Grateful Dead

Dark star & deadhead OG

Even though I subscribed to Play Dead app, I hope the cd Dave's, box sets, and the like are still sold. I don't want to live in a stream only world. I think it's great folks can join the app and have stream only option for all the great music that has been released.

The shows they dropped on the app (all 6 nights MSG Fall 94!!) sound fantastic! Being a big fan of the Vince Welnick Bruce Hornsby era, i'm thinking the app is gonna bring forth some riches from 91-95. It's just gonna be a ton of fun to get two new shows a week dropped from any and all eras!

I really think the best shows from all eras will get the offical Dave's Picks treatment, and the same for box sets. All done on physical media.....PLEASE LORD don't stop the cd releases

And cherish the opportunity to hold in my hand the physical copy of those wonderful Dead shows. I have been incredibly lucky and many shows that I attended have been released for purchase (6-16-1974 partial), that June 7,8,9 Winterland 77 run, the NYE 77 run, then followed by Madison Wisconsin Feb 1978 (cue my Jerry story ;o), and of course the Minneapolis, Omaha, Red Rocks of 78 box set, so I am truly grateful about those crystalline moments of aural ecstasy being made available to us. .
Unlike Crow, I will not be subscribing to 'streaming' the Play Dead.
However, I will be listening and purchasing music and continue as well as return to Dead.net to lurk about and to listen for recommendations from you all.
We actually had a tremendous run with the CDs and LPs of spectacular shows and I am so very appreciative to everyone who made it happen. Hail tapers and Dead Heads!!!

"It ain't what I don't know that gets me into trouble, it's what I know for sure that ain't so"
- Mark Twain

It's always 4 : 20 somewhere, right?
Well, once an hour at least.
Cheers
The only show I could find in my collection from 4-20. And it's got a Cumberland, lol. I'll bet I've only listened to this once. Interesting notes show expenditures. The ushers made $7.10/hr. Not bad and you get to hear a show!
This second set opener of Scarlet>Fire>Samson is smoothly hot. They camp out in the transition to Fire for quite a while. I could see tripping to this. Has a groove. Good show. I'm sure I'd have thought I got my money's worth.

4/27/91
4/28/91

You can only rent it. But that hasn't stopped me from spending quite a bit of money on that stuff over the years.

I get it. Streaming is weird. And I'm about as Old School as they come with regard to my music collection. I like to OWN music that I love. I like knowing it's there whenever I want it. I like supporting the artists. I don't even know how many lps and CDs I own, but it's a lot. Several hundred?

But people like me are dying out. Most people stream music these days, and if the archival releases are going to keep selling (and keep getting made) then the business model needs to evolve. I figure that's what Play Dead is all about.

The app does offer a download option, and I do find myself wondering if I can download items and then burn CDs, so that I'd have a physical copy I can play on my home system and could keep if I ever unsubscribe. Anybody figure that out yet?

Meanwhile I'll be subscribing. Because I need more shows.

double header yesterday, Garnet Rogers at a church hall late afternoon, light snow falling outside big windows, power went out just before start, so it really was all acoustic. He brought enough guitars, six including a few circa hundred years old Martins. Michael Millard, founder of quasi local Froggy Bottom Guitars brought one of his fabulous instruments which Garnet played. Power came back for second set. Had a chance to ask him about the Strat seen on a utube clip, said it was a '54 and he also has a '55. Then Tyshawn Sorey Trio at Dartmouth's stunning new Morris Hall, talk about large windows, incredible 25 foot span overlooking the green and campus. Tyshawn with Aaron Diehl piano and Harish Raghavan bass played a continuous hour long set, no stops.

Crow, that is great you can now listen to some of the shows and boxes you don't own.
With the app you are renting the ability to listen, you don't own any of the releases and you will keep having to pay each year to keep the subscription going. And right now the biggest issue for me is finding a way to listen to it on my home systems. Right now only in the car and through Bluetooth which severely downgrades the sound.

But the draw of new shows made be buy and I will need to figure out listening logistics.

From the Play Dead app. It’s nice to have the banter and tuning between songs. I think a lot of that gets deleted because of CD size limitations.

... than a feeling
BOSTON >
marathon day and
happy 4/20!
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april 20th, 1984
@phila. civic center
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PEACE for ALL!