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    Blair's Golden Road Blog - Hellooooo, eBay!

    A while back, someone sent me a story from Forbes magazine, in which the billionaire owner of the Indianapolis Colts, James Irsay, was crowing about having spent $970,000 back in 2001 to buy Garcia’s “Tiger” guitar at an auction by the instrument’s original luthier, Doug Irwin: “It was a 15-rounder [at auction],” Irsay told the mag, “but I made the determination that I’d rather have Tiger than all the other Jerry stuff in the world...When I got it, it was like he’d literally [just] put it down at Soldier Field [in Chicago, site of the final Dead show in 1995]. I mean there were pot crumblings in [the guitar’s “stash box”]. The strap is sweat-strewn. ...Jerry was, wow, man, what can you say about him? What a guitarist, man, and what a character.”

    OK, that’s the absolute upper end of Grateful Dead/Garcia memorabilia (so far). The guy has very deep pockets: Irsay also paid $600,000 for one of George Harrison’s main guitars, and a whopping $2.4 million for the original typed version of Jack Kerouac’s On the Road. “I think it’s hard to overpay,” the same Forbes article quoted him as saying, “because they’re priceless.” We’re still talking about many millions of dollars less than just about any Monet or Picasso painting would go for, and who’s to say that Tiger or On the Road aren’t as culturally significant, or as “beautiful” in their own way, as an important art work? But that’s rarified air none of us will ever breathe.

    A few notches down from that were the quite substantial holdings of Ram Rod (Lawrence Shurtliff), the much-loved Grateful Dead road crew chief who passed away in 2006, and whose motley collection of Deadrabilia was sold through a Bonhams & Butterfields auction in San Francisco in 2007. Quite a few impressive pieces brought high prices—including $300,000 for one of Jerry’s Travis Bean guitars from the mid-’70s, $102,000 for one of Garcia’s later custom Alvarez-Yairi acoustics, and $87,000 for three original paintings by Bob Thomas, including the back cover panel of Live Dead and an alternate version of the front cover painting.

    This tie-dyed speaker
    box went for $5,700 at
    the Ram Rod auction in 2007.

    OK, those were all very cool. But I saw the auction items laid out at B&B a couple of weeks before the event, and a lot of them were in shockingly poor shape—yet still garnered big bucks from eager buyers. Like, $15,600 for a worn Haliburton case “used by Ram Rod to transport important items for the Grateful Dead while on tour, 1970s-1990.” Surely the only reason this fetched such a good price is the buyer believed that this was actually a “stash case” that traveled with the band. No one pays that price for a briefcase that just carries papers. The rose-embroidered and rhinestone-studded guitar strap designed to match Garcia’s magnificent Nudie suit (designed by the famous SoCal C&W suit designer “Nudie” Cohn; Garcia wore it a couple of times onstage in 1973) went for $20,400, despite missing several rhinestones. (Alas, Phil’s entire Nudie suit, which was originally to be part of the Ram Rod auction, was withdrawn at the last minute, over questions regarding its true ownership.) There were all sorts decrepit and empty speaker boxes from the Wall of Sound ($3,600 for one), pieces of nonfunctioning audio equipment, random photographs in not-very-good condition (most of which landed bids in the $600-$900 range), and a bunch of other stuff (including Ram Rod’s own guitars, banjo and mandolin). Ram Rod’s heirs walked away with an impressive $1.1 million.

    And for the rest of us, there’s eBay. God, there’s a lot of Grateful Dead stuff up on eBay at all times, and the quality varies tremendously, as you might imagine. Look under “Grateful Dead shirts” and you’ll find around 50 “pages” of 50+ shirts each, ranging from cool custom ones sold by individuals to obviously factory-made, mass-produced shirts being sold by big companies. Under “Grateful Dead CDs” there are hundreds more items, including some I’d never seen before: $35 will buy you a “limited edition” 2-CD set of Jerry Garcia music “housed in silver paper slipcases with Jerry Garcia's artwork on them (both the sleeves and CDs) and including the complete track listing and information as follows (sweet selections to be sure).” This one intrigued me because disc one of the set is a collection of tunes I put together for the limited box edition of the book Jerry Garcia: The Collected Artwork, and I was not aware that “rogue” copies of the music were being peddled elsewhere. Hmmm. Strange. Thanks for the compliment about the “sweet selections,” though.

    From time to time some obviously fake Dead merchandise goes up on eBay—usually reproductions of old posters for events that never had posters (and which occasionally have blatant historical inaccuracies on them—a 1966 photo on a 1965 poster, etc.)—and “autographed” photos and posters of dubious origin and questionable veracity. These usually get sniffed out by Dead Heads pretty quickly, and the sellers often get their feet held to the fire long enough that they eventually withdraw the item. But no doubt many bogus items have been sold to unsuspecting Heads this way—just as the sports and movie memorabilia markets have been plagued by counterfeits and forgeries forever.

    Attaché case:
    A mere $15,600!

    I often wish that I had a collector’s mentality. For instance, when I was living overseas in Rome, Italy, in the mid-’60s, why didn’t I save the literally hundreds of Marvel and DC comics I carefully shipped over from the U.S. during my summer visits—all those now-valuable X-Men and Spider-Man comics? Through the years, I lost the few cool sports autographs I’d gotten—Don Drysdale and Sandy Koufax signed a menu for me at Toots Shor’s restaurant in NYC in about 1962; boxing legend Jack Dempsey talked me up and signed an autograph as he sat getting his shoes shined in the men’s room downstairs at his old Times Square joint in the early ’60s. My thousands of baseball cards bought between 1957 and ’65? Fuggedaboutit! Later on, I almost never held on to the free swag that record companies used to send out with promo copies of albums I got as a rock critic. I once figured out I could have an entire promo wardrobe (including enormous underpants promoting an album by Gentle Giant!). Wish I’d kept the 45s from my youth I used to lug around from move to move, but eventually either lost or tossed.

    And it hasn’t been any better with Grateful Dead stuff. Even though I interviewed every member of the band multiple times from the early ’80s on, I never asked for an autograph (I thought it would look tacky and possibly harm my “professional” relationship with the guys, or some such nonsense). When I’ve occasionally gotten multiple copies of GD-related CDs I’ve worked on, I’ve given them to friends or the folks I’ve interviewed for liner notes. Some posters I had were damaged when the roof of my garage blew off in a storm a few years back. Hey, someone on eBay is trying to get $19.95 for Issue Six of The Golden Road. Why, I believe I have a few hundred of those babies sitting around here in boxes! Jeez, by now I could’ve paid for some of my son’s college tuition if I’d been smarter about getting and hoarding and selling stuff. But it just ain’t in me.

    I have to admit, the one large signed Garcia litho I own — still in mint condition and safely encased in cardboard in a closet because, frankly, I never liked it enough to actually put it up in my house — keeps calling out to me in the raspy voice of late-period Jerry: “Sell me, man!” Thanks, Jer. I need the encouragement! Today I saw that someone is asking for $4,200 for the same litho on eBay. That’s nearly a quarter’s tuition at UCLA. Hellooo, eBay!

    Ever bought or sold Dead memorabilia online? What’s the coolest Dead-related item you own? Anything you wouldn’t part with, even if the price were right?

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    suthyrnrock
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    My favorite piece of memrobillia is road case K25 A. Started life as K21. I stare at it for hours while listening to the sat. I often wonder if it was in Eureka in the mid sixties at the Eureka Municiple Auditorium, My aunt Donna 17 was told she could not go. me 8 , I walked 2 1/2 miles just to wander around outside.Does anyone know any history on this case?. I often consider puttin it up for auction, although I get alot of energy from my collection not in a hurry to part with stuff. It has alot of content pictures, reciepts, gear, lettters, a video 8 I have not viewed and more I live in the Bay area and it was regional luck I picked it up at a fair price.
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    In addition to my memories of ~ 425 shows, I still have 99% of my ticket stubs. The single coolest and rarest piec of memorabilia I have, and which will never be sold, is an invitation to the premier of The Grateful Dead Movie and after party (which I crashed), which is autographed by every member of the Grateful Dead (except for Phil), as well as a couple of other famous guests. While waiting for Jerry's autograph, the guy in front of me asked him for his Jerry Hancock, and that's what he got; Jerry signed "Jerry Hancock." "If the thunder don't get you, then the lightning will."
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    Sense of humour for sale. Many Deadhead owners. No longer needed.Will trade for a life of misery. Or a Europe '72 box set. Because it's a rip off, right? Wrong.
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A while back, someone sent me a story from Forbes magazine, in which the billionaire owner of the Indianapolis Colts, James Irsay, was crowing about having spent $970,000 back in 2001 to buy Garcia’s “Tiger” guitar at an auction by the instrument’s original luthier, Doug Irwin: “It was a 15-rounder [at auction],” Irsay told the mag, “but I made the determination that I’d rather have Tiger than all the other Jerry stuff in the world...When I got it, it was like he’d literally [just] put it down at Soldier Field [in Chicago, site of the final Dead show in 1995]. I mean there were pot crumblings in [the guitar’s “stash box”]. The strap is sweat-strewn. ...Jerry was, wow, man, what can you say about him? What a guitarist, man, and what a character.”

OK, that’s the absolute upper end of Grateful Dead/Garcia memorabilia (so far). The guy has very deep pockets: Irsay also paid $600,000 for one of George Harrison’s main guitars, and a whopping $2.4 million for the original typed version of Jack Kerouac’s On the Road. “I think it’s hard to overpay,” the same Forbes article quoted him as saying, “because they’re priceless.” We’re still talking about many millions of dollars less than just about any Monet or Picasso painting would go for, and who’s to say that Tiger or On the Road aren’t as culturally significant, or as “beautiful” in their own way, as an important art work? But that’s rarified air none of us will ever breathe.

A few notches down from that were the quite substantial holdings of Ram Rod (Lawrence Shurtliff), the much-loved Grateful Dead road crew chief who passed away in 2006, and whose motley collection of Deadrabilia was sold through a Bonhams & Butterfields auction in San Francisco in 2007. Quite a few impressive pieces brought high prices—including $300,000 for one of Jerry’s Travis Bean guitars from the mid-’70s, $102,000 for one of Garcia’s later custom Alvarez-Yairi acoustics, and $87,000 for three original paintings by Bob Thomas, including the back cover panel of Live Dead and an alternate version of the front cover painting.

This tie-dyed speaker
box went for $5,700 at
the Ram Rod auction in 2007.

OK, those were all very cool. But I saw the auction items laid out at B&B a couple of weeks before the event, and a lot of them were in shockingly poor shape—yet still garnered big bucks from eager buyers. Like, $15,600 for a worn Haliburton case “used by Ram Rod to transport important items for the Grateful Dead while on tour, 1970s-1990.” Surely the only reason this fetched such a good price is the buyer believed that this was actually a “stash case” that traveled with the band. No one pays that price for a briefcase that just carries papers. The rose-embroidered and rhinestone-studded guitar strap designed to match Garcia’s magnificent Nudie suit (designed by the famous SoCal C&W suit designer “Nudie” Cohn; Garcia wore it a couple of times onstage in 1973) went for $20,400, despite missing several rhinestones. (Alas, Phil’s entire Nudie suit, which was originally to be part of the Ram Rod auction, was withdrawn at the last minute, over questions regarding its true ownership.) There were all sorts decrepit and empty speaker boxes from the Wall of Sound ($3,600 for one), pieces of nonfunctioning audio equipment, random photographs in not-very-good condition (most of which landed bids in the $600-$900 range), and a bunch of other stuff (including Ram Rod’s own guitars, banjo and mandolin). Ram Rod’s heirs walked away with an impressive $1.1 million.

And for the rest of us, there’s eBay. God, there’s a lot of Grateful Dead stuff up on eBay at all times, and the quality varies tremendously, as you might imagine. Look under “Grateful Dead shirts” and you’ll find around 50 “pages” of 50+ shirts each, ranging from cool custom ones sold by individuals to obviously factory-made, mass-produced shirts being sold by big companies. Under “Grateful Dead CDs” there are hundreds more items, including some I’d never seen before: $35 will buy you a “limited edition” 2-CD set of Jerry Garcia music “housed in silver paper slipcases with Jerry Garcia's artwork on them (both the sleeves and CDs) and including the complete track listing and information as follows (sweet selections to be sure).” This one intrigued me because disc one of the set is a collection of tunes I put together for the limited box edition of the book Jerry Garcia: The Collected Artwork, and I was not aware that “rogue” copies of the music were being peddled elsewhere. Hmmm. Strange. Thanks for the compliment about the “sweet selections,” though.

From time to time some obviously fake Dead merchandise goes up on eBay—usually reproductions of old posters for events that never had posters (and which occasionally have blatant historical inaccuracies on them—a 1966 photo on a 1965 poster, etc.)—and “autographed” photos and posters of dubious origin and questionable veracity. These usually get sniffed out by Dead Heads pretty quickly, and the sellers often get their feet held to the fire long enough that they eventually withdraw the item. But no doubt many bogus items have been sold to unsuspecting Heads this way—just as the sports and movie memorabilia markets have been plagued by counterfeits and forgeries forever.

Attaché case:
A mere $15,600!

I often wish that I had a collector’s mentality. For instance, when I was living overseas in Rome, Italy, in the mid-’60s, why didn’t I save the literally hundreds of Marvel and DC comics I carefully shipped over from the U.S. during my summer visits—all those now-valuable X-Men and Spider-Man comics? Through the years, I lost the few cool sports autographs I’d gotten—Don Drysdale and Sandy Koufax signed a menu for me at Toots Shor’s restaurant in NYC in about 1962; boxing legend Jack Dempsey talked me up and signed an autograph as he sat getting his shoes shined in the men’s room downstairs at his old Times Square joint in the early ’60s. My thousands of baseball cards bought between 1957 and ’65? Fuggedaboutit! Later on, I almost never held on to the free swag that record companies used to send out with promo copies of albums I got as a rock critic. I once figured out I could have an entire promo wardrobe (including enormous underpants promoting an album by Gentle Giant!). Wish I’d kept the 45s from my youth I used to lug around from move to move, but eventually either lost or tossed.

And it hasn’t been any better with Grateful Dead stuff. Even though I interviewed every member of the band multiple times from the early ’80s on, I never asked for an autograph (I thought it would look tacky and possibly harm my “professional” relationship with the guys, or some such nonsense). When I’ve occasionally gotten multiple copies of GD-related CDs I’ve worked on, I’ve given them to friends or the folks I’ve interviewed for liner notes. Some posters I had were damaged when the roof of my garage blew off in a storm a few years back. Hey, someone on eBay is trying to get $19.95 for Issue Six of The Golden Road. Why, I believe I have a few hundred of those babies sitting around here in boxes! Jeez, by now I could’ve paid for some of my son’s college tuition if I’d been smarter about getting and hoarding and selling stuff. But it just ain’t in me.

I have to admit, the one large signed Garcia litho I own — still in mint condition and safely encased in cardboard in a closet because, frankly, I never liked it enough to actually put it up in my house — keeps calling out to me in the raspy voice of late-period Jerry: “Sell me, man!” Thanks, Jer. I need the encouragement! Today I saw that someone is asking for $4,200 for the same litho on eBay. That’s nearly a quarter’s tuition at UCLA. Hellooo, eBay!

Ever bought or sold Dead memorabilia online? What’s the coolest Dead-related item you own? Anything you wouldn’t part with, even if the price were right?

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A while back, someone sent me a story from Forbes magazine, in which the billionaire owner of the Indianapolis Colts, James Irsay, was crowing about having spent $970,000 back in 2001 to buy Garcia’s “Tiger” guitar at an auction by the instrument’s original luthier, Doug Irwin: “It was a 15-rounder [at auction],” Irsay told the mag, “but I made the determination that I’d rather have Tiger than all the other Jerry stuff in the world...When I got it, it was like he’d literally [just] put it down at Soldier Field [in Chicago, site of the final Dead show in 1995]. I mean there were pot crumblings in [the guitar’s “stash box”]. The strap is sweat-strewn...Jerry was, wow, man, what can you say about him? What a guitarist, man, and what a character.”

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I've bought a number of GD items on eBay, but the coolest is an original "banned" American Beauty promo poster. What a great image. http://www.dead.net/fanphotos/american-beauty-promo-poster I also have a Europe '72 promo poster which looks a lot like the lithograph just listed here. http://store.dead.net/new/original-grateful-dead-europe-72-lithograph-s… Years ago someone listed a limited edition, museum-quality, framed Anthem Of The Sun poster for an ungodly amount of money (like $3000) but man was it beautiful. I've never seen it before or since.
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The used vinyl store that MP51 was referring to is Strictly Discs on Monroe St. in Madison. (It's 3 blocks down the street from the UW Fieldhouse where I first saw the Dead in March of '71) The new vinyl on the first floor is all pre-marked but the thousands of used records in the basement are sold at 'today's market rate'. The selection is the best that I've seen in many years but they try to get what they can for what they sell. Last week I bought a perfect copy of Commander Cody's third album for 5 bucks and a beat but playable copy of Sandy Denny's second album for two dollars. On Record Store Day they had a few copies of the Rhino mono reissue of the Dead's first album available for $24.00. I passed. I have an early pressing in stereo that's good enough for me.
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ProgguyThe new mono pressing of the first album is worth every penny. Phil's bass sounds so great in this mix. Yes the stereo mix is very good, but new mono pressing is really special.
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...but $24 for a mono vinyl pressing is ridiculous IMO...
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A few years ago I was the buyer for one of the largest specialty food stores in the country. One of my suppliers, a co-packer in CA mentioned to me about a line of sauces that Bobby was going to produce. I asked her who was handling all the logistics and it turned out to be a good friend in Napa. I got in touch with him and had a look at the bottles and labels long before they hit the market. When the sauces were finally introduced at the NASFT Fancy Food Show in NY I was finally able to taste the sauces. They were great. They were also having a contest...place an order at the show and put your name in the hat to win an autographed acoustic guitar. I asked my friend how much I had to order to win. He said 50 cases. I said no problem. Needless to say I have a Bob Weir autographed guitar. During the time the sauces were available, we gave away autographed bottles, tickets and after show passes to RatDog shows and even an etched, handpainted bottle. I was also able to go to 3 private Weir Sauce parties in SF for about 100 or so. The first two, Bob and Rob Wasserman played for about an hour and the 3rd, Bob and Mark Karan played for a little over an hour...very intimate...able to stand about 5 feet from them.
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$24.99 for the mono pressing was the price set by Rhino. The Ebay price will climb higher. When you consider the cost of paying the mastering and having the vinyl pressed in Germany I think it is on average with the price of high quality analog pressings. I just wish it was including in the recent vinyl box set, but then the Grateful Dead and Rhino need to make all the money they can off us vinyl lovers. I will say your last book the GD gear was worth every penny.
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I had a pristine copy of "I Want to Be A Camper", the 16mm film which includes Jerry's earliest "paid soundtrack work" (not sure if there are many earlier recordings, period). Sold it on eBay, made a few hundred bucks .... The soundtrack was not very interesting (just some folky guitar playing, with absolutely no psychedelic edge detectable) and the film itself is boring beyond belief. It's not clear to me why more of Jerry's early solo work (this included) hasn't been reissued. You can read more about it here: http://cloudsurfing.gdhour.com/archives/160 Jerry Garcia’s earliest paid soundtrack work can be heard on this one-of-a-kind 16mm film entitled “I Want To Be A Camper”, produced to fulfill a Stanford University student’s Master of Arts in Communication degree requirement. Upon completing the filming at a summer camp for diabetic children in King’s Canyon National Park, a friend of the filmmaker suggested Garcia for the job of augmenting the film with suitable acoustic guitar instrumental music – - a job for which he was paid $50. The filmmaker relates: “I doubt if we had to do any re-takes, as I remember him getting the feeling I wanted very easily. I also remember being impressed with how much hair he had!”
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I had no idea vinyl was going for those kind of prices! The whole cult of vinyl mystifies me. Yeah, yeah, I know there are some who believe it sounds better--maybe on a really great audiophile system--but nothing will ever convince me that it's worth it go back to the world of pops and ticks and record wear. Needless to say, YMMV, and plenty of people I respect highly love their vinyl. It's not for me, however.
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Blair-I can't fault you for your opinion about vinyl-I love my CDs also-but a clean vinyl LP will knock your socks off-esp. Mono-I found this out when I put on a repressing of the David Crosby solo album a few years back-I could not believe the difference. Granted-the system on which it was playing was first rate, but I have found that I can still get most of that thrill on a more modest(mine)system. Re: the price-most 180 gram reissues are in excess of $30.00 new except Sundazed which are more resonably priced. I still get mostly used LPs at low prices. Viva Vinyl.
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I'm not one to make a claim that I love the sound of vinyl more than cds, but I do love the physical thing, the object, way more than any other recorded medium that has come down the pike. Mostly, it's that the album artwork is in a size large enough to be appreciated rather than glanced at and thrown on the shelf. Downloads? Absolutely souless in that department, lossless or not. Though my collection is about 2:1 cds:vinyl, I'm probably 1:1 in my current buying habits...of course it helps that new vinyl usually comes with either a cd or a download so as to maintain both portability and decrease the wear and tear on the big disc -- fewer skips and pops, and you can still play the music in your car or on your iPod. So...I consider this to be the best of times with the availability of various formats, and am happy as punch about the current vinyl "renaissance." First vinyl album purchase: Meet the Beatles Never spent any serious money buying albums on cassette Zero 8-tracks or reel-to-reels First cd purchase: Dire Straits -- Brothers in Arms (also already had the vinyl) First download: made no impression on me whatsoever, no clue.
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gratefuldean: the other thing I like about vinyl is collecting music that isn't avail on CD-esp. older classical/opera recordings and including soviet era Melodiya stuff. But yeah, I like those LP w/CD sets too for the convenience-I can jog with my old Sony port CD player and listen to good sound and don't have to deal with MP3 downloads on an ipod.
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I've had more "oh wow!" moments trolling used vinyl bins than I can count. Sorry for hijacking the thread, Blair. I guess that collecting vinyl fits into at least part of the theme...
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I have (unlike poor Blair) a top-end hi-fi system and it is interesting to note the difference between vinyl and CDs on such a system. In general I find that vinyl has a warmer, more natural sound. The biggest difference, however, is in the stereo image. With a CD all the stereo width is there, but with very little depth of soundfield (i.e. front to back). With vinyl the depth is noticeably greater. Although I don't listen to classical music, I would imagine that more is lost with CDs due to this phenomenon - one should be able to hear all the instruments in an orchestra in their correct place, front to back and right to left. Having said all that, I must confess that I buy little vinyl these days - only really good stuff e.g. half-speed masters and the like. The recent Mobile Fidelity half-speed mastered vinyl reissues of Little Feat's "Dixie Chicken" and "Waiting for Columbus" are unbelievable audio treats. An added bonus with LPs is decent-sized artwork and of course LP sleeves are ideal for putting on your lap to roll a joint on (which is perfectly legal where I live - the rest of the world eat your hearts out!) whereas trying to roll the fifth or sixth joint of the evening on a jewel case is a recipe for disaster.
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Not to hijack the thread Blair but a lot of the pops and ticks and wear were the result of crappy turntables. Believe it or not, turntables design has advanced in the last 20 years. Don't play your records on cheap turntables with plastic bases and thin aluminum platters, isolate the turntable from the floor (build a platform out of wood and fill it with tennis balls sawn in half) and a lot of the noise goes away. My original copy of Live/Dead stills sounds great after hundreds of plays and the little sound cues that brings life to the music just aren't there on my CD copy, though the artificial 'jam' plays without me having to get up and flip the record. Life is full of trade offs.
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Blair I can assure you the vast majority of my large vinyl collection plays without pops and ticks.Simonrob you many want to check out the CD releases by Audio Fidelity, I agree vinyl has a greater soundstage, but well mastered CD's can also sound amazing on a good system. Audio Fidelity has gotten the rights to the 1970's Dead catalog, with a new vinyl pressing of Blues for Allah already released. I didn't mean to hijack the threat Blair, but it's sure nice to hear from my fellow dead vinyl fans.
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I do have a couple of Audio Fidelity 24k gold CDs. Even more relevant is the fact that not only do I have the Mobile Fidelity half-speed mastered vinyl reissues of Little Feat's "Little Feat", "Sailin' Shoes", "Dixie Chicken" and "Waiting for Columbus" - I also have the Mobile Fidelity 24k gold CD reissues of all four of those. Both CDs and LPs were mastered by the same people from the same original analog master tapes. This makes them perfect for comparison. In all four cases, the CDs sound great, having a more natural and better sound than the old "ordinary" CD reissues, but the MoFi LPs are still noticeably better than their CDs.I had mentioned the five new and forthcoming Audio Fidelity GD vinyl reissues somewhere earlier in this thread, but hadn't realised that "Blues for Allah" was already released.
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On the loose. Now I don't feel quite so bad about hijacking the thread. Vinyl, cd, downloads: "Live music is better" Bumper stickers should be issued (Neil Young)
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Simonrob,I do agree and on my system well mastered vinyl always sounds better than CD's, it's just nice that a few companies are making the most out of a digital format.
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MoFi is advertising "Live Dead" in Stereophile. It will be "collectable" someday so maybe this is not a hi-jack.
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Even the Road Trips series CDs are getting super high prices on eBay. Vol 2. No. 2 with bonus disc (the 2-14-68 show) just went for $61. Will these be re-issued? Seems a shame that it's not readily available anymore.
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I have two unsed tickets to Jerry's last show at Soldier Field. Our tickets showed up the monday after the concert, we were able to go to will call and they wrote us a pass to go in. Who knew that would be the last one....
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Years ago, I bought an autographed copy of Phil's 'Searching for the Sound" autobiography...a keeper for sure, I will not be selling it on eBay. I would love to get a copy of the 'Golden Road' if you are willing to part with any :) __________________________________ Oh, what I want to know is are you kind?
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collectible is a polaroid (remember those?) of Jerry in his art room at home airbrushing one of his larger images, something like Wetlands. I have collected some of those first original signed lithos, but you'll never see them, and especially the polaroid, on eBay.
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Sense of humour for sale. Many Deadhead owners. No longer needed.Will trade for a life of misery. Or a Europe '72 box set. Because it's a rip off, right? Wrong.
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In addition to my memories of ~ 425 shows, I still have 99% of my ticket stubs. The single coolest and rarest piec of memorabilia I have, and which will never be sold, is an invitation to the premier of The Grateful Dead Movie and after party (which I crashed), which is autographed by every member of the Grateful Dead (except for Phil), as well as a couple of other famous guests. While waiting for Jerry's autograph, the guy in front of me asked him for his Jerry Hancock, and that's what he got; Jerry signed "Jerry Hancock." "If the thunder don't get you, then the lightning will."
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My favorite piece of memrobillia is road case K25 A. Started life as K21. I stare at it for hours while listening to the sat. I often wonder if it was in Eureka in the mid sixties at the Eureka Municiple Auditorium, My aunt Donna 17 was told she could not go. me 8 , I walked 2 1/2 miles just to wander around outside.Does anyone know any history on this case?. I often consider puttin it up for auction, although I get alot of energy from my collection not in a hurry to part with stuff. It has alot of content pictures, reciepts, gear, lettters, a video 8 I have not viewed and more I live in the Bay area and it was regional luck I picked it up at a fair price.