Grateful Dead

New Dead Head TV now up on dreamswedreamed dot com:

Close to the Edge with Spencer Dryden - 1989

Spencer Dryden was drummer for the San Francisco rock band, Jefferson Airplane. In February 1971 Dryden replaced Mickey Hart in the country rock band The New Riders of the Purple Sage. In 1982, he formed supergroup the Dinosaurs with fellow Bay Area musicians Peter Albin of Big Brother, John Cipollina of Quicksilver Messenger Service, Robert Hunter of the Grateful Dead, and Barry Melton of Country Joe and the Fish. He was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1996 with his Airplane band mates, inducted by Phil Lesh and Mickey Hart.

For a nod to the Lions, listened to part of Oct 24, 1971, from the Easttown Theater, Detroit a few minutes ago. Great energy, early Keith show, Phil crunches it, a 71 DarkStar. Maybe since we can access and download anything on the archive, they would have to really clean up stuff to market it as download to us, since Charlie Miller, Sir Nick and others have done such nice work so far. Yet another reason I'll bang the drum for more primal stuff, from the vault, that has not been posted to archive.

Dave's Picks was announced as a subscription model cd release. It has been more successful than the Download Series and the Road Trips Series. The last year's lack of sell outs is an aberration. I think part of the lack of sell out on 46 is they have it priced 10 bucks higher for some reason. It's priced like the 4cd releases, but it's just 3cds. Who knows what the sales numbers are on the box set downloads, but I don't think they themselves know what the sweet spot number is. HCS was the fastest box set sellout since Giants Stadium, and Get Shown the Light before that. Get Shown the Light has run through its "unlimited" All Music Edition as well. I'd be shocked if the download sales of that box come anywhere close to the immediate sell out of the original box, then an All Music Edition that apparently kept selling for 6 years. And that the Giants Stadium boxes sold out in weeks, and Listen to the River is still on sale goes to show you can't ever tell. If they want to start a download series, more power to them, keep Dave's a physical product.

Dude, you just totally made that up. Out of thin air.

Reading marye's remembrance of high times at the Greek reminded me -- it was great to come across your name in Jesse Jarnow's "Heads". Just a great reminder of how this community got on board the electric bus with the Well (I tried to post what W E L L stands for, but I got hey now'd. Unbelievable.)

I got my first internet account in the Fall of 1989 and promptly found myself spending an increasing amount of time over at rec.music.gdead, but The W ell seemed like this mythical place just over the horizon. Now that this is all going back decades, it sure is fun reading folks remembrances. Keep 'em coming, y'all...

By limiting the issues to cd, they're limiting their audience. When the series started, 12 or so years ago, everyone had cd players. Now, a lot of us don't. Not in my laptop, not in my car. And without a cd drive, I can't even upload the cds. So, I'd like to see digital release of the series. You'd think Lemieux and Rhino would be more forward looking. The series has already been lagging in sales, and those that do sell out, take weeks, not the minutes that it used to.

I wonder if they'll release much from this year later on, it being an anniversary an all. It would be good if they did. Buggers can't be choosers, though. I mean beggars.

Clever posting Oro! Amazed it let you post because this is so hit and miss.
Poor guys like Scott Norwood or Bill Buckner could never live down their moment of infamy.
Maybe you’re right - something stronger for the folks in Buffalo and WNY. Suggestions?

Too soon lol

But hey, just like Scott, never should have come down to that…

But what the hey, Go AVs lol

....I'm sure Scott Norwood was watching and his PTSD kicked in.
Get it? Kicked.