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

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

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

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

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

    Sportatorium - April 7, 1989

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

    Huntington Civic Centre, West Virginia – 16 April 1978

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

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

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

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

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  • #491
    nitecat
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    On my way to and from Lake Tahoe this month, I passed Nevada County Fairgrounds, where I saw JGB and the Dead in 1983. I also passed Boreal Ridge Ski Resort, the home of the infamous " Worst Dead concert ever" in 1985. I recall the Fairgrounds being pretty pleasant, and the Ski Resort being a pretty rocky, dirty location. I don't remember the show being all that bad, but the boys did have several technical difficulties. I'd go back in a second.

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

    What's the line on, on time delivery?

  • #493
    JimInMD
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    Re: Steve Silberman's Obit

    Nice Post Dr. Robert

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

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

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

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    Steve Silberman's Obit courtesy of David Gans

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

  • #495
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    Rip this joint gonna get down low.

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

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

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    Hummingbirds

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

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    Happy Birthday Mickey Hart

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

  • #498
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    Belated Wishes

    R.I.P. Steve Silberman

    Happy B~Day Mickey Hart

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

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

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

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

    Love that lyric full of whimsical imagery.

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

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

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

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

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

  • #500
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    Hummers Etc.

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

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

 

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

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

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

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

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

Sportatorium - April 7, 1989

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

Huntington Civic Centre, West Virginia – 16 April 1978

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

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

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

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

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Submitted by DeadVikes on Tue, 10/01/2024 - 20:05

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That sounds pretty good to me. Over 10% here in MN. Liquor tax 11.5%,........
Anyway, Dave's #52 should be announced mid October. I heard a rumor on Reddit it might be 🤠.

Edit. And what in the world is going on with this year's MUATM?

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Submitted by fourwindsblow on Wed, 10/02/2024 - 03:07

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Sounds like their struggling...

4/12 Row Jimmy Row!!

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Submitted by jonathan918@GD on Wed, 10/02/2024 - 05:06

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Glad to see all the positive reviews of the box!

As for me, still waiting. Delivery date changed again. I'm blaming Fedex for spotty, at best, service. I'm blaming Warner Music Gourp for using Fedex instead of UPS

UPS is KING of frieght, plain and simple.

Whatever money is being saved by using a cheaper delivery company, is being lost due to customers not returning.

Just my 2 cents! and that carries about as much weight as a fart in a wind strom!!! lol

rock on, gang

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Submitted by fourwindsblow on Wed, 10/02/2024 - 08:30

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Back on the tracks, Caution!

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Submitted by FiveBranch on Wed, 10/02/2024 - 09:12

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Silberman's writing is meticulously detailed. Impressive research. I learned more about GD from this release than all the other boxes combined.

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Submitted by Oroborous on Wed, 10/02/2024 - 10:10

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…not UPS or FedEx.
Our stuff gets to Denver via UPS usually in a day or two, then, when they go to handoff to USPS, that’s were the phuchery begins.
Though here, packages follow a convoluted route back and forth across the state, but at least you could track it and they usually arrived in a reasonable amount of time. Now, it seems to just disappear for weeks before magically showing up?
The biggest issue is USPS stopped scanning the package upon acceptance/ handoff, and it doesn’t show up again until when/if the Post office puts it out for delivery. Then someone has to try and get there during business hours (like when most people have to be at work) and stand in long line of crabby people, then get attitude from crabby postal workers, who seem to try to do everything possible to NOT give you your package!
Except for that lol, generally just an inconvenience of not being able to track it, but what happens when they lose it or it gets stolen…since they didn’t officially except it (there’s no documentation of them receiving it) they can claim they didn’t lose it and not be accountable, which is total BS.
Just what we need, a world that charges more with less or no accountability…

As a possible additional source of revenue, better customer experience/service, and less hassles all around, I still don’t understand why we can’t choose our own delivery method, even if there’s an additional cost, ya know, like the good old days when at checkout YOU could decide how your package got shipped.
In our case that would be UPS right to our door since we don’t have home mail delivery. We would gladly pay a premium for that option…
NOTE: until this one, that’s how our box sets have been sent, while Dave’s uses the smart post nonsense.

I’m sure for many none of this is a problem but for those of us in rural areas it’s a constant source of stress and hassles. Kinda takes some of the fun outta what should be a joyous occasion.

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Submitted by 1stshow70878 on Wed, 10/02/2024 - 10:23

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Said in the disparaging tone said of Seinfeld's arch enemy "Newman!"
How is this jerk still in charge at USPS? He said it should be profitable but it is a "Service" the government is tasked to provide. When he took over he outsourced things and destroyed millions of dollars worth of new sorting machines. Then we lost international shipping to 17 countries (some have come back).
"You're fired" Louis!
Cheers

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Submitted by icecrmcnkd on Wed, 10/02/2024 - 11:40

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The list is out
JGB 8-29-87
GD 5-5-77

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Submitted by wissinomingdeadhead on Wed, 10/02/2024 - 11:47

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I was hoping for something different. When was the last time the TPTB treated us to a stand alone release? I think the last one was 4/1870.

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Submitted by fourwindsblow on Wed, 10/02/2024 - 12:09

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You've heard of the Angry Jack Straw? This is the pissed off US Blues!

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Submitted by daverock on Wed, 10/02/2024 - 14:28

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Nice enough, but hardly the most exciting choice for the next Black Friday vinyl treat. Especially considering we have already had a May 77 show this year - and this here massive 78 box. Which is still en route, by the looks of things. They must be taking the pretty way round.

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Submitted by icecrmcnkd on Wed, 10/02/2024 - 16:47

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Looks like the plan is to put out the entire Box on vinyl.
Only 4500 copies. I’ll probably miss out like I did with 5-7-77 because I don’t get to the store until about noon.

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Submitted by icecrmcnkd on Wed, 10/02/2024 - 17:25

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There’s some other interesting releases on there.

ABB 4-7-72. Anyone know if that’s a good sounding recording?

Big Brother, Byrds/Buffalo Springfield, Doors 5-8-70, Jorma and Jack, Stones Ya Yas (which I’ve never heard as far as I know), Tangerine Dream for Daverock.
Dennis’ wife’s credit card is going to take a beating on Black Friday.

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Submitted by Crow Told Me on Wed, 10/02/2024 - 22:01

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4-7-72 is indeed a pretty darned good ABB recording. Performance wise, it's unique: this is one the first gigs they did after Duane died and before Berry was also taken. I think it's the only known recording with that lineup. They hadn't yet brought Chuck Leavell into the mix. So they're working on how to play their "old' material with only one guitar, and Dickey playing the slide parts. Berry is stepping to the forefront more than he usually did when Duane was around, so it's an interesting from that perspective. I believe it was recorded by a college radio station, so the sound A-OK. Whether you need this one or not probably depends on how fanatical you are about the ABB: for the more casual fan, you probably just want to get the shows with Duane before you get into stuff like this. For us fanatics, of course, it's essential piece of the story.

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Submitted by daverock on Wed, 10/02/2024 - 23:27

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Cnkd - thanks for the heads up. It might not be the way you are supposed to do it, but in England, Independent record shops put RSD releases up for sale online 24 hours after they have been made available in their physical shops. This is how I have bought all mine in the past. I drive as little as possible these days, and I never did like queuing.

That ABB release looks interesting. The Duane years, but also the Brothers and Sisters album and surrounding shows are the sweet spot for me with this band - so this bridge between the 2 line ups sounds as though it could be worth hearing.

I always want to get some, on CD or digital, but I don't know what's good. Every time I stream something just to check it out, the sound seems not that great to me.... or worse than not that great actually.

I'm not big on Sugar Mags but this one on 4/11 is very nice :)

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Submitted by Huskerwing on Thu, 10/03/2024 - 14:19

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I just finished a big job ripping the entire 2009 Beacon 4oth anniversary run from the CD set I bought back then. Watched most of those shows via the Moogis website which ended up a huge debacle but at the time it was pretty damn cool. Anyway, it's not Duane for sure but that version of the band had Haynes and Trucks on guitar and they were really in sync. The best part of those shows though is the massive guest lineup. Clapton, Weir, Lesh, Trey, Hornsby, Bell, Herring, Taj Mahal, Levon.... and more. I think they have the individual shows on Munck Mix for download or CD purchase even today.
Edit: the "Live from A&R Studios" 8/26/71 has supreme sound and very interesting playing and of course the Fillmore 1970 Bear recorded and originally released through the same channel as Dicks Picks but now out under the "Bears Sonic Journals" series is REALLY good. I still have the old CD that has the similar insert/disc art as the first few Dicks Picks.

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Submitted by daverock on Thu, 10/03/2024 - 14:41

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The pick of the bunch for me is Live at The Fillmore East - the 2cd deluxe edition that was expanded from the double album originally released in 1971. As an introduction - there was a 5cd set that came out a year or so ago called "Trouble No More - 50th Anniversary Collection" which features live and studio recordings over a 50 year period. I haven't heard this, but it was unanimously praised on Amazon for both the music selected and the sound quality.

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Submitted by icecrmcnkd on Thu, 10/03/2024 - 16:11

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I was previously going to get the Down In Texas release but the reviews said the sound quality wasn’t so good.
I’m not going to pay vinyl prices for low quality audio.

I have the Fillmore East 5-CD set, Bear’s Sonic Journals, A&R studio, Ludlow Garage, and another one, think it’s Fillmore West maybe?
What we need cleaned up and released is 12-31-73.

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Submitted by JoeyMC on Thu, 10/03/2024 - 16:12

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This is all good to know .

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Submitted by FiveBranch on Thu, 10/03/2024 - 17:23

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Just finished the first set. The Tennessee Jed has all the goods with special delivery. Brown Eyed flits along on some of that alternate rhythm you hear in William & Mary Dap37's BEW, only done better. Do the channels get switched during Looks Like Rain? Not sure. I'll listen for it next time. But Mickey brings in the thunder nonetheless. After Minglewood you can hear a devil backstage trying to figure out what to do with a fiddle. Closes with Deal and Jerry plays a solo that's dealt with perfection.

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Submitted by Vguy72 on Thu, 10/03/2024 - 20:12

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....I'm trying to keep pace, but dammit that Billy Strings record has been addictive.
Cmon Vguy. You're moving much too slow.
I did do 4.10 on a dedicated listening solo in the car enroute to Laughlin and back Saturday night to see Blue Oyster Cult. Almost timed it perfectly while pulling into my driveway! There were a lot of flubs. Jerry repeated a couple of Row Jimmy verses. Donna even laughed during MSN because they were legit lost.
They got it together for the second set.
Warts and all y'all.
'78 Donna is HOT! 🔥
My Surfragettes Easy As Pie arrived today.
You like all girl surf music? Check them out. Or Not. It's all good. No vox. Just surf.

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Submitted by fourwindsblow on Fri, 10/04/2024 - 03:18

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Where's Max Headroom? Bring back Max H. ;-}

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Submitted by billy the kiddd on Fri, 10/04/2024 - 06:18

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Put it together with 10/31/70 for a great release. I think this one was broadcast on the radio.

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Submitted by Charles In Charge on Fri, 10/04/2024 - 07:19

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Looks like DaP52 is the 9/11 show in Santa Fe. I really enjoyed the Boise show (9/2) DaP27 prior to this one. So I am excited (and hopeful) that this one is going to be a goody, having not listened to it before.

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Submitted by Vguy72 on Fri, 10/04/2024 - 09:22

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....you better not be getting my hopes up Charles.
I've been banging that Santa Fe drum on this site for over a decade. Fingers and toes are crossed.

It's for sure Vguy! If you check your order status at dead dot net for DaP 2024 subscription it should currently show Santa Fe 9/11/83 for DaP 52. Congrats! Thought this was one you were calling for!

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Submitted by Obeah on Fri, 10/04/2024 - 10:30

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thinking about Santa Fe ?!??

So WUT? This is true? As usual, Cap'n Lemieux pilots a wild ride. I didn't see another '83 coming so soon. We had Vol 39 in 2021 and the Garden box set in 2022. Color me intrigued...

edit: correct me if I'm wrong, but this is presumably the stand of shows where Phil writes about getting a speeding ticket (along with a bunch of other heads) driving south in a rental car from CO ?

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Submitted by Charles In Charge on Fri, 10/04/2024 - 11:16

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I just saw it on reddit and checked my 2024 DaP subscription order on this site and it showed the 9/11 Santa Fe show. So, it better not be them pulling a fast one!

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Submitted by Colin Gould on Fri, 10/04/2024 - 14:21

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Apparently not. 9/11/83 is shown as #52 in the 2024 subscription information of my order. Whenever this has happened previously it has been accurate. I notice that I ordered the 2024 sub on 25th October last year so we should hear about #53 by the end of this month. So much to look forward to.

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Submitted by Lovemygirl on Fri, 10/04/2024 - 14:32

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5/5/77

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Submitted by icecrmcnkd on Fri, 10/04/2024 - 14:57

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My order status also shows it.
Congrats Vguy on getting your wish.

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Submitted by proudfoot on Fri, 10/04/2024 - 18:57

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On 9 10 83 Bobby makes a bizarre comment at the end of the show about at some point in history it rained fish

He doesnt specify what species though

....that are the Santa Fe Downs pool.
9.10 was also the first time Phil sang since Brent arrived.
The Cold Rain & Snow encore. "Let Phil sing!!"
9.10 is slightly better in my opinion because it has a Cumberland (duh), but I'm not complaining at all.
I know those two shows like the back of my hand. Super stoked.
Onwards to 4.11.78's second set.

The guy who took me to my first show attended Santa Fe 83

Also, the eerily absent Blair Jackson raved about these shows

Would love x1000 this to be a twofer

"Let's play two" like Ernie Banks would say

Recaptcha issues lately.

Apparently, the machine doesn't want us talking about...

Virtual...

Private...

Networks.

Tried to post about last week and finally had to give up.

No Red Herring. The stage wasn't covered
and there was a huge dark storm rolling
in at the end of the first set - that's why
China -> Rider is so fast - they were trying
to hurry up before the rain. Long Intermission
until the weather passed. The Playing In The
Band -> China Doll is better than the one
from Eugene about 10 days before ...
When we arrived 09.11 the stage had a roof.

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Submitted by daverock on Sat, 10/05/2024 - 12:21

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I wasn't too chuffed when I read that a 1983 show might be the next Dave's Picks. It made me dust off 10/21/83 from 30 Trips though, and stone me, it's excellent. I've only played the 1st cd so far, but it's top notch all the way through. Even more surprisingly, it was the well worn cover versions, together with Cumberland Blues, that I enjoyed most. We're talking C.C Rider, Big Railroad Blues and Promised Land here. So....I might treat myself to the next Dave's after all.

Last 5 -

Call of the Blues - Michael Messer's Mitra
Blues on Top of Blues - B.B. King
Two Bugs and a Roach + first recordings - Earl Hooker
Memphis Blues Box cd 13 "Rocket 88" - various
Fifth Pipe Dream - San Francisco Sound a great contemporaneous compilation from 1968 - various

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Submitted by Vguy72 on Sat, 10/05/2024 - 13:48

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....Bobby says that on this date in 1890 in Cairo, IL it rained fish.
Phish in1983. Things that make you go hmmmmm.

Decent enough
No wood (yet)
Meaning
I will listen to post Drumz again in the car

Prolly sound a whole lot different

btw I love US Blues

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Submitted by FiveBranch on Sat, 10/05/2024 - 16:39

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Jumped onto the caboose this afternoon. Felt like first set was reaching beyond itself but in a helluva fun sort of way. High energy only not quite landing the subtle nuances I was hearing in the Florida and Georgia shows. Not an issue because that also makes for great GD.

Second set about the same, until the Iko. My oh my..... the ideas just keep pouring out from one after another after another. Like they finally found the groove. And then Jerry keeps all that rolling with his solo during Sugar Magnolia. After US Blues, went back and listened to the sequence again.

A double dose of '83 Santa Fe? Well that would be a great way to mirror how we started the year with Frost!

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