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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.
Laguna Seca '88
37 years ago we were wrapping up a fab weekend at Laguna Seca with Grateful Dead, Los Lobos & David Lindley...what a time....
And for those interested...
The fire here at The North Rim that took out the Canyon Rim Lodge three weeks ago is still Burning...whrn it burned down the lodge and cabins it was at about 15,000 acres burned with zero containment...tomorrow will mark four weeks it has been burning (Started as a lightning strike on a single tree on the 4th of July) and is now at 105,500 acres burned with 4% containment....
North Rim Fire
if there is anything "good" about the fire, it was caused by lightning, not some eejet human.
A more mild fire is burning on the Olympic Peninsula; there is some smoke visible here in Seattle but not horrific. The horrific thing is that it is human-caused, probably fireworks.
Welcome to Derpistan.
DaP 55 Le Zenith
Sound is fabulous. Everyone's clearly defined and for a bonus, the mix captures the hall's reverb nicely. Really stretches out the vocals. Take the harmonization for the last verse in Box of Rain for an example. Awesome live capture.
Generally I'm not a fan of both Hornsby and Vince together. Too soupy as said. But this works for me. Maybe that issue surfaced more in '91? What led up to the dog turd tour? As Hornsby reffered to Fall.
Playing wise, yep. Together but still keeping things loose. Truly heady moment with Victim, and maybe if the drums barnyard jumble romp comes alive for you. Flag waves high and steady through everything else.
Final though: the photo of Jerry beneath the second disc is DEAD ON! And that I saw that skeleton with the green cap at a Drive By Truckers show last week in Kalamazoo.
I get the Desolation Row postcards thing
I was just referring to people talking about getting a postcard as part of the ETR thing.
Maybe I'm just old😶🌫️😶
Anniversary show 7/31/83 Ventura
42 years ago it was day 2 down at the Ventura County Fairgrounds, and the Grateful Dead were rocking out. I never looked forward to driving back to the Bay Area after the show, it was a long drive and after a weekend of very little sleep it was a drag. I always had to work the next day and that was even more of a drag. Lets get that Ventura Box Set released
55
It has a futuristic feel to me, which must be down to the technology of the time. For me, Victim is the highlight, and I think the newer songs, generally, work better than the ones from the 70's.
The two keyboards, plus two drummers, sound a bit cluttered to my ears. Very different from the two keyboard sound of Pigpen, Keith and just Bill on drums, which was a lot sparer. The sound here is quite dense - it's hard to breath sometimes. The musical equivalent of a large truck lumbering down a road.
Still, it's a nice contrast to earlier years.
DaP 55
Had a fun, big ears, headphone listen yesterday to Set II. Glad to have this! As to the mix I'm with DaveRock- "dense" is the exact word that came to mind. A large, lumbering, sonic truck indeed! One of the most Phil-centric recordings I've heard in a long while.
I might could maybe
have gone to the D&C at Golden Gate Park, but somebody went and scheduled it for the same dates as TTB at Red Rocks. So I'm here in Colorado. With no regrets! Should be a great show this eve. But it's kind of weird how the universe doesn't revolve around me sometimes.
Based on just one listen (which wasn't even a very close listen because I was kind of doing housework most of the time) I agree with comments about the mix being kind of soupy. It's not bad, but I thought it'd be clearer, given the era. (Hey, that rhymes. Sort of.)
I thought the versions of Cassidy and Maggie's Farm were great, but the show didn't really take off for me till Estimated. Just not a big Victim or Crime fan, and to me the Hornsby songs are only OK.
Still, glad to see this show released and looking forward to giving it a closer (re)listen.
Deadvikes/ Dead & Co.
I'm not going to the Dead & Co. shows this weekend, I'm sure it will be a cool scene. I haven't seen the Dead or any Dead related band since 6/4/95.
Friggin’ fires!
I am so damn sick of the fires, and this has been a good year for fires, or lack there of. I remember one year in Seattle (2015) where it was so bad I could see smoke coming in my windows, not an exaggeration. Anyway, my kids and I were very sad about the Grand Canyon lodge burning. In 2016 we drove from Seattle and spent a week in the campground next to the lodge. We ate dinner there, hung around the lobby, watched a lightning storm etc all in that lodge. I’ve been to many NP lodges, and it was one of the best. It burnt down once before, maybe the park service will rebuild this one too. Speaking of fire and lodges, Olympic NP has our big fire right now, it also has some of the finest park lodges in the country. Like the pick by the way, as some one said earlier, we NEED more Bruce shows!
Speaking of fires
Last at 1230 am in church parking lot across the street
Someone torched a car
Pop pop boom
Blaring car horn
Sirens
Looking today BIG black area about 15 by 15 feet
Yikes!
Rebuild a NP structure? In 2025?
I hope it does come to pass
But you'll understand my skepticism
However, I did read that a certain famous "house" will get a $200 million ballroom
WTF
Jerry's Time
Yes indeed for a handful of days in August starting on the first, we reminisce the "Days in Between" for Jerry Garcia. Rest his soul! Sure glad there is a version of that song in the ETR Box, that 3/17/93 show was an excellent inclusion.
Days Between
Great to see and hear Sirius XM’s annual tribute to Jerry. Unfortunate that there’s nothing on dead dot net.
Edit: Although, I see they did send an e-mail. I rescind my snarkyness…
Days Between
Both extremely glorious and extremely heart-breaking.
Still not sure about streaming. My old man bones starting to get extremely frail.
#55 shows delivered but I checked mailbox within 45 minutes and it wasn't there. Went to post office yesterday, haven't heard anything back. Friends son works there, going to get him to investigate.
Hope all well for These Days.
Bummer
Wild Kratts are an endangered species. Mountain Stage will likely not survive at least in it's current format. And for what?
Who hasn't performed on Mountain Stage. On a single night at Mountain Stage in 2010 I saw Mark O'Conner, Jorma Kaukonen, David Bromberg, Frank Vignola, Tommy Emanual, and others whose names are at the tip of my tongue. Amazing.
Who performed at Mountain Stage? Just to name a few: Robert Frip, Arlo Guthrie, Alison Krauss (with and without Union Station), Peter Rowan, Joan Osborne, Tony Rice, North Mississippi Allstars, Bela Fleck, David Grisman, Bill Monroe, Garth Hudson, Rick Danko, Joan Baez, Rosanne Cash, Del McCoury, Susan Tedeschi, Jackie Greene, Ralph Stanley, Robert Cray, Bill Frisell, Emmylou Harris, Jerry Douglas, Buckwheat Zydeco, Mary Chapin Carpenter, Suzanne Vega, Derrick Trucks, Warren Zevon, Gordon Lightfoot, Roger Mcguinn, The Band, Keller Williams, Bruce Hornsby, Yonder Mountain String Band, Tim O'Brien, Preservation Hall Jazz Band, Doc Watson, Railroad Earth, Vince Gill, Hot Tuna, Booker T. Jones, Johnny Winter, Dirty Dozen Brass Band, Chris Hillman, Herb Pederson, Peter Wolf, Allen Toussaint , Los Lobos, Tori Amos, Indigo Girls.... Too, too many to mention. Always classy, always professional, always considerate, always affordable and if you have a radio, free once each week.
I hope it finds a way to continue. If you were ever lucky enough to see them record these weekly sessions (they performed these all over the country but mostly in West Virginia) tickets were like twenty dollars and you got to see five or six acts perform a few songs each in a two-hour, all-star, mini festival at small theatres with great acoustics. They were never political and always a great time.
Mountain Stage's mission statement - To be a home for live music on public radio, showcasing diverse musical talent in a live performance format.
RIP PBS. This is not Great.
There were days and there were days between
There were days and there were days I know...
Are we going back to the days when we had too snap our fingers?
15 Minutes Of Coolness
Search up “Dead and Company Billy Strings Wharf Rat.”
You’re welcome.
PBS shredded....
....but $200,000,000 for a gold-laden presidential ballroom? Sure. Where do I sign?
I'm woke as fuck by the way.
Oops. Wrong thread. Whatevers. Leaving it here anyway.
Like RonMarley1 says
Check out Billy Strings Wharf Rat with D & Co last night. Blew my mind. There's a pretty sweet video pull up on utube uploaded by Todd Norris. Sound last night on the stream was excellent.
This just in
TTB killed at Red Rocks in the first of this year's two shows. So what else is new?
I was wondering if they would say or do anything for Jerry's birthday, thinking they might play Sugaree or Mr Charlie, two Dead songs I've heard 'em cover before. Well, they opened with Franklin's Tower! And later on Susan mentioned that it was Jerry's b-day.
PS: Almost forgot to mention: In that version of Franklin's Tower, Derek was playing Jerry's Travis Bean guitar.
I had a grand time at RR in 2023 seeing them....
....counting down days until orchestral King Gizz at the HB. 9 days. I hear the entire city of LA burned down in June. I suspect its just fine.
Jim Marshall Photos
Saw an article about a new "coffee table book" (it's 5 pounds in weight) suggested by David Gans that documents some of Jim's 10,000 photos he took of the GD and their concerts and venues. Being released Aug. 5th. They said he never ate or drank anything while at their shows knowing he might get dosed and "that wasn't my thing", lol. He also documented all the big artists of the day and took a "team" photo of all five S.F. bands together, GD, Jefferson Airplane, Big Brother and the Holding Company (hmm.... BB&THC), Quicksilver, and the Charlatans in 1967.
Cheers
Funny that 1stshow....
....just watched a YouTube doc regarding Marshall this morning while in my robe and drinkingmy coffee. Good start to the day. My algorithm is apparently on point most of the time.
Looking forward to a Marlins sweep of the Yankees.
Jim Marshall - Thanks for The Info 1st show
Just ordered the book from the 'Big River' .de.
The 'Blues For Allah' 50th Anniv. Box is now also available here.
Thanks
Cheers
G.
Not that I need one, but
A BFA cover art Tshirt would be nice
I WOULD buy one
The TAB played Mission In The Rain!!!....
....fuck yeah.
And Trey asked for help with the lyrics and to sing along because he didnt seem worthy to play it.
Its the little things like this that makes me smile.
Went and visited my mom today.
Smiles.
"It was midnight at the mission, and the bells were not for me."
Next year's box
Please please please
A bunch of 66 67 68 69 70
Or
Summer 85
Cmon Dave n pals....you know you want to
2000 Comments from....?
Home,..... page?
Where's the new threads at!?

