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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February 28, 2024 - 12:26pm

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dmcvt

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Bonnie on slide

Oro... love ya bud, but Bonnie was playing guitar from age 8, her first major slide influence probably Robert Johnson when she was 15... later Ry Cooder, by 1967/68 when I believe she was at college near Boston, with John Hammond Jr, who hasn't had a shout out yet for his great slide work. There's an interview with Bonnie in guitarworld that covers all this and Lowell too. Lucky to meet John a few years ago, breakfast at his hotel during the North Atlantic Blues Festival in Rockland, Maine where we happened to be staying as well. Hammond very kindly invited us over to sit with him and his wife, such a humble guy who tore it up with Hendrix and Bonnie back in the day. BBKing called Bonnie one of the best on slide. This years NABF program looks to be quite fine.
February 28, 2024 - 9:43am

#462

Oroborous

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What, no Feat?

No Lowell George or Paul Barrere?
Hell they taught Bonnie how to play slide…
And glad at least BTK has Garcia listed.
You don’t necessarily think of Jerry as a “slide” player but I’d say he’s no slouch!
Or Warren Haynes or Jimmy Herring?
EDIT: sorry Simon, see you have Lowell listed.
February 28, 2024 - 9:13am

#463

dmcvt

Joined:
April 4, 2013

TCC: downloads

Might be the last person to learn of certain apps and hesitate to do anything that might snuff the golden goose... but, in the interests of sharing music, found two apps worth installing... to download what seems like an incredible selection of performance aud and sbd from many bands. Relisten is one, Attics is the other. Installed these on phones and tablets to build a collection of concerts from the Dead, Billy Strings, TTB, Zero, Phil and Friends, JRAD, Phish, on and on. Typically at my cave, these go via blue tooth to a quality portable speaker to allow mobile music outdoors, they could send to a high quality audio set up, can't vouch for audiophile levels there.
February 28, 2024 - 9:09am

#464

1stshow70878

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September 11, 2014

49 Returned Damaged

My buddy in Crested Butte got a notice today (33 days after shipping out from Fontana) that his original was returned damaged. No other info. Well at least we know that one wasn't stolen, lol. No such news on mine or our other buddy's in the Butte. There's Mail Innovations for you.
Cheers
February 28, 2024 - 8:55am

#465

topchinacat

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March 24, 2020

2-27-69

Am anxious to hear this, am always in full agreement with BTK, having been at many of the same West Coast shows in the 80’s. I’ve got so many of the official releases (only missed a few Daves and the Trunk, otherwise have it all) and 400 hours of pretty good cassettes (from the olden tape trading days), that I seldom listen to shows in the archive. I usually will download music into iTunes, load it into my phone/watch and get a good listen in while exercising. The problem for me is that I know of no way to download soundboards off the archive. Without a download, because of my own habits, I just won’t get that quality listening. So the first question for my dead brethren is, is there a way to download a soundboard off the archive? And let me say categorically, I have never and will never sell, replicate, distribute or otherwise profit in any way from such downloads. Second question is whether there is a decent audience version of this show, because I generally have no problem downloading those archives. Thank you for any advice you may have …. tcc
February 28, 2024 - 6:13am

#466

nappyrags

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January 24, 2013

All this talk of Slide Players...

but no one has mentioned Jesse Ed Davis...for a time he worked with Ry & Taj Mahal in the mid to late 60's...his playing on "Statesboro Blues" influenced Duane...Jesse Ed played the lead on J Browne's "Doctor My Eyes" & Dylan's "Watching The River Flow"...his credits are incredible, playing with everyone...sadly he passed at the age of 43 from an overdose...
February 28, 2024 - 6:01am

#467

billy the kiddd

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2/28/69 Fillmore West

Absolute knockout of a show. Its to bad 1969 wasn't a leap year, because we would have had 2/29/69 to listen to.
February 28, 2024 - 6:00am

#468

That Mike

Joined:
November 1, 2014

VGKGuy

We got schooled by a better team, VGuy.
TTB presale starts today for Swamp Club members, which I am not, so by General Sale on Friday I expect the usual scraps after TicketBastard parcels off tix for “friends and family”. I wanted to see Neil Young on his upcoming tour, and I am member of his pre-sale thing, but good luck. Not happening.
I miss the days when the devoted lined up at ticket sellers, you felt like you earned getting the seats you got. Maybe I’ll take my wife to Dune 2 this weekend as consolation.
As Mr Ones so often rightly pointed out, music is the best! Getting concert tix, well…
February 28, 2024 - 4:08am

#469

daverock

Joined:
September 1, 2014

Slipping and a sliding

DMCVT - it was watching "Performance", in the mid 1970's that turned me on to liking slide guitar, too. Ry Cooder - I had never heard anything that sounded so other worldly. Deeply psychedelic...or maybe that was me. Whatever, I still like it. I watched "Paris, Texas" for the first time in a couple of decades earlier this week - and Ry Cooder plays some of the same licks in that. Incredible tone.
I basically prefer acoustic slide to electric. I usually play this at home everyday - a great hobby! If I was to pick my 5 favourites, it would change everyday probably. But for today

Robert Johnson ......always at the top
Blind Willie Johnson
Son House
Elmore James
Muddy Waters - I played his recordings from 1950-1951 just this morning. Really cuts through to the bone.
Mississippi Fred McDowell

And an honourable mention for Michael Messer my favourite slide guitarist from Britain.
February 28, 2024 - 4:01am

#470

icecrmcnkd

Joined:
October 20, 2015

Picking up Kane

Yes, one of many good moves by Yzerman last year.
A totally different team than a year ago.
Hope they keep the momentum going.

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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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