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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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  • Oroborous
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    Hey Mikey

    Pretty good game eh.
    Except for the outcome ; )
    Ok, now I can say GO LEAFs again lol
    They had a sustained intensity ive perhaps not seen from them before, a good sign? Hopefully they’ll peak at the right time!
    Oh, really dig the black and blue unis

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    Pulled this one down from the shelf yesteday.. The album was not as good as it should have been back in the day (mostly 1 set songs), but the bonus disc has me hoping for a box with the "leftovers" (3 songs from 10/13/80 has got my hopes up..) Fine re-mastering by Joe Gastwirt.. BW to al

  • icecrmcnkd
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    2-14-70

    Turns out that’s the day The Who recorded Live At Leeds.
    Spinning the vinyl version now.

    Enjoy the upgrade Vguy.

  • Vguy72
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    Upgraded my record stylus....

    ....whoa. What a difference!
    Johnathan Marchessault just scored his 30th goal. Ties his personal record.
    Let's go for 40 mister!

  • icecrmcnkd
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    W i n g e d

    Is also a banned word.

  • icecrmcnkd
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    I didn’t attend GD night

    Watched it on tv.
    Jerseys were a Stealie wearing a red Detroit hockey helmet, and a dancing bear inside the w i n g e d wheel.
    The jerseys say dead dot net on them.

  • icecrmcnkd
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    F r e e is a banned word

    I would say that the IT department is incompetent, but nobody can be this incompetent.
    It has to be intentional.

  • icecrmcnkd
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    In D-town there was a GD cover band in the concourse before the game, and possibly during intermission too.
    There were GD team jerseys from dead dot net for f r e e

  • icecrmcnkd
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    That Mike

    I’ve been using both ways the past few weeks and have been Hey Now’d both ways.

  • That Mike
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    Hey Now doth sucketh!
    Curious - Did you try launching the black “Reply” button, as opposed to “Post Reply”?

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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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