Grateful Dead

....by Mr. Tull. Pretty cool.

Has anyone else not received their #45?
After the disaster that was the Lyceum release, I am worried it has become a regular thing.

....I said it before. And I'll say it again.
Drumz -> The Wheel.
Couldn't you try just a little bit harder?
Couldn't you try just a little bit more?
Just a little bit further than you've gone before?
Damn.

Blah, blah, blah, more of the same etc, good but not top shelf. Similar nice big sound field, vocals again good, but back in the mix. Felt this one was more drums/bass centric than 10/1, but still more even/smooth then some in the past…
Noticed more misses, especially beginnings, but nothing major, overall solid enjoyable show etc.
Fun Casey J, but not mind blowing, tame Jack with slippery intro, Great Sunrise! DG is on and sounds generally great on these sets and she does a real nice job here with Jerry laying some sweet gi tar down. Fun Dupree’s, a little different but sounded like they rehearsed it especially the vocals! Decent LIG, but not top shelf.
Overall good second set, but like the previous, just didn’t give me many hell yeahs…
So overall more good, if not top shelf GD.
So I’m sure, and glad for it, that many are, and will continue to dig this release, but these will probably be a couple and done for moi. I usually try to give them at least a few spins just to get the perspective and outta respect for all the love and work that went into them etc. But that’s ok.
I mean where can you see a top tier band live in concert for $25 bucks, or in this case 12 fiddy a show!
That’s the way I look at these: my modern equivalent of seeing a new dead show. So even if I only do a one and done, their a bargain at 25 denaros, and I ALWAYS enjoy them and are thankful for them al…BUT!….

Just making conversation, certainly not trying to be negative, but, would you rather have these or more like these every year instead of say:
Some killer 68
Avalon or Ark 69
9/19/70
4/8/71, 4/17, all of 4/28, 11/7, 12/5, or 12/15/71
More 72 Dark Star
Both Dane 73s, 2/22/73, summer 73, 12/18/73
7/25/74
4/11 or 16/78,
1/10 and 1/20/79, 2/17/79, 11/29/79, or 11/30&12/1/79
All kinds of 1980, including 11/29
Tons of 81-83, Frosts, Greeks, Venturas, Veneta 82
7/13/84 and others
summer 85
3/19, 24, 31/86
Roanoke 87
Fall 89 multitracks!
More great 90
Fall 91 including 10/31/91

Just to name a few offa the top of my bald pointy little head! There’s more!

If DaP IS on a twenty year schedule, though it could all shrivel up sooner, that means being in the 12th year, after this year, there could be theoretically only 72 or so shows left! (4 DaP per year, plus average of only 5 shows per box, times 8 years)

Point being before time runs out, isn’t it time to get some top shelf shows and more variety from other years, rather than perhaps over-saturating 2 or 3 years? Just a thought, not saying these shows are not worthy, just at some point you’d think they’d want to cover just a little more ground? Hope that makes sense and certainly hope it doesn’t offend anyone.
Just trying to hopefully stimulate conversation 😀

....whole heartily agree.
The Dancin' from 10.1 is good shit. Into a precursor regarding drumz.

Having given both shows a listen, I thought 10/1 was a good show, and 10/2 was even better to my tastes. It also seemed like the mix was better on 10/2, it seemed like the drums weren't quite so high in the mix and it just seemed a little more balanced. Disc 4 was a smoker from start to finish, the Scarlett-Fire was great, silky-smooth transition and a nice mellow tempo with a blazing Fire. The whole disc had a really nice flow from start to finish. Seems like the subscription year is off to a good start to me. Good stuff.

Last Few Besides DaP 45 -
Thee Sacred Souls - Thee Sacred Souls
Allen Toussaint - Southern Nights
The Temptations - With a Lot O' Soul
The Supremes - Where Did Our Love Go
Sugarman 3 - What the World Needs Now
Smokey Robinson and the Miracles - Going to A Go-Go

Jerry's soloing over The Music Never Stopped already makes the subscription worth the price of admission. Upon multiple listens these two shows are growing on me.

Delving into 3/10/81 and this show sort of has a similar type of energy. It just grows on me after multiple times through. You can find great moments in just about every show.

Kinda surprised nobody has mentioned that the 10/2 show is presented (slightly) out of order, with the Johnny B Good encore programmed at the end of disc 3, as if it were played early in the second set. Or maybe this has been discussed, and I just didn't see it? I assume this was done in order to squeeze the whole show onto two discs, and I'm totally fine with it, just thought it deserved a mention. Especially given that some people made a Big Deal out of the re-ordering of some tracks in the St Louis box.

Also, I was kind of surprised to realize there's a Funiculi Funicula that wasn't listed in the song titles. One of the better versions out there, I'd say.

Anyway, I've really enjoyed my first listen to this set. The mix is a bit unusual, for a Betty Board. Betty tends to favor a rather Phil-forward mix most of the time, and both the bass and bass drums are less prominent than usual here. Wonder why that happened? But the trade off is that you get plenty of Bob's guitar and Keith is generally pretty well audible. Performances are good to great in that typically '77 way. The drummers really seem to have an agenda here: listen to how hard they drive that Eyes. Garcia's playing great, everybody's in good voice (even if Jerry seems a little reticent at times), what's not to like?

I suppose we could make the argument that this isn't an "essential" release, because "essential" is going to mean different things to different people. There's so much '77 out there already. But personally, I'm looking at it like I spent $25, delivery included, for 4 discs and two full gigs of some very very good Dead that I think I will probably return to many many times. So I'm pretty happy. And AFAIC they should issue every last show that's in existence, until they run out. Or I die.

Also happy to see DaP 23 being reissued on vinyl. By coincidence I had just listened to it the other day, and I would definitely encourage anybody who doesn't already have it to grab that vinyl fast. Hope we see some of the early DaPs that I missed out on get similar reissues. Come on, Dave, how about putting #5 out for those of us who snoozed the first time around?

Knowing you're limited to space on the physical media, it'd be really nice for Dead.net to provide digital copies for subscribers. Having the encore at the end of disc 3 is not cool and it's a pain to reorder the files when updating digital libraries. This would have helped on other setlist trainwrecks like Vol 6 too.

My Dave’s 45 landed yesterday. Below is the address for my take on John Vogl’s cover art (along with all the other Dave's and Bonus covers – the list is getting long, so you'll need to scroll down for a while🤪). This time I did a cover for each night. The artwork dead,net’s been including on the “product pages” lately has been pretty good, so only had to do some p-shopping for the dates and a little color tweaking. “Orange” you glad?

3Ws dot dropbox dot com/sh/qx5j9ydoc7bzm8z/AAD8yK_vCv_kQ-oLkLJQVCEla?dl=0 . . . PM me if you have any trouble with the "address".

This is a nice one. Let ‘er rip! Onward.