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October 29, 2019 - 8:56am

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clayv

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As we head into our 9th year of the Dave's Picks series, we're as excited as we were in mid-2011 when we conceived of the future of the Grateful Dead's archival release series. We had a clear vision, a terrific team that is still largely in place, and unlimited enthusiasm for the series, and the Dead's music. Now, almost 10 years later, we are just as excited about the Dave's Picks series as we were then. Even more so, actually. We've increased the amount of CDs we press to ensure that it's available much more widely, and we've dug very deep into the vault to make sure that we continue to produce A+ Grateful Dead concerts into what we hope will be cornerstones of your music collection for decades to come. We look back on our 2019 releases, with concerts from 1977, very early 1970 (might as well be 1969), late 1979 (might as well be 1980), and our final installment of the year, from 1973, and it thrills us to see such variety and excellence, which we hope to match (and ideally surpass!) in 2020. Beginning the year with the classic 10/29/77 show from DeKalb, we're already giddy at what's shaping up to be another great year in the Grateful Dead archival release world.

We'd also like to take this opportunity to say a huge thank you for coming along on the Dave's Picks journey. It's been an incredible trip so far, one we hope to keep going for many years, and we owe it all to your interest, support, and input. We love what we do because you continue to dig what we do.

Summer love, spring, fall, and winter - you can do the Dead all year long with a Dave's Picks 2020 subscription. To accommodate the increased demand, we're taking the production run up to 22,000 for each of the four Dave's Picks 2020 releases. As always, your best bet is to subscribe because when these releases go up for sale a la carte, they sell out within hours. No joke - hours.

In addition to the four CD releases in 2020, totaling 12 CDs, you’ll also get the subscription-exclusive bonus disc, which has proven to be one of the most highly sought after collectables we’ve ever released, and free domestic shipping. Subscriber bonus discs will not be released outside of this offer. Early bird subscribers can nab a sub at $99.98 (regular pricing will be $115.92).

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January 18, 2020 - 10:03am

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hendrixfreak

Joined:
February 26, 2014

The "50th" for '66, '67, '68 and '69 has passed

So I'll say THIS: 8 September 2020 will mark Pigpen's 75th birthday.

Wouldn't THAT be a great moment to celebrate and release the studio tracks Pig recorded for a solo effort, sprinkled with great early GD live tracks?

Blair Jackson always insisted to me that "the Grateful Dead was a live band" and thus there are no Pigpen studio tracks. First, his logic is wrong because we know Pig did some solo studio work, the question is whether it still exists and what's there.

Otherwise I'm thinking RSD over the years provides another opportunity.
January 18, 2020 - 8:22am

#22

icecrmcnkd

Joined:
October 20, 2015

I’ll take an early box

10-15 CDs of whatever good sounding fragments of incomplete shows from 65-68 are in the vault.
Over the last few weeks I’ve been sampling shows from those years that I got from the torrents. A lot of it doesn’t have great sound quality but there’s some good stuff in there.

I love 11-10-67 (30 Trips).
I bought a back up vinyl just in case I scratch the first copy I got. I think the vinyl sounds better than the CD.
January 17, 2020 - 2:34pm

#23

daverock

Joined:
September 1, 2014

An early box

Hendrixfreak - that's a great idea, collecting shows from 1966, 1967 and 1968 for a box set. Then one or two early 1969 shows from Dave to put the cherry on the cake.
January 17, 2020 - 7:42am

#24

hendrixfreak

Joined:
February 26, 2014

Late 67, all of 68, early 69

One thing I think I've noticed about the '68 shows released so far is that they land under 80 minutes, i.e., one CD. So a Dave's Pick would eat up three such shows, which may be more than they are willing to put out in one fell swoop.

I feel pretty confident that Dave is considering how to monetize a bunch of "short" (single-disc) shows and/or incomplete shows for which they have a nice slice of material that cannot be presented as a full show from the 66 to 68 period. One way is to put them out occasionally as they're doing with the LP and the "graphic novel" now on sale. I.e., use them as catnip to sell other products that need a boost to sell. I do not like that model.

A small early GD box, perhaps containing (2) 66, (2) 67, and (2) 68 shows would fly? Not for the casual fan, but right up the alley of the more rabid enthusiast...

Or an early 69 box -- we do have Live at the Fillmore East (2-11-69) and the FW box. How about that Jan 23? 69 show that yielded the Lovelight for Live/Dead? The April Ark shows are often mentioned, but I don't think anyone knows what their condition is.

Bottom line: more primal Dead, yeah Daverock.
January 17, 2020 - 1:47am

#25

daverock

Joined:
September 1, 2014

No primal Dead

Amazing that there hasn't been a single pick from the bands first golden age from late 1967, when Mickey joined, to mid 1969 when the country/Workingmans songs started showing up. All the 1969 shows released so far are from the second half of the year, when the repertoire expanded, but the intensity diminished.
January 16, 2020 - 12:53pm

#26

hendrixfreak

Joined:
February 26, 2014

Brilliant, Mr. Kid

The Taping Compendium, vol. 1, lists three of those six shows as probably in the vault. The rest? Anyone?

I'll keep harping on a fall '72 box for this year. But Dave's got a release agenda unaffected by my bleating.

I recognize that the returned Bettys may have come with an agreement to release as many as possible as soon as possible, thus the insane numbers of '77 shows. I also see that some of 2018's 73-74 box shows were recorded by Rex Jackson, Betty's one-time husband, but no mention of the ABCD gang that's credited with returned Bettys that turned into a ton of the several years' DPs. And we know the Bettys extend back to ... what? 1973? So Dave has a lot to work with.

Anyway, I hope that the partial Oct 12 '68 show being provided on vinyl with the purchase of the "graphic novel" ends up on CD for RSD in April.

Then we get yet another release of Workingman's Dead with a live '70 CD, as well as American Beauty with late '70 live CD. And, presumably, a box. At this stage, a mystery box.

Dang, it's mid-January and I wouldn't expect a pre-order announcement until May, if then.

Meanwhile, I'm digging the Owsley Foundation release of 5 CDs of Jer on pedal steel with Marmaduke and the NRPS. Great music and value.
January 16, 2020 - 11:18am

#27

billy the kid

Joined:
December 3, 2019

HendrixFreak/1968

Boy, I'm all with you when it comes to releasing more 1968. I would like to see them release the whole tour of The Great Pacific Northwest. it looks like it started on 1/20/68 and ended on 2/4/68, nine shows. I'll take that as a box set.
January 16, 2020 - 10:52am

#28

hendrixfreak

Joined:
February 26, 2014

Jason's #s...

Nice work on the # of shows released per year, Jason.

Pretty clearly we need more '68 and fall '72 shows. And can we have 10 June 73 and the entire Watkins Glen soundcheck, please? I'm still rockin' but my time ain't long. Waiting 50 years for a show I attended to be released is definitely stretching it!

Forget about 1985! I'd be willing to talk about '79, '80 and '81. But going to the shows and paying for curated archival tapes are two vastly different things.

There's gold in them thar hills and I aim to get my share.............
January 16, 2020 - 4:53am

#29

icecrmcnkd

Joined:
October 20, 2015

Peachy, the subscription window closed a week ago

Per the heads-up email that was sent out:

This is it! There are only two days left to become a 2020 Dave's Picks subscriber. Subscriptions will come to end on Wednesday, January 8th at 11:59 PM PST.

Of course, you could have ordered it in November for the early-bird price of $99 with free shipping.
January 15, 2020 - 8:16pm

#30

Peachy

Joined:
September 5, 2007

can’t add sub to cart?

what gives not sold out on subs cave order annual dave’s ñoucjs 2020 sub ordered b4?! it charged me twice two put in for refund now have one on order but refund pending do no idea if cancelled by Paypal last orders of Giants stadium CDs plus at shirt were fiasco took months to see if I got snynCDs abs 2 T’s ugliest i’ve ever seen in T like a pajama corporate a dead T n Giants stadium shows are ok but meh 130’for stadium shows w Brent gone on movie show Hornsby is great but once Brent died it was due kill imho alas DPs now baby get em n cust s s so bad giving up on Warner sure Peachy tired getting old at this site alas

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As we head into our 9th year of the Dave's Picks series, we're as excited as we were in mid-2011 when we conceived of the future of the Grateful Dead's archival release series. We had a clear vision, a terrific team that is still largely in place, and unlimited enthusiasm for the series, and the Dead's music. Now, almost 10 years later, we are just as excited about the Dave's Picks series as we were then. Even more so, actually. We've increased the amount of CDs we press to ensure that it's available much more widely, and we've dug very deep into the vault to make sure that we continue to produce A+ Grateful Dead concerts into what we hope will be cornerstones of your music collection for decades to come. We look back on our 2019 releases, with concerts from 1977, very early 1970 (might as well be 1969), late 1979 (might as well be 1980), and our final installment of the year, from 1973, and it thrills us to see such variety and excellence, which we hope to match (and ideally surpass!) in 2020. Beginning the year with the classic 10/29/77 show from DeKalb, we're already giddy at what's shaping up to be another great year in the Grateful Dead archival release world.

We'd also like to take this opportunity to say a huge thank you for coming along on the Dave's Picks journey. It's been an incredible trip so far, one we hope to keep going for many years, and we owe it all to your interest, support, and input. We love what we do because you continue to dig what we do.

Summer love, spring, fall, and winter - you can do the Dead all year long with a Dave's Picks 2020 subscription. To accommodate the increased demand, we're taking the production run up to 22,000 for each of the four Dave's Picks 2020 releases. As always, your best bet is to subscribe because when these releases go up for sale a la carte, they sell out within hours. No joke - hours.

In addition to the four CD releases in 2020, totaling 12 CDs, you’ll also get the subscription-exclusive bonus disc, which has proven to be one of the most highly sought after collectables we’ve ever released, and free domestic shipping. Subscriber bonus discs will not be released outside of this offer. Early bird subscribers can nab a sub at $99.98 (regular pricing will be $115.92).

11/10/67

I would say that's my favourite show in 30 Trips..even before I got the vinyl. But I would also agree that it sounds even better on vinyl . I am currently undecided as to whether to buy "Long Strange Trip" in this format...purely for the Dark Star and that 1971 China-Rider.

09-20-1970 is one that's…

09-20-1970 is one that's long overdue huge acoustic set followed by a crazy electric set.

Daverock

I would suggest the Long, Strange soundtrack if you can get the Amazon special bonus edition that has extra albums.

1974

With 6 23 and 6 22 74 to be released, ive been immersed in 1974 releases ... and it's just a shame that so so many of the epic 1974 shows were released in butchered form: 6 16, 6 18, 8 4, 8 5, 8 6, 9 9, 9 10, 9 11, 10 16, 10 17, 10 18, 10 19, 10 20

June 74 in particular is just majestic to my ears ... Would it be possible someday someway to revamp releases like Dick's Picks 12 and Wall of Sound Road Trips to include the full-shows?

Now that we've settled on complete show releases in recent years, it just isn't right to have such epic material unavailable in complete form ... imho.

Agree Completely

A lot of the Dick's Picks releases, & RTs are in incomplete forms. Even some of the early historical releases are mash ups from several shows (Ladies & Gentleman).

They have gone back & done full releases of stuff that had been released before. The Europe '72 Box (from Hundred Year Hall, Steppin Out, & Rockin' The Rhine).

Of course, that was so massive it did not matter. A release with half of the stuff already out might be trickier.

The other option is to put filler on subsequent releases that completes the shows. Or on bonus discs. This might be trickier with long second set pieces and the fact that Dave says we cannot get covers on bonus discs.

But the superlative shows that are chopped, those 74s, 2/13-14/70, 4/28-29/71, to name a few, deserve released in full.

I'd buy a big box with the full '71 run closing of the Fillmore on it (awful lot of GDTRFB/NFA though). Perhaps include the Fillmore West closer as well. Ditto for 2/11, 2/13, & 2/14. Though there are some guests on those dates (Beach Boys in '71, Allman in '70). Could make a release tricky (the Dylan Encores are never on '87 releases).

Chopped up shows

Boy , I would love to see full releases of some of those chopped up shows, Oct 74 at Winterland certainly comes to mind, along with many of the others you guys mentioned.

Some stuff is just not there

Especially the early stuff. Bear stopped recording in late summer '66?, and from there through 11/10/67 I do not think there is much usable stuff. Phil released some of Rio Nido '67 on Phil Zone, but I believe the source is Aud.

A bit more from '68, & early '69, but still not a lot. I have a feeling most of '70 is missing, especially fall. Ditto the '80s Warfield/NYC acoustic stuff.

If it is there and we have not gotten one complete 70/80 acoustic show other than 5/15/70 then I would be dumbfounded.

In my view, after '72, '69, '77, and '73, '70 is your next best year. Way underrepresented. I just do not think the masters are there.

1974

Dissident1980...I am drifting into 1974 phase after having listened to the first 3 Dave Picks. The second is from, 7/31/74, and there is a bonus cd form 7/29/74. Truly magical playing.

Maybe the best bet for a release of complete shows from 1974 would be a Europe 72 style box of a complete tour. Every complete show form this year is of interest.

Incidentally, at the risk of being considered a traitor to the cause, there is a pretty good triple cd set of 8/6/74 just come out, available from Amazon.uk. Its an FM recording and the sound is really good-definitely one of the better FM recordings I have heard. This, needless to say, was one of the butchered shows included on Dicks Picks 31 along with 8/4 and 8/6. They don't even credit which songs are from which shows on that one - very unsatisfactory.
But to go back to 8/6/74...great show as well a good sound.

DP 2020 subscription

Have the 'scripts sold out for 2020???
No place to add to cart on the subscription page.

Duke

No, subscriptions did not sell out.
You can’t add one to your cart because the subscription window closed weeks ago.

Dave’s picks 2020

I need to get the 2020 series. Unfortunately I was not able to order before the pre order process closed. I have always ordered the Dave’s picks series and would appreciate being able to continue with the collection. How may I acquire this set ? The Pope

2020 SUB??

Echoing others questions about ability to subscribe a bit late to 2020- also a regular subscriber who missed the pre-order email. No "add to cart" button...Possible to subscribe? Admin- any thoughts?

Subscription

BOLINAS2
The subscription window closed around 2 months ago. You can buy #34 on 21st April and the other two later in the year but the numbers are likely to be limited so you will need to order them the day they become available. As far as I know #33 is sold out so will only be available from third part sellers.
I suggest checking you are still registered with dead.net to get their email updates.

Dave's Picks Vol 34 Art Work

https://forums.stevehoffman.tv/threads/grateful-dead-daves-picks-2020-s…

Listening to v34 now, and…

Listening to v34 now, and scanning the complete list of Dave's Picks, and just bumming on the lack of apparent interest in shows other than the 70s. Seriously, just three from the (very early) 80s and none at all from the 90s... out of 34 releases? How about mixing it up a bit more? Please? Would be extremely grateful...

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