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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.
Volume 55
13999/22000 has arrived here in north county San Diego, after shipping all the way from . . . 1 Viper Way, Vista, CA, a grand total of 16.9 miles and five days' time, although the UPS tracking notices say that it was processed in Fontana, CA, which is 90 miles north of my 'burb. Strange confluence of interesting names and numbers here.
I like the package and DL's notes. Many nice pics of Jerry and others, but no sign of Billy the K or Bruce the H. Hmmmm...
I was in Paris for the 10-27-90 show, and it was really good, definitely worth the train ride up from and back to Barcelona; and it was a wild time in the City of Lights. I met kind Deadheads from NY State and Boulder, and they took solo traveler me under their wing. We spotted Phil walking along the Seine near the Left Bank, Place Saint-Michel, on Friday night. Quaffed beer at Gare du Nord on Saturday afternoon, snagged a miracle ticket on the metro to the Zénith, got shook to the bones by the show, ran into California friends after the show, and made plans to meet up the next morning, walked the wild Saturday night streets of Paris with my new companions, then spent Sunday walking Paris in the pouring rain with my California friends until it was time to catch the train for Barcelona. I boarded the train soaked to the bone, curled up on two empty seats, and awoke bone dry six hours later, speeding back back to the sunnier south of Catalonia. An amazing time.
DaP 55 thread (or lack thereof)
I think its related to the site migration that messed a lot of stuff up. Didn't MaryE say she would look into it? Maybe an oversight, nothing nefarious?
Where's the 55 thread?
Got mine a couple days ago. First set walkin blues has great Bruce all over it.
#5702 is in Goose Creek SC!
Since this is the defacto DP 55 thread, can anyone confirm the cap for this pick is 22,000? Product detail page says limited to 25k, so wondering, for no particular reason, which one it might be.
Says 22000..
...on the back on mine. I'm 21707. Quite close to the wire, but I got it comparatively early.
#55
Mines is lost in the ether.
Really interesting to hear all the editions say 22000. Maybe they cut it back and didn't tell anyone.
My Klipsch sub....
....loved that Phil bomb at the end of Stander On The Mountain.
Mine said 22000 as well.
Mine arrived today
After jamming out in the car to 10/12/68, Europe 90 is quite a whiplash.
I'll get to it eventually...
No Big Whoop ...
22 or 25 k - Either way, it's all good.
Finished ETR Shoreline '91 today, and have this queued up for tomorrow AM while the wife is out a 'da house ...
#1407 in Orange County CA
Very nice.
Just listened to Road Trips Vol 2 No 1 with Bonus Disc from 9/18-20/90 (from the prior month @ MSG.) Great shows and am looking forward to DaP 55! Always happy to have Bruce H along!
8.7 Pacific Earthquake?
Tsunami warning for West Coast and Alaska?
We need more Hornsby shows....
....stumbled across a Hornsby / Skaggs release the other day. Its called Cluck Ol' Hen.
Went well with mashed potatoes and chicken and a hazy IPA.
LIG -> Piano Jam -> Valley Road? Yessir!!
DaP 55 - # 10721
has just arrived. Tax € 14,10.
You all have a good day.
Cheers
G.
DaP 55
#17 arrived Monday. No shipping notice but pleasant surprise! Lowest number I've gotten and I don't think it really means anything but cool to see such a low number anyway! Downloading as we speak.
4898/22000 arrived
The cover is obviously an homage to Eugene Delacroix' "Die Freiheit führt das Volk an". Like it.
Cover
GERHARD, thanks for the reference about the cover art. That’s pretty cool!
Freedom drives the people onward (or forward)
Ich glaube das ist richtig
Cover art
Delacroix was a French painter - "La Liberté guidant le peuple".
The painting is known in English as "Liberty leading the people".
That a skeletal Dave L., with mic stand in hand, is leading the tapers is a nod to a story he tells in the liner notes for #55.
There is one major difference
Wink wink, nudge nudge
ETR Cassette
I'm going to digitize the ETR cassette. Anyone know what type tape this is? Any dolby applied? Enquiring deadheads want to know.
Just curious
Did anyone actually receive the ETR postcard, that was "included" as part of the deal when ordered?
Anyone?
Bueller?
Bueller?
And a pleasantly surprising edit: 55 #971 has arrived in NH, 3 days earlier than Mail Innov predicted. That's a first. Lets keep that up.
Digitize The ETR Cassette
nitecat - Make the file available to the masses?
No Postcard Here
If they sent it on its own then it hasn’t arrived. If it should be in the box then it isn’t. Then again I don’t really care.
Postcards from the Ledge...
...as is up on its perch from the top of the Grateful Dead 'Tower' that is my music bookshelf. I thought I remembered there being some 'postcards' in with the swag, though they were maybe just photos from the venues though. Not technically an "ETR" postcard meaning one with the 'official' logo or subsequent graphic artwork like on the sampler disc. Anyways, I am assuming that's what the query is about, and I'm too lazy to get the Big Box Set back down to check right now. I'll do it later while musing through the ETR music specifically sometime, which has been non stop since its arrival. Aside from a few Reel Gone Music rereleased Trips & Picks I just nabbed up, I am currently digging on the new Dave's Pick.
"Stander on the Mountain" is such an awesome song! I had never heard it before now.
There's funeral processions....
....then there's OZZY's funeral procession. Wow.
Bruce
He was on FM radio in the mid/late-80’s, and MTV, so I knew him and his songs before he joined GD. Was glad he was in and bummed that it was going to be temporary.
Saw him 5 times with GD.
Never saw him perform one of his songs with GD.
A second raise of the glass to Ozzy
The guy who took me to my first GD show was an Ozzy fan
Didnt mean
To be a trouble maker...
The orig order for ETR actually lists a postcard that looks like the box. I just looked at my confirmation email from Mar 12, and sure enough there is a line item for it. They were part of the order, a freebie, although they have a $1 price, and not something I actually selected, meaning additional could be purchased but the first was gratis, I believe for all 6000. I would think other peoples order confirmation email might show the same.
I don't think any of them ever went out, and was just trying to see if anyone actually got one. It's def not an earth shattering thing.
Glad Someone Said it!
I had totally spaced that extra postcard, and I am glad TooMuch... mentions it. I believe accuracy matters and the extra ETR postcard would fit that notion.
Anyways,.. I must say. The new Dave's is awesome! I have already started incorporating it into new and existing playlists.
Dave does a damn fine job of picking the bonus filler as well the song placement on the discs for continuity. As it would sound disc to disc on a classic CD player.
Of course I have plugged it in to the iTunes and sorted out this and that, along with separating the individual shows. All that & I still came up with a pretty cool mix personally.
I start off with the 1st set, nothing unusual. I then take the 10/30 second set filler and follow up with that, it fades out nicely after "Terrapin" so I can then put the 10/30 filler from the 1st set next. That ends nicely as we get to hear the band sign off after "Valley Road" so the entire mix feels like a 3 set show. ***edit*** {Set two from 10/28 ends the playlist of course!}
Thanks again Dave!
Duprees Diamond Blues/ Cosmic Charlie. 45rpm....
released 56 years ago today. , 7/30/69. I have a couple of copies of it that I bought at Village Music up in Mill Valley years ago.
22,000th generation cassette dehabilitation...
My friend snuck a boom box (is it ok to say, "ghetto blaster," anymore?) into this show and after 22,000 tape transfers, it has boiled down to pure hiss and white tape noise.
Ok, maybe not - but I had some of you there for a second.
Maxells really were the best, though, but not the 'metal'. The normal.
And I still dig the ad with Maxell dude sitting there getting his hair blown back like he was hanging out the car window like how a dog does, flying the car.
Dogs rule. Listened to 'Animals' today (Pink Floyd, for anyone not grabbing the reference), and whilst the venerable 'Sheep' is still my fave, 'Dogs' ain't far behind.
In York Beach, Maine, on vacation. It could maybe be a little bit better but it could be far, far worse.
I feel a Hunter S. Thompson/Steely Dan binge may be in order.
\m/
Anniversary show 7/30/83 Ventura
42 years ago I was down at the Ventura County Fairgrounds for another rocking show with the Good old Grateful Dead . They kicked off the show with China Cat Sunflower, only time I saw them do that. I saw them do it as an encore at the Frost one year.. Time to get that Ventura box released.
Two Keyboards
Just listened to disc 1 from DaP 55 and really enjoying. It hit me thinking how much I enjoyed the first 5 discs of LTTR with Keith and Pigpen and now this with Bruce and Vince, am I alone in enjoying two keyboard players?
7 30 83
I remember the opening China Rider and a person I was with being surprised
Boom box is the preferred term
Listened to "So Many Roads" outtakes earlier. Interestingly there is a rehearsal from late September 90 with a rendition of Valley Road.
I will be road tripping next week; ideal time to hear Daves 55.
Two keyboards: I always have liked the two keyboards on Europe 72.
18169/22000
Received mine late yesterday.
Don't think the edition number is a misprint. Strange.
#17- Nice Pete H.
Paris drumz....
....cows, frogs and crows. That is all.
#55 is stuck in Avenel NJ…
MaryE, can you please ask the Doc to help me with this? The tracker says my copy of Dave’s 55 has been at the UPS facility in Avenel NJ, which is about 45 minutes from its destination to my mailbox since 7/26/25. There is no delivery date and I can’t open a case with them because I a not the shipper. If the Doc can’t get this moving for us, then I would like to ask for a replacement while this is still in stock. Thanks in advance for your usual kind attention to these matters
Steve
2 keyboards
My issue is the sound gets a little....soupy, with all the players getting mushed together. That said, I'm digging this release a lot more than I thought I would. Europe 90 never did much for me, but this is an engaging show. Bruce and Bob really shine.
Oh mama can this really be the end
To be stuck inside of Avenel NJ
with the shipping blues again
It's gotta get to you sometime, dude.
I hope it gets to you today
Sing on, brother…
Yeah Proudfoot, that’s kind of where I was going with that subject line. But I need/want my DaP 55 !
Avenel!
My old man worked for years in Avenel at General Dynamics. We almost moved there, but luckily, we stayed in Cliffwood Beach.
ETR Cassette
Stillwater - not sure how to do that.
Land of the Lost
It’s seems the shipping has gone off the rails even more than usual. No updates, delivery notices with times in the future, etc… Mine was delivered Monday, and USPS says it’s still waiting for the handoff. Makes me nervous for the BFA 50th release.
Shipping blues
Every time
Some poor soul
As Jerry Seinfeld might say, "what's the deal with that?"
No Problems With Shipping Here
My copy of DaP55 arrived on Monday midday, two days earlier than promised on the USPS tracking info. No issues with shipping or tracking. It was almost immediately handed off from UPS to USPS and their tracking number worked perfectly and it was updated to reflect the new Monday arrival date. 7378/22000. It's unclear why some have issues while other don't. I usually don't have any issues tracking my orders from Dead.net. Sorry to hear that others have problems.
Dick's 4 Vinyl
Still available at RGM.
Cheers
Dicks 4 vinyl
Almost worth buying twice in case anything happens to the first one.
Ghost of Seastones
haunting that Victim or the Crime in DaP 55.
Post card
I got a post card in my box toomuchisjustenough. Not sure where or how it was packed but I found it on the floor after I was done taking everything out of the box to check it all out. Must have fallen out of wherever it was hiding. Hope you find it!
#9935 in Da House
Actually I got it this past Monday but was in no hurry to listen as I usually don't deal with posr '89 much...but as others have said Hey Now! I dropped it into my headphones last night and sat out back after a couple of puffs watching the Dipper spin around (I think)...as others have said Bruce's playing is great...more listening tonight...But I still think s0me of the material is weak...