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    July 1978: The Complete Recordings

    What's Inside:

    • Five Complete Shows on 12 discs
    • 7/1/78 Arrowhead Stadium: Kansas City, MO
    • 7/3/78 St. Paul Civic Center Arena: St. Paul, MN
    • 7/5/78 Omaha Civic Auditorium: Omaha, NE
    • 7/7/78 Red Rocks Amphitheatre: Morrison, CO
    • 7/8/78 Red Rocks Amphitheatre: Morrison, CO
    Mastered in HDCD by Jeffrey Norman
    Artwork by esteemed cartoonist Paul Pope
    Intro and show-by-show liner notes by Nicholas Meriwether
    Producer's Note by David Lemieux
    Individually Numbered, Limited Edition of 15,000
    Release Date: May 13, 2016

    Announcing July 1978: The Complete Recordings

    We’re pleased to announce JULY 1978: THE COMPLETE RECORDINGS, five incredible unreleased shows and the first official release from the long-lost tapes, recently returned to the Grateful Dead’s vault. Follow the Dead on a sonic journey through a superb selection of settings, an often epic adventure that finds them winning over Willie and Waylon fans in Kansas City, conjuring charisma in Omaha, and elevating the Red Rocks beyond their already spiritual planes. With five distinct performances painting the masterpiece of 1978, Betty Cantor-Jackson's always-pristine soundboard recordings, and the "hall-of-fame pedigree" of the Dead's first-ever shows at the legendary Red Rocks Amphitheatre, this is one release that far exceeds excellence in music, sound quality, and rarity.

    Limited to 15,000 individually numbered copies, JULY 1978: THE COMPLETE RECORDINGS includes Arrowhead Stadium, Kansas City, MO (7/1/78), St. Paul Civic Center, St. Paul, MN (7/3/78), Omaha Civic Auditorium, Omaha, NE (7/5/78), and Red Rocks Amphitheater, Morrison CO (7/7/78 and 7/8/78) - all of the performances in this collection are drawn from the band’s master soundboard recordings, each newly mastered by Jeffrey Norman. The set also features original artwork by esteemed cartoonist Paul Pope (D.C. and Marvel comics) and in-depth liner notes written by Nick Meriwether (Grateful Dead Archives at the University of California, Santa Cruz), as well as a producer’s note from producer David Lemieux.

    Due May 13th, we anticipate that this extraordinary box will sell out. Your best bet is to pre-order it now, then sit back, relax, and enjoy all the exclusive content we'll be rolling out over the next few weeks right here.

    Looking for something a little more byte-sized? The collection will also be available for HD digital download in FLAC and ALAC, exclusively at dead.net, on release day.

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  • #811
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    Since we're running thru camping stories..... We once camped with my wife's entire family in Savoy State park in Massachusetts. Her father grew up in North Adams and this is where he spend a chunk of his youth. Two things happened on this trip.... First my brother-in-law, a Jersey City boy, who never spent a day in the woods was all worried about bears. My father in law assured him he had NEVER seen a bear in Savoy. First hours there, bang a bear wandering down the middle of the road! (still make jokes about it to this day!) The second thing on this trip... Now were here with entire family, mom/dad and all the siblings. Saturday night about 11:30 at night the camp site next to ours. Everyone is sitting around the fire when this woman starts moaning about how great she's getting fucked, LOUD! Starts off with the low moaning and worked right up to the "fuck me, fuck me". And once again this is LOUD! This went on for a good 10 minutes. Her parents just kept acting like no one could hear this. Me and my brother in law still laugh about campsite #13!
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    This show presents constant and repeated epiphanies and for me. It's one of THE most exciting releases of all-time. There's something new and fresh with each listen for me. And, I have been a fan since '93.P.S. Turning it up loud helps.
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    Late October/early November. Location, northern Michigan and off season in a campground void of anyone else. Middle of the night. Light rain pattering on the tent....by myself, alone, sleeping.... and then I was shot awake by a blood curdling Khali goddess scream that echoed primal and wretched through the bleak anonymity of the forest. And then I heard it again... and again... and again.... My heart started pounding on the outside of my chest, yes, like 4/8/72 Wembley Dark Star (while dubbed over The Conjuring). My nervous system became a taught pole of terror and petrification. And the only thing that kept me from insanely packing everything up into the back of the car like a madman and hightailing it back to the city 200 miles away was fear that the commotion of doing so would give me away and result in the supernatural flaying of my much loved corporeal self (so in other words, a simple a lack of manly courage, I suppose). But in the morning I woke up, alive, sun shining, leaves lightly falling... so I decided to just forget the whole freakish event. Life is strange ya know? And you can’t give credence to every bump you hear in the middle of the night . Only a year or two later did I lean that the blood curdling shrieks I heard were foxes fighting for winter territory, as they do that time of year.....
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    Hi!Perhaps this article from Smithsonian gives some insight about our love of music. http://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/researchers-look-what-happens-… Take care...
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    The thing we heard at Glacier was spooky too, kept us up all night. It sounded like it was a mile or two away but it was loud and filled up the entire canyon we were sleeping in. We had our food tied up high, far away from where we were camping, but I recall not changing clothes before we went to sleep, so we didn't totally bury our scents. We were in the middle of nowhere too.. We never figured it out, but none of us slept a wink that night. It sounded like a witch moaning, that's the only way I can describe it. We talked about it the next day a lot, the only thing we could figure was cougar fighting or in heat?? but I that is just a guess. I bet someone out there can speculate better than I am 25 years after the fact. Never heard anything like it before or since. That was a great climbing trip.. The beginning of what became a successful ascent of Devils Tower. Back when we were young and invincible with no responsibilities to speak of whatsoever. Was Donna into backpacking? (kidding, hold the rotten tomatoes).
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    I know all the strange sounds out there. For example, a black bear cub can sound just like a human baby crying. I know the difference. But this was something completely different. I don't know of any animal that sounds like a women alternately crying and singing/moaning an atonal song with no words. Do you?
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    Since I quit getting any semblance of work done over an hour ago and Missoula is into the placid part of Dark Star, the first verse is beginning now.. I had best get to sleep before the atonal madness starts or I will surely have nightmares. Haunted, witches nightmares. I heard some strange sounds camping in Glacier National Park once that remind me of your story, they sounded like a screeching witch or a big cat in heat but that's a tale for another night. We never did figure out what they were but they scared the crap out of us, we were in the middle of nowhere. My brother was along on that trip, I will have to ask him all these years later if he knows what the hell they were. Uh oh.. its starting, what a great Dark Star.. but nightmares for sure.. oh my..
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    It was a youthful dream of mine to hike the whole thing at once, but it never panned out. And now it's way too late in the game to even consider...even if financial constraints weren't there, I don't think the wife would put up with me being gone for 5 1/2 months, lol. Anyway, I was about 18 or 19, on one of my AT trips for a few days to a week, I was hiking alone, don't even remember where now, but in the NE. And as I'm hiking along the trail, I hear off in the distance what sounds like a cross between a woman crying or singing. It's hard to explain, I can still hear it in my mind, but it has a very sad quality to it, and I'm drawn towards it to find out what it is. I'm getting goosebumps just thinking about it all these years later, that sing song mournful voice. But there are no houses nearby, nor towns, im in the middle of nowhere, and I hear this woman crying/singing off in the woods. So I start to leave the trail in the direction of the singing/crying, and after hiking for a while in the direction I thought the sound was coming from, all of a sudden it comes from what seems like deeper in the woods but from a slightly different direction, and so I adjust my course accordingly, and set off in the new direction. This happens a couple more times, and I keep heading off in different directions towards the sound, and as I'm now strugling with more and more dense brush and now in a bog (swamp) area, it starts to dawn on me that quite a bit of time has passed in a sort of dream state and I'm never actually getting any closer to this singing/crying woman sound, but Im now quite a ways off the trail and halfway into a swamp. I turned around and somehow found my way back to the trail and got the phuck out of there. I'm convinced to this day that something was trying to lure me off the trail and deeper into the woods and not for any good reason (and I'm not one who has a problem with the woods at all, but this was different). Anyway, that's my AT ghost story.
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    My favorite backpacking story was doing the AT through Smokey Mountain National Park my Sr. year in high school. There were rules (I hate rules) that you had to sleep in the designated shelters and had to sign up for them in advance. well.. said the straight man to the late man, we got off schedule by a day, so we arrived at the shelter on our last night a day late and it was pouring rain as we arrived. It was also full. ..but the kind folks there made room for us to sleep and we were bushed.. but there was a catch.. The shelters were basically bear proof shells with a tarpaper roof if memory serves, and they could sleep 12, 6 on the bottom, 6 up top. The bunks were essentially logs with wire cage type material that made the bed. We were given the three 'bunks' just above the ground but they had a family of skunks that set up home just below my wire cage business that I slept on. It took a tired, weary soul and the observation that these skunks were used to people to sleep there that night.. plus the fact that it poured all night and there was no where else to go. In the am as people left and we were making breakfast, (yes. we were the last to leave, how do you think we wound up being a day behind schedule in the first place).. the baby skunks came right up to us wanting food. It was a crack up.. we ended up feeding them from our hands and took pics (sorry, I now know this was wrong, but..) I remember it was Kodak disc camera that my folks let me borrow for the trip. I'd kill for those pictures now. I wonder where they are. Anyway.. all three of us were heads, still good friends, we were young and cutting our teeth with the same stuff we still do today, except I have graduated to a boat instead of comfy hiking sneakers and Dave's Picks instead of hissy tapes. oh and grass is now on its way to being legal. My how the world has changed, yet its still the same. Cool trip. The Smokey's rock.
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    We're all ears. About the Appellation Trail, I always thought I would do the whole thing one day. How's that song go? All the things I planned to do... I only did halfway? I doubt if I made much more than 10% of it. Now parts of it are thick with deer ticks carrying Lyme disease and my feet begin to swell and hurt by the start of the second set.
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July 1978: The Complete Recordings

What's Inside:

• Five Complete Shows on 12 discs
• 7/1/78 Arrowhead Stadium: Kansas City, MO
• 7/3/78 St. Paul Civic Center Arena: St. Paul, MN
• 7/5/78 Omaha Civic Auditorium: Omaha, NE
• 7/7/78 Red Rocks Amphitheatre: Morrison, CO
• 7/8/78 Red Rocks Amphitheatre: Morrison, CO
Mastered in HDCD by Jeffrey Norman
Artwork by esteemed cartoonist Paul Pope
Intro and show-by-show liner notes by Nicholas Meriwether
Producer's Note by David Lemieux
Individually Numbered, Limited Edition of 15,000
Release Date: May 13, 2016

Announcing July 1978: The Complete Recordings

We’re pleased to announce JULY 1978: THE COMPLETE RECORDINGS, five incredible unreleased shows and the first official release from the long-lost tapes, recently returned to the Grateful Dead’s vault. Follow the Dead on a sonic journey through a superb selection of settings, an often epic adventure that finds them winning over Willie and Waylon fans in Kansas City, conjuring charisma in Omaha, and elevating the Red Rocks beyond their already spiritual planes. With five distinct performances painting the masterpiece of 1978, Betty Cantor-Jackson's always-pristine soundboard recordings, and the "hall-of-fame pedigree" of the Dead's first-ever shows at the legendary Red Rocks Amphitheatre, this is one release that far exceeds excellence in music, sound quality, and rarity.

Limited to 15,000 individually numbered copies, JULY 1978: THE COMPLETE RECORDINGS includes Arrowhead Stadium, Kansas City, MO (7/1/78), St. Paul Civic Center, St. Paul, MN (7/3/78), Omaha Civic Auditorium, Omaha, NE (7/5/78), and Red Rocks Amphitheater, Morrison CO (7/7/78 and 7/8/78) - all of the performances in this collection are drawn from the band’s master soundboard recordings, each newly mastered by Jeffrey Norman. The set also features original artwork by esteemed cartoonist Paul Pope (D.C. and Marvel comics) and in-depth liner notes written by Nick Meriwether (Grateful Dead Archives at the University of California, Santa Cruz), as well as a producer’s note from producer David Lemieux.

Due May 13th, we anticipate that this extraordinary box will sell out. Your best bet is to pre-order it now, then sit back, relax, and enjoy all the exclusive content we'll be rolling out over the next few weeks right here.

Looking for something a little more byte-sized? The collection will also be available for HD digital download in FLAC and ALAC, exclusively at dead.net, on release day.

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Submitted by MLavallee on Tue, 04/05/2016 - 12:41

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Los Angeles native here, yesterday watching my Dodgers utterly destroy The Padres was a thing of beauty. Biggest opening day win in baseball history. Of course knowing how we've been could turn around and not get a single hit tonight. Oh well, as long as we beat the Giants nothing else matters!
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Submitted by JimInMD on Tue, 04/05/2016 - 14:02

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Seeing how I have no skin in the game I can comment.. I bet this site has some SF loyalists, including the good folks that make and ship our Box Sets. We wouldn't want any random pranks to plague the 912.. zip codes. I do admire your spirit though...
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Submitted by simonrob on Tue, 04/05/2016 - 14:06

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Is that like a sort of cricket, but you run round and round?
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Submitted by the420bandito on Tue, 04/05/2016 - 14:33

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I am glad everyone is all amp'd up about The Band. I was introduced to them 3 years ago when a friend was moving to the west coast. I showed up to send him off - he had The Last Waltz dvd playing. After a few peace pipes I started to get sucked in. Later when I left I kept thinking "wow every song I heard was a hit". After tracking down the Complete Last Waltz 4cd deal I moved on to the "after Waltz" stuff which I find most excellent. Richard and Levon are easily the best artists but some of the Danko stuff out there will spin your wig. This is my favorite Richard Manuel - \\it makes me cry (or almost cry) every time I hear it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LjtyDTZQC4M Danko and Manuel - "My Love" (Lionel Richie cover) \\This song always fks my day up and Scranton isn't too far away https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mqTDJRpDnwA Rick Danko - Washington, D.C. 12/8/87 - "When You Awake" \\insane solo performance yup. buy this 2cd release from amazon. it might be the best $$ you have ever spent! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-w0DNH1hYig Danko, Manuel, & Butterfield - 1984 - "I Shall Be Released" \\Richard sounds haggard - that's him..I love it https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=__wCUrDMN4g One thing to look for out there on the internets - The Complete Last Waltz - 4CD - Soundboard. The un-edited show. Very revealing vs. the cd/dvd release.
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Submitted by JimInMD on Tue, 04/05/2016 - 15:05

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Long time Band fan.. but you have me beat on the post breakup stuff. I wouldn't underestimate Garth Hudson, and although he's become somewhat controversial because of the way the songwriting credits went down.. its hard to deny Robertson didn't have some chops. The whole band was loaded with talent and aptly named, I totally agree bandito. I still think of them as a great American band. They certainly had that sound, Levon, born in Arkansas is drenched in roots Americana and they took off while living in the Big Pink right outside Woodstock NY. Great band, the more I listen the more I like it. Check out Levon's stuff too, the Rambles, at the Ryman and the tribute DVD Love for Levon is really good. There was a really good documentary on Netflix a while back, not sure it its still there... Also, there's no question they were friends of our favorite Americana band. Besides the times they played together in '73 and '83.. its obvious they respected each other. They certainly covered each others songs. In an interview Phil was giving when he got the news Levon passed, and he pulled the plug on the interview and headed North to pay his respects. Terrapin Crossroads is loosely modeled after Levons barn and that scene. Lots of crossover between the musicians.
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Submitted by Oxford 88 on Tue, 04/05/2016 - 15:19

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Jim- don't forget the Festival Express tour in '70. The footage of Danko following Jerry up and down the train, trashed and obviously adoring of Mr. Garcia. I love the Band and saw and enjoyed a few later iterations. My favorite was a Danko show in Royalton, VT in a tiny bar (I think it was the Four Legged Duck). He played an acoustic guitar and was accompanied by a guy on harmonica. His voice was in top form. We all called out tunes and he just knocked 'em out. Where I get a little grumpy is with the last couple of big releases. I know they were great, Americana, towering figures of music history, but do we really need another book attached to each release reminding us of this? The Academy of Music release was overstuffed and overpriced. Ultimately (and sadly) I think Levon was right about Robbie...
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Submitted by JimInMD on Tue, 04/05/2016 - 15:32

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Yes and yes... The jam on the train was outstanding, really enjoyable. Great catch.
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Submitted by bolo24 on Tue, 04/05/2016 - 15:38

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"Oh well, as long as we beat the Giants nothing else matters!" Such a foul phrase infecting this forum of forthrightness! I don't know how much more I can take. First my nephew lands a job with 'dem bums', and now this. What did I do to deserve such a fate? Wait a sec....it's 2016. Even-numbered year. Never mind - I'm good! :)
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Submitted by stoltzfus on Tue, 04/05/2016 - 15:44

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rag bag hag nag flag scag scallywag too bad they didn't have Jerry or any GD member join them for the Last Waltz, even though they were in SF at Winterland and Bill G was involved. BG seems like the wrong promoter to fk with Peter Grant too from LZ (manager) tough hombres I am a wimmmmmmmmmmp
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Submitted by stoltzfus on Tue, 04/05/2016 - 15:48

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if you're dropping hints about the next DaP, we already know it's from 1976 (7/17/76, to be exact.) even numbered year...but what about dem bums (Dodgers reference, i presume) maybe you aren't dropping hints and i'm being a butt I still say Bolo is DL2. mawr mawr mawr
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Submitted by stoltzfus on Tue, 04/05/2016 - 15:55

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and i cant produce anything at workwant to vegetate
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Submitted by muleskinner_blues on Tue, 04/05/2016 - 16:15

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That's right, I never really thought about it as I wasn't into the Dead at the time I got into the Band... Being as they seemed to get along well enough, and played together, and were on basically the Dead's home turf, is there any story on why they weren't represented in any capacity? Might just have been timing, but that's a bummer considering everyone and their brother were already there. Seriously, Neil Diamond. Now I'm down for a Cracklin' Rosie here and there, but he's not who comes to mind when I think of the Band's brothers in arms. Still love the (apocryphal?) story of how cocky he was. Coming off the stage (after Dry Your Eyes, no less) he snorts to Dylan...top that! Dylan says, what'd I gotta do, go on stage and fall asleep? Ba, ba, ba!
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Submitted by JimInMD on Tue, 04/05/2016 - 18:06

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I'd gladly trade Jerry for Neil. I think they were not touring on Thanksgiving 1976 and the JGB didn't have any shows either as far as I can tell. mmmm... Top That? yep. One edit: Neil Diamond, not Neil Young.
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Submitted by Seth Hollander on Tue, 04/05/2016 - 17:51

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Sure they did at Watkins in '73, but they didn't at SNACK in '75 when Dylan and Young led most of The Band in a mini-set that included "Helpless".Maybe they grew musically apart in that interval? And, JiminMD, the Neil/Mitchell/Band "Helpless" at TLW is magnificent. It stays, thank you. No debate. I am a recovered Neil addict, so don't push me into a relapse! Neil Diamond had just made an album w/Robbie producing. Why THAT happened is beyond me, but I think it's why Diamond was at TLW.
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Submitted by JimInMD on Tue, 04/05/2016 - 18:09

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You're right, I got carried away.. but I was referring to Neil Diamond, not Neil Young. I am not the person to go back in time and change things around. I would be very bad at it.. its a classic film, why muck with success. Neil Young I can dig. Neil Diamond, I guess I respect.. but I wont be testing out the sound system grooving on his sound.
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Submitted by Oxford 88 on Tue, 04/05/2016 - 18:24

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My theory on no waltzing Dead is that all of the guests were primarily solo performers at the time. The focus was on only one band that night. I blame it on Robbie; I blame everything on Robbie.
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Submitted by Vguy72 on Tue, 04/05/2016 - 19:09

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....saw him last year with my mom (a huge fan). I was converted that night. Plays to the crowd like nobody's business....had Ron Tutt on drums. JGB and Elvis vet....
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Submitted by Seth Hollander on Tue, 04/05/2016 - 19:53

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It just hit me.I hadn't really understood where GD would fit in to TLW when reading this thread earlier. Now that I am home and my mind is a bit more flexible, it hit me. Oxford 88's comment about solo vs. group guests led to me thinking of Jerry as the guest rather than tGD. With the benefit of knowing tGD's 80s/90s repertoire: Jerry leading The Band through "Quinn The Eskimo"! The band had already played the song with Dylan in The Basement and at Isle Of Wight '69. And maybe there would be room for tGD: Maybe Lesh could cover the bass freeing Danko to fiddle. Maybe BK & MH could take over the drums so Levon could mandolin! Hell, if Garth Hudson wanted to play sax, Keith could man a keyboard. At that point, Bobby and Donna could sing along! Now, someone mentioned a time machine? We've got times to be and people to persuade!
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Submitted by rdevil on Tue, 04/05/2016 - 20:23

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Late to the conversation, but Nantucket Sleigh Ride is a great song and if they didn't play it at the old Hartford Whalers games they should have. I'm with AJS on the playoff hockey as well. One of the best things about it is how you can see the effort and how much effort there is.I was an absolute MLB fanatic until about '94. Still love the game and my Springs and Summers have revolved around watching my son play for the past 11 or 12 years. It still stings to hear Don Denkinger's name mentioned, though. (Ahem, I'm talking to you, Deadicated and JiminMD.) My favorite baseball in pop culture is by far Bang the Drum Slowly by Mark Harris. All four books are good but that one is special.
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Submitted by rdevil on Tue, 04/05/2016 - 20:32

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Zuckfun, I'm surprised more people didn't chime in on your post. My wife and I got married in '95 and bought a car soon after with the plates TLEO 95. Later I got plates for a pickup (which I still drive to work) 93 AIKO which is the year we got our dog named Aiko. Eventually we got a new car with plates TAPEGD1 and were too lazy to update them the last time we bought a car, so that's still our plates, obsolete as it is. Years ago I always had extra copies of tapes in that car and when a stranger talked to me about the plates and knew what it meant I would offer them a tape. I have big ideas for my next vehicle but if I post it here someone from Illinois might beat me too it. ;)
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Submitted by reijo29 on Tue, 04/05/2016 - 21:21

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Nice to see baseball is back. Reminds me that Spring is coming on. Heck it was in the 20's this morning in Brooklyn. Though Im really excited for the NHL playoffs. The most difficult of all trophies to win. A grueling 2 month affair in which you have to win 16 hard fought games to raise the Stanley cup. Plenty of blocked shots, fisticuffs, sudden death OT, etc. I'm hoping for some post season MSG magic this go round.
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Submitted by Vguy72 on Tue, 04/05/2016 - 21:48

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....ok. I'm game. A friend of mine had AMDEW as a plate. I've seen TJED on a pickup once. I think GDTRFB is the quintessential one tho....
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Submitted by Vguy72 on Tue, 04/05/2016 - 22:49

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....let's see what we've got here. ALGTWY, ALGATOR,ALTHEA,AROUND2,ATTICS, BEWOMEN,BTWIND,BBYBLUE,BERTHA,BBMAN, BIGRIVR,BBPETE,BRXRBLUZ,BIODTL,BRDSONG, BLKMRVR,BLOAWAY,BBYMCGE,BRNXIDE,BXORAIN,BRKDOWN,BUCKET,BKNAROW,BILT2LST,CCRIDER,CNDYMAN,KCJONES,CASSIDY,CAUTION,CHNACAT,CHNADOL,CLDRNS,COMZTME,CORRINA,CZYFING,CRYPTKL,CMBRLND,DANCING,DKHLLOW,DRKSTAR,DAYJOB,DYZBTWN,DEAL,DEATHDNT,DEEPELM,DIRWOLF,DOINRAG,DONTEZE,DRUMZ,DUPREES,EZANSWZ,EZLUVU,EZWIND,ELPASO,BROESAU,ESTIMTD,ETERNITY,EYZOWLD,FFRMME,FEEDBCK,FIREMTN,FLSHART,FOTD,FRANKLNZ,FROLGGR,GDTRFB,GMESLVN,GLORIA,GLDNRD,GUDLOVN,GUDTIMZ,GSET,HCSNSHN,HLFSTEP,HRD2HDL,HESGONE,HELPOWY,PCKYWAY,HITIME,HRTZME2,KNOURDR,IKOX2,MANSWRLD,JAKAROE,JSTRAW,LLRAIN,LSTTIME,LTITGRO,LIBERTY,LTLLITE,LUZLUCY,LOSER,LOVELITE,LTGTR,MAMATRD,MAMU,MEXICLI,12HOUR,MITEZWL,MNGLWUD,MIRACLE,AMDEW,MRCHRLE,MSN,NUPTCBS,NUSPDWY,NOTFADE,OTHER1,PSNGER,PEGGYO,PLAYING,PROMISD,PSHSHUV,RCEISON,RIPPLE,ROOSTER,IMHBTR,ROWJIMI,SGESPRT,SAILOR,SAINT,SAMBARN,SMETHNG,SAMSON,SATNITE,SCARLET,SKOLGRL,SHKEDWN,SHPOFLZ,SINGME,SLIPNOT,SMKSTAK,SOMYRDZ,SOTM,SPCE,SPNSHJM,SPUNFUL,STSTEVN,STGRLEE,STELABLU,STRANGR,SGRMAGS,SUGAREE,SUNRISE,SSDDRM,SUPP,TAKEUHM,TENNJED,TERRAPN,THE11,THERUB,THEWGHT,TLEO,LAYMEDN,TONZSTL,TOPOWLD,TOUCH,TRUCKIN,USBLUES,TWBS,BKNCHAN,UJBND,VICTIM,VIOLALE,WLKBLUZ,WANGDNG,WAYTOGO,WESTLA,WHARFRT,WHEEL,WRLD2GV,WRS.... ....I think that covers it....
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Submitted by JimInMD on Wed, 04/06/2016 - 06:13

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Thanks Bach, what a crack up. I DVR his shows each week. More often than not, he hits it out of the park. Like his mentor from the Daily show, the guy seems to have an amazingly hysterical perspective on the worlds idiotsyncrasies.
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Submitted by stoltzfus on Wed, 04/06/2016 - 07:48

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Submitted by KYTrips on Wed, 04/06/2016 - 07:58

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Chiming in on this late... I was fortunate enough to see the Band (Helm, Danko, Hudson and others) at Wolftrap in VA back in the early 90s right after they released Jericho. I am SO thankful that I went to that show and that I had a chance to see them. Sure, it wasn't all of them together, but with Manuel dead by then, and Robertson still being an asshole, it was as close as anyone was ever going to get anymore. They were fabulous, and I remember being disgusted at how few people were there to see legends. It was clear to me after seeing that show that, although Robertson wrote/arranged the songs, the sound that is "the Band" came primarily from the others on stage. It's another example of how greed killed a great thing. Robertson's greed killed that group (and maybe even Manuel, though the guy always had some issues). It's another reason why I love and respect R.E.M. so much. They chose as a group, very early on in their careers to share songwriting credits equally across the board between band members. It served them well. They're all still in a good place, financially-speaking, but more importantly, even though they decided to "break up" (although it seems more like they just decided to stop being R.E.M.), they're all still friends and have great relationships with one another and still play together (though not all of them at the same time) occasionally.
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Submitted by JimInMD on Wed, 04/06/2016 - 09:13

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I think there is a lot of controversy about who wrote and arranged a majority of the Band's material. Robertson was definitely in a leadership role, but so were others and there's more to this story than meets the eye and more to this story than is written in the credits... I recommend reading Helm's autobiography, "This Wheels on Fire," its a great read, I knocked if off in a week. According to Helm, there was much more collaboration at all levels than is reflected in the songwriting credits. He goes on to state that the relationship between Robertson and Albert Grossman (Dylan and the Band's manager) had much more to do with Robertson getting all the songwriting credits than we would be led to believe. He blames himself for being naïve, stoned and not savvy, but states quite convincingly that these songs were written together, than he and others had significant fingerprints on songwriting and that they were essentially ripped off. By the time they realized it, it was too late and the party was about to end. Sad really.. by the time you saw them in the early 90's, with the exception of Robertson, the rest of the Band were essentially in various stages of financial dire straights. One had already taken his life, Danko was on the back end of a slippery fight with pain killers and opiates (he was medicating himself for pain relief, but was probably no stranger to opiates dating back in time also), Levon's studio barn had (I think) just burned down putting him deep in the red. Such a legendary band in dire straights with the exception of one. The silver lining is, they joined together to work through this as best they could and what happened at the new Barn is the stuff of legend. To me, its every bit as important as what happened at Big Pink decades earlier. The amount of collaboration, the number of musicians that would join in and the cross pollination of ideas, influences and styles left its mark and is present in more of the music we listen to today then you might realize. Its alive and well at Terrapin Crossroads, for example, and look at all the musicians that are copying Sugaree, Peggy-O, FOTD, etc. Some of that 'exposure' to other artists got its legs in a hand-made studio barn near Woodstock NY, and has direct ties to the GOGD. At least in my humble opinion. Gota run, some tour bus just crashed just outside my house with the words Greg Allman written on the door. Wonder what that's all about...
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Submitted by Guss West on Wed, 04/06/2016 - 09:28

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My little dead-mobile wore a plate in the deep dirty South that read: DRK STAR.
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Submitted by JimInMD on Wed, 04/06/2016 - 11:34

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Another great bites the dust. RIP Merle. He certainly earned a seat at the table.
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Submitted by Dogon on Wed, 04/06/2016 - 11:38

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Ill change your flat tyre Merle...
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Submitted by Morning Sun on Wed, 04/06/2016 - 13:19

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The recent email about the Night at the Movies also includes notice of a big price break on the 5-CD Grateful Dead Movie Soundtrack. Reduced to $26.24. This should be a priority for you if you do not have--the music is fabulous.
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Submitted by RV3 on Wed, 04/06/2016 - 14:51

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Your statement of "Meet up at the movies There's one for the 80s folks." Yea, that doesn't really work for me...the MUATM 2016 - 7/2/89 is a one night only, just like the MUATM 7/18/89 a few years ago- both are nothing more than a tease, NOT 80s actual releases. C'mon one night at movie theater only, WTF?!?!? Give me both of those MUATM releases on Blu-Ray/CD combo releases, and I'll stop posting on these boards. They did a full release for the MUATM - Sunshine Daydream...Why the F can't they do it for these exceptional multi-tracked 1989 MUATM shows!?!?!?
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Submitted by stoltzfus on Wed, 04/06/2016 - 16:03

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GD covered two often: MT and SMBH we all know 8/27/72 SMBH sublime S&R MT: tattooed into my mind Okie covered on 4/27/71 by GD&BB (or just BB?) anyway, thank you for the tunes, Merle.
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Submitted by JimInMD on Wed, 04/06/2016 - 15:35

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Really? As Charlie Brown would say.. Good Grief.
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Submitted by SPACEBROTHER on Wed, 04/06/2016 - 16:14

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That Tennessee Jed clip is just awesome. Jerry was utterly killing it! It just doesn't get better than that.
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Submitted by JimInMD on Wed, 04/06/2016 - 17:00

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Yes, this was available for purchase, for quite a long time. My original got damaged and I just got a replacement here just a few months ago (I think). To be honest, I thought it was still for sale. Not any more, just checked and to the secondary market it goes. It looks like the '77 Road Trips is gone too. Spring 90 TOO is in single digits. Lots of inventory has disappeared since I last checked. Blink and its gone. Its a good set, I am looking forward to this years MUATM's too, I try to catch them when I can. _____ Edit: It looks like Amazon has CW&I at list price.. but there's a dozen or so different listings and some are outrageously priced.
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Submitted by Vguy72 on Wed, 04/06/2016 - 16:48

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....I've always wondered, were the dead planning on releasing a new record/In The Dark before Jerry's coma, or did that decision happen after his recovery?
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Submitted by JimInMD on Wed, 04/06/2016 - 17:54

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They had been trying to do it for years.. but avoided the studio like the plague. Newfound health and sobriety has its rewards, one being an increase in ambition and the ability to get things done. I'm fairly sure I got this right, but I don't think its something that's well documented or anything.. Looking into this more, there are studio outtakes from '82 and '84. Sort of supports my premise.. I met Phil in '83 and asked him if they were working on their new album, his comment, "F*#$ the Studio."
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Submitted by alvarhanso on Wed, 04/06/2016 - 19:08

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Listened to this on the way back home tonight. Thought I had a USB with a bunch of Europe '72 on it, but did not. So I frantically searched through the 2 spindles in my car for the off chance of having put one or had London 72 highlights on a disc, but then I remembered I put 8/27/72 in the car recently. What an unbelieveably beautiful version to hear on the night of Merle's passing. One of the first Dead cover covers I learned was Mama Tried. I was recently doing Silver Wings in another band. A friend at church was big friends with Merle. Every time he was near, he'd go see him, they'd hang out, fish, & talk for hours. He was really worried about his health for the past couple months. Said he was just the nicest guy, & just a helluva musician, as well. I was surprised to find just how good of a guitar player he was. Thankfully, Merle has left a towering amount of music & songs for people to discover & enjoy forever.
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