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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January 24, 2024 - 5:17pm

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Test

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Getting Hey Now’d in the PM zone.
January 24, 2024 - 4:42pm

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Melanie RIP 2

I just so happened to be listening to Melanie's performance at Woodstock, on 08/15/1969 on the big "Woodstock - Back To The Garden: The Definitive 50th Anniversary Archive" box set early in the morning before I heard the news.
January 24, 2024 - 2:18pm

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Melanie RIP

Sad to hear Melanie passed away yesterday.
January 24, 2024 - 1:37pm

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Billy Strings sat in with TOOL again....

....in Nashville. I got TOOL Feb 18th. Keller Williams tomorrow night.
January 24, 2024 - 12:13pm

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April 8 1978 is nice

I bet they do an 89 box

People get total wood over the Alpine shows...I bet that's the new box.
January 24, 2024 - 9:02am

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Mined, pshaaaw

I haven’t heard the 8, 19, or 21 yet, so guessing something in there, but if the 11, 10, 16, and at least the 12 aren’t box worthy, I don’t know what is? The 14 perhaps too. 6 and 7 good but perhaps not quite on par with these…

Stop reading bs on the internet and listen to the music play!
January 24, 2024 - 8:51am

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PT Barnum

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shipping notice

received, first time I have ever received a shipping notification, hope that doesn't mean anything like "missing" in transit or delivered to the void. Looking forward to this for the cherry listen to 4-27
January 24, 2024 - 8:32am

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CDs vs Digital

They probably should get better at digital. I expect them to eventually open it all up to digital downloads, it would probably be easy money after they get it set up. For me, I like the CDs and Vinyl. I'm a real dinosaur, not only do I have numerous devices to play CDs, I even have several devices that support HDCD. Why they still do HDCD is beyond me. I've never been able to tell the difference.
January 24, 2024 - 4:43am

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another

Good Morning! Your Grateful Dead Store Order has Shipped, Dave's Picks Vol. 49. would make for a FUN weekend listening session, fingers-crossed!

Have a great day:)

uncle_tripel
January 23, 2024 - 6:22pm

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More 78

Sounds good to me, however, how about some post Egypt 78? Not much released from that time period yet with a few exceptions.

Hey Now chopped off the rest of my post.

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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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