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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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  • dmcvt
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    For a nod to the Lions, listened to part of Oct 24, 1971, from the Easttown Theater, Detroit a few minutes ago. Great energy, early Keith show, Phil crunches it, a 71 DarkStar. Maybe since we can access and download anything on the archive, they would have to really clean up stuff to market it as download to us, since Charlie Miller, Sir Nick and others have done such nice work so far. Yet another reason I'll bang the drum for more primal stuff, from the vault, that has not been posted to archive.

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    Dave's Picks was announced as a subscription model cd release. It has been more successful than the Download Series and the Road Trips Series. The last year's lack of sell outs is an aberration. I think part of the lack of sell out on 46 is they have it priced 10 bucks higher for some reason. It's priced like the 4cd releases, but it's just 3cds. Who knows what the sales numbers are on the box set downloads, but I don't think they themselves know what the sweet spot number is. HCS was the fastest box set sellout since Giants Stadium, and Get Shown the Light before that. Get Shown the Light has run through its "unlimited" All Music Edition as well. I'd be shocked if the download sales of that box come anywhere close to the immediate sell out of the original box, then an All Music Edition that apparently kept selling for 6 years. And that the Giants Stadium boxes sold out in weeks, and Listen to the River is still on sale goes to show you can't ever tell. If they want to start a download series, more power to them, keep Dave's a physical product.

  • Slow Dog Noodle
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    The series has already been lagging in sales,

    Dude, you just totally made that up. Out of thin air.

  • Obeah
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    Reading marye's remembrance of high times at the Greek reminded me -- it was great to come across your name in Jesse Jarnow's "Heads". Just a great reminder of how this community got on board the electric bus with the Well (I tried to post what W E L L stands for, but I got hey now'd. Unbelievable.)

    I got my first internet account in the Fall of 1989 and promptly found myself spending an increasing amount of time over at rec.music.gdead, but The W ell seemed like this mythical place just over the horizon. Now that this is all going back decades, it sure is fun reading folks remembrances. Keep 'em coming, y'all...

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    By limiting the issues to cd, they're limiting their audience. When the series started, 12 or so years ago, everyone had cd players. Now, a lot of us don't. Not in my laptop, not in my car. And without a cd drive, I can't even upload the cds. So, I'd like to see digital release of the series. You'd think Lemieux and Rhino would be more forward looking. The series has already been lagging in sales, and those that do sell out, take weeks, not the minutes that it used to.

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    1974 okay

    I wonder if they'll release much from this year later on, it being an anniversary an all. It would be good if they did. Buggers can't be choosers, though. I mean beggars.

  • That Mike
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    Clever posting Oro! Amazed it let you post because this is so hit and miss.
    Poor guys like Scott Norwood or Bill Buckner could never live down their moment of infamy.
    Maybe you’re right - something stronger for the folks in Buffalo and WNY. Suggestions?

  • Oroborous
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    Too soon Vince

    Too soon lol

    But hey, just like Scott, never should have come down to that…

    But what the hey, Go AVs lol

  • Vguy72
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    Wide right!....

    ....I'm sure Scott Norwood was watching and his PTSD kicked in.
    Get it? Kicked.

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    Okay, no fixey, no posts, harumph

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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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...daP 50 release less than 2 weeks away
...Knopfler release good to hear
...FEAT release OKAY

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Not sure where else to put this, but should I check out Molly and her band at a small club that holds under 700? I love me some bluegrass.

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1983

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What a night! Ya had to be there!
First row, Phil’s new bass, new PA, lights etc, and my first time tripping at a show!

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Molly is the real deal, you will enjoy. If you can, go early, get down front.

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Check out Molly Tuttle doing Standing on the Moon, then check out her version of White Rabbit. Both on Yew No Where Tubes. Should make the decision about whether or not to go see her pretty easy.

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Also see Molly's version of this Stones song at Ossipee. Their Satanic Majesties music takes me way back to the late 60s, today drencher, it's been JJ Cale's Naturally.

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....then there's Molly.
You know what you need to do.
Edit.
VGK playoff spot clinched. Now it's just seeding.

I would have looked you up Vguy, but there is no way my beloved would go for connecting with a person I know only online.

LV: there is only one.

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He's almost as weird as me. We met up at the Rocks two years ago. I witnessed the man high-fiving every single person in his row en route to burning one with me.

Maybe proudfoot's wife would love to meet us both! Under, er, concert conditions...

Yeeeehhhhiiiiii!!!!!!!!!

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You be careful there, HF.

yes, concert conditions only

;)))

We are indeed an odd lot on this odd little place of a website

One more LV thing is the show Awakening at the Wynn

Top notch production with a w t f plotline

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....moved to Elko (still Nevada), met my wife and drug her back to the heat.
Seen this city morph into pro sports and expansion up into the hills. Traffic is getting exhausting, but first world problems.
Knopflers new record is A+.
Vinyl arrived today.
Even the wife likes it. Bonus points.
That's twice you've come to Vegas Stoltzfus and didn't give me a heads up.
I'm harmless. Unless....
Yeah. I remember your Gov’t name lol.

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It is much better this way

Simply weird to see the changes there

Our first visit was 1990

Is there anybody in there

Just n o d if you can hear me

Is there anyone home?

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Perfect accompaniment for this mornings walk

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I put 49 back in again before I put the actual discs away, this was a really solid release. I thoroughly enjoyed this one!
The sound, setlists, playing, four discs! And it's an interesting period I think, not alot of exposure. I hope the next one is as much fun...

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Mas Fina!

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Is not enough mister d l

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More eighty five goodness
Mucho Garcias!

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'72
E72 The Complete Recordings, By far my all time favorite release ever.

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...there is SMOKE there is Fire, HIGH anticipation for a summer '85 BOX in 2025,
cause, ya know, conception began this month, and
currently weeding out shows for an 8 show box [6/14 thru 9/15]

it's all a dream we dreamed, one afternoon long ago

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I, Too, thought an 85 box set could be in the cards. The main reason being ( we're so jazzed to release more of this great year) part of #49 liner notes. Maybe i'm reading to much into it, who knows.

Like every year, i'm totaly stoked to hear the news regardless of era!!!

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They've got a few choice '67 Grease shows in stock. Let's have 'em!

The focus on this special release (in my head) is Pigpen as leader of the GD, so drop the remaining '66/'67 Grease shows on us. Follow that with the remaining Six-Headed '68 Beast shows, including the latest discoveries.

THEN we can settle down to the rest of the Vault. If you question this selection, just think about it. Who the hell cares anymore about '66/'67 Grease? Only the dodderheads who gather here...

I'm all for a 66-67-68 box, but more for the lightning than the grease.

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Yes I’m down with primal faster than ole pig with a seventeen year old, but, like they say on the mountain: if yer gonna go, go big! 66-70!

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My favorite show in thirty trips. They apparently used patches from 4 different sources to pull the show together.

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4 sources? Masterful editing job, can't tell. Now my question on this show is: is there a third drummer on that funky Drums and Soul Sacrificish Jam before The Other One? Also, I believe this is one of the shows with the Miles Davis Quintet that featured Tony Williams and John McLaughlin. My God, what an unbelievable weekend that must have been.

Edited to add: no McLaughlin or Williams, but Chick Corea, Jack DeJohnette, Dave Holland, Airto Moreira, and Steve Grossman on sax. And it was 4 nights, but April 9-12. Alas. Still they were fresh off that buzzing experience confronting another form of experimental music from a master. And that is one of the better shows in that massive box. '67, '69, '74, and '77 are my other favorites. Not big on the '72 or '73 shows.

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....admittingly it's been a while. Brb.

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From the big box. I played that one yesterday, and it is indeed excellent. The Scarlett-Fire, and..especially the spiralling jam from Wharf Rat back into Playing are the highlights.

4/15/70 may be next - although I was so impressed with the 77 show I dibbed into 5/5/77 afterwards. Great Sugaree in the second song first set slot.

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Alvarhanso - as you noted in your edit (which I didn't catch at first) the 4 shows where Miles Davis Quintet opened for the GD are 4/9 - 4/12 at Fillmore West. 4/15 is first show after that run. If anyone is interested in how the MDQ sounded in that run, the second night, 4/10 was released as Black Beauty: Miles Davis at the Fillmore West, first as a double LP in 1973 (import in US) which seemingly treated the set as one long improv (no proper song titles) and then a CD in 1997 that had actual song titles (I bought the CD a few years ago but can't remember if I knew it was one of "those" shows at the time).

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Is available for preorder!!!! The cover art has a New York feel to it.

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Tracklist
CD 1
Palladium, New York City, NY (5/3/77)
1.PROMISED LAND
2.BERTHA
3.ME AND MY UNCLE
4.PEGGY-O
5.JACK STRAW
6.ROW JIMMY
7.LAZY LIGHTNING>
8.SUPPLICATION
9.DEAL
10.GOOD LOVIN'
11.SHIP OF FOOLS
12.THE MUSIC NEVER STOPPED

CD 2
1.MIGHT AS WELL
2.ESTIMATED PROPHET
3.SUGAREE
4.SAMSON AND DELILAH
5.FRIEND OF THE DEVIL

Palladium, New York City, NY (5/4/77)
6.MISSISSIPPI HALF-STEP UPTOWN TOODELOO>
7.BIG RIVER
8.THEY LOVE EACH OTHER
9.IT MUST HAVE BEEN THE ROSES

CD 3
Palladium, New York City, NY (5/3/77)
1.EYES OF THE WORLD>
2.SPACE>
3.WHARF RAT>
4.DRUMS>
5.NOT FADE AWAY>
6.AROUND AND AROUND
7.UNCLE JOHN'S BAND

Palladium, New York City, NY (5/4/77)
8.DANCING IN THE STREET

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I think they took it down...

Alvar got the tracklist for proof. lol

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I saw it Joey.

Another stealth roll out.

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Anyone catch Ari referencing deadheads and Eyes of the World this evening?

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Now you see me, now you don't.
I agree with Philly Deadhead.
That is a very New York looking cover.
Peace

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Yeah, I laughed at his use of "wake up" (I was just resting my eyes, I was not asleep) "to find out"....
He's not just leaving it to the late night comedians to point out the absurdity of it all. Sketch artist even caught him, lol.
Cheers

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the STEALIE hood badge on the TAXI...
and how about that FOR HIGHER taxi roof sign "TRIPS"
very COOL graphics on daP vol #50

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Local thrill seekers have advised me the early bird advance tix go on sale today for JRAD show on Jerry's birthday, and in early June, current Jazz is Dead iteration featuring Steve Kimock helps kick off Burlington Jazz Fest with a show at Nectars... hmmm seem to recall some other band playing at Nectars back in the day....

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Another Angel's Share release NOT on a Physical format.....CD DVD WHY???

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Being download only they have no interest for me whatsoever.

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Daverock

That's how I feel I have no interest in Downloads But all the Angel's Share stuff is great to listen too. I like Physical stuff and I don't like making a copy on a CDR or DVDR . I guess I am old school LOL

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