.87.
I mean, it's not Iron Butterfly, but what is?
It's a full blown cover. Not a finiculi finicula or Mexican hat dance tune up.

Tico Tico

My favorite tuning ditty. Followed by:
Finiculi Finicula (fully developed one on this week's Taper's Uptown '78)
Hideaway
Beer Barrel Polka
I'm sure there are rarities as well.
Cheers

Hey now'd for what

Not another penny from me.

Phu q d d net

Sense? Or Ship?

I don't think it's really "censorship," as I too have had posts rejected that contained nothing profane or even controversial... it's just some weird filter they've employed that's 'orribly inefficient and damnable.

We'll see if that last word makes it through.

I got the Chefs on Sunday... the Niners are the better team on paper, but the game ain't played there. They haven't been for four years and most of the players have never been on a stage this big. The Chefs on the other hand are used to the limelight. Add the Swiftie factor... I sense a happy Hollywood ending for all but the most ardent San Fans.

Got our tickets to see D&C at the big black ping pong ball... I see some fool just scaled the outside of it and did like $100k in damage breaking off lights for footholds. It won't be long now before they dig a moat around it.

Enjoy the "big game" everyone! We're having HoneyBaked ham (weird, I know, but a guest insists on bringing it for some reason), tons of chips and dips and just total crap food... I'll be pouring Basil Hayden smoked old fashioneds for anyone who wishes to thusly slake their thirst.

Last five:

Eric Clapton - Forever Man (listen in progress!)
Grateful Dead - Dave's Picks 50 (advance copy!)
AC/DC - '74 Jailbreak
Meat Puppets - Too High to Die
The Police - Certifiable (live)

Peace

\m/

Hey now - me too

The Dead's cover of Iko Iko may have been sullied forever.

Dicks Picks 1 on vinyl

Has just been delivered. And very handsome it looks too. Immediately noticeable is the bold claim on the sticker that it "Includes Previously Unreleased Material". How exciting ! Looking closer, and getting my old cd out, it seems that the jam going into "The Other One" labelled "Jam" on both editions has been expanded from 8 mins 11 secs to 13 mins 8 secs and "Weather Report Suite" has been expanded from 15 mins 56 secs to 17 mins 26 secs. How about that?
The red on the cover is a bit smudgy - ask me if I'm bothered.

Give-aways..

Hello all - going through all my stuff - I found disc 2 and 3 of Dicks 17. No cover, but if someone wants this - send me a few words.. BW

Great cover songs

Death dont have no mercy, Sitting on top of the world , Sing me back home, I wish those 3 songs would have stayed in the Dead's lineup.

1STSHOW70878 and an unwelcome limbo

Hello 1stshow, oh man, I had a sinking feeling last week when you were posting about how your delivery of 49 kept being pushed back by one day. Because what you described is exactly what happened to me with my Vol 46. In short, UPS said it was handing the package to USPS, but USPS said they never got it. So the tracking went into a sort of idle/default mode, pushing the delivery date out each evening, and I sat there for a week thinking, "welp, tomorrow..."

But tomorrow never came. That package never arrived. I even went down to my local post office at UPS' suggestion. Then began lots of back-n-forth with dead dot net reps - I think Monique was one of them, and these folks are SLOW; getting a reply took a week typically. But I waited patiently, expecting they'd finally do right by me, and a few weeks later I finally got them to ship me a replacement package.

And then *the same thing happened again!* It got to the same UPS depot, in roughly the same time, and it vanished. At that point I concluded that someone was stealing these packages; I don't think it's possible for lightning to strike the same way twice.

Getting it fixed took a deus ex machina. I tried and tried but customer service just basically abandoned me (edit: or at least, that is what it felt like after 6-7 weeks of this.) Finally I managed to reach the good Mr. Lemieux, who made a call to Rhino. By this point what had begun in May had now reached the 4th of July weekend. But despite the holiday, later that same day I got an email from "Mac" at Warner Brothers. I don't recall his exact title but iirc he was basically head of customer support. He placed a copy into a brown bubble mailer and sent it to me personally. That's how this got resolved. He also refunded me. And someone at dead net comp'd me - I think they said "pick an item of similar value" so I picked a Bear's Choice t-shirt and gave it away as a gift.

It all worked out but I don't think I've ever had to send that many emails and DMs to get something delivered. I was on the verge of canceling my sub. But then Dave stated that #49 was to be from 1985, and he roped me right back in...

Thanks Obeah

Despite your incredible trials and tribulations I am encouraged.
Cheers

Too many covers?

As great as they are, You play the same songs 60-100 nights a year for thirty years, your gonna need something fun and different sometimes…
I know I needed em and I only saw them like 10 times a year!

EFFIN USPS! I hear ya guys, it’s complete BS. I bet they don’t do the handoff scan on purpose, for many reasons, paramount being that if they loose it, they don’t have to be accountable!

Due to the limited numbered BS, I bet somewhere, some POS is stealing…

RIP Damo Suzuki

An unforgettable vocalist with Can.

Minds would have been blown

Dark Star>Echoes>Dark Star.

Make it 60 minutes long.
Fun!

Try again

Same MO guys last couple years.
Gets to Denver lickety split via UPS, hands off, but USPS doesn’t scan to receive, probably on purpose, then instead of usually arriving in a few days per tracking, it disappears with no way to track? Fortunately, it’s alway showed up eventually. But why should loyal customers have to be stressed out about this?

I’d gladly pay extra for full UPS straight to our door…
EDIT: the Other One said they told her it’s because of contracts, Booooo!

Shipping blues

I would not be surprised if people are stealing DaP’s as they pass through distribution centers.
Little white boxes that say Grateful Dead on them.
Box Sets are even easier to identify due to the artwork on the package. But harder to steal due to the size.

I fought the law

I think that was an original by The Bobby Fuller Four, Jerry was a big fan, check him out, one of those rock mysteries that might never be solved.

Ledded Chefs

Unfortunately, I think your right about the game….

I fought the Law. Originally by the Crikets with Sonny Curtis after Buddy Holly died. The Bobby Fuller cover of the song became the first biggest hit of it.
I only know cause I’ve been looking it up and listening to different versions since it came up here lol.

Philski!

FYI, playing 3/4&6 with the Q, and 13, 15&16 with others?
At the Capitol of course.

Thanks 1stshow

I am glad you saw the overall tone as hopeful... I know it could be seen as just complaining, and admittedly at the time it felt kinda rough bc everyone else was enjoying their Hollywood Palladium '72. But gradually I began to use the delays as an excuse to play other Sept '72 stuff that I had slept on. And everything worked out in the end.

Didn't know it was a cover by The Clash....

....gonna store that tidbit of information in one of my memory holes.
Saw one of the teams bus convoys yesterday while running errands. Police escorted even. The teams are staying literally four miles away from where I'm typing this.
I don't like either team. However, I have two granddaughters that like Taylor Swift like I like The Dead.
So......go Swifties!
They even understand the basic rules of football because of her.
Something I failed at teaching them lol.

Exactly Obeah

It'll be even sweeter for the waiting. I wrote a lot more but got HEY'D. And if worse comes to worst I'll bet someone will burn it for me, lol. This community is the best!
Cheers

Bill Graham/KQED Earthquake Relief Press Conference 1989

New Dead Head TV video today on dreamswedreamed dot com:

Led principally by Bill Graham, this 22 minute press conference announced three simultaneous benefit concerts in Watsonville, Daly City and Oakland featuring Santana, Los Lobos, Paul Kantner, Steve Miller, Niel Young, Bonnie Raitt and more. Bill also announced that the Grateful Dead, unable to make that date, will hold their own Quake Relief Benefit Concert later in December.

A HN Test

some of us are so old

we remember when the Bobby Fuller Four version was new...

dennis, check your pm

When I "returned from the dead" I got three (admittedly) lengthy posts in with no problem. Then the Hey Now beast reared its head.

Let's see if this one makes it.

1st Show

Worse comes to worse, I got your back.
Peace

Some of us are old marye....

....and hopefully wiser.

Damo Suzuki

I was sorry to read of his recent passing on here. He was a great, and very original vocalist - one of a band rather than someone who was backed by one. All their 70's albums are worth checking out - "Tago Mago" still sounds otherworldly. "Ege Bamyasi" and "Future Days" are also great ones which Damo participated on.

old and (hopefully) not in the way

Yes, I remember when BFF had that hit, used to sing it on the way to school on the school bus, the bus driver reminded me of otto, kinda long haired and liked to play music, actually, it did help soothe the savage beasts who frequented the school bus. not me, of course....well, maybe a little bit

Hey Now ; )

Who you calling old?
Why I oughta!
I’m not old, I’m a mature adult….no wait, that wont work either, hmmmm 🥴

Inspector Lose O

Has postulated a theory: the whole TnT thing is all just a ploy to get Tay Tay the one feather in her cap she is thus missing…playing the Super Bowl! (with benefits of course ; )

Weather

Feels like spring here lately. Very nice, Indeed!

After some quality spins of #49, I broke out 4/7/72, at random.

The Boyz certainly came to play that April NIght!! Wozers!

rock on, gang!

Mavis Staples....

....started going that rabbit hole yesterday.
Outstanding stuff.

Sphere

Thoughts appreciated from anyone who’s been.

So at a Super Bowl gathering tonight a bunch of longtime friends, who have recently become Dead & Co. fans, want to go to a show at the sphere. Yes, the same friends who made fun of me for decades, now are converts. Naturally, I’ve been put in charge of getting tickets.

Ticket prices for the 200 level are twice that of the 300 level. Is it worth getting the lower level seats? Doesn’t seem like it to me. Thanks in advance.

TNJohn

Thank you buddy! Still think 49 is coming my way since my friend nearby in C.B. hasn't gotten his either.
Cheers

The Bus Came By, and Bart Got On

Otto is every school bus driver I ever had, I think. That's one great thing Simpsons characters: you always feel like "I know that guy!"

Like, when I lived in Missoula in the '80s, I knew Comic Book Store Guy. He was a cool guy to hang with, because he liked to get high and he had an amazing collection of records. Took up most of his two room apartment! He turned me on to a lot of jazz, including Monk and Dolphy, that I didn't know about at that time. But mostly he was cool (yea, "was," he's passed on) because of his wickedly ironic sense of humor.

One time we drove from Missoula to Bosie, for some reason. Shortly after leaving, we realized that one of the stereo speakers in the back of my Buick Riviera wasn't working. He decided we should listen to nothing but recordings from the '60s that had super wide stereo panning (you know, stuff with all the vocals on one channel, the other channel just guitar and drums etc). So we did. And hearing the one channel versions of stuff like the Byrds' Fifth Dimension or Rubber Soul was like hearing a completely new album.

At some point we were driving down a steep mountain grade and there was sign after sign that said "Watch for Runaway Trucks." So I said, "I wonder if runaway trucks are a problem here?" And he replied, in a voice that sounded EXACTLY like Comic Book Store Guy: "I believe runaway trucks are a problem wherever they occur."

Damn, I miss that dude.

Anyway ... yeah, it's amazing how many people who ragged me about loving the Dead way back when are now willing to pay major $$$$$$$ to see D&C. And meanwhile, I'm not all that interested! I mean, those guys are OK, but they are not the Dead. Not close, either.

Should I even try and post this? Seems certain to get Hey Now'd.

Last five:
Little Feat: Late Night Truck Stop
P-Funk: Detroit '77
Miles: Workin'
GOGD: Veneta
Sonny Rollins: Newk's Time

I am still not a robot.

I AM a freakin' ROBOT...

Why do I keep denying it? The machines don't give one a chance to confess. I am a ROBOT. Let's be honest. "U.S. Blues" was way ahead of its time.

Nothing substantive to add. Just wanted to play with Hey Now!

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