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    Dave's Picks Vol. 51: Scranton Catholic Youth Center, Scranton, PA (4/13/71)

    Look out Big Boss Man, Pigpen's on the loose! We're shedding our lovelight on the not-to-be-overlooked Spring 1971 tour with DAVE'S PICKS VOLUME 51, featuring the complete unreleased show from the SCRANTON CATHOLIC YOUTH CENTER, SCRANTON, PA 4/13/71 AND the 2nd set from the previous night at the Pittsburgh Civic Arena in Pittsburgh, PA on 4/12/71.

    These gems find the original Grateful Dead quintet delivering some of their most inspired, energetic, and tightest performances. There's a dab of WORKINGMAN'S DEAD, a splash of AMERICAN BEAUTY, a great foreshadow into what would soon appear on SKULL & ROSES. And you'll need nearly all those fingers (or those toes) because - count 'em - there's eight classic covers ("Mama Tried," "Hard To Handle," and a rare "I Second That Emotion," to name a few) done as only the Dead could do them with Mr. McKernan and his magical harmonica.

    Limited to 25,000 numbered copies, DAVE'S PICKS VOLUME 51: SCRANTON CATHOLIC YOUTH CENTER, SCRANTON, PA 4/13/71 has been mastered to HDCD specs by Jeffrey Norman at Mockingbird Mastering.

    P.S. We had a little extra room on Disc 2, so please enjoy the final five DP48 bonus tracks to complete 10/24/70, St. Louis, MO.

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  • uncle_tripel
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    My Favorite...

    ...incarnation of The Dead (2003) with Jimmy Herring on lead... with wishes of godspeed

  • Colin Gould
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    Shipping

    Simon. Thanks for mentioning DHL again I’d forgotten about that. DHL tell me that mine is still in CA but at least it’s in a bag.. My shipping notice came a day after you mentioned yours so mine should soon take flight.

  • simonrob
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    Looking good!

    According to the tracking data, the plane carrying my copy of Dave's Picks 51 has just landed at Frankfurt airport on a direct Lufthansa flight from LA. This is the first Dave's that has shipped to me with DHL and it seems to be going much faster than the more usual UPS/USPS/Asendia route.

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    God bless the Brooklyn Bowl Taper

    So 11/11/70 is one of my favorite shows. The only circulating AUD is very rough, as we all know, but as it happens Bluecrow said something in another post earlier today, and while it's about another show entirely, it's very apropos: "...with a pair of cheap headphones - listening in the dark in the middle of the high desert night - you could be there."

    This is some of the last really primal dead I can point to. Just three months later and this era was already a wisp of a dream, hard to remember... Mickey's out of the band and they're debuting a bunch of new material a little ways up the road in Port Chester. But on this first night in Brooklyn, a Wednesday, there was magic in the air. I can go on at length but it's late...

    Somewhere I thought I remember reading that the taper on this night snuck in his gear inside/under a wheelchair, but I don't know if that's true and I don't know where I am getting that from. I thought the story also went that the reason that the quality of the tape gets progressively worse with time was because the venue (which wasn't sold out) does gradually fill over time, and patrons block the sound.

    The La B amba thing... certainly Garcia teases it during Good Lovin, but if something is sung I can't remember it... the quality of the tape at that point is pretty rough. If you can get far enough at long you will get to a VERY early Goin' Down the Road. Like Sugar Mag, this is an EARLY version. One gets the idea that maybe Garcia was just tryin it on to kill a bit of time as he's almost unaccompanied as he starts out singing. Oh and then a couple of minutes in to the tune, you can hear an audience member say, "is that Jack Casady? Told ya" (I believe the Airplane were due to play up at a certain theater on the CT border that coming Friday night the 13th, but they were off this night, so they sat in.

    Like so much of the second half of 1970, I doubt we will ever hear a board copy of this show. I hope I'm wrong because this show on the whole is a tremendous work of art. It's not perfect - for example, the Hard to Handle isn't as incendiary as some others - but regardless, I expect I will always remain eternally grateful to the person who taped it for us. Forgive me if I got my facts wrong here, it's late, but corrections/additions are welcomed

  • TN John
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    Received

    Maybe I'll get it next week for my vacation.

    Peace

  • billy the kiddd
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    Anniversary show 7/24/87 Oakland

    37 years ago I was up in Oakland to hear the Grateful Dead & Bob Dylan play. The show was fantastic, the Dead played great! Garcia played pedal steel when the Dead backed Dylan, that alone was worth the price of admission.

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    The email says “shipped”, but UPS doesn’t have it yet.

    7-10 days and hopefully it will be here.

    In the meantime Dave, announce the Box…..

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    Setlist has LA Bamba listed after Good Lovin' and before Cumberland Blues???

    From Brooklyn Bowl website.

  • Birchwood
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    Brooklyn Rock Palace Nov. 1970 Banana Box 4-Show Box Set!

    Brooklyn Rock Palace Nov. 1970 Banana Box 4-Show Box Set?
    I'm listening to the low-fi recording of 11-11-70 available on archive.org, and the playing is Grade A excellent. What a treat it would be if these four concerts existed in excellent audio. Anyone know more about them?
    Peace!

  • gratefulgerd
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    John Mayall

    Saw him Live at the Jahrhunderthalle, Frankfurt on May 2nd 1972 (John Mayall Blues Group).
    Just about a week after the GD hit the same stage.
    But I didn't make it to the Dead. Little had I known about them.
    After 52 years it feels unforgivable to me!
    Least we have the music.
    Cheers
    G.

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Dave's Picks Vol. 51: Scranton Catholic Youth Center, Scranton, PA (4/13/71)

Look out Big Boss Man, Pigpen's on the loose! We're shedding our lovelight on the not-to-be-overlooked Spring 1971 tour with DAVE'S PICKS VOLUME 51, featuring the complete unreleased show from the SCRANTON CATHOLIC YOUTH CENTER, SCRANTON, PA 4/13/71 AND the 2nd set from the previous night at the Pittsburgh Civic Arena in Pittsburgh, PA on 4/12/71.

These gems find the original Grateful Dead quintet delivering some of their most inspired, energetic, and tightest performances. There's a dab of WORKINGMAN'S DEAD, a splash of AMERICAN BEAUTY, a great foreshadow into what would soon appear on SKULL & ROSES. And you'll need nearly all those fingers (or those toes) because - count 'em - there's eight classic covers ("Mama Tried," "Hard To Handle," and a rare "I Second That Emotion," to name a few) done as only the Dead could do them with Mr. McKernan and his magical harmonica.

Limited to 25,000 numbered copies, DAVE'S PICKS VOLUME 51: SCRANTON CATHOLIC YOUTH CENTER, SCRANTON, PA 4/13/71 has been mastered to HDCD specs by Jeffrey Norman at Mockingbird Mastering.

P.S. We had a little extra room on Disc 2, so please enjoy the final five DP48 bonus tracks to complete 10/24/70, St. Louis, MO.

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Indeed it is. Next up: "Man Smart, Woman Smarter."

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But I feel I must comment on Joe Biden's decision to step down. A selfless and dignified act, unusual in a world where self promotion is paramount, and multifarious crimes are routinely committed and accepted as normal political activity.

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It's a really hard thing to do: to admit you're too old, to step aside, and relinquish power. And it doesn't always end well.

I don't want to get into politics, but I will say I think Biden deserves praise for putting his ego aside and doing the right thing.

Other than that, I'll just say that I hope that everyone who is eligible to vote will take that responsibility seriously. Get informed, think deeply, and vote with your best self., please.

Vacationing in Colorado right now, seeing the sights and having some fun leading up to TTB at Red Rocks this weekend. Listening to GOGD channel on Sirius. For now, at least, life is really good.

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You might see Hendrixfreak there.
Enjoy Colorado.
Cheers

Three days of great music

Smoky skies from forest fires and hot AF during the day

But

If you have a chance to hear a band called the Record Company, give 'em a chance. Rockin'.

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Was it yer biff day?
Happy happy joy joy!

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GD covered a lot of R&B and blues classics

At the festival the PA music played between acts featured a lot of R&B and blues classics

I kept thinking "GD covered this one ...and this one...
and this one..."

GBtGD

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Daverock Scranton Joe has always given the best of himself for the country he has served virtually his entire adult life. The act of a real man is to put all before himself. Joe Biden is a real man! God Bless America!

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RIP Jerry Miller of Moby Grape

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JJC - I would agree there. But surely selflessness is a quality that transcends national boundaries. As Tiny Tim says in Dickens "A Christmas Carol" - "God bless us everyone!"

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I wish we could enjoy the Grateful Dead without politics. But here we go!!

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One is not dragged kicking and screaming to a selfless act

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Tired of watching liberal clowns trash our country which I love. Sick people. Switched to Trump because we can do so much better. Start paying attention. Economy sucks, crime sucks, illegals suck. The Dead's music makes me forget it all.

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Retirement can be the end result of a process. It's not a snap decision made impulsively if you are in a position where choice is a factor. Must be very difficult if you are in the public eye, when the sequence of events leading to it is visible and open to public scrutiny. This has absolutely nothing to do with politics. All of us experience the ageing process and deal with it in our own way. Normally with some degree of privacy.

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The economy is doing great, look at the stock market.
The rich white people who control the GOP are getting richer by the day.

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Just waiting on a friend. Nothing here yet.

I wonder if Dave pays any attention to sales. He still says these all sell out fast, some in a couple of hours, some in days, some in weeks. He needs to update his stich, it is now years.

Edit- The double 85 dose is now sold out!

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to be quiet and thought an idiot than to open your mouth and remove all doubt...see y'all next year, maybe

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Will it be this week or next ? What's it gonna be? I hope its Winter land Oct. 1974 audio & video. That would be something!

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Billy, bring it! Now that one would sell out faster than GSTL in 2017.

Been hoping for this one for a long time.

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....oh. I'm paying attention alright.
Anywho, I proposed to my subwoofer tonight. Don't tell Mrs. Vguy.

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MUATM....2024 box...

I think we'll hear something on MUATM middle of Aug. after D&C at the Sphere. Meet Up will be at end of Aug. When pre-order for the box will be announced... Shipping date first week of Dec...

In the groove let the good times roll...Clock on the wall says its time to go...

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...take all the whining to:
X, facebook, truthsocial, wherever
but not here,
no one here wants to hear
this sucks, that sucks, everything sucks

and apparently the music is not helping

Peace for All
uncle_tripel

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To realise you are an idiot and try to do something about it.

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the election, and here's another one. The traitor is now "the old guy". The old guy needs to be defeated. So now he's the old guy and a traitor. Vote like ur life depends on it, cause if "the old guy/traitor" gets his way, we are all "f"ed

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Coast to Coast ?

What if Dave has dove deep into the banana boxes, and pulled all the missing reels from Avalon to The Ark April '69 ? WoW, that would be nice!

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I made it to 7-21,22-90 but missed 7-23-90……

Those 3 nights, complete audio/video, would make a nice release.

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Some years back I had an idea of Dueling Fillmore East meets West 1970 box...Got a lot of buzz!!

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Dave "I'll see you here soon? We've got another announcement probably in the next?, oh little while?"

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The only time I will post political stuff.....I always thought GOGD fans were open minded and open to both sides with discussion. I am wrong again. It appears from the comments lately that the Dems/Progs could have Alfred E. Newman as their candidate, and all the Heads will just follow in line, like lemmings. Who cares about what some Hollywood millionaire thinks, as if they know anything besides group think. Please try researching/reading to have an open mind. Joe B. did nothing, and all of his lemmings hid his deteriorating condition for years. I'm still not sure who I will vote for, if I vote at all. We definitely don't need another giveaway person as President. Look at the inflation numbers, sky high food prices, and unaffordable housing for the majority of citizens, and actually make an intelligent decision

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Guys. This is where I weigh in and say enough with the politics please. Thank you. Within the bounds of civility and respect, please feel free to take it to the long-dormant Trouble Ahead, Trouble Behind, Still More Current Events: dead.net slash forum slash trouble-ahead-trouble-behind-still-more-current-events

been waitin on the bus all day.

And, I love a lot of buzz!

Waitin on that right now.

Back when they were GD, I always wanted to see a lightning bolt tour starting at Alpine and finishing in New Orleans.

But I will settle for a fillmore east/west box!!!

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or whatever that rumored box was.

The next box will be revealed during the days between.

I hope it's a box I can live without so I can save money and storage space.

"Jesus just left Chicago
and he's bound for New Orleans
you don't have to worry
'cause taking care of business is his name"

Ah, take me with you, Jesus!

I would probably not buy it

But you know I would anyway

Oh. If it's well north of $200, prolly no deal.

Speculation only

Time will tell, as always

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Ventura various years but 84 definitely or a Shoreline 91with that last 1st set Dark Star

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I saw him play once at the S.F. Blues Festival, he put on a good show.

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Ever since Spring '90 TOO, I don't look a gift horse in the nub!

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