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  • 1stshow70878
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    5th show in the box.
    OK, now were getting there.
    Great 1st set.
    2nd set list looks good too.
    Moving right along...
    Cheers

    Random ?s for the tapers and the knowledgeable. Were these original tapes running at 7.5 ips on reel to reels and were they done with any Dolby or whatever? And do you audience tapers use any noise reduction? Been talking to an analog guy who says with reel to reel running fast you get superior saturation and the best analog sound of all, which to his ear beats CDs and even vinyl, and Dolby is unnecessary for good reel to reel recordings.

  • uncle_tripel
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    climb on the fence, you idiot"

    august 6th 1974

    now that's much better, the sound is less polished or over-dubbed...or whatever...

    support your local library,
    my better half's employer also

    Peace for All!
    uncle_tripel

    PS - Hey Bobby, party like it's 1984, Happy B-day!

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    This is a little niche for this forum since I’m streaming it on BBC iplayer so it’s probably only accessible in the UK,
    John Martyn - Live at Reading University 1978
    This is an episode of ‘Rock Goes to College’. We saw him several times 78 -79 and his solo concerts were always excellent. It’s available for the next 27 days and is highly recommended. For those who can’t access it I recommend his album ‘One World’ which was his current album when this concert was recorded.
    Edit: To be honest I’d recommend any of his albums really

  • Oroborous
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    Slumming it ; )

    With Dave’s 17, since the rude abrupt halt to my research via the archive being down : (
    Ah well, I’ll just have to suffer lol

    Hope their highly trained crack equipment crew gets it just exactly perfect sooner than later 🤞Was gonna do the big five O anniversary treatment of Rocktober 74, complete in order as I don’t think I’ve done so? Sigh…bastards!

    Kudos to Uncle T supporting the local Library! (TOO is a librarian ; )
    If you don’t use em, ya lose em!
    And remember, they killed Marion ; )

  • uncle_tripel
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    yeah, so ...

    ...this weekend I visited our local library, been awhile...
    took home the 5 CD GOGD Movie Soundtrack box...
    today's listening party:

    oct 20 1974 set 2

    maybe, I'll need to listen to this box abit more, or maybe not...?
    finding the mix is almost like, well, you know, too studioish...

    ... DL announcement later this week, hey now, how about it?

    make LOVE, not WAR!!!

    uncle_tripel

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    10 9 89

  • icecrmcnkd
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    Been listening to some early 80’s shows Dave has sent our way previously as I await the upcoming announcement.

    Last 5

    10-12-84 playing now
    9-20,21-82 MSG Box
    4-26-83 DaP39
    9-2-83 DaP27

  • uncle_tripel
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    rupp...

    ...unfortunately found out that my disc is corrupt after Stella,
    so no truckin' > pitb or encores; whatcha gonna do?
    anyways...

    today, I'm gonna extend the friends of the devils theme to

    september 16 1978 set 2
    ollin arrageed (hamza el din)

    everyone enjoy your weekend!
    make LOVE, not WAR!!!

    uncle_tripel

    PS - new upcoming box set...maybe...?....in 2026...
    May 1978...that would be something

  • Crow Told Me
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    Holy guacamole. Why did I not get this when it first came out? Kind of late to the party here, but sheesh, the Who's Next/Life House box is pretty darned incredibly awesome.

    Maybe I hesitated because, like everybody else who was alive in 1971, I've heard Who's Next about 789 billion times and figured maybe I didn't need yet another copy. Truth be told, the current remix doesn't add much.

    BUT the demos and outtakes are outstanding (for once). Early versions of Teenage Wasteland and some others from Who's Next are like entirely different songs. But still good! And in good sound.

    And then Life House. Some of the songs intended for the ill fated "opera" are better than songs that eventually made it to Who's Next. Which is saying something, because that album is pretty solid start to finish. Plus you get some singles from that period (The Seeker, Join Together) that I loved at the time. Plus two complete gigs. From a period where the Who were just ripping it up on state night after night. Plus not one but two coffee table books.

    This is what's commonly called some really good shit.

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    Hi all. I know this isn't the correct forum topic for this - but when I searched, I found that no one had posted in the "30 Trips Box Set and Digital" thread since 2017. Not sure if it's good form here at dead dot net to necro a thread, so...

    I'm wondering if anyone has framed or found a more economical way to display the scroll from the 30 Trips box set? Asking bc I just picked up a second such scroll for the specific purpose of doing this. I want to show it to the data science and graphic visualization students at the high school where I work. But I didn't realize how LONG this thing is! Looks like I'd have to order a custom frame.

    I know I could just reproduce it on the large-format color printer that we have... but I sorta want to show off the genuine article, not just for the edification of the students, but also for my own satisfaction! However, at first blush it's not going to be much cheaper to place it between two custom-cut pieces of acrylic (my first "low cost" idea) as it would be to bite the bullet and order a custom frame. So did anyone else go down this road/have any suggestions? Thank you all in advance, and sorry to hijack the thread.

    More on target: I am listening to "Pig's Boogie" from the 12/31/75 JGB show as I type this.

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Hope the streak keeps going and I win Mega Millions tonight.

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10 31 91

Standing on the Moon is sublime

Wow

Heavy show, bro

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Bob Mould - Workbook

Prior to that
Side 2 of Husker Du - New Day Rising

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The Dead at their best. Lets get this one released, please.

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9/17, 18, 19, 20/70

My sense is that that won't happen, though

I hope I am incorrect in that judgment

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...a nickel, he hands you a dime...

Shoreline May 10th 1991 tight, wonderful interplay, sweet mix

...he asks you with a grin, if you’re havin’ a good time!

Peace for All!
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Also heard it sung;
Hands you a nickel.
Calls it a dime.
Which somehow I like better.
Just makes him all the sleazier, lol.
Cheers

RGM sale: DiP 33 (8-LP), was $175, now $140

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3 9 81

HOT

Have you hugged your MSG box lately?

If you don't have a copy, I highly recommend you get one.

It's spectacular

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The Who
Live at Leeds

Been a while

This Keith Moon guy...out of his gourd, but can really play drums

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Hit this one a lot lately myself. An under-rated box, don't tell anyone, it's our secret.

Today for me was 1/17/68. When it ended, I found myself sucking my thumb and holding my blankee.

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...and get weird
Amsterdam May 10th 1972
what more needs to be said

Peace for All!
uncle_tripel

Proudfoot, although most of it might be close copy, seem to recall that Moonie's drumming the next night, on Live at Hull is even better.

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to 8/21/72 first night of the run at BCT - very muy bueno

Uncle T - night after Amsterdam, Rotterdam 5/11/72, Dark Star through end of show is a foundational personal all time favorite.

enjoy the music everyone. day off after nine day session. enjoying a Pecan Beer from de las Vegas in Las Cruces. the "weekend" is here in bluecrow land

well sorta - truck cd player (yep I have one and use it - cd player in vehicles) went patas arriba in Artesia shell station yesterday on way back - shut vehicle off to gas up and when I turned it back on the cd player (Pioneer aftermarket console) couldn't read a disc. Tough. this afternoon did a hard reset disconnecting the truck battery. Reconnected and car started and loaded Kind of Blue and up came Track 1 and the opening notes of So What which I got to hear jerry tease out at Hampton in 88. Nice minor victory. Couldn't read this disc among many the night before. And true foundational music for me and I chose it specifically for the test because it didn't allow for any excuses from the electronics. But now its 5/13/73 Des Moines and the Eyes > China Doll > Sugar Magnolia.

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Thank you for the referral, DMCVT

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3 10 81 was one of the FIRST cassettes I ever got

I didnt hear 3 9 81 until within the past 5 years

Amazing pair of shows

"A nice pair", as a Pink Floyd compilation title sez

God Bless the Grateful Dead

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One of the best of the 80s

Magical

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Seems way overpriced for just 3 LP’s.
The description says it’s “Audiophile”, but no description is provided as to what makes it more Audiophile than the vinyl version released in 2015.

Let us know how it sounds once someone listens to it.

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Just heard zappa

You cant do that onstage anymore vol 2, disc 1

Some of the BEST non-GD I have ever heard

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I love that 5/10/72 show @Uncle_Tripel. I know Rotterdam tends to soak up the attention but whenever my hands hovers over the two it typically picks the former for my listening pleasure. Maybe it's the quality of the recording itself.

2/11/69 - I'll get running-off-at-the-mouth-disease and start spouting superlatives if given the chance. But for anyone who reads the liner notes (assuming Gary Lambert's work from the CD is brought across to the LPs), might I respectfully suggest you take a gander at Bill Graham's autobiography. The passages on how he got into the Fillmore East, and the memories from the guys who built it out for him, are worth the price of the book itself - which is not to say the rest of the tome isn't worth your time.

Dave's 38. It's 9/7 today and I find I tend to listen to that material more than to that of the main release. But what a surfeit of riches. God Bless the Grateful Dead.

Happy Saturday, folks.

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Wanted a Cold Rain & Snow to start the day and found this on first blind random pull from the cassette collection. No clue what show as I didn't take notes from the CDs it is from and not bothering to look it up today. Fills up three 90 minute tapes.
Cheers
Having some fresh zucchini bread with my coffee. As the old line goes, lock your car doors, it's zucchini season. Someone might lay one on you when you're not looking.

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I didn't get the 2015 version of this album, so this is doubly attractive to me. Value for money is very subjective. I would rather buy a single cd from 1968, for example, than a 4 cd set from 1988- even if they were the same price.

Another case in point - I have been listening to Dicks Picks 36 on vinyl today - 9/21/72. I have no idea what I paid for it, but I am sure if I told one of my friends round here, they would think I was nuts (not that they don't already). But to me - whatever I paid - it was worth it.

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6 16 90 DVD

tasty

Edit...phenomenal show

Then a happy surprise...
A bunch of material from 10 3 87

I had forgotten

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turns out to be Space thru end of show from 10/31/80

Pleasant surprise

Maybe this will be MUATM?

a man can dream

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Brushed over a bit in my last post, this is a great show. Many things stand out - one of the things I like about Fall 1972 is the way they would start jamming early on in the show. The second song is a 13min 39 second version of Bird Song. A run through El Paso then they go into China Cat-Rider. Quite a way to kick things off.
The highlight though, is the second set, Truckin' to Morning Dew. After which they play Beat It On Down The Line. Of course. Actually a red hot take, but the show seems to end in a way after Dew - the remaining 8 songs sound a bit like add ons to me.

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It's here!

To anyone who got a copy....

In the theater marque on the cover, there is a photo of someone,,,, anyone know who?

I thought maybe Bill Graham, but I have no idea what he looks like.

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Boston Music Hall

Hope everyone is doing well. Sorry for the erratic posting. Trying to manage living in heart failure doesn't leave a lot of time for sitting at the computer.

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Wishing you good health

Heart failure is obviously heavy stuff

Y'all be cool.

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Yes I know he isn’t mooning. I don’t guarantee it but the picture looks like contemporary pics of Bill Graham from the internet. You have to fight through many photos of Billy Graham and an apparently pro wrestler Bill Graham. The hair style looks right. Anyone know for sure?

Edit Posted this before I saw the PROUDFOOT reply.

Marquee photo is Bill Graham playing cowbell after being dosed (I think a Fillmore West show). Search Bill Graham Cowbell and a red dit thread comes up that has a cropped photo with Pigpen singing and Bill on cowbell on side of stage. Edit - now I'm reading that at 2/11/69 shows Mickey gave Bill a cowbell to commemorate the earlier dosed show event (exact date unknown). And that the photo could be Bill playing the gifted cowbell on 2/11/69 and not a photo of him at the show where he was dosed. An enigma wrapped in a mystery.

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Listening to 5/26/73 Kezar (Disc 2 from HCS box).

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Fox Theatre
St. Louis

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10/19/73 for me - the mighty Dicks Picks 36. One highlight you don't hear much about is Jerry's guitar solo on "They Love Each Other".

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Dave’s 2023 bonus disc (Folsom Field 9/3/72)…decided to shake up the listening by only listening to September shows this week. Truckin still #1 in Turlock

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"Smoke & Fiction," the evidently final album from X. And it's the best thing they've done since "Under the Big Black Sun."

I've loved those guys (and gal) since I first saw them back in 1977. They were already unbelievable then. Great to see that they managed to write an excellent batch of songs for this final record, and play with every bit as much fury as they had back in olden days.

Stay away and
don't get taken
we knew the gutter
and the future

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I havent tried the new album

Their first three were in heavy rotation back in the day

Saw X at a local festival in 85, methinks

Then they played at the zoo across the street a couple to three years back and they rocked

And a few years before that

4th album took me a while to warm up to

Love X (well, the earlier stuff in particular)

Yea.. Turlock, per Wikipedia, has a population now (2024) of 72,000 people.

I'm going out a limb here, but my guess is the town does not document nor publish any sort of top 100 radio / pop song list. Bob clearly had (has) a good sense of humor or perhaps inhaled at least once in his life. Of course I could be wrong how would I know..

Turlock's a big agricultural crossroads, lot's trucks with California produce driving in, then driving out and then there are the through trucks. So Truckin', yes certainly, perhaps it's still #1 in Turlock California and the truckers cannot get enough of it. Perhaps Bobby still inhales. Who knows for sure, either way, we win.

10/19/73 is from Fairgrounds Arena - Oklahoma City, Dicks Picks 19. DiP 36 was Philly 72 (9/21 I think?), one of the other Best Eva Dickus Pickus so the two are easily confused, but alas there were so many that fall into the category best ever. Again, win / win.

10/19/73 most certainly changed my life for the betta. That mind left body, that one (and perhaps the one from Dozin' at the Knick) is (are) truly special. So good, so good. And then, just when you let your guard down the left over gnarly discord from the Dark Star crashes and melts peacefully into one of the most gorgeous Morning Dew's ever performed. Practically perfect in every way. Great, upbeat They Love Each other too.

Just got done watching a documentary on the Indigo Girls with Mrs. Grumpkins

Good show

I really enjoyed them opening for GD back in 1993 at Autzen Stadium

31 years ago

Ho lee phuc