Ok, you made me pull out my Zep and I too have the 1/22/73 show (from somewhere), very nice recording.

Here's one for Zep-heads.

Years ago, I worked with a guy who stated he thought the GREATEST version of Stairway to Heaven was off the studio album, that Page never hit it that well again.

Opinions?

Yes it's not a dead thing :-)

Posts with political sniping and similar antics will be unpublished. As will any other attempts to sow disharmony. 

This is David Lemieux's thread. Dave is Canadian, so US partisanship of whatever type is out of place here and cordially invited to do its thing, civilly, in the current events thread. This thread is about the music, and taking off from there. 

In my experience no two Deadheads and possibly no two humans are in full agreement about everything. This is good. Learning to find areas of common interest and go forward, also good. 

It's safe to say that whatever your view of current events, there's a lot going on out there from the personal to the global, and probably a lot of Are You Kind? tests headed our way.  With plenty of opportunities to look out for each other, much as we have these many decades now in some cases.

Keep it kind here. Thank you.

What you say makes sense - the trouble is that I am dependent on an impractical way of doing things. And that's not just in the way I get to hear music. They are quite inexpensive now, these dodgy live albums. And you do get the buzz of a new cd or record arriving at your house.

Dennis - I would say the official version of Stairway To Heaven is the best version I have heard too. It's not my favourite track of theirs by a long chalk.

Thank you, Marye.

This current release is easily one of my all time fav Daves Picks.

10/24/71 and 10/23/71

kinda hard to do when you are being responsible at work

I think 10/23 has a Dark Star

yes

and scheming

yes

conniving interlopers

yes

such tiresome

yes

scrubs

As Jim Morrison said in When The Music's Over:

"SAVE US! JESUS!"

Grateful Dead is a welcome second

'Hero' and 'Cold Little Heart' are two excellent tunes.

Likewise Leon Bridge's 'Texas Sun.' And check out his song 'River' as well.

'Medicine' by Rising Appalachia might also float your boat if you like the above.

Ray LaMontagne's 'New York City's Killing Me' as well.

I think I previously mentioned Satsang, 'I Am.' 'Remember Jah' is another great Satsang song.

And I'll mention Uncle Lucius again, 'Keep The Wolves Away.'

Just a few good ones I've run across in recent years.

413/2000.

It was in the rain but only the shipping box was wet.
Sounds mighty fine.

Ordered Thursday, received Tuesday.
But they only have to ship 2000 copies.
Rhino has to ship 20,000+ DaPs 4x per year, as well as other releases and merch.

I am a big fan of Junior Wells and Buddy Guy, individually and together, and have picked up a few live releases from them in the last few years on the Cleopatra Blues label - Junior Wells & Buddy Guy Chicago Hustle '82, Live in Hiroshima 1975 (2CD), Live at Cotati Cabaret 1984 (2CD), and Live at the Newport Folk Festival 1968. Not sure if they are reissues or not, but if you dig Junior Wells and Buddy Guy they are well worth checking out. I think there are a couple others that I haven't picked up yet, but I suspect that I will remedy that soon.

are one of my main go-to's for Blues.

'Drinkin' TNT and Smokin' Dynamite' is one of their most famous live albums. Bill Wyman (Rolling Stones) and Pinetop Perkins join the lineup.

What a great album!

Streaming 'Live In Hiroshima' right now. Thanks for the heads-up!

Edit: Wow, great release. And very under the radar. I just gave it only the 16th thumbs up on YouTube music. Looks like it was only released in Japan back in 1975, 'Live Recording at Yuhbin-Chokin Halland' and re-released under this title, 'Live In Hiroshima' just in 2023. Gotta love the Japanese audiences. Always so enthusiastic, with Jazz too. Thanks again, Charlie.

Edit 2: I don't think I ever heard him use the whammy bar on 'Stone Crazy' like that before. Maybe I wasn't paying attention, but it seems different than all the other versions I've heard.

Edit 3: Wow, very cool. 'Fever' teases the Jazz standard, 'Work Song!' Still part of the same track, though.

Fever > Work Song. Did you catch that! The Japanese audience sure did, and cheered accordingly. They know their Jazz tunes. Love it.

Dawg’s Back: David Grisman Makes Rare Live Appearance at Seattle’s Tractor Tavern with Sam Grisman Project

11/17/2024

"Jerry Garcia’s trusted bluegrass partner, David Grisman, does not make many public appearances these days. Before Friday night’s arrival in Seattle, the artist hadn’t played in front of a live audience in nearly a year. Yet, the Dawg has been making a habit of annual sit-ins with his son, Sam Grisman, and the bassist’s self-titled project, which pays homage to his father and Garcia’s interconnected and independent songbooks."

Just got email from Dead Bulletin.

Cover for 53 looks nice.

Farther down they had a "fast" stream of the Dave's covers. A little too fast. But I at least forgot some of the artwork that has gone by,,, some really nice covers over the years.

PS - Love the kneecaps on the skeletons!

1978
Cover art is pretty cool.

The first time I came across him was in a documentary shown on British T.V. in the mid 80' s called "Chicago Blues". I think it was recorded in 1972, and it features some wild guitar playing by Buddy Guy on "We're Ready" and " First Time I Met The Blues". A few other tracks by Buddy - including Junior Wells, then some Muddy Water backed by these two. It came out as a double album as well. if that's available now in any format, I highly recommend it. Plus J.B.Hutto and Koko Taylor. But the jewels in the crown are scene stealing performances by an unknown ( to me, any way) painter and decorator called Johnny Lewis. "When I'm gone, gone gone...."

but I know it won't happen for various reasons

11/20/70

oh for a complete soundboard of that show...

So is the 54 announcement coming later? Likely in the email about the subscription period ending rather than this one announcing the end of the early bird period. 1976 is OK by me.
Cheers

If they stick to what they have done in the past, the announcement will come in December.

I am still going with Maples Pavilion. That was also my pick for #53, so that shows you what I know.

Could be something from the 69-70 era if you read between the tea leaves from Dave.

We will see. What else will they do to celebrate the big 60 Year Anniversary?

Hot and Cool is a stunning album, definitely my favourite of his. I think it's a compilation of 3 earlier records. Cracking rendition of ' Fever' . Think I'll play it now.

I saw Buddy Guy and Junior Wells at a club in Chicago in 1983 on my first trip to the USA. It was the day Muddy Waters died if my memory serves me well or certainly within a day or two. There was hardly anyone there. They did at lot of funk. I took a piss next to Junior Wells, I didn't say hello, I'm a bit reticent about talking to strange men in toilets 😀. I've met bigger stars but never one with their cock out before.

Thanks for the tip DaveRock, it looks like amazon has the DVD of the 1972 documentary Chicago Blues that you reference, but I can't find a CD version. Something to keep an eye out for I guess. Like to see the shout out for Koko Taylor, I discovered her through some compilations from Alligator Records, good samplers, and picked up a couple of her albums, kinda dig her stuff.

Also, yes, yes, yes to Drinkin' TNT and Smokin' Dynamite by Buddy and Junior, you are correct HCS, that album smokes. And can't mention Drinkin' TNT and smokin' dynamite without mentioning the great Muddy Waters track I'm Ready from the album of the same name. "I got an axe handle pistol on a graveyard frame, that shoot tombstone bullets wearin' balls and chain, I'm drinkin' TNT and smokin' dynamite, I hope some screwball start a fight." Also really dig the version of Mannish Boy by Muddy on Hard Again, the sounds of Johnny Winter cheering him on really add to the vibe on that one. Good stuff.

Nick, just curious what 3 Buddy Guy albums that Hot and Cold set includes - I ask because I have a 3 album Buddy Guy set titled The Complete Vanguard Recordings that includes the albums A Man and His Blues, This Is Buddy Guy (with Fever) and Hold That Plane. Pretty cool release, just idle curiosity if it is the same as the Hot and Cold release (which I can't find) by a different title.

9/19/70 partial
9/20/70

That Powder Keg needs to be uncorked. Period.

....the bear in the boat looks like a pig. Just sayin'.

It looks like an early Disney drawing, like a cross between Mickey and a Dancing Bear.

Ha, ha, charade you are.

There’s been some bad renditions of the bears over the years.

I prefer the originals.

Is a Monster!!!

Where is 53 cover art?

It's in the November bulletin email.
I kinda like it...

I never look at the home email....long story....

....strapping in.
And 53 is from the week before? Nice.
Also, dipped into the James Mazza pool and thought I recognized his art. Some really cool stuff. I esp liked the 311 print.
Editorial - The Wheel going back into Playin' is the thing dreams are made of. 🍻

Right on WharfRat. The perfect pair to Dave's Picks 32, every bit as good maybe better.

They should pair similar shows like this into mini-boxes and do more than one per year in addition to the 4 Dave's Picks. Charm City and the City of Brotherly Love 1973. A perfect pair.

So say, in 2025 the pilot would be two 3 show mini boxes or three two show mini boxes plus the subscription. Then back to the originally scheduled programming. Just saying... Think outside the box (pun intended)

I like the idea of having these mini boxes. It would freshen things up a bit - we have had the same format for releases for some time now, and I'm not sure it's a still the best way of releasing shows.

Funny thing, someone mentioned pigs and bears. At first glance the omnivores seem like maybe they're closely related on the animal kingdom family tree, but DNA says they're more distant than meets the eye. The snouts are about as close as they get, in terms of characteristics.

is how SC jokingly described a bear pictograph in Collins Canyon.

Baltimore '73 is awesome - may it be released.

RDR2.
If you know, you know.
I like finding things like that.

Sixtus

I like this idea Jim. More music would always be better.

I think the last time we had two box sets released in a year was back in 2017. They released GSTL which broke the site and the RFK Box in the fall.

FWIW I would love to see a move toward smaller boxes. If only because I'm running out of space!

I'm probably in the minority here, but I wouldn't mind seeing the packaging dialed back a little bit. Sure, it's fun to unpack a box like FOTDs, with all little boxes and doodads, but I'm really only it in for the music. Once you look at all the "extras" they just become more stuff you have to store someplace. And speaking for myself, there's not much available space left.

Something like the 1976 box a couple years back struck a nice balance: the packaging was enough to make it seem special, but it didn't take up a lot of shelf space. Or look at something like, say, the Fox Box the ABB did: three shows, 8 CDs, and it doesn't take up more shelf space than 2-3 regular CDs.

I suppose this is what you'd call a 'first world problem': we've got so many desirable reissues that some of us are running out of places to keep them! But I'm actually serious. I wouldn't mind seeing smaller, less expensive, less "deluxe" boxes. Cause it's all about the music, main.

Last five:

King Crimson: Starless and Bible Black
Duke Ellington: New Orleans Suite
Mile Davis: Miles in France '64 & '64
Brad Mehldau: Your Mother Should Know
Jefferson Airplane: Loves You

OK now I gotta go to the dentist, so by the time you read this I'm prolly dead.

…Pulls at “the roost” lol ; )

Hate to be contrarian, but I don’t like the small boxes, seem like kinda a waste.
Since we only get one lousy box a year, I like em as big as possible!
Plus, it’s a good way to get some shows out that might be on the fence otherwise.

Riddle me this Batman: how many more years do you think this will continue especially when people are selective and don’t support it?
Sorry, I get why folks don’t want what they don’t want, and that is fine and dandy! But, this is unfortunately a business, the business of selling things, and if people don’t buy those things, they’ll just stop making/selling them…so how many more years do you really think this will go on?

So X equals what, 5, 10, maybe 15 years…so X times the pace/methodology they’ve been continually using =
Years
5= 5 boxes TOTAL, plus (4 DaP X 5= 20)
10= 10 boxes TOTAL, plus (4 DaP X 10= 40)
15= 15 boxes TOTAL, plus (4 DaP X 15= 60)

I’m gonna guess he’ll keep going to DaP 100 just for shits and giggles and because it’s a nice round number, and we’re into the 13 year I believe, so 12 or so more to get to 100, and figure in Dave’s age etc, and that’s my guess.
Hell do it for 25 years and 100 DaP,… IF…the sales support it…

So that would be mean only 12 or 13 more boxes at current methodology.
So 12 mini boxes is only 24-36 shows, versus at the current average of 5 or 6 shows per box gives us 60-72 shows…a nice 8 show box like this years would be a total of 96 shows! (Don’t worry, there are plenty of good shows left!, just maybe not what YOU like ; )

Now I’m sure some who only want a small, selective set of shows wouldn’t care, but for those who want as much as possible, it’s a waste to have to wait a whole year for just a 2 show box. And!…what if you keep waiting on that one special one YOU must have from i.e., fall 70, or April 69, Rochester 85, Philly 89, or whatever etc, , but increasingly they (hopefully) give more attention to all eras, that means your odds of getting what you want diminishes greatly…
No, I’m greedy, I want it all, so I think boxes should be bigger like some other bands do, not smaller. How big was that Floyd box, how many discs?

Now if they changed their methodology and increased the rate of releases, (I think this is what Jim said?) great! I don’t care how they do it, just so we get the maximum amount of shows fixed up and released! So no, imho if small boxes replace a larger one it’s no bueno! But hey, that’s just me.

If I was in charge, lol,( yee gads run for the hills lol) if I was in charge I’d do
5 DaP a year with more dbl shows
1 or 2 minis a year
1 bigger box a year
and bring back the occasional stand alone show/release ala Nightfall of Diamonds, Rocking the Rhein, Ladies and Gentlemen, Dozen at the Nick etc etc,
And! yes full shows are the gold standard, but I think most of us wouldn’t care if we got some RJ shows (top shelf where mama hides the cookies) that were chopped up, if that’s the only way to get them out…

Just a thought…careful what you wish for!
Ok, now the mob can tell me I’m wrong lol, which is fine, just be nice ; )

EDIT: agree with the crow: dial back the bollocks and just give us more shows!

Yes, small boxes in addition to the one big box. Of course you are correct, these releases all need to sell out to keep the party moving.

How many Dave's Picks are still for sale from the last two years?
Two box sets still for sale as well.

Hard it know which Dave's will sell out next.

I would also add a fifth pick in mid to late December. Would be fun.

I wouldn’t mind seeing a box from Family Dog at the Great Highway. Even if it’s only bits of shows that are releasable.
There’s a couple 30 DoD selections from this year that got me thinking about this.

....big. Small. I want them all.
FYI. If you have Spotify, bootleg gizzard uploads soundboards from their shows. Check it out!
Listening to the San Diego show from a couple of weeks ago now.

I liked the idea that Jim posted that we have a couple of small boxes a year, not just one. I would be more likely to buy a mini box than a big one - unless it was something which was really special to me. For me, this 1978 box was way too big, and the quality of the shows doesn't justify the expense.
An FM Fall 1971 box was suggested as a good idea recently, and somebody printed a list of all the shows that had been recorded in this way at that time. For me, it would be way over the top to release all of them in a huge, and hugely expensive box. But a few well selected shows, would make a truly great box

It also has to be said that at 67, it is by no means certain that I will still be alive in 5-10 -15 years time. So any business plan that is looking at the long term isn't really relevant to me. A selfish reaction, perhaps, but I would hope for the cream of the crop being released ASAP - not padded out with average shows so the release plan can stretch on for another 15 years. If they take much longer to get to 9/70, or the Ark shows from 1969, there might be none of us left to buy them !

And agree with all, except the mediocre part (but no problem one man gathers what another man spills and we’ve already been through all that lol) ; )
I’m just afraid if we get too picky we’ll end up with nothing sooner than later…

Avalon Ballroom, Fillmore East & West, Greek, Warfield, Ventura,Frost, Oakland, Winterland, big or small Ill take them all.

please go to that toob and listen to MPFC's Philosophers Song.

I learned a whole lot of philosophers names by that song

IIIIIImanuel Kant was a real pissant
who was very rarely stable...

GREEKS

I'd have confidence buying one if it was authorised by Billy.
Oro - yes. I think it's fair to say you're more into it than me !

Been (lurking) here so long I (finally) got to calling it home ... Heh, I have been visiting since the site's inception and am glad to chime in from time to time.
In this case - I agree that scattering potential mini boxes in amongst the other releases would be a great thing. I passed on this year's big box, but would absolutely snap up one or two good smaller ones per year, if offered.