An institution in American rock music, the Grateful Dead continue to surprise the ears with new arrangements and altered styles. If their playing continues with the force that was heard in San Bernardino, the spirit of the Dead will live on. - Sun Telegram
We are more than pleased to kick off this year's Dave's Picks series with the much requested and quite spirited complete performance from Swing Auditorium, San Bernardino, CA 2/26/77. The Swing ’77 show was a unique beast, unlike any others from this era: as the band’s first concert of the year, it bridged the gap between the new and re-emerging sound of the returning 1976 Grateful Dead and the precision excellence of the spring ’77 Dead. Debuting two of their most intricately crafted songs of the 1970s, “Terrapin Station” (to open, no less!) and “Estimated Prophet,” the Dead demonstrated right from the start of this new touring year that they were not going to be a nostalgia act; they were going to be as adventurous and ambitious as they were at any time in their career.
Join the adventure as they soar through tried and true ("Playing In The Band," "Tennessee Jed"), well-loved covers ("Mama Tried," "Samson and Delilah," "Dancing In the Street"), and epic new jams.
Rounded out with three songs from Santa Barbara, CA 2/27/77, this one was recorded by Betty Cantor-Jackson and has been mastered to HDCD specs by Jeffrey Norman.
Dave's Picks Volume 29 is limited to 20,000 individually-numbered copies*.
*Limited to 2 per order. Very limited quantity available.
VGuy72-Last Forever
VGuy 72 that's what I always thought too, it was a group moment when the crowd really could get behind the idea of the night (and show) lasting forever...
Greetings me Amigos and Mucho Garcia’s!
Wow what a great groove lately, thank you all for such fine socialization and entertainment!
C.J. Yaaassss son there are 2 of us, myself and my older/wiser Bizzaro Seinfeld twin Oroboros, who we unfortunately have not heard from in a while 😟 I believe his first show was Iowa 74? and he has great stories and a awesome vibe, he is missed here!
FAVORITE BRENT TUNE; now there’s a conversation starter....personally I liked most of em, but always really related to Just A Little Light. One thing I liked the best on that and most Brent tunes was what Jerry played. Gave him another unique platform to weave his magic!
COMPLETE ANNOTATED; have never fully dug in, but yes amazing book. Among other things, really shows how deep, knowledgeable, brilliant Hunter is...
CHARLIE; thanks for the affirmation! Fall/Winter 73 has always been atop my favorite tours, but until this past year I’ve been pretty clueless about the spring shows. Wow, I was lucky enough to pick up Dave’s 16, which is probably my fav Dave’s out of what I’ve heard so far. Really stoked for DP 28. Big weird Dark Stars are totally my favorite Dead; 69, 72, 73, and of course 74, the weirder the better. Really need that big scary one on Daves 9 y’all go on about, but that ones a little steep at this point...
HOOTEROLL; one of my fav Jerry albums, often flies way below the radar....quite a list in general, Always had something about Zepplin this time of year? Seasons starting to change, but not quite there, teenage hormonal angst, Song remains the same etc...
VGUY; glad your diggin the acoustic, but it’s bummin me out, can’t believe we biffed on that, Doooooooo. Cool your son digs all kinds of music! So how bout a holiday joke? You’ve been slaking the last six months on the jokes me amigo!
I looked out on my back deck this morning and saw someone already celebrating St. Patrick’s day early.......it was Paddy O Furniture, yuck yuck.
Hope all y’all have fun and get your green on! Personally I’ll probably go with some Fremont Dark Star stouts! Boo-yah!
Just a Little Light
aka Just a Miller Lite - slightly better than 900,000 Tons of Brent or I Will Take You Down?
I can't take any credit for these appellations being as I copped them from the book 'Dead to the Core' by Eric Wybenga which is pleasant bathroom reading BTW.
Smoke Alert
Just listened to the DP 33 Help / Slip / Franklin. Bobby is on fire during the last 5 minutes of Franklin's Tower. To my chagrin, he stopped using the Gibson ES after the WoS tour, and his sound became too thin, with barely any distortion effect (especially '77-'78); but he's absolutely tearing up the Franklin's Tower riff here. Lots of aggression - sure sounds like the Gibson. Worth a revisit if it's been awhile.
Oroborous - DP 28 is one of my favs. Excellent audio, great set lists, great performances (probably the best ever Beer Barrel Polka). The Dark Star is upper echelon. Hidden nugget - Greatest Story Ever Told.
1976 mix tonight. Attempted to include at least one from every release, as well as capture the flavor and set list spirit of '76 :D
ROAD TRIPS '76 BOSTON MUSIC HALL
Cold Rain & Snow
DOWNLOAD SERIES '76 BONUS TRACKS
Lazy Lightning >
Supplication
DICKS PICKS 20
Bertha
Cassidy
DICKS PICKS 33
Might As Well
Mama Tried
LIVE AT THE COW PALACE NYE 1976
They Love Each Other
DICKS PICKS 33
Help on the Way >
Slipknot! (Parts 1 & 2) >
Franklin's Tower
DAVES PICKS 28
Let it Grow >
Drums >
Let it Grow, Pt. 2 >
Wharf Rat
SPIRIT OF '76
Scarlet Begonias
LIVE AT THE COW PALACE NYE 1976
Samson & Delilah
ROAD TRIPS '76 BOSTON MUSIC HALL
Crazy Fingers
DICKS PICKS 20
Eyes of the World >
Orange Tango Jam
DICKS PICKS 33
The Other One
SO MANY ROADS
The Wheel
DAVES PICKS 18
Playing in the Band >
Cosmic Charlie >
Spanish Jam >
Playing in the Band, Pt. 2
Comes a Time
30 TRIPS AROUND THE SUN '76
Dancing in the Street >
Not Fade Away >
Dancing in the Street, Pt. 2
ROAD TRIPS '76 BOSTON MUSIC HALL
St. Stephen
DAVES PICKS 4
The Music Never Stopped >
Stella Blue
DICKS PICKS 20
Mississippi Half-Step Uptown Toodeloo
DOWNLOAD SERIES '76
Mission in the Rain
U.S. Blues
When The Conversation Turns to DP 33....
....I'm all ears. As sure as the sun shines, I'm gonna get a share of what's mine. The Eel delivers.
1976
So great! So many favorites here. Has there been a release to date that doesn't sound great. My two favorites as of today, Live at the Cow Palace, hard to beat this show, oh and it was a multi track recording with Plangent finishing touches. And RT 4.5, just love the whole show. Dave's 4 is also right there.
And 3/16/90, made the rounds today.
Ready for some more releases hopefully soon.
New Years Cow Palace 76/77....
....home of the best Samson/Delilah. Ever.
Hockey is starting to tighten up.
Tago Mago-Casey
One of Can's best - definitely one of their spaciest. And that's going some. But all their 1960s-70s albums are amazing. I am not as keen on one called Delay-but the others...
I have been listening to another great German rock band form the 1970s recently-Amon Duul 2. Phallus Dei (translates as "Gods Cock", keeping it topical), Yeti, Tanz Der Lemminge, Wolf City, Carnival in Babylon-magnifico! This is a quote from Britain's Shindig! magazine, July 2015;
"The closest cousin to Yeti's improvisation is certainly the elemental "Dark Star", which became a cornerstone of the freak culture in San Francisco. Can would take the same ideology but deliver it in a much more regimented way relying on a 4/4 back beat. Amon Duul 2 follow The Dead in that they go wherever the path takes them"
Obviously, Tago Mago goes a bit beyond "4/4 back beat"-but overall, I would agree with the above.
Still haven't taken the plunge with 3/15/90 yet.
someone's gotta explain...
...the draw of that '76 cobo hall show to Stoltzfus.
Last I remember it did not give him 'GD Wood'. (Am I 'On Topic' here teehee)
That 30 Trips box is quite the revelation though, containing many shows that would have taken a long time to have gotten released singly.
P.S. Fire Hydrants AND Cars
P.S.S. Speaking of Fire Hydrants and Cars, I saw one get run over by one (literally) last night. A first for me. Talk about synchronicity.
Someone's Gotta Explain
'76 can be hit or miss... it doesn't always grab me, but when it does grab me it takes me places. Of all the 76 shows, I think the Cow Palace New Year's show and the Day on the Green in October stand out, but... back to Cobo.
Get a hold of some good Indica, wait for it to take affect, put on the PITB sequence then relax and put your mind at ease.
If that doesn't do it... lather, rinse, repeat and try some Sativa.
That's all I've got. Over and out.
*Sunday Sunshine
...happy Sunday everyone, I hope to find all of you smile smile smiling today on this grateful sunny Sunday. I
Love me some 1976 playing but today I put in Daves Pick #11 nov. 17th 1972 ‘Wichita’ man oh man this release is in my top 72’ shows from such an era that finds lots of love in the Dead community. Daves #11 doesn’t have a single dud in the show in my opinion and liking !
Repeat these words three times and click the heels of your feet together, “There’s no band like the greatful Dead” ...and then push play to be back in 1972 with this primo audio you’ll feel like your right there!
Have a grateful day my friends! :)
Back from Jersey
Go away for a few days and it takes more than a few to read all the happenings!
Bob and the Wolf Bros were very nice. I was amazed at what Don Was could do with the standup bass.
The theater was very small and we had very good seats. I thought Jack Straw was my hottest track over the two nights. My buddy is getting the recordings and I can re-listen while not tripping balls.
Has anyone heard anything about a digital download on the latest 45 release? Thought I'd have an email when I got back.
did I really say that about Cobo?
maybe...time flies and my mind gets fuzzy.
I'll just have to (eventually) try again.
recent GD:
Eugene 1981 (8/16, I believe)
8/30/81
next 11/8/69
Led Zeppelin
The GD are in a league by themselves.
best rock band after GD?
Led Zeppelin
after a hiatus, I have been listening again.
LZ III YAHOO!
LZ I YAHOO!
LZ Presence YAHOO!
LZ Heartbreaker YAHOO! The opening riff is so FREAKING POWERFUL. Beavis and Butthead voices: BUH BAH BAH BAH BAH BAH BAH...!!!
LZ II YAHOO!
Tago Mago
Wow that was crazy last night. By the time side C ended, I felt like I was inside some kind of machine. Literally had to crawl across the floor to flip to side D. It was dark but there was shit moving everywhere. I will definitely be checking out some more British and German Psychadelic Cock Rock.
Now...drinking a spicy bloody while waiting for a table at the local Irish Pub...Lagunitas next...ate one more small stem before I left to keep things lively...
This afternoon I think 03/17/68...Carousel and then maybe 3/17/91 if I make it that long 😊
Happy St. Pats Dead Land!
76
76 is really growing on me. I had pretty much written it off, but lately, the more I listen the more I like. Of course the awesome hand picked shows we’ve been given surely help. I do recall wayback when hearing shows that would seem to sputter as the night wore on, or their coke wore off, but that could just be memory issues and/or my uninitiated teenage perspective back then?
Have been especially digging RT 4.5, and remember being pleastly surprised by the Cow palace when I first got a copy of that. Haven’t gotten around to the 30 trips show yet.....
Will have to fire that and the Cow palace up as soon as I get things back up and running.
Not a big fan of the Bean or some of the keyboard sounds, but that’s nitpicking, and of course if one simply follows Dr Jim’s advice the symptoms are properly mitigated 😎
fock, casey and dennis
Anyone want to share? I guess ya gotta know the right people.
Oh, and yes Mr. Fus - you had mention on a couple occasions how Cobo was not quite 'exciting' enough... teehee
I'll go back in my hole now.
Safety First!
CJ. Have fun but be safe, yee-haw. Like that Mystery Box Mickey song “full speed ahead”....
I’m thinking the hippie teacher from Beavis and Butthead, “ummm K, Casey, we want you to feel free to express yourself, but remember to not impact your fellow students or nature, especially the sea gulls”
“Fly away, lesbian sea gull”
Melvin Seals work on the '91 Eel show...
.... sounds soooooo good. Currently slow cooking some corned beef and cabbage. Keep it green people!!
Safety first
Nothing safer than your living room carpet...and uber of course. I always uber
Love Special Delivery
Cottonwoodhill by Brainticket is one of the most psychedelic records to have come out of Germany. Or anywhere, for that matter.
Interior Designers in Madhurawada
Ah,so beautiful and wonderful post!An opportunity to read a fantastic and imaginary blogs.It gives me lots of pleasure and interest.Thanks for sharing.
Cyberops
Cyberops Infosec is India’s leading Information Security Company in India. Cyberops provides Cyber Crime Consultancy, Ethical Hacking Training & VAPT in India.
Advancement in technology and interconnected business ecosystems has combined to increase exposure to cyber attacks. We aim to digitally shield the cyberspace by offering various products and services. We are hovering to influence our proficiency and global footprint in the field of information security and cyber crime investigation.
We foster certified trainings on Information Security and provide penetration testing for security audits, and Cyber Crime Investigation services for various sectors to meet their specific needs.
Cyberops
Cyberops Infosec is India’s leading Information Security Company in India. Cyberops provides Cyber Crime Consultancy, Ethical Hacking Training & VAPT in India.
Advancement in technology and interconnected business ecosystems has combined to increase exposure to cyber attacks. We aim to digitally shield the cyberspace by offering various products and services. We are hovering to influence our proficiency and global footprint in the field of information security and cyber crime investigation.
We foster certified trainings on Information Security and provide penetration testing for security audits, and Cyber Crime Investigation services for various sectors to meet their specific needs.
Recent posts - The Cramps?
Did someone mention Lux Interior down below?
Well that was a nice suprise
Just got the mail, and there was a brown padded envelope with my name taped on to a white label with no return address... It was the replacement disc for the replacement disc for Dave's 28!!! Enjoy your week everyone.. bob t
time for a cannonball into the pool
I've turned into an occasional lurker, mystified by the lack of froth in this thread.
Where's the speculation on the upcoming box? (The PNW thread is, uh, dead. Thus I take the plunge here.)
My bet is on six shows from fall '72. Here's the logic:
First, size/price is an issue. They'll stick with modest PNW-sized boxes for now -- the Goldilocks size (not too big, not too small).
Second, other modest boxes have not sold out; one possible reason is that Dave has leaned heavily on the returned Betty Boards/ABCD Enterprises a wee bit too much to fuel both DaPs and the boxes, with a forced focus in the 1976-78 range. We're saturated on the time period.
Third, Rhino et al need a "hit," meaning hot sales, even a sold-out box. Fall '72 is the sweet spot in terms of "ear demographics."
Fourth, Dave has said within the past two years that a fall '72 box is inevitable.
Fifth, apart from some runs in '69, which must have lesser representation in the vault, and spring '71 (I wouldn't cry if the Capitol/Feb run was released or more March/April), the fall of '72 offers enough hot shows that two boxes from that era could be assembled. Thus Dave can do a fall '72 box while still keeping some back for another box or for DaP release.
Sixth, and most convincingly, I'd love to hear my first show , 9-19-72. I was blown out on a hunk of fresh-hashish and just turned 15 yrs old.
An tsunami of irrefutable logic, eh?
*Jimi Hendrix
...I hope all is well, great posts recently over the last couple of months, so grateful for our community here. I’ve met many friends here and just wonderful beautiful people, thank you everyone! Hope everyone haves a grateful day. :)
...Jimi Hendrix fans & vinyl lovers, check out this up coming release due this April 2019. Here some info...
Definitive handmade limited run reissue of Jimi Hendrix Axis: Bold As Love
Newly remastered by Bernie Grundman from the original master tapes.
Mono release limited to 1,500 copies
Pressed at Quality Record Pressings using Clarity Vinyl on a manual Finebilt press.
Purest possible pressing and most visually stunning presentation and packaging!
Includes 16-page booklet with recording session info and an essay written by Brad Tolinski, former editor of Guitar World Magazine.
"The Axis UHQR cut is amazing — full bodied, detailed, powerful and engaging. Very impressive. The best pressing of the record I have ever heard." — Bill Levenson, Grammy Award-winning reissue producer.
"AP's UHQR mastered by Bernie Grundman towers above the rest. During our listening session, I told (Michael Fremer), "if someone doesn't like this record's sound, their listening situation is crap." It's everything the SACD offers and more, minus the slight digital sheen, and shockingly quieter (Yes! The vinyl produced blacker backgrounds than did the SACD, hence the "shock" — Ed). In addition, the packaging (which was sent in an unfinalized version) is stunning; the album itself is housed in a Stoughton tip-on gatefold while the outer two-piece box is of excellent build and features a beautiful wooden spine." — Malachi Lui, AnalogPlanet.com. Read the entire commentary, based on a pre-production copy of the album.
Analogue Productions, the audiophile in-house reissue label of Acoustic Sounds, Inc., together with Quality Record Pressings, is reintroducing one of the most revered brands in LP history — the Ultra High Quality Record (UHQR™), originally introduced by JVC Japan in the 1980s!
Analogue Productions presents its first UHQR™ title — Jimi Hendrix's 1967 masterpiece, Axis: Bold As Love, in both stereo and mono versions. This UHQR™ is newly remastered by Bernie Grundman from the original analog master tapes. Each UHQR™ will be pressed at Acoustic Sounds' industry-leading pressing plant Quality Record Pressings (QRP) using hand-selected Clarity Vinyl® on a manual Finebilt press with attention paid to every single detail of every single record. The 200-gram records will feature the same flat profile that helped to make the original UHQR™ so desirable. From the lead-in groove to the run-out groove, there is no pitch to the profile, allowing the customer's stylus to play truly perpendicular to the grooves from edge to center. Clarity Vinyl® allows for the purest possible pressing and the most visually stunning presentation. Every UHQR™ will be hand inspected upon pressing completion, and only the truly flawless will be allowed to go to market. Each UHQR™ will be packaged in a deluxe box and will include a booklet detailing the entire process of making a UHQR along with a hand-signed certificate of inspection. This will be a truly deluxe, collectible product.
Each Axis UHQR™ will be available as two versions: mono and stereo. The stereo release will be limited to 5,000 copies, while the mono release will be limited to 1,500 copies. The deluxe box will be gold foil numbered.
Axis: Bold As Love, the sensational sophomore release of the Jimi Hendrix Experience, showcased Hendrix's expansive experimentation while acknowledging his early R&B and soul music influences. The album features classics such as "Spanish Castle Magic," "Little Wing," "Castles Made Of Sand," and "If 6 Was 9."
For those Jimi Hendrix fans who collect and prefer his many vinyl album releases, an original mono copy of Axis: Bold As Love remains the coin of the realm. Mono vinyl pressings of both Are You Experienced and Axis: Bold As Love are significant because they are not only difficult to find in premium condition but they also feature discrete mixes made specifically for monophonic release, originally created by producer Chas Chandler, Jimi Hendrix and Eddie Kramer.
For this mono edition of Axis, Bernie Grundman's Los Angeles mastering facility was utilized, using a specially equipped Studer tape machine outfitted with a full track mono head block. The machine has also been refitted with vintage Ampex 350 tube electronics. These technical alterations provided the closest possible approximation of the original 1967 Track Records mono mastering process. The edition also features the original gatefold sleeve artwork. Grundman cut the lacquers for the edition; the plating at QRP was directed by Gary Salstrom, master plating technician and QRP general manager.
The Axis: Bold As Love UHQRTM will include a 16-page booklet featuring recording information from the sessions at Olympic Studios in London and an essay written by Brad Tolinski, former editor of Guitar World Magazine.
As Rolling Stone states, Jimi Hendrix was the most innovative instrumental genius the rock era produced, a wizard guitar player whose sense of technique never overwhelmed the blues and rock 'n' roll spirit that was the underpinning of his genius. He improvised with the fervor of a born jazzman; he philosophized like the most cosmic rocker, but ultimately his basics were rooted in soul, a reflection of the chitlin circuit, where he cut his teeth.
With the possible exception of Cream, The Jimi Hendrix Experience was debatably the world's finest-ever power trio. Axis was a showcase for Jimi's brash, scintillating songs and the grasp that Jimi and his cohorts - Mitch Mitchell on drums and Noel Redding on bass - had on the studio technology at their disposal, and the lyrical beauty of Hendrix's guitar playing.
• "The most lasting song for many is the awe-inspiring 'Little Wing.' With its perfect blend of lead and rhythm guitar (the song's introductory phrases blurred the line forever between the two), the tune is a pure, simple thing of beauty ... In true 1967 style, the production on Axis is superb. Jimi never sounded as vulnerable and accessible, vocally and instrumentally, while the analog thud of Mitch Mitchell and the solid basslines of Reddding were the ultimate rhythm section of the day - with a nod, of course, to Jack Bruce and Ginger Baker, their only rivals in so many respects." — 1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die
• "(Axis) followed up Hendrix's groundbreaking debut effort with a solid collection of great tunes and great interactive playing between himself, Noel Redding, Mitch Mitchell, and the recording studio itself. Wisely retaining manager Chas Chandler to produce the album and Eddie Kramer as engineer, Hendrix stretched further musically than the first album, but even more so as a songwriter. He was still quite capable of coming up with spacy rockers like 'You Got Me Floating,' 'Up from the Skies,' and 'Little Miss Lover,' radio-ready to follow on the commercial heels of 'Foxey Lady' and 'Purple Haze.' But the beautiful, wistful ballads 'Little Wing,' 'Castles Made of Sand,' 'One Rainy Wish,' and the title track set closer show remarkable growth and depth as a tunesmith, harnessing Curtis Mayfield soul guitar to Dylanesque lyrical imagery and Fuzz Face hyperactivity to produce yet another side to his grand psychedelic musical vision." — AllMusic
Bottom line, January of 1968 brought Axis: Bold As Love to the U.S., an album that expanded Jimi's six-string flame with celestial clarity, and also brought his rapidly evolving songwriting gift to the fore. It was recorded at Olympic Studios in London.
Love ur Girl and Jimi
Well it appears that the 1500 mono copies are long gone, at 100 bucks a pop I can see why. Saw one on ebay for 700! The stereo version has some left (maybe a 1000), at 100 bucks might be worth stacking on the side.
Hendrixfreak/2019 Box
Agree, we definitely need to hear more about what we may get for 2019. I know most of us are chomping at the bit!
My opinion is somebody must know someone, we have always had leaks in the past.
Please share those.
Love your idea about fall 72, can't miss with that one.
And of course there are many other great ideas out there.........
You will never hear surf music again
3rd Stone From The Sun. Dick Dale gone.
Eel on the way!
Grate news! My Eel box is to be delivered today! What is this Cyberops thing, anyway? Kinda wierd. Isn't Captcha supposed to keep that stuff at bay? And Lux Interior? Seems like the same guy.
Better Shed than Dead
Bye Dick. Tonight the kids at the store will learn about real surf.
Hendrix / Fall '72
I like it. But I want more than 6 shows. Make it 12. Make it 20 and cut the production number back to whatever Europe 72 was. 4500? 6500? We need to get these shows on the street. Dark Stars and Bird Songs a must. If I hit the lottery I'll buy the Vault. Then I'll put some promotional marketing schemes into place that will get these dead releases selling 30000 each!
Brother Keith, Hendrixfreak, 72, and boxes?
Hallelujah Brother Keith! Enough of this fuctsten around, release the hounds Smithers! I personally volunteer to be on the committee when you buy the vault. I have many skills/qualifications AND I was never really a “taper” so I don’t suffer those biases. If I had one criticism of ol Dave, it’s that he comes from that background and it’s biases.......I know weak, but it does seem to play into his choices.....
HENDRIXFREAK; good to hear from you! Your logic seems very sound. Haven’t had a 72 since what, Dave’s 25? And you have to think that some of the sales figures for a few of the recent boxes might be considered a tad disappointing, at least in the board room. Personally I’ve really dug the last few boxes. But yassss, a solid 72 offering would probably do the trick eh? Any big Dark Stars are are always top o my list!!
68/69; I still think something from 68 might show up (if there is enough material?) because I bet ol Dave’s been hashing about those parts to come up with the Bonus disc for the 50th Aoxomoxoa release.....69 because a) its fuggin 69, and b) it’s been a while? and it seems like there is a decent amount of positive feedback here whenever the topic arises....
I guess fall 89 could come into play since it’ll be the 30th anniversary and they have the top shelf recordings to work with,, but they did 89 not too long ago and it might still not be sold out? Perhaps a solid Philly 89 run might move better? I know that’d be in my top wish jar....
71 is probably a solid guess also....personally it wouldn’t be a top wish, but when was the last time anything from early 71 came out? Also, many people here seem to really crave some of that, so again, Sound logic for sure!
2 BOXES; personally, I’d like to see something old now of say mid size, and some 89, like that Philly run in the fall...
“That would be somethin’, yes it really would!”)
What say all yall???
Boxs
Considering 1968-1969 and 1972 are my favourite years, I would like to suggest that the next box comes from one of those two timespans. Fall 1972 would provide a nice bookend to Europe 72. Maybe it would work if two boxes for the same tour was released, like was the case with Spring 1990. It would be incredible if everything from 1972 eventually came out.
boxes...
I'm hoping for small, 2-3 show boxes from here on out. I just can't keep up financially any longer. Life has not been kind to me lately and if big boxes come out I will not be buying due to extremely low cash flow. And it would really hurt because I love it all and would love to buy 'em, but I have to tap out now on the big expensive stuff. Oh well...such is life.
So...fingers crossed for small stuff.
:O)
i will say
Did not pull the trigger on the Eel. Great concept, fine art and all it just did not give me Jerry wood (to coin a phrase) Gimme something '78 and I'm all over it like butter on bread.
Eel and Expensive Boxes
So far, the Eel is nice.. wish I was there!
Until we finish our tunnel under the vault and free the reels, Dave and Rhino will continue to reek havoc on our finances and relationships. #freethereels
Morning Rockers!
Early 71 or late 69 would be good by me too. I would love to have a ladies and gentlemen part 2. I think that's one of the most perfectly recorded and mixed live releases they've had yet. It's odd how different they sound from Europe 72, considering they're only a year apart. I don't think Jerry had quite picked up the Stratocaster yet, but I could be wrong. I kind of forget what he played between the Gibson SG and the strat, but I have a feeling it's something other than Jerry's guitar that accounts for the sound difference. Anyway, as much as I like Keith, they were playing some pretty hot shows in April of 71.
Same goes for late 1969. I love this. Because they start to integrate the new Dead with the old. Dick's Picks 16 is good example of a great setlist from that period.
Oroborous. Since you expressed such enthusiasm for coming on board, you will be the first person I hire after I purchase the Vault. I'll need somebody to assist with dividing the shows up by audio quality. Sure, we can avoid those bothersome tape trading days releases for a while :D
Good Work
Just wanted to say, as others have recently, good job to All on the fun back and forth of late here - takes me back to days of yore before the revamping of this site....ahhh, the memories of warm sepia tones, the occasional random spammer shaming, the endless, witty banter....definitely starting to see shades of this more and more around these parts. It's good to be back and thank you All.
That being said, I am successfully out of the gate with tracking each Spring '90 show and haven't missed one yet, but it had a moment of combat with Electric on the Eel last night and who was going to take precedence. It turns out I was able to have a calm and orderly listening party with each.
I am looking forward to this evening's show though, the March 19th Hartford show has some awesome moments and i love that frickin' second set. I'll be attentively tuned in this evening.
Sixtus
doubling down on fall '72
Here's what must be part of the calculus: how many release-able shows exist for the years 1969-1974 (keep the focus tight, for now, due to saturation of '76-'78, as stated previously)...
I leave out '68 because the shows tend to be single-disc length and presumably rare, Dave has to hold back something and he's probably going to cough up a fall '68 to accompany the Aoxomoxoa reissue. I'm thinking both '69 and '70 shows are somewhat scarce and we're about to get DaP 30 with two '70 shows. We just had the PNW '73-'74.
That leaves '69, '71 and fall '72... A small 3-show box from '69 would of course be welcomed by this Pigpen freak, as would anything from 1971. But the sweet spot for fans and the band's playing remains fall '72 and this has seen releases from:
9-17-72
9-21-72 (w/9-3-72 filler)
9-24-72
9-27-72
11-17-72
11-18-72 special single-disc release).
So that's six shows from a fruitful period. (Did I miss any?) So I see a host of others that could be mined without wiping out the inventory:
9-15 & 16-72, Boston
9-19-72, Jersey City
9-23-72, Waterbury (other night from 30 Trips show)
9-26-72, Jersey City (Stanley Theater, first of three nights, Dick's 11 was 9-27-72)
9-28-72, Jersey City (Stanley Theater, third night)
10-2-72, Springfield, MA
10-18-72, St. Louis
10-19-72, St. Louis
10-23-72, Milwaukee
10-26-72, Cincinnati
10-27-72, Columbus
10-28-72, Cleveland
10-30-72, Detroit
11-13-72, Kansas City, MO
11-14-72, Oklahoma City
11-15-72, Oklahoma City (two nights in OK??)
11-19-72, Houston (second of two nights)
11-22-72, Austin
11-24-72, Dallas
11-26-72, San Antonio
Then we're into "winter" with:
12-10 & 11-72, San Francisco
12-15-72, Long Beach
12-31-72, San Francisco
That's 25 shows. Say some don't exist, are partial reels or have other issues. That's probably still enough for a 6-show box with plenty left over for DaPs or another box.
I used to rail against such speculation as a waste of time, too much early hype, unrealistic (no one can read Dave's mind), etc. Now I'm the most shameless hyper of all. Hey, contradictions are healthy. R-r-r-right?