Grateful Dead

it took time before i post my comment and it doesn't matter anyway. here it is...
@Alvarhanso Frankly, it’s a shame to edit 1000 vinyl copies of dicks picks 1 for the 30th anniversary of the Dicks picks serie? Latvala!!!!!!!!!!
@larrygate contact Marye or Warner bros they will solve the problem. It happened to me with the previous dave45 and they did.
@Dave Music is not always love at first ear, it took time for me to like and listen Lucinda Williams or Wilco, but now I am in. I still consider Europe 72 as a peak and nothing does match the recordings of these shows in the whole Dead collection. I agree for if it’s bad it must be good, like more & less, there is no duality.
Dave 46 is a good one; they could have done done better on the vocals on birdsong, but I am really happy with my double dose of 77, and this good show from 72.
I still wander how could they do such incredible recording? On the other hand I can’t explain why the rolling stones did all this craps live records. Except for Get yer yaya, stripped and maybe El Mocambo it ‘s far away from the studio albums like beggars, let it bleed, or Exile.

Another amazing GD72 show

The articles that are in the packaging...unbelievable.

Music critics are musician wannabees. They have no talent so they rip on actual musicians.

God bless the Grateful Dead.

take pause to wonder…

Hey, don’t forget the weeds!

Do you have a question?

Reminds me of the road signs in rural MO that were like the Burma Shave series.
You'd go for miles seeing these small signs on fenceposts that only had a big question mark on them. Then finally the big one advertising Mystery Cave.
Cheers

Only got through the bonus disc so far. Too much yard work!

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Larryguate, I found it best to email Warner Music Group damagereport@wmgcustomerservice.com. It took a very long time for a response and then a resolution but it has always been taken care of for me. Give it a try.

Paradoxically, I have often been more attracted to things ( and people, for the matter) who are generally disregarded. One of the first Dead reviews I ever read, in music weekly the N.M.E. by Nick Kent, circa 1974, was basically a hatchet job devaluing what he thought of as their golden period, and dismissing their more recent output as evidence of burn out. Inadvertently perhaps, he made them sound fascinating. The names of the albums, "acid rock"...I thought I wouldn't mind trying some of that. It's a truism that when people are making judgements about something - or someone - they are actually talking about themselves to a large extent.

On the other hand, reviews that are unremittingly positive turn me off a bit. It feels that someone is trying to sell me something rather than indicate honestly what the thing in question is really like. It was what put me off listening to Dave's seaside talks a bit. Someone who is indiscriminately positive can seem a bit insincere to me.

So, in the spirit of the above, I am sorry to say I really enjoyed the first cd of Dave's 46. I like the way they inserted an extended version of "Bird Song" early in the first set during Fall 72. With one man down, they were clearly drifting away from the blues, and this set may lack the rock n' roll energy of Europe 72 - but it's moving into the smooth country jazz stylings to come. A great aperitif for the 73 box. Good "Tennessee Jed".

Help! I got a defective disc in my Dave's Picks and can't get ahold of anyone to exchange my CD2 for a new one!
Any suggestions appreciated!

Finally got around to reading the liner notes to DaP 46, wanting to see what was up with the 'negative review' that people have mentioned. I kind of like that it's in there, even though the guy makes an ass of himself, complaining that the Dead didn't play the "boogie music" he expected. It's always good to be reminded that a lot of stuff that's now considered classic and beyond criticism was not well received or even remotely understood by audiences and critics at the time it was made.

Want a good laugh? Go back and read the scathing reviews of concerts Beethoven gave during his lifetime. There are similarly clueless reviews of Stravinsky, Coltrane, the Beatles, you name it. In every case, people came to the concert expecting something familiar, and instead heard something they had never heard before, and weren't ready for. But nobody remembers those critics anymore (what was this guy's name? Steve Bozobo? wonder what happened to him?) and the music lives on.

Anybody manage to grab a copy of the DiP 1 vinyl that was on sale for about two minutes this morning from Real Gone? It evidently sold out in about an hour, and I missed out. Normally, I wouldn't have been that interested, because (as some might recall) I try to stick to my "no double dipping" rule and don't buy vinyl if I already have a perfectly good sounding CD of the music. But in this case, the vinyl supposedly restores some material that was edited out of the CD issue. So I'm really kind of bummed I missed it. Hope some of yall grabbed and can tell us what the restored material is like.

Last five, because why not?

Little Feat: Transmission Impossible
Zappa: Make a Jazz Noise Here
Coltrane: Meditations
Sun Ra: Cosmic Sounds for Mental Therapy
Funkadelic: Uncle Jam Wants You

If you like country with a boogie beat, he's the man to meet,