Grateful Dead

9/19/70 partial
9/20/70

That Powder Keg needs to be uncorked. Period.

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

Cover art is awesome!!!!!

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 !

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.

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.

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.

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!?

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.

:)))