Dave's Picks Vol. 53: Riverfront Coliseum, Cincinnati, OH 10/2/76

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January 24, 2025 - 3:35pm

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Garcia still works wonders on the guitar. His obbligato behind rhythm guitarist Bob Weir's vocal on the gun-fighter ballad, "El Paso," ranged from flamenco figures to blues lines. The latter created a humorous and musically interesting mixture. Slipping around the sunny Mexican-American rhythms were the riffs and diving glissandos of a music that grew up among the chilly winds of Chicago. - Cliff Radel, Enquirer Pop Music Critic The vocals and instruments blended perfectly into one cohesive unit. The artists themselves seemed to enjoy playing and the concentration they commanded was unshakable in the fan-filled Coliseum. - Douglas Fechter, The NewsRecord Cincy, The Nati, Paris Of America, call it what you will but when the Grateful Dead came to town, they certainly helped propel her to "Queen of the West." The previously unreleased complete show from the Riverfront Coliseum, Cincinnati, OH 10/2/76 is all up from start to finish with xxx 70s-era first set songs like "Promised Land" and "El Paso" to Europe '72 staples and classic covers ("It's All Over Now," "Big River"), wrapped up with a unique second-set jam that opens with "Dancing In The Street" and closes with "Sugar Mag." An all-around good time! Limited to 25,000 numbered copies and shipping this week, DAVE'S PICKS VOL. 53: RIVERFRONT COLISEUM, CINCINNATI, OH 10/2/76 was recorded by Dan Healy and has been mastered to HDCD specs by Jeffrey Norman at Mockingbird Mastering. P.S. As a bonus, we have a quintet of songs from 5/4/77 (recorded by Betty Cantor-Jackson), the rest of which was featured on Dave’s Picks Vol. 50 and its Bonus Disc. As we mentioned in 2012 when this series started, we’re determined to provide complete shows whenever possible. And even when a show is only partially included on a release as bonus material, we’re happy to complete it later on down the line, as we’ve done here. We hope you dig it. - David Lemieux

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February 24, 2025 - 7:53pm

#151

Vguy72

Joined:
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Gone are the days when my balls were tripping on the regular....

....many good times were had.
February 24, 2025 - 2:45pm

#152

Dennis

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Luis & Jim & Those Brown-Eyed Women

I truly believe I saw a version once,,,, maybe at the Meadowlands,,,, maybe 1st half of the 80's. Maybe I was just tripping balls way to hard. In any event, huge jam, came out with a HUGE drum roll into "tumble down shack in big foot county". I've never research if this really happened or not (and I could,,,, I guess), but seemed like not the usual jump off point for the jam.

Guess I need to research :-)

But agree, great lyrics.
February 24, 2025 - 1:47pm

#153

uncle_tripel

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53...

...during the 1st go round
with cans
felt the pace
at various times
it was a '76 JGB release
more than GOGD
just sayin'
February 24, 2025 - 10:51am

#154

RyXs

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Let it Grow

Such a great version of the song here on the new Dave's from 1976. The "Might as Well" really punctuates the set closing too! Dave has blessed us with a few other versions lately of LiG as recent from the last pick #52 and that one was awesome. Special mention to versions on Dave's #45 and back to #39. Two versions apiece from Keith & Donna's era and Brent.

***EdiT** Almost forgot about the "Let it Grow" from Dave's#37 & the on Bonus Disc for #38!

Thinking of "Let it Grow" it's almost time to get poppin' pot seeds!
February 24, 2025 - 10:34am

#155

RyXs

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Brown Eyed Women

BEW from Dave's #37 at William & Mary ain't the best all around but Keith's keys soloing is immaculate. Europe`72 was the cradle of that song, and I mean that in a good way.
As for Dick's #18 it's one of the finest of "chop" shows, up there with DiP#12.
The version of "Passenger" on DiP#18 is totally off the rails, similar to the one on DaP#37.
Also most excellent is "Music Never Stopped" from DiP#18!
February 24, 2025 - 10:02am

#156

JimInMD

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Luis

Ola Luis, my old friend.

I'll just toss this out there. Love Brown Eyed Women, I rarely hear a version I do not like. But the version on the oft overlooked Dicks Picks vol. 18 (2/3/78, Madison Wisconsin) is practically perfect in every way.

Brown Eyed Women highlights the classic Hunter Garcia Americana flirtatious period. Perhaps it's about multiple generations of a poor, troubled Appalachian family in the early 1900's focusing on the matriarch and patriarchs of the family that did what they had to do to survive in tough times. Each generation fades with the lyric "And it looks like the old man's getting on." The lyric "Delilah Jones went to meet her God and the old man never was the same again", well.. goosebumps.

I can't argue against the 72 versions. It's a win/win.

Good to see you, Luis. Be well my friend.
February 23, 2025 - 8:16pm

#157

luis

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hello

I just have to say that to me the best Brown Eyed Women version is the 4/14/72 version. And one of the best GD songs.
Be well.
February 23, 2025 - 5:57pm

#158

wave-that-flag

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6-10-73-Tasty Indeed

Did listen to that one release several times. Was quite awesome and beautiful to hear. It was the featured box show on the streaming service and easy to access.

Yeah….need to but a new disc-ripper it appears. One of these days…Duke 78 show was nice as well. But 73 is my year, so no excuses for the rest of that box. Sloth and life I guess.
February 23, 2025 - 2:19pm

#159

JimInMD

Joined:
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dat box

The '74 Vancouver China Rider is an all timer too. If you listen really closely, a moment after they reach the crescendo as they complete the transition into IKYR, some woman (think it's a woman) totally loses her shit and it comes through on the soundboard if you listen really carefully. It's a primal scream that loosely translates as Mind = Blown.

And how about that February Winterland 74 run. Talk about box sets that should have been. Gooey, Jammy Goodness.

Proudfoot, the Philly and Baltimore 73 shows were some of my favorites on the spring tour, perfect compliments of each other and in another 3 months both will have been released in their entirety. No dark star but it's got a great xxx,xxx,xxx,xxx (redacted)
February 23, 2025 - 11:32am

#160

Vguy72

Joined:
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Daves 42....

....looks like that's just what I needed today.

Garcia still works wonders on the guitar. His obbligato behind rhythm guitarist Bob Weir's vocal on the gun-fighter ballad, "El Paso," ranged from flamenco figures to blues lines. The latter created a humorous and musically interesting mixture. Slipping around the sunny Mexican-American rhythms were the riffs and diving glissandos of a music that grew up among the chilly winds of Chicago. - Cliff Radel, Enquirer Pop Music Critic The vocals and instruments blended perfectly into one cohesive unit. The artists themselves seemed to enjoy playing and the concentration they commanded was unshakable in the fan-filled Coliseum. - Douglas Fechter, The NewsRecord Cincy, The Nati, Paris Of America, call it what you will but when the Grateful Dead came to town, they certainly helped propel her to "Queen of the West." The previously unreleased complete show from the Riverfront Coliseum, Cincinnati, OH 10/2/76 is all up from start to finish with xxx 70s-era first set songs like "Promised Land" and "El Paso" to Europe '72 staples and classic covers ("It's All Over Now," "Big River"), wrapped up with a unique second-set jam that opens with "Dancing In The Street" and closes with "Sugar Mag." An all-around good time! Limited to 25,000 numbered copies and shipping this week, DAVE'S PICKS VOL. 53: RIVERFRONT COLISEUM, CINCINNATI, OH 10/2/76 was recorded by Dan Healy and has been mastered to HDCD specs by Jeffrey Norman at Mockingbird Mastering. P.S. As a bonus, we have a quintet of songs from 5/4/77 (recorded by Betty Cantor-Jackson), the rest of which was featured on Dave’s Picks Vol. 50 and its Bonus Disc. As we mentioned in 2012 when this series started, we’re determined to provide complete shows whenever possible. And even when a show is only partially included on a release as bonus material, we’re happy to complete it later on down the line, as we’ve done here. We hope you dig it. - David Lemieux

re: Billy - 85?

Hey Now Billy!
Your mention of a Chinacat > Cumberland made me go digging.
In my wanderings, I realize you're off by a decade, it was '85 (vs. '95) they ripped that out.
Gonna give it a listen this morning.
Love these crumbs and following the trail to the cookie.

Be Well People
Sixtus

I 2nd that emotion

I’ll just add to 1st shows intel et el. Definitely recommend stands for bookshelves. Your tweeter/horn should be positioned at ear height! If possible, place your speakers equal distance apart with your listening spot forming an perfect triangle. Use the rule of fifths (thirds usually not practical). Experiment with distance to back wall: too close and it’ll sound to muddy/bassy, too far out and it’ll sound to thin…
Using same brand usually ensures good speaker synergy.
Can’t recall hearing the other brands (which might be telling in itself) but have heard Klipsh and liked em.
If you can’t get a trial, at least you should be able to return them if for some reason you really don’t like them.
Good Luck, may the force be with you lol

Sixtus 3/9/85 China Cat>Cunberland

3/9/95 it was a typo. Thanks for setting me straight, lord only knows what I would do if someone didn't keep on eye on me.

China Cat -> Cumberland?!....

....need to check that out. Currently waiting at the doctors office. Freakin' starving over here!

VGuy

...May Your Four Winds Blow You Safely Home....or something like that.
Hopefully no BlowOut though.
Good Luck to You, Sir!

Sixtus

Results negative....

....party on Garth.
That propofol ain't no joke.
Then I checked the Dow. Can I go back to sleep please?

glad the results were negative, Wayne

good health to all

Zzzzzzzz

Propofol means not knowing what they did to you.

the thing about propophol

in my case is that as I came "out of it," I found myself already in conversation with someone and my awareness of that lagged behind the actual conversation. Gawd only knows what I am saying before I become aware I'm talking.

Of course, check the headlines -- lots of that goin' around.

Vguy -- not only congrats on the results, but you may be the first among us to celebrate your anal probe on dead.net!! A first! Yes!

Sending smiles your way, my man. And thanks for the visuals....................

JGBGD, er, whatever...

I like Jer's voice and the sound of his guitar. There's one JGB release I really love but it escapes me now as to which one. I just kind of shuffle through them and listen without committing all of the details to memory. There's a lot up there already - at age 56 I could be at capacity - so adding more new data could begin to push the old out.

And make no mistake about it, folks - this old world ain't what she used to be (sighs).

My advice to Jer would be, don't quit your day job. Some in the know have alleged that he was a live beast and just lived to be on the road, while others assert that as captain of that particular ship he got a bigger cut and needed the cash to support his habit. Probably a bit of both... on a good night it was damn good and on a bad night it was... boring.

Vguy way to keep the metal torch burning. Metal! Turn it up to 11! \m/ God I used to love metal before I got into the Good ol' Grateful Dead and became a Grateful Dad. I still stoke my metal jones occasional... it's good music to drive fast to or get ready to compete in anything, but remains a fixture of my adolescence. Pictures in my locker from Hit Parader of Judas Priest, Iron Maiden, and AC/DC along with Cindy Crawford and various SI swimsuit models.

Ah, the eighties. Now all my favorite bands are 80. What the hell happened?

Last five:

Led Zeppelin - How the West was Won
The Doors - L.A. Woman
Aerosmith - Rocks
Eric Clapton - Crossroads 2: Live in the Seventies (disc 3)
Elton John - Goodbye Yellow Brick Road

\m/

The propofol fog....

....yeah. i can see the attraction to it.
It was like seven or eight seconds of absolute bliss.
Danger Will Robinson.

The propofol fog....

....yeah. i can see the attraction to it.
It was like seven or eight seconds of absolute bliss.
Danger Will Robinson.
See? I just double posted.
Time for bed.

Last 5

Last Man Standing - Jerry Lee Lewis
Love It To Death - Alice Cooper
Bakersfield Sound cd3 - Various
Sun Singles Collection Vol3 cd3 - Various
Lucky Charms - Michael Messer

Last Dead Daves 16 3/28/73. Two cds of mainly high energy country rock followed by a 3rd cd with Dark Star, Eyes, and Playing. Like listening to two different bands in a way.

Nice one

Other One

Conekid

Dogfish Head is finally in the house. Maybe tonight I will have one.

Coors Extra Gold! Yes, definitely remember that one. We were so excited when it came out and then only had it onnce as it wasn't that great.

Extra Gold

First time my and my friends got our hands on a full case of beer in like 8th grade, it was a case of Coors Extra Gold.
That was back when like one beverage would give you a real killer buzz; having an entire 24 of those things was like infinite heaven at the time.

Do they even make that stuff anymore or has it gone the way of Bud Dry?
So many Legends.

Be Well People!
Sixtus

P.S. - and Holy $hit, look at that 60-CD BOX!!!!!

Mega-box 2025..

It is here and it is a whopper - 60 cds - soo many great shows - the box for the next 10 years.. only 6000..

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