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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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  • uncle_tripel
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    yes, spot on to your "reverb and echo" comment, that's a phenomenon which I found can be heard regularly in varying degrees throughout the '85 shows. If I remember correctly it is also much evident throughout the June Greek shows, always wondered how that came to manifest itself...

    peace all!
    uncle_tripel

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    Love the People's Express story ... absolutely hilarious! THOSE were the days!!!! And yes, I know I sound old, but the fact of the matter is ...............tcc

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    Arrived in Gloucestershire, UK

    Sounds as though I could be a bit of an outlier here, but mine arrived a few days ago, either Friday or Saturday after receiving the shipping email on 30/01. No customs charges

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    Mine has now reached the UK. It is currently sitting in customs while they toss a coin to decide whether to add a charge to it. The European deliveries are getting closer.

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    I'm going back to San Anselmo, I do believe I've had enough!
    Love that Phil. I've been playing his and Brent's tune repetitiously.
    I'm only a recent subscriber in the last few years but I must say. This double Dave's album is a personal "Brent era" favorite disc now! Like with Dave's # 39, 40, & 47.
    I was lucky enough to get #31 off of eBay for a nice price, no bid. Not much more than it would've been had I al'a carted it back in 2019.

  • icecrmcnkd
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    Lyric variations

    Phil mixed the lyrics on that song routinely.

    “started out on Heineken”
    “What it is that I got”
    “What it was that I dropped”
    etc

    The only solution is to listen to as many Tom Thumb’s as possible.

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    Okay thanks. I’ll have to…

    Okay thanks. I’ll have to give it another listen, but do recall him saying dropped too.

  • TN John
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    It sounded to me like he said, "My best friend, my drummer won't tell me what it is I just dropped."

  • icecrmcnkd
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    You heard that right

    He’s also said “my best friend my drummer won’t even tell me what I dropped”

  • grtfljello
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    Hey everybody - long time listener, first time caller as they say.

    Been thoroughly enjoying #49 today and noticed something interesting. During Tom Thumb’s Blues, it sounds like Phil says “and my best friend my drummer, won’t even tell me what it is that I got”. I.e. drummer instead of doctor. Did anyone else notice that or am I just hearing things?

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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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