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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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  • daverock
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    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.

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    Some of us are old marye....

    ....and hopefully wiser.

  • TN John
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    1st Show

    Worse comes to worse, I got your back.
    Peace

  • hendrixfreak
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    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.

  • marye
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    some of us are so old
    we remember when the Bobby Fuller Four version was new...
  • gratefulgerd
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    A HN Test

    dd

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    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.

  • 1stshow70878
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    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

  • Vguy72
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    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.

  • Obeah
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    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.

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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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Had to look that up.
The spoken part between:
Redemption funds,
Stocks and bonds.
Scruggs, the master of the three finger rolling style. Changed everything.
Cheers

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For a real good time!
Hopefully we won’t have to wait another 10 YEARS for some 85 love!

Well 49 old friend, it’s been a gas but I guess it’s happy trails for awhile.
Tanks for the memories

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Yes, good to see at least this one sell out. Such a great release. Just revisited this last week. Shows the depth of the vault if you like most eras, which I do.

Can't believe the others are still available. Might have to revisit #46 tomorrow.

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Smoking 🚬

How about a big announcement tomorrow?

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...hmm, how's about wave that flag day june 14th, great day for smokin' OUT a new box...read the signs, connect the lines, pay your fines, read the rhyme

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...how that 49 resurfaced...

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I am just wondering, since all of the early brent shows have the keyboards way too loud, is this the same? I can't listen to any of them, I have to go to audience recordings. Can't hear Weir enough, which is not the Dead as far as I am concerned. After Betty left, the soundboards are useless unless it was mult-tracked...and most are not. I was at these shows and they were very good!

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