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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.
Speculation
Boston 72: I'm thinking 9/15 opener through Bird Song and the filler of Dark Star Through end of show from 9/16
Capital Centre 3/17/93 complete with opner through drums from 9/15/82 as filler
Not sure at all about 1969 and 1971 comps
Again, total speculation on my part!!
Rock on gang!
No track listing, no deal...
A complete lack of transparency, muddied by "hints"... At this stage, after so many carefully executed releases, it's truly puzzling why "the organization" (whether Dave L or Rhino) does not provide clear information on the compilation shows.
On principle alone, I would not plunk down $30, let alone $672, without knowing what I'm getting. I do not apologize if this feels negative, because I'm the potential purchaser and "they" are withholding the key information on just exactly what they're offering.
Puzzling at best. Damaging to the organization's credibility at the least.
That is all, HF
Anniversary show 3/19/77. Winterland
48 years ago I was up in S.F. at Winter land for a knockout of a show with the Grateful Dead. Hopefully this show will be released one day. Fun times!
Dave's Picks
Isn't the Dave's Picks series based on the idea that people will subscribe without knowing what they are buying? I didn't mind at first, but after number 36 I felt I needed to know what I was getting before buying it. This attitude of withholding information seems to fit in with SimonRob's idea that this box is basically several years worth of Daves Picks released in a huge chunk and presented in a fancy box.
Seriously WFT?
you should be voted off the island... Lack of transparency? Every single song they ever played is out there for you to listen to in it complete and total transparent digital form... Every venue from every year for every single song is there for the taking.. no questions asked... Lest I forget to mention that the Dead Channel on SiriusXm is constantly playing 3 or 4 songs at a time from this box set... Don't like it... don't buy... but there's a enough BS negativity circling the planet right now without our own taking jabs and stabs at those who keep the archives updated and renewed and alive.. "Damaging their credibility"? are you fucking kidding me??? that's about as low a blow as could have been served up... so, now you just flat out say in your transparency these cats are dishonest and are just after your money... To each his own... you may be a friend of the devil, but you're no friend to the tribe...
Seriously WFT?
Seriously WFT?
you should be voted off the island... Lack of transparency? Every single song they ever played is out there for you to listen to in it complete and total transparent digital form... Every venue from every year for every single song is there for the taking.. no questions asked... Lest I forget to mention that the Dead Channel on SiriusXm is constantly playing 3 or 4 songs at a time from this box set... Don't like it... don't buy... but there's a enough BS negativity circling the planet right now without our own taking jabs and stabs at those who keep the archives updated and renewed and alive.. "Damaging their credibility"? are you fucking kidding me??? that's about as low a blow as could have been served up... so, now you just flat out say in your transparency these cats are dishonest and are just after your money... To each his own... you may be a friend of the devil, but you're no friend to the tribe...
This Box
Of course there is always the option not to buy it.
I purchased one. Looking forward to it.
Can't remember, did they include the track listing for E72 and 30 Trips?
I think Dave gave us some information in his chat and the information above.
Yes, more information is always better but not a dealbreaker for me.
No one is shocked you are not buying this one DR. You have made it clear how you feel about most of the music released by Dave.
I say, keep it coming! More professionaly mastered recordings of the greatest touring band ever.
Edit. Nice Billy. I am assuming you were at 3/20 as well. Hope you wrote the liners for that show.
No Time Like the Present
I don't think there's ever been a situation like this where a box was being released and it was impossible to know the full contents. Not the Europe box, or the Fillmore, or any others I can remember. Certainly with all the recent boxes (NW, StL, MSG, Spring 73) full contents were listed online as soon as they went on sale.
So why not this one?
It's not like I think they're up to something. And of course nobody's putting a gun to my head. I can always just not buy it. But you have to admit: this is weird, right? What good reason could there be for NOT posting a track list? Seems like something that would take 15 minutes tops. Have your intern do it. Drag the set list from one file and drop it in another. Rinse and repeat. Done.
From what we DO know, most of the shows I'm most interested are among those that are incomplete. So, yeah, I'd like to know which parts of those shows will be included before I spend $600. If you're down for spending that much and just trusting Dave that it'll be worth it, I have no problem with that, but I hope you have no problem with me.
But really what I hope is that somebody would just post the damn track list. How hard can it be? Now that deserves a WTF.
Box of DaP’s
Absolutely!
That’s why I ordered it before I looked at what was in it.
The Cassette
Lots of comments about the cassette and I get it, I haven't got a tape player either.
But before we get too critical, let's consider that this release was designed to be a 60 CD box, regardless of the length of the shows, not a 20 show box. That's why we've got filler. For example, I can't imagine the main 1971 Capitol Theatre show is going to take up more than two discs, so we have a least a full disk of filler.
If you listen to the seaside [or not] chat, it's clear that Dave tried to add the Avalon show late in the day and was told he could have it as a cassette. Is it just possible that the box had already been designed, to at least some degree, and wouldn't accommodate another CD, but would fit a cassette? Just speculating, but if that was the case, redesigning the box would add cost and delay.
As for the tracklist, yes, I'm looking forward to seeing it as soon as possible myself, but lets not get too worked up about it, I'm sure it will be available sooner rather than later. The reality is though, that of the 20 venues selected, we know that 17 of them are full shows. We know which shows they are, and we know the tracklist for each is easily found on a myriad of online sites. OK, we don't know what the filler is, or how the three hybrid shows are made up, but we do know the vast majority of tracks on this release.
It's OK not to buy this if you don't want it, can't afford it, or even feel you have too much dead. There really is no obligation.
BTK: the voice of reason again
I REALLY wish I could have attended the 1977 shows at Winterland (March, June, December)
It's called banter
Always a pleasure to have a light hearted chat.
Plangent
I would add all the shows in the box have been run through the Plangent process. I think only one Dave's has gone through this process, #39.
And there is a good chance there are a few multi tracks in this box. I am thinking 71, 89 and maybe 91?
Searching for some Oberon this weekend Conekid.
Thinking A Lot About Less And Less
Sitting on the sidelines for a while but decided to chime in. A $600 wooden box will tend to bring the lurkers out of the woodwork. Not to mention the termites.
The challenge is the upcoming economic storm in the USA. Sure, I have the money to spend on this, but is that a rational use when things seem to be getting real ugly, real quick here?
Many ways to parse this, but a few thoughts:
The Avalon “cassette” idea was born of the best intentions, but lands like a slap in the face. It sounded like a great idea in the boardroom- “Let’s include a cassette of this killer 69 show! It will be an amazing flashback- they’ll love it!”- but everyone here on the ground understands the reality of that.
It brought up memories of tossing a Sony deck and every cassette I owned into a dumpster for the sake of a marriage that didn’t last- now with no way of listening to what’s obviously a killer show.
To paraphrase another poster’s common metaphor, it doesn’t seem so much like… knocking on the wrong door on the right street, rather just playing ding-dong-ditch with your best consumers.
Which leads to the challenge of amortizing the cost of the shows any of us want against the actual cost of the box- so far, it’s not quite adding up.
But it’s energizing to go “shopping in the closet,” as they say…I have been digging into the 30 Days releases from these shows, and the adjacent DPs and DaPs. Confirmed one thing…
This band rocks!
Becoming Ded Zeppelin...
Finally went to "Becoming Led Zeppelin" the other night with a friend of the devil in Boulder. It seems most of the theaters have full bars now (this one did, natch) and we enjoyed on-site libations as we took in the show.
I am more or less a completist, and rock and roll has pretty much been a main hobby for about 53 of my 56 years. Once it got under my skin, I couldn't stop. I enjoy a listen of every official Zeppelin release; I have a fair number of bootlegs (although most sound like absolute shit); and I have devoured every significant bio on the band including Jimmy's rather fancy coffee table books. I even threw down for that atmospheric and mostly hideous "Lucifer Rising" abomination he put out a few years ago. Buy hey, the "Death Wish II" soundtrack mostly absolves him of that, right?
The movie was slow paced and average. What struck me most was how raw and powerful the foursome was seen and heard from early gig footage in the late 60s/early 70s. Plant was a fucking force to be reckoned with and despite having no rhythm guitar or keys onstage, the lads fully rocked it and were absurdly powerful.
I prefer the studio inventiveness of Houses of the Holy and Physical Graffiti, to be honest... but calling myself "LedDed," I had to see it, right? To maintain my street cred.
I bought this 60 year set immediately. I always worry I will miss out and have to pay through the ass on the secondary market. I know that's stupid, but I think I still don't have Dave's Picks 1 or 2. I was asleep at the time...
There is just nothing in the world like Grateful Dead music with Jerry and my love for it. It is so much the salve that I need for the wound that is life living in these times. Be well my brothers and sisters and if you are on the fence here, indulge yourselves - your happiness is one thing one cannot put a price upon.
Last five:
Van Morrison - The Essential Van Morrison
Tool - Fear Inoculum
Billy Squier - In the Dark
UFO - Strangers in the Night
Miles Davis - 'Round Midnight
\m/
HighgreenChilly
What a great name, HighgreenChilly.
I hear you on the download. Would love to see the download, just don't think it will happen.
I still have my Sony tape deck from the 80s in the garage, but have no plans to dust it off and even try to hook it up.
Ledded
Wise words. Although my favourite Led Zep albums are the first 4 and How The West Was Won. I'll watch out for that film.
The best album I have bought over the last two weeks is "All Round Man-Live in London" a triple album by Rory Gallagher recorded in 1990. Easily matches, and in my opinion, surpasses "Live In Europe" and " Irish Tour" from the early 70's.
And of course, The Dead at their best are among the best of anyone.
Looking forward to Boxilla TOO/ PayPal pay in four
My suggestion to those on the fence and are subscribers who find something in each pick that they connect with. Get it! It’s a box of Dave’s picks. What’s better than that? There likely won’t be another at least for another 15 years I would say. I had to do PayPal credit, unfortunately, they did not offer pay in four, that’s my only gripe. Rhino annoying changed that years ago. They shouldn’t say they offer that because they don’t and haven’t for a while, but counting the days like 10 years ago!
Alternate Universes Dave's Picks
Still saving for this box,... I think. Just instead of one I gotta Shakedown 3 Streets! Anyways,... I dig what someone posted about the "60 cds" grand total as a measurment and not to think of it as a number of shows. That said, and counting off approximate cds and shows from the given list does kinda boil it down to 20 shows (whole or partial) with extras. Maybe the Port Chester shows can count as a two for one double release. (Would still be cool to see the individual cd track listings!) Well it does kinda become apparent what the shows would be and how many cds, yada yadda, long thought short. This Big Box is like a five year chunk of Dave's picks but one with one oddly unique thing, it's a Bizarro World Dave.
(Pretty cool thing actually)
This version of Dave gave us TWO Brent picks a year for the 5 years, that leaves 10 shows left. Of those we've got 4 shows from the Keith & Donna years, two before & two after the hiatus. Three Vince era shows and from the way I see it three primal Pig shows, with them two Port Chester shows say released as a double album together. That would mean the 1969 Fillmore stuff is on 3 cds (3 shows into 1 chop show style), and the 1971 Fillmore stuff is a chop show too, or maybe one show plus the other as filler. Either way that ain't too bad for an Alternate Universe Dave's Picks. However you divvy up the picks that aren't Brent years and smatter them into a prototypical 'subscription year' this would be a pretty nice selection to go with. Kinda trippy now I think about it this way.
Ironically it would go real well with my subscriptions these past 4 years including the one now in 2025. Right on Bizarro Dave!
This has to be the best forum of all time!!!
I read the first and sometimes second page of mostly the Dave's Picks and box sets posts each day but very rarely post, ( I absolutely hate social media) and this discussion on the new box I find wonderfully hilarious.
First off this box is definitely expensive no question and I'm sure not affordable to all and that is totally understandable. But beyond that is where the hilarity begins. No track lists, which we all know can be easily found and most of us have already looked up, OMG! 3 shows not in their entirety? You're really not going to purchase because of not knowing the filler for those shows? Really? 20 Dave's Picks shows put together in a nice box? I don't see the issue and I could care less which venue a show is from. A Dead show is a Dead show from whatever venue and whatever time it was and I'm just happy to be able to have have access to and enjoy them. I'm sure I won't be crazy about some and love many of the shows in this box. I'm just thankful for Dave and the boys for continuing these releases and think you guys should as well, whatever they are.
And one last thing. The cassette tape. A cassette tape? How could they? I just consider this some of the cool swag that comes with most boxes, that I'll check out, possibly transfer to digital, put it back in the box and rarely look at it again but I have it and that's a cool thing to have. Keep posting and I'll keep laughing. Be well all!
holy priceless collection...
... of Etrurscan snoods Batman!
did I forget to mention TC, so sorry
and that postcard, yeah
all the conjecture about this release
now back to that postcard
maybe just sayin'
maybe it's the download code
ha! for the MUSIC on your NEW cassette
the 2nd thought is
it's probably just a discount coupon for you
to spend more $$$
on 60th anniversary STUFF
y'all gonna kick yourself
when you're NOT
ENJOYING THE RIDE!!
i see on Rolling Stone.com
there is an interview with Bob Weir
I don't have a subscription so I can't read it; but maybe you do.
Bonus cassette
Is it XL II, XL II-S, metal? 90-min, 110-min?
Hand-written J-card?
Inquiring minds want to know.
Save the Etruscans!
Don't look now, but I hear they're about to axe the US. Etruscan Dept. No telling what's next . . . time to start bailing?
Tribe? I don't need no stinkin' tribe....
Guess the Thought Police got ruffled. Perhaps that should be my role henceforth.
Not gratuitously, mind you. Just sayin' what I think. Always have, always will.
I'll just ladle it on. Not plunking down huge dollars for a box full of 80s and 90s shows, with short-sheeted primal Dead getting short shrift. Try saying that five times, fast.
Everyone here knows my interest in the Grease. It's really very simple.
Now if one man's viewpoint gets your knees knocking, there's more to come.
Belonging to no tribe, HF
Cassette to CD
When Covid 1st hit I used my $300 check from the government (and no it didn't have the orange turd's signature on it) to get a combo CD/cassette on a half price deal for the previous model. I needed a cassette deck and this one had a pitch control feature that I find handy on some of my auds that were recorded from one deck to another BITD and speed issues were common. A few were so bad I called it Jerry and the Chipmonks. And I was thinking my CD player was aging out and I would see how much better a modern CD player might sound. It also has a thumb drive input which I thought would be handy for playing downloads. Weird thing is that it is designed to use the CD as an input to the tape recorder, not as a CD recorder. Who does that? Transferring a CD to tape is just not anything a modern listener is doing. (some folks here talked me out of that before then anyway) Like you still have a cassette in your car and you can't find pre-recorded tapes to play nowadays? Turns out the cassette side is a POS with a motor weaker than a store brand Walkman and will not even play tapes longer than 90 minutes but luckily the CD unit sounds good (not really better than my 1993 CD changer). So it is doing duty in the bedroom system despite having the annoying habit of the tray not staying out so I have be quick on the draw to slam that CD in there before Alligator (yes, I named the thing) snaps it's jaws on my disc. I don't even use the thumb drive input as much as I thought I would but the tape player gets used now and again on those off speed tapes and I've gotten skilled at slamming a CD in the tray quickly. Lesson learned: Black plastic crap (BPC is the jargon used by audio enthusiasts to describe most modern Chinese made mid-fi components) is just that, crap. I guess I get $250 worth of utility out of this BPC so I shouldn't complain. I did get a great restored vintage cassette deck after that for the main system. So if you don't want that cassette in the box send it my way, lol.
Cheers
Happy Spring Equinox
Two more of my cents...
so I can also be voted off...
My problem with this being a box of Dave's Picks, is that I don't think it is, I think a few of them are not otherwise picked... lol
CD > cassette
Me, 1stShow, me - I'm that guy! : ) LOL : ) I actually have made a number of tapes from official release CDs. It's mostly for nostalgia, but I do have an 04 GX470 that has a tape player.
As for the tape in this release, think of it as memorabilia. It's a trinket - a novelty. I think it is kind of cool. I bet we see the show released as a Dave's Pick at some point despite the "release" in this box. And you bet I am going to be jamming on this tape in my GX living like it's 1989!
Wade
That's too cool!
I love being an analog guy in the digital world. Yeah, two of our three cars have tape decks and the third one has a broken CD player, lol. I play cassettes a lot at home too now that I got a better deck. Tons of stuff in the collection, pre-recorded, copied from LP (we were cheap college students back then) and later recorded from CDs (before CD burners, we were still cheap), auds, and even some live recordings. I knew I shouldn't have asked that rhetorical question.
More power to ya!
Cheers
LP > Tape
I bought a tape player going into college and taped all my albums and then loaned my tape player to my friend so she could tape all her albums for me. All on Maxell UD XLII's. Had a vinyl covered tape briefcase that may have held 48 tapes. Carried it around like Jerry carried his brief case. The good ole' days.
Now I have several tape decks that need tuneups. Bought two of the same Nak 3 head tape decks with the analog vu meter on ebay in late 90's since the Teac died. Sent them off to get tuned up/calibrated. Think one has dreaded eject button issue and the other probably needs a tuneup. Thought at the time was get 2 of the same to use one as spare parts if needed...
Still have a lot of my tapes, all the sbds, not that I had too many.
Trying to keep up up with the released Spring 1990 tour, on set 2 from 3/20.
The dreaded cassette
If it is being included as a trinket, maybe it would have gone down better if it had been a tape of one of the cds included in the box. Either that, or include a cassette recorder in the package so people can play it.
Plangent
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,
with select ones using Plangent Processes tape restoration and speed correction for optimal sound quality???
Tape Synchronicity
Just back from the new Goodwill store in town.
Place was packed. Everybody likes a good deal.
Got Johnny Lang selections from Lie To Me.
It has a Good Morning Little Schoolgirl.
Looks like a 1997 promo tape (like new).
"For promotional use only. Not for sale."
Well it is now. Another $1.00 well spent.
Cheers
Oh and the big score was a factory sealed multi-LP collection Arthur Fiedler w/ the Boston Pops Orchestra - Concertos. $4.99
"I said the place was packed" to bring it back around to the Dead
My Phish A Live One vinyl box arrived today....
....hint. it was more than $1.00.
I still have all my tapes as well.
No deck. 🍻
Has anyone else considered…
Has anyone else considered that perhaps the big surprise in this years box,…and the hint “what you took with you on the road” plus the fact it contains a cassette…means that it is going to come with a portable cassette player?
Audio Equipment
Trouble is,... Like someone said (verbatim) earlier, the new shit is all crap!
I found that out to be true just trying to find a mid range cd system this past year. I was searching for the desk-top or coffee table sized kind, al'a them 1990s dealios that were too big to be a portable jam box but were not a big multi component wall system either. Maybe with a small 3 to 5cd carousel. The couple hundred dollar kind, that used to get you a decent brand with some bells and whistles.
NOT A CHANCE! Not nowadays anyways.
No more are there any decent mid range audio equipment, ones that aren't full of bad reviews or that are visibly inept. A customer has to be in the thousand(s) dollar range to get any quality. Brands like Klipsch, etc. et al.
That brings up old equipment, not much is still around that works well, my 1990s jam box maybe on that cusp too. The older stuff if it was a good brand or just made well did last for a decade or so, but regular wear & tear fucked up a lot of that equipment to the point of no return. Much of that era's gadgets were replaced, and I moved on to new tech and mp3s, (Though in the following decades since then, I have been subscribing to Dave's and been collecting more 'hard copy' media like cds and then ripping them to my iTunes). Hypothetically speaking where would you even take that old tech stuff to get it fixed and tuned up anyways? Who is still in the business of audio tech repairs in modern times.
NONE!
It's all just made to be a throwaway goods economy, that encourages folks to scrap the old & buy new products. Well, that would be fine if the newer stuff was good quality, or even half assed decently manufactured.
Trouble is,..... All the new shit it cheaply made, bottom dollar quality crap!
XL2?
Anticipating 4/5/69 on cassette is (for me) kind of enticing and fun. It provoked a rediscovery of my good 'ole original copy on XL2 not played in years. Well, what do you know, it still plays a treat and sounds sparkling on the Yamaha KX-393. A brilliant if short Set 1: Dupree's Diamond Blues, Mountains of the Moon>Dark Star>Saint Stephen>Lovelight. YES! Am sure looking forward to hearing a pristine copy minus the hiss. Further!
spectrum 78 and portable tape player....
.... I thought there was going to be a car in the box!
Greet the Morning Air...
...with song!
now we're getting somewhere!
Brilliant - - SPECTRUM78
btw NEW portable cassette
players are available & inexpensive
WHOA new fangled WALKMAN
1ST SHOW - - visit my local thrift store
once a month on thursdays
for the 15% senior DISCOUNT!
RYXS - - fortunate to have a
vintage and high-end audio equipment store
with repair services 20 minutes away
shop started in 1956 as TV repair
also has an awesome ebay store
heading over later today to check-out
some vintage sansui 4-way speakers with 16" woofers
today's theme
LIFE'S THE SAME
MOVING IN STEREO!
RYXS - CD Player
I recently got a new one.
Yamaha CD-S303 Single CD Player, Black
Got from Amazon for 400 bucks. Works well, plays thumb drives also. (thumb drive navigation is meh), but plays them well.
HOTW
Here's what's needed to recover from all this mayhem...
The Big Ass West Coast Mini-box
Greek Theater (UC Berkeley), Berkeley,CA 5/21,22,23/82
US Festival, Glen Helen Regional Park, Devoted, CA 9/5/82
Frost Amphitheater (UC Stanford), Palo Alto, CA 10/9,10/82
w/ full video from US Festival
RIP, Cambridge Integrated: 2022-2025
The trouble with today's audio gear is that it's not built to last. And when it breaks, you can't get anyone to fix it.
I bought a Cambridge AXA35 integrated amp a couple years ago. Sounded surprisingly good for the money ($399), especially the phono stage. Also really appreciated that you could adjust not just the volume but also the tone controls with the remote. Very useful for things like Dick Picks. Spent many happy hours with that amp. Even recommended it to friends.
But it died the other day. One speaker started crackling and faded, and then the other. So now I have to decide whether I should try taking it to the one semi-local (25 miles away) shop that still does electronics repairs, even though they usually have a month long waiting list before they even look at your stuff, and who would probably charge me a couple hundred to fix it. And that's IF they can fix it.. OR do I just cut my losses, junk the damn thing, and put my money into a new amp. That will probably last about 3 years.
Meanwhile, I'm listening on my old Sansui AU-417. Built in the '70s and still sounds great (although the caps are not original, had 'em upgraded about ten years ago). Looks like a piece military equipment. Weighs about 50 pounds. And of course no remote. But they built 'em to last back then, didn't they?
Cassette player? I tried to give mine away to the Goodwill a couple years ago and they wouldn't take it. I probably tossed it in the trash, unless it's up in the attic or somewhere like that.
But at the moment I'm leaning towards passing on this set, so I probably won't need to dig out the cassette player. I'm thinking that if they haven't posted a track list yet they're just not ever going to do it. And I need to know what we're getting from the Fillmores and Boston '72s before I'm spending $600.