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  • Eric Abrahamson
    9 years 3 months ago
    MY BROTHER BOUGHT ME TICKETS FOR BOTH NIGHTS!
    Eric Abrahamson At my age, it's already predetermined that I'm not going to go to all that trouble unless I like it. The glass is either half-full or half-empty. Nobody twisted my arm, put me in a headlock, and made me listen to it-I think it's cool. I asked my brother for money to go, and he gave me 2 tickets. My friend Billy "Buzzboy" Rose, "Wavy Gravy's adopted son", used to be a Grateful Dead roadie, he got me backstage at the first show I went to after I met him, so I think they're good to me. My other friend, Richie Shirley, from the Hog Farm, was in the backstage Crew, traveled around the country with them and sold official T-shirts, and his wife, Andrea, "Mom", the cook at Camp Winnarainbow, used to work in their office in San Rafael and they had an apartment there. I met Richie and Billy at Woodstock where the Hog Farm was the Security and the Please Force, so you kids who pan them, fuck you and your worthless idiot opinions. You've never even been there yet, if you ever get there, at this rate. I think they were the best rock and roll band that ever was, and the Rolling Stones was #2, and I've seen them both. Compared to what, the Mormon Tabernacle Choir? The technology is pretty good for playing in a stadium as big, new, and modern as that. They can hear everything you say and see everything you do, and my brother bought me a ticket way up in the back. In between songs this kid 10 rows down says, "Shoot him!" and I go, "I have a gun!" and immediately they started into "Loser", "If I had a gun/For every ace I have drawn/I could arm a town/The size of Abilene!" I don't like it when they get that personal, ad hominem, but I'm still a fan, because even if they ever had a bad day, they recorded plenty of *good* days, which can always happen, always *do* happen at least a little bit, and silicon is immortal. Great light show. The only problem is with the critics and nay-sayers, who have pre-judged it all instead of, "Judge not!"--like "prejudiced". They already don't like it, they were prepared not to like it--there is nothing the band could have done or could do that they would have liked or would like. It's against their religion. It couldn't be worse if they sang traditional Moslem hymns to Allah in Arabic. They probably know how. There was a day when *everybody* liked it, even my parents. They were the #2 top-grossing entertainment act for 2 years in a row; #1 was Bill Cosby, by concerts, not by record sales, by word-of-mouth, household names, I remember. Nobody listened to that thing about rock-and-roll being "the Devil's music", and if you play it backwards it says, "Hail, Satan!" In my opinion, the Church rejects dancing, "worldly", as opposed to gospel or spiritual music, commercial music, art, literature, drama, culture, one of the reasons, because it's linked in their mind with pagan religion, which certainly applies to the Grateful Dead. However, I would argue that when the Christians converted the Roman Empire and tore down the Pagan temples, later they incorporated some of the features of the pagan religions into their own, from what I've heard. For example, do they say that the gods and goddesses of the polytheistic pantheons of the ancient cultures like Greece, Italy, Egypt, Babylonia are really One, the Lord God of the Old Testament? Or it says on Wikipedia that the Lord God of the Old Testament was the war god of the Phoenicians, like Mars Hill, though I don't see why not the head god Jupiter, Zeus, Ra, or Aten, where Moses got it. Then the Christians say Father, Son, and Holy Ghost, the Trinity is One, with Jesus Christ being the Son, a bow to pagan polytheism, but just 3. But they also have the Virgin Mary, who some say is Mother Earth, lots of saints and angels, etc. They say the 30,000 Roman and Greek gods were angels and demons, it's confusing, but some of them were like the Christian God in some ways. For example, Zeus sounds like "deus", which means "God". Jupiter, the Roman for Zeus, has also the name "Jove", which sounds like "Jehovah", which is translated "LORD" in the Old Testament. I read that the Christians used features from the Eleusinian Mysteries of Demeter, the Earth Mother in the Mass, the table, I think, maybe cups, candles, etc. to attract pagans. Some of the saints represent pagan deities from other cultures, and now they become Christian. The Greeks and Romans also had animal sacrifices like the Jews in the Tabernacle and Temple. Lots of their gods had wings like the Jewish angels, like Cupid, Victory, and Iris, the Rainbow. Maybe Moses got the snake on the pole from Mercury's Caduceus, and Asculepius the healer. The Elysian Fields is similar to the Christian Heaven, and Hades to the Christian Hell. Of course, there are just as many differences as similarities. Online I saw a book by the Church Father St. Clement where he uses Ulysses tied to the mast not to hear the Sirens' Song in Homer's "Odyssey" as an example of successfully resisting temptation, "Epistle to the Greeks". Of course, the Pope and the Vatican have always been in Rome. The Father represents Odin from Norse Germanic neo-Paganism, and Thor Jesus in a way. The word "Holle", "hell", isn't in the Bible, it's in the Norse "Eddas". *Valhalla* was their "Heaven". They mixed it with the Jewish Old Testament, the Greek and Roman paganism, etc. They included some of the old Jewish Mosaic prohibitions. Religion has art, music, literature, architecture, and Greek religion was somewhat based on plays. The Old Testament Tabernacle and Temple had a lot of art, sculpture, music, and architecture, and the Bible itself really is man-made literature. They just want a monopoly and no competition, and to control the State. A lot of art, music, literature, architecture, and sculpture got it's start in religion and then some Christians object for those artisans to become commercial, to use it for money, because they want to control the money, which is also man-made. It belongs to the person whose picture is on the money, who owns the metal mines, the mints, and who coins the money. "Render to Caesar what is Caesar's, and to God what is God's." There *is* no picture of God. Some of the Caesars, Roman Emperors, made the people worship them as gods. Constantine himself was Apollo the Sun-God before he was a Christian. Go figure. Another reason the Church may prohibit "drugs, sex, rock-and-roll, drinking, smoking, and cussing", besides Scripture, as well as art, music, literature, theatre, and culture, science, technology, medicine, "the works of men's hands", the prohibition on idolatry, "make no graven image","bow down to no graven image", well that's another one. *Another* one, "God has made everything sufficient, but they have sought out many inventions." But the Church wants the money that people spend on entertainment, art, music, literature, plays, to go to them. Maybe they *did* think they were all being guided by *God* when they were on LSD and they were deceived by the Devil, "caught in the Devil's bargain", "Satan Himself appears as an Angel of Light to deceive if He can the very Elect," but they were experimenting and they thought they were right. Maybe if you got psychedelic by fasting 40 days in the desert those are true, not Satanic, visions. I think they came true for some of them; potentially could have come true for a lot more. Ram Dass called them "entheogens, 'theo', Greek for 'God', 'God-manifesting', you see God, become One with God, become God". "I am That I am." "I and the Father are One." "If you have seen Me, you have seen the Father." "I said ye are gods; nevertheless you shall die like men, and fall like one of the princes." "We are as gods, and we might as well get good at it." The only psychedelic church I ever heard of was the Native American Church in New Mexico, who had a cross on the altar. They converted all the American Indians to Christianity, but they can still do some traditional Indian things they all (or at least some of them) like to do, just to preserve the culture for posterity. People are always interested in what happened in the past; it's valuable information. The price of Indian jewelry has gone up at least 100x in my lifetime, as it becomes more scarce, as they become lost arts, and they were better before the Wasichus came. There's that Jesse Colin Young song, "Before You Came", how great the Indians had it. A lot of pagan spirituality is a lot higher than a lot of Western spirituality; it's the same thing. If you call the Virgin Mary the Earth Mother, or Father God, Mother Earth, or the Yin-Yang, that's Paganism, or different forms of it, generally speaking. Freud in "Moses and Monotheism", says the Egyptian polytheism was better than the Egyptian monotheism, because when Iknaton switched them to Aten, the One God form of the Sun God Ra, he made Pharoah Iknaton at the top of the "pyramid", with all the ranks of nobles, courtiers, priests, and common people. With the polytheistic system, Isis, Osiris, all that, even though it's true what the Christians say, they worshipped animals, crocodiles, cattle, ibises, hawks, birds, elephants, lions, etc., as the Christians say, "brute beasts", power was more diffuse throughout society, less centered in the king. And he says they were more prosperous, too, with polytheism, that their society declined with monotheism, they overthrew Iknaton, called him a heretic, and restored polytheism. That was why one of the reasons Moses had to get out, to preserve the monotheistic concept somewhere else by founding a new religion. He was raised by the Pharaoh's daughter. There are traces of the Egyptian roots in Moses' writings; he uses the Hebrew word "Elohim", "gods", plural, for "LORD God", and "Thou shalt have no other gods before me," admitting they exist, but fighting them, and "Who is like unto Thee, among the gods?" "You're the best!" I don't know; I'm not a theologian. I just had a year of Philosophy and Religious Studies at Yale, and graduated from Mountain Heights neo-Pentecostal Bible College in 1974. I saw the Jupiter-Venus conjunction in Leo tonight, the same as the Star of Bethlehem. It was out for about an hour. Astrology is from paganism, too, and probably the Dead used an astrologer when they set up the stadium dates as a Christian joke, although who knows how forgiving the Christians can be about that. The Bible accuses those who "worship the host of heaven upon the housetops" and they said that meant the pagan Babylonian astrologers. But the Christians reject a lot of other things the Jews said, like the rule against pork. Maybe that verse condemns the Roman astrologers, too. I read that not only were the Romans, and Greeks, into that, but they had augurs, or prophecies by things like the flight of birds, which might signify things like victory or defeat in war, or they'd read the entrails of animals they sacrificed, like tea leaves, or "sibyls" at the Oracle of Apollo at Delphi would prophecy the future in poetry, Socrates had a "inner god" that told him what to do. The Christians say "abandon all that" and then years later when you're "mature in the Lord" it wasn't so bad, and won't really hurt you, "all things are pure to him who is pure", "nothing is unclean of itself", etc. This issue is "if __________ makes my brother to stumble, I will eat no ____________," "Blessed is the man who is not condemned by the thing he alloweth," and something about the "commandments of men". I'm going to write more on another post so it isn't too long.
  • deaded2
    9 years 3 months ago
    Hehe gardenamesX2 :) I was
    Hehe gardenamesX2 :) I was thinking just the opposite... direwulf isinmyhead I hope they play it next week!!! Don't murder me I beg of you don't murder me Pleeeeeeeeeeaaase don't murder me
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    gardenamesX2
    9 years 3 months ago
    couldn't have said it better
    isinmyhead & direwulf
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Grateful Dead Original Members Add Two Dates To Final Concerts

April 10, 2015

The original members of Grateful Dead have announced two additional shows at Levi’s Stadium in Santa Clara, California on June 27th and 28th, as part of their “Fare Thee Well: Celebrating 50 Years of Grateful Dead” run. Along with the three shows at Chicago's Soldier Field on July 3rd, 4th, and 5th, the run will mark the original members' last-ever performances toget

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Thanks for 50 guys. Experiencing Closing of Winterland dvd right now. Happy New Years! Hope you "come out and play" this year! Go Core Four!
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May you all have a Grateful New Year. Peace in 2015!!!!
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Well they did change the graphic. Yippppyyy !!! A few more weeks of waiting for news in this cold Midwest weather. A little sunshine and less daydream from the folks at Rhino could have taken some sting out of the cold with a pre-order for something on January 1st. They sure do run a tight ship over at Rhino. Talk about anti-climatic. I guess I'll make my way over to the Tapers section were the real goods are at. Free music and not much fluff
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If your trying to pull in a younger demographic 'they don't like to wait'. Six months waiting for the clock to expire and no announcement of what's coming for the 50th. Well maybe in a couple more weeks, hopefully, but by then the younger demographic will have forgotten all about this 50th announcement. This company is more secretive than North Korea.
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Well, perhaps anti-climactic, but honestly it is just about what I expected. And it's perhaps appropriate not to start with new "product." I mean, wow, 50 years! Congratulations and thank you to Dave, Norman, Nick, Mary, Mark, Dr. Rhino, Bolo (!), Blair, David Dodd, David Gans, Dick, Eileen, the fantastic artists, the band members, all the original tapers, and...the Deadheads. The legacy of this band (and yes, legacy - that is not a dirty word in it's original connotation) is historically signficant. I love that fact that you can go to Olompali and read a historical marker that talks about the Indians who lived there, AND Dead's summer residency there. The Dead are a signpost to the idea that history is more than kings and presidents, generals and wars - it can be music and joy and dancing. Things in history matter when people DECIDE that they matter. And when that history is preserved. And this history has been largely preserved in the words of people like Blair, in the Vault, by the band members continuing to create (check out Mickey's work on cosmology and the brain). Okay, I admit, I was kind of hoping for some kind of revelation about something like the Betty Boards. But I'm trying to focus on the milestone first... Also. I need more coffee. Anyway, Happy 50th everyone!
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Not much here is there? The 50th stealie is pretty plain and not much imagination went into that did it? No big fanfare, no big announcement ie tour or releases. The ptb had a great opportunity to really do something far out, and they blew it. Almost expected something magical at the stroke of midnight, like fireworks or paisley colors or something, nothing. Oh well, here's a rumor, core four plus Hornsby and kimock, JK and others to headline lockin festival, no other dates released. There's a big announcement for ya.
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Big count down for nothing. I was hoping for a great News Year Day looking forward to seeing maybe a few shows. I guess San Rafel and NYC heads will get to see the theater shows. whoopee. its all about merchandising now.HAPPY NEW YEAR TAPERROB he seems to be the only guy getting the sound out....
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Yes, it is a little anti-climactic. I Was really hoping for and expecting the first announcement of a new 50th anniversary release, or at least some info. Claney - what a fantastic post! Thanks for helping keep things in perspective.
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But probably wasn't thinking too much... So not bummed or anything... Cold winters day in the Philly burbs... But sunny! Which is not a bad thing... Now on to another flip of the calander -- 2015, right Guessing this will be the new forum -- for awhile anyway
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I had a feeling there was not going to be a big announcement. These things take time, the big announcement is the band, or whats left of them have been around playing music for over 50 years!! Mickey, Billy, Bobby, and Phil were all jamming out in 2014. Glad Bobby took a rest. We want him around for a while, what ever news is going to happen will happen when its supposed to, so enjoy the ride folks, glad they are thinking about doing something this year!! I havent been around this site for a while, but I'm back to connect with some old friends and get ready for some shows!! Happy New Years everyone, glad to be back!!!
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Dead Freaks unite! Forty two years or so after first reading those words, I wasn't expecting to see them again only to have the same reaction as I did the first time...which is to say, WTF??
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Wishing everyone a healthy & happy New Year with positive possibilities for all. This will be a wonderful 50th anniversary celebration for The Band, Dead Net and Dead Heads alike. Please be patient, everyone has more then their share of music to listen to. Chillaxin' with a cup of coffee with tunes spinning, Weve
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Greetings to All! Looks like we're off to a great start already. Be KIND!
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And I had a Festivus moment today...finally. My sister took the kids to the Mummers Parade so the wife & I were alone for the airing of grievances. In fact we sat at the kitchen table just the 2 of us for about 4 hours and we all we did was just talk. I did apologize to her for stashing money as if she were going to steal it, I now see how she felt about having a "secret" spouse. I really don't know why I was hiding the money even though I was hiding it in plain sight. I see the error of my ways. Basically we just wanted to start 2015 anew. I found out some things I do she doesn't like & she found out a few things about herself, the bottom line is we LOVE each other & we both refuse to let petty indifferences get between us. It was important for both us to realize that we both have strengths & weaknesses, we accept each others weaknesses & embrace each others strengths. I have always felt that God's greatest gift to man is woman & I am so lucky to have her to love, honor & cherish. Others can say yes, "They Love Each Other". So 2015 is here let's get ready to celebrate the 50th Anniversary of the only band that does what they do, "keep us toe tapping & dancin' in the street. HAPPY 2015 DEADLAND!!!!
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I'm very relieved to read that various issues with our individual wives are resolved. However, is this marriage counseling board or a message board for the 50th Anniversary of the GD?
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Be patient, be kind, be thankful, be grasshopper and so on. its just ridiculous! why have a countdown if we are supposed to wait? Merchandising doesn't wait. they always have time to send "you gotta have this emails" etc etc. If they aren't going to do shows just say so! I get it they are old and I understand. The shows are nothing like they were 10-15 years ago or even close to the old days but I still enjoy them for what they are. If us DEADHEADS are so important why isn't anybody talking to us......
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oh boy, I feel the pain on that... something only us Philly area folks get... on the other hand, as days go... wasn't a bad day to march down Broad St.
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Looking forward to another year of great gifts from the greatest music archive in the world!!!
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What a ride! Wish we could dial the hand back and experience it all again!! Love is real, not fadeaway!! So glad you made it!! It took some real crazy shit to go down to have this all work so beautifully in the end!! Thank you for the ride and Long live the Grateful Dead!! Hip, hip, hurray!! Keep on Truckin!! We love each other!! And WE ARE EVERYWHERE!!!

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Airing of grievances? Good God Man!!! You realize you could be eating dinner at a drive thru window for weeks right? I mean, great to communicate and all, but that's some risky business my man.HaHa Anyway, I enjoyed that. What will be coming I am sure will be worth the wait. I really had no expectation that huge news would drop today. Too easy! But when they do let loose with the news, there WILL be smiles I am certain. Ya'll enjoy, and it ain't too late to eat your black eyed peas for good luck in '15. How we roll in the south ya know?
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Yo Bob, here in New England we had our black-eyed peas today too. Of course, my dad's family is from Florida and Georgia, so I imported the tradition here. And speaking of wives, my wife, bless her heart, was so happy to have found organic black eyed peas. But they were in freakin' cans! AAAAGH!!! Give me fresh GMO peas any day over that, hahahaha. Anyway, I made them the best I could. Here's to good luck!
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....head over to the Archive, find the 12/19/78 Jackson, MS show, and fast forward to the Stella Blue->NFA. I stumbled across this show today, and witnessed yet another spectacular song transition by the boyz. Do yourselves a favor and take twenty minutes of your lives to bask in its beauty. It's one of those moments where you may be casually listening to a show, then a passage like this comes up, makes you stop what you may be doing, and just stare off into space, amazed yet again by this band. Oh yeah, Happy Twenty-Fifteen!!!

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Yes for the Peas brother! My bridge did um up with ham and onions! Totally awesome taste explosion.And if you're lucky, you'll understand the title to McCartneys new record, "Unexpected Flatulence". JUST KIDDING! All love to Macca! Say Claney, are you the guy who had the cool viddy of the chicken coop a while back? I loved that if so. Fresh eggs are one of life's real pleasures. Plus watching chickens hang out in your yard is as relaxing as a fish tank anyday! Hoping everyone had a nice transition into 2015.
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Yes yes bob, we have 23 chickens. I loves me those eggs. My wife also just bought two more goats. Loves me some milk too. My five year old will be doing 4H with one of the goats next summer (after she turns six). That video was the grand opening of the chicken run - the girls first day out! Breakfast tomorrow, by the way, will be black-eyed peas and GRITS baby!
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Thank goodness we have a new thread to complain in until they reveal new releases to complain about. :>]

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I so miss having a lil flock in the backyard, veggie garden, etc. my cousin has fainting goats, which are a trip! Grits, however, even being a somewhat Fl Redneck, never did it for me. Believe it or not. Now good oatmeal? Totally into that. Oh well.Planning a DaP5 morning tomorrow, after taking my Honey out to celebrate her birthday, and then who can say? She's got the Birthday hat, and that's making her Queen to say what we do. I heard floor lamp, so that's an indication I suppose. Billy Joel played here last night, and she didn't ask to go, and that's one of her favs, so lamp shopping is a breeze compared to the misery that would have been last night with the piano dude. Haha. Rock on Claney and enjoy that meal brother........
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I never paid attention to December 1978, now after hearing 12/19/78 last night I will now give these shows a listen. In fact I've never gone past 11/24/78. Time to take the Christmas decorations down & as I'm doing it I will be listening to 12/12/78, Miami, FL. HAPPY January 2nd, Deadland!!!
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What a waste. Are we going to have to wait till 2016 to enjoy the 50th Ann. releases. How about a clock that counts down to an actual announcement of a release.
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I took Vguy's advice and checked out that 12/19/78 show. I am wowed. There is a great (long) run through the St. Stephen verse chords right in the middle of NFA. Who knew? Donna is so low in the mix she is hardly there (or more of a background singer, which makes more sense anyway) and I don't hear Keith at all. As much as I love his playing, it is interesting hearing just the guitars holding up the accompaniment. The most recent aud version on the LMA sounds great to my ears. Dig! And Happy New Year, Hippies! (I include myself in that category, of course.) Oh, to have a nice matrix of this one. Please.
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Box Set of April 1971 FE Complete w/guests shipping on about April 1st.Box Set of AK June 1980 Complete Matrix Mix shipping on about June 1st. Box Set of WinterLand October 1974 Complete Blu-ray Video shipping on or about October 1st. (except the 20th would be audio only since I don't think it was video taped). Dave's Pick's four releases shipping on or about February 1st, May 1st, August 1st, November 1st.
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....told you so....
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Holy Smokes vguy.... you sure did. Listening to it right now. That really is some transition - maybe the one to play for someone curious about those Dead segues. Because, you know, I get asked about that a lot, heh. Aside from the transition, that Stella is so so gorgeous. Jerry's singing is as emotive as it got, all the cracks in the right places. Wow. Sitting at the table with earphones. My little daughter is next to me coloring. Sun is setting. Magic. THANKS.
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explosive event or announcement at the stroke of midnight: never trust a prankster (or pranksters.) basic, sage, core advice from way back. the only potential release I can think of that is a must-have (hopefully it will be done this year) is 6/10/73.
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I agree. I have asked for this here numerous times and I'm hoping it will come to pass!
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I already have a patched pitch corrected sbd, matrix, and DTS of this show. If dave releases this I bet it won't be pith corrected. Ill bet 2/24/74 won't be pitch corrected either.
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Mole, Flash, Mick and I drove furiously up I-55 from LaPlace, LA in time to catch the first notes of Mississippi 1/2 Step. Lazy > Supp was a terrific set closer. 2nd set really was memorable, except Donna was absent after the drum sequence. We had to bolt after Around to get back to our midnight shift on the Big River. LMA has a great soundboard of the 1st set: will a 2nd set board emerge? >> 2 years later, we're also missing good recordings of the 2 shows at the Saenger in New Orleans.
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Would love to hear it - where are you guys getting this show from?
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I was late to the Dave's Picks game, and had to buy everything from the scoundrels on eBay. In the process, I ended up with two copies of Dave's Picks 6 & 10. I did not get a copy of Volume 8 however, and am looking to trade. If anyone is interested, please email me tsherman2112@gmail.com.
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https://archive.org/details/gd1978-12-19.aud.wagner.bertrando.121963.fl… Here is an audience Remaster done by Rob Betrando. Words from Dave a few weeks back. The vault has 11-24-78 in Multi-track and 12-31-78. In between these dates remaining tapes are very scarce. Quite a shame!! Cool story, sounds like you got to see some killer shows Gr8ful Ted. A while back, I remember you mentioned some midwest 1976 shows. Columbus, Indy, Cincy, and Detroit. Being at one of those nights. 10-3-76 sweet 2nd set and tapers section had the show opener a few months back, which was not on any from the archive I could find. Another question for Dave. I think it was Bertha and Mama Tried that were added before Sugaree.
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And smooth sailing. (not completely accurate or up to date in some regards) Getting close to the 1966 on Sirius. He played a portion of 12-1-66 a month ago. Wow (Viola Lee Blues, worth price of admission alone.) from the Matrix. I think I have all the official releases from 1966, but I am unclear about the dates of performances. I have a CDR of 12-1-66 from about 15 years ago. Audio is decent but setlist is great.
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Contains one of the most thrilling jams ever played. DG only had about 40 minutes of the 2nd set & the sound quality was less than stellar however it still blows me away to this day & the show featured on that night is 11/20/78, Cleveland, OH. I still listen to the tape I made of it in 1996 give this one a listen it's a gem of a jam. The odd part about it is the jam actually opened the 2nd set & just kept building from there. It also features the final reading of If I Had The World To Give. I wish better copies existed of it though. It truly deserves better treatment. Let's talk about 1981, I decided to pull out my 2nd favorite Dicks Picks, Volume 13, 5/6/81 IMHO the very BEST of the eighties PLUS the "secret" filler tacked on the end of CD 2, the 35 minute long Scarlet>Fire from 11/1/79. It's a cold rainy night in Philly the wife went out with her sister, the kids are at the movies with my sister & I'm all alone just me in my DEAD house. Now I have listened to something from the 70's & the 80's now I'm in a 69 kind of mood how about 12/26/69? ONE MORE SATURDAY NIGHT, DEADLAND!!!!!
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One of the events will probably be 'Meet Up at the Movies'. Another will be the 'Dead Covers' project. One will be '30 Days of Dead'. There are 4 DaP's. A Greatest Hits is a good possibility for January now that the cover and track listing has been 'leaked'. A Box Set. What does that make up? 9 months covered. What did I miss? Anything obvious? I don't think we'll necessarily get a music release every month, maybe just an event or other commercial venture...