Grateful Dead

Ain't no man can avoid being born average, but there ain't no man got to be common.....

OK, the 71 gauntlet has been thrown down, and shucks I don't feel like working right now..........

Part of the issue---if it can be called that---with April 24 1971 is that, in April the bar was set high. One sublime show, many excellent shows, many very good shows. So does that make an "average" show like 4/24 "bad"? No, of course not, it merely "suffers by comparison". If it was the only thing I had on my desert island, I could survive OK, but at home and in my car I have other choices and maybe don't listen as often as I should.

Maybe what's really amazing is that the very next day, the Dead sound well rested and played an unbelievably good show at the Fillmore East.

November 15 1971. Been a huge advocate of that one since back in the day. Musically very interesting and well played, has a definite psychedelic stoner Americana edge to it. Back in the days of B & Ps, my Florida tape mentor sent me an unbelievably good low generation FM copy. Back then, we sent 1 or 2 cassettes back and forth in unpadded letter envelopes, merely wrapped in a single sheet of paper, and never lost an envelope!! It's good old Grateful Dead gooey goodness!!! Uncommonly good.............

I am only an average man but, by George, I work harder at it than the average man!!!

Rock on,

Doc
It takes a real storm in the average person's life to make him realize how much worrying he has done over the squalls.....

Hearing it from start to finish in the car at full volume while driving north on I-5 from Salem OR to Seattle with rainbows and sunny skies and billowy clouds and rain squalls...priceless

box set would be cool, 68,70,71,72,77,79 and on and on.

....looking forward to new music.
Y'all stay cool AF.

All quiet on the western front around here.

Happy New Year!

The first Dead New Years Eve show I saw was in 1970, it was broadcast live on KQED channel. 9, I watched it live at my parents house. Hopefully the video will come out as an official release someday. HAPPY New Years Everybody.

Happy New Year all.. soo.. what will this years Box-set be.. ?

How much was filmed?

Great candidate for MUATM, if that is still a thing

Hopefully a whole lotta GD60's

Or Summer 85

Hopefully we get 2 separate Boxes this year:
30 Trips part 2
Summer 85

Put these two shows together and it would make for a great release.

Don't know what it will be, but it will be something really big, per Dave.

I don't think it will be another 30 Trips themed box.

Edit. And the 2024 Box is still available. Kind of surprised as the box is outstanding and the run is 10k. Hopefully this box sells out soon and the remaining Dave's Picks as we need to keep this party going.

Dave's Felt Forum 12 7 71

A nice performance of songs (including Cumberland Blues)

But no X factor

12/5/71 on the other hand is peak GD, as we all know. Probably not in the vault. "Das ist doch eine Schade."

12/6/71 selections that were included....gotta check that out a little later

Happy New Year to you all, my fellow Deadheads

Be strong, stay vigilant, practice kindness

So sez Bono anyway. And is there anything Bono doesn't know?

Earthquakes. Strange lights in the sky. War and rumors of war. Governments falling and planes falling out of the sky. Seems like the world is ending. But then again, it always is.

Walt Whitman said it like this:

"I have heard what the talkers were talking, the talk of the beginning and the end
But I do not talk of the beginning or the end.

There was never any more inception than there is now,
Nor any more youth or age than there is now,
And will never be any more perfection than there is now,
Nor any more heaven or hell than there is now."

Which is one reason I don't do resolutions.

Instead I had me a fine morning. Went for a drive to the riverside with the wife, DaP 52 playing on the car CD. Ate sammiches and looked at birdies and waters rolling by. Back home now, cooking up my black eyed peas for luck, digging on the ABB's 5/1/73 show and life is purty good.

Happy New Year, all!

The possibilities are endless.
HAPPY NEW YEAR DEADLAND

Don't forget to breathe. Or rock. It don't matter if you're young or old...

Love it

...about a
SUMMER '85 box yesterday...
Yo...y'all know who...

summer's here (well kinda soon)
and the time is right

Not sure about that for the 60th (unless they do multiple ones 😁) but chever way, that would be something…yes it really would!

....you've been notified.

and SO hard to say what good ol' DL and friends will eventually settle on for us.
I Love the Boxomoxoa idea as well (!) ... Meanwhile, 4-5 weeks back, the whole 'modules' concept - including summer '85 in some form - was discussed.

It's all good by me.

It's quite simple really. For the 60th anniversary bring out a box of 60s shows, for the 70th anniversary give us a box of 70s shows, for the 80th anniversary in 2045 produce a box of 80s shows and in 2055 they could release a box of 90s shows for the 90th anniversary. Sad to say, I probably won't be around for the last two anniversaries.

As regards boxes, please remember those of us who have to pay overseas' postage! I'd rather have a June '76 with cheaper postage and duty to pay than a drum!
Also let's not forget it's the 50th for Blues For Allah and I have always loved that one!
Happy New Year

Black Sabbath - Hot Line
Deep purple - You fool no one
New riders or the purple sage - I don't need no doctor
Stevie Ray Vaughan - Willie the wimp
Megadeth - these boots

If it's got the word Boxomoxoa in it, there must be some 1968 Banana box nuggets to go with it. Anything ending in moxoa = 1968 goodness. Right?

...50th
for LP's
tiger rose
old & in the way
seastones
blues for ALL ah

should be a
surprising year
indeed

The bigger the better, the more the merrier .

the guy who does the 31 days of december, put up a place called Uncle John's Dyes.

Some incredible tie dye are if interested.

I want a big box!

As my old man used to say, "If your gonna be broke, be happy"

no reason to start that with Vguy sorry but his comment is about as innocuous as it gets.

Keith and Donna's album came out in 1975 too. An album I have never heard. Or seen, for that matter.
Having just looked it up online I see that Jerry plays guitar on all the tracks. And it has a picture of a baby on the cover.

Had forgotten about Old &.. who owns the rights to their recordings these days ?

I haven't played their 1975 album for a while, but my memory tells me it is nothing special. I recall being disappointed when I first heard it in 1975. It has never been reissued on CD, which is telling. I think every other Round Records release has been reissued on CD, but not this one. The baby on the cover is Zion, Keith and Donna's son.

Found!

Happy 2025, People.
May You Fare Well

Sixtus

I have just had a check up in my attic, where seldom played records are stacked, and there amongst my old Dead albums is a sampler of then recent Round Records releases, called " For Dead Heads" which was a bonus album included with "Steal Your Face" - released over here in summer 1976. There is a Keith and Donna track on it called " Every Song I Sing". I don't think I've played this for over 30 years
The other album that is represented on this record, that hasn't been mentioned on here recently, is the one by The Diga Rhythm Band. I did get that one, housed in an excellent silver cover, and I found it quite enjoyable back in the day. I had nothing else like it at the time - in fact I still don't. But again, I'll bet I haven't given that one a spin since the 1980's. Maybe I will this weekend.

I still have the first PIL single in the faux newspaper wrapper and remember enjoying tracks from the ‘Metal Box’ album but couldn’t afford to buy it.

PROUDFOOT
A challenge is a challenge so I’ve just streamed ‘Flowers of Romance’ and found it listenable with several tracks that I liked.
Of course, I was coming to it after listening to ‘Further Selections from The Electric Harpsichord’ by Catherine Christer Hennix which I.enjoyed but found a little disturbing. Not something that I’ll listen to very frequently.
I’m now relistening to ‘Absolute Elsewhere’ by Blood Incantation.

Not sure who owns the recordings now. I have a version that was released in 2013.
Old & In The Way
Live At The Boarding House
The Complete Shows
10-1-73 & 10-8-73
4 discs
Record label: Acoustic Oasis

Back in the '70s, the guy who was my LSD connection lived across the street. Conveniently. He was one of those people that went to punk show (I think it was Black Flag) and then just decided to "go punk." Cut his hair really short and started wearing retro '50 bowling shirts.

He had money, as dealers often do, so when PIL's metal box album came out he bought it right away. Listened to it every day for weeks, including a couple times when I came over. Sounded really, really weird, like some demented take off of dub reggae. Then one day he realized: you were supposed to play those 12 inch records at 45 rpm. We'd been listening at 33. For weeks. Sounded a good deal more normal at the correct speed.

Man. We were pretty stoned, in those days.

PIL was OK. I remember liking their album that was called Album.

Everybody having a good 2025, loaded with a lot of GOGD.

Just finished listening to the complete 1999 'So Many Roads' Box.
This is another beauty. What a pleasure!!!

One track to mention (Disc 1): Dark Star/China Cat >1968-03-16 - outstanding!!!
A lot of good spirit and fun to start off the new year

Cheers G.

Guess a delayed New Year's hangover was inevitable. Sheesh.

Finally got back to this show this week. It has probably been over a year since the last time I listened. Still my favorite New Year's Eve show and one of my top five shows of all time.
My 15 daughter was singing along to the first Good Lovin since Pig Pen in 72 tonight in the car.
So interesting to me that they went back on the road in the second half of 76 and played through mid October and then disappeared until New Year's Eve. What were they up to from Mid October through the end of the year in 76? Does anyone know?

Oh and Hey we get a new Dave's Picks at the end of the month. Still love the Dead and have fun hanging out on this site.

VGuy - no need to punish your self by listening to PIL though ! Only joking, the last few posts have made me think I may have made a mistake in a swerving past them at the time.

Ah For Deadheads. I remember it well!
Steal Your Face was my first introduction and with my true British understatement said "That's ok!" 49 years later and here I am!
Although SYF is not really representative and is much maligned, I do think that quite a few of the stand-alone versions are worth revisiting; Mississippi Half Step has a gorgeous solo, Stella Blue, Casey Jones all good stuff and then of course there's the cover...!

P.S. Diga is really worth having

I think the problem is the sound of it…
Plenty of good playing, just sounds less than stellar.
That’s pretty much the theme that Phil and Bear have stated too…

But like Ian, big part of my indoctrination, that and Skull&Roses!
Fortunately tapes were soon to follow!
Used to love the photos inside, did all kinds of things to my adolescent imagination…like how do you smoke a bong like that lol
Perhaps those cool WOS pics imprinted my pea brain somehow causing my never ending searching for the sound and spending countless denaros on expensive audio gear when I had no car, no place of my own, and barely ate sometimes…yep, those pics could be considered a gateway drug for audio lol

And of course, like many, those two albums were the “cleaning” albums!
About ten years ago I finally got my vinyl etc from my parents house.
Wouldn’t ya know there was still some dirt weed stuck in SYF!

my favorite cut is the Scarlet/Fire from Canada. The transition is incredible, brings tears to my eyes everytime.

Ok, PIL talk made me go see what I had in stock.

I have Metal Box and Public Image.

Listening to first cut off Metal Box, Albatross. I like it. From the talk that just went by I was expecting a more metal sound, but I like this cut and may listen to more.

Sidebar - just for laughs, I enjoy V's humor. I further find it funny when comments about a post are 4 times longer than the comment. When I read the original story, I thought, in my best Python voice, "I smiled quietly to myself".

....thanks for asking.
Spinning some Duke '78 vinyl this morning. 🍻

first Dead show.

....Happy Anniversary!

THANK YOU!!!!!

.....TOOL - Lateralus
Linda Ronstant - Mas Canciones
GOGD - Duke '78 second set
The Moody Blues - Long Distance Voyager
PiL - Second Edition. Yeah. I did the thing. Kinda creepy. I like it.