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The tech folk must have gotten into the brown acid

I thought I heard Dave say shows, which may mean maybe three shows from 1970 and the the bonus material from 10-24

I think Snafu wss referring to "Dick's 'dex, The Dick's Picks Indexed Guide", a booklet that came with the "From The Vault" box in 2007. It gave some information and track listing for all 36 volumes of "Dick's Picks".

Can't make longer comments ... :-o

Thank you PTB for all the music.

And as always...God Bless the Grateful Dead

At the end of Dick’s Picks when he passed they issued a booklet ( I’m back in Boston for nephew’s wedding so I can’t go look at it) CD sized cross referencing songs shows. It was maybe 50 pages, a nice little reference book. As I said I don’t remember how I got it but suspect it was a bonus when the series came to its sad end. Nothing special and nowadays info easily available but a nice little item. I think # 50 would be appropriate to issue Dave’s 1stvolume

For years I’ve been turning the youngsters at work who have no clue who The GD were ( I work in one of the most ethnically diverse environments outside of NYC anywhere) onto who they were by exposing them to that greeting. I had no idea some heads were offended by it. I don’t remember when it started but it was always said in an innocuous way as far as I was concerned. Yes youngsters I am grandpa to a number and when said by a 20 or 30 something Asian guy it is a mark of respect not derision

Yes I continue to spread the word musically. As I mentioned I work in a ultra diverse ( blue collar) job. I am a lead with a crew of 60+ mostly 20 and 30 somethings. In the office there are 5 leads on a 7 day rotation. 3 Chinese ( 1 from Guangjo -sic- 1 from HK and 1 abc but whose parents had just arrived and grew up as if in Chengdu ? 1 Scot and me typical white boy Yank. I play YouTube 10 hours a day exposing them and the crew ( easily 50% not US born) to a wide range of Motown blues bluegrass doowop rock etc. it used to be oh my parents listen to that or my uncle worked for the Americans and I heard that as a kid. Now it’s my grandparents or great uncle 😆

Avatar is cover of the booklet SNAFU mentions

Several attempts to describe the booklet have failed to pass the privacy regulations!

It has a song index to the DPs

48 out for delivery

As much of a collector/ completest as I am no chance of me spending 160 on this. The Brits have it worse Badlands has it for £179 !

I noticed mention on his site about this release coming from Japan. If this is the case, that could effect pricing due to frieght charges. I don't really know but I do know 160$ for a four cd set is crazy. Maybe the extras are super cool! I would hope, anyhow

Rock on, gang

I have been collecting the Dick's and Dave's Pick since inception. I had the extreme pleasure of being one of Dick's "pen pals" and still own the letters we shared. As an avid music collector, one of my favorite memories was to have my "Volume 9" arrive with a short note written to me on the back of the cd and signed by Dick. It will always be one of my prized possessions. I proudly own all of the Dicks and Daves series. As a 45 year+ Deadhead/follower, now in my 60's this series (and many of the box sets) have become an integral part of my life. I had expected the quality to diminish over time and that just hasn't happened. I marvel over the consistent quality though the years.
Usually, I debate the subscription purchase for a few days and then fold. This year, I finally decided not to fight it. I've ordered it already.
Dicks 'Dex was issued as a bonus. At the time, I thought do I really need this? As the collection has expanded, I find myself using it more and more often to help me "pick" what I want to listen to. I think it's "high time" to issue another as a supporting reference. Hoping our collective voice is heard. If you are new to the Dead and debating the subscription, my advice to you is, to just go for it. I would never steer a fellow Deadhead wrong.

Wow, that sounds cool. Thank you for the info on this guys, I appreciate it. And now I will have to try and hunt one down.

I don’t have it and don’t remember it being for sale.
I had all the DP’s when the series ended and was annoyed about the new chop job RT series and didn’t subscribe. So if Dick’s Dex came with a RT subscription that may be why I don’t have it.
But if it was for sale by itself I didn’t really need it because I had Dead Base IX and XI which have show and song info plus a whole lot more.

List of releases:
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Aiko Aiko

or is it

Iko Iko

Good on ya for spreading the GD word to the younger generation. We need more Deadheads in the world. I had a similar experience at a workplace when a thirty-something found out I was into the Dead and was surprised. I guess she expected long hair or something but at sixty plus then those days were gone. She expressed an interest and her teen daughter did too so I gave them all my early burned CDs of some prime stuff which had been replaced with better copies by then. She thought I was some guru but I told her to check out deadnet where the real experts are and I am still a novice by standards here.
As for Hey Now, one person who finds it slightly disrespectful for some reason does not a controversy make. The only thing the rest of us have against it, and it doesn't bother me how they word it, is when the site uses it to chastise us for something wrong we didn't even do! This site has always had lousy IT tech and they seem to like to show it often and in new and different ways continuously. Just my two cents.
Cheers

I collected the RT Series too. I tended to discount them at first. Initially I viewed them as inferior too. But, going back and revisiting them, there are some gems from the road.
I also have the Dead Base. They're a great resource for various reasons.
The advantage of the Dick's 'Dex, is that using it and the way I have my Dead library stored, it makes it easier to pull the show by its volume number.

....so, it's Aiko.

From Creole corruption of French word ecoute as in listen. A call and response as in "listen", "no, you listen". Inquiring minds want to know.
Cheers

I agree, plenty of amazing music in the RT series.

Same for download series.

How much of our lives are wasted waiting for someone in the household to quote get ready unquote

Grrr

Nineteen Hundred Seventy Two

D uh m b

Yes

Nice call

Daverock mentioned the 10 18 72 Playing Dark Star Dew Playing sequence that made up that Light Into Ashes breakout release. Surprised that one is still available. 45 bucks for 2 LPs is reasonable, and a great pressing. May have to put that on tomorrow. Still awaiting DiP 2 and its own Dark Star sequence. Hoping 2024 Dave's brings forth a Dark Star. Or two.

Edited to ask: Is 10 28 72 the one where Bear took handheld mics around the venue for one of the recordings? Feel like it was an October '72 show and Cleveland seemed the one. Had an incredibly livelike sound of the hall. But somehow where the audience wasn't so loud, and I don't imagine he was walking around with a giant pole with his mics.

Agreed that Road Trips series are filled to the brim with amazing music, though i wish some of those shows were released in full though, especially MSG 90.

I'm not too familiar with the download series, any recommendation would be appreciated!

The Road Trips series is great. I had issues with it initially as each installment did not include compete shows. At the time I was a complete show completest I guess? However I was definitely mistaken on that and plus the series did start to release complete shows too. However, and I have said this before, the bonus discs are a big plus. I had most of the bonus discs, and for the ones I did not have, well I got fairly good with finding them on eBay. Also I must shout out Real Gone Music for the reissue efforts as I was able to fill some gaps by ordering from that company sans the bonus discs. With that and for most volumes that came with one, getting the bonus disc, at least to me completed the release. With few exceptions the material on the bonus discs are almost essential to the rest of discs in each volume.

As for the download series, I have a few of those show too. There are some under the radar shows in that series, but I like it. There were two special downloads that came from Road Trips: 11/5/79 & 11/6/79 both from the Spectrum. A few songs from each of those shows are on Road Trips V.1 N. 1. but for one reason or another they decided to give the Spectrum shows the full release as downloads as well. Most of the download series is still available on Nugs.net except for the 2 complete Road Trips downloads. It is a bummer as I really would like to get my hands on both of those shows.

Hey Gratefulhan, check your PM.

The Download series was great. I wish they would release them all in CDs.
#1 from the Palladium in 1977 is outstanding.
#7 from September 1980 Springfield Mass.
#4 from June 1976 Capitol Theatre.
#5 from March 1988 Hampton.
#10 from July 1972 is another favorite.
#11 from Pine Knob June 1991.

A lot to love in this series.

And you show me a sign...1985 danger ahead, jerry in red!
yes to BLIND-MAN that would be VERY cool
and to 1STSHOW on no. 51 with a different line(s)up with six 11 sixty nine, or maybe six 25 ninety two
chatting Seaside with a lean towards no. 50 I did not hear him speaking in tongues, it was plural, as in “SHOWS”, and talking about upcoming "world recordy" for subscribers, wow, like it’s dizzying the possibilities; melkweg, jamaica
I'll be willin' to be movin'
Peace All!
uncle_tripel

Add seven 6 eighty seven as a contender for no. 51

Yes, the term World Recordy sounds promising. I remember the bad mix on my Europe 81 old cassettes was mostly guitar and keyboards. I always thought it was a mistake that nobody caught until it was too late. I just realized, could it be only half the mix of a multitrack? Regardless, there are at least two recordings from that tour, either Melk Weg or Essen. But I still loved listening to Munich, Paris and Copenhagen, despite their flaws.

why? why, after all these years of no problems with these subscriptions, I can't order now? I have tried everything, reset passwords, jumped through hoops, some with real fire, and still can't order. Tired of this, down to the last few days and I still can't order. When will this site get their shit together? done now, maybe someone will help me, but if I get another email saying change your password, or one that insinuate that I don't know what I'm doing, I'm done.

..wouldn't that be a major coup if those tapes were actually salvageable.
I can remember those cassettes and listening to one of the Rainbow, Bremen, Russelheim, Barcelona,
what a struggle, think I purged them all about 15 years ago, once was just enough lol.

Peace All!
uncle_tripel

PT - sorry if you have already tried this, but whenever I have ordered anything over the last year or so, I have done so as a guest rather than someone with an existing password etc. It has always worked for me this way.
Why we can't order using our existing details is beyond me.

PT and DAVEROCK Yes I have been ordering as a Guest for a long time now It works and I don't know why ordering as a member is so Difficult ??

I signed in and expected trouble ahead.
No problems this time.
It's kind of random it seems.
Cheers

Have just been picking up Dave's a la carte the past few years, got just what I wanted that way.

But seeing as I went to both of these 1985 Frost shows (hence my user name, as I like the Frost even better than the Greek), and Number 50 sounds mighty tasty, I'm going all in again.

The 85s were not up to the 70s quality IMO, but I still enjoyed these shows and the cozy venue at the Frost.

Hoping that 50 will be the Ark, but many of us have said that before.,...

this is complete bull shit, tried everything, says my email is invalid, tried another one, won't go thru, tried as quest, won't work, tried everything, I want to give you my money, why won't you take it? someone please help me.

PT,
You’ve probably tried this already, but different browser and/or delete history.
Alternatively, try to order from a phone or tablet.

well, after several hours and repeated hair pulling, I have successfully completed this order. Thanks to Icecrmcnkd, I had to download an additional browser, pull out an old credit card that I haven't used on this site before and use a different email address but, it finally worked. Am I happy? for the music, yes, am I happy about this abortion that is this sites inability to complete even the smallest request? NO, . this is it, I'm out.

Hey PT et el
Did you/anyone receive a email confirmation?
Our order shows charged on CC, and in order history, but no email confirmation or confirmation number?

This is supposed to be fun, not so stressful, FFS!

Ordered oct 25 as soon as it posted and got an email confirmation right away. I was signed in and amazingly it all worked. The snafus are so random. Weird I.T. for sure.
Cheers and good luck all

Now we have to stress about wether there’ll be nonsense or not?
We haven’t received any email confirmation, just a hit on the CC, and it shows in order history, which is weird because we’ve been having to sign in under guest for several of last purchases?
Hopefully it won’t matter, but here we go again having to worry.
And, we’re actually really exited for some 85 shows, been waiting since….

Hey, only six attempts! You guys are killing it!
This is such #$&**()) can’t use cuss words now…wtf, now their censoring us?

OB,

I didn't receive an email confirmation either, but it shows up in my order history as well.

Maybe the confirmation was rejected with a Hey Now?

I did, I did receive a confirmation email from rhino/deadnet/someone/somebody. There were so many attempts on my part to be included in this subscription and the subsequent music that it entails. I do believe I spent 5 hours of my personal time to achieve a successful order. Who do I send the invoice to?
After saying that I just have got to ask, "wtf do the web development team do all day?" Is there one? if not, you really need one to help get this site up to 2024 specs, not flailing around trying to make the simplest thing work, something that has always worked in the past, but now, seems to do everything it can to make your order difficult.
And here's another thing, it's the money, one would think that they would at least get the money right. They really don't have to do much to sell this product, please, please spend a little time making this site that we all want and deserve, one that is friendly and inclusive to all, kinda like the Dead themselves. That's my two cents worth, not worth much, but it's out there. Take it or leave it.

I work for a tech company and I was telling a couple it guys about some of this and they couldn’t believe it’s taking this long to upgrade a site…and their slacker it guys ; ) You’d think a conglomerate like WM would have the ways and means to do this correctly.
I wonder if any of the band have any idea of how bad the quality is with WM?
Maybe they don’t care, but I’d like to believe they wouldn’t like decades of trying to do things professionally going down the toilet because of some lame corporation?

Did everyone get an email with Dave's new video saying thank you and talking about #50 and 51? His comments have me spinning. For one, he is super excited about #50! But he talks about the bonus disc is a show that could have been a stand alone Dave's Picks. Hmmm. So, does that mean it will be a show that can fit on one disc? What shows can fit on one disc. Or as someone pointed out back about 100 Hey Now posts ago, could the bonus disc for 50 be 2 discs? And he talks about 51 being something that noone is going to see coming. This definitely sounds like an exciting year. Can't wait to see how it plays out. He also said that Rhino should be releasing info on #50 soon. Definitely an exciting time in GD world. Also sounds like they are upping the game trying to get people to subscribe. Hopefully y'all who didn't get confirmation are really on the list.

Didn't mean to post the same thing on both boards. Kept getting blocked and didn't realize it actually went thru so tried the other post.
This site is supposed to be my stress reliever. Not my stress inducer