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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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September 12, 2024 - 4:59pm

#491

JimInMD

Joined:
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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.
September 12, 2024 - 12:02pm

#492

boblopes

Joined:
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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.”
September 12, 2024 - 10:22am

#493

daverock

Joined:
September 1, 2014

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.
September 12, 2024 - 9:57am

#494

itsburnsy

Joined:
June 12, 2007

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
September 11, 2024 - 5:27pm

#495

billy the kiddd

Joined:
November 8, 2021

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.
September 11, 2024 - 4:27pm

#496

RyXs

Joined:
February 10, 2021

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!
September 11, 2024 - 9:39am

#497

JimInMD

Joined:
June 27, 2011

Re: Hummers

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)
September 11, 2024 - 8:11am

#498

1stshow70878

Joined:
September 11, 2014

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
September 11, 2024 - 5:24am

#499

DeadVikes

Joined:
October 26, 2016

2024 Box

Less than two weeks to go until we all hopefully receive this box. Surprised it hasn't sold out yet.
Maybe they will give us an unboxing video?

And what is going on with this year's MUATM?
September 11, 2024 - 5:00am

#500

dmcvt

Joined:
April 4, 2013

RYXS

I find that often the hummers do those up face front things to let me know the feeder is low, get to it. Here they will chase each other away from the feeders, even though there's ample real nectar in various flowers around the yard, very territorial about the feeder since it's the pure jazz. Spectacular to have them hover inches away or buzz your head within inches, they also have learned to hover in front of blink cameras, perch a few feet away on a clothesline watching the feeder, preen, just be a hummer. Here, they have tanked up and are heading south.

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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.

Noise Reduction

There's two ways to hear the noise reduction if you're not aware right away - (1) do an A/B comparison to any of the master reel sources on archive (2) listen to the in-between track parts with headphones, very easy to tell

BTK

from last week:

Back in May Big Bob Gibson was inducted into to the BBQ hall of fame. Check out Jose at the end wow!

The American Royal Barbecue Hall of Fame announced its 2024 Hall of Fame class and a Decatur man credited with shaping the landscape of barbecue in Alabama for nearly a century was among those honored.

Bob Gibson made the list as a 2024 Legacy Inductee. Gibson first started Big Bob Gibson Bar-B-Q back in 1925 with the creation of his own pit barbecue technique. Gibson also developed Alabama White Sauce which is on restaurant menus and store shelves all over the world.

Big Bob Gibson Bar-B-Q is in the Alabama BBQ Hall of Fame. His barbecue team received 18 world championships in various categories.

Another 2024 Legacy Inductee was Matt Garner who opened Matt Garner's Bar-B-Q back in 1920. The drive-in barbecue combined Creole flavor influences from Garner's upbringing in Louisiana and techniques of the Southern U.S. brought to Houston by freed slaves. Garner is known for creating the combination of flavor known as East Texas-style barbecue.

Jose "Joe" Romero was another 2024 Legacy Inductee. Romero began by cooking for family and social gatherings in the late 1880s. His so-called "Spanish barbecues" became huge in the region with the largest held in San Francisco which fed 38,000 people with 20,000 pounds of meat.

20,000 pounds of meat.

A small blue whale and half a ton of fries.

Stranded in Connecticut

Box made it all the way across the U.S. to Middletown, CT, where it has sat since Monday. Final destination is Vermont. No movement for four days. FedEx is not being forthcoming with information or assistance. I’m beginning to worry.

Deja Vu all over again

Mine is in the Liverpool depot of Parcelforce waiting for me to pay the tax due. Since the request for this comes via snail mail it hasn’t got to me yet. Even if the bill arrives tomorrow and I pay it immediately I won’t get the box until next week, unless I pay extra for a Saturday delivery. On a positive note the deliveries of the last few items from GD have been much faster than previous years. Fingers crossed for early next week. The NY Archive box did get to me on Tuesday. I’ve watched the first BluRay which was entertaining. I don’t really think the deluxe box was worth the extra cost but I’m happy to have it. What else can you do with the money?

Noise reduction

Isn’t that part of the Plangent Process?

These sound way better than the cassette copies I had years ago.
Think I deleted all my torrent copies once the Box was announced, so can’t compare to those.

Box and 2025

Just started dipping my toes in today. Sounds great so far.
I noticed Dave teased something big for 2025 and the 60 year anniversary.
Stay tuned! Okay, still get excited about the expectation of these releases after all these years. Keep them coming.

Cover Art

Hey Everyone,
Finally got around to scanning the covers. If anyone needs them, send me a PM.

Edit: Include your e-mail address and I'll send the link to my Google Drive. Mr. Hey Now won't let me post links, even in the PMs.

Colin & The NYA Box/The new Hunter book

Colin - I saw that you had purchased the limited edition NYA box, and I was wondering if it was worth the extra money. I purchased the “economy” one, sans Blue Rays, and it was expensive, as it was. His stuff is pretty pricey, I hope you enjoy it.

A heads up, Heads (Heads Up?). - The “lost” manuscript by Robert Hunter is being released on October 8. Called the “ The Silver Snarling Trumpet: The Birth of the Grateful Dead―The Lost Manuscript of Robert Hunter” (such a Hunter name!), this chronicles the early Dead days through RH’s eyes, and is “augmented with a Foreword by John Mayer, an Introduction by Dennis McNally, and an Afterword by Brigid Meier”, who everyone here certainly knows. I’m looking forward to this one, hasn’t been much good literature on the Dead in a few years, and this comes right from the ultimate insider.
Bat Signal out for Oro in Colorado. Hope all is well, amigo.

20th Century Boxes

As far as box delivery, I am certain 99% will get there boxes. After the pandemic, everything got discombobulated. Deliveries depend on a vast number of people. In some parts of the states and world, they have the employees working in logistics. In other parts, people left the workforce. For example, in the states, an enormous amount of people entered the trucking industry because of the enormous demand for truckers to satisfy consumer demand related to being stuck at home. The stuckers decided to improve their homes or build a home office to work from home. This caused huge spikes in wages within the truckin industry which lead to many people to become truckers. Now that demand has died, many truckers and truckin companies are going bankrupt. Point being, be patient.

In the states, we have another problem as it relates to Newman and the post office. Postal wages are set on a national basis whereas cost of living is very disjointed. Where I live, the wages are very good compared to cost of living so USPS/UPS/Fedex work relatively well. That may not be the case where you live. Both UPS and Fedex have been struggling with employee head count as the same demand shrinkage has reached them also.

Just a thought, and I know nothing about EU tariffs, but why doesn't GD label their packages as de-minimus research and education products. May be possible to stop the packages from going through the customs process. I mean, aren't we all scholars seeking more understanding of what GD truly means. The amount of paper and cd products is maybe $10 at most for these packages. The rest of data on the product is for research and education.

Just one guy's dumb-ass thoughts...

Mike

Been missing Oro also. Hope all is well, our friend.

Has PT and others going thru surgeries popped backed up yet.

Very glad to see Jim back. I am think he is the funniest poster on here. The mark of high intelligence is true humor.

We have a whole bunch of people that call themselves comedians, but nothing funny ever comes out of their mouth. Calling yourself a comedian would be like me calling myself a neurosurgeon.

MMMM

blue whale

Gary

There are a number of people MIA lately, and I’m hoping it’s a case of everyone digging into the new Boxset that has been keeping them busy. Great to see Jim back, agreed, and here is hoping all is well with the others.

Re: Missing

I noticed the absence of Oro and a few others also.

I hope there was not another tunnel collapse. It seems every time we get the tunnel right under the vault and start tunneling up calamity strikes.. We have lost some of our best people which I suspect are being kept hostage in the vault.

I think Lemieux might be on to us.

Seriously though, I hope all is ok and they are just exhausted from their day job or on vacation or something.

Devils landed

Fedex dropped off the box here in Vermont Tuesday, just getting into it now, recording quality excellent, esp after #51. Soaking up lots of local jazz events, weather freakishly warm and sunny for weeks, lots of time outside. Rang the doorbell at Oro's, anybody home?

also just dipping in

listened to my first bit (Fox Theater 4/11/78 set II) last night. Strange place to start, I guess, but it was convenient. And I just have a soft spot for that venue after Dick's 29 and Dave's 8. Love those shows so much.

and yes indeed, as Deadvikes mentioned, I read where Cap'n Lemieux was teasing us up with something big for the 60th anniversary of the band. 60... 1960s... maybe?

MIA

wondering how many struggle with being hey now'd.

MIA2

I use a vpn, which means a lot of extra how now stuff. However, if you are not using a vpn then your ip address stays the same so you should never be hey now'd.

3

I will be moving to a fixed i p address thru the v p n company soon on my main computer.

4

Of course, I would never want that too happen as would never want to be a virus spreader. Means I erase, scrub it clean every so often.

Cover Art-Update

If you’d like the cover art, send me a PM with your e-mail address. I’ll send the link to the scans in my GoogleDrive. I thought I could send the link through a PM reply, but I got Hey Now’d.

shipping

Was hoping to have box for the weekend here in Western Maryland but that's not happening.

I checked shipping and it looks like a label was created on 9/26 and the Fedex sez maybe delivery on 10/1

To order a product from a company with a release date of 9/20, and a label not created until 9/26, and not recieve product until 10/1, is piss poor, and that's if it shows up on 10/1

piss poor

Pembroke Pines

Was enjoying being stretched out on the couch this afternoon and gazing up at the sky while listening to the second set and just about when Keith starts echoing back Terrapin during the PITB jam, watched a hawk circle around and about the treetops. Quite the sight.

Anniversary show 9/27/80 Warfield Theatre

44 years ago I was up in S.F. at the Warfield Theatre, for an absolute knockout of a show with the Good ole Grateful Dead. What a cool scene! They had put a bunch of old photos of the Dead up on the walls down in the lobby . Acoustic & Electric Dead. Big Fun!

Oro has been missing...

most likely because of recent loss of his mother.

Hopefully he will be back soon

Parent loss grief is big

I need more GD time!

Warfield run!

Other shows in the que cue q

Making it fit on one cd

04.10.78 has edited out Bobby's extensive banter in-between
songs. These shows pre-date the electronic tuning devices so
it could be minutes in-between songs. Too bad some of the
ambience from from that time period was sacrificed.
But I guess if you didn't start seeing them until the mid
eighties you can't appreciate that dimension of seeing a
Dead show in the '70's.

Weir's Verbosity

While unsurprising, that's unfortunate that a bunch of Weir stage banter has been edited out. '78 is a good year for his ramblings. Maybe it's because he got an extra helping of MC glory starting when Garcia tapped out with Laryngitis in the first week of January. But if they release that Golden Hall show and do NOT include the part where he talks about Uncle Bobo... well, I'll still buy it I guess, but it will be tragic loss.

(true story: Bill Graham *hated* that nickname. Loathed it, detested it: said it might as well be "Uncle Sh-t".)

Things that make you go Hmmm

I wonder why they didn't fix Garcia's vocals at the beginning of the Duke show. Given that there are some really good audience tapes out there where Garcia's Vox are perfectly audible, it surprises me that they just went with the Betty Board, where Jerry's inaudible on those first couple songs. Seems like it would've been fairly easy, given the technology they have these days, to lift the vocals off an audience tape and sync 'em. And it's not like they haven't used audience tapes to patch things up before.

A missed opportunity, I'd say, But whatever.

Sure is fun seeing the video of that show. I don't know if I've seen Jerry looking happier.

Last five!

The Who: Live at Hull
Herbie Hancock: The Prisoner
Jack White: No Name
GOGD: DaP 12 (Colgate)
TTB: Revelator

Things that make you go "that sucks"....

....the 4th record in my Duke vinyl is warped. Ugh. Still plays so, yay.
Arm is riding a crest.
Gonna have to press it down.
Edit.....
Seems I didn't press the record fully down on the mat.
I can admit when I get kinda high. All is good here. How are you?

The playing really is incredible

Shows are stellar ! Sound sucks! '70s audiences were the best !

Friend of the Devils Box

Finally I see someone who seems to have a similar problem. I can hardly play the CD's. Out of 6 that I've tried only one played until the end. All the others have stops or interruptions after a few seconds or minutes. And somewhere in the middle they don't play at all anymore. I will call customer service on Monday (toda being Saturday). The email adress which is listed for customer service doesn't work.
But the tracks that I could listen to are fantastic, great sound (except for a few seconds). So I hope I'll get what I've paid for and what people at Deadnet want us to have (certainly Dave Lemieux; long live Dave!) More in a few days....

Oro

Been wondering about Oro. Positive vibes for dealing with that loss brother!

Vguy72

Ya know it happens man! Me 2.

Oro

Oro - Sorry to hear about your loss, Amigo, my sincere condolences to you and yours. I wondered where you have been, totally understand.
VGuy - Too F funny!!! Been there, done that!

April 78

Hope everyone is enjoying their first listens to these shows! The music is what I always hope for, but slightly disappointed that the single show option from Duke has the vocal and other audio issues in the first few songs. Just wondering if the other shows have similar issues, so I can decide to purchase the box or not, since I have to be a little more careful these days. I’m not looking for perfection, as I understand these are live shows recorded over 40 years ago, but again, just trying to see if I’d be missing out, by not getting the box. Let’s hear some more reviews and rock on!

Things

First, Oro,,, sorry about Mom (if indeed that's the case). Mom's are the hardest (I think, was for me).

Vguy - Saturday Night Live quote,,, " I hate when that happens"

In case you missed it. Experience vinyl is offering "Live at Cow Palace" on 5 lp's. Limited to 2500. Not coming till "Early" 2025. My experience with Experience says that date will be way off. They're very proud of it,,, 200 bucks.

Friend Of The Devil

I have not been much of a 78 fan. Had relatively low expectations for this box. Now I have gotten through first four shows and am extremely impressed. Jerry's voice and playing are to my ears some of his best. Would love to know others thoughts. I am hoping for an 8/13/84 release. My first California show and what a show it was.

GD and NY boxed

THAT MIKE
Yes I bought the deluxe NY box, there is no rational way in which it is value for money, particularly as it could only be ordered from the US so it cost another £90+ to get it through customs. The total cost was c. £200 more than the cd only box! The book has some nice photos and I look forward to watching the BluRays. I could afford it so I don’t regret buying it.
I’ve paid the taxes on the GD box so I hope it will be delivered next Tuesday. Parcelforce willing.

Thanks to Ron

Thanks for the covers Ron, these look grate!

Cow Palace NYE '76....

....is one of my favorites. Missed out on the first vinyl release. Tempting.
Currently spinning Jacksonville. A Half-Step opener usually bodes well.
I followed JJC's lead and changed my avatar accordingly.

Covers

My pleasure itsburnsy! Dreary Saturday here anyway.
If anyone else wants the cover art from the box, send me a PM with your e-mail address.

Ron Marley Blues....

....you know what helps? Music man!

Always

“Let me sing your blues away…”

JAX Deal....

....yeah boi!

Friend of the Devils Box

I LOVE THIS BOX !!!!......only half through the Spotatorium show after finishing Curtis Hixon. I always play in order and never look at the setlists before playing, and that includes DaP's......such a great time to experience the band and great sound..........'78 Dead is sweet. The set stops before one of my shows in Columbus, OH on 4/19. I have several photos of that show as I was shooting for the school newspaper. Still have the 8 X 10 black and white from it. This was the beginning of their "Werewolves" journey. Another thing that I'm especially looking forward to is mastering the ocean drum and going on tour.

Must Have Been The Roses....

.....maaaaan. That song holds a place close to my heart. It was the song that was playing on the tape in my car the day Jerry died. I don't remember the show, but I remember the song. 🎶 If I tell another what your own lips told to me
Let me lay 'neath the roses and my eyes no longer see.
Edit. Billy Strings wife's water broke and he had to leave his Renewal Fest.
Social media all over the place regarding his decision. I can assume you can guess why.
Treys birthday is 9/30 btw. The big six O. That would be cool if Ally can hang on just a little bit longer.
His new record is phenomenal btw. 🍻

CMD 70's tuning

Oh yeah, CMD, I recall those long long tuning breaks in between songs. Listen to 71 shows you can hear the long breaks. It was kind of part of their charm, low key and not so showy.

UK delivery

Colin, did you say that Parcelforce is delivering your box? Mine is coming rom DHL and the tracking just says customs cleared but no mention of fees. It has supposedly been on its way for two days. Earlier I thought UPS had it, but that was another order.

I was abducted by Aliens…

at least that what it looks like after my robotic surgery lol.
Fun to mess with people who don’t know any better: “hey, long time no see, how ya been” at which point I show em my scars and repeat the above header ; )
In reality, it’s a long tragic tail involving collapsing vault tunnels AND Aliens.( DL has some serious security at that vault, bastard!), but the only way Bolo agreed to free me from my near impossible situation—(and as we KNOW, the situation is the boss not that douche from Jersey)—was after NDAs and blood oath to NEVER ever mention any details involved in my extrication, so yeah…

Decided to go full cleanse of everything and anything, including Dead and dead related accessories for my somewhat “routine” procedure, but as things took a bit more than I had planned (all good, just takes longer to heal as ya get older) I kinda just kept with it, and as things have been slow here on DN, then kinda decided to have some fun and see how long it took to notice the absence of my usual over prodigious pontifications and general weirdness lol.
Thanks to the kind folks who did notice, although that might have been directed toward the Other Oro, Oroboros who did lose his beloved mother recently. Condolences again as “a motherless child has a harder time” a the song goes…
Chever way/intentions is good, and I’m ok, and hopefully he and his are doing better also!

But we have been missing lots of good folks who used to add to the mix.
Big names like Strider and Bolo, and Nappy, and one of my favorite DHs, GOGD, and SKULLTRIP, or even Gratefulhan, Wilfredtjones, Hendrixfreak, Angry Jack, Thin, Kiethfan (and more I’m unintentionally forgetting) and haven’t heard from the Onesies camp, hope things are progressing positively for you folks, and Mrs Doc, and big elephant in the room, PT Barnum…been like a couple months now…gulp. And Franks knee!
Good to see Jimbo, Charlie, and Fivebranch, Fourwinds and some other “strangers” checking in! The more the merrier and less chance for me to ramble ; )
Sorry to Mikey, but the fog from the drugs and alien mind erase incapacitated my ability to view said Bat signal until most recently! But do appreciate the RH book intel: of course TOO is such a hopeless book junkie that she already knew. As kind as she, is I’m starting to think her purchasing books for others is just a way to attempt to quell her savage insatiable book Jones…ahem, girls got a bit of a problem.
Oh, to Mike and all jazz nicks, finished a great book during my time out:
Three Shades of Blue: MD, JC, Bill Evans and the lost empire of cool.
His prose is sometimes weird, but great research and detail. I’d call it a must read for anyone with interest in jazz!
Also Spitz’s Led Zep Bio, good but? Left a weird after taste…
And another, Once There Were Wolves, interesting fiction. Very informative, but perhaps a tad over the top story line?

APRIL 78 BOX:
Finally arrived after what seems to unfortunately have become normal MO of convoluted temporary lost in the ozone again fuckery,…but at least it’s here, ripped and ready and just finished an enjoyable listen to 4/6!
“Sound sucks”…really? Maybe the sound of the band at the time might not be everyone’s cup of tea, but I’d say the recordings don’t get much better, but maybe that’s just me? Certainly head and shoulders better recording than the previous last dog (ok show, perhaps worst released recording yet?).

And ya gotta love DHs and our opinions lol. Now I dig Nitecat (and no offense intended!) and all he’s done here and on the toob of use etc, and I get what he ment about the tuning break pace, vibes/nostalgia, but after all these years I’m all for editing out unnecessary “dead air” though banter is always appreciated when space allows, but man I don’t miss the never ending tuning BITD before they had tuners, especially when after lengthy tuning break, they’d start playing and all ready be out of tune( like early 70s and primal) lol. Yeah, thank goodness for Korg tuners! Of course as any smoker knows, half those breaks were probably JG and that ole song (see Commander Cody’s take on ) Smoke, Smoke, Smoke lol
Solid show and perhaps typical tour opener and already a step up from Jan/Feb run (did all those in order leading up to this box), but from what I recall things only get better, perhaps peaking at the Fox, especially the second night? We shall see, yum yum!
Oh, dig the blown or overdriven speaker during 4/6 A&A being picked up on the instruments mic! Can’t figure out who’s speaker yet, but as a musician and roadie BITD I’d recognize that sound in my sleep. Just to illustrate how revealing these recordings are! Good Sheet Mon! Thanks to Dave and company for getting this awesome tour all gussied up and out to us!

Ok, enough ketchup lol, good to see ya, now I need to call my BFF of almost fifty years (and awesome GD music bass player) to wish him a happy biff day, in spite of fucking cancer!
Be well all, hope everyone gets their box soon and fully digs it!
And
DV, go VIKS! Lol

Rombumzora: have you tried playing the discs on other players?
The optics do wear out on players eventually…just a thought, good luck!
ONWARD!

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