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    Hear ye, hear ye, hear ye! Gentle mistresses and most distinguished gentlemen, we have come upon the release of the DAVE'S PICKS VOLUME 37, from the Fifteenth of April in the year Nineteen Seventy-Eight, at ye olde College Of William & Mary in Williamsburg, Virginia. Cast your waistcoats and your bonnets aside, the Grateful Dead are on steady gallop from the opening high-kick of "Mississippi Half-Step" into a where are we going? where have we been? "Passenger," followed by full-on versions of "Friend Of The Devil," "El Paso," "Brown-Eyed Women," and a double-barreled "Let It Grow>Deal." Catch your breath and straighten out your tricorne because the 2nd set shows no bounds with delightful takes ("Bertha>Good Lovin'," "One More Saturday Night") and introspection ("Candyman," "Playing In The Band"). Then - great fifes and drums - it's 15 minutes of "Rhythm Devils," with band and crew gathered round to amplify the merriment before delivering a rare incantation of "Not Fade Away>Morning Dew" that sets the soul alight. Pure jollification!

    The town crier's addendum:

    Three bags full! Lest you feel 4/15/78 beginneth and endeth too quickly, we've selected highlights from Civic Arena, Pittsburgh, PA, 4/18/78 to satisfy your fancy.

    Limited to 25,000 numbered copies, DAVE'S PICKS VOLUME 37: WILLIAMSBURG, VIRGINIA 4/15/78 was recorded by Betty Cantor-Jackson and has been mastered to HDCD specs by Jeffrey Norman. It is guaranteed to sell out - often within hours.

    *2 per order. Very limited quantity available.

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  • Gary Farseer
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    38

    Finally got a shipping date of yesterday and estimated delivery of Monday. Was hoping this weekend...but oh well. Cant wait to see the candy coated surprise!

  • icecrmcnkd
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    Bonus disc surprise

    Are you talking about the sticker or the 5 squares of paper?
    Or am I the only one who got the paper?
    Oops, said too much....

    Mr. Ones, a lot of 73/74 has been released, so Dave has to hold on to what’s left to sprinkle around over time. Or just Box up like PNW. Which isn’t sold out yet. I can’t explain that one.
    We definitely need 12-18,19-73 to get the Plangent and Norman treatments.

    I started with the 9/7 filler and it sounds grate. About to move to the bonus disc after this 18 min Playing in the Band ends.....
    :)

    Good stuff!
    Thanks Dave and Co.

    Hope you all get yours soon.

    Keithfan,
    Get the UPS and USPS apps on your phone and you can track it.

    Edit:
    The problem with Dave not posting his seaside chat on the DaP38 page until the ala carte ordering opens is that we are now posting our DaP 38 comments on the DaP 37 page. And I will have listened to DaP 38 before seeing the seaside chat.
    But don’t get me wrong, I’m glad that my DaP 38 has arrived.
    I don’t see why the DaP page can’t go online a week before the ala carte sales start. That would actually give people a heads up that it’s coming, and possibly avoid the usual complaints that it sold out before Joe Blow saw the email.
    But hey, it’s not a problem if you subscribe.
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  • Strider 808808
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    Billy the Kid / Bobby Petersen

    Cool story kid. I got to meet him a couple times at the Kaiser Auditorium in Oakland in the mid 80s before he died. He was real interesting, we talked about Taos, where I had been living a few years.
    4/28/71 is smoking hot.

  • Oroborous
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    KF..

    I believe I have Saul Goodman's numbe... just in case ; )

  • KeithFan2112
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    Thanks Dennis

    I think I need to accept it's not coming today. I realized after I posted earlier that I can register for an instant update. It says it was delivered to my post office yesterday at 10:24 am from a UPS facility 30 minutes away. So I guess my Post Office is slow to sort. I know those fockers have it. I'm developing a Breaking Bad scheme to acquire it. Send bail money.

  • Mr. Ones
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    I Have A Theory...

    ...which is always a dangerous thing. After reading Dick's blog notes, I'm starting to think that they may be running out of "Prime" 68-74 shows, so perhaps they are saving them for the 2nd, "Bonus Disc" release. I have no insider knowledge of anything, just having read Dick's notes, if this(#38) is really THAT good, then they have obviously been saving it. Just a theory, or you can call it a "hunch".
    You may now all begin to tell me why I am such a deluded idiot. But please don't forget...

    Music Is The Best!!

  • billy the kid
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    Bird Song. 4/28/85. Frost / 4/28/71. Fillmore East

    https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=4Qc9umsPjYg. 36 years ago today, we were at the Frost for another cool show. Hopefully, these shows and other Frost shows will be released as a box set one day. My brother met Bobby Peterson before the show over at St.Michaels Alley and they hung out and partied for several hours, then walked over to the Frost together. Peterson gave my brother a signed copy of his book, Far Away Radios, he wrote inside, "To Paul, no more hard time". My brother said he was a real cool person, a real.nice guy. 4/28/71, is a killer of a show, a real knockout! I believe that this whole April Fillmore run will be released in its entirety one day, also the Oct 74 Winterland run, will also see a complete release.

  • Dennis
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    Keith and your delivery

    my guess is you got a notice from ups saying today, but they hadn't handed it over to usps yet. I got my ups/dead notice today. They say Monday,,, we'll see :-)

  • Dennis
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    Oh Nappy....

    You had to mention lost recording of Hasaan Ibn Ali. Never heard of him, but you had me at "lost recording". Vinyl was sold out (available aftermarket on Amazon for 70 bucks),,,, I just bought the cd copy.

    thanks

    btw - my louis mosaic came in the other day (1034/2500),,,, incredible packaging. The 4 cd boxes came in a big square box the size of an LP. The amazing part was the box was wrapped tightly in bubble wrap that fit the box exactly! This thing couldn't move an inch and box could suffer maybe an inch of crushing and product would be unharmed! Oh, the Louis box is very nice. Since it's all recording sessions the sound is flawless.

    Good luck at docs, I know you still have a heart!

  • Gratefulhan
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    #38 has touched down in the Burg

    Yes, I am fortunate too as my copy arrived today. I happen to be off of work so I am listening to it as I type this. So far it is really good, but that was what I expected. I will also follow suit and not reveal the contents of the bonus disc, but it looks stellar.

    Someone has already shared Dick's thoughts on this show. I will add my own 2 cents: So I love all eras of the Grateful Dead. Certainly some are more desirable to listen to than others and that will differ from one person to another. Given that, to my ears and mind this band from the late 60s up to the "last" shows in 1974 was a juggernaut of musical awesomeness. I am not saying that there is not great stuff after that, but to the contrary there is much more. Yet the way they were playing at such consistently high level especially when I look at 1971 and onward, I don't think that effort and output has been matched. #38 is another show that illustrates that point, again at least to me.

    I hope all of you get your copies soon. I am looking forward to listening to this all the way through and discussing this release in more detail with the crew.

    Later!

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Hear ye, hear ye, hear ye! Gentle mistresses and most distinguished gentlemen, we have come upon the release of the DAVE'S PICKS VOLUME 37, from the Fifteenth of April in the year Nineteen Seventy-Eight, at ye olde College Of William & Mary in Williamsburg, Virginia. Cast your waistcoats and your bonnets aside, the Grateful Dead are on steady gallop from the opening high-kick of "Mississippi Half-Step" into a where are we going? where have we been? "Passenger," followed by full-on versions of "Friend Of The Devil," "El Paso," "Brown-Eyed Women," and a double-barreled "Let It Grow>Deal." Catch your breath and straighten out your tricorne because the 2nd set shows no bounds with delightful takes ("Bertha>Good Lovin'," "One More Saturday Night") and introspection ("Candyman," "Playing In The Band"). Then - great fifes and drums - it's 15 minutes of "Rhythm Devils," with band and crew gathered round to amplify the merriment before delivering a rare incantation of "Not Fade Away>Morning Dew" that sets the soul alight. Pure jollification!

The town crier's addendum:

Three bags full! Lest you feel 4/15/78 beginneth and endeth too quickly, we've selected highlights from Civic Arena, Pittsburgh, PA, 4/18/78 to satisfy your fancy.

Limited to 25,000 numbered copies, DAVE'S PICKS VOLUME 37: WILLIAMSBURG, VIRGINIA 4/15/78 was recorded by Betty Cantor-Jackson and has been mastered to HDCD specs by Jeffrey Norman. It is guaranteed to sell out - often within hours.

*2 per order. Very limited quantity available.

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Lowest # I've ever had.

Couple spoilers ahead if you haven't received yours yet.

Just queued up the show. I think Bertha / Uncle is my favorite Jerry / Bobby 1-2 opening duo. "Smoking" I think Carlo said about disc one. Yeah, I hear it so far. Jerry is really tearing it up on Me & My Uncle. Even Sugaree is a bit harder than usual. Works for me.

I hear you AJS on the Bertha sound issues. They should have pre-opened every show with LLR to straighten out the audio.

I'm hearing Bobby much louder than usual. As loud as Jerry at least. Keith is nowhere to be found, but I'm strangely okay with it for the moment, I think because Bobby is playing that Gibson so well and it sounds so good.

Yeah, another cookin' solo in Tennessee Jed. Good stuff. Oh dear, LLR came on and I'm enjoying it. Lol, guys, honestly I probably should have sobered up to report the real story here. Well I mean - it's not the alcohol so much as I probably shouldn't have drunk all of that cough syrup this morning.....stay gold Pony Boy.

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Been awhile, glad to see you weighing in. I don't know if it's that I usually listen on headphones or what, but I found the three PNW '73 shows very uneven from an audio standpoint. I figure it has to be the headphones because everyone else loves them. By "uneven" I hear the symbols coming in piercingly loud on half the tracks maybe. Also some tape hiss creeps in and out and there. My recollection is the Bird Song show is the least affected of the three. And the Dark Star / Eyes of the World from show #2 is right on the money. But overall I'm constantly dicking around with the EQ trying to get the sound right on PNW "73

Now the '74 shows are a completely different story; the audio on these is about as good as I've heard any '74 show sound. They've just about eliminated the tinniness that those Wall of Sound phase cancelling microphones used to cause. Not sure how they did it but they did. Or maybe I just wore out the mid-range in my ears. That could definitely be it. But yeah, those '74 shows are ultra smooth. I should revisit those '73 shows again. I recently listened to the Dark Star => Eyes of the World after Daverock mentioned how well Bobby was playing on that Dark Star; but otherwise it's been awhile. Now I feel like I should do an immediate comparison. I may have undiagnosed ADD.

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Your right about the loud vocals bob and jerry sing. It was the first thing I noticed as the first set played through. The high vocals make this Dap a lot of fun.

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Yeah, when I was listening to China rider, I noticed the audio seemed a bit edgy. Maybe with headphones I'll be able to isolate what I was hearing, but I went back and toggled it with one of the 1973 NW box china rider and the sound is very different. As if somebody's signal is a little too high in the mix and getting slightly distorted maybe? Or maybe the master recording's levels were a little too high making the mix sound a bit saturated? Not sure.

Not a complaint, just an observation. Great show. Listened to most of the release last night, and it's glorious.

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...I've noticed this same thing on the sound Thin. You've described it pretty well. And, I don't hear a whole ton of Phil either, which usually helps to solidify and round out the overall sound with some deeper depth. Not so much here. I assume it's because of the limitations of a two-track to some extent.

I will say though, the 'Let Me Sing Your Blues Away' caught me surely off guard, where I had to stop and do a double take before a huge grin took over my stolen face. It's a pretty jaunty tune, a shame it was shelved so soon.

Hope Others' are receiving theirs and enjoying the ride - off to get #2 JAB shortly, here's to hoping for no adverse events!

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I have been seeing that a bunch of people have had their 38s for a few days now. I’m sitting here in Colorado still waiting on a shipping notice. Should I be worried??

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MDA - I also live in Colorado and have yet to receive a shipping confirmation email...we must be the last batch of subscriptions to ship. Hopefully we hear something soon.

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What, me worry?

With all the versions of "The Shipping Blues" in the past, one might.

Give it until at least next Friday before any panicking.

No, I am still not a robot.

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No worries Jimbobwe and Proudfoot. Keep the faith. I was thinking the same then got my shipping notice here in Colorado this week showing Monday 5-3 for delivery. You never know. My July '78 box is #36/15,000.
Cheers!

I wouldn't worry about a shipping notice. For #36 I never received one but it came the usual 4 days after date like all the others. Come to think of it a notice has been an iffy thing. More than a couple of times I didn't get one yet it came nonetheless.

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I watched a documentary a few days back. I am sure you all have seen on the History Channel the various docs. I cant remember what the title was, and like I have written, memory aint what it used to be. It was on the building of the Golden Gate Bridge. I had posted a few years back that on the day off during the NYE1987 run, my friends and I walked to the mid-point of the Golden Gate Bridge and back, somewhere around 10 pm. It was super cold and a strong western wind. In the documentary, it talked about them at one point putting up a net to protect the bridge builders. I also remember a couple of years back that they had a drive to collect money to put another permanent net type device to prevent jumpers. Any way, long story short, I never put it together that the live album, Without a Net, was not just shot in the dark title (about the circus coming to town and the razor's edge of improvisation without a net) but also some San Fran history to boot. Those guys were on top of so much Americana that it is mind blowing.

If I had missed the page for the sale of #38. Now I know this is maybe a new rule for sales. Ship subscribers and dont open for sale until the day of release. Not sure if that is true or is it the or some special artwork??? Cant wait to see. I hope it is the poster for these shows, which I have. Will write more later, not wanting to spoil the trip...

Edit: well just checked my farseer email and see the artwork. Not the poster. Email sent 10 minutes ago...

Edit 2: OOOps wrong show poster is for March shows, see old brainism

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