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    Dave's Picks Vol. 50: Palladium, New York City, NY 5/3/77

    Reviewer: WolfmansBrother - favoritefavoritefavoritefavorite - February 11, 2008 - Online Review

    Subject: setting me on fire

    left the orchestra section during ship of fools and arrived in the loge for the basso profundo MNS - it's the best of the tour so far, i think, and the balcony is shakin' to its raging outro leading. i sit to take a short break, too.

    yet another night of the first set seeming to spill over. first half of this second set is well-played, indeed, but the sugaree is the INSANE highlight, and keith and jerry are battling it out. one of the strongest estimateds of tour and i, for one, am happy for the FOTD break. the second half belongs to jerry - eyes is short but stellar and bridges to yet another rip-your-heart-out wharf rat, and NFA showcases some down in the weeds jamming. we're stomping and clapping and grinning our faces off, and then joint is jumping for sure as they close it down. another fine UJB encore sends me out the door, so very deeply in love with this band and its music. is there anything better than being a deadhead?

    Is there anything better than being a Dead Head when one of your favorite shows is officially released in its entirety? We'll double down on your sentiments WolfmansBrother, with DAVE'S PICK VOLUME 50: PALLADIUM, NEW YORK CITY, NY 5/3/77, and we'll bring the fire extinguisher to cool you off after you listen to Betty Cantor-Jackson's complete recording. Don't want the party to end? We'll stoke those embers with a few hot tracks from the first set of  5/4/77. Dave's Picks Subscribers score the monstrous second set from 5/4/77 featuring "Scarlet>Fire,"  "Terrapin," 'Playing In The Band," "Comes A Time," and more. Woowee!

    Limited to 25,000 numbered copies, this release has been mastered to HDCD specs by Jeffrey Norman at Mockingbird Mastering. 

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  • dmcvt
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    51 announcement is up

    Comments and seaside do not seem to be enabled yet... yes, indeed 3/24 an interesting show, Thanks Doc for the DS/TOO April recap, noticed same thing, them being on hiatus. Turn out we do get another TOO, from Pittsburg.

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    I was just going to post about this one..

    Give it a listen... Good show! Has a different feel...

  • Forensicdoceleven
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    I think we could jam a bit more in our coffins than we do.....

    Well, not the sort of jam we were referring to, but kind of in my sphere of expertise.....

    There were a handful of April 71 shows that had no Dark Star or Other One---if memory serves me well, that included April 4, 6, 7, 10, 15, 17, 18, 22, 25, and 26. So maybe not so unusual for that month. Often times, Good Lovin' was the "jammy tune" of the evening. All, of course, leading up to the penultimate Good Lovin' of April 26, 1971, which was about the crankinest jammyest Good Lovin' known to humankind. Now that one is definitely worth a listen!!!

    March 24. Oh yeah. Highly rated here. "We brought Pigpen, but we forgot an organ". And Bobby with the Code Seminole mishigas. Too funny. Now this one does have an Other One and it's pretty good. Healthy doses of Pigpen. Would make a nice official release some day. Like maybe next year LOL.............

    Paperwork day. No bodies to cut up. I'm jonesing................

    Rock on,

    Doc
    Because the sweeter the cake, the more bitter the jelly can be.......

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    Five 71 Dave's Picks through #51.

    Seems odd to me that he has not touched many other years much or at all. Definitely a proponent of variety, but we will take what we can get.

    I think we would have all thought we would get a 91 released by now, but now I don't see it happening any time soon. At least they gave us a great 91 show for last year's MUATM. Wish they would release it on video and CD.

  • dmcvt
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    While we wait for Scranton

    No DS or TOO?? But a nice H2H. Been listening to Winterland, three weeks earlier, March 24th H2H, that's a very hot one. 1971, next best thing to primal.

  • fourwindsblow
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    St Louie

    Not much of this show left too release.

  • Forensicdoceleven
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    What I forgot about Scranton..........

    .........raucous Sugar Mags to end the first set. Very unusual..........
    .........how badly they screwed up Truckin'. Then they made up for it. We always forgave the Dead their foibles and pratfalls, this is no different...........
    .........good Good Lovin'..........

    Rough diamonds may sometimes be mistaken for worthless pebbles.......

    Rock on,

    Doc
    Whether we fall by ambition, blood, or lust, like diamonds we are cut with our own dust.....

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    Pig Show & St. Louis Xtras?

    This would seem to be as expected from what Dave said about the 2024 schedule of releases. Next I would imagine would be the oft anticipated Vince & Bruce era pick, 1991? Heck! As soon as I'm done with this post I am picking up the left over 2019 Box Set single show disc, 6/17~1991, lucky for me it's still there! Anyways I forsee a possibility of 2025 with Frost 1982 (2) shows. Maybe 1978, 12/22 with a bonus disc of 12/17 "From the Heart of Me" onward. Cross your fingers for Aug. 4th, 1976, and maybe 10/25/73 to finish off the year. Or! Sept. 11, 1973 with BirdSong & Sunshine bonus filler from 9/12? Then for 2026 plug in another Bruce & Vince show and either a Pig or Brent era to go with 7/25/74 & 4/23/77. I KNOW!!!!! Damn! 1977 again!

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    Cage The Elephant....

    ....holy shit. Who and what is this band?
    Fixin to find out.
    Thank you the Spectrum XM channel.
    Phish's Tiny Desk is up and running.
    Conekid got a turntable?
    Tell me more.

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    Love the comments and banter

    Good to see thin' return and doc's analysis is spot on.

    I find a little irony in the tele comments. As I recall thin is not a fan of tele skiing. (a little joke, no hard feelings whatsoever). I guess thin likes tele more than he would admit.

    Full disclosure, I tele ski. Poorly in my old age. But at least I'm enjoyin' the ride.

    As for the 70's debate which seems to never end. I find myself agreeing with everything written here lately. I have listened to this show (#51) at least twice but it isn't in my long term memory.

    I think the emphasis on 70's vs. other is somewhat artificial as there have been many 80's cassette mastered shows released recently which might suggest the trend has shifted. But there is no doubt things have been 70's centric since Dick's Picks ended with a few honorable mentions in the road trips series. I honestly believe the reason for this is not the quality of the shows but the quality of the recordings and the lack of vocal flubs in the earlier years compared to 80ish shows. Plus in general they could for the most part sing better in their youth. They are trying to mine gold as best they can with what they have. When viewed in that context '71 makes sense right now, especially a good recording like what we are about to hear all cleaned up by Dr. Norman.

    Just my two cents, I could be wrong.

    As you were folks. Enjoy your ride and be considerate to those you encounter.

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Dave's Picks Vol. 50: Palladium, New York City, NY 5/3/77

Reviewer: WolfmansBrother - favoritefavoritefavoritefavorite - February 11, 2008 - Online Review

Subject: setting me on fire

left the orchestra section during ship of fools and arrived in the loge for the basso profundo MNS - it's the best of the tour so far, i think, and the balcony is shakin' to its raging outro leading. i sit to take a short break, too.

yet another night of the first set seeming to spill over. first half of this second set is well-played, indeed, but the sugaree is the INSANE highlight, and keith and jerry are battling it out. one of the strongest estimateds of tour and i, for one, am happy for the FOTD break. the second half belongs to jerry - eyes is short but stellar and bridges to yet another rip-your-heart-out wharf rat, and NFA showcases some down in the weeds jamming. we're stomping and clapping and grinning our faces off, and then joint is jumping for sure as they close it down. another fine UJB encore sends me out the door, so very deeply in love with this band and its music. is there anything better than being a deadhead?

Is there anything better than being a Dead Head when one of your favorite shows is officially released in its entirety? We'll double down on your sentiments WolfmansBrother, with DAVE'S PICK VOLUME 50: PALLADIUM, NEW YORK CITY, NY 5/3/77, and we'll bring the fire extinguisher to cool you off after you listen to Betty Cantor-Jackson's complete recording. Don't want the party to end? We'll stoke those embers with a few hot tracks from the first set of  5/4/77. Dave's Picks Subscribers score the monstrous second set from 5/4/77 featuring "Scarlet>Fire,"  "Terrapin," 'Playing In The Band," "Comes A Time," and more. Woowee!

Limited to 25,000 numbered copies, this release has been mastered to HDCD specs by Jeffrey Norman at Mockingbird Mastering. 

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On the Hoffman site someone posted a fun thing; a poster (dont know if it is fake..) from Hawaii, june 1970. It clearly states; "the shows will be recorded for future albums" (!).. So this must be multi-tracks..

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That poster shows that the Grateful Dead, Quicksilver Messenger Service and the New Riders played at the Honolulu Civic Auditorium on June 12 and 13, 1970 but two lists of concerts at the Honolulu Civic Auditorium that I found differ in what they say. One source shows that the Dead played there on both days but only has a setlist for June 13. The other source shows that the Dead and Quicksilver played on the 13th but no mention of the 12th. That source also shows that Steve Miller and the New Riders played there on June 16. All I know for certain is that Quicksilver played the Honolulu Civic Auditorium on the 13th (as shown on the poster) as I have a CD of their performance - and it is a legit release at that.

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I'm would think a few watch it, but ARS this week they had a women whose brother collected concert posters. He would send Bill Graham 3 bucks (?) and postage and he would mail out posters. These were 1st pressing deals. She had 47 of them from the Fillmore shows in the late 60's. All in all about 40K worth of posters,,,, the experts said a Hendrix one was worth the most (The Flying Eyeball?),,,, about 6K.

Anyone else buy posters from the Fillmore back in the day?

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Simonrob - that one has slipped through my net completely. I'll have a dig round later. I have all sorts of live recordings by them, often the same one twice with a different label on the can. But this is a new one on me, so cheers!

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It is called simply "Hawaii 1970" and was on the UK label Gonzo Multimedia. I just looked on their website and it was no longer listed there. It was released in 2014. I guess you'll just have to dig around.

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Happened upon the second set
Nice

Many have expressed Spring 77 fatigue

"Inconceivable!"

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Dave Rock
This album appears on Amazon UK. It isn’t available on cd and clicking on vinyl displays an entirely different album. It appears to be streamable on Prime although initial attempts show an error message. Clicking on the track titles does let them play. I do subscribe to Amazon Prime Music so that might be why I can play it.

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Madness at its most insane fineness!

Edit: and game 7 tonight!
🤞that’s all I’m gonna say…
What evs goes down, just hope it’s at least a good game,though historic would be better ; )

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How 'bout Sara IN a toga?

1984 needs more love. Lots of goodies in there.

Greeks
Ventura
Plus a whole lot more

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....in da house.
The second disc plastic holding thing came busted, otherwise, the album sounds grate!
Saving Reno for later.

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Simorob and Colin - thanks for the tips about this album. I think I may be able to play this through Amazon Prime, too, although I have never done it before. I saw the cd for sale for £196.00! I might be enthusiastic - but I'm not that enthusiastic.

Hits on the cosmic jukebox this week -

"HMS Donovan" by Donovan - despite featuring one of the most embarrassingly awful songs ( The Pee Song) I have ever heard in my life
"Travelling The Great Circle" - and incredible box set by Ozric Tentacles. All they play are space jams, and have been doing so since 1984. They simply never came down. And still haven't. This box features arguably their 4 best albums, plus much more, with incredible sound quality.

U.S. Blues always sounds great to me in 1974 shows, but a bit throwaway after that

I'm just messing around a little... :)
I feel like we're going to be waiting a while longer.

I got a new phone and found an old phone number for deadnet, I called it and its definitely not deadnet anymore, lol.
Some senior citizen rip-off line. :(

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Got my copy of the reissue yesterday. The remastered studio album sounds great! Much much much better than my ancient vinyl copy, which is great because I feel like I can finally appreciate all the weird little things they did to fill out those 32 tracks. Lots of interesting sonic doodads (is that a backwards cowbell) lurking in there.

The live show? Well, I've only listened to about 2/3rds of the first disc but I thought the audio was kind of disappointing, given that it was touted as being "pristine." It's one of those where the levels are being tweaked as we go so that vocals rise and fall in the mix, and if Weir's guitar was plugged in I couldn't hear it. Interesting to listen to, still, if only because Keith is so well audible and he's really playing well. And Garcia is really taking some chances. But the audio's not great, especially for WoS era show. IMO and all the usual disclaimers. Still glad to have it.

The studio album I've always liked, even if it is a relatively slick version of the what the Dead were about. Clearly, they were trying to make a record that radio would like, and that has its plusses and minuses. Like the studio version of Scarlet is wonderful, great energy, really propulsive rhythm playing by, well, everyone. And it's concise enough to get played on radio. But it's also frustrating in a way, because you really want the song to open up and breathe the way it did live, and it's always disappoints me (still!) that it just fades out immediately after that calypso riff at the end comes in. But US Blues really benefits from this "short and sweet" approach, and Lucy and Money are similarly rocking if also similarly misogynistic (tho pretty much everybody was in rock world of '74).

And China Doll is just a fucking miracle. Just sounds otherworldly in this pristine (ha ha) recording: Garcia's incredibly weird solo, those ghostly backing vocals. Wow.

I'm figuring the Half Baked box will be announced any minute now. Probably happened while I was typing this.

Last five, because why not?

Coltrane: Meditations (the quartet version)
GOGD: Mars Hotel
TTB: Crescent (from I am the Moon)
Little Feat: Feats Don't Fail reissue (similar to Mars, studio album sounds great, live bonus material not so much)
Brahms Symphony 1 (a Phil favorite!)

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GQ/John Mayer and Mickey Hart of Dead & Company Talk About Their Big, Strange Sphere Trip—and the Future of the Band

Just got an email from realgone. They have Dick's Volume 28, 1973; and Dick's Vol 32, 1982 back in stock. I grabbed the 1982 Alpine Valley show. I have missed the last few times they got it in stock. So I am very glad to see it and grab it. Only 3 Dick's short, hopefully complete soon.

Would add more to this post, but I already forgot what I was just reading on this board. Losing memory can be a good thing "Officer I don't remember." Cheers to all!

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Who remembers these very important numbers?
1-800-CAL-DEAD {(800) 225-3323}
PO Box X
Novato Ca. 94948
Back when the Deal was run by Deadheads not some overseas call center.

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From Nugs - A few nights back Pearl Jam was playing in Seattle. They did a tribute to Bill Walton. Weird to see Mr. Walton on their video screen wearing a big Grateful Dead shirt.

From Nugs - Phish's Live Bait 21 looks awesome!

From Live Sounds International an article with picture of Widespread Panic onstage titled " You Shall Not (All) Pass?
Detailing a subwoofer approach to attain horizontal uniformity for a festival stage."
By Michael Lawrence

Got me some reading to do.

Also been over at GD at blogspot. Reading a lot of great stuff. Have known about them for a long time. But really interesting to read articles like 1967 Human Be-In; which of course Bolo with his mother in tow ran across. Let me know if you see this Bolo and I have spoken truth or not.

Cheers again.

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"Now the Shorelines Beckon: Hawaii/Alaska '70 '80 ! Primo!

I am just not buying it...and this statement of mine has multiple meanings : )

It just seems like there are many better options at this point in the game...

Whatever GD that exists in the vault from

1967
1968
1969

A whole BUNCH of that

A mix of 70 and 80?

Ok

That stuff from the 60s and Greek shows are better options

I truly think that if that material exists in the vault it would have been released by now.

Hawaii and Alaska?

While I don't NEED it, I certainly WANT it.

Are you for real, LMG? Or are you trying to play my greedy mind?

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According to a recent post on Hoffman forum, data coded in html has been entered into the new releases section here on this site, showing Now the Shorelines Beckon box details. Yes, can only agree, a primal box, 67, 68, first half 69. What are they waiting for?

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Here’s the rumor from a few weeks ago:

Pretty reliable source over the years claims the next box is the following and will be announced in a few weeks:

"Now the Shorelines Beckon.." 13 CD Box Set
6/12/1970 - Honolulu Civic Auditorium, Honolulu, HI (previously uncirculated)
6/13/1970 - Honolulu Civic Auditorium, Honolulu, HI
6/19/1980 - West High Auditorium, Anchorage, AK
6/20/1980 - West High Auditorium, Anchorage, AK
6/21/1980 - West High Auditorium, Anchorage, AK

maple, May 29, 2024

Got Hey Now’d with the first attempt, made a few edits and will try again.
Hey Now’d on 2nd attempt.

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Have you seen the box LMG?

Who is the reliable source Conekid?

Why the hell would they make us all wait this long for a 13 CD Box Set.

I don’t know the source, I just copied that from the Hoffman forum.

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reddit

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Piece that back together.

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…They do a sweet ‘ Alabama getaway’ in Alaska, one of my all time favorite performances! Sweet sweaty & sublime! Been waiting & wanting this run for a long time for the Alaska performances to be released! I also believe that the 70’ performances are a Gold Mine!

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....family is out, so I get to crank the big boy. Currently on China Rider.
Wasn't this the show where it was extremely windy and the sound was going everywhere? I recall reading about it.
Never mind. The band just mentioned the wind in between Rider and El Paso....El Paso!!!! Yay!
Idk Crow. Sounds mighty fine to me.
There was a strange warble during Sugaree, but otherwise chugging right along.
'74 China Riders are so, so good. Check out Phils vox during the sun in my backdoor verse. Tasty.
It's officially baseball season. Checks in on the Marlins. Disregard. It's officially Frisbee season.

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Well.. it looks like it will be the "Halaska" box for 2024.. Sadly I just paid about 100.000, dollars in extra-taxes - so no box for Danehead this year (one has to behave like an adult sometimes..) - hope it will be a good one.. BW from sunny Copenhagen

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I wish that they would have released 3 1980 acoustic/electric shows from the Warfield Theatre, and 3 1970 acoustic/electric shows from the Fillmore West,but it is what it is.

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With these predictions, is not always easy to spot who knows what they are talking about, and who just likes to look as though they know what they are talking about. In life generally, most people fall into the second category.

40 years ago today I was at Wembley to see The Stones. Ably supported by a loose limbed Black Uhuru and George Thorogood and the Destroyers. The Stones set was released as part of the "Tattoo You " box set that came out a year or two ago. Top banana. Although, unlike with Dead sets, they don't make it clear which night is included. "Chantilly Lace" is included on the cd, and I don't remember them playing that when I saw them. And believe me, I would if they had.

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Thanks for the heads up on Phish Live Bait,,, I was surprised I missed getting 20 when it came out, but 20 & 21 down. Hard to beat FREE! Great sounding, got Maze playing right now.

Also too saw and bought the Dicks (28 & 32) from Real Gone Music. Boy they know how to move product, bought yesterday in mail today! Guess Jeff Bozo taught them well :-)

I like the idea of the two new states getting a box. Never matters to me what the box is, I'll take what they dish out.

No further words from Experience on 2/11/69 vinyl. Not happy about Experience, they seem to sell stuff that hasn't even been pressed yet (ordered back in Feburary!)

I'd say saylavee, but I can't spell it.

Enjoy

PS - listening to Live Bait,,,, they did My Friend, My Friend to the music of Little Drummer Boy. Wild or Odd?

I went back to my emails for the PacNW '73-'74 box set (since it was announced later in the year than last year's box) but I couldn't find the email w/ the announcement. I preordered in June 2018 but there's a post on dead.net about the box that seems to be dated May 8th. Release date was Sept 7th.

Separately: I went digging within an hour of that reddit post about "Shorelines Beckon" (using both page source view and Chrome inspector) but I was unable to find any of that HTML in the new releases page. Hmmm. Probably doesn't mean anything. But it would be the work of a minute to fake that screenshot...

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Interesting stuff. What is Chrome Inspector? You guys definitely know a lot more than me.

The LTTR Box was announced in July and released in October, so there is definitely precedent for fall releases, however, they are typically larger box sets.

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