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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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  • 1stshow70878
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    TTB Deuces Wild Tour

    Colorado dates in July for Grand Junction and two at Red Rocks. Hmm...
    Cheers

  • bigbrownie
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    Tedeschi/Trucks Tour

    Schedule is out. I'm in for 6/5 at the Santa Barbara Bowl with Little Feat.

  • Crow Told Me
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    2/15/73 Anyone?

    Now THAT was a show. Amazing duet from Phil and Jerry during Dark Star, wonderful Eyes. One of the GOAT TLEOs. How is it THAT one has been overlooked by Dick and Dave alike?

    Tryin' the short post thing, since EVERYTHING ELSE I've tried to do gets Hey Now'd.

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    Talk...THNX for the tip...will look-it-up

    uncle_tripel

  • uncle_tripel
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    RYXS...

    ...how NICE would your 1982 WISH be if it shows-up as #52! personally, BALMOR 1982-04-19 is my WISH, let's see what TPTB decide because '82 is OVERDUE; yeah, and I know they HEAR us.

    uncle_tripel

  • RyXs
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    ~2025~Wish List?

    Maybe its too early to speculate but I've got a X~mass list anyways, up for debate here. ~1stQtr.; Double Set 1982 Frost 10/9 & 10/10, ~2ndQtr.; Fox Theater, Atlanta, GA 12/17/78 ~With 2nd set filler from 12/22/78 Dallas, TX {Bonus Disc 2nd set filler 11/24/78 Passaic, NJ} ~3rdQtr.; Jersey City, NJ 8/4/76, 4thQtr.; I can't decide between 1972 & 1988. Springfield, MA 10/2/72 ~or~ BuckEye Lake, OH 6/25/88?
    Can't wait for the surprise of #51 & #52 and eagerly awaiting the Paladium!

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    Oro, great game, 2 elite teams, fast, lively crowd. I hope we meet in the playoffs. Vegas here Tuesday, another great game.
    icecrmcnkd, I was on Pearl Jam site for tour info, saw they recently had a Flyer theme night in Philly. A big DRW fan is Michigan boy Dave Kloc, artist on some DaP releases.
    Trey coming here in May, but SRO at the venue, which is kinda tough for a whole show. A game time decision, as they say.

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    No posting due to the friend of the devil, Hey Now

  • JimInMD
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    It's a real Shakespearean tragedy.

    There's an IT clown car on the loose at death net. More than half my posts never go through and by the time I get them to post I am frustrated and the initial benevolence rarely comes through.

    Enougheth is enougheth already.

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    Interview with Betty

    Very unusual format, but very very interesting answers. The mime in charge asks informed questions. Most interesting thing to me was the revelation what happened with the Dead/Hendrix jam that didn't happen at the Avalon Ballroom in October 1968, but says they DID play together at the Ark at another point. Now that is completely new information as far as I've ever heard. Look for Mime Talk with Special Guest Betty Cantor-Jackson on youtubes. Her descriptions of Cassady "driving" the bus from the middle of the aisle put another spin on his legendary driving skills.

    Funny, because my previous video watch was of John Entwistle at the Musician's Institute in LA around 1990-91, where he gave very open and honest answers on The Who and other musicians, like falling asleep at Clapton concerts, regretting not forming Led Zeppelin, but also how Hendrix offered him the bass spot in his band, and they jammed when Hendrix first arrived and that he noted Hendrix would go see all the famous British guitarists and borrow bits of their technique and tricks and stagecraft, etc and very quickly rolled it all together into the Hendrix that exploded onto the scene.

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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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