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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 13, 2024 - 1:48pm

#491

nitecat

Joined:
November 1, 2010

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.
September 13, 2024 - 8:25am

#492

JoeyMC

Joined:
July 29, 2022

What's the line on, on time…

What's the line on, on time delivery?
September 12, 2024 - 4:59pm

#493

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

#494

boblopes

Joined:
January 13, 2009

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

#495

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

#496

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

#497

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

#498

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

#499

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

#500

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

John Perry Barlow

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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.

Nice

I am digging this box. I am listening to the shows in order and up to the 4-10-1978 Fox Theater Show, and so far the sound is good and the shows are hot. Definitely cool to hear the genesis of the drums-space show format in these shows, I was always a big fan of the interlude and the transition to whatever came out of space, but I realize the sentiment was not universal. The design of the box is intricate but actually pretty functional and I find it pretty appealing, particularly now that fivebranch has explained the connection between the devil iconography and the deep south folk art. I'm pretty easy to please, so your appreciation of the box may vary, but if anyone is on the fence about getting this, I would pick it up. Thinking good thoughts for your smooth recovery Oro, good to see your sense of humor is intact.

They say laughter makes one live longer....

....if so, I just gained an hour!!
Pulled the last minute trigger to see Blue Oyster Cult in Laughlin (coincidence? I think not!) tonight. About an hour south from here. Rumors swirling regarding Eric Blooms health, so might as well see them while they are still performing because I'm not a fan of regrets.
I will be taking the first Fox Theatre show with me.
Update....Close Encounters sighting in the Jacksonville Space.
Is that the first "official" Space? I'm down for it. The band is on fire!

First pass through complete

All CD’s played fine.
Today copied to HD, converted to ALAC, and loaded onto a portable music player.
Now going through the ALAC files to confirm that the CD’s copied to the HD without error.

It’s fine with me that the Dead air was removed, we got 8 shows across 19 CD’s in the Box. Leaving the Dead air in might have required 24 CD’s which would have driven up the cost and made the Box larger.

Three Shades of Blue: MD, JC, Bill Evans

Oro - Do we say “Welcome Home!!!”? Quite a roster of MIA. Glad all is well - as far as alien abduction is well - and nothing grievous going on (sorry to TOO - The Other Oroborous - on his loss). That jazz book is one of had my eye on, may invest for a nice post-Hunter read! I preordered Miles’ Live In Paris bootleg, but I’ve been buried in lots of music to play in a short period lately, as it tis’ the season of the box.
Sabres - This year! Believe.
Besides, no team can be that bad for that long. ;)

OB

Good to see you OB. Glad the Hey Now folks didn't stop you!

Hope you recover fast. Loving the box so far, but can't speak to a full review yet. Might take me a couple of weeks to get through all the shows. Which is okay.
Yes, 3-0. Hard to believe.
Bills out to a good start.

UK

FRANKPARRY
Since you asked. Yes, the final leg of my delivery will use Parcelforce. DHL got into the country but then passed it on.The same happened with the NY box. Tracking on my GD box said ‘Cleared Customs’ for two or three days than several updates appeared at once saying it was held until charges were paid. I had to wait 4 days until a letter from Parcelforce was delivered detailing the charges. Delivery arranged for Tuesday and I live in hope they manage to do it this time.

BOC....

....got a ME262, Cagey Cretins, Hot Rails To Hell and an E.T.I.
I'll take it.

Box sound

The recordings are fine the sound is good, but they smashed all the cymbals out of the sound!

All I can say is they sound dull ! For me these didn't get me up dancing, but the torrents did?

Please don't do this again, thanks!

icecrmcnkd

check pm

While I have been lurking a bit, but mostly absent

due to working with the brothers to sort through Mom's accumulations of almost a century, I am gradually recharging my batteries. My wife and I got to a couple shows, which was helpful beyond measure.

I do appreciate all for your kind thoughts and healing vibes. Take care

Such a long, long time to be gone
And a short time to be there

Edit- in awe of brother Oro's ability to sneak his long posts past HeyNow, I want to be like him when I grow up.

The shows...

These shows rock! Freaking amazing energy!!!

Re: (Oro)^2

(Oro)^2 = Oro Squared. The math nerd in me.

Hopefully trouble behind and not trouble ahead for both Oro's.

I have been thinking a bit about the people left behind. Part of it is a natural progression, some come, some leave, the drum circle of life. Part of it was most certainly the evil Dr. Hey Now. I'm sure there is some over saturation too.

Oro 1, I most certainly can relate to what you are going through. I'm in the middle of it myself. Hang in there man.

Oro 2, I most certainly can relate to what you are going through also. I am mostly held together by rubber bands and duct tape (duck tape?). Heal up my friend.

Keep up the peace all. I have my box but have not had the time to unbox it yet. Hopefully soon. I do love spring 1978 though.. I am waiting for the right time when I am not distracted or have other weighty things seem to take the primary focus.

It Must Have Been The Roses. This one doesn't always speak to me, but when it does it's perfect. Roses and To Lay Me Down have a time and place.

I haven't had the time for full shows lately, let alone a mini-monster box like this. Been doing a little late 70's early 80's that fits perfect with what I am doing. I am thankful for that.

Anyway, there is a mix of nostalgia and new growth in the air today. I guess that's appropriate for a Sunday. So is acoustic GD and maybe even some Old and in the Way. Perfect Sunday afternoon music.

Cymbals

I started listening for them more closely and they are pretty faint on 4-6,7,8 (made it that far).
Haven’t compared to the torrents yet.
I am spinning 1-22-78 vinyl and the cymbals were also low for several songs. But can hear them pretty well on Other One.

Don’t know if they are low on the source and the folks who made the torrent FLACs boosted the signal, or if they are louder in the source and Norman reduced them.
Only way to know for sure is that 5 impartial people from this site get an all expense paid trip to the Vault for a listening session. Just hold a lottery to see who gets to go.

I'm In

I might be a little partial though.

The hard part, once we find our way into the vault and abscond with as many reels as will fit in my pockets (everything) will be convincing` Mr. Norman he must remaster them for us.

What could possibly go wrong, right?

Hey, while we are on the subject.. it was mentioned why not mix in some audience where Jerry's voice was not present on the Duke Show. While we don't know how it would have sounded, technology is such that we can mix in just the vocals, if we can get more like Dave's Picks 8, I'm in. Thank You to Dr. Bob, Dave (and Scott and Jim who frequent this board). Not sure how possible any of that is, but hey.. there's always tomorrow.

RIP Kris Kristofferson....

....found Breakaway on Spotify with Rita Coolidge. Going in.
Convoy is a personal favorite movie from when I was young.
Me And Bobby McGee.

Aye

A raise of the glass to Kris Kristofferson

Crap

RIP Bobby McGee.

🍻....

Chris

Sunday morning coming down
Cheers to Chris

Kris Kristofferson

May the Great Universal Spirit bless and behold ye!

I first found out this here, before any major news outlets, what a trip.
Anyways thoroughly enjoying this Debels Box. Just reflecting on Kris though, beyond his music. That movie he did with Coburn & Dylan, {Another Peckinpah Masterpiece} has been on the Western channel lately. Man Bob Dylan is a beast in that film, he is deadly with that knife! Great soundtrack too. "Convoy" was mentioned and that film rocks, but one more Kris film comes to mind. "Flashpoint" from 1984 is a way cool movie with a mysterious conspiratorial tone about the biggest crime of the 20th century. Kristofferson plays a Border Patrol agent who happens across human remains in a half buried decades old jeep wreck somewhere in the vast desert wilderness of his jurisdiction. Turns out to be one of the alleged Kennedy assassins. Great movie I recommend it!

Anyways R.I.P. Rubber Duck! {Convoy 1978}

Flashpoint (1984)

I almost forgot to mention, though even further now from Debels Box chit chat.
Tangerine Dream does the movie soundtrack! Reminiscent of their work on the "Sorcerer" film score.

4/16/78

Tasty lil' show

1st show

I had spaced that he wrote Sunday Morning Coming Down

I know only Johnny Cash's version

West VA

Much in agreement with Proudfoot.
I've made quite a nice playlist with that show from the box and Dave's#37 with the Pittsburg extras!

Re: Huntington WV

The sleeper of the spring tour. One of my personal favorites.

Good to see it get some love.

'83 Morgantown is a surprise for Spring 83 as well. Not sure how or why I missed that one.

En route - Blues Bizarre

I've just checked my tracking status, and it's "en route" apparently. Hopefully I will be here when it arrives!

In the meantime, amongst the usual suspects, I came across a great blues based rock band from Scandinavia called Blues Bizarre yesterday. They only have one album released and they have three great live in studio performances posted on you tube. Very powerful guitar sound - great slide playing on a Gibson SG counterpointed and complemented by more excellent and spacey guitar playing from the lady with the strat. When they start jamming it sounds a bit like a San Francisco band from the late 60's.

En Route

Daverock - I had the same from DHL but Colin said that this is a preamble to a customs charge being applied and needing paying before Parcelforce deliver it.
Got the vinyl version of Duke yesterday. I’ll have to wait til Tuesday before my new turntable arrives. It’s an extravagance but hey, you only live once, supposedly.

Correction - UK

Parcelforce has just delivered my box and there is a customs charge sticker on the box which says “this package cannot be delivered until the charges (£47.29) are paid” only it was and I didn’t pay or was asked to pay. Maybe it’ll be a letter demanding payment in the post?

Help on the way?

My parcel is said to have departed from the FedEx SmartPost location in Breinigsville PA on 9/25/24. I did get a USPS tracking number from a FedEx agent that I managed to get hold of on Saturday. The status is that the USPS was notified by the shipper to expect my package for mailing and that a delivery date will be provided when USPS receives the package. It has now been almost two weeks since my package was shipped from Vista CA and there are still no satisfactory answers. I have never had a package that failed to be delivered. I am now getting particularly worried that this package was either lost or misdelivered by the buffoons at FedEx. I have exhausted all the agencies I can turn to. Breinigsville PA is only 73 miles away from my post office in NJ. Can you kindly help me with this, MaryE?

Huntington

I can’t begin to tell you just how beautiful is the Estimated - Eyes pairing on Huntington. Just sublime.
Hoping that you get your copy soon Andoverdeadhead and all those waiting.

Bummer

Kiristofferson, this one hurts a little :(

I don't understand why some people are getting the USPS hand off and some are not.

I'm up to the 10th set 1

Got to be heaven. If this ain't the real thing, then it's close enough to pretend.

£47.29?!

Frank - they aren't cheap, these boxes, are they ! Hopefully you have slipped through the net and won't be asked to pay this charge.
I haven't bought the vinyl that goes with this box. Yet. On that subject, I've noticed the vinyl copy of 6/10/73 has dropped significantly on Amazon UK since it was first released last year. I haven't regretted buying any of vinyl copies of Dead shows yet.

Dave's #52 ?

2/17/79 or 9/20/70 would both be very cool releases for #52.

RIP Pete Rose....

....the hits keep on hitting.
He should have been allowed in the Hall Of Fame imo.

PR

I concur 100% Vguy! Met him at work a few years ago nice guy. RIP

Pete Rose and assorted Ramblings

I agree wholeheartedly. But why bet on baseball while he was a coach, and on his own team (although as I understand it he always bet on them to win)? I guess in a way gambling is like cocaine.. which is why I do not gamble anymore.

So, a self-inflicted wound to be sure. Something I am more than competent at doing all by myself.

On a completely unrelated note, and similarly nothing to do with the Grateful Dead, Jimmy Carter turned 100 today. Holy Sacred Cows! I immediately internalized this to think maybe doing acid, mushrooms, drinking and smoking weed for the better part of my life was not such a good idea - oh well. We can be sure at least Jimmy would have approved of edibles. Not meant in any way to be political, but I think it's ok to give a tip of the glass to Mr. Carter on his 100th birthday. Wow, how did he do it?

On a somber note, wishing the best for the heads in the Southeast US, notably the area North and West of Tampa and in the timbers of Fenario in the backwoods of Appalachia. Lot's of dead freaks and hipsters in general in this part of the world. Some of these towns are going through tremendous once in a thousand-year flooding. Table Rock North Carolina (the town, not the rock) more or less does not exist anymore, and Ashville North Carolina (a sister town of where I currently live) isn't faring much better. What a tragedy, and I feel for them. I live in a flood plain and if I live to be 1,000 this will surely happen to me. When I bought my current house, I brought up flooding. His response was simple. "don't give me any of that al gore shit" I bought it anyway.. happy I did but praying we do not see floods like our brethren down South.

Edit: I can tie the floods into GD. On 4/18/70 at the Family Dog at the Great Highway, Pigpen sang a medley of six songs including The Mighty Flood otherwise known as Tupelo Blues. As for tying Mr. Carter into the GD? Ignoring the obvious (US Blues), how about 7/1/78 Arrowhead Stadium, playing for Willie Nelson's fourth of July soirée. In 1980, Willie stepped out of his room onto the roof of the white house and shared a joint with (?? not such a mystery anymore). Two years earlier the GD played at one of his July 4th parties at Arrowhead Stadium (go Chiefs [except when Baltimore is in town]). This date might be important to Willie as around this time he quit drinking and cigarettes and primarily just did weed. I believe this is tied into an LSD trip he had and I am pretty sure the GD or a dead show was involved. I've done some research and the exact date is never mentioned but it's quite likely it was at this show. I'm sure I could do better, but we certainly did land on a great GD show and there is history on this date. I'll take the win.

That's the best I can do. Keep on keeping on people, the longer I live the more I think the world needs us (or people like us).

Previously on cassette

4-10-78
4-11-78
4-12-78
4-16-78 set 2 (110 min cassette)

They sound way better now.

Have a copy of 4-12-78 vinyl in transit.

Helene....

....yeah. Devastating. The wife and I pitched in $100 to the Red Cross. Something we do from time to time regarding disasters. Feels good.
Billy Strings Highway Prayers arrived today. I love how the booklet looks like a car owners manual due to the fact the album art is muscle car themed. Nice touch.
I was going to play it after the Miami Dolphin game. But I felt obligated to rush him out on the stage. Take a bow Mr. Strings and congrats on your new baby boy.

Highway Prayers....

....absolutely stunning with zero filler over twenty tracks.
Excuse me while I smile wide.
Find Morebud4me. He uses bong rips and lighters as a rhythm. Instant classic.

UK again

FRANK PARRY
Mine has just arrived. It has the same ‘Hold’ message as yours and unusually the same charge. In my case they did hold it until I paid up. I think I have had one delivery where I thought I’d escaped the charges but a bill turned up two weeks later. Now to unpack it.

Edit: Having opened the package I’m surprised Customs didn’t tear it to pieces to see what was hissing inside!

Still waiting

Any box in Germany yet? How about yours Gerd?

Just Arrived - No. 00345/10000

What a beautiful day!!!
Cheers
G.

Previously on cassette

Don't think you really want to compare them with your cassettes?

Beautiful Box

Finally unboxing and beginning to RIP these discs to file.

I like the size, better than some of the recent box sets. Happy day.

8 Tracks

Don't be busting on my 8 tracks now.. my precious... :D

#2355 in Germany

Got my box yesterday. Found it late afternoon in my postbox - paid no taxes and fees. Still ripping the cds now.
Greetings from the Isle of Fehmarn

No taxes

Lucky you in Fehmarn!

Taxes

I paid €49.75 ($55) today in the Netherlands. Now I will see how long it takes PostNL to deliver it. I doubt I'll see it this week, but I live in hope.

Taxes

Sales tax here is 6%.
Glad we don’t have VAT, every person who handles it adds value to it.

Low numbers arriving in Europe. They seemed to get their shipping notices first, so maybe the low numbers shipped first.

I was just at the beer store and walked past the import shelf, but forgot to see if the Spaten in Gerd’s photo was here.
They have the Paulaner 1L cans in glass mugs as usual. I have 5 of those mugs so I don’t buy that beer anymore due to no more cupboard space to store.
Those 1L mugs are great for making a giant mojito.

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