Dave's Picks Vol. 49: Frost Amphitheatre, Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA (4/27/85 & 4/28/85)

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Anyone who has ever seen the Dead can testify that one of its shows will add quite a bit of color to the environment here at Stanford. Anyone who has not seen one of these spectacles should have the opportunity to do so. The Grateful Dead are an important part of the Bay Area's cultural history. Those of us who saw them last week can testify that the Dead are alive and well. The Concert Network would be hard-pressed to find an act which would bring Frost Amphitheatre to life as the Dead would. - The Stanford Daily

As you know by now, we'd certainly have voted aye on this motion, so much so, that we've loaded up DAVE'S PICKS 49 with not one, but two complete Grateful Dead shows from the Frost Amphitheatre, Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA 4/27/85 and 4/28/85. The first shows from '85 in the series, these back-to-back hometown performances couldn't be more different while delivering the same level of passion and precision, five hours of it, in fact.

In 1985, the band were celebrating "20 Years So Far," a feat that found them on these particular nights confident with invention in terms of both setlists and playing. There are old songs renewed, rare covers revived, undeniably nuanced Jerry moments, and a few surprises from Brent Mydland too. While it's impossible to select highlights, we can say with certainty that the overall clarity of these shows is unparalleled, courtesy of Dan Healy's recordings.

Limited to 25,000 numbered copies, DAVE'S PICKS VOLUME 49: FROST AMPHITHEATRE, STANFORD U, PALO ALTO, CA 4/27/85 & 4/28/85 has been mastered to HDCD specs by Jeffrey Norman at Mockingbird Mastering.

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February 9, 2024 - 1:18pm

#761

wharfrat6969

Joined:
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This

One of These Days>Other One
February 9, 2024 - 1:06pm

#762

nitecat

Joined:
November 1, 2010

1974 and 1985

Just finished my first listen to 49. Love the mix, Thanks Dan Healy! Thanks to all who worked on this release. I can hear all the instruments so clearly.

I was thinking when I listen to 1974 period, its like listening to jazz, very intellectual and improvisational. When I listen to this 1985, it's more powerful and yet still improvisational, but more edgy.

I like all periods, to be clear. This release is easily one of my favorite Dave's. I will listen to it often.
February 9, 2024 - 12:51pm

#763

gratefulgerd

Joined:
June 7, 2007

GD Covering

Well, I could imagine a cover version of "White Bird" by: It's A Beautiful Day.
But on the other hand, this song is in it's original version a 100 %er.
Nevertheless I wonder what the Dead would've made out of it.
Cheers
G
February 9, 2024 - 11:07am

#764

Vguy72

Joined:
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Dead covering....

....Los Lobos. Angels With Dirty Faces comes immediately to mind.
February 9, 2024 - 10:54am

#765

daverock

Joined:
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Dead covering Floyd

If the Dead had covered a Pink Floyd song, I would have preferred something a bit more open ended, with less vocals. Set The Controls For The Heart Of The Sun by the 1969 version of the band for example.
And how about Careful With That Axe Eugene in 1974 ? Donna could have done the scream...
February 9, 2024 - 10:51am

#766

Noah's Great Rainbow

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Coulda Played Songs?

Songs the Dead coulda done? Woody Guthrie all the way. Pretty Boy Floyd, I Ain't Got No Home. And then More Woody.

Finally a double Bob/Jerry encore played as a reminder of our shared humanity, relevant to today's times: What's So Funny Bout Peace Love and Understanding. (Followed by crowd call and response like knockin hopefully?), then a 2nd encore, "Deportee (Plane Wreck at Los Gatos). We exit the venue with tears in our eyes, as Jerry's last chords continue to play in our heads.
February 9, 2024 - 10:19am

#767

Oroborous

Joined:
June 19, 2007

Fingers crossed 1stshow

I’ve had the same thing happen a few times: makes it to Denver in good time, then no one scans at the handoff to usps and then it seems to disappear?
Fortunately, it has always eventually showed up, but at least a week or so after it should/could have arrived, bastids!
Just what us old timers need, more unnecessary stress!

I still cannot understand why we can’t choose our shipping method, so what if it costs more!
February 9, 2024 - 10:07am

#768

1stshow70878

Joined:
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Sitting In Limbo (or somewhere)

Still no 49. Monique at Deadnet no help at all. UPS supposedly gave it off to Mail Innovations (what a bs name) in Denver (?) but no tracking for that handoff or a USPS tracking number. USPS won't help without a tracking number, which I have always gotten after the handoff. How much is that better shipping option for next year's subscription? Likely worth it!
Cheers
February 9, 2024 - 7:03am

#769

Gary Farseer

Joined:
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2)

U s & T h e m. W o u l d h a v e m a d e a g o o d E n c o r e a l s o, o r u s e b e f o r e o r a f t e r D / S. A g a i n, j u s t s h o w i n g t h e b i g p i c t u r e d i f f e r e n c e b e t w e e n s o c i e t y a t l a r g e a n d t h o s e t h a t d r o p o u t, o r p u l l b a c k f r o m b e i n g s o i n t e g r a t e d w i t h t h e m.

S t i l l m o r e.
February 9, 2024 - 7:02am

#770

Dennis

Joined:
November 1, 2012

Gary & Barbie (sittin in a tree, k-i-ss-ing)

I threw Barbie heads together on my own :-)

For people that collect everything Barbie.

In any event, if you missed. VMP is offering a "box" of Barbie. Two lp's in pink, a driver license for Barbie (that's actually a cardboard single), a picture of Ken and a pink pocketbook, that I assume holds the albums.

Only reason I thought about getting was Barbie-Heads. 10 years from now might be worth a few bucks. I'll go out on a limb here, maybe BH's don't watch LP releases and you could have one of the few for sale someday.

I bet they get a good buck for a beach house!

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Anyone who has ever seen the Dead can testify that one of its shows will add quite a bit of color to the environment here at Stanford. Anyone who has not seen one of these spectacles should have the opportunity to do so. The Grateful Dead are an important part of the Bay Area's cultural history. Those of us who saw them last week can testify that the Dead are alive and well. The Concert Network would be hard-pressed to find an act which would bring Frost Amphitheatre to life as the Dead would. - The Stanford Daily

As you know by now, we'd certainly have voted aye on this motion, so much so, that we've loaded up DAVE'S PICKS 49 with not one, but two complete Grateful Dead shows from the Frost Amphitheatre, Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA 4/27/85 and 4/28/85. The first shows from '85 in the series, these back-to-back hometown performances couldn't be more different while delivering the same level of passion and precision, five hours of it, in fact.

In 1985, the band were celebrating "20 Years So Far," a feat that found them on these particular nights confident with invention in terms of both setlists and playing. There are old songs renewed, rare covers revived, undeniably nuanced Jerry moments, and a few surprises from Brent Mydland too. While it's impossible to select highlights, we can say with certainty that the overall clarity of these shows is unparalleled, courtesy of Dan Healy's recordings.

Limited to 25,000 numbered copies, DAVE'S PICKS VOLUME 49: FROST AMPHITHEATRE, STANFORD U, PALO ALTO, CA 4/27/85 & 4/28/85 has been mastered to HDCD specs by Jeffrey Norman at Mockingbird Mastering.

Born Cross-Eyed

Sorry, but I’m not being allowed to respond to your PM.

@DDDEREK ....Please check your PM

DDDEREK, please check your PM.

Thank you.

@DDDEREK ....Please check your PM

DDDEREK, please check your PM.

Thank you.

Hey no - part 1

Due to increasingly stupid and/or incompetent actions on our part,

Hey no - part2

and the desire to keep you from posting benign comments,

Hey no - part 3

we are

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no longer

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allow-ing

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words and commentary on our forums.

Hey no - part 7

We don’t apologize for the inconvenience and thank you unkindly for understanding that we will continue to make this as hard as possible.
The fact is, we don’t really want you Dead Heads here messing up our space.

Seriously, it was the word allow-ing that blocked it all?

What a stupid site.

In that case, here’s the whole thing:

Hey, No!
Due to increasingly stupid and/or incompetent actions on our part, and the desire to keep you from posting benign comments, we are no longer allow-ing words and commentary on our forums.
We don’t apologize for the inconvenience and thank you unkindly for understanding that we will continue to make this as hard as possible.
The fact is, we don’t really want you Dead Heads here messing up our space.

Amazingly stupid

And yet I had fun doing it.

Like I said before

Anger and alienate your customers

A swell business model

And they dont care

Nice

Melanie tribute

If you want to honor her memory, I can think of no better way than a trio of clips from the Kids in the Hall's Amazon season. Look for Doomsday DJ wherever videos are housed. It was the sketch that won that whole season for me. Dave Foley is gold, and you will never heard Brand New Key in the same way ever again.

Angry Deadheads

Doesn't that go against the message I've been receiving from the music all these years?
We shouldn't let some "Hey Now's" ruin our good time.
"Nothing left to do but smile, smile, smile."

I had to look up Melanie....

....because, to be honest, I had no idea who you people were talking about.
Now I remember.
32 albums. Damn.
Deep into the Lakeland Florida '80 offering from TTATS.
The gift that keeps on giving.
Drumz is incredible!
Edit. That went through without a hitch.
And Space is killer here as well!
And loud.
My loves bigger than a Cadillac!!

Box - set dreams 2024

Small; Red Rocks 1982. Bigger; A Greek box (in the style of the first "Spring 90" - a show from each year). Big; Complete New Years Eve 1979-91.. A man can dream, cant he.. ?

Melanie

Sorry to hear Melanie passed away. A powerful voice, I had a crush on her back in the day. That song - “Lay Down (Candles In The Rain)” - she did with the gospel group still gets me, as dated as it is.
On more contemporary topics, is everyone getting shipping notices yet, at least the subscribers? I’m al a carte, but an average of six phucing weeks from mailing to delivery, let’s get this edition OUT.

4/27/85

Listening to preview of # 49 on sirius radio. Some stunning guitar work from Garcia on Tom Thumb Blues!!

Bring on #49

Rock on, gang!

Melanie

I saw her at a festival in England in the early 70's. I can't remember what or where - that's how it was in those days. Her performance was great with a really powerful rendition of Ruby Tuesday. Great stuff. She looked really cute too.

Danehead - NYE

I think a NYE box would be a great thing also!

It's a good theme.

Melanie/'85 Dead

OK folks, I am officially done here. I tried to post a completely benign and unoffensive paragraph about Melanie and A bucket list game for me on Sunday.

I'm DUCKING DONE wasting my time. Have a good life y'all. Eff this ess.

Bridges Cars Hydrants Stairs Rinse Repeat

Can’t anything be done to fix this site, or more accurately, will anything be done to fix this site? Lots of loyal Heads getting rightly peeved off. The Dead are more than just another band, and you’d be hard pressed to find better fans, and good people. Cut the cap-t-cha would be a start, it’s on steroids.

Melanie

I was sorry to read about Melanie too. I only heard her singles - "Brand New Key" and "Look What They've Done To My Song". Also her cover of "Ruby Tuesday". Mott The Hoople covered "Lay Down" on their album "Wildlife". What a beautiful face she had.

the season

spring is heating up in them thar mountains, Mr. Bob Dylan brings his band to town in March for 2 nites and in April, Live Dead and Brothers will grace the stage. Hell of a line up Les Dudek, Tom Constanten, Mark Karan, Duane Berry Oakley, Scott Guberman and Pete Lavezzoli playing The Allman Brothers and Grateful Dead from 69 to 73. It's not the real thing, but it's close enough to pretend...

That Mike

Ship notice today. On paper only. Number not even active yet so it's just for show. Rhino saying, "See, we did something by release date."
Cheers and good luck all in the shipping crapshoot.

Shipping notice received!…

Shipping notice received! Ready and waiting.

**Re/ 2024 Boxset Hoping 1979

….Daves Picks #31 was a 79’ performance & the cover artwork was a dragon. The Chinese New Year 2024 will fall on Saturday, February 10th, 2024, starting the year of the Dragon. I’m hoping the next Boxset is “chasing the dragon” of 1979 Grateful Dead’s magic!

1st Show

Excellent. At this point, I’ll even take a “just for show” notice. The preview on Sirius today of 49 whetted my appetite.
PS - Is Nate MacKinnon not MVP material, or what!

Go Avs

Hat trick + one.
Bra and thong thrown on the ice.
Guess they don't need them?
Cheers

Edit: Maybe it's "I'm a lumberjack and I'm OK"

Heading off to Keller Williams....

....let's see what he's got.
Looks like a mini-tour. Vegas, SLC & Boise in three consecutive nights.
My first concert in over three months.
I need my fix.

Sorry to see you go Mr Ones

I eventually came back

Hope you too

I looked up Keller Williams

and a real estate agency came up

9 27 72

Nice

Yes Proudfoot

Vguy is meeting with KW to obtain some real estate, namely a parking spot in the Sphere parking lot so that in the future, after he pays $1k for a concert ticket, he doesn’t have to pay another $1k to park.
Planning ahead…..

Hey Vguy

If I ever come to Vegas for a Sphere concert, I might need to rent your parking spot.

I got my fix!....

....utmost respect to Keller. One man band and looping master. Very impressive. Even pulled out a Scarlet Begonias, Deep Elem, Life's Been Good To Me So Far, Another Brick In The Wall and Phish's The Wedge.
I'll be seeing him again if he comes back around. He also breaks out a cool mutron tone.
Very small crowd. Maybe 1000 people. That's OK though. Those 1000 people were getting down!

Glad you enjoyed KW

He's awesome! Helluva nice guy, too.

Gate Crashers Suck....

....he played that as well. It's apparently about the '95 Deer Creek Shows. Hilarious 😂

Mackinnon is God! Lol

He makes all look so easy!
But hey, them Leaf’s hanging in there so far!
And Bu faf is at least watchable this year if not quite there?
But hey it’s only January so…

Mike and AJS would be proud how much “best game in the land” if been watching this year. Secret is tunes…

Keller and the Gate Crashers

such a classic...

Oro

Hey Amigo. I think Jack got pissed off at trying to post here, which I totally get.
Tunes during games are often a must. The worse my teams play, the louder it gets!
Big Nate is my vote for MVP so far. The great ones always make it look so easy. He’d look right at home in a blue & white jersey…!
Be well!

49 has shipped

As the subject line says. Just got home and got the confirmation email (lol can't seem to post the time it was sent or I get hey now'd)
(update: it's the colon that gets me hey now'd)
(update: no it's not, it's trying to put a number then a colon then a number.)
(yep that's it. Even something like six colon six triggers the hey now)
But I suppose I can say that the email was sent out at 1630 hours

Posting Patience and the Hey Now Police

Good name for a band. NOT.

For the life of me, I cannot imagine why this 'upgrade' is so hard to undo. Unless, of course, it was outsourced and the specs were agreed upon in advance meaning to undo it means you have to open up another contract and get budget money💵. Then again, when you type money you get an emoji 💵 popping up, so clearly this is an upgrade even if you cannot type about the weather or time or say, the music of the best band in the land.

Ridiculous I say, everyone is frustrated beyond belief.

Money....

....so they say....
Shipping noticed received. Stay Frosty!

Non Notice

In typical Dead fashion, I see a package coming from Gnarleywood in my USPS account. But I have not received a shipping notice. Oh well. I think
I’ve had all combinations of: Notice, No notice, Tracking with updates… One time it just showed up outta the blue. If history repeats, should be here by Tuesday or Wednesday.

Non Notice-With a Hey Now

Got Hey Now’ed, and then it posted twice. Oof…
In typical Dead fashion, I see a package coming from Gnarleywood in my USPS account. But I have not received a shipping notice. Oh well. I think
I’ve had all combinations of: Notice, No notice, Tracking with updates… One time it just showed up outta the blue. If history repeats, should be here by Tuesday or Wednesday.

Ships Ahoy!

Shipping notice received.
The actual package? Six weeks.
New Phish box set coming mid March - The Spectrum ‘97 - 6 CDs

One disc into 9 27 72

Going from that to 85 will be a shift

I haven't checked for a shipping notice

I predict it arrives on Tuesday 1 30

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