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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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    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!
  • wilfredtjones
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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.
  • FiveBranch
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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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    Thing is, Jim
    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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I just read something about an extended ending on 80s versions of FOTM. Does anyone know anything about this? Only 80s version I have is Dead Set, and it is my shortest one!
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Do they make the Dave's Picks available for individual sale to those of us who didn't buy the subscription? If so, is it on the release date, or a few weeks before?
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Yes they are made available usually a couple weeks before they are due to ship. Act fast as they always sell out. Speaking of acting fast many E72's are sold out. Glad I picked up the Bickershaw. I see 4/8 & 4/14 still available. Those are tremendous. A friend of mine loves the National & mentioned he may have to give the Dead a try. I felt like telling him he'd be opening a huge can of worms. He buys a lot of music so if he likes the Dead he'd eventually end up on Ebay tracking down all those out of print gems. It becomes an obsession. Rewarding yes, but at what cost? As Keith said it consumes you. Sign me up as well for the counseling
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Since last night,the shows from 4/29 & 5/7 have sold out, so that makes 13 gone with 9 more to go. Get them while you can kids or forever hold your peace. Rock on
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Thanks for the info. I check this site often, so hopefuly I'll be able to snap it up. I like the shows from places I've been. Everytime I go to the Fillmore or Great American Music Hall I try to imagine the Dead on stage. Since the Orpheum is another local place, this is a show that is right up my alley. Glad I picked up some E72 shows. I got 4/14, 5/13 and 5/16. I already had Rocking the Rhine and Steppin' Out, so the tour is pretty well represented in my collection. I'm sure I'll wish I got more later. Alas
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I also saw that article today, and it is an interesting read. There was a similar article within the last year that showed the same basic pattern with psilocybin / psilocin, the increase in connectivity between brain regions outside of typical pathways. Check out "Psychedelic Renaissance" by Dr. Ben Sessa, an interesting overview of some of the current research into psychedelics. Lots of interesting stuff.
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Thanks for the tip man, I am going to check out Dr. Sessa's book. Love me some Amazon Prime. Check out Robert Monroe! That rabbit hole is amazing. Sixtus
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Hi all Great board ... I read a lot but don't often post. I Picked up 4 E72 yesterday. That brings my total to 10. 3 of the 4 shows I was after were sold out so I had to pick up 3 others from my "B" list to get to a total of 4. At these discount prices I couldn't resist. I have to think this will be it for E72. They've been in stock for a little long time and I assume they are trying to clean house and clear out some inventory. Sixtus, thanks for that drive-in reference at MUAM ... I live about 20 min from there and will check it out.
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Greetings all. I feel very fortunate to have received my all music edition of Europe 72 this evening. I have owned 5/23 and 5/26 for a couple years and love them both. Disk 3 of 5/23 may be my favorite single disk Grateful Dead release ever. I was holding out on buying individual shows with the expectation of buying them all someday and when I saw the 25% off I jumped. I have to say that right after I ordered I was suddenly more excited to receive the package than I was even for 30 trips. I can't wait to work my way through this magical music. On that note, I have to believe this is not the end of the line of the Europe 72 releases. It may be a month or a year, but there is a market for it and no reason not to continue to produce the music. And, they should! On that note, I am calling for a re-release of Winterland 77! The demand for the box is huge, why not make more???? I can see the controversy with the Fillmore 69 box because of the way they worded that release. Round up at the movies, this release, Dave's picks, surviving members touring..... It is such a great time to be a deadhead. No other band on the planet even comes close to delivering any like this to their fans. There is just always something to look forward to. Next box??? Ark 69 would be amazing and my first pick! Alpine Valley 89 would be a winner too. I am excited for this 78 release and excited for whats to come. Goodnight dead land.
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1983, check it out
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I like it better than 10/21. The Help/Slip/Franks of the day might just be a high water mark of the period, despite sometimes sloppy moments and some gravel in the harmonies. I like 4/10 also, but its a home town venue and a pretty crisp recording. Of all the 80's stuff released, I a most disappointed with Dicks 6 and Alpine '82. Its a sound quality issue with me, not the playing. Hope I didn't offend too many lots of my friends like both.., but I think there was some stuff in the Spring that sounds better and Scarlet>Fire from 12/27 that year is no slouch either. There's video of that that floats with a ghoulish looking Garcia absolutely shredding it. Also.. has anyone else noticed that you don't see Muleskinner post much when Dylan is on the road? I'm pretty sure he's the real bob, you can tell because his posts can get a bit surly when he writes after 10 pm CST. just sayin' Managed to catch David Gilmour last night at the Garden. A true artist I can honestly mention in the same breath as the GD with a shared reverence. Must be something about black t-shirts and psychedelic guitar riffs. Like Garcia, the way he would slip between acoustic to electronic instrumentation and still retain a seamless authenticity and meaning impresses me. I'd imagine this is the last we will see of him in the States, Fare Thee Well, David.
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Consider yourself on the way to being a successful parent when your child is well versed in the Ramones. What's next Stooges or Sex Pistols? I have a feeling either would REALLY p*ssoff Mrs Vguy!
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....as far as punk goes, I think The Dead Milkmen, TSOL or Bad Brains may be up to bat next. All top shelf. Oh, and Jim, your subject said Ramones, but your message never mentioned them....slip of the mind? Awesome you saw Gilmore. Afraid to ask what the ticket price was....
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Ooops. There was something there, but I moved on and now I cant remember. Might have had something to do with muleskinner. Looks like the old man's.. getting old (and a little buzzed). Tickets were costly, good seats were almost two bills. A far cry from the good ole days, my first GD show was $10.50 and most were under $20. and VGuy, don't piss off the wife. The last thing we need is you crashing on our couches and playing punk and metal at ear piercing volumes. My gf has enough problems with my questionable music tastes and tendency to crank it up and rattle the walls in the wee hours. In truth, I cant tell if she hates Donna, Jerry or Brent the most. Perpaps that's why we never married.
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bohlin, that is a great selection for best CD in the box. Nice to have both Sugar Magnolia and Uncle John's Band on the same CD (in fact my favorite from the box also has both - 5/25 disc 3). Yours also starts with that nice He's Gone (or is it Comes a Time? In the car now, can't check). But the real gem is that NFA / Bo Didley sandwich. Jim - good observation - I'm pretty sure mule_skinner is one of Dylan's roadies.
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The Ramones are her favorite. Never been a big fan but I love me some Minor Threat and Fugazi. Desperately trying to resist the urge to buy up the remaining Europe 72 shows I don't have that are on sale. I keep telling myself I have enough from that tour and I really do. This is a battle of willpower at this point! Ha!
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..and the first of 6 Maybe You Know How I Feel's. The last was the 4/21/86 BCT Brent Meltdown show.
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Went to see the aging parents in Salem these past few days. On the way down from Seattle experienced 2/3/78. :))) Burnt Weeny Sandwich. et al. At the coast for a night. burned some kelp and then listened to 13th floor elevators and then the Who best of while painting. then listened to Ramones 1st album. then White Light White Heat. Woke up at 2 am with a hankerin' for 9/2/78 Scarlet>Fire. burned some kelp and then called it up on Youtube. Oh what a fun time. Fell asleep afterward. woke up at 8 and listened to Bad Brains. on the way home listened to Thelma Theater (for some reason I didn't fully get off on that. hmm. that surprised me) and then Acid Mothers Temple and then 2/5/78. I really wish there was a career in this kind of thing. GOOOOOOOOD times, baby.
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Well of course we did things differently on this side of the pond, saw the Ramones on their first tour, playing second fiddle to the Flamin Groovies at the Roundhouse, always found them to be a one trick pony, Shiela was a drunk docker....Saw the Pistols at their second (?) London gig at the Roxy, with the first iteration of Souxsie and the Banshees, saw tons of this first generation stuff at the Roxy since my job overlooked the club and my office was responsible for its maintenance, pretty much meant I could wander in just about anytime I wanted, I was 23 or 24, and was a bit too old for this, an old fart, but I really dug the energy, also frequented the pro situ milieux where Maclaren et al moved,so I knew its theoretical underpining, read Lipstick traces by Griel Marcus for insights in to its whole raison d etre, he is much closer to the truth than many other commentators would like despite what Mr Rotten says these days.
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I'm a big Dead Kennedys fan, probably the best punk band in my eyes. Also check out the band Punk Is Dead, they play punk covers of Dead songs, pretty cool-
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There's an album of Jello Biafra backed by the Melvins called 'Never Breathe What You Can't See' that came out in 2004 that's a good listen if you're a DK's fan and if you're interested.
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For those who appreciate DUB reggae 1970's style, Bad Brains has a CD called "I & I Survived." It's a great dub-reggae CD!
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How about 15th Anniversary shows, 1980, at Warfield and Radio City? Kind of nice, acoustic sets, then electric.
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These are not in the vault. Many of them were taped over Rock on
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Probably because of my own experiences in the 80s, but for some reason i crack up when i think of someone taping over a cool show.. DL goes into the vault, pulls out a warfield show, only to find that someone taped over it with Magnum PI. I'm in a weird mood today.
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One of those big "oops" goes to Doctor Who and the BBC. At some early point in Doctor Who the BBC dumped a load of tapes because it was costing money to store and who would ever want "them" again. :-)
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How about a little Suicidal Tendencies? Institutionalized - wait a minute, we decided my best interest. Just a Pepsi. Back to Eddie Cantor.
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I just wanted a Pepsi! Haha I love that line, good music video to go along with it too. And DaveStrang I'm familiar with the Jello Biafra/Melvins album great recommendation. The Melvins are criminally underrated-
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I wonder if those 2 acoustic/electric 1980 Saenger Theatre shows in New Orleans were taped on multi-track. Maybe they didn't get wiped! Could be a nice mini-mini box.
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I love the Dancin's from this era, 76-78...Phil is a funky bass monster! You cant help but get up and do exactly what it says!!! Very nice!!! The kids, they dance and shake there bones! Peace.
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This peggy-o is also incredible! A beautiful, surging, performance of a sweet song! Very nice!!
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Does anyone know how this song was extended in the 80s? I've read a couple of references in the past, to it getting an extra verse or solo, but I can't find anything different about it. Maybe it was after 1977 that the change happened? Either way, I can't detect a difference.
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Definitely digging the artwork on the cd sleeves for the July '78 box. Glad to see that one of the sleeves has the same artwork as the single show release, I was almost considering getting that in addition to the box just to have the cover art. Particularly like the three sleeves with the skull in a natural setting, the ones with the stadium background are fine, but the others look great. The songs previewed so far really have me looking forward to this release. Hoping some of the artwork is available on a t-shirt or poster. Nice job Paul Pope.
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....what has me concerned, if you zoom in on the first picture, the spines already appear worn/frayed.....or maybe it's just me....
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That's the only punk I listened to, somewhere around '85-'86. Preferred rock n roll from the 60's/70's. And given the choice between 80's music or 'classic rock', it was an easy choice.
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And reading the liner notes.
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Do Forgotten Rebels and Teenage Head count as punk bands. Besides the Dead Kennedys they are the only bands i can remember from my brief and painful skateboarding days. On a side note im selling my E72 box if interested pm me. Peace
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Artwork looks great to me! I am glad they are showing people what they are spending their money on too. Really excited for this one. Vguy72, it wouldn't be an official Rhino release without worn/frayed spines!
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I daydream, here and there, about getting a turntable. Holding those big album sleeves . . .. Reading the liner notes. . .. The glorious artwork. . .. Ahh. . .. To be savored . . .. With alcohol.
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I had conversed with Dr Rhino last year and he indicated that the stock was finite and was not sure they would last a year, so I jumped on it when they had that FTW tix fiasco coupon last year and got the all music edition. If the All music edition is available, grab it and sell the duplicates. Email Dr Rhino to see if stock will be replenished... wish they'd replenish the Fillmore West all music edition ;) . EDIT: I'm a couple of weeks behind did not realize all music edition was sold out - my bad...
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There is a studio outtake of Fire on Terrapin Station as part of the Beyond Description box set that has a different verse. As far as I can tell the verses are the same in the live versions.Cheers
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I think they added the "Almost Ablaze" verse to Fire on the Mountain starting at Giants Stadium on 09/02/78. One of the Late Great Latvalla's favorite versions. There have been quite a few lyric changes and the song has an interesting history. Mickey first started playing pieces of what would become this song back in 1972. David Dodd talks about it a bit in his Greatest Stories blog and Annotated Grateful Dead project. http://www.dead.net/features/greatest-stories-ever-told/greatest-storie… http://artsites.ucsc.edu/GDead/agdl/fire.html There is some detail on wording changes at a few places on Dead.Net too. http://www.dead.net/song/fire-mountain So the short answer is the song went through some lyric and structural while they were preparing for Egypt.
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For those punk fans out there, it's worth noting that Australia and New Zealand has produced some of the finest punk records of all-time. Radio Birdman is up there with Stooges, MC5 and the like; while the Saints are arguably pioneers in their own right. There are many others, like the Hard-Ons (they were forced to change their name when the toured the US to The Hard Ones) and dozens of thrash bands of quality: Hellmen, MassAppeal, Eastern Dark and so on. And the greatest UK punk band of all (IMHO) is The Damned. So many quality albums and still able to put on awesome gigs today.
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....that an innocent post about busting my son's punk cherry with the Ramones would go on so long. Nothing like cleaning out the dust bunnies from the corners every now and then. Music is universal, even in the middle of a charged up mosh pit. Kudos on mentioning The Damned Simon. Difficult to remember them all as the seasons pass....
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You're a bad influence on us VGuy. My mother warned me about the likes of people like you. Just today I thought, I wonder if Elmers Glue will make my hair stand up like a knifeblade? I asked my gf's 7 year old what his favorite Grateful Dead song was today. He said is Fire on the Mountain a good one?
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....I'm a bad influence on myself. Checkmate....
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