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    What a setlist!... Made me jealous of those who saw this era live. Great sound… like ‘77 was yesterday. @derekb192 on 10/1/77, YouTube

    Wow! Just as when you think eyes is gonna go to drums out of the bliss comes dancing! One of my all time fave moments! Not just classic 77 but classic ever dead! - @emrysdavies1215 on 10/1/77, YouTube

    ...this show was off the hook from the very get go. The Casey Jones is the best I've heard... beginning a jam that goes through each member going off on an instrumental solo. The end has them jamming so hard you can no longer hear them singing through it. Now you know you're in trouble (The Good Kind) when a show starts like that... Weirtheir on 10/2/77, Dead.net

    Holy hell, the 10/2/77 Betty Board sounds incredible... I just wanted to pay homage to this unreleased gem, which features the lovely, tight playing you'd expect of a 77 show with some of the highest audio quality I've ever heard ... What a treat. u/monsteroftheweek13 on 10/2/77, Reddit

    I told my mother I was going into Portland with friends. I never told her where I went... @jamesmoore3694 on 10/1/77, YouTube

    We know where you've been and we're taking you back with the twice as nice DAVE'S PICKS VOLUME 45: PARAMOUNT THEATRE, PORTLAND, OR - 10/1/77 & 10/2/77. Back-to-back complete previously unreleased shows on 4CDs? You betcha! Why? Because we couldn't pick one over the other of these two nights that have been described as "fire," "mind-frying," and "crispy" (bit of a theme here) too many times to count. Witness it for yourself when you dig into the inventive medleys and pristine sound, not to mention the first "Dupree's Diamond Blues" since '69 and the first live "Casey Jones" since '74.

    Limited to 25,000 numbered copies, this release was recorded by Betty Cantor-Jackson (with a boost from Bob Menke, more about that in David's video) and has been mastered to HDCD specs by Jeffrey Norman at Mockingbird Mastering. Grab a copy while you can.

    *2 per order. Very limited quantity available.

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  • wissinomingdeadhead
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    Do you know what we need? A nice stand-alone release it's been quite a long time since TPTB opened the vault & just released a show not attached to a series or boxset or anniversary if I'm not mistaken the last one was Hartford '77. Every year we get 4 Dave's Picks & a boxset why not release a show just for the fun releasing a show?

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    whew

    didnt think I would be able to get back in. Kept asking me for email addy instead of the user name login. Finally found it. What a dumb ass I can be.

    Great conversations this last week, still have some to read to catch up.

    Definitely been a busy week. Saw Jeff Beck a couple of times and CSN (never with Y) and have a good Crosby story.

    Sure hope I can send that one out if my brain cells can retrieve it.

    Man it is so good, when all of the heads post about stuff, just great reading!

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    1969 Box Set, its time has come.

    So many great shows to release for a 1969 box set, 4/69 Avalon and Ark shows, 6/27 & 28/69 Santa Rosa Veterans Aud.. Ill bet there are some killer 1969 shows in Owsleys Boxes. Ten shows box set would be fantastic! Or, a combination 20 show 1969/1970 box. C'mon Dave, lets release those tapes, please.

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    I also prefer The Byrds to any of David Crosby's later recordings. 5th Dimension and Younger Than Yesterday are great albums. Similarly with Jeff Beck - I prefer his Yardbirds recordings to his later 1970's more jazz orientated work. In a way, maybe both The Byrds and The Yardbirds got overlooked a bit, as they appeared to get overtaken, first by the more excessive music that was to follow in 1967 and 1968 and then by the back to the garden approach of 69-70. But the records they made still sound good to me after all these years.

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    Snagged Phish tickets to the Hollywood Bowl....

    ....never been to that venue. Any of you?

  • JeffSmith
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    David & the Dorks

    Sorry Stillwaters:

    Try adding "3w"s before the "69" and replacing both "dot"s with a period (.)
    The download address is also found at the bottom of the article.

    That's all dead duh net will allow me to say – can't even repost what's in my previous post. But we're safe, right? Sheesh.

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    CSN & My First Dead Show

    CSN opened at my first dead show in Buffalo '90.
    I had been turned onto them in high school; I recall getting the CSN CD Box set shortly after it came out and delving into it bigtime; there were all kinds of songs I had never heard before many of which were gems within that box. Seeing CSN open for the GD was the one and only time I ever saw them, so I am glad I at least had that opportunity to see them on stage and harmonize together.

    RIP, Mr. Crosby.

    Sixtus

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    I have been considering purchasing that Molly Tuttle album. You’ve just given me the last reason I needed to buy it. Thank you!!

    Dave’s 45 ships next Friday. So a lot of you will be getting it the first week of February. And I’ll get it the 2nd or 3rd week, but it’s OK!! I can wait. It’s just difficult hearing your reviews while I’m waiting to hear MY copy. It does however, give some clues as to what I should pay close attention to.

    Music is the Best!!

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    re: David and the Dorks

    All I got was "file does not exist on this server."

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    I found a download of the David and the Dorks at the Matrix on 12/15/70 (Crosby with Jerry, Phil and either/or Mickey/Billy). This is different from what I found before on the archive and includes "Laughing" plus 6 rehearsal tracks which were not on the Archive version .
    Download at: 69 dot zippyshare dot com/v/qq0FCqdk/file.html
    Read article at albumsthatshouldexist.blogspot dot com/2021/10/david-crosby-jerry-garcia-david-dorks.html

    Hey, PTBARNUM. I was at the CSNT '74 show 2 nights later in Memphis. No bottle rockets tho, but they played nonstop in waves until after 1AM. Drove down to Baton Rouge the next day for my second year at LSU. Those were the days. And, for me, Croz and friends are an indelible part of the proverbial soundtrack of my life. Thank you David. Onward.

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What a setlist!... Made me jealous of those who saw this era live. Great sound… like ‘77 was yesterday. @derekb192 on 10/1/77, YouTube

Wow! Just as when you think eyes is gonna go to drums out of the bliss comes dancing! One of my all time fave moments! Not just classic 77 but classic ever dead! - @emrysdavies1215 on 10/1/77, YouTube

...this show was off the hook from the very get go. The Casey Jones is the best I've heard... beginning a jam that goes through each member going off on an instrumental solo. The end has them jamming so hard you can no longer hear them singing through it. Now you know you're in trouble (The Good Kind) when a show starts like that... Weirtheir on 10/2/77, Dead.net

Holy hell, the 10/2/77 Betty Board sounds incredible... I just wanted to pay homage to this unreleased gem, which features the lovely, tight playing you'd expect of a 77 show with some of the highest audio quality I've ever heard ... What a treat. u/monsteroftheweek13 on 10/2/77, Reddit

I told my mother I was going into Portland with friends. I never told her where I went... @jamesmoore3694 on 10/1/77, YouTube

We know where you've been and we're taking you back with the twice as nice DAVE'S PICKS VOLUME 45: PARAMOUNT THEATRE, PORTLAND, OR - 10/1/77 & 10/2/77. Back-to-back complete previously unreleased shows on 4CDs? You betcha! Why? Because we couldn't pick one over the other of these two nights that have been described as "fire," "mind-frying," and "crispy" (bit of a theme here) too many times to count. Witness it for yourself when you dig into the inventive medleys and pristine sound, not to mention the first "Dupree's Diamond Blues" since '69 and the first live "Casey Jones" since '74.

Limited to 25,000 numbered copies, this release was recorded by Betty Cantor-Jackson (with a boost from Bob Menke, more about that in David's video) and has been mastered to HDCD specs by Jeffrey Norman at Mockingbird Mastering. Grab a copy while you can.

*2 per order. Very limited quantity available.

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Chill with lambasting the sound quality of Dave's 45. If you only listen to the first two tracks (Promised Land & They Love Each Other), as Dave himself explains on the Seaside Chat, you're listening to Bob Menke's audience recording. There's no soundboard of those two tracks and Bob kindly provided his tape. Some have said that the Smith/Miller/Clugston aud (140589) on the Archive is a little better than the Menke. In any case, once you get past those two, you're hearing "recently" recovered Betty Boards from the stash of soundboards returned by ABCD Enterprises. The changeover to soundboard actually happens before the end of They Love Each Other. Check out Dave's Seaside Chat for more.

The two shows on Dave's 45's 4 CDs are great sounding once they reach cruising altitude.

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I get where you're coming from. My main complaint on sound on many DiPs and DaPs is the drums are too loud. I used to blame Mickey for being involved in the remastering, lol. But to have two shows for the price of one totally outweighs the defects, and frankly that's what the tone controls are for on our stereos. And I also applaud Dave for being brave enough to get us the two shows with an aud. patch at the beginning. Patches are something they don't do very often and only when it's worth it. Especially, these two shows are so worth it. Don't give up on it.
Cheers

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I remember getting this on cassette in the late 80s and loved both shows even if there was "some" missing. I have listened to this release several times and I love it. My question is: how is this still available? I've noticed the last few Dave's releases have been selling at a slower pace than just a few years ago. Just wondering, maybe the uptick to 25,000 units was a bit much? Anyway, have a safe happy holiday.

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