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WHAT'S INSIDE:
Avalon Ballroom, San Francisco, CA (4/5/69) – Cassette
Fillmore West, San Francisco, CA (6/5/69)
Fillmore West, San Francisco, CA (6/7/69)
Fillmore West, San Francisco, CA (6/8/69)
Capitol Theatre, Port Chester, NY (2/24/71)
Capitol Theatre, Port Chester, NY (2/20/71)
Fillmore East, New York, NY (4/25/71)
Fillmore East, New York, NY (4/27/71)
Boston Music Hall, Boston, MA (9/15/72)
Boston Music Hall, Boston, MA (9/16/72)
Nassau Veterans Memorial Coliseum, Uniondale, NY (3/16/73)
Winterland, San Francisco, CA (3/20/77)
Philadelphia Spectrum, Philadelphia, PA (5/13/78)
Red Rocks Amphitheatre, Morrison, CO (8/12/79)
Alpine Valley Music Theatre, East Troy, WI (8/23/80)
Alpine Valley Music Theatre, East Troy, WI (7/11/81)
Hartford Civic Center, Hartford, CT (3/14/81)
Hampton Coliseum, Hampton, VA (5/1/81)
Frost Amphitheatre, Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA (8/20/83)
Greek Theatre, University of California, Berkeley, CA (7/13/84)
Henry J. Kaiser Convention Center, Oakland, CA (11/21/85)
Henry J. Kaiser Convention Center, Oakland, CA (11/22/85)
Madison Square Garden, New York City, NY (9/16/87)
Deer Creek Music Center, Noblesville, IN (7/15/89)
Oakland Coliseum Arena, Oakland, CA (12/27/89)
Shoreline Amphitheatre, Mountain View, CA (5/12/91)
Capital Centre, Landover MD (3/17/93)
Capital Centre, Landover MD (9/15/82)
Boston Garden, Boston, MA (10/3/94)
Originally Recorded By Owsley “Bear” Stanley, Betty Cantor-Jackson, Kidd Candelario, Dan Healy, & John Cutler
Mastered By David Glasser & Jeffrey Norman
Plangent Processes Tape Restoration And Speed Correction
Custom Keepsake Box w/ A Guide Book By Jesse Jarnow, Producer's Note By David Lemieux, & Essay By The Stanley Owlsey Foundation
Design By Once Upon A Time
Limited To 6,000 Individually Numbered Copies
Dead.net Exclusive
When the ride begins in '65 at a pizza parlor in the South Bay under another moniker, who would have imagined? When "Who Are You? Where Are You? How Are You?" became "Won't you come with me?" and, ultimately, "Where does the time go?," who would have thought? 60 years on, we're celebrating the Grateful Dead's Diamond Era. Here we go back to the beginning, to the original "Follow," and uncover the wonders of getting on the bus all over again.
ENJOYING THE RIDE is a sweeping 60-CD collection that maps an epic cross-country road trip along the “Heady Highway” with stops at storied venues where the music, the moment, and the magic of the Dead reliably converged. Spanning 25 years of legendary live performances, this expansive compendium spotlights defining shows from 1969 to 1994 at 20 venues that consistently inspired the band to new heights.
With the exception of a few tracks from earlier releases, virtually all of the music on ENJOYING THE RIDE is previously unreleased, with more than 450 tracks and over 60 hours of music. Of the 20 shows in the collection, 17 are presented in full, with some featuring additional material from the same venue. The remaining three — Fillmore West, Fillmore East, and Boston Music Hall — are curated from multiple performances at each venue, capturing key moments on those legendary stages.
These performances were originally recorded by Owsley “Bear” Stanley, Betty Cantor-Jackson, Kidd Candelario, Dan Healy, and John Cutler. David Glasser and Jeffrey Norman restored and mastered the performances, with select ones using Plangent Processes tape restoration and speed correction for optimal sound quality.
It's all housed in a custom keepsake box inspired by the experience of traveling from city to city to see the Dead at legendary venues across America. Inside, a beautifully detailed tour guide features liner notes by Jesse Jarnow (author and co-host of the Good Ol’ Grateful Deadcast) and a producer’s note from Lemieux, an essay by the Owsley Stanley Foundation, and more. The set is richly illustrated with photos, including many taken at the shows featured in the collection.
Due May 30th, this one is limited to 6,000 individually numbered copies and exclusive to Dead.net. We invite you to take this not-so-little piece of the road home.
Bear's Choice
The first tape from the band that made me sit back and say, wow!
The charms of Bear's Choice
were revealed to me the night of 5/25/95 after that evening's GD show
🫠🫠🫠
Bears and SYF
It didn't help their cause that I was listening to them out of context. I had never seen them, and what I had read of them linked them to the acid tests, and psychedelic music. So, I was expecting acid rock when I bought their albums - a bit like other bands I had heard and seen described like that - Gong or Hawkwind, Amon Duul 2 and the German bands. It wasn't until Anthem slipped into my mind that The Dead made sense. And then gradually t'others.
Steely Dan's Kid Charlemagne....
.....is about Owsley.
In case no one knew.
Steely Dan
Now it makes sense.
Thanks Vguy.
Learn something new every day.
Cheers
Total sense....
...."Just by chance you crossed the diamond with the pearl
You turned it on the world
That's when you turned the world around."
Source recordings
Besides recordists, who help narrow down the info, looking for info on source tapes. Many two-track 7.5 is tapes I'm sure, plus cassettes and digital formats. I'm guessing Port Chester and Oakland Coliseum are multi-track sources recording. Would like to see a show by show breakdown.
Clean this mess up....
...less we all end up in jail! Those test tubes and the scales, get it all out of here.
Is there gas in the car?
Is there gas in the car?
I think the people down the hall know who we are!
Never Liked that Song
It's mean-spirited, to say the least.
"You are obsolete"? One could say the same about certain "bands" who stopped having hits decades ago but who somehow continue to tour with only one original member. But we won't say that, because that would be mean.
"Your patrons have left you in the red, your low rent friends are dead"? If that's supposed to be about Bear, I don't think it's very accurate. And the line about the "day-glo freaks who used to paint their face, they've all joined the human race"? Seems like a pretty shallow dismissal of the first psychedelic era, considering the wide and continuing influence that period has had on music, environmentalism, various forms of spirituality/religion, and probably lots of things I can't think of right now.
But whatever. It's just a song. Lots of people whose opinions I respect love Steely Dan and like that song. I don't.
Where we you while we were getting high?
Curious about what people here think about Oasis, particularly our friends from England.
I always liked 'em. I thought Noel wrote some great songs, and I liked the way Liam's vocals seemed equally influenced by John Lennon and Johnny Rotten. And I liked the guitar sound and I thought the squabbling was highly entertaining. The Gallagher brothers, who always seemed to me to be in on the joke, could fire off some pretty funny insults. And not just at each other. Sure, they were derivative. By the mid '90s, who wasn't? And if you're going to "borrow" ideas, starting with the Beatles and filtering them through punk isn't a bad way to go, IMO.
But most people I know disliked them. I think here in the States, a lot of people almost kind of resent bands that are bigger in England than they are here, and of course Oasis was enormous in the UK. It seemed weird to me that people who had no problem with infighting if it was the Stones or GnR or Van Halen somehow resented the Gallaghers shenanigans.
Anyway, kind of glad to see Oasis out there playing again. Glad the first gig seems to have gone off pretty well, hope they hold it together for the whole tour.
Source recordings
69 Bear Reels
Cap 71 BB-R
FE. 71 16 track
72 Bear-R
73 Kidd-R
77 BB-R
78 BB-R
79 BB-R
80 H-C
81 H-C
82 H-C? This very well could be PCM
83 H-PCM
84 H-PCM
85 H-PCM
87 H-PCM
7/89 Cutler-DAT
12/89 Cutler-DAT
91 H-DAT
93 H-DAT
94 Cutler-DAT
How did I do??? Correction's welcomed.
Oasis in a Dead forum?....
....neat.
Is Radiohead accepted?
But of course.
We are all here for the tunes.
Any Major Dude Will Tell Ya.....
...About Steely Dan!
I don't remember when I first knew about that song "Kid Charlemagne" but the lyrics are quite telling. At the same time also very contradicting between praise, condemnation, and then even concern. 'Careful what you carry!' 'For the man is wise, you're still an outlaw in his eyes.' I tend to conclude this was lyrically in a sense an "intervention style" letter written to Bear in an introspective sort of way, and about the scene he helped usher in. Then of course the aftermath, and yeah I think the critique is a bit harsh. You can't blame Bear for Altamont nor the Manson Family and still one can't correlate the end of the 'hippie dream' to him neither. A late 1980s Neil Young would croon about the very same subject and never once mention Bear.
Steely Dan have always been cynical New Yawkers and have never shied away from talking shit, take for example that song off their first album about John Lennon, "Only a Fool Would Say That" from 1972. They were criticizing John's hippie ethos too and 4 years earlier! Maybe that attitude just came with east coast big city living? Jaded for survival and also to cope, but even that is not guaranteed!
To me the first verse or two seem more reverent about the quality of his chemistry, then what follows does seem a bit harsh in laying all the blame for counter culture's demise or maybe even the whole scene itself on Bear & his product. Nevermind all the bad dope already out there that Bear DIDN'T make! Steely Dan almost seem to mock the 'painted face folks' but then kind of rue the fact the same folks have to 'join the human race' like everyone just decided to assimilate into the corporate machine. (Were they not a part of the human race while communal living or grooving hippie style?) All this yet they still talk shit about Bear? There was a lot of reasons men (& women too) ended up on the street, and it wasn't all drug enfueled burnout. Especially in New Yawk Citay!
What side of the culture divide was Steely Dan on? Hard for me to believe these particular jazz rockers of the 1970s were secretly squares. (They had dope songs too!) These are the same cats who wrote "Any Major Dude Will Tell Ya" & "Pretzel Logic" just a few years prior!
ETR '89ers ...
.. heard it somewhere
or
read it somewhere
that the multi-tracks
were not included
maybe some tech wiz can analyze
and give us the real scoop
if that's required
just sayin'
Source recordings? Revisited!!!
69 Bear Reels
Cap 71 BB-R
FE. 71 16 track
72 Bear-R
73 Kidd-R
77 BB-R
78 BB-R
79 BB-R
80 H-C
81 H-C
82 H-C? This very well could be PCM
83 H-PCM
84 H-PCM
85 H-PCM
87 H-PCM
7/89 H-DAT
12/89 Cutler-DAT
91 H-DAT
93 H-DAT
94 Cutler-DAT
How did I do??? Correction's Welcomed!!
7/89 Definitely Healy Sound Board! DAT?
H-Ultra's!
Web's, said through 86-90?
CM, said through 86-91!
I'm going with Charlie!
While we're on 1989
Hey Dave, Jeff?
Spectrum 1989!
Someday no hurry don't wait too long!
Thanks! Done for today!
1989
If they are multi-tracks, and I think many of the 89 shows are.. wouldn't a mini- box or boxset make sense?
I regret not making those spectrum shows. For some reason, the Spectrum wasn't as inviting to me as other venues. Prior to GPS, I managed to get lost in Philly more than other cities, I think that is why I skipped it sometimes. I'd rather drive to Alpine which sounds silly to me now.
Edit: I guess back then when gas was like a dollar five a gallon, you could get pretty far for cheap in my corolla hatchback. Those were the days.
Oasis
They come from my neck of the woods - Manchester. I was 37 in 1994 when they first started to become well known, and as such I felt they were the property of a younger generation. Their image was very strong - the swagger, the laddishness. Brit - pop.
I can remember my girlfriend of the time did me a tape of their first album, and there was a track on it that sounded very much like T. Rex song. I guess if you were a teenager in 1994 you wouldn't have known this. Just as when I was a teenager into T.Rex in the early 70's I had no idea that many of their best records were based on blues and rock n' roll songs from the 50's. Ignorance can be a wonderful thing.
They give good interviews. I am actually more interested in them now than I was then. They seem to see themselves as one of the last bands that lived and breathed the lifestyle of sex, drugs and rock and roll - and were successful at it.
Of those Brit pop bands from the 90's, the one I liked most was Pulp. Their album "Different Class " Still sounds good to me.
Not remotely Brit pop, I also liked Primal Scream, who I saw a few times in the 90's. When I saw them they played both "Motorhead" and " Kick Out The Jams". A great band.
Oasis
California lad here. In the late 80s and early 90s it was easy to get exposure to all sorts of "alternative" rock thanks to so many great radio stations, be they commercial (KROQ), public (KPFA or KPFK) or college. By the early 90s it felt like a feast. Just looking at the UK scene, I remember hearing the Stone Roses, Inspiral Carpets, Happy Mondays... speaking of which, I seem to recall the Stone Roses canceled a big tour of the 'States in 90 or 91. I was spending all of my free cash on Grateful Dead tickets so it didn't affect me, but I remember friends were sad.
But anyway we had Oasis' debut on repeat. And then in late '95 the Morning Glory release was massive. Blur was big then too. Parklife was the breakthrough album here in the US and then people started looking at their back catalog and discovering Modern Life. The great thing about all of this was that the US alternative scene was churning along, too. Pixies broke up and boom, Kim Deal emerges with The Breeders... there was still no file sharing so friends would get a CD and we'd all go over to their house to listen and copy it.
I was going to go on a bit more, but I just realized this is the Box Set thread. On that note, I have been stuck in 1969 and 1971 - haven't listened yet to anything but those three releases! I have at least three weeks of vacation started so I think it's time to broaden my horizons.
Band discussions
Are fair game on any thread on Dead net.
Inquiring minds want to know.
Besides, the latest release is always the go to thread.
You don't have to find the DaP 54 thread to guess what DaP 55 will be.
Although I did, lol.
Cheers
Damaged Packaging Resolved
Kudos to Dead.net.
Today I got replacement packaging for my Enjoying the Ride box set... My CDs were all perfect and ripped/played with zero issues, but the box looked like it had been thrown around. The cardboard packaging where the CDs were held was all torn up and CDs were out of place when it arrived. But no more!
Thanks again to the team at Dead.net for making it right. I'm enjoying the ride just a little bit more now :-)
Extra Stellar Space
I must say, one thing I've noticed about the show picks for this Big Box is that the "Space" and "Drums" from multiple Brent era shows are sonically special. Like ones I would never skip over, and I hate to admit to the occasional 'skip for time' on those. Or not including them at all on 'shortened' or abridged playlists.
Now I have only listened to 16 of the 20 shows (whole or chopped), with the '69 & 1971 Fillmore's West & East and two of the three {1994 Boston & 1991 Shoreline} Vince era shows to go. So I've heard quite a good portion of these 'songs' from the Big Box.
Besides the '83 Frost & '84 Greek shows I've been jamming to the 1981 combo and the
1989 combo of shows pretty heavy. That 1982 filler disc was damn stellar too, but the 1993 show was a pleasant surprise. Had a nice ending to the first set with "Eternity" & "Liberty" and then all of that killer 2nd set!
Weirdly I find sometimes when time is short, I will just cue up one of the extra jammy "Spaces" like the one that sounds like it segues to "Slipknot" at the end! From the Capital Centre '93 Landover, MD 1982 extra disc. Both 1985 Oakland shows got damn good "Drums" jams with other instrumentation. The 1980 Alpine show has some extra stellar "Space" too!
gratefulfreak8...
...good to hear your items have been resolved;
my FROST CD sleeve/packaging was torn and still waiting for the replacement
with many more CD sleeves not torn
but where the CD's had shifted and
all sleeves had various amounts of damage
unacceptable
for the turn-around times for replacement
and product quality
for this product that was paid for in-advance
Saved the best for last...
Done with '73, Now Oakland '89!!!! Enjoyed The Ride!!!
Sound was awesome !!!
PS . Cutler mix-downs don't sound bad
once you smooth them out a bit?
PS2 . One word, three times? Jerry! Jerry! Jerry!
Came ready too play!!!
summer 89
I am a big fan of summer 89 tour, I like it better than Spring 90 as it is before the full on MIDI work in 1990 and I think Tiger sounds better than the revamped Wolf and Rosebud. Looking at releases, it seems that the entire summer 89 tour has been released, except for Sullivan Stadium and Alpine Valley, with Alpine getting partial release with Downhill From Here. It is long past time to give Alpine Valley the full treatment and release with Blu-Ray and CD.
I did not buy this box, but someone posted a picture on Facebook from the booklet of the Alpine Valley page. Growing up in Milwaukee and Madison suburbs and going to Dead shows in 88 and 89, I noted an error in the description of why the band was banned from Alpine Valley. The book says it was from overcrowding in 89, but that was not the case. The venue way oversold tickets in 1988-- I think they sold an unlimited number of lawn tickets. My group of recent HS graduates grabbed at least a dozen the week before the show. It was soooo crowded in 88, we couldn't get into the lot for the Sunday show and parked on the county road.
In 89, they had a better ticket selling policy and security checked cars for ticketholders. People without tickets were supposed to be turned away. I still remember having to show our tickets at the lot entrance. This was advertised beforehand and it worked, with an assist from the weather keeping crowds down the last two days. Alpine 89 was not overcrowded-- my buddy and I camped in the lot for the shows and there were no major issues. The locals were absolutely dead set on doing the ban after the fiasco in 1988 regardless of how it turned out in 89. Just my 2 cents, but I wish they had gotten it right in the book.
For heavy metal numismatists...
In the UK, the Royal Mint has brought out a commemorative coin to mark 50 years of Iron Maiden. The coin is available in several editions, with prices from £18.50.
Iron Maiden schwag....
.....the algorithm on my phone is sending me way too many potential purchases.
I guess I low key asked for them.
Heavy Metal
Distant rumblings could be heard all over Britain last weekend as Black Sabbath took the stage for their final concert. Before they came on there was a whole day of heavy metal bands playing short sets. Then Sabbath, who played 4 songs, supposedly as a good bye to their fans. Most of whom looked as though they hadn't been born when the band were at it's peak. So they may have been saying goodbye to people who had never seen them before !
Iron Maiden coin
"Like old whores and bad architecture, if you hang around long enough, you get respectable"
Jerry said that...
I just never "got" Iron Maiden
Maiden has a very, very special place in my heart....
....'twas my first concert. The Powerslave tour. Which at the time, was bombastic, over the top and awesome.
My gateway to live shows.
So yeah. Maiden.
And the fact, that they are still going strong, is pretty incredible. Nicko retired from touring, but will beat the drums on future releases.
Estimated Eyes
Haven't read the book yet but don't remember those issues in 88 and 89 at Alpine. We were there 86 through 89. We did RVs for 87-89. I would do mail order tickets for our group every year. 88 was four shows with a one day break. There was also a big drought in 88 and just having water that week was a big deal.
I would work all year to pay for these tours.
You know where to find me if you would like a copy of that 80 Alpine show.
Cap Centre 1993
Forgive me if this was answered before, and I do recall the text conversation about the jam within the "Space" jam. Either being 'Handsome Cabin-boy Jam' or 'Two Soldiers Jam' to which I believe the latter is the one, but all these traditional author-less songs are kinda the same. I know Jerry and David Grisman did the "Two Soldiers" song in 1991.
Anyways,... What by chance is the name of that 'raga' sounding jam that clearly starts after the obvious finish of "drums", and right before the "Space" I mentioned above?
It's a surreal little melody for sure, kinda has some effects put on it towards the end and the volume fades in and out. Curious minds gotta know!
More Jam Please!
Yeah also what's that 'Jazzy' jam at the end of "Dark*Star" before the "Drums" segment, does it have a name?
Days Between
A hopeful candle still lingers in the land of lullabies!
First rrun though z box?
Found '78 & '89 too be the more mind bending shows.

