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    "Basketball and music have always been alike for me, the celebration of life and all other good things. These two art forms represent the best of teamwork, constant motion, creativity, leadership, communication, focus, execution, friendship, loyalty, cooperation, hope, opportunity, purpose, sacrifice, discipline, honor, and fun. Fun to play. Fun to practice. UCLA and the Grateful Dead embody the highest levels of this celebratory joy. At UCLA, it was endless fun, every day, in every way. We couldn’t wait to get there, to get going — though it was never as much fun as when the Grateful Dead came to play with and for us." - Bill Walton
     
    Is there anyone who knows the acoustics of Pauley Pavilion better than Bill "Grateful Red" Walton? We think not, so we signed him on as a liner note scribe for DAVE'S PICKS VOLUME 48, the complete previously unreleased show from UCLA's Pauley Pavilion 11/20/71. He was there, after all, "driftin' and dreamin'" as the Dead shape-shifted through a first set of Americana classics from WORKINGMAN'S DEAD and AMERICAN BEAUTY into their second one featuring truly primal psychedelic jams (a 23+ minute "The Other One"). They peppered in hot takes on tracks from the recently released SKULL & ROSES ("Bertha," "Me And My Uncle," "Not Fade>GDTRFB") and road-tested tunes like "Ramble On Rose" and "Tennessee Jed" that would make the cut on the following year's EUROPE '72. It's all delivered with such precision that we've had to come up with some overtime for disc three. There you'll find 75+ minutes of music from the Kiel Opera House, St. Louis, MO, 10/24/70, with the rest of the show due sometime in the near future.
     
    Limited to 25,000 numbered copies, DAVE'S PICKS VOLUME 48: PAULEY PAVILION 11/20/71 was recorded by Rex Jackson and has been mastered to HDCD specs by Jeffrey Norman at Mockingbird Mastering.

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    RIP Tommy Smothers tried to show us what was going down, and the censors cancelled him. A true warrior who will be missed. The Smothers Brothers comedy hour was ahead of the times and spoke negatively about racism, the president and the Vietnam war. They also had an incredible list of rock stars on the show, along with anti war folk singers. The Who almost blew up the stage when 3 explosive charges were put in the cannon inside Keith's bass drum and when it went off, caught Pete's hair on fire and sent a piece of cymbal into Keith's arm. All on network tv.
    Thanks for the memories, now over 50 years ago.

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    RIP John Cutler, a bit of a story, the Grateful Dead sent John ahead of the band and the rest of the bozo's and bolo's to Egypt for the "Egyptian experiment". When he got there (this is in the 70s now) the airport authorities were very skeptical and leary of all of the musical equipment so John had to disassemble every piece so the authorities could inspect it. The fore thought of the band to send someone weeks ahead of the scheduled shows was a brilliant thought and one that saved the show. There was a war going on between Egypt and Israel at the time so it was not real easy for anyone to get into Egypt, especially a hippy with a bunch of "equipment". At the time, Egypt was still quite a backward country and there was nothing on site that could be used by John to set up shop, so he asked for some cable, as the engineers thought they could use the great pyramid as an echo chamber so they brought him some, left over by the nazis in WW2. Of course the bulk of it was unusable and the echo chamber idea was shelved.
    Needless to say, he did it, and the band pulled off a legendary show.
    Fare thee well Mr. Cutler, and thank you, for a real good time.

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    I bet Dennis got a bunch of music for Christmas....…..

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    get any new music for Christmas?
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    ....thanks Santa.
    Merry Jerry Christmas everyone!

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    Snakefinger's guitar solo on The Residents' "Satisfaction" is one of the greatest of all time.

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    The Kraken vs. Golden Knights on New Years day.
    PF vs. Vguy? This could be good!
    Hockey should be played outdoors.
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    Crow-that's spot on, what you say about The Stooges and the MC5. I couldn't agree more if I'd written it myself. All manner of British punk bands tried to copy them circa 1977, but no one came close. They just copied the three chord thrash without any understanding at all. "Funhouse" is definitely my favourite Stooges albums. And that clip of the MC5 at Tartar Field is one of my favourite live videos of any band.

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    I saw them in 1993 - another "reunion-tour", which then turned out to be the final one with Blackmoore and they were still LOUD.. Happy Holidays all..

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"Basketball and music have always been alike for me, the celebration of life and all other good things. These two art forms represent the best of teamwork, constant motion, creativity, leadership, communication, focus, execution, friendship, loyalty, cooperation, hope, opportunity, purpose, sacrifice, discipline, honor, and fun. Fun to play. Fun to practice. UCLA and the Grateful Dead embody the highest levels of this celebratory joy. At UCLA, it was endless fun, every day, in every way. We couldn’t wait to get there, to get going — though it was never as much fun as when the Grateful Dead came to play with and for us." - Bill Walton
 
Is there anyone who knows the acoustics of Pauley Pavilion better than Bill "Grateful Red" Walton? We think not, so we signed him on as a liner note scribe for DAVE'S PICKS VOLUME 48, the complete previously unreleased show from UCLA's Pauley Pavilion 11/20/71. He was there, after all, "driftin' and dreamin'" as the Dead shape-shifted through a first set of Americana classics from WORKINGMAN'S DEAD and AMERICAN BEAUTY into their second one featuring truly primal psychedelic jams (a 23+ minute "The Other One"). They peppered in hot takes on tracks from the recently released SKULL & ROSES ("Bertha," "Me And My Uncle," "Not Fade>GDTRFB") and road-tested tunes like "Ramble On Rose" and "Tennessee Jed" that would make the cut on the following year's EUROPE '72. It's all delivered with such precision that we've had to come up with some overtime for disc three. There you'll find 75+ minutes of music from the Kiel Opera House, St. Louis, MO, 10/24/70, with the rest of the show due sometime in the near future.
 
Limited to 25,000 numbered copies, DAVE'S PICKS VOLUME 48: PAULEY PAVILION 11/20/71 was recorded by Rex Jackson and has been mastered to HDCD specs by Jeffrey Norman at Mockingbird Mastering.

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...will SELL-OUT first? my money is on 49, let's GO 49; and btw, that is NOT a reference to the fourty-whiners lol

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Pretty sure in the Feb. GD Bulletin email yesterday they said there were only 700 DaP 49 left so I'll go with that selling out before the others. Getting hard to predict what year/era will sell quickest nowadays.
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Edit: Correction, only less than 700 left of both DaP 48 and 49.

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Too many variables. Only you can decide which to get. If you like both eras then how much of each do you have? If I had to choose I’d probably go for 49, but that’s because I’ve got much more of 71 than 85. Luckily I don’t have to pick one because I subscribe so I get them all (as long as the delivery system works)

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You can’t really compare different eras except according to preference.
BUT! I will say I thought 48 was a good, but not RJ pick, while 49 is one of the better shows from that year.
Personally, there’s no comparison, I’d take 49. It’s one of my fav picks while 48 was a disappointment. Not because of the era fall 71 through 74 is magnificent, just felt there were better shows.
But hey I dig em all and thank Dave and company for all the love and hard work they put in so we can complain LOL

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There are several "picks" which are sold out that I'd like to have. Shows I was at. Dekalb, Upton and Deer creek. Deer creek was fun. Could not remember where we parked and sat in the grass until the lot was mostly empty. The roads were empty of the fuzz by then too.

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R.I.P. rip city Bill! So extra glad now Dave was able to get Bill involved with this pick's liner notes. Especially in the wake of Mr. Walton's passing on to the great beyond.

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I rarely go back to comment on old stuff, but this is due. I'm sure Dave must've eluded to this in a seachat. Anyways,.... on the disc, "The Other One" is most certainly extra spacey but to get technical here, there are two distinct other melodies 'uncredtted' in that song. After a bunch of listens I can hear clearly a short version of Dark*Star minus the opening melody, incorporated after a "Space?" following a heavy "Other One" part. Then, that segues into a No Fault Jam as good as 1973 versions just quite shorter. Concluding with returning the jam back to "The Other One" wow!

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