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    Who's up for a revolutionary evolutionary ride? DAVE'S PICKS VOLUME 30: FILLMORE EAST, NEW YORK, NEW YORK 1/2/70 captures the Grateful Dead as they make their first foray from the experimental 60s into their early 70s acoustic Americana period. Yes, this one is a little bit country and a little bit (psychedelic) rock and roll.

    When the "Magnificent Seven" - Pigpen on percussion, T.C. on keys - first took the stage on 1/2/70, evidence was clear that the trip was about to take a turn. From their western wears to the twang in Jerry’s “broken-string blues,” it appeared they'd brought the Bakersfield sound to the Big Apple. They worked through much of what would become Workingman's Dead, stunning the crowd with laid-back numbers like "Uncle John's Band," "Casey Jones," and "Black Peter." Just the same, they satisfied 60s stalwarts with magical versions of "Dark Star," "St. Stephen," and "That's It For The Other One." Sonic alchemy, indeed!

    DAVE'S PICKS VOLUME 30: FILLMORE EAST, NEW YORK, ​New York 1/2/70 has been rounded out with a bit of 1/3/70 (the subscribers-only bonus disc features the bulk of 1/3/70). It was recorded by the great Owsley "Bear" Stanley and has been lovingly mastered to HDCD specs by Jeffrey Norman.

    DAVE'S PICKS VOLUME 30 is limited to 20,000 individually-numbered copies*.

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

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  • wissinomingdeadhead
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    11/25/79

  • hendrixfreak
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    The world is upside down!

    "80sFan" calling for '79?? (Me too! Or maybe that phrase is too freighted with meaning to use casually?)

    JimInMD outs himself as "The Whistler"? Why, he's at every freakin' show! (Obviously, an insidious new anti-superhero and newly emerged Batman nemesis named "The Whistler." )

    And I'm sitting here with 21 hours to go to the DaP 31 announcement (of a '79 show, you go 80sFan) counting how many unreleased shows the band played in Sept-October 1972.

    The answer is 21.

    The fact that DLI/DL II put some of the 9-3-72 Boulder show on DiP 36 (9-21-72) probably means that some tapes and some performances from this period are unworthy of release for one reason or another. Call it 25%. That leaves a nice stash of ~15 releasable Sept-Oct shows. Putting out five of 'em leaves plenty in inventory, plus the seven unreleased shows in November and five shows in December.

    So the upcoming box of fall '72 (oh DL, hear my plea!!) leaves DL with nearly two dozen late 1972 shows to release over the coming years.

    Anyone know if 1-2-72 and 3-5-72 are in the vault?

    Note: this is a nearly fact-free post, written to relieve pre-DaP 31 announcement anxiety... will the selection support or refute my weak theory that the 3rd release in the series is often not a significant show?

    It's Stormy Monday, so back to work.

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    I'm hoping & I mean HOPING for 12/1/79 but my FINAL guess is.........................

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    Re: Sitting in Limbo

    Ok Dennis, I will quit whistling during shows.. :D

    I had the same thing happen to me at a Phil show in NY in 2007.. I think this guy did serious damage to my ears that night and you can hear it prominently on the soundboard.

    My favorite was going to a show with my main show buddy who had just torn his Achilles tendon, so he's on crutches.. and this young, quite drunk woman sitting next to him stands up on her chair during Friend of the Devil (apparently she knew that one) and proceeded to attempt to sing, in a blood curdling, off key banshee wail the twelve or thirteen words she knew in between falling several times on my buddy who had just been released from surgery using his crutches to help keep her in balance.

    So I get what you are saying.

    Not to self, no more whistling.

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    Guessing game

    Daves...all apiine 89

    Box greek

  • daverock
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    Police Chief "Crazy" Ed Davis-Nappyrags

    Whoever he was..he was right. Rock n' roll WAS a serious threat. Changed the world. For which I am eternally grateful.

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    Guessing games continue. …

    Guessing games continue.

    April 1969 box: 4/6, 4/21, 4/22, 4/23

    as for DaP 31? Hmmm....11.1.79 or 6/16/85 Greek.

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    Englishtown and assholes

    I've typed this before, but my wife was at Englishtown. Very close to where we lived, in fact kids that lived right around the racetrack went to my high school. Only thing she remembers is parking "somewhere", walking a "distance". She was really fucked up as she tells it. After the show, got back to where car was and it was towed away! Had to call her father to come get them!

    I think my wife has been to about 5 official release shows.

    Sidenote, sidebitch(?)

    So I sorting thru a load of JGB shows, I have multiple copies of the same shows, so this means listening to snippets of each show to determine which has the best sound and saving only that show. I hit upon a nice Sitting in Limbo and I'm listening to a quiet passage. And don't you just hate the assholes who have to whistle at the top of their lungs, like that's gonna drive Garcia to new unexplored higher heights of music ambrosia. Three different recordings from 3 different places and you can still hear this asshole whistling relentlessly thru the whole quiet part!!! Okay, not as bad as a talker,,,but……..

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    Ladies and Gentlemen

    The Ladies and Gentlemen release is the one that got me back. After Jerry died, I took a bit of a hiatus from the Good Old Grateful Dead. While they were still in the rotation and I still got the mailings with news and release information (remember when they did those), I was on a blues kick from 1996 to 2000-- lots of Buddy Guy, Luther Allison, John Lee Hooker, Albert King, Junior Wells, Muddy Waters, Howlin' Wolf.... In fact, the furthest I ever traveled to see a musician was from Michigan to the 1999 Chesapeake Bay Blues Festival to see John Lee Hooker, who rarely ventured east of California in his later years.

    I bought some of the Dick's Picks, but not all of them. And then they released Ladies and Gentlemen-- and the GD put their claws back into my skull. There are soooo many standout performances on that release and sound is perfect. Keithfan, you forgot to add Good Lovin' to your list of top 3 performances. That one is my absolute very favorite-- Pig's rap cracks me up and Jerry is just shreddin' behind him.

    What I liked best about it was how accessible it was to non-Dead Heads. I was single for five years after it came out and had a group of friends I partied with-- none of them Dead Heads. Ladies and Gentlemen was the GD cd that I turned to and they all 'got it.' I couldn't play a deep Dark Star for them, but I could put that in and we would all be happy. Just great rock and roll music with jams that left my friends amazed that it was the Grateful Dead putting out such jams.

    I rotate the music on my phone a couple times a year, Ladies and Gentlemen is always on it.

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    It seems I get more excited about a Dave’s release than just about anything else these days. Probably need to get out more.

    Final Guess (and it’s a smoker!) 8-10-82 Univ of Iowa

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Who's up for a revolutionary evolutionary ride? DAVE'S PICKS VOLUME 30: FILLMORE EAST, NEW YORK, NEW YORK 1/2/70 captures the Grateful Dead as they make their first foray from the experimental 60s into their early 70s acoustic Americana period. Yes, this one is a little bit country and a little bit (psychedelic) rock and roll.

When the "Magnificent Seven" - Pigpen on percussion, T.C. on keys - first took the stage on 1/2/70, evidence was clear that the trip was about to take a turn. From their western wears to the twang in Jerry’s “broken-string blues,” it appeared they'd brought the Bakersfield sound to the Big Apple. They worked through much of what would become Workingman's Dead, stunning the crowd with laid-back numbers like "Uncle John's Band," "Casey Jones," and "Black Peter." Just the same, they satisfied 60s stalwarts with magical versions of "Dark Star," "St. Stephen," and "That's It For The Other One." Sonic alchemy, indeed!

DAVE'S PICKS VOLUME 30: FILLMORE EAST, NEW YORK, ​New York 1/2/70 has been rounded out with a bit of 1/3/70 (the subscribers-only bonus disc features the bulk of 1/3/70). It was recorded by the great Owsley "Bear" Stanley and has been lovingly mastered to HDCD specs by Jeffrey Norman.

DAVE'S PICKS VOLUME 30 is limited to 20,000 individually-numbered copies*.

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

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...set-List is primo! I’m in love! 🙏❤️😎

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Guess the mystery will hold until May 1. Can't wait for this release!

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When I was a mere schmo of 19...dem were da daze...

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Should be fantastic. Love the artwork too......(But still hate this new site. Impossible to post or find comments on your phone. It's a nightmare. I miss this place. I just happen to be in front of a computer now)......Enjoy the holiday weekend

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I have the subscription. If it's not sold out, get it now.

Love the artwork and look forward to hearing this. A magic era.

Too soon to request an 80's show for Vol. 31 and 90's show for 32?

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30. (!).

Wow.

This is good. This Dark Star is one for The Ages.

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I say for #31: 6/18/83 and 6/20/83

for #32: 5/27/93

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It's never to early to ask for an 80's show. But I'm a little greedy. 3 83 shows in a mini box would keep mr. Jones away from my door for a while

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....seems like just yesterday that the Dave's series was announced. Oh, oh what I want to know. where does the time go?

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Can’t wait to get my furry paws on it. You got it right pops ,those were some good old days.

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Seems the t-shirt for sale is the cover of the bonus disc. Interesting artwork, also gives an idea how small the Fillmore East was. That third disc is gonna get a lot of play at my house and in my car I imagine.

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This is the Dead at their first "Peak". Amazing stuff. And the recording is pristine.

Love the art for this one. Glad to see something different and original.

“Incredible variety of releases and format” Dave you evil bastard LOL! We haven’t even received this one yet and I’m already jonesin’ for more! Format variety? Like perhaps some video....

COVER ART: I’m with thin, I like this cover especially because it’s not the bearded skeletons again....not saying any of that was bad, just think there is so much more iconography to work with and the skeletons have been done to death, yuck yuck, imho that is....sounds like we might get some era variety also? Philly 89? Summer 85? More 79? 91?
Folks saying Warfield 80 might be right, he’s obviously been poking around there....but what about Gainesville!

Yee-gads, I guess in the mean time we’ll just have to settle for some 70 Fillmore 😉 were so spoiled, thanks Dave

EDIT: perhaps the most interesting tell is that their working with Bears people and what that might entail......”possibilities are frightening”

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The art work is growing on me on this one, but that disc three looks amazing.

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Short Seaside chat for Dave. Of course this one should have come out a long time ago....

No real clues on the next box.☹️

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I concur, guessing what's on this bonus disc is going to be fun. That third disc with the dark star is going to get some big time play here. Some of the tunes from 1/3 are on disc 1 and 2 so I am going to figure the big jams from both early and late shows will be on the bonus disc, oh goody, ps put me down for a couple of those limited run t shirts.

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Sixy - That's what I thought when I turned 30. I'm 45 now. : ))

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either an 80's Ventura box or an 80's Greek Berkeley box....

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This seems like it might be pretty interesting.:

https://pitchfork.com/news/grateful-dead-graphic-novel-announced/

Anyone remember back in the day, the Grateful Dead comix? I recall them coming in the printed newsletter that folded out, was on beautiful stock paper, and had lots of colors and all the new products of the day. Like Dick's Picks one haha.

Sixtus

P.S. Wedeocu....true dat. 30 seems like both yesterday and forever ago! Also makes me wonder if there is ever any endgame number in store for us with Dave. 30 is great. Imagine double triple quadruple that? Who will live that long haha.

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Just like others have noted, the skeleton art has become a bit stale and cliched so this is a welcomed change of art direction. The other covers are great but the skeleton motif becomes staid after a while. The Wizard of Oz cover was a nice touch on whichever release it was on.

Now onto that MSG NYC September 1979 box set. Dave that one will sell-out instantly.

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I dont know Sixy, I think I can make it to at least Dave's Picks 110 or maybe 120.

Anything after that is all bonus material for sure!

Looks like Rhino has found the sweetspot. That point that people that want it can have it while keeping the cost down by not succumbing to those that think Rhino is in business for them by keeping everything made in stock

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I tried to pre-order one (on an iPad) and got the message

“Selected required options are not available.”

Just seeing if it was sold out, I wasn’t going to actually buy it because I subscribed.

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Not sold out, I was able to put one in the cart.

100 total hits in the book, pre-orders only.
You have to figure out where to lick, with no 2 hits adjacent to each other.
Basically a reCRAPTCHA exam for the tongue. The problem is that by the time you realize that you found a hit, you could have found 5 hits.

But seriously folks, the real question is what unreleased songs are going to be on the bonus vinyl for preorders.

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just please don't put out 8/3/69 at the Great Highway. that show sucked balls so hard I didn't get through it and I deleted that show first and only time I felt the need to delete a grateful dead show

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21K OR 22K for 2020??? PS jamming 4/17/1971 Dillon Gym from Princeton.... missed the anniversary by a day but in a mood for some Pig Pen!!!.... have a good night everyone... bob t

Only clue given was Alligator, and they very wisely used the key covers as filler on disc 2, and the rule about originals or phblic domain leads me to think the bonus disc will look thus:
Cumberland Blues, Alligator> Drums> Alligator> (Caution Jam tracked?) Feedback, Mason's Children, That's It For The Other One> Cosmic Charlie, Uncle John's Band> Black Peter, Dire Wolf

Think that's around 80 min; Senor Norman cuts a lot of the inevitable tuning that is left in on Archive, so who knows how much he can cut, one of the songs may not make it. Figure UJB> Black Peter over the early show encore version, and Mason's because Dave has put out most of them, and I could see another double Mason's, for those who hate and loathe and despise it, at least it isn't a triple shot of it. And not sure if he goes with another China Rider. Would not object at all to that.

And I wonder if Dave's mention of working with the Stanley family means this is more Bear's Sonic Journals type of release than Houseboat Tape continuation. Though, he also mentioned the Dave's that were part of that stash, 6 (2/2/70, 12/20-21/69 with bonus), 10 (12/10-11/69 with bonus), 19 (1/23-24/70). Either way, talk of talks with the Stanleys plus the returned Bettys make it a great time to be a Deadhead, and a boom time for any credit card company who gives cards to Deadheads.

Really excited for this release!

....the ONLY whiskey I can drink straight. Good call.
Also a good call, we might get TWO Cumberlands in this release! Blessed 🙏 indeed.

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....the Mason's Children from 1.2 is the one released on Fallout From The Phil Zone. The Philster is doing a one off in Vegas in three weeks. Here's the lineup.
https://hardrockhotel.com/las-vegas-entertainment/joint-phil-lesh-2019…
....looking tasty af. Can't complain.
Note the age limit of 6+. At The Joint. Wow.

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I snorked hard when i read that

If I remember correctly, the bonus disc can only be made up of GD composed songs. Reason being the bonus disc is a 'gift' so to speak and Rhino is financially responsible for producing it. They don't want to pay royalties for the cover songs on a giveaway disc. I can't say I blame them. The end of disc 2 has some of the cover songs from 1/3/70 and what cover songs they are.
Someone stated in an earlier post Dave had mentioned 'Alligator' so I'd say that's a safe bet for the bonus disc; Deadlists times it at approx. 25 minutes so there's 50-55 minutes left for other GD songs/jams. We could see some prime music from 1/3/70.

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Looking at the set list, this Daves 30 looks like a bridge linking the 60s to the 70s. It must have been one of T.C.s last gigs, and one of the last times the Dark Star-St. Stephen-Eleven suites featured. The disc also includes a generous helping of the more country rock style the band would focus on during the first couple of years of the new decade. More country, less psych-although epic journeys were still made, the focus was beginning to change-and this set demonstrates that quite nicely.

Also nice to see hippychick back, lubricious as ever.

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