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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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  • sheik yerbones
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    76 box

    is a great souvenir, and one high time in my life recovering from onkology , just in time in hospital before lockdown, and then surrounded by nurses, and my loving wife so near. Then most of the time laying outside, listening the new boxset only disturb by birds and bees in the wisteria.
    this box looks like may 77, for consitency, and quality.
    @DMCVT Gillian W is my fantaisy for my next life, coming home after work, and listening that nice girl playing to me acoustic guitar. If she plays Bach suites on on cello in the meantime, i won't be punished.
    @Alvarhanso when I visit America on a second trip with my daughter, we stopped in Bakerfield, looking for centerville searching a good restaurant, typically french, i admit, and we eventually parked near a bar. I bought 2 cd to get some music in the car, Jerry Garcia 's Reflection and Rowan Douglas Yonder, not sure it's really bluegrass, but 5 stars album, and very cliche on the road to death Valley.

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    The “June ‘76” Box just might be the most under-appreciated box in the Dead canon, IMHO. The Boston shows alone are incredible, an energized band.
    I’m not the biggest Who fan, but sometimes Quadrophenia at 11 Volume is exactly what you need. I got playing it because Phish covers “Drowned” on their recent live release, and quite nicely, too!
    Last 5
    Who - Quadrophenia
    Who - Who’s Next
    Weir - Blue Mountain
    Art Blakey & Jazz Messengers - Just Coolin’
    Neil & Crazy Horse - Down In The Rust Bucket

    Late condolences to the very funny Joe Flaherty. RIP Guy!

  • Vguy72
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    Revisiting the '76 box currently....

    ....6.11.76 to be exact.
    Mid second set Sugar Mags into Eyes is very nice. Book it Danno.

  • dmcvt
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    Great list there, Sheik; Perky

    Saw Gillian a couple years ago with David Rawlings, outstanding concert. If we more broadly consider "country" as part of Americana, the tent is much larger. Vince Gill, good stuff, for example. The song that Plant and Krause covered, "Can't Let Go" is a personal hit, great lyrics, tune, put out there by Lucinda W on Car Wheels, a fine album. Doug Perkins moved up to Vermont years ago and performs locally and a little randomly, up in Burl and many other smaller venues, did gigs with Mike Gordon, adept on both acoustic and electric. He once tried to teach me "Good Bye Pork Pie Hat" but it did not take. Not your standard three cowboy chords...

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    RIP John Sinclair

    Pity the MC5 weren't at Woodstock.

  • sheik yerbones
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    country & bluegrass

    I still love country, at least what we call country music in the 70s, bands like Poco, Buffalo Springfield, The Byrds, Flying Burritos Bros, New Riders otp sage, emilou Harris and Gram Parsons. Nearby we had Folk (Pentangle, Fairport Convention, Bod Dylan, Donovan, Incredible strings band...) wich still goes on with Gillian welch or billy Bragg;
    To me the first jerry album with the new riders stays a classic. I never heard about blue grass before Jerry Douglas & Allison Krauss, Peter Rowan, and discovering Old and inthe way, then Grisman or Tony Rice.
    Nowadays it seems like everything like Country music comes into what is called Americana.
    Elvis Costello gave a great Tibute to country music, and George Jones with Almost Blue . Johnny Cash is more like folk for me. All american recordings serie can match a small box of the dead.
    Lucinda Williams began with country folk albums, but she plays also RnRoll, and ballads.
    Only Blues don't change.
    Anyway whatever we feel with good music is better than words.

  • alvarhanso
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    Doug Perkins

    Haven't heard that name in maybe 20 years. Trying to remember the band I saw him with (Smokin' Grass?), but I remember because he used to play with Mike Gordon, when Gordon did bluegrass things. A buddy from school was a Kentucky bred fiddler, and he jammed with Doug and a couple others at setbreak on Wheel Hoss and Blackberry Blossom. Thanks for that blast from the past. Guess I misunderstood on Trischka.

    John Sinclair was the man whom Abbie Hoffman advocated for during The Who's Woodstock set that led to Pete Townshend hitting Hoffman in the head with his guitar. Hoffman's ill-advised speech was at like 4am, and he said, "I think this is a pile of shit, man, while John Sinclair rots in prison for 2 lousy joints" whereupon Townshend tells him to get off the stage. John Lennon then took up Sinclair's case with a song titled John Sinclair. RIP to a counterculture hero.

  • Colin Gould
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    RIP John Sinclair

    MC5 manager and so much more.

  • dmcvt
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    Trischka Consciousness

    Punful... oops, Tony not playing with Marty, sorry. Will see TT down in Maryland hopefully. That's exactly it for the Marty show, excellent musicians. Neither a huge fan of the genre generally, do appreciate Brad Paisley for his PLAY recording chops, Robert Plant hit some nice notes with AK, great players like Alvin Lee, Danny Gatton, even Roy B had some country twang. Bluegrass, newgrass, Billy, oh yeah. Next live music up, acoustic, Doug Perkins and Patrick Ross in a tiny old town hall Friday night, if it don't snow too much.

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    Country

    My attitude to country changed about 1983, when I heard an album called "Miami" by The Gun Club. Righteous stuff !

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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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