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Cold Rain and Snow, My Brother Esau, Althea
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A trio of songs including one traditional, one original that was only around for four years, and one original that was around for 16 years
day19_EFFyanuKNSJpUnM_cold_esau.mp3
Berkeley, CA, Berkeley Community Theatre
Cold Rain and Snow was one of the Dead's earliest covers, and was included in their first album in 1967. My Brother Esau was around from 1983 to 1987. Althea debuted in 1979 and was include on the Dead's 1980 Go Tio Heaven album, and stuck around to 1995
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    bong
    2 weeks 2 days ago
    kinks in the sound

    The sound falls out in CRAS at the following time points (and more), at least for me: 1 min 56 s, 2 min 54 s, 3 min 33 s, 3 min 44 s, a.o.

  • Nomadtribe
    2 weeks 1 day ago
    My Boy Crabcake….

    Always said this would turn into a “vicious, psycho-Jerry rock and roll jam”, who could put or better! Thanks for it all.

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    jerhan
    2 weeks 6 days ago
    No drops

    No drop out on the SBD I have…hooray for uninterrupted music. I love 30DoD!!

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A trio of songs including one traditional, one original that was only around for four years, and one original that was around for 16 years
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day19_EFFyanuKNSJpUnM_cold_esau.mp3
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Cold Rain and Snow, My Brother Esau, Althea

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as i said about yesterday's quiz. ^

to maybe start a topic of conversation, does anybody else experience the music as texture ?
or any other synesthia ?

along with many other factors influencing how i hear the Dead especially, like seeing colors etc, is seeing Jer's guitar like a rose vining up a trellis of Bobby's chords, or Brent's B3 (and sometimes his voice) feels furry.

in some way, this helps me narrow down the different eras of the Dead's music for this game, because of the texture.

all the ways to *hear* the music !

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Hornsby you're right about the easy bucket.

Dave & co have been very generous this year, with the music, and with the game. all these multiple tracks each day have made the searches easier. raising a glass to all !

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Well today's is a lot easier to tie down. And am so pleased that yesterday's hard work paid off with the right answer.

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Been in from the start - a wonderful annual treat. Many thanks
(Appropriate today - we have snow here in North Wales for the first time this winter)

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I don't ever recall one being that easy.

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playing cold rain keeps cutting out and back
is anyone else sharing this awful dilemma

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Yes, my Cold Rain also has a few dropouts....and getting worse as the song goes on

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I guess everyone is having a dropout problem with this track! They should re-post it without the dropouts if that is possible? A favorite tune of mine but the gaps are a bummer! I deleted it and re-downloaded but to no avail!

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don’t hear dropouts on archive and syncs well hope downloaded piece intact

ps. relisten gives error compromised site on all my platforms…beware

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I wonder if the drop outs are part of the source material, or just results of bad connections. Weird.

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@thismikebenz The drop outs are definitely in the source file, but the sbd copy of the show I have does not have any drop outs.

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...before I ran my song lists checks with my sources. I can't say more without giving away too much info, but suffice to say that I was at this show, and so many around this time, that I recall dreaming I was at shows in my sleep. Drop outs are unfortunate, maybe they can be fixed, but even if they can't, there are other good sources out there. We were taping off our masters every morning after the shows, comparing different mic set-ups, getting all techno-geeky in the aural landscape.

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Today’s CR&S is so THICK with those chugging notes and chords laid down by Phil- you can feel his bass. Truly the only hint needed- if you listened to every version of that song you could pick today’s right out…

ON THE ROAD AGAIN and THE RACE IS ON were played in the same show (and set) 11 times- ten of these were acoustic sets. The 11/26/80 show was the only time both were played in an all-electric show. What a treat for those Floridians who didn’t get to a show opening with an acoustic set! Forty-four years after the fact and I still regret not getting to Radio City for one of those shows…

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Another easy one today. Like the sound of Phil up front at the beginning of Cold Rain... Started out with same cut as on the source I found for today.

I thought yesterday was easy. Even the "hint" which I usually ignore did give the first year to try right away. I thought I would 'zero in' rather than take that so called hint as a call to search a full 15 year span. As soon as I heard the guitar, lead vocals and keyboard sound/tones I thought, Hmmm that sounds an awful lot like the 1980-81 sound and it does state "second half of career etc". I will just try looking at 1980 first. Sometimes simplifying helps. Bingo, answer popped up right away.

Can't believe I missed yesterday's while I was in the right year. I guess too many distractions at home but I did get back on track today. I would have caught this entire run in a venue I just love!

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I am getting cut outs in this mp3. I deleted and redownloaded - same problem persists.

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When you find the SBD for this show on the Internet Archive, it does not have the cutouts.

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The Hunt is always fun but the real payout is to get a much higher quality listen once your find the show in question.

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Yeah as I take a listen to the MP3 the first drop out occurs around the 2min mark of Cold Rain and Snow.

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I hear that Jer.
Interesting open to Esau.
This entire show is well above ave, to my ears.
Be Well You All

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Yeah, I get cut outs, too.

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David has been serving these trios on a platter for us.
Shouldn’t have to spend much time wandering the land looking for this grouping.
This space is getting hot with all these multiple offerings.
I’m just fine if we continue to be treated this old way for the next 11 Days…

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or maybe it was those chilly winds that fouled up this first track download. Well played nonetheless. Esau is one of my favorite Bobby tunes. Althea is perfect. Phil's bass is extra strong and audible at this show.

Fun fact: There's something special in Grateful Dead concert history beginning the day before this show was recorded. However, I won't go into that now as I don't want to be a guess spoiler.

Edit: The jamming pre-drums is definitely worth a listen(I hope that's not too revealing for those still searching).

I never knew about that tidbit in GD history that started the day before today's show. I guess I always assumed that had been a thing for several years prior. Big props to all the folks that paved the way for that to happen!

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I have kind of a random question somewhat related to yesterday’s selection. One of my first exposures to the Dead was the Go to Nassau live album from May 15/16, 1980. To me it sounds just exactly perfect. So I’ve always loved the 1980 sound. Does anyone know if it was heavily overdubbed in the studio? Or were the boys just that on those nights??

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I'm going with no on the overdub. I remember hearing tracks from the Nassau shows on the King Biscuit Flour Hour that didn't make the CD.

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That’s what I suspected but never known for sure…thanks ladnarc

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Released in 2002. No overdubs. And no overdubs in any of their archival releases.

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No drop out on the SBD I have…hooray for uninterrupted music. I love 30DoD!!

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The sound falls out in CRAS at the following time points (and more), at least for me: 1 min 56 s, 2 min 54 s, 3 min 33 s, 3 min 44 s, a.o.

Always said this would turn into a “vicious, psycho-Jerry rock and roll jam”, who could put or better! Thanks for it all.

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