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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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    Last 8 LP’s

    Spun 6-10-73 vinyl in its entirety last night.
    Took 5 hours but was worth it.
    Overall a good pressing and sounded grate. Phil comes through especially nice on vinyl.

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    76 Box TOO in 2026

    Yes, the second half of June 76 needs to be Plangentized and Normanized, especially 6-29.
    The Candyman and Playing>Wheel>Playing are epic to my brain.

    DaP 51 should be 10-31-91 and 52 should be some Grease.

  • Cousins Of The…
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    I'm guessing a June '76 Vol. 2 box set will happen at some time. First one focused on the first half of June, and there are some great shows in the latter half of the month. And yes, 8/4 is also a classic.
    Private messages still don't work for me, if I type more than 2 lines.

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    This Bird Song is sooo nice.

    This Bird Song is sooo nice.

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    Kick Out The Jams...Brothers and Sisters?!

    HF - I inadvertently came home with the neutered version back in the 70's. I got the proper one on cd later on..only so-so sound though. In 2018, we had the MC50 shows and vinyl repress in glorious red white and blue with the original battle cry intact. The whole album sounds like a rocket taking off.
    I would say that's definitely one you needed to hear in your formative years, though. If you haven't heard it yet - I'm sorry, but your probably too late.

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    Re; 8/4~1976

    OOOOoooohhhhhHH Yeah! That's the one show for sure, I've got a few other lesser than pinnacle favs from that year as well. A shorter touring season that year like '74 but for different reasons. My bet (& hope) is that 1976 will be upcoming next year some time. I do recall Dave in a Sea or River chat saying this year in 2024 he wanted a wide variety of eras & line ups. My bets this year are maybe a Bear's banana box Pig show of some sort for #51 & I'm going out on a limb with a post Brent era pick, possibly 1991-4 for #52. For 2025 I feel a 1976 & an `82? Funner than Keno!

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    Since #51 is a really different lineup, apparently, hoping that's TC and Pigpen. So for #52, my hope is indeed a 1976: 8-4-76. I am incessantly banging that drum, but bang it I shall co tinue to do, loudly and proudly. It is one of the finest overall shows I know of, is in pretty near pristine quality already, has a great video up at youtubes, yet still I want it. I'd prefer if they went through the trouble of releasing it on DVD/BluRay and CD, and maybe cut some of the tuning. But as there is no such series currently, give me it as a Dave's, it's certainly worthy.

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    I’m not paying these prices. It would be easy to say it’s because there won’t be some dude named Garcia standing up on stage. Dead & Co. really doesn’t do it for me personally. The real reason, however, is that I am no longer that impressionable. Seeing the boys at a much younger age was life altering. I would pay any amount of money for that experience again, but I know it won’t happen. I got far more enjoyment shelling out the dough for my girls to see Talyor Swift last summer. “Something in there changed me, dad” was the feedback from the show. That is what music can do during your formative years and is worth any amount of money to me.

    Now I am far more content seeing good bands in small venues. Over the past couple of months I saw Big Head Todd and My Morning Jacket. I sat in the first 10 rows, got to talk with members of the band and saw two fantastic concerts. Each for less than $75. Except for the beers of course. Those prices are still outrageous.

    Another shout out to 49. This is an awesome release.

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    1982 in 2025?

    You may be on to something, because by my records and accounts 1982 the year has not been represented yet in the Dave's series. That other Frost show may possibly be in the future mix? Anyways my guesses is maybe next year for `82? Also 1976 is due as I figure some calculations.

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    Been having trouble with iTunes and uploading the discs but (Cr)apple issues nuthin' new they're! ANYWAYS! What I had heard along the way was fabulous! Now finally I got all the songs into the computer library and mixed and fixed, I realize how awesome their playing is in these shows. Jerry's hurt voice aside, (his scratch reminds me of early `70z Dylan) this is one damn fine mid 80's Dead! Phil's Dylan cover maybe the highlight? tough call so many good jams and song versions. Maybe the best China Doll in my cd and mp3 collection (killer `85 drum jam follows) Thanks again Dave! & Happy 25th Anniversary with the Trip!

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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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Another Valentines Day gem.

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So bad what happened to your friend Kevin. There has to be some just, legal, and effective response -- Do what you can.

As for your DaP48 (that's the small problem), have you checked your Dave’s Picks order status at the Grateful Dead Store (store dot dead dot net)? (Scroll to bottom of page and click Order Status; helps to have your order number.) Or did you receive a shipping-notice email from Grateful Dead Store? If so, it would have? given you a tracking number (which, in the U.S., could be a UPS number or a USPS number, or maybe another carrier’s, but in the UK, I don't know, nor know whether you'd receive a tracking number). Have you been able to track the shipment? (I, myself, got shipping emails for Dave’s Picks 47 and 49, but don’t find one for Volume 48.)

With or without tracking info, at the Grateful Dead Store, scroll again to page bottom and click Help/Customer Service. At the upper right of that page, click “Submit a request” and go from there. If you get an email response from that which seems automated and says anything like “unable to provide a personalized response to your specific inquiry” and offers you a list of FAQs, and if none of the FAQs pertains, send a reply that that’s unacceptable, and ask that your request be escalated to a level that will actually respond to your problem.

Finally figured out the confusion about Cap Centre. I knew something was wrong until I dug deeper into DeadBase. When I went to Cap Centre 1987 shows, I saw Fever, but I thought they did Fever all the time. Turns out that was only time they played Fever. So I mixed up seeing Stir It Up and Fever as both were one offs.

Whew - felt insane in the membrane.

And yeah, Super Bowl Sunday looked incredible OTA.

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60 years worth yaddy yaddy yadda, and at least a couple of decades…..
Yeah, but we’ll be dead by then? Andale, andale, vamanos amigos!

Confusion: ha, I knew you were going to say that lol.
I looked it up after I posted, just in case lol, (hey, we’re all getting older ; ) and I saw Fever at Landover and figured that’s what you ment, I should have posted it lol.

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anyone find where to download the latest present.

Rhapsody in Red: Garcia Essentials (A Valentine’s Day Playlist)

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Nightfall of diamonds on vinyl for RSD and JGB electric on the eel 6-10-1989

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Gonna suck your wallet dry.

#49 is getting close. I paid the customs man €11,56 yesterday. Should be delivered within a week.

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....my Dicks One vinyl shipped. Mrs. Vguy is keeping a close on my record spending. Someone has to!

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I've been quietly rooting for you from the sidelines. I'm glad to hear they're working to get a copy of Vol 49 to you.

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Why do I keep reading stuff where Branford Marsalis says the Dead are set to drop a 21-disc box set full of performances with guest artists, presumably including him? Is that for real?

I think Branford played with the Dead five times, and of course one of the best ones (3/9/90) is already released. So there's maybe 6 discs max of BM w/GOGD to work with, right? So who would be on the 15 or so discs, if this is for real?

Be nice to get ALL the Duane Allman stuff out. Santana would probably get a lot of people interested. There's some stuff with Cecil Taylor and Ornette Coleman. David Murray. So there's plenty to work with, even if it's hard to imagine how they would get to 21 discs.

Then again maybe it's all just a rumor.

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P-Funk: Mothership Connection
Charles Mingus: Bues & Roots
King Crimson: Live in Japan
Mahavishnu: Birds on Fire
Maceo Parker: Planet Groove

Yew betcher azz ah em not a robut. Fool!

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I've only found it as a streaming playlist at jambands

Crow, the 91 30 Trips show also included Brandford and it is a great 91 show.

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Perhaps take a moment today and think good thoughts about the nicest guy here at DN who’s getting his shoulders (hopefully) fixed today.
Good Luck JF, hope the gas passer ain’t stingy with that propofol!

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A 1969 Mountains Of The Moon from Chicago this morning over the airwaves, when Jerry was in great voice, not run raspy from Persian White or cigarettes. Sounded a bit like some English folk song with terrific guitar work.
Dennis Alert: a new Bruce Hornsby album due in 2 weeks, this one with a small chamber orchestra. Intriguing.
Phish live album due shortly too. DaveRock, I know you mentioned you never quite got into them, and they were always on my periphery too, until about a year ago. There was a lot of positive comments about them here, and VGuy served as my Phishing Guide, pointed me out where I could catch the great releases. In short, I cannot believe I didn’t catch on to them sooner, but only two ears, I guess.
Oro , my Leafs are headed your way soon - Clash of the Titans, Amigo!

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Oh boy, playing my other team soon also!
Wish the Leafs would get a run going, though, perhaps too soon?
AVs have seemed a bit flat lately. Sabs…sigh, oh well, maybe next year lol
Yes like the Dead folks, in hockey, and evidently football, it’s all about peaking!

Doooode, finally read Orr after TOO gave it to me ten years ago.
What a book, and what a guy! Sure I remember some from BITD but being a kid etc, didn’t really know much. And Geddy Lees bio My Effin Life: one of the best I’ve ever read and I read a lot of R&R bios! Man you Canadian boys are all such well spoken writers.

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Oro - Some of them are goodly writers!
I pulled up to a traffic light one time, and a green Rolls beside me caught my attention. Yea, green. The driver was Geddy Lee, so I tried to get his attention to give him a thumbs up or something, but he had his Asshole Protectors on, so my efforts were in vain. :(

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Never been a huge Rush fan, only because not a big hard rock fan, but don’t dislike them, had a few albums BITD and saw a great concert in 80?
But man much respect, what a story, well done and learned much.
Surprised by how much GD MO they adapted over the years.
I’d imagine he’s a around town kind of guy when the situation allows.
That must have been fun!

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Oro, I’m the same - not a Rush fan. But I looked over, and the driver was undeniably him, so I couldn’t resist trying to get his attention, but he likely had Dave’s Picks going full volume in the Rolls, couldn’t hear me.
A story making the rounds that McCartney’s stolen Höfner bass (he played on the first two Beatles albums) was recently recovered, missing since 1972, valued at $13Million dollars! The same article explains that a Gibson acoustic guitar Kurt Cobain played on MTV Unplugged sold for $6 million. I wonder what Jerry’s guitars would be worth. How about other valuable instruments from the rock and roll world. Hendrix’s Woodstock guitar? Dylan’s electric guitar from Newport ‘65?

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The lost and found bass is confirmed on McCartney's site. Took five tries to begin to post, Hey Now. When Rush played in my home area, Geddy would come in day of show to a store where my brother worked because they had an excellent selection of red Burgundy, Geddy was a fan. They would pull out the back shelf cherries for him.

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Phish still a great band, but hard to beat that1990's Phish.

On the tube, look up Phish Farm Aid 1998. Nice Birds of a Feather, and then a raging Moma Dance. Then they move into the back-up band for Neil Young. So young and so vibrant. They can still jam and rage, its their vocals that suffer some, as with all with age. Why Rush had to tune down for Ged. Different Stages Hammersmith Odeon 1978. Sweet.

Fortunate to catch 2 Phish and 3 WsP shows last year in a 2 week period. Slept a bit after that. Had tix to 3 nashville shows but do to health had to sell to a friend.

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Had a hot date with some cold beer for the 14th. Listened to Road Trips 2vol2 - Be My Valentine. So much fun.

Hard to believe 3 Dark Stars on one release, when you got the bonus disk. I am sure I ordered here, but was not expecting the bonus disk, dont even know if they mentioned it at that time.

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Are scooters now MotorCycles?

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....down Palace.
Ponied up for a new one. Audio-Technica AT-LP120XUSB-BK Direct-Drive Turntable.
Will be here tomorrow. $200. I used my Amazon points.
You can take the record purchaser away from the 80's, but you can't take the 80's away from the record purchaser. Or something like that.

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Looked that one up. Can do it all.
Excellent choice. Enjoy!
Cheers

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Good one Vguy, I have the non-Bluetooth model, didn’t have any use for BT.

Follow the setup directions for balance and anti-skate and it will work great.
If you want to further upgrade the sound in the future get the VM540ML/H headshell/cartridge combo. Sounds spectacular.
Going to spin my new copy of DaP2 vinyl tonight on the system.

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I like the Binford 7,000,000XYX OU812!
Bastard cleans the discs while playing them!
Platter literally weights 300 pounds, driven by military grade motor housed in another room for lowest possible noise floor!
Laser cartridge accurate to within one billionth of a cm.
Arm utilizes custom Iridium composite, and separate phone stage requires it’s own rack and power supply, all synced by atomic clock! Boo yah!

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with my ca. 1978 Technics with a scavenged roofing nail lashed to the tone arm.

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Really a '70s Philips GA-212, the one with the cool green lights under the touch buttons. Gone through maybe 10-12 cartridges and styli over all those years. Favorite is the Grado Black.
Cheers

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Did anyone else realize that U.S. Blues and She Belongs To Me are actually the encore but are included earlier on the first disc? I just did some research and this appears to be the case (I thought they sounded out of order) but nowhere that I saw on the release was this disclosed. I don't mind if they rearrange the order of songs to make things fit, but why can't they tell us on the CD case? DId I miss it? Am I right they are in fact the encore? Can someone validate? Strangely enought on Archive they are also out of order on the recording? Please advise!

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U.S. Blues & She Belongs to Me were the encores.

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45 years ago tonight, I was up in Oakland to see the Grateful Dead deliver a knockout of a show. Anybody else there ? This should definitely be a release or part of a 79 box set.. What a show!

Dave mentions in the chat that the song order had to be rearranged to make things fit.
I didn’t check if it was also stated on the release.

It was a characteristic of earlier cd releases that when songs were included from various shows, it wasn't always clear which song was from which show. Quite a few actually - Dicks Picks 31 comes to mind shows from 8/4 - 5/74 and 8/6/74 - there is no indication in the cd booklet which song comes from which show. You either get Deadbase down and work it out for yourself, or just forget about it and enjoy it as it is presented. It works either way. The immortal Dicks Picks 4 of the 2/13 and 2/14/70 shows doesn't tell you in the booklet where the songs included come from.

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So, I'm only slightly puzzled -- it is still February (what's so short about this freakin' month?) -- at the lack of uninformed speculation on this year's box. As a master of uninformed speculation, allow me to lunge from the high board (it's only three feet down) to do a cannonball...

Got Hey Now'd on a lengthy post, so breakin' it down!

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Recent boxes

2023 - Summer '73
2022 - MSG, '81-'83
2021 - '71-'73
2020 - '76
2019 - '87-'91

I heard that rumor swirling from one mention that Branford may have rumbled about a 17-disc set of guest appearances, which sounds intriguing and sets off the thought: do they really have 17+ hours of guest spots? And could the indefatigable Dave & Co. really round up the needed permissions and royalty sharing? As your completely ignorant correspondent, I'd have to ... not count that out. But seems likely it would have to include, say, a half dozen Mtn Jams.

Otherwise, we know Rhino's sweet spot (according to Dave himself) is somewhere in that 15-20 disc zone.

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Perhaps this is my opportunity to bang my drum for fall '72. A ton of great shows remain unreleased. Dave in his inimitable non-comital manner once said that such a box "has to happen someday..." Why not this year?

Over on my tom-tom, I note the surfacing of several '68 tapes, the generally unreleased August '68 show bundled with that cartoon book (arrgghh!) and a few stray '66-'68 shows still stuck in the Vault (going on pure instinct here). BUT I'm thinking not enough discs for the Rhino threshold, thus this greasy pipedream will remain so until they do a limited edition of the early stuff.

Got Hay Naw'd too many times to finish. As you were.

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I think a box with guests, would be post 1991.. Branford, Coleman and a few others, but NOT 2/70 with the brothers. I would also be a nice way to give us an Vince-years box - perhaps the only one we will see.. BW from rainy Copenhagen..

I'd like to see a Primal box come out this year. One that starts when Mickey joined in Fall 1967, and cuts off about May 1969, before the "Workingman's" songs and they started doing things like "Green Green Grass of Home". Just raw power.

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Hi guys - I've been trying to get a replacement disc 3 for DP48 since November. Every time I try and escalate it or chase I just get told a new tickets been raised and then an email asking me how I rate customer services. The fault on Disc 3 is that it takes 10-20 seconds to start and then won't allow individual tracks to be selected - so if I want to skip a track it won't. Happens on more than 1 CD player.

Anyone got an idea of how I can get this moving forward ?

PS -- I laughed my head off at the speed of GDTRFB on vol 49 :) What were they on?

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Daverock - not to be cynical, but I am! I just wonder whether Rhino sees enough sales potential for the primal box we so richly deserve. For you and me and others here, if I may presume, we don't care how they pkg it as long as they deliver the primal material. Sooner than later, in time for my present incarnation. Not literally, but while I'm still on fire for the band. These "later" years have me evolving, morphing, changing (choose your verb) in ways that I hadn't anticipated earlier in life.

That said, I get the feeling that Dave & Co. (or just Dave) wants to hold back tapes from all eras to give artificial longevity to the release program. Whereas I ("we"?) think that 66-68 isn't going to get more popular with time.

Dave & Co! Hear my plea!

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....they have a strict policy regarding phones. Which I can appreciate.
Looking forward to the light/stage show which I also appreciate.
And, for the first time, I'm bringing earplugs to a concert. Just in case.
Peeps say they are louder than most. And my left ear rings already as it is.
Looking forward to Jambi.
Incredible tune.

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A nod to the artwork Tool features on their album covers, really trippy stuff, much of it by Alex Grey, who would have found a welcome home among the greats of Haight, such as Rick Griffin, Stanley Mouse, Alton Kelley, et al.
Enjoy the show VGuy.

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