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    ANNOUNCING DAVE’S PICKS 2025 SUBSCRIPTIONS AND DAVE’S PICKS VOLUME 53

    "As we enter our 14th year of the Dave's Picks series, heading into Volumes 53-56 in 2025, most days we feel we're just getting started. Every volume of the series is still just as exciting for us as the first few releases in the series back in 2012, and we hope you continue to get as much joy out of listening to them as we get from producing them. One of the greatest thrills we get from working on them is the flexibility to go where the music takes us in making the selections. For 2025, Volume 53 has been selected and is in the can, and we've just entered production on Volume 54 (and the subscribers' Bonus Disc!), but beyond that, it's a blank slate, and we're spending countless hours listening to determine what's to come for Volumes 55 and 56 in the second half of 2025. After the great variety we saw in 2024 (1985 x 2, 1977, 1971, and 1983), we focused on great variety again in 2025. Come along for the ride! If you've never subscribed, this would be a great year to start, as we head into the Grateful Dead's 60th year. There's plenty of room on the bus for everyone!"
    - David Lemieux, October 2024

    For some of you, it’s a done deal. For those of you still on the fence or new around these parts, we’ll lay it all out right here, right now. Dave’s Picks subscribers score all four numbered, limited-edition releases (totaling a minimum of 13 CDs) featuring previously unreleased complete live Grateful Dead shows. You’ll also get the subscription exclusive bonus disc, which remains one of the most highly sought-after collectibles we release, and free U.S. shipping. Subscriber bonus discs are not released outside of this offer. As always, early bird subscribers can nab a sub at $99.98 (regular pricing will be $119.92).

    Dave's Picks 2025 will once again be capped at 25,000 copies of each release. Your best bet is to subscribe, sit back, and relax as each show is delivered to your door quarterly.

    DAVE’S PICKS 2025 SUBSCRIPTION BENEFITS

    • Four Limited Edition, Numbered Releases
    • Highly Collectible Bonus Disc
    • Free Domestic Shipping
    • Delivered Throughout The Year
    • Early Bird Pricing - $99.98
    • A minimum savings of $39.00 versus purchasing a la carte

     

    EARLY BIRD PRICING ENDS FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 15TH AT 9:00 PM PT.

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  • #31
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    Early youth is a baffling time.......

    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?

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    Update on frequently asked questions..........

    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.......

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    I'm fairly frequently told 'It must be horrible being like you.'

    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

  • #34
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    Birchwood

    Piece these back together.
    Use the dropdown menu to search Grateful Dead

    bt.

    etree.

    org

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    Doc . . . ?

    Doc . . . ?

    Does he frequent these parts?

  • #36
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    Thanks x '71

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

  • #37
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    Who recorded those shows? 71 FM

    Rex Jackson

  • #38
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    71 FM’s

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

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    1971 FM recordings

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

  • #40
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    1971 F.M. Box set.....

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

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

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ANNOUNCING DAVE’S PICKS 2025 SUBSCRIPTIONS AND DAVE’S PICKS VOLUME 53

"As we enter our 14th year of the Dave's Picks series, heading into Volumes 53-56 in 2025, most days we feel we're just getting started. Every volume of the series is still just as exciting for us as the first few releases in the series back in 2012, and we hope you continue to get as much joy out of listening to them as we get from producing them. One of the greatest thrills we get from working on them is the flexibility to go where the music takes us in making the selections. For 2025, Volume 53 has been selected and is in the can, and we've just entered production on Volume 54 (and the subscribers' Bonus Disc!), but beyond that, it's a blank slate, and we're spending countless hours listening to determine what's to come for Volumes 55 and 56 in the second half of 2025. After the great variety we saw in 2024 (1985 x 2, 1977, 1971, and 1983), we focused on great variety again in 2025. Come along for the ride! If you've never subscribed, this would be a great year to start, as we head into the Grateful Dead's 60th year. There's plenty of room on the bus for everyone!"
- David Lemieux, October 2024

For some of you, it’s a done deal. For those of you still on the fence or new around these parts, we’ll lay it all out right here, right now. Dave’s Picks subscribers score all four numbered, limited-edition releases (totaling a minimum of 13 CDs) featuring previously unreleased complete live Grateful Dead shows. You’ll also get the subscription exclusive bonus disc, which remains one of the most highly sought-after collectibles we release, and free U.S. shipping. Subscriber bonus discs are not released outside of this offer. As always, early bird subscribers can nab a sub at $99.98 (regular pricing will be $119.92).

Dave's Picks 2025 will once again be capped at 25,000 copies of each release. Your best bet is to subscribe, sit back, and relax as each show is delivered to your door quarterly.

DAVE’S PICKS 2025 SUBSCRIPTION BENEFITS

• Four Limited Edition, Numbered Releases
• Highly Collectible Bonus Disc
• Free Domestic Shipping
• Delivered Throughout The Year
• Early Bird Pricing - $99.98
• A minimum savings of $39.00 versus purchasing a la carte

 

EARLY BIRD PRICING ENDS FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 15TH AT 9:00 PM PT.

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Submitted by RyXs on Wed, 11/20/2024 - 13:20

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DAaaaa~YO!
When Dave announce Fifty-Four
Bet it be a Banana Box Show!

My prediction is in. A 1970 pick prior to Bear's bust on 7/15/70.
Although some Autumn '70 would be good too. I dunno, maybe September 1969?

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Submitted by Here Comes Sunshine on Wed, 11/20/2024 - 15:22

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Those would be very welcome additions to my collection. I sure hope they get released. As I said before, the 12/19 HCS is still one of my favs. The day before show is pretty good, too. As I recall, it had a strange warp or drop out near the end of WRS. If they could fix that it would be amazing. Those 8/72 BCT shows are also top notch. I'm guessing those that remain unreleased will be a box set at some point.

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Submitted by RyXs on Wed, 11/20/2024 - 16:47

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They, {vault keepers} should rerelease them first few early Dick's picks as full shows. Preferably on disc but maybe on Lp too I guess. I'm sure this has been posted about before but I haven't read about it in awhile so here it is!

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Submitted by Jack Baller on Wed, 11/20/2024 - 18:56

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And as I type this, I'm realizing the answer...

Does Monsieur TheBest reveal the second DaP before the early bird special closes? I feel like that used to happen...

Baby, I felt burned after I talked myself into believing that the 2024 subscription would include 9.20.1970 with bonus disc of 9.19 and filler of 10.30 from the revelatory seaside chats...

Physical media space is getting hot, the time has come to weigh these things...

I haven't bought any Daves Picks this year, as none of them caught my fancy. I'm hoping they don't release 9/19/70 and 9/20/70 as a Pick with bonus disc. Not intending to subscribe, I'd miss the bonus, and if I do, I'm likely to be paying for shows I don't want. And I can' t be bothered trying to sell them.

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Submitted by daverock on Thu, 11/21/2024 - 00:25

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I hate to be disputatious now we are all getting along so well, but I'll be glad when that Trump logo - avatar - whatever you call it - is ditched. That in itself political.

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Submitted by JackstrawJay on Thu, 11/21/2024 - 13:03

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Since we'll be waiting until May 2025 to (possibly) listen to some groovy stuff, go to YOU TOOB and type
Zep 6 28 70 Bath. You're in for a treat. BRING IT ON HOME! DAZED AND CONFUSED!

Great footage! In the pouring rain.

It usually rained at British festivals. The soles of my shoes came off at Reading due to ploughing through the mud.
The last cd I played was also Led Zeppelin - "How The West Was Won". An absolute stonker -the highlight for me is the epic "Whole Lotta Love" with a rock n' roll blues medley in the middle.

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Submitted by RyXs on Fri, 11/22/2024 - 03:57

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***26*** {someone had posted the query some time back}
Twenty~Six shows have been released as of 11/22/24 from the Storage Unit Stash.
All (26) shows were either Dave's Picks (7 shows), or off of Six separate Box Sets (17 shows), and finally as bonus live material from Two 50th Anniversary Deluxe Editions (2 shows) of the 1970 studio albums.
I had temporarily forgot about this due to national events & a flood of The Other One's posts but someone on one of these (recent) Dead Threads had posed the question. Maybe it was this one but if not then no older from that of Dave's #52 or the Devils Box.

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