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Grantchester Meadows on Ummagumma if my faulty memory is working

You win!

....thats two in a row. For anyone keeping track.
Don't screw it up US. History tells me that the country was built on steadfastness against tyranny.

Very nice

Epic Morning Dew!!!

DC was home base for shows, for me. The band always seemed to play well to really great, in the nations capital!

Rock on, gang

I was at my 1st show.
Grateful Dead that is.
The amps were buzzing.
And so was the the band and the audience.
Cheers

That must have been Red Rocks - respect. I don't know where the heck I was, but it wasn't as good as that.

Just pulled this one down from shelf.. A top five 1977 IMO, BUT - the sound.. the cds are from 98 and they sound tiny and far off.. Please Dave - let Sir Norman do a new remastering of some old releases - and soon - I am not getting any younger.. BW from Copenhagen

....new record. Not the time to order vinyl lol.
Edit. Just realized I Pre-ordered Phish's new record that is being released Friday oof!
They are going to be on Jimmy Kimmel this Thursday btw.

1st show, I got exposed first in Sept '72, but the first GD at Rocks shows were indeed rather epic. We had more Purple Dragon blotter than we should have had, so we ate alot of it. By the time the show started on the 7th, we were quite ready for the coolness of evening and they started with blue or purple lights (I swear!) The opening of the 7th and the second set of the 8th were seared into memory. Kesey was there and, I believe the weirdo noshing on steak by Phil's speakers was Owsley. And, of course, ME!

Glad for all the years we had this band live in our town(s). Or even better, someone else's town...

Just in case TPTB are listening: it sure would be nice to hear at least some of the Dicks Picks in better audio. Seems like a no brainer: audio restoration tech has advanced quite a bit over the past 30 years, leading me to believe that at least some of the shows could be improved markedly.

C'mon Dave. You know it really has to be done at some point.

Let me be counted as one who'd be willing to buy were some of these releases see remastering/Plangent treatment. Folks were talking about DP 19 recently, and it's a cracking good show, but I passed on picking up a used copy after listening to it and comparing it to the Kiel shows from 2 weeks later that were released as part of LttR. Similarly DP 20 has never sounded good to me; I much prefer the AUDs from that run. And DP 10... yeah, while I enjoyed that one back in the day, and it was a revelation compared to a fairly muddy audience tape I had, it no longer seems to hold up by today's high standards.

If its instead of something yet unreleased …
Just my two centavos.
Probably in the minority like usual.

Unreleased, please

But

They keep re releasing stuff on vinyl, so a redo of Dixpix isn't a crazy notion

....I'm happy with my Dicks.
However, DP12 does sound incredible on vinyl.
So there's that. Another conundrum.
sigh.
Jinx PF haha. Good shit.
Been eyeballing #33 btw.

Too hot

2haht

Insomnia s u qs

...9th
'nuff said:(

Peace for All!
uncle_tripel

I like the Dick's Picks re-release idea. I vote for:

Dick's Picks vol 2

But release the entire show: 10 31 71

Bob dylan site offering a 27 cd box set of the 1974 tour,,,, comes out in september,,,,,130 bucks

Dennis - Break out the little lady’s credit card. Dylan & the Band, 1974, a 27 disc set, due in September. (Because the entire tour is being released, it makes me think this is for copyright reasons, like releasing his entire 1966 tour was).
If you still have room left on the card, Pete Townsend has a solo live box set due this month of 14 discs (14 discs!? Psssh. Poser). I’m not a big enough PT Solo fan to invest in this one, but if they release a “best of”, maybe.
Finally, a Dicky Betts archival release coming in about a week, only one disc, but a live gig from 1988 featuring Warren Haynes, and some interesting guests, including Mick Taylor. Affordable, just not sure about the sound quality, as it is not a major label release. I’ll wait on this one.
Throw in a pending GOGD box, and your wife’s card will implode.
Edit - Dennis, I didn’t see your previous note when I posted.

yeah, I bit. Now I'm worried because the dead are NOW going to annouce the 600 cd set for only 10k and we're only making 5,,,, so rush on down!

Third Man Records are supposed to release a "highlite" 3 lp set of the Dylan,,,, I'm watching,,,, well see :-)

PROPER!
Hey Dnet, how come y’all don’t do any tour boxes like that instead of measly 3 show boxes etc?
Skip the shite and just give us the shows ; )

Or is it

Pole guy time?

Oh. Next month.

....they have been gone almost as long as they were here.

After boogieing on stage with the Band, well, the rest is history!
I swear you could feel something was going to happen…

So, what, a week, maybe two until the next installment of “greatest pick evvver” vs “What the hell was he thinking” lol What will it be?
I’m thinking maybe he finally goes Vince or Bruce era, followed by something old and attention getting to plumb subs for next year?

And the box? Maybe it’s a fall release?
What with them working on new site bugs etc, and other releases in motion etc, they have enough troubles and are gonna wait a bit?
That would add gas to the 10/74 50th box rumors fire 🔥

right, DaP51 announced by end of this week, VincebusBruciola era. We drove down from central Maine January 14th fifty years ago to catch Dylan and The Band at the old Boston Garden, what an armpit venue it was. Brought a camera, B&W 35mm shot with a telephoto. Lots of repeats on those 27 discs, would settle for a best of 3CD package.

36 years ago I was up at the Frost Ampitheatre to see a really cool show with the Jerry Garcia acoustic band, Hot Tuna was also on the bill. Fun times!

…Dicks Picks #33 Vinyl Boxset is Primo IMHO & a must have if you collect Grateful Dead vinyl releases. The audio quality is excellent & really an upgrade from the CD release on my system.
I also agree with’Doc’ , i prefer & believe Dave’s Picks #24 is better than the ‘Veneta performance! I would also love & welcome to have some of the Dick Picks performance releases be rereleased in complete form! A whole lot of primo performances being incomplete form in the dicks picks series! Concerning Boxsets, Im still hoping,want and waiting for a 1979 Boxset release someday soon…have a grateful day everyone!
“Nothing left to do but Smile Smile Smile!”

According to a press release for the new box, the shows were "captured on a stereo soundboard mix, on both 1/4” tape and cassette. By tour’s end, Asylum Records’ David Geffen had commissioned recordings on multitrack tape, the standard at the time, for eventual release on Before the Flood.

The 1974 Live Recordings offers fans 417 previously-unreleased Bob Dylan live tracks – including 133 recordings newly mixed from 16-track tape, and every single surviving soundboard recording.

In conjunction with The 1974 Live Recordings, Third Man Records has announced the September release of The 1974 Live Recordings – The Missing Songs From Before the Flood, a 3-LP / 1 x 7-inch set culled from the same recordings, featuring hand selected versions of every song Bob Dylan recorded that was not included on the original 1974 live album.

.... 🍻. And King Gizzard released a new song/video!
I like good news.

…and playing the Tonight Show this Thursday.

The Live 1966 recordings are great - even though there is a heck of a lot of repetition. I have never been that keen on Before The Flood though, so I would go for the highlights of this new set, not the whole thing. And then only if there are no recordings of The Band without Dylan included.

Another reissue is a 20th anniversary 3 cd set Bubblegum XX by Mark Lanegan coming out towards the end of August. This was one of my favourite albums from 2004 so I’ll have to get it. I’ve ordered the Dylan box set as well.

I recommend listening to Pink Floyd's Ummagumma soon

After dropping someone at the airport this morning Careful with that Axe Eugene came on

"AAAAAAAA!!!"

Just like a first cup of coffee

And then Set the Controls for the Heart of the Sun in stop and go traffic

Kewl

So Many Roads

Jerry looks so tired. 52 going on 79.

What must have it been like to experience life from his perspective?

RIP, Jerry. You are truly and sincerely missed.

:_(((

....than Jerry did then.
In fact, they all do.
Don't make me sad PF.

Just say

"What about Gainesville?"

Garcia with me everywhere I go! God Bless the grateful Dead! Peace! ;-)

I'm not sayin reissue a bunch of upgraded Dicks INSTEAD of more new shows. I'm sayin do BOTH the current archival reissue program AND upgrade some Dicks. All I want is everything. Is that too much to ask?

I'm-a have to do some thinking on this new Dylan box. Always dangerous! For whatever reason, I never listened to Before the Flood very much. The Rolling Thunder tour seemed so much more inspired, if also more ragged. Anybody got THAT box set (ie The Rolling Thunder Review 1975 Recordings)? If so I'd be curious to hear your thoughts. Almost bought that one about eleventy seven times.

Listening right now to the Des Moines shows from the spring '73 box and it is fine fine fine.

Very strange timing, considering the Dylan & the Band Boxset was just announced today, but it was also announced today that Mary Martin just passed away, at 85. Who?
Mary was a Toronto gal that saw the Band playing around town in their Hawks days, and befriended the guys. She later went on to work for Albert Grossman in New York (Dylan’s manager), and it was her that introduced Dylan to the Band, felt they would work well together.
The rest is history.
She worked with other artists like Peter, Paul & Mary, Van Morrison, and Leonard Cohen, but later worked her way to Nashville in A & R, and became instrumental in the careers of people like Emmylou Harris, Rodney Crowell, Vince Gill, and Keith Urban.
RIP Mary

....feeling better already.
If for nothing else, the first shows Phil approached the mic since the Keith & Donna daze.
Cold Rain & Snow.
Lesh Philling. Bass Grate!
"Let Phil sing!" sprouted from the ground ever since. You gotta let it grow.
Talk of New Mexico reminds me of strider, who used to post here quite often.
Positive thoughts Vguy.
I don't believe in coincidences That Mike, but, yeah. Kinda weird.

Take the hint, Dave :)))

If 27 cds with (mostly) the same set-list is too much - I recordmend the wonderful "Another Self Portrait" (4 cd) box. It is sold out and a little expensive, but it has the Dylan/Band show from "Isle of Wight 1969".. great stuff..

Crow - that's one of the best Dylan live box sets, by my reckoning. Light years away from the stadium rock featured on Before The Flood, it feels ragged and inspired. It also features a great dvd. Look out for Mick Ronson playing the riff from Jean Genie as rhythm for A Hard Rain.

I also like that 4cd Another Self Portrait. One of the few albums I bought as a download instead of a physical object. Bit of a mistake, perhaps, but better than nothing.

VGuy - I don’t believe in coincidence, either, but one last one on the Band.
You mentioned Strider in reference to New Mexico. He told me he was a New Mexico native, and that he was a big Band fan, and in 1974 he hitchhiked through Canada, and one of the jobs he did for traveling money was picking tobacco in Simcoe, Ontario, a small farming community that Rick Danko was raised in and around.
Too weird.

Daverock I agree that the 1974 tour lacks the subtlety and intimacy of the Rolling Thunder tour but I still like it a lot. The box will make a nice 65th birthday present for me from my wife, save her having to think too hard. (A decent single malt would be nice too but that'll probably be from my son, he understands drink better and isn't shy about throwing a bit of money at it 🙂). I'm hoping that in some shows the vocals are a little less forced. Why do bands feel that they have to shout in front of a big crowd? Don't they understand it's amplified?

Thanks for the recommendation, Daverock! I've noticed, over the years, that our tastes seem really similar, so if you're digging the Rolling Thunder box, I'm sure I will, too. Ordered it this morning, in fact.

Which means I will pass on the 1974 tour thing. For now, anyway. To me, Before the Flood always seemed to me like evidence that Dylan wasn't comfortable trying to be the arena rock star some people wanted him to be, and I doubt if hearing 27 CDs worth of that tour would change my mind. Rolling Thunder by contrast seems like a return to his contrarian instincts. There's real spontaneity and joy in the performances I've heard, and I'm eager to hear more. I'd almost say it was the last time Dylan was really Dylan. There's been lots of great music since then, but that was maybe the last time his performances felt like a countercultural happening. At least for me.

Then again there are certain artists I've learned never to dismiss. Like Miles Davis, Dylan has put out records that I despised at the time, yet years later came around to appreciate. So who knows? Maybe someday I'll "get" the 1974 tour. But I'll be immersed in Rolling Thunder for next week or so, I think. Thanks again.

I've got most of em. The rolling thunder box has one disc of rehearsals (Disc 1) that is really great. Some of the other stuff can get a little repetitive, but 14 discs for $75 seems like a no brainer if you're a fan.

Also highly recommend Another Self Portrait, Bootleg Series # 10. Awesome versions of a great period, including lots of New Morning stuff. This one is really really good.

And one more shameless plug for #13, Trouble No More. One of the weaker periods for Dylan albums, but this box strips out all the cheesy 80s production and smacks you with a fantastic live band, and great arrangements of Slow Train, Gotta Serve Somebody, precious Angel, Covenant Woman, Watered Down Love, Caribbean Wind, I Believe In You, and a version of Pressing On that is alone worth the cost of the box. I cant recommend this one enough.

I was hoping the Springtime In NY stuff would be a continuation of Trouble No More, and while its got its high points, its not quite the gem that is TNM.

Driving

Car in front of me has license plate holder with dealer name/location

Weir Canyon

Lol

Turns out that is in Anaheim CA

now you know