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    The unexpected return of the masters of the Grateful Dead's triumphant show at the Albuquerque Civic Auditorium, November 17, 1971, yields great rewards. The Dead came in HOT for their first New Mexico show. Aided by clarity and precision and abetted by confidence and focus, they finessed old standards with definitive takes. With Keith now blending in seamlessly on keys, the first set offered up a triple shot of electric Blues, an exceptional "You Win Again," and a stellar "One More Saturday Night" to wrap things up. And the second set, well, it might just be unlike any you've ever heard. Archivist David Lemieux urges you to turn it up and do it loudly. We won't dare spoil all the surprises, but pay special attention to the rippin' "Sugar Magnolia," the aggressively monstrous "The Other One," and the highly-danceable "Not Fade>GDTRFB>Not Fade." Rounding out the 3CDs, you'll find selections from Pigpen's return tour at Ann Arbor, MI, 12/14/71. Subscribers will get nearly all of the complete show as this year's bonus disc.

    As always, Dave's Picks Volume 26 has been mastered to HDCD specs from the original analog tapes by Jeffrey Norman and is limited to 18,000 individually-numbered copies*.

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    Yo!!! Rockers!!! I may be a little late on this thread, but thought I would chip in with my two cents worth. especially because I was VERY into early Floyd and actually saw my first Floyd show (3/14/73 Boston Music Hall) before I saw my first Dead show (12/1/73 Boston Music Hall). We started listening to the Floyd when we were freshman in high school, late 1970. Piper was OK but we were way more into the live cuts from Ummagumma---which even now still sound good, especially Astronomy Domine and Careful With That Axe. A couple of the studio cuts were OK----Grantchester Meadows and The Narrow Way----but the rest was a major waste of vinyl. Some of their early stuff now sounds very dated, but at the time, if you were a young stoner gobbling acid, it was pretty good. I do remember watching the 1970 KQED broadcast, which was a stoner's delight. Weird and wonderful. The "movie soundtrack LPs", I wouldn't recommend for casual fans, although some of that material (Cymbaline, Green is The Colour, and a couple others) worked its way into the live shows, and were pretty good. But they're a little uneven and could probably be skipped. IMHO, Atom Heart Mother-----which we could just never get into----was "of a kind" with some of the "art rock" or "prog rock" of that era----overly ambitious, pretentious, and somewhat lame. I believe it sold well in the UK, but less so here. Really it's only redeeming quality is that it set the blueprint for Meddle. Meddle solidified their reputation as the great acid rock cult band. That was the Floyd LP we really really loved, the long suite being edgier and much more "sci-fi" that AHM. And I must admit, lol, I like San Tropez.............. DSOTM changed the Floyd from cult band to arena rock gods. Not sure if that was a good thing but it happened. Unfortunately, it made the Floyd much harder----and expensive---to see. But Dark Side's tales of life, death, paranoia, and madness still resonate even today. And while truthfully Time and Money suffered from severe radio overexposure, an occasional listen to the full album can be a rewarding sonic experience. Wish You Were Here---the best Floyd ever? Maybe. Its focus on lost camaraderie and show biz cynicism also ring true today. The music is "sparse", but lyrically it's wonderful. Probably my fave Floyd and always a great listen. If you liked the political music of Dylan, or The Clash, how could you not like Animals? Angry and rousing, all in the right places. Also with some fine playing by Gilmour. Still like this one. HOWEVER. BY the time of The Wall, I had sorta lost interest. Not really into musical explorations of Roger's personal problems and issues. I got the concept of the wall, but I didn't have much sympathy for the Floyd by this time, as they themselves had helped create the gulf between themselves and their fans. Lots of people love it, but there's lots better Floyd than this. I must admit that I saw the post-split, "3/4 Floyd", but the spark wasn't there, the new material sucked, and IMHO it was just a big cash grab. Any serious Floyd fan should avoid those later studio albums at all costs. Although they do reveal that the true lyrical driver of the mega-successful era of the band was Waters, and certainly not Gilmour. After 1980, I sorta stopped being a Floyd Fanatic and moved into my serious deadhead phase. The Floyd didn't come around that often, tickets were super expensive, and frankly, if you saw one Floyd show on tour, you saw them all. Improvisation was not their thing............... Anybody interested in the early Floyd sound, should check out the live cuts on the recent big box. The BBC sessions from 68-71 sounded good before, and now sound great. And some things which circulated before as mostly mediocre bootlegs--such as Celestial Voices and The Man And The Journey (Amsterdam 69), have also been very nicely remastered. In closing, I would like to say that I am humbled by the outpouring of support given my recent "event". I am feeling well and doing well, playing lots of guitar and listening to lot and lots of music----Pink Floyd included. Rock on, Doc
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    I unfurled the packaging of my 5-8-77 vinyl
    And as I started spinning side 1A I realized that previously on this thread I had commented about Jack Straw being cut on the Betty’s. My bad, it’s actually Minglewood since that is the opening song.Oops. Anyway, when I removed the shrink wrap and opened the box Record 3 (Dancing, Scarlet/Fire) was not totally in its paper sleeve, and the sleeve was creased and appeared as if it had been forced in the box. The record had a huge smudge on it and the beginning of Scarlet sounds like crap (haven’t tried to clean it yet). Why does Rhino consistently fail at the simple task of providing good and reliable packaging? Is it because they pay the Umpa Lumpas a sub-standard wage? Or because they give the Umpa Lumpas Kool Aid in the break room? Or both? I mean, yeah, we would all like some free Kool Aid. But every day? And if you can’t take some Kool Aid samples home with you to sell to your friends, then how else are you supposed to make up for being under paid?
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    Unfurling the Gloom
    And here she is, the Queen of Gloom, Katatonia, with her bright sunny hit "Unfurl":
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    I knew as soon as I mention that unusual word the lyrics would fly :-) Ok, another word, "gloom", popular in Motown songs (not too much gloom in Dead songs :-) ) From the Temps Sunshine, blue skies, please go away A girl has found another and gone away With her went my future, my life is filled with GLOOM So day after day I stay locked up in my room I know to you, it might sound strange But I wish it would rain, oh yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah I've always loved the way that sentence unfurls.
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    Rush 2112 Temples of Syrinx Look around at this world we've made Equality our stock in trade Come and join the brotherhood of man What a nice, contented world Let the banners be unfurled Hold the red star proudly high in hand
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    Thanks for the reply. There's one for $300 close to me, might pull the trigger...
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    Dark Side, yeah overplayed, but,,,, it still sound GREAT. Sure I can live with Money, but the rest,, that's some wow stuff. I am still wowed by the song Time. The "jam" between verse 2 and 3 is still amazing. You're left with a feeling of a much, much longer jam, you're left with a feeling of tripping balls, that you indeed have been sitting there for a whole day "So you run and you run to catch up with the sun but it's sinking Racing around to come up behind you again. The sun is the same in a relative way but you're older, Shorter of breath and one day closer to death. " Words that carry a weight you felt at 25, but come really clear at 62. Animals, also great. With me, PF had great lyrics, I love in Dogs the vindictive(?) lyrics "And it's too late to lose the weight you used to need to throw around. So have a good drown, as you go down, all alone, Dragged down by the stone." Righteous indignation? Early stuff,,,, Careful with that axe eugene and set the controls. But surely in my book the pinnacle of the their work is "the wall"! Where do you go from up? How could you top that. Tommy? Quadrophenia? Fucking crap compared to the wall. The Wall is just the perfect match of lyrics and music. One example I've always loved is the alliteration of the line from "Goodbye Blue Sky" "Did you ever wonder why we had to run for shelter when the promise of a brave new world unfurled beneath a clear blue sky? " (not too many songs get to use a word like "unfurled" :-)) The whole concept of the wall, the metaphorical (and physical building) of the wall, how we all build our own walls and live behind them. ( a little like Marley telling Scrooge, "`I wear the chain I forged in life, I made it link by link, and yard by yard; I girded it on of my own free will, and of my own free will I wore it. ... " Comes a time when a blind man takes your hand! Sorry for the prattle, Pink Floyd, a band for the ages.
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    I've never seen that face cover before, but Relics was the first Floyd album I bought. It was available on a budget label in the early 70s. Like many of my generation, this was like a gateway drug, pointing away from progressive rock back towards psychedelia.
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    For those around the Sandy Hook, NJ area - from a buddy. We found out that Donovan's Reef, a local Sea Bright bar 2 miles down the road from the beach house, has started what they call Tie Dye Tuesdays where they have a different Grateful Dead cover band playing every Tuesday of each month. Last night we saw the Cosmic Jerry Band there, a band that includes Mike and Jely Roll, the former lead guitar and bass players from the IDB Dead cover band that we've seen over the last couple years. Last night they were joined by lead guilarist/singer Mark Diomede, who plays with Dead cover bands Juggling Suns and Dead Reckoning, among others. Mike and Mark joined forces for some incredible guitar jams on some of the songs. Cosmic Jerry Band set lists: Set 1: Mission In The Rain, Ramble On Rose, Loser, Let It Grow, Don't Let Go, Bertha Set 2: Catfish John, Big Railroad Blues, Jack-A-Roe, Bird Song, Harder They Come. Set 3: Sugar Magnolia > Tore Up > The Golden Road (To Unlimited Devotion), Maggie's Farm > Cumberland Blues, Deal > Sunshine Daydream We'll be back at Donovan's Reef next week on Tie DyeTuesday to catch Dead Reckoning. . If you live around there, might be worth checking out.
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The unexpected return of the masters of the Grateful Dead's triumphant show at the Albuquerque Civic Auditorium, November 17, 1971, yields great rewards. The Dead came in HOT for their first New Mexico show. Aided by clarity and precision and abetted by confidence and focus, they finessed old standards with definitive takes. With Keith now blending in seamlessly on keys, the first set offered up a triple shot of electric Blues, an exceptional "You Win Again," and a stellar "One More Saturday Night" to wrap things up. And the second set, well, it might just be unlike any you've ever heard. Archivist David Lemieux urges you to turn it up and do it loudly. We won't dare spoil all the surprises, but pay special attention to the rippin' "Sugar Magnolia," the aggressively monstrous "The Other One," and the highly-danceable "Not Fade>GDTRFB>Not Fade." Rounding out the 3CDs, you'll find selections from Pigpen's return tour at Ann Arbor, MI, 12/14/71. Subscribers will get nearly all of the complete show as this year's bonus disc.

As always, Dave's Picks Volume 26 has been mastered to HDCD specs from the original analog tapes by Jeffrey Norman and is limited to 18,000 individually-numbered copies*.

*Limited to 2 per order. Very limited quantity available.

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Wasn’t a huge fan of that stuff, but again, by today’s standards they still rock!Like Ozzy cause he cracks me up; road trip show with Jack, his books etc But if you’ve seen the farewell concert/documentary The End, I think on showtime, they were awesome. It’s a shame touring sucks so much because a lot of these old goats still have it, like Phil!
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In fact, there have been a bunch of great docs and concert vids on the Telly the last few years...Sabbath, Clapton; life in 12 bars, Hendrix, Stones rellesead a few, Rush, know I still have a few others on DVR but forget?....and of course the F.T.W. shows, The Dead, and Weirs excellent T.O.O....
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There was a good one on telly here on Jeff Beck last week. Lots of clips from The Yardbirds up to recent concerts. He is as vital now as he ever was. I haven't bought his latest studio cd, Loud Hailer, but the blu ray Live At The Hollywood Bowl summer 2016 is superb. He is joined by various people on different tracks. All great, but the music played with Jan Hammer is dazzling. High hopes for London next month!
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-Grateful Dead Live at Madison Square Garden on 1988-09-18 Feel Like A Stranger-> Franklin's Tower, Good Time Blues, Big Railroad Blues, Memphis Blues, Stagger Lee, Promised Land Not Fade Away-> Scarlet Begonias-> Fire On The Mountain-> Women Are Smarter-> Drums-> Space-> The Other One-> Wharf Rat-> Throwin' Stones, E: Black Muddy River ...I always dig listening to this show, being from the garden and all, and it’s well know acoustics..., ...or how about these three shows in April 7,8 & 9th. :) https://www.discogs.com/Grateful-Dead-The-Centrum-Worcester-Massachuset…
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winner winner chicken dinner! oh, thats the song, not a movie....
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get another quarter outdrop in the meter mama try me on for size the guitar solo in that track is cool
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Two Oro's how can that be. From now on I will be known as Sir Garret Farseer... Dang lovin the conversation. Don Airey, seems I remember a documentary explaining a battle with him and Sharon Osbourne. I know Bob Daisley is credited now with helping write Diary of a Madman, but it seems like he Randy Rhodes and Don Airey wrote all the music to Diary. Seem to recall there was a dispute about royalties and such so Airey and Daisley and Kerslake the drummer were released. I know Sharon helped some with helping Ozzy deal, but I put her in the same category as Gail Zappa. The theme of this story is purely fictional and should not be confused with actual people places and events, real or fictional. Or something like that...
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Sweats be bangin.
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Yeah Gary, now we’re talking.Where’s my milk?
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No meet up at the movies this year?
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I have had the tape FOREVER and I, of course, bought the official release....I am going to have to go back and listen. That Jack Straw when I was in High School would get me so revved up because Jer just takes it, and takes it, and takes it. Higher, Higher, Higher, then BANG! Jack Straw from Wichita! Why would they swap them? and for which show is the Jack from GSTL 5/8/77 ACTUALLY swapped with?
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AcrosstheRio Definitely want to meet up for the ABQ Dead n Co show. I sent you a PM seeing if you wanted to meet up for Phil but you might not have read it. Get a hold of me! PM me and I will shoot you my number. Also, any other Colorado deadheads trolling around on here...PM me. I love an excuse for a meet up and why wait till show time? Strangers stopping strangers...
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Keep asking.. eventually someone will say yes. Gets harder and harder each year for me too. ...I'm bet they will crank out a meet up at the movies again. So what's it gonna be this year? There are some prime 89's yet to be plucked and I, for one, would be happy with a repeat of the Beat, 72. or how's this? 4/17 Amsterdam and the Beat. Or how about 71 Chateau d'Herouville? Wouldn't it be grand to announce the Box Set the same day? And what about Gainesville? Is Dave still feeling a bit under the weather?
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I always liked 5/9 the most of the three.. simply for the Help/Slip/Franks and the second set Other One, NFA, Comes a Time jam. In fact, on my drive home tonight I was listening to the Playing, NFA, Comes a Time Playing from 5/12/77 Auditorium Theatre, Chicago. It could be my favorite sequence from the Spring 77 Box v. 1. I honestly don't listen to that much 77 GD these days, primarily because I have listened to it to death decades ago.. but that doesn't mean I don't really like it. So many tapes, so little time. Edit: oh.. VGuy, I had 35 mm film of all the 77 shows, but my last gf tossed them at the same time she tossed all my ticket stubs. Ain't that a shame...
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That's not what she told me.
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Give them to me.. my ticket stubs and my 35 mm tapes of GD shows. I knew you had them all along.
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I sold them all to buy a Steal Your Face barstool from dead.net.
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When have you ever seen or heard a show opener like this H>S>F? Oh yeah. We forgot to play this last night at Cornell, so here you go. Unreal. I maintain that 5/7 has the best Bertha, Peggy-O and 1/2 Step ever played, but Buffalo is my favorite of the three.
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.... apparently Jimbo overdosed on Spring '77 awhile back. Sucks to be him. I was thoroughly in an Estimated vibe when a Spanish lady came by with a rose and took my hand out of nowhere. The rest is 5.9.18 history....
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I know Cornell gets all the hype, but Buffalo is my favorite show out of the sacred three. Gets regular play, especially on those scenic drives along the coast or out to the desert.
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...yeah but what’s gonna happen if ol Jimhas one of those flashbacks they warned about... Carful vguy, I’ve heard some things about her!
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Hey icecrmcnkd: Can you (or somebody), explain the story behind your comment that "the GSTL ‘5-8-77’ Jack Straw isn’t actually from 5-8-77."? I couldn't find an answer and can't stop wondering. . . Thanks!
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Good choices, and what about Hampton 89, that still kinda frosts my ass.We all know they had vid from all those tours. For the box price, you think they could of tossed in some vid. I still like how they did crimson, white and indigo; discs and vid in relatively simple package at reasonable price...... Like I was saying the other day; why don’t they have us pre-pay before they run production, that way they don’t lose money, and we don’t get shut out?
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Yeah, I’d like to hear that also Jeff! Your back, we were worried, last time you said things were starting to be contained etc, but weren’t outta the proverbial woods yet. Hope things have worked out?
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Wham bam thank you man, down on me in Amsterdam! Hey I'm listening to Bertha and I don't hear Keith. Did he sit songs out? Or is he playing the organ and Pigpen is sitting out?
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Whoooosh, always liked this one the best, but I’m no 77 expert, listed through Ship o last night, man what a solid first set,that H-S-F is definitely one for the ages. Like that the Franks doesn’t drone on too long, sometimes happens IMHO....
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Hey Oroborous....a Franklin's that DRONES ON???? I actually don't think that's possible. The licks are bouncy and happy and upbeat from start to finish! Add-in some pianer-tinkling and bass bombs and it only adds to nuance and happiness all the way to the final coda. I challenge you to rethink this borderline blasphemous statement. :D Sixtus
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Release the hounds.:D Is it the weekend yet? Aren't they going to announce the box set soon? Has Dave been replaced by a cyborg or vampire? Feels like Funky Thursday.
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Good morning Sir! First, I did qualify my premise with “ IMHO” which that and a dollar miiight get ya a cup of coffee. Second, I can certainly time some of the looooooooongish end choruses of Franks that never seem to end to make my point, not so much the song body proper...but why bother, the main thing is YOU Dig It, and enough so to call me out, so like someone (sorry, not much memory left ; ) so wonderfully said the other day, that’s what’s trully important, that makes YOU happy. Who gives a rats ass what I think! I’m just an old dog who misses shootin’ the breeze about the boys and the “good ol days” and perhaps, occasionally one of you nice folks will scratch my ears or rub my prodigious belly Wooof!
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Yeah, Jim’s right (again), what’s the new box, or Dave’s even, we need something new to wrestle with ; )
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It's always great to scratch that itch my friend. I'm just razzin' you anyway. I completely concur this is all just opinions and likes being shared, which gives wonderful insight across the ether into each kind soul on here who wishes to participate. And now that you are getting a little more precise, I can understand your point of view on the outros in there from time to time. It is perhaps in the same vein as 'Deal' from, say, '78, where they go on and on and on with the vocal coda - sometimes to the point where Donna's attempts to hit a higher vocal pitch ends up sounding like a banshee at midnight - but again just an opinion! I say, let the music play. And kick it off with a fine Help > Slip > Franklin's. Happy day to All. Sixtus
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It's all part of the delicate negotiations to free the North Korean "detainees." OK, hostages. Now that our citizens are joyously back on U.S. soil, other critical international business can soon follow. I ask you, what can be more critical than unleashing more transcendent GD music to soothe the pervasive bitterness, anger and anxieties currently floating around the globe? As Joseph Campbell once said, "the Grateful Dead are the best answer today to the atom bomb." And perhaps lots of other bad stuff. Carry on.
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...Great post!... :) ...pigpen 12/14/71 , ‘Mr. Charlie’ —- Love it! Then the, ‘Loser’ > ‘Next Time You See Me’ ... ;) ...sweet Suzy ;). ....
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By George old man I think you might be on to something there.....Perhaps when the revolution starts, they should lock all the power elite in a room with some high powered speakers, air-dose em, and not let em out until they listen to 30 trips, or E72, Spring 77 or ???.... Hell, they can bring em nothing but kind veggie burritos, falafel, PBJ and other usual tour chow.... Who needs the U.N. we got Bolo and the gang on it!!!
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5/9 was always my favorite of the three as well, mostly due to the H>S>F. However, I firmly believe this is the greatest version of Peggy-O of all time. Back in the day, I used to rewind my tape repeatedly just to hear that song.
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Ok, you almost have it, a little down to the, aaaaaaaaaa, that’s the spotHowwwwwrrrrrrrllllllluuuuuufffffff, pant, pant, Ok, time for a nap....
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Get the rope.. I love it. Nothing like a good old fashioned lynching to steer / keep the discourse on point. Burning and a Looting Tonight... _______________________________________________ Makes perfect sense. The North Korea connection to Dave and this Box Set. That explains the basement Release Video, Dave being in exile and Dave's strange change in appearance of late. It also helps explain some of the delivery times.. They are using Kim Jong Un's (Uni for short) 30 mph max, heavily armored train to deliver these things. My question is.. who has the master reels, or at least what country are they in?
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Complete 1980 September/October Warfield Theatre run. There were 15, three set shows, at the Warfield. If memory serves, much of the run was lost (or rather taped over) The box will consist of shows that fully remain intact. Probably a bad guess; just going with the 1980 Iran "hostages" clue or not clue from Bolo. Sam T
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Taking bolo's comment to mean that box set order date announcement is imminent. Avoiding political quagmire discussion, the proverbial olive branch... is dead.net ready to send Kim Jong-un a promo copy of DaP27? He could use more than a few miracles. Back to music. Let's warm up Jim's mower, shall we? Put in some high test, go back a ways? Thanks, Jim! A Korean War vet (connecting some dots here) rocked the world with his guitar, gets cred for surf music influence, moves to San Fran in the early 70s, jams out with John Cipollina of Quicksilver, he had to have been at some early Dead shows... It might get loud: Jimmy P chortles and plays air guitar to that vet's music. Pete Townsend said this guy was responsible for him taking up guitar. thanks for that sweet little sister Elvis clip (note James Burton there with his then rad red paisley telecaster!) brought to mind a Shawnee genius, so geezer or not, dial that mower back to '59... intro by Dick Clark, seemingly a cowboy tune with a 31 fret bizarre cutaway Danelectro: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fn5hl2IA7_s
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Thanks dmcvt. Link Wray! When you mentioned surf music (I know- I'll never hear surf music again) I immediately thought Dick Dale, forgetting about Link. So thanks for the Link. I'm a huge surf guitar fan....we recently (March 2018) lost Nokie Edwards, the Ventures guitarist. (But maybe the Ventures considered themselves an instrumental rock band more than a surf band...) Regarding the Elvis clip - I assume that's Ron Tutt playing drums for Elvis? I never saw Jerry with Ron, but I wish I had. Ron Tutt...backed up Elvis, then Garcia, then Neil Diamond. Wow. That's a lot of talented entertainers.
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Old man??? I resemble that remark!!!!
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Jerry plays some nice pedal steel on his "Guitar Preacher" album (All cried out, Tuscon, Riverbend)
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