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I have a couple of comments.

1) Stoltsfuz, I have never heard the Philadelphia show but I did hear someone say that the jam and the Dark Star all kind of go together. Maybe someone else can confirm. Is this all one Dark Star kind of mixture?

2) dead Tony I am with you. I can't imagine spending all that money on a box set like 30 Trips Around the Sun for a lightning bolt shaped USB drive. It's like the old record days. You brought that thing home. You took it carefully out of its package and handled it gently. Always checked for warps of course that was just part of the game. If you had really good technique you could put one thumb on the edge and your finger in the hole in the middle and hold it up for inspection. And they smelled so good especially if it was a gatefold. Can understand why LPS when by the wayside when CDs came out because the CD had better sound quality to offer. Downloadable files do not have anything I can think of that is redeemable compared to a nice box set of CDs with a book and a scroll. If it was a woman you wouldn't just want to download the picture of her. You would want to give her the record album treatment.

The thing is, I started hitchhiking and backpacking around New England -- that is, Green Mtns of Vermont, White Mtns of New Hampshire and Adirondacks of NY the year prior when I was 14. I'd leave home with a backpack and get back a month later. In '74, I was 'out there' for 2 1/2 months with only one or two calls home. I have no idea what my parents thought, but it's clear my folks did not seriously consider a) trying to stop me, or b) certainly 'punishment' was out of the question. In truth, my dad (who is alive at 90) was a peripatetic world traveler who'd be gone for weeks, sometimes a month at a time. So he clearly was in no position to preach about hanging around the house. Mostly, early on, I traveled in summer when school was out. So what could I have been doing that was "wrong"? Most of it was solo and, early on, when darkness fell and I was alone in the woods -- which really come alive at night, if you've tried it -- I was scared shitless. But I'd fall asleep from being tired of being afraid. After a while, you get over it. So I continue to backpack solo in the much deeper Western wilderness all these years later (1975 onward). Age 14 to age 62, that's 48 years of that activity and 48 years accentuating the experience with psychedelics -- and LOVING IT! Of course, I'd "get experienced" maybe 10-12 times a year in the early days. These days, maybe 3-4x per year. Medicine for the soul, is what I tell my girlfriends. Some can handle it, some cannot. Why would I change a winning formula?

I myself prefer physical product in regards to boxsets and releases, love holding them in my hands and displaying them for the pieces of art they are

3/21/73 has a tremendous DARK STAR. not released, though.
3/28/73 has a tremendous DARK STAR. released!
3/24/73 has a reeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeallly _short_ DARK STAR. release approaching.

why not 3/21/73, Dave? why?

and why not 12/18/73, Dick? why?

I haven't heard 3/24/73 in years, so the new release should provide new insights and appreciations of the show.

Shredded!!
http://www.msn.com/en-us/health/fitness/the-grateful-deads-bob-weir-is-…
:O)

Looks good Sixtus, I'm a sucker for The Eleven. Thanks

This week's all the years live posting from 10/30/80 i thought was very good

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Rp-huegwHs

A Head who derives pleasure from only the digital downloads or ripped copies of CDs on a hard drive. This type of Head finds the boxes and physical media to be a turn-off.

Fivebranch.. I had to laugh, but we are venturing into dangerous territory. Like.. if.. you have a perversion to primal dead, does that make you a deadofile?

On second thought.. I had better quit while I am behind.

Sixtus.. A great early show from 1968. Reminds me of the unwrapping party from the 1968 Road Trips. I guess the Lake Tahoe 68 Dicks Picks falls into a similar category. I wish there were more of these. Firecrackers.

Do carry on but be careful.

Among my last 5 (or 10? It's been a heady week so far), I offer this.

"Now witness the firepower of this fully ARMED and OPERATIONAL battle station!":

https://archive.org/details/gd1968-10-12.sbd.miller.86759.sbeok.flac16

This is it, people. Sheer, unadulterated POWER. No Pig, no TC, no nuthin' but guitars, guitars, guitars and percussion. About as nasty and raunchy as it gets.

Carry On.

Sixtus