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    WHAT'S INSIDE:
    Curtis Hixon Convention Hall, Tampa, FL 4/6/78
    Sportatorium, Pembroke Pines, FL 4/7/78
    Veterans Memorial Coliseum, Jacksonville, FL 4/8/78
    Fox Theatre, Atlanta, GA 4/10/78
    Fox Theatre, Atlanta, GA 4/11/78
    Cameron Indoor Stadium, Duke University, Durham, NC 4/12/78
    Cassell Coliseum, Virginia Polytechnic Institute, Blacksburg, VA 4/14/78
    Huntington Civic Center, Huntington, WV 4/16/78

    Recorded By Betty Cantor-Jackson
    Newly restored and speed-corrected audio by Plangent Processes
    Mastered by Jeffrey Norman
    Liners By Author Steve Silberman
    Artwork By Acclaimed Artist Matthew Brannon

    Limited To 10,000 Individually Numbered Copies
    Dead.net Exclusive

    It’s been said before but April ‘78 was an incredible month for the Dead. Like May ‘77, you could throw a dart and guarantee you hit a stellar show. - KyloRensPecs, r/gratefuldead, Reddit

    .... April/May '78 has a lot of the same qualities of Spring '77 but with some extra edge and a much bigger sound from the Rhythm Devils. A really special era that often gets neglected. - viewtiful_alan, r/gratefuldead, Reddit

    Sportatorium - April 7, 1989

    when drums started I thought, oh s*#!, i hate drum solos and Billy and Mickey stopped me in my tracks. Wow, these guys are really good. Little did I know the pervasive influence this phenomena would have on my life. - pearlybakerbest, Dead.net

    Huntington Civic Centre, West Virginia – 16 April 1978

    This is another must-hear concert by The Grateful Dead. The sound and mix are almost ‘absolutely perfect'... It’s difficult to pick out highlights because everything is played so well; the band are tight, Donna is great and the set list is strong. - Grateful Ted, gratefulted.co.uk

    We're hitting the bullseye with the eight previously unreleased stellar shows that make up FRIEND OF THE DEVILS: APRIL 1978. Filled to the brim with peak performances from the Grateful Dead's post-hiatus period, this collection captures the historic tour where "Drums" begat "Space," morphed into "Drums">"Space" and cemented the Rhythm Devils' second-set power move from the music business to the "transportation business."

    Spring 1978 finds the Dead consistently weaving spontaneous magic, showing signs of great promise and potential - from the no-nonsense rock'n'roll in Tampa, where scholars cite the first "Drumz" leading into "Space," to the lengthy communal get down in Pembroke Pines to Jacksonville where the twain emerge fully formed, offering the primordial opportunity for "soul retrieval." It's evident in the dynamic range delivered on back-to-back nights at the intimate Fox Theatre and through the laid-back unity of the band's performance in Durham at Duke, a comfort that carries over to Virginia and West Virginia where the playing is unbridled, bursting with momentum, threatening to carry itself away. And nowhere can you hear that more clearly than through Betty Cantor-Jackson's original recordings, reliably crisp, bright, and vivid.

    Individually numbered to 10,000 copies and exclusive to Dead.net, FRIEND OF THE DEVILS: APRIL 1978 has been mastered by Audio Engineer Jeffrey Norman using Plangent Processes tape restoration and speed correction. Steve Vance designed the collection’s custom box, which features a removable wave drum. (We invite you to unleash your inner Rhythm Devil.) Acclaimed artist Matthew Brannon created the set’s original artwork. The collection also includes a 48-page book with original liner notes by author Steve Silberman and photos by James Anderson, Bob Minkin, and more.

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  • #491
    nitecat
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    Travels in California

    On my way to and from Lake Tahoe this month, I passed Nevada County Fairgrounds, where I saw JGB and the Dead in 1983. I also passed Boreal Ridge Ski Resort, the home of the infamous " Worst Dead concert ever" in 1985. I recall the Fairgrounds being pretty pleasant, and the Ski Resort being a pretty rocky, dirty location. I don't remember the show being all that bad, but the boys did have several technical difficulties. I'd go back in a second.

  • #492
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    What's the line on, on time…

    What's the line on, on time delivery?

  • #493
    JimInMD
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    Re: Steve Silberman's Obit

    Nice Post Dr. Robert

    When I run that obituary through HowNow (C) TM, the proprietary software I wrote to get wordy musings through this website during the HeyNow period, it would have taken 6,234 separate posts to get the entire thing through without getting HeyNow'd. (unfortunate to see it get fixed the day my patent came through...argh)

    anyhow... I'd call that tremendous progress.

    A tip of the glass and a moment of silence for all those deadheads worldwide that we lost jumping off bridges, hanging from neckties, joining monasteries, becoming uber drivers, starting tech companies, worm farms, etc. during the dark period when HeyNow ruled the land. May the four winds blow you safely home.

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    Steve Silberman's Obit courtesy of David Gans

    Steve Silberman’s vocation as a Grateful Dead scholar and writer began organically, on a blanket on the grass at a concert in the sun. He happened to sit next to Blair Jackson and Regan McMahon, publishers of “The Golden Road,” an essential fan magazine.
    “Steve wasn’t just a fan who ran off at the mouth about how many shows he had seen,” recalled McMahon of that chance meeting. “He had all these layers of spiritual and countercultural depth.
    Everything he said about the Grateful Dead was intellectual and perceptive and poetic.”
    By the end of that afternoon, Silberman had been invited to contribute an article to “The Golden Road” and that led to the high honor of writing liner notes for albums and box sets, and ultimately co-authoring the episodic glossary, “Skeleton Key: A Dictionary for Deadheads.”
    Silberman was known for wearing a custom T-shirt to a Halloween show bearing the message “Your Hallucinations Are My Costume,” and for his skill at putting cultural, scientific and medical complexity into common language, which he did during decades as a science journalist and in his 500-page treatise, “NeuroTribes: The Legacy of Autism and the Future of Neurodiversity” published in 2015.
    He spent four years on that project, followed by six years becoming an expert on cystic fibrosis. An upcoming book titled “The Taste of Salt,” was scheduled for publication in 2026. Silberman was to Silberman Chronicle obit.rtf the point of submitting chapters to his editor when he died suddenly at his home in San Francisco on Aug. 29. Cause of death was an apparent heart attack, said his husband Keith Karraker.
    “Steve lived an exciting life and wrote a book that changed the world,” said Karraker. “He could walk into a grocery store and make a friend for life with the counter guy, just from commenting on the music playing on the stereo.”
    Silberman also made friends for life by starting and maintaining a Facebook group titled “Cole Valley, a Not-So-Secret SF Neighborhood.” It has 8,000 members, including his sister Hillary Shawaf and mother Leslie, both of whom moved here from the East Coast based on Silberman’s recommendation.
    “He just loved this beautiful small-town neighborhood on the N Judah line,” said Karraker, a high school chemistry teacher. “Steve created a town square for the neighborhood,” added his sister. “One of the greatest talents he had was keeping it civil.”
    Silberman spent many years as an editor and writer for Wired magazine, but perhaps his greatest creative outlet was the Dead, having seen his first Dead show in 1973 at Watkins Glen, N.Y. He also developed an expertise on Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young and became a close friend and confidante of the often-difficult David Crosby. He wrote the liner notes for the Crosby-Nash live album “Another Stoney Evening,” released in 1998, and the 50th anniversary edition of Crosby’s solo debut “If I Could Only Remember My Name,” from 1971.
    “He understood people,” Shawaf said of her brother. “Making human connections was his life blood. When he walked down the street people approached him constantly.”
    After the death of Jerry Garcia, in 1995, Silberman wrote an essay called “The Only Song of God,” that was originally published in Dupree’s Diamond News. In it, Silberman described walking by the Henry J. Kaiser Auditorium in Oakland after Garcia’s death, where he estimated he had seen 40 of the 56 shows the Dead played there, often on weeknights when only the cognoscenti came.
    Silberman in an undated photo at the Oakland home of Regan McMahon and Blair Jackson, publishers of “The Golden Road,” an essential Grateful Dead fan magazine. He met them at a concert and soon became a contributor.
    “If you weren’t from the Bay Area, after three or four shows at Kaiser, eventually, you’d move here,” wrote
    Silberman, who had followed that migration himself, though he had the extra incentive of earning a master’s degree in English literature at UC Berkeley.
    His tryout with “The Golden Road” explored the connection between the Beat anti-hero Neal Cassady and the Grateful Dead, a connection that the band’s historian and publicist, Dennis McNally also visited in his biography of Jack Kerouac.
    “Steve was always willing to chat about some angle of the 60s music scene in general and was a very reliable source,” said McNally. “What he said was trustworthy.”
    Stephen Louis Silberman was born Dec. 23, 1957 in Ithaca, N.Y. His father, Donald, was an English professor at Queensborough Community College and an anti-war activist, as was his wife, Leslie Hantman.
    “We saw my parents get arrested and be led away in handcuffs,” said Shawaf. “My dad did 11 days at the Queens Detention Center.”
    Silberman’s first literary goal was to be a poet and he had success in sixth grade with a poem called “the
    Math Battle.” It began, “Cubes are swirling through my head, π’s attack me in my bed,” and built enough momentum to win a poetry competition sponsored by Fordham University. That became his first published work. Silberman attended John P. Stevens High School in Edison, NJ., and gave a graduation speech in 1975, declining to cut his shoulder-length hair for the ceremony.
    Seen here in an undated photo, Silberman helped author David Gans write a collection of reminiscences about Jerry Garcia, the Grateful Dead co-founder and guitarist.
    “He was a magnificent human being,” Gans says of Silberman.
    By then he was already a Deadhead, having attended his first show and begun a live concert tape collection that was to include “tons and tons and tons of tapes,” said his sister, “and some very obscure ones.” He had also come out as gay, which was not immediately accepted.
    “My parents reacted very badly. It took some years for them to come around,” Shawaf said.
    He attended Oberlin College in Ohio, and his slow migration west began with a position as a teaching assistant for Beat poet Allen Ginsberg at the Naropa Institute in Boulder, Colo. Silberman planned to continue as a poet himself until his father, the English professor, advised him that “he was better at prose and would reach more people that way,” said his sister.
    He also reached people by helping them with their own writing. After Garcia’s death, David Gans, who has published five books about the Grateful Dead, was having trouble putting together a collection of reminiscences. When he told Silberman of his struggles over the phone, Silberman immediately drove from San Francisco to Gans’s home in Oakland, read through Gans’s essay, tore it apart and restructured it for him.
    “That was one of dozens of times Steve improved my work with his generosity of spirit and his wisdom,” said Gans. “I know dozens of other people who were similarly blessed with Steve’s generosity. He was a magnificent human being.”
    Later, Silberman, Gans and Blair Jackson co-produced. “So Many Roads 1965-1995,” a five-CD box for which Silberman wrote an essay. He also appeared on camera in the 2017 documentary “Long Strange Trip.”
    Silberman on vacation in Europe in 2023. “He really brought empathy and compassion to a topic that had only been covered negatively in the press,” says Shannon Rosa, whose son Leo was featured in Silberman’s book about autism.
    “There are Deadheads who are extreme but Steve had a historic overview that made his observations sensible and a little more grounded than some,” said McNally.
    Silberman’s expertise on autism began when he was working at Wired and got a tip that there was a spike in diagnoses of the developmental disorder in Silicon Valley. This became an article called “The Geek Syndrome,” published in 2001, and greatly expanded in “NeuroTribes: The Legacy of Autism and the Future of Neurodiversity.”
    “Steve’s book gave hope to a lot of families like ours that had only had messages that our lives would be one of doom and gloom,” said Shannon Rosa of Redwood City, whose son Leo is featured in the book.
    “He really brought empathy and compassion to a topic that had only been covered negatively in the press. I
    can’t tell you how many families I’ve heard from whose lives have been changed for the better because Steve showed us with compassion, not pity.”
    That came through in everything Silberman wrote, especially the essay on seeing the Dead at Kaiser Auditorium.
    “At shows in those years, up at the front on ‘the rail’ where you could observe the musicians at work, the crowds could get so dense on a Saturday night that you would lose your footing,” Silberman wrote in Dupree’s Diamond News. “But if you relaxed, you could nearly float, like a cell in a bath of nutrient, the rhythms coming to you as a gentle push in one direction, then another...”
    “It was one of the safest places in the world.”

  • #495
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    Rip this joint gonna get down low.

    51 years ago tonight I saw The Stones for the first time. I can remember wondering if they would be any good - Mick Jagger had just turned 30, and they seemed like a bit of 60's throwback. Perish the thought. I only new about 25% of the songs - I'd never heard either Let It Bleed or Exile on Main Street but it mattered not a jot. It was incredible. I have just been listening to "The Brussels Affair" double album from the same tour, and featuring the same songs. One of the best live albums of all time.

    I don't think I've ever seen a hummingbird. In Lowestoft we have great big seagulls - I swear they are getting bigger every year - and during summer, if anyone eats food on the seafront they sometimes swoop down and take it out it out of their hands. It looks great, the surprise on the people's face when it happens. The most rock n' roll bird I have seen.

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    Hummingbirds

    Stupid bear kept raiding my bird feeder so I had to very begrudgingly get rid of it. In the summer I got birds from as far as S America heading for AK. Now all I can do is have a Hummingbird feeder, which is cool, but I never seem to have more than one regular at a time. Right now he's green with a red head, the second, not sure what happened to the first. Read somewhere that they are the most territorial birds of all, maybe that's why I only get one at a time? Anyway, they are fascinating little guys aren't they

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    Happy Birthday Mickey Hart

    Joan Baez sang Mickey Hart Happy Birthday before the start of 9/11/81 at the Greek. They brought a big birthday cake out on stage. My favorite Grateful Dead years were when Mickey Hart was in the band.

  • #498
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    Belated Wishes

    R.I.P. Steve Silberman

    Happy B~Day Mickey Hart

    Can't wait to bang along with Mick & Bill on that wave drum when it gets here!

  • #499
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    Love our Hummingbirds. They are still alive, well and fighting over the food in the three feeders here, but not for long (again except for the stragglers that are migrating).

    Don't know any GD references for Hummingbirds, but I bet there is at least one. The closest I can come is the Nuthatch. A tiny bird, wings a mile long? I guess you wouldn't need binoculars looking for the Hunter Nuthatch.

    Eyes of the World:
    Wondering where the nut-thatch winters
    Wings a mile long just carried the bird away

    Love that lyric full of whimsical imagery.

    Love that song, sometimes it feels like it was written about any one of us. A song with hope for tomorrow. Hope that what we do makes a difference and than any one of us can and does make the world a better place.

    Listening to it can completely change my mood and turn a shit day into something meaningful. Come to think of it, a charm of Hummingbirds can do the same. (they call a group of hummingbirds a charm, how apt)

    Favorite Eyes of the World, impossible to pick. Louisville 6/18/74 and Winterland 10/19/74 are both standouts, but there are many post hiatus, with Brent and beyond Brent hold their own amongst the giants.

    Two weeks until the box? I guess that will have to be ok.

    Where do nuthatches winter? It's a trick question, if there's ample cones and food they probably won't migrate at all. (at least here in the mid-Atlantic)

  • #500
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    Hummers Etc.

    The wife gets the hummingbird close-ups as she is a natural strawberry blonde. Here in W. Colo. they are mostly gone and the few migrators we have are young ones, mostly Black Chinned and Rufous with the occasional Broad Tailed that make the most noise in flight because of that tail. The Rufous are very territorial and come late in the season. This year they stayed for shorter periods. Usually dominate the feeder for weeks at a time but not this year.
    Putting out the flag today, a somber remembrance.
    Also my deadnet anniversary. Thanks to all.
    Can't wait for '78! Two weeks!
    Cheers

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Friend of The Devils: April 1978 (Dead.net Exclusive) [19 CD]

 

WHAT'S INSIDE:
Curtis Hixon Convention Hall, Tampa, FL 4/6/78
Sportatorium, Pembroke Pines, FL 4/7/78
Veterans Memorial Coliseum, Jacksonville, FL 4/8/78
Fox Theatre, Atlanta, GA 4/10/78
Fox Theatre, Atlanta, GA 4/11/78
Cameron Indoor Stadium, Duke University, Durham, NC 4/12/78
Cassell Coliseum, Virginia Polytechnic Institute, Blacksburg, VA 4/14/78
Huntington Civic Center, Huntington, WV 4/16/78

Recorded By Betty Cantor-Jackson
Newly restored and speed-corrected audio by Plangent Processes
Mastered by Jeffrey Norman
Liners By Author Steve Silberman
Artwork By Acclaimed Artist Matthew Brannon

Limited To 10,000 Individually Numbered Copies
Dead.net Exclusive

It’s been said before but April ‘78 was an incredible month for the Dead. Like May ‘77, you could throw a dart and guarantee you hit a stellar show. - KyloRensPecs, r/gratefuldead, Reddit

.... April/May '78 has a lot of the same qualities of Spring '77 but with some extra edge and a much bigger sound from the Rhythm Devils. A really special era that often gets neglected. - viewtiful_alan, r/gratefuldead, Reddit

Sportatorium - April 7, 1989

when drums started I thought, oh s*#!, i hate drum solos and Billy and Mickey stopped me in my tracks. Wow, these guys are really good. Little did I know the pervasive influence this phenomena would have on my life. - pearlybakerbest, Dead.net

Huntington Civic Centre, West Virginia – 16 April 1978

This is another must-hear concert by The Grateful Dead. The sound and mix are almost ‘absolutely perfect'... It’s difficult to pick out highlights because everything is played so well; the band are tight, Donna is great and the set list is strong. - Grateful Ted, gratefulted.co.uk

We're hitting the bullseye with the eight previously unreleased stellar shows that make up FRIEND OF THE DEVILS: APRIL 1978. Filled to the brim with peak performances from the Grateful Dead's post-hiatus period, this collection captures the historic tour where "Drums" begat "Space," morphed into "Drums">"Space" and cemented the Rhythm Devils' second-set power move from the music business to the "transportation business."

Spring 1978 finds the Dead consistently weaving spontaneous magic, showing signs of great promise and potential - from the no-nonsense rock'n'roll in Tampa, where scholars cite the first "Drumz" leading into "Space," to the lengthy communal get down in Pembroke Pines to Jacksonville where the twain emerge fully formed, offering the primordial opportunity for "soul retrieval." It's evident in the dynamic range delivered on back-to-back nights at the intimate Fox Theatre and through the laid-back unity of the band's performance in Durham at Duke, a comfort that carries over to Virginia and West Virginia where the playing is unbridled, bursting with momentum, threatening to carry itself away. And nowhere can you hear that more clearly than through Betty Cantor-Jackson's original recordings, reliably crisp, bright, and vivid.

Individually numbered to 10,000 copies and exclusive to Dead.net, FRIEND OF THE DEVILS: APRIL 1978 has been mastered by Audio Engineer Jeffrey Norman using Plangent Processes tape restoration and speed correction. Steve Vance designed the collection’s custom box, which features a removable wave drum. (We invite you to unleash your inner Rhythm Devil.) Acclaimed artist Matthew Brannon created the set’s original artwork. The collection also includes a 48-page book with original liner notes by author Steve Silberman and photos by James Anderson, Bob Minkin, and more.

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Submitted by proudfoot on Thu, 08/01/2024 - 18:35

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You said the magic words

It will be MUATM!!

I really x7 hope you are correct

It will need to be colorized...

How cool that would be

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Submitted by Vguy72 on Thu, 08/01/2024 - 21:12

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....Vegas odds are in favor.
Impatient conekid is the best conekid.
No offense to Scranton, but Disc 3 is delightful.
And to piggy back prior comments. Phil is indeed in your face. Damn straight!
The NFA is prime Lesh.
Happy Birthday Jerry.

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Submitted by fourwindsblow on Fri, 08/02/2024 - 05:07

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If Duke is 2024 muatm that would be great cleaned up and all, but not included in the box?

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Submitted by proudfoot on Fri, 08/02/2024 - 10:21

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Erasec erase

"Getting a little carried away there..."

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Submitted by proudfoot on Fri, 08/02/2024 - 10:22

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shhhhh.....

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Submitted by bigbrownie on Fri, 08/02/2024 - 10:57

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Lest we forget that Jerry experienced a mike malfunction during the first two numbers,
although the Dire Wolf turns out to be a nice instrumental. I vaguely recall us singing the Jerry part during the Jack Straw opener...for encouragement! Jerry gives us major payback with Peggy O, and that was the exact moment I met the future Mrs. Big.

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Submitted by Birchwood on Fri, 08/02/2024 - 11:03

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I recall that the generally excellent Dick's Picks #18 (2/3/78) (released 24 years ago!) suffered in spots from some bandy squelch, timbres distorted, signals not just exactly perfect. Any danger of that on this box? Was that a specific tapes or show issue there?

I'm getting tempted to order this. And this should be a non-issue but the dubious artwork is not whetting my appetite. Although this very tasty Half-Step on the Listening Party is quite something.

Peace!

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Submitted by 1stshow70878 on Fri, 08/02/2024 - 11:04

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Cosmic synchronicity if I ever heard it!
What a moment in time.
Cheers

Re noise on 2/3/78

I thought that was only on my copy

It always annoyed me, too

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Submitted by Vguy72 on Fri, 08/02/2024 - 15:13

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....Bob Lopes is in town. Jim In MD is going to be in town soon.
Meet up at Sphere is the plan tomorrow.
Jim & Co going to hang at our humble abode for a couple of evenings.
Been a long time coming.
🍻
Mayer slammed his index finger in a truck door a week ago.
The fret hand. Word is he is learning to play with three fingers. Word on the Shakedown Street re last nights show is that he pulled it off.
The Days Between indeed.

Hi there!
I can send it as whatever file format you want - suggest a wav or flac - just give me an address and I'll wetransfer it

Ian

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Submitted by Darkstar BGE on Sat, 08/03/2024 - 04:46

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I'm a devout Dead Head and collect most everything related to the Dead. I've been following the dead since Terrapin Station was released. My first live tape exposure was to part of the 4/11/78 show. I often contemplate the box purchases for a few days (and then end up buying them anyway). This box is a no brainer. I almost didn't even need to read the setlists because I could start to hear the songs from memory just by seeing the dates. Needless to say, I have to have this box. These shows are jems, My one complaint is Jems should be boxed as such. The artwork to this set is a deterrent. I have been collecting rock and jazz show posters for 40 plus years; initially because of the way they tended to capture the essence of the music. I'm sorry Mr. Brannon, but this artwork is not a match to the music of this era for me. It reminds me of the doodles I used to do on my junior high notebooks. Other than that, what a nice collection of shows!

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Submitted by Danehead on Sat, 08/03/2024 - 06:15

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I have a few - still sealed - of DaP 37.. if some of you need it to complete the box - let me hear from you.. bw from Copenhagen

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Submitted by JeffSmith on Sat, 08/03/2024 - 07:18

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Hey DS BGE, I notice the source for some GD shows on the archive are tagged as "SBD.GEMS". Is this the same as "Jems", and can someone explain to us in the great unwashed, what that means?

Also, like GD eras, cover art is a matter of taste. Annual box set releases usually far surpass the first glimpse provided with their announcement – the real deal is expanded in unexpected directions with many surprises. After checking out the FOTRDs poster (which is pretty cool), I can't wait to see the actual box. (BTW: I thought the cover on Dave's 51 is . . . well. . . kinda basic, with no fully developed box coming to the rescue. The music inside is already more than making up for the visuals.)

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Submitted by Darkstar BGE on Sat, 08/03/2024 - 12:22

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Jeff,
My apologies. Had just gotten out of bed and my spelling was off, Jems should have been gems. SBD is soundboard. (I collect SBD, not fond of AUD, just my sound preference). I have a Utica '73 show that is a SBD. GEMS. I sourced that from online and believe GEMS is: Graphic Environment for Mulitmedia Storage.
I own 18 or so of the box sets, suffice it to say that beyond that, I have an expansive collection. I take the GD seriously. I also collect posters and prefer the Kelly/Mouse, Rick Griffin aesthetic. Of the boxes I own, I wasn't thrilled with the MSG "In Out of the Garden" artistic design either, but I did find it whimsical. I'm not arguing the quality of music or content. Simply my artistic preference.
'78 was "my coming of age and Dead enlightenment period," so I have to have this box. Art is subjective, no doubt. Given the size of my collection (and home) and the fact that I literally budget for Dead music each year, at some point I'll have to stop. I imagine that will be driven by the timeframe of the specific box release and/or the value of the package to me based on appearance and the storage space it consumes.
Just finished listening to DP 51 a second (enjoyable) time. The cover of it, as a tribute to the Office's, Michael Scott (and Scranton) (right down to the dead song related desk tchotchkes), coupled with the music itself, put a smile on my face.

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Submitted by PT Barnum on Sat, 08/03/2024 - 12:55

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I am often asked what I'm going to do with all these Grateful Dead Cd's, lp's, downloaded SBD's and burnt shows from the internet including 2 digital storage bays full of complete shows. I really don't have any offspring to leave them to and I'm the only one besides my better half that even listens to the Dead in my family. I know, it's not the kinda thing that one thinks about while on that quest to be a "Dark Star completest", but as life happens and uncertainties occur sometimes, I wonder about that and if, if something was to happen, who would benefit and appreciate this 45-year obsession. Causes one to pause and contemplate.
Surgery on Thursday, 5-hour procedure, 7 - 10-day hospital stay, 6-to-12-week recovery time.

We will get by, we will survive.

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Submitted by daverock on Sat, 08/03/2024 - 13:50

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The most important thing for me is how the cds are packed. Can I get them out without risk of scratching them, or do I need to remove them from the box after the first listen and house them in separate plastic or paper holders. That's the question.
I don't know what will happen to all my stuff when I slip this mortal coil. End up in a charity shop or a skip, I suppose. Won't bother me, where I'm going!

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Submitted by 1stshow70878 on Sat, 08/03/2024 - 15:06

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Best of luck Thursday.
My wife will be selling my Dead collection ASAP after I'm gone, lol. I will leave notes on how to best monetize that for her. I'll tell her to start here!
Cheers

I have a massive music collection and am not a young guy. Was on the phone with someone 2 years ago buying a certain poster for my collection. The seller had a warehouse full of posters and had just found out he had cancer and we were talking about the same thing. Neither one of our kids could care less about what we've amassed.
I liked his response to me. " We're Deadheads. Enjoy your collection. Look at it, listen to it, love it. When were gone, maybe someone tunes into it. If not, it becomes one with the earth, just like us. who could ask for more? Man, just enjoy it today."
That works for me.

@ Pt barnum , just asking the same question for my gd collection. It took me such time, all dicks picks & nearly all dave's, 2 years unsubsribing. The best serie starts from dicks 28 to 36, for me.
Cheers pt barnum, life day to day is not easy, but nothing can match life itself...

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Submitted by Vguy72 on Sat, 08/03/2024 - 17:44

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....told my son and my wife some of what I own is worth some $$$.
Ask high. People will pay.

5 hours, No Bueno!
We’ll be thinking good thoughts Thursday!
We’re are everywhere, and we’re with ya!

Yeah, think same thing about all this crap, especially when I get stuff I won’t listen to…same with all this gear? Ah well, like BGE’s buddy says (and Brent ; )
“Ah, what the hell” enjoy it for its intrinsic value, not it’s extrinsic.

Hmmm, sounds like someone, or maybe REX, should set up a “donate your awesome collection for charity” division. You leave your precious to the org, they have specialist who knows how to get good price, efficiently, and the proceeds get paid forward to do some good! I think that’d be cool, and I bet the boys would dig their art/life’s work continuing to go Furthur too!

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Submitted by billy the kiddd on Sat, 08/03/2024 - 19:10

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Oroborus, I think that's a fantastic idea about donating records, cds, and posters to charity. I have tons of records,,CDs and old posters that would bring a lot and it would be nice to have someone who could get the most value for them so it could go to charity.

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Submitted by TN John on Sun, 08/04/2024 - 04:19

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Positive vibes for a speedy recovery!

Peace

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Submitted by JeffSmith on Sun, 08/04/2024 - 07:50

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I'm usually apprehensive about surgeries, but am always reassured by the professionalism of the medical team, amazing 21st century technology, pain meds, nubile nurses, etc. Hospital food even seems to have gotten better. All the best on Thursday. As you can tell, everyone here's pulling for you! Onward.

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Submitted by JeffSmith on Sun, 08/04/2024 - 07:51

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Thanks for the deciphering the "GEMS" acronym for me. I always wondered what that meant. According to wikipedia, it's "a graphical programming language for real-time audio processing." Hmmm. . . seems to work pretty well in the hands of Miller, Tobin, Waddell, et al. Still a sorta mystery to me, but not as much now. Thanks!, "Geff"

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Submitted by Automaticslim on Sun, 08/04/2024 - 07:52

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Best wishes for a successful surgery and a speedy recovery buddy!

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Submitted by Vguy72 on Sun, 08/04/2024 - 16:58

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....tis but a fleshwound.
Vampire Weekend is a really interesting cool sounding band.
I'm going in.

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Submitted by billy the kiddd on Sun, 08/04/2024 - 20:15

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45 years ago I was up at the Oakland Auditorium for the first time (but certainly not the last ) for a rocking evening with the Good old Grateful Dead. What a blast! The first time Garcia played his Tiger Guitar, the first time the Dead played Althea, Lost Sailor/Saint of Circumstance. The good old days. P.T. Barnum, good luck on your surgery, I'm sure you will be fine. I've had a few, next thing you know you wake up and its all over, just seems like seconds.

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Submitted by That Mike on Mon, 08/05/2024 - 07:00

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Submitted by That Mike on Mon, 08/05/2024 - 07:01

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Vampire Weekend - one of my kids is a fan, he saw them play about a month ago, with Mike Gordon’s band opening, who he said were pretty good. We try to introduce “our” music to one another, but honestly, VW was a swing and a miss for me. Meh.
Oro - Fantastic idea about donating collections to charity. My kids show little interest in inheriting my modest collection, including music books, etc, so why not get it out to a true fan. I don’t want my 30 Trips box to just end up with someone “mildly interested”, for example. Collections are mana for the devoted.
PT - I wish you the best on Thursday. Operations can be reason for apprehension, but they are also THE best sleep you’ll ever have. As they say in Gaelic, “ Sláinte!!!” (Good health)
Artwork - I think the artwork on the new box pretty neat, almost in the style of Jean Basquiat, and a nice change from the overuse of the regular cartoon skeletons of previous boxes. I still think the Pacific NW Box was the gold standard for graphics and art, pretty hard to beat. But it’s not about the outside, always about what’s inside that matters.

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Submitted by jjc on Mon, 08/05/2024 - 07:12

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Good luck buddy.

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Submitted by PT Barnum on Mon, 08/05/2024 - 07:13

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I am overwhelmed with the outpouring of love from everyone. Thank you. The best sleep ever? far out, I hope and pray that it goes just like that. So many good thoughts, so many...thanks again for all your reassurances, I needed that.

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Submitted by Gary Farseer on Mon, 08/05/2024 - 09:31

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My thoughts are with you.

Getting old sux. However, I believe that medicine in general is way better than even 20 years ago. Generally docs know how to control pain and give proper time to rehab. I know as I was just moments away from death just a few years back. I believe that it took over 50 doctors to think about all systems to figure out game plan to save my life. I too am putting off surgeries, which is never good. Sending positive thoughts your way for a speedy recovery.

My brother had to have major back surgery a few years back. Took surgeon 12+ hours to finish. My brother was in a horrible car accident in 1981. As a result, a cyst grew and attached itself to the spine. The doctor had to delicately cut the cyst out without leaving him paralyzed. When I met with him afterwards you could see how swollen his hands were. He was in his early 30's. The reason it took so long is, he had to take breaks to rest his hands and to eat. I told him, "I know you are ready for more advanced robotic surgery." He responded yes.

So I am with you this week and all the way through rehab. Get well out brother!

G

Running back through 51 and 37. Took some breaks with so good ole fashioned electric bluegrass.

51 very enjoyable indeed. Just wish it had a touch more psychelic touches. Although, "I am a Pig man!"

Oink!

wow recapture is tuff today.

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Submitted by snafu on Mon, 08/05/2024 - 09:52

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No question medicine is getting better all the time. During the covid lockdown I had 4 surgeries including back surgery. 20 years ago they wouldn’t do it. Now a great success. From almost not walking to walking into work every day. Very nice

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Submitted by daverock on Mon, 08/05/2024 - 10:08

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I'd agree with that. After a very minor operation last year, on coming out of the anaesthetic, I was asked if I was in any pain. Nope. He then asked if I would like some morphine, in case I experienced pain over the next hour or so. I said....go on then. When I was discharged later the same day, they asked me if I would like to have a bottle of morphine to take home with me. Very considerate. Not like in the 60's, when they just gave you a biscuit - if you were lucky.

folks positive thoughts on Docs etc.
Been fortunate to mostly stay away from those bastards lol.
But, things change lol
Few I have had, have been good, especially the first surgeon.
Have some outpatient surgery end of month, supposedly this Doc is “da man”!
Does Dante so only 10-14 days recovery, versus 4-6 weeks old school via sliced and diced, and it’s (hopefully) outpatient! They used Dante on TOO, and she only had to stay overnight, with dramatically different recovery, for a hysterectomy! Amazing!

About the gas: when your just coming round again, and they come check on you, and if it’s a busy place they’ll want to nudge you along. Professionally and politely, but…so when I had my last colonoscopy and the nurse comes and asks how I’m doing, I give her this shit eating grin and tell her I haven’t felt this good in forty years lol Then, when they know your all good and try to get you going, I asked her if I could just please sit a few more minutes and “enjoy the ride” lol
Poor girl didn’t know WTF to do with me lol Man that propofol is good sheet!

So see PT, yinYang like most things ; ) Hopefully your docs are as “caring” as Daverocks ; ) !!!

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Submitted by 1stshow70878 on Mon, 08/05/2024 - 11:14

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Well known fact that us "druggies" pop up faster after being put under. We just have more experience. I have surprised a couple of post-op nurses that way. "Oh! You're up already?"
Cheers

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Submitted by Nick1234 on Mon, 08/05/2024 - 11:44

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I have the following, I could do with raising a bit of money and i don't listen to them anymore:

Europe 72 trunk £600
Winterland 73 box with bonus disc £100
Winterland 77 box with bonus disc £100
St Louis box £100
Warlocks box £40

postage at cost anywhere in the world at your own risk.

Send me a PM 🙂

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