Grateful Dead

I am certain it will be easy to find the sop to Cerberus to ensure you walk as one promoted to Grateful Dead.

Raise a glass to Phil, salute!

Miss Him! Miss Him!! Miss Him!!!

Phil’s birthday.

And with the new Klipsch speakers and subwoofer I got a while back my house is thumping to Phil.

4/27/85 Just Like Tom Thumbs Blues, killer version Lesh changes some of the lyrics, 4/22/86 B.C.T. The Dead open the show with Box of Rain very cool.

I have every Dave's Pick. Like everyone, I don't think all the shows are breath taking. 1976 annoys me because of the screaming banshee Donna Jean. I doubt this one will ever leave the cellophane wrapping, but you never know. 9/11/83 on the other hand...hell yeah! As always...go Brent!

Just heard the news. Man, that is too bad. A hell of run for Phil, 84.
Agree, one of the best bass players ever. A slawart. So funny and underrated.
RIP Phil, you will be missed.

Thank you for the music, Mr. Lesh.. It will be "Fallout from the Phill-Zone" tonight.. BW from Copenhagen

10/27/79

Goodbye my friend.

My fav live, 6/28/85. Tom Thumb

Best. 5/3/72. Other One.

Flounderfe - Donna was on the money during 1976. Things were a bit more challenging during 1974 - a small price to pay for a great year.

Donna started to get good in 1976, really I think starting from the 8/13/75 show in S.F. and then on into `76 with her and husband Keith's work with Jerry in his {=JGB=} band. She sailed a bit on some early `76 Dead tour 'Scarlets' by my records {music...et.al} but the mics seemed to be better mixed and she had some more experience on stage by that point, so she was already better than her 1973~'74 rough gems. So by late year 1976 she is considerably better, and would continue to get more so {1977~78 & beyond}.
Some of the best examples of her and Keith musically is with Jerry Garcia Band & not the Dead.

I agree! She started to reduce the vibrato in her voice - check out a BIODTL from 1973 for an extreme example of excessive vibrato!

A good example D.J. {& Bobby} song from 1973~'74.
She was damn fine backing vocals on 'Row Jimmy' from that era too.
From the year 1976 and beyond, 'Looks Like Rain' is prime Donna.

Great with JGB and GD.

Think I’ll start today with a selection from the June 76 Box.

And, there is nothing wrong with a good pre-hiatus Donna scream.

Played it earlier today.
Donna sounded great.

...4/7/71 and 4/8/71 BMH. MAKE IT A BONUS RELEASE FOR 2025!

Might as well add: Manhattan Center 4/5 and 4/6 and 4/7

A nice five-show run.

BUT April 8th is the monster!

How about a January 2025 release. They better hustle.

Anybody know if there is any chance of a 12-15-71 Ann Arbor, MI release? The Dark Star sounds mighty good.

Also, as I am learning, it seems that a number of shows in Fall 1971 were broadcast (live?) on FM radio.

Does anyone know how many shows in total received the FM treatment? Looks like quite a few from the info on Deadlists. Could that be a box? The '71 FM Broadcasts?

Quite a lot of these FM Broadcasts from 1971 are available in Britain as bootlegs - and many of these shows are better ( to my ears) than the ones officially released - 10/19, 11/7 and 12/5 for example. Add 12/15 to these and I agree - a great box set could be put together.

July 2, 1971

Fall
October 19, 1971
October 23, 1971
October 26, 1971
October 27, 1971
October 29, 1971
October 30, 1971
November 7, 1971
November 11, 1971
November 15, 1971
November 17, 1971
November 20, 1971
December 2, 1971
December 5, 1971
December 10, 1971
December 31, 1971

Would be a knockout!

These radio broadcasts were billed as "An Evening With The Grateful Dead".

Also eight of the shows the NRPS set was also recorded...

Who recorded those shows? The radio stations that broadcast them? Are they also in the vault?

You can find them on the interwebs.
The torrent sites specifically.
Or just ask Doc. He offered them up a few years ago.

Rex Jackson

Thanks for sharing this list, and to everyone who replied on this. Cool.

Doc . . . ?

Does he frequent these parts?

Piece these back together.
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Hey rockers!!!

I do frequent these parts, as a matter of fact I frequently frequent parts of these parts. Sorry, coffee not kicking in yet...............

Birchwood, have you a question for me? I frequently do get asked about "stuff", especially 1971 stuff.

1971 FM box set? Frequently discussed ad nauseum around these parts. Here's the bottom lines:
1) Good but not always great shows. But a few ARE great!
2) NOT an official release.
3) Quality is good, but cost is $$$$...........
4) Why buy the bacon when you can get as much pork belly as you want FOR FREE from frequently generous old souls that frequently hang out here......?

At least once a year I try to give this stuff away, but I get very few takers................

More in next post................

Keep it rocking,

Doc
Frequently known to be not even wrong

Several of these have already been officially released----7/2 (partial, that's all they have), 10/26, 11/15,17, 20, and 12/10. If I was in charge of stuff, which luckily I'm not, I would skip 10/27, 10/30, and 11/11 (chaos). But I would include 12/1 (only the fine second set circulates at the moment), 12/4, and 12/15 (really fine show).

We know for a fact that there are soundboards of several of these shows in the vault, like 10/29 (really good show), 12/2 (nicely quirky), and 12/31 (very solid show).

The "elephant in the room" here is the quirky gooey goodness of Felt 12/5. Right now, only the matrix-like broadcast copies circulate----some of which are very good. I have repeatedly asked DL if SBD of this show was ever returned to the band, don't usually get a response BUT TPTB tend to be secretive about "returned tapes". Maybe some day..............

You know where to find me.................

Play it loud, dance like nobody's watching..........

Doc
Time for more coffee, walk dogs, live life.......

Hey rockers!!!

Got to work, paperwork day, so checked in with the all-powerful Amazon. The box set selling for $199. So do the math. You'd be better off to use that money on an external hard drive (lol yes size matters) and then make friends with somebody like.........well..........you know.........

There's a sh*tload of bootleg Dead music on Amazon. Bad Amazon!!!

Sometimes a concept is baffling not because it is profound but because it is wrong.........

Well, guess I'll cue up 12/2/71 and work on some autopsy reports.....................

Rock on,

Doc
And how can man die better than facing fearful odds, for the ashes of his fathers, and the temples of his Gods?

Happy Halloween everybody. 10/31/69 & 10/31/70 would both make great future releases.

Get a hard drive.
If you have an old computer that is not being used put it to work on the torrent swarms.
You’ll be glad you did.

I went through a period where I frequently frequented the torrent sites, and yep, there's an astounding amount of good music to be had. A lot more, it turns out, than I had storage space for or time to hear! Eventually I stopped downloading because I realized I had hundreds of hours of stuff I'd never listened to.

But maybe I need to get back into it, given this 1971 Situation we have on our hands.

Just listened to 7/31/71 (aka Road Trips Vol 1 No 3) yesterday. Definitely left me wanting more! And wondering why there hasn't been a box from that year.

Maybe the fact that so many of the shows were broadcast live and therefore also bootlegged mercilessly is what gives pause to our man Dave? Maybe it's just more fun for him to put out something "new" rather than a much-bootlegged show? If so, I wish he'd reconsider.

...starts tomorrow! Happy Halloween!

Late subscriber to Dave's Picks, but it's been a fun ride so far so I'll get my ticket for the next go-round. Hoping there are still some tasty 60's shows on the horizon, but enjoying these dips into the Brent era. Also, I must be among the minority, but I love the bonus tracks even if they appear mid-show or mid-set (as in vol 51). Getting an extra show across a few different releases is pretty fun (and generous), and easy enough to make playlists. Maybe I'll even re-learn how to program my multi-disc cd player. . . Keep 'em coming, Dave!!!

Don't Ease Me In
6/5/80

Doc, thanks for all your feedback on these questions. 38 years listening to the GD and I am still learning a lot! Thanks!

Since it's the first of the month, I subscribed before I could talk myself out of it. It went right through with no problem, although the promo code I was given didn't work. But the shipping was free, so there is that.

Excellent summary Doc, many thanks for that.

I was intrigued that you'd tried to run down the status of Felt Forum 12/5/1971 with DL. This has been a question I've had for many years, too. I got this tape (the FM) sometime back around '88-'89 and I was really taken by it. Still one of my favorite shows after all these years. In fact, it's not an exaggeration to say that this very show is the reason why I subscribed to Dave's Picks in the first place: when I saw that Vol 22 was to be the last night of the run at the Felt Forum, I was all in. (And yet somehow that show just doesn't grab me like the night of the 5th)

If you attended, have ticket stubs or photographs or other memorabilia relating to this show, there is an Allman Brothers archival release in production for the 6/9/1973 set they performed and they seek materials for the artwork, package design and booklet.

If you or someone you know attended, has photos, ticket stubs or other memorabilia, or even memories, The Allman Brothers release production team would love to hear from you.

RFK1973@allmanbrothersband.com

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We should get the announcement by mid-December. Any chance DL will venture outside his usual timeframe (i.e. 1969-77) to draw in the last subscribers? I'd love to get 4 cds from 1968. And while he might just be bold enough to go with something featuring Brent - who expected shows from 1985 to be this year's first pick? - I doubt his first foray into the Vince/Bruce era would be in the #2 slot.

I believe I recall Dave casually mentioning (in the last one or two Seaside Chats) that the 2nd quarter 2025 release would be the first foray into an era. {Maybe an era within an era?} A show that was the epitome of said era and one they didn't have to ponder much on. So it sounded like they had decided on that show for awhile and was just awaiting the right moment. I think the dilemma at that time of the Sea~Chat was what to put on the bonus disc, so it may have been the #52 Sea~Chat.

Anyways, here are a few "Estimated Prophesies" of my own deductions.
1973 is due up, so maybe one of them 'horn' shows. All Dave's Picks from the year 1973 are spring tour with the exception of that seminal 'Dick favorite' that was Dave's #38, another bonus disc release.
A 1978 release may be too close on the heels of the Devil's Box but some November~December 1978 with a Keith & Donna Shakedown St. would be cool, "From the Heart of Me" too!
***Maybe Autumn 1970!?***
Anything 1982?
The first Vince Era?!!! maybe with Bruce too!?

Early Bird RIPS on Friday btw.
Will stick it out through 60.
Hopefully 1969 is the new era. But how many great shows can there really be left at this point?
May be a good tactic to apply the $99 to box sets instead of Dave’s Picks…
Not a huge fan either of trend to spread shows into later releases but doesn’t hurt I suppose. Just another clue that we’re getting there. Dave still doing great work on these for sure.
Still enjoying Road Trips too.

Maybe it would free them up if they relaxed the policy a bit. There must be some storming shows from 1967 - 1970, but not necessarily complete shows and not necessarily in the best sound quality. That would suit me more than immaculate sounding complete, but musically average shows.
I'm not so keen on the hype these days. It seems the more average the show, the more they try and convince us it's one of the best shows ever. It seems very shallow - especially when the people they are targeting have heard 100's of shows and know a thing or two about the band already.

I suspect that there are a lot of pre-hiatus shows remaining.
12-18-73 is one of them. At least the Dark Star is grate.
12-18,19-73 should be Plangentized and Normanized.

A Box of 60’s show fragments (what exists, not chop jobs) would be grate.

Only one show from BCT 8/72 has been released. So there’s those.

And people keep calling for the Ark Box.

Have been a subscriber since year one 1993? IMO last year was the dullest year of releases 77 ? Boring ! 85 garbage, 71 trash sound and another 83 show ? I know this is what the touch heads love but jeez there are so many more outstanding shows deteriorating in the vaults ! Wake up !

Cover art is awesome!!!!!

all the best available stuff has been released.

they certainly won't say what they have left.

that 85 stuff certainly floats my boat, as does the 83

one person's garbage is another person's magic

9/19/70 partial
9/20/70

That Powder Keg needs to be uncorked. Period.