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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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    Philski!

    FYI, playing 3/4&6 with the Q, and 13, 15&16 with others?
    At the Capitol of course.

  • Oroborous
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    Ledded Chefs

    Unfortunately, I think your right about the game….

    I fought the Law. Originally by the Crikets with Sonny Curtis after Buddy Holly died. The Bobby Fuller cover of the song became the first biggest hit of it.
    I only know cause I’ve been looking it up and listening to different versions since it came up here lol.

  • PT Barnum
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    I fought the law

    I think that was an original by The Bobby Fuller Four, Jerry was a big fan, check him out, one of those rock mysteries that might never be solved.

  • icecrmcnkd
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    Shipping blues

    I would not be surprised if people are stealing DaP’s as they pass through distribution centers.
    Little white boxes that say Grateful Dead on them.
    Box Sets are even easier to identify due to the artwork on the package. But harder to steal due to the size.

  • Oroborous
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    Try again

    Same MO guys last couple years.
    Gets to Denver lickety split via UPS, hands off, but USPS doesn’t scan to receive, probably on purpose, then instead of usually arriving in a few days per tracking, it disappears with no way to track? Fortunately, it’s alway showed up eventually. But why should loyal customers have to be stressed out about this?

    I’d gladly pay extra for full UPS straight to our door…
    EDIT: the Other One said they told her it’s because of contracts, Booooo!

  • icecrmcnkd
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    Minds would have been blown

    Dark Star>Echoes>Dark Star.

    Make it 60 minutes long.
    Fun!

  • Colin Gould
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    RIP Damo Suzuki

    An unforgettable vocalist with Can.

  • Oroborous
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    Too many covers?

    As great as they are, You play the same songs 60-100 nights a year for thirty years, your gonna need something fun and different sometimes…
    I know I needed em and I only saw them like 10 times a year!

    EFFIN USPS! I hear ya guys, it’s complete BS. I bet they don’t do the handoff scan on purpose, for many reasons, paramount being that if they loose it, they don’t have to be accountable!

    Due to the limited numbered BS, I bet somewhere, some POS is stealing…

  • 1stshow70878
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    Thanks Obeah

    Despite your incredible trials and tribulations I am encouraged.
    Cheers

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    Hello 1stshow, oh man, I had a sinking feeling last week when you were posting about how your delivery of 49 kept being pushed back by one day. Because what you described is exactly what happened to me with my Vol 46. In short, UPS said it was handing the package to USPS, but USPS said they never got it. So the tracking went into a sort of idle/default mode, pushing the delivery date out each evening, and I sat there for a week thinking, "welp, tomorrow..."

    But tomorrow never came. That package never arrived. I even went down to my local post office at UPS' suggestion. Then began lots of back-n-forth with dead dot net reps - I think Monique was one of them, and these folks are SLOW; getting a reply took a week typically. But I waited patiently, expecting they'd finally do right by me, and a few weeks later I finally got them to ship me a replacement package.

    And then *the same thing happened again!* It got to the same UPS depot, in roughly the same time, and it vanished. At that point I concluded that someone was stealing these packages; I don't think it's possible for lightning to strike the same way twice.

    Getting it fixed took a deus ex machina. I tried and tried but customer service just basically abandoned me (edit: or at least, that is what it felt like after 6-7 weeks of this.) Finally I managed to reach the good Mr. Lemieux, who made a call to Rhino. By this point what had begun in May had now reached the 4th of July weekend. But despite the holiday, later that same day I got an email from "Mac" at Warner Brothers. I don't recall his exact title but iirc he was basically head of customer support. He placed a copy into a brown bubble mailer and sent it to me personally. That's how this got resolved. He also refunded me. And someone at dead net comp'd me - I think they said "pick an item of similar value" so I picked a Bear's Choice t-shirt and gave it away as a gift.

    It all worked out but I don't think I've ever had to send that many emails and DMs to get something delivered. I was on the verge of canceling my sub. But then Dave stated that #49 was to be from 1985, and he roped me right back in...

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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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