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  • strat-wolf-bean
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    Keeping with the French Theme ...

    5.13.1972 - Lille
    It warmed up a bit, and the skies cleared - offering a bit of inspiration, visually. So France was the place to stay.
    The sound, especially once they get it all sorted (w/funny banter at the beginning) is great - Jerry rings out all over the place, Keith is very well represented/recorded here, and Billy's drums are super clear. I Really like the BTW and Loser + China-Rider, the Playing and the lovely Other One excursion into He's Gone - as opposed to the reverse order that frequently goes down ...
    It's fairly well a stunner of a show, as Phil identified fondly in his book. His playing throughout indicates he was 'feelin' it'. So, even if it might be a bit shorter and therefore deemed one of the 'lesser' E'72 shows, it's still way up there for me.

    Sidenote: Aarhus, Denmark is similar - not in tone though, as it has a much warmer (indoor, all wood) ambience - in the manner of being both exploratory and chock full of excellent versions/songs - it's another great listen.
    Cheers!

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    John Fahey

    I saw him play at the tiny Freight & Salvage in Berkeley, maybe 100 people there. He was incredible! It was in December and he played Silent Night. Fun Times!

  • Oroborous
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    Nuff said…

    Fingers crossed firstshow…ya can take the cat outta the alley, but ya cant always take the alley outta the cat! Maybe he’ll be a Christmas miracle!

    Happy/Safe travels BC!

    Uncle T needs to fire up some feat: Cold, cold, co o old…

    JF: need to check em out as he sounds like he’d fit in our eclectic holidaze jukebox.

  • 1stshow70878
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    John Fahey

    We've had his Xmas Vol.2 on vinyl since BITD. Our favorite "non-traditional" Xmas album. I've stopped collecting the old hardware store, tire store, and the every big star on on their label type of Xmas records now that I've got about 20 or so. Some real gems in there and always available in the used pile for peanuts. Most have very little wear as they were only played one week a year. All the best to everyone here for happy holidays.
    Cheers
    Edit: Checkers came to eat but is hesitant to come in yet so we are developing trust again. Must have gone back to his feral roots. We'll get him back though I'm sure. Thanks again for the support.

  • bluecrow
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    John Fahey

    The New Possibility: John Fahey's Guitar Soli Christmas Album

    reissue cd that includes Christmas With John Fahey Vol. II

  • uncle_tripel
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    cold, too cold...

    ...this AM
    time to get warmed up
    turn-up the heat

    june 19th 1989
    at shoreline

    yeah, this will do just fine!

    PEACE for ALL!
    uncle_tripel

  • bluecrow
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    2/2/70 Fox Theatre St. Louis

    DaP 6 - Disc 1- This was one of those early returned reels miracles. That Dark Star was a favorite long before DaP series was a twinkle in Dave's eye. Blew me away when they announced this one. And as an added bonus this release has yet another Dark Star (DS > Stephen > Eleven) 12/20/69 Fillmore Auditorium, San Fran. Oh and it's got 2 Mason's Children. And wait there was even more for subscribers - a bonus disc featuring a big chunk of 12/21/69 Fillmore Auditorium (if you're keeping score that makes 3 Mason's Children. And 2 New Speedways. A couple of Cumberlands. And an Other One. Lots o' Pig.

    Getting ready for a long drive to the snowy north to spend Christmas with some of the family. Might even get in a ski run or three. Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays to all!

  • strat-wolf-bean
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    9.18.74 - Dijon, France

    1st set goodness with a sweet To Lay Me Down and that whacky-doodle '74 style Playing - which I SWEAR has the genesis of Shakedown Street in the middle when Jerry gins up that funky groove/phrase and they all play with it for a bit ... Some technical issues skew the start to the 2nd set (moisture everywhere, Phil says) but I think Seastones 'unbalanced' the speaker/sound setup
    Once they get it figured out though, the Eyes is d*mn strong - and the China Doll that follows is as delicate/pretty as it gets (outside of a missed vocal note or three). All that, and there's still the big Jam with Caution! to go ...
    Have a good afternoon everyone!

  • Oroborous
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    12/10&11/79

    with some fut bul chaser…

    Y33…complete Boxilla by New Years…yaaasss, it isss good to have goals lol
    A freak after my own heart! I only have a mere bakers dozen to finish off my quota: The seven final 79s, the last 3 84s, and first three 85s.
    Then maybe a little free range freakin, perhaps start poking around 1970,
    But…then onto all/most of 85, few remaining summer 90, dip my toe into 95, perhaps a pinch of Fall 80, with more 1970 sprinkled about?
    But first things first, nice Dancin happening here/now on 12/10.

    DaP 1: just got a copy thanks to one of our favorite folks here ; ) and so have only heard it once, but it did get my attention lol

    2/17/73…first 5 or 6 shows of 73 = best 73 box eevveerr, and depending which way your pleasure tends one might argue GOAT? Ok, maybe that’s pushing it but ! Good Sheet Mon

    10/24/71 is mos def a rrrripper!

    Mr BC, tearing it up lately! You go Son!
    And “if you get confused, just listen to the music play” 12/10/79 woo who!

    Poor PF…Xmass hell?…perhaps the outa state in-laws lol
    Hang in there son, and thank the baby Heh Zeus for the archive!
    Hey, think of all the joy your bringing and karma your building! ; )

    Dbl Edit: easy firstshow, HF is a trained professional. Warning: this should not be tried at home without professional oversite chilrens.

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    This is a ripping show!! Nice Miller sbd transfer available.

    1stShow - the penultimate pre-hiatus performance of St. Stephen is a good un ; )

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From a podcast of Deadshow of the month I recorded about 15 years ago. No break between tracks unfortunately. So if I stop listening after half an hour, I have to go back to the beginning. Anyway, it opens with China-Rider, and is well good.

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...DOWN > > > April 26, 1983, Spectrum Phila; daP vol. 39 and a HELP > SLIP > FRANK

peace all
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Bought my ticket the night before and hit the road next morning on a near 500 mile drive. Fantastic show. So glad I didn't f*** that up! Don't own yet the nugz sbd so np Z-Man _Brian Lee transfer 165840 which is an excellent pull.

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...don't dominate the rap, Jack, if you've got nothing new to say;

today IT is 1970-05-01 Alfred Acoustic

it's got no signs or dividing lines and very few rules to guide

Peace for All!
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busy GOGD day TODAY...gonna have to start today with PHL 1981-05-02, because,
as we all like to say, 43 years ago...my friends and I piled into someone's 1970's or was it a 1960's station wagon for a ride down to the Spectrum...that's right I've got some high-test GD with my morning java...

but, of course...this afternoon's acoustic set will be 1970-05-02 [diP#8] @ SUNY Binghamton

Everyone enjoy your day, with Peace & Love for All!
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I was at that Spectrum show. One thing in particular I remember was peaking during Scarlet>Fire and saying to myself, "whoa, they just played that backwards, note for note". Funny, the things we remember. Finally got a copy of that tape, and, no, they did not. But it was a damn fine show!

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...is Dawning" as Pig escorts us thru Good Lovin' @ L'olympia theater PARIS
1972-05-03; was thinkin' about 1991-05-03 calexpo, but, nah, it's gotta be '72 today!
I'm all set, and I'm OFF...

...and I can hear the drums, voodoo all night long
Mr. Charlie tellin' me, I can't do nothin' wrong...

y'all enjoy your Friday!

Peace and Love today & everyday for ALL!
uncle_tripel

BigB: you know it, always enjoyable jack>sugaree, birdsong, good lovin'

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...in the New York groove, well almost...but very close; Englishtown, NJ after 3 months away from performing LIVE 1977-09-03 Raceway Park outdoors in all it's splendor, let's ROCK...
just awesome sounding ("amazing show" per Mr. Latvala)

Peace All!
uncle_tripel

edited after listening: '77 is nice, but this performance is fah king SWEET!

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...through to Baltimore...with the 23rd installment in the Dick's Picks series, uncle_tripel has selected Balt. Civic Center
1972-09-17 for today's listening party :)

everyone, if you can, enjoy your weekend!
PEACE!

PS: this will be a 1st time CD listen, just picked this up for under $48 "new", found in a record store a couple of weeks ago; it is a 2013 re-release from Real Gone.

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good eyes but we still don't see, 1973-05-13 SET 3 @ Des Moines State Fairgrounds, and that'll put a BIG smile on my mug, how's about you?

...and you know that notion just crossed my mind, Peace All!
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...I ain't superstitious, but...
when my right hand itches, I gets money for sure

1985-06-28 Hershey Park Stadium
outdoors you know, big humidity, big rain, thick air, so PLAY DEAD LOUD and they DID!

...so if you're lookin' to get silly, you better go back to from where you came, because the cops don't need you, and man, they expect the same...

and to a peaceful day
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to Vancouver and the PNE Coliseum for Set 2, 1974-05-17
...check my pulse, it don't change, stay seventy-two come shine or rain.

have a Great Day everyone and with Peace for All!
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Right now I am listening to May 15, 1970 early show (at low volume) while I work on autopsy reports.............

Music has an intrinsic meaning, which has always been mysterious to me.....

Rock on!

Doc
A musicologist is a man who can read music but can't hear it.....

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...just a Mile to Go---> Anchorage 1980-06-20 West "High" School Auditorium; have you ever heard...? when's the last you did a listen...? best do it, and this one WILL keep you smilin' even on a cloudy day

--->if you get confused, listen to the music PLAY

everyone have a peaceful day
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Hey rockers!

Right now I'm listening to San Antonio November 12, 1971. Maybe not classic, but a solid, fine show. Lots of the new material on display and an Other One that bobs and weaves through many different spaces. Underrated and rarely spoken of. Always worth a listen.....

When it comes to Texas in 1971, Austin gets the love, TCU gets a hug, San Antonio gets stood up at the prom.

Our memory is and always will be as good as time travel gets, and in the meantime time will do the travelling for us.....

Rock on,

Doc
Even if it turns out that time travel is impossible, it is important that we understand why it is impossible.....

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...so this must be The Dead in Wonderland, 1984-06-21 Kingswood Music Theatre; taped this FM broadcast and it was always a fun listen, especially Wavy Gravy improv on his two great secrets about the GD lol; solid '84 show with special guests (Levon Helm & Rick Danko from the Band) for the 3 encores :)

Peace All!
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Hey rockers!

Right now I'm listening to 2/11/70, not sure why but it sures sounds great!!

My best friend and I were at the 6/21/84 show, we rode up on the motorcycles and had a blast. The three song encore was super sweet. Hey now!

And then we caught the SPAC show on the ride back. Those were the days!!!

Find a place inside where there's joy, and the joy will burn out the pain......

Rock on!

Doc
There is no pain so great as the memory of joy in present grief.......

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...begins with 2020 bonus 1974-06-22 at the Jai-Alai Fronton in Miami,
then moving on to 2024 bonus 1977-05-04 at the Palladium in NYC,
and finally 2022 bonus 1974-02-22 at the W interland Arena in SF
everyone enjoy your weekend!

Peace for All!
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and super dark roast Columbian Supremo.
Time to brew up a second cup.

So glad you liked it BC. That's her family's place there, the old golden cruising, extra texture. Heading to Maine, further up the coast near Bay of Funny, Canada tomorrow for the heat wave. For more chuckles, check out her OMG video from Philly where she plays a small piano bar and does her version of Tweezer, Mike Gordon shows up totally out of the blue (crow). Hey Now!

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DMCVT - Definitely was watching that sweet old doggle woggle as it came and went during the set. I had skipped over the much of the intro text that detailed Holly's personal history as to Casco Bay - thanks for pointing it out and thanks for recommending the show!

This morning decided to stream another from the Wilderness Sessions - Beartooth Mountains, WY - 10/1/2020

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...with the 50th anniversary Skull & Roses bonus...1971-07-02 Fillmore West :)

Peace for All!
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...2016 daP #18 filler and bonus disc 1976-07-16 @ the Orpheum in SF...ROCK!

Peace for All!
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...stopped in 'cause I want to say, 1985-06-30 merriweather post pavilion...well, well, well

nothin' here that could int'rest you

Peace All!

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Dear friends

I truly believe that it is impossible to listen to the Grateful Dead while being unhappy. They won't banish unhappiness from your life, but will go a long way towards enhancing the joys that life brings.

Currently listening to "Dear Jerry: A Celebration....", with The Yonder Mountain String Band playing "Shakedown Street". The woman fiddle player's voice adds a great dimension to the song. Well well well....

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...well, yeah...for some GOGD outdoors on the patio today...so get ready neighbors, fire up the grills, chill down the beverages, and play dead, PLAY DEAD LOUD
1977-11-04 Cotterrell Gym (Colgate Univ.) in Hamilton, NY

enjoy the holiday everyone!
uncle_tripel

...there's nothing you can hold...
...for very long

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started with Ball, then went to Heavy then to In-a-gadda-da-vida, then Metamorphosis (my favorite). What a great band, Via con Dios Doug.
Back in the day, every would-be drummer played that drum solo from the in-a-gadda-da-vida lp, it was like a rite of passage.
Personally, the guitar solo in this lp, the "iron butterfly" screeching during that solo is a sound that was coined as "Heavy Metal" before such a thing was thought of.
What a time to be young.

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The life of the dead is placed in the memory of the living......

In memory of the late Mr Walton, I am listening to 11/20/71. Bill, I salute you and wish you safe travels!!!

And how can man die better than facing fearful odds, for the ashes of his fathers, and the temples of his Gods?

Doc
Because I could not stop for death, he kindly stopped for me, the carriage held but just ourselves and immortality......

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"How do you do?"
1976-09-25 at that Cap Center in MD, can't resist that Set 2, and no need to explain, just listen and BTW thank that mr. latvala for diP #20
[inside diP #20 don't forget about that fan letter stating "always felt it to be unfair to force Dead Heads to turn to illegitimate & poor quality bootlegs"
and suggests that the band "put out a line of recordings of your concerts."]
and so to TPTB I say "keep them COMING!"

A little bit quicker and...
we might have time to say "How do you do?"
before we left behind

Peace and Kindness to All!
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Spinning now, didn’t get to it on the anniversary.

Yes Rhino, pick up the pace of releases.
2 Boxes per year please.

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1988-07-03 Oxford Plains Speedway and outdoors you know, and that means we are fired-up everywhere!
...Laugh in the Sunshine, SING!

this show was / IS HOT, but you already knew it, and thanks to mr dan healy for giving all of us attendees the opportunity to become part of GOGD lore by leaving the soundboard tape running to conclude the performance, listen did you hear what I just heard...not fade away!

Peace All!
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Hey rockers!!

It's my Friday, paperwork day, working on autopsy reports while listening to the Detroit shows of October 23 and 24 1971. Worth a listen..............

Release of June 1970 Hawaii shows would be awesome!

Music is intended and designed for sentient beings that have hopes and purposes and emotions.....

Rock on!

Doc
Music is the medicine of the mind......

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...MUCH talk about box sets; yup, beginning the weekend with the Here Comes Sunshine Box...
1973-05-26 sets 2 & 3 kezar...

...I'm on my way, on my way

enjoy the weekend everyone
Peace!
uncle_tripel

I saw comments when 1-22-78 vinyl came out that it was a bad pressing.
How was your copy?
I suspect that some are bad but that there are some good ones too.
I didn’t buy it because of the bad reviews.

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Cnkd - luckily mines 100% proof. No scratches or any audible interference at all. I have to say also, that whenever I have bought some L.Ps off deadnet, and one of them is less than perfect, it has always been replaced by them with no problem. I'd go for it!
Great show of course. I'm now back into 1978 for a while - Dicks Picks 18, featuring the two shows from 2/78, is a stone cold classic as everyone knows.

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Yes, ‘78 has some good stuff.
Wonder why RedRocks 78 hasn’t been chosen for a vinyl pressing.

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What about the Red Rocks "Werewolves" show in vinyl?
I'm in.
Cheers