Dave's Picks Vol. 53: Riverfront Coliseum, Cincinnati, OH 10/2/76

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January 24, 2025 - 3:35pm

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Garcia still works wonders on the guitar. His obbligato behind rhythm guitarist Bob Weir's vocal on the gun-fighter ballad, "El Paso," ranged from flamenco figures to blues lines. The latter created a humorous and musically interesting mixture. Slipping around the sunny Mexican-American rhythms were the riffs and diving glissandos of a music that grew up among the chilly winds of Chicago. - Cliff Radel, Enquirer Pop Music Critic The vocals and instruments blended perfectly into one cohesive unit. The artists themselves seemed to enjoy playing and the concentration they commanded was unshakable in the fan-filled Coliseum. - Douglas Fechter, The NewsRecord Cincy, The Nati, Paris Of America, call it what you will but when the Grateful Dead came to town, they certainly helped propel her to "Queen of the West." The previously unreleased complete show from the Riverfront Coliseum, Cincinnati, OH 10/2/76 is all up from start to finish with xxx 70s-era first set songs like "Promised Land" and "El Paso" to Europe '72 staples and classic covers ("It's All Over Now," "Big River"), wrapped up with a unique second-set jam that opens with "Dancing In The Street" and closes with "Sugar Mag." An all-around good time! Limited to 25,000 numbered copies and shipping this week, DAVE'S PICKS VOL. 53: RIVERFRONT COLISEUM, CINCINNATI, OH 10/2/76 was recorded by Dan Healy and has been mastered to HDCD specs by Jeffrey Norman at Mockingbird Mastering. P.S. As a bonus, we have a quintet of songs from 5/4/77 (recorded by Betty Cantor-Jackson), the rest of which was featured on Dave’s Picks Vol. 50 and its Bonus Disc. As we mentioned in 2012 when this series started, we’re determined to provide complete shows whenever possible. And even when a show is only partially included on a release as bonus material, we’re happy to complete it later on down the line, as we’ve done here. We hope you dig it. - David Lemieux

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April 9, 2025 - 9:45pm

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JimInMD

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Nope, announced today - 3 discs plus bonus.

They are saying three discs. I pulled the Charlie Miller off the archive and added up the times of the songs played and came up with 234.67 minutes of play time. If we divide that by 80 minutes per CD we come up with 2.93 CDs. If we simply divide it by 3 evenly, we get 78.22 minutes per CD. As I understood things before today, anything above 74 minutes does not copy all that cleanly when you rip it with home equipment. CDs packed this full can, repeat can, have playback problems on certain CD players. I never have luck ripping CD's above 72 minutes on my PC (note, used for own personal enjoyment for use in my car).

It's above my pay grade to speculate, I am not sure what commercial copying allows nor do I fully understand if and how compression might affect this, but it certainly caught my attention. This might well be the longest stretch of music ever sold to fit on a 3 CD collection.
April 9, 2025 - 5:57am

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Danehead

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Baltimore..

So - Jim - are we looking at the first Daves 4 disc-set PLUS a bonus disc.. ?
April 9, 2025 - 5:44am

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JimInMD

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Baltimore - 3 discs

They're not going to fit these onto three discs unless they go nuclear and write 3–80-minute discs or omit a song or two.

If they left off wave that flag, I doubt if I would notice that much or miss it. But even if they fit it all in, they would have to change the order and mix things up, which I really do not like.
April 7, 2025 - 8:54am

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Danehead

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Baltimore..

Wonder how they will fit this show on 3 discs..
March 31, 2025 - 2:44pm

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RyXs

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1976

All & all I dig this pick and it still plays well for my ears. Personal highlights besides the 2nd set jam are Row Jimmy, BEW, Candyman, Minglewood, TLEO, Let it Grow~Might as Well, and of course Music Never Stopped with bonus jam in the coda jam.
Of course I listen to it chopped up a lot, and the Palladium filler isn't too out of place. Still most Grateful to have it included as to complete the 5/4/77 show.

Anyhooz,... I hope Dave don't take too long to revisit the year for his namesake series. A few dates always come to mind, June 3 & 4 in PdxS, OR. The tour kick off & end of the hiatus. The ever intriguing Rosevelt Stadium show in Jersey City on August 4th. Last but certainly not least is a show from the same tour of the current Dave's Pick #53, the night before. Market Square Arena, Indianapolis, IN.
March 31, 2025 - 12:37pm

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JimInMD

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Really Looking Forward to Baltimore 73

I think 53 is worthy. Fivebranch mentioned disc 2 which is my least listened to, I'll have to hit that again before the next reveal. I tended to focus on the end of disc 1 and the meat of disc 3 through the 77 bonus material. It isn't the best release ever but it's surprisingly different and unusual with some peaks.

As for Baltimore, always loved that show. It is also different and unusual, the meat of the second set is really fine.

Onward. Have a great week fellow freaks. Guessing this thread doesn't get much traffic these days, so much going on.
March 31, 2025 - 9:20am

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JoeyMC

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Four more weeks...

...till new Dave's Picks !! :)

For 53, I really got to enjoy it, it took more than a couple listens before it clicked.
It was during the back half of Brown-Eyed Women on the third go around, after that I listened more intently, particularly to the relationship between Jerry and Keith, just like the Keith and Donna Jerry band. This isn't the BEST release, but there is some really fine playing by everyone throughout. I think.
March 30, 2025 - 6:21am

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daverock

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Good but not life changing

I would think that is inevitable at this stage of the game. Probably why the most exciting releases for me now are vinyl editions of shows I already have.
Currently spinning Paris 5/3/72. You would have to be very optimistic indeed to think this, or 5/26/72, could be equalled, let alone surpassed by future releases from 1972. Still, there's nothing wrong with being optimistic !
March 29, 2025 - 5:20pm

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FiveBranch

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for the naysayers

I disagree.

I keep coming back to the second disc over and over. The Music Never Stopped in particular. Coloring within the lines is also great GD.
March 27, 2025 - 10:28am

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L. Mo.

Joined:
June 4, 2007

I was at this show, and…

I was at this show, and remember not thinking it was spectacular back then. Now, upon repeated listens, it's good, but not life changing. Is this what they are down to? Good, solid shows? This is what we have to look forward to for the next umpteen releases? Maybe it's time to give it a rest, Dave.

Garcia still works wonders on the guitar. His obbligato behind rhythm guitarist Bob Weir's vocal on the gun-fighter ballad, "El Paso," ranged from flamenco figures to blues lines. The latter created a humorous and musically interesting mixture. Slipping around the sunny Mexican-American rhythms were the riffs and diving glissandos of a music that grew up among the chilly winds of Chicago. - Cliff Radel, Enquirer Pop Music Critic The vocals and instruments blended perfectly into one cohesive unit. The artists themselves seemed to enjoy playing and the concentration they commanded was unshakable in the fan-filled Coliseum. - Douglas Fechter, The NewsRecord Cincy, The Nati, Paris Of America, call it what you will but when the Grateful Dead came to town, they certainly helped propel her to "Queen of the West." The previously unreleased complete show from the Riverfront Coliseum, Cincinnati, OH 10/2/76 is all up from start to finish with xxx 70s-era first set songs like "Promised Land" and "El Paso" to Europe '72 staples and classic covers ("It's All Over Now," "Big River"), wrapped up with a unique second-set jam that opens with "Dancing In The Street" and closes with "Sugar Mag." An all-around good time! Limited to 25,000 numbered copies and shipping this week, DAVE'S PICKS VOL. 53: RIVERFRONT COLISEUM, CINCINNATI, OH 10/2/76 was recorded by Dan Healy and has been mastered to HDCD specs by Jeffrey Norman at Mockingbird Mastering. P.S. As a bonus, we have a quintet of songs from 5/4/77 (recorded by Betty Cantor-Jackson), the rest of which was featured on Dave’s Picks Vol. 50 and its Bonus Disc. As we mentioned in 2012 when this series started, we’re determined to provide complete shows whenever possible. And even when a show is only partially included on a release as bonus material, we’re happy to complete it later on down the line, as we’ve done here. We hope you dig it. - David Lemieux

DaP 53 and beyond

As a subscriber since the beginning, it's always a treat getting these in the mail every few months.

The suggestions of Mecca '89 and something from '91 for inclusions have been wish list items since this series began. 9/26/91 or 4/1/91 are high up there, in a year with many great shows. All three shows from Richfield '91 were solid, with the first and third nights being epic.

Blues For Allah with the 50th treatment will be interesting as there is only one unreleased show left from that year, and probably lots of rehearsals.

For the box, I would like to see either Spring or Fall '89 as choices. Mecca, Ann Arbor, Rosemont all were great as was the fall runs, plus those were recorded onto multi-track tape, so a lot to work with there, and great compliments to the Spring '90 boxes.

Record Store Day....same. Hopefully something unique for that.

Arrived in Europe.

No, my Dave's 53 has not been delivered, but the plane carrying it from LAX has landed in Frankfurt. It has crossed the pond much quicker than I had expected. Now it just has to make the comparatively short journey from Germany to the Netherlands.

53

ITEM OUT FOR DELIVERY
We shall see

53 on the way

I hope the plane doesn't crash. Awful to see a newsreader on the T.V. reporting about it, saying that a plane had crashed carrying what was believed to have been 5 Dave's Picks. Then after a respectful pause..."none of them survived". Very poor taste - sorry.

UK

My #53 is in Heathrow customs this afternoon. I expect it will appear late next week since customs never seem to do anything over the weekend. Let’s hope I’m wrong.
The system is certainly working faster these days.

60th...

Anniversary merch available now. I guess I'm getting out the credit card, the ring is nice along with the usual tee purchase.

60th..

But no box..

Shipping notice received....

....ETA Monday.

Shipping notice received....

....ETA Monday.

Shipping notice received....

....ETA Tuesday.

But it's already across the Bay from me, so it might actually arrive Monday. I probably shouldn't jinx it by speaking of this, though.

Shipping Notice Received

. . . . ETA Tuesday.
As Cosmo Kramer would say, "in my mind, I'm already gone."
Wonder what music will be released for the 60th anniversary other than the usual? Please speculate away.

stillwaters:

I say:

lotsa 1967, '68, '69
I don't care if it's bits and pieces
gimme that stuff from the 60s

I don't have much beyond that to speculate

except

Fall '72!!!!!

2025 Box

20th ann. of Fillmore West Box!

It's time to peal back the banana boxes(3 yrs. now).
Fillmore West Dec. '69 and Feb. '70???

Dave said one time that late '69 is like early '70 and early '70 is like late '69.

Happy Birthday Charlie Musslewhite.

81 years old and still going strong. One of my favorite harmonica players.

Speedy Gonzales

Already in Ohio! Maybe I will get it on Monday after all. Depends on how long it sits in the truck in Rossford.
As someone else said, I don’t want to jinx it, but this will easily be the fastest delivery ever.

2025 box set

Will be Summer 1985.

Feb. 70 Fillmore East

I read yesterday that Bear tapped the soundcheck all three nights??

Summer 85 box..

Pro; a lot of people will buy it.. Against: a lot of people will not.. Almost like my great countryman - Kirkegaard; " marry and you will regreat it - do not marry, and you will also regreat it .. how zen is that...

Proudfoot is on it!

Except you forgot (or don't want) the proto-GD from '66, but yes -- YES! -- let's have the remaining shows from 66-67, the newly discovered tapes from '68, and a choice selection (Ark) from 69 and call it good. 20 discs at $200 would do it.

And add to Proudfoot's fallback: fall '72 has maybe 20 shows that could be released. And I clearly recall -- not that it amounts to anything -- that Lemiuex said a fall '72 box "has to happen sometime."

The question for Rhino is how much interest in early GD is there in terms of unit sales, when you know this joint would swoon and purchase a '72 box.

The 60th anniversary would seem to call for lots 'o prime Pigpen -- so why not drag out every Pig demo and the partial shows with great Pigness? I feel like they'll probably announce the set in perhaps May for preorders to gauge demand, then deliver in Sept-Oct.

Meanwhile, I'd guess they'll announce the BfA 50th after we receive DP 54 at end of April.

Has anyone kept track of when the other 50ths were announced?

Answered my own question

Here's the data on 50th releases, with the original LP release date.

The Grateful Dead, January 2017 [March 1967]
Anthem, July 2018 [July 1968]
Aoxomoxoa, June 2019 [June 1969]
Workingman's, July 2020 [June 1970]
American Beauty, Oct 2020 [Nov 1, 1970]
Wake of the Flood, Sept 2023 [Oct 1973]
Mars Hotel, June 2024 [June 1974]

So it looks like they try to hit the month of the original release, 50 yrs later, or a month earlier to the original month of release.

BfA was released 1 Sept 1975...... so maybe a late summer release? But before the box lands. I don't think the box releases really form a pattern, other than that the announcement is timed to not coincide with other product announcements.

HF aka Sherlock Holmes' mother

You want some early stuff?

GD 1966-09-16 95970.sbd-lp.davenport

SBD>MR>?>LP>WAV>WAV>FLAC

Comes from the ‘semi-legal’ bootleg LP’s “Vintage Dead” and “Historic Dead” according to the notes.

Are the reels in the Vault?

Anyway, currently listening to
GD 1971-08-05 137288.sbd.miller

Getting Greasy

GD 1966-09-16 = wrong date

The tracks from Vintage Dead are actually 12/23/1966. They just used the 9/16/66 poster for the cover.

18,271

Arrived in The Mohawk Valley!

It's a groundhog miracle!

I'll take whole Lotta GD66

Believe me, HF

:)))

Lol, joeymc

Very funny!

Ha

I try.

I think maybe they ship them I alphabetical order?

About the 2025 box, I'm afraid it's going to be something big that we can barely afford. Which I think some of you have said already.

Also, man those magnets sold out in like a day?

Yesssssss!

10147 has arrived! Saturday night dance party!

i know i would...

...$260 box
for
Greek Theater 6/14/85
Greek Theater 6/15/85
Greek Theater 6/16/85
Alpine 6/21/85
Alpine 6/22/85

Blossom 6/25/85
SPAC 6/27/85
Hershey 6/28/85
Merriweather 6/30/85
Merriweather 7/1/85
Igloo 7/2/85
Ventura 7/13/85
Ventura 7/14/85

what's that you say...
$220
for one less alpine
and no igloo

do it!

(Nearly) here in the U.K.

Tracking says my copy has cleared customs in the U.K. Hopefully on its way to Nottingham.

Autumn 1972?

Just curious to which month of shows advocates prefer more, October or November?
I got the 'River' Box so I am familiar with the opening of that upper midwest tour. Though I have heard some folks talk of them Great Plains of Kansas and Oklahoma to the Texas shows as the real premium, so I gotta know!

UNCLE_TRIPEL

I like your '85 thinking!

I'd vote for the $220 version.... but even that price might be out of my league.

DP Vol 53

23667 has arrived in Northeast Ohio

Autumn 72

Sept, Oct, Nov, Dec

Any and all of that, please

Very important update

Back in November Dennis posted a cheesecake recipe

I made it today

Glory time in about 4 hours

:)))

Just looking at it, I have gained 5 pounds

From the northwest corner....

....of a brand new crescent 🌙. Tonight.

Since we speculate

A divine voice whispers in my soul, "You know that 60th anniversary set? It's gonna be six shows, sixteen discs. 69, 72, 76, 83, 87, 91." The wheel turns, the locker opens. Also a pack of smokes and a nudie calendar.

Don't ask me. It's what my muse musters.

53 in Plano

Came yesterday (Saturday). Number 18586.

Need to do that labeling thing and reassemble Dave's 50 with the balance of 5/4/77.

This sound much better than what I had in stock.

The magnet is fantastic, much better than an axe!

Hope the cheesecake made your day proudfoot!.

EDIT - this was the fastest I ever received a "Dave's". Maybe they're getting the timing right finally.

GD

Being honored at the Grammys tonight?
Whodathunkit.
Cheers

Vault Tour

Top bid is currently $7000.
Bidding ends today.
It’s for charity.

bid.juliensauctions.

com/lot-details/index/

catalog/589/lot/250142/Grateful-Dead-Vault-Tour-of-the-Tape-Vault-Hosted-by-Mark-Pincus-President-of-Rhino-Entertainment

Since most of us can’t spend that kind of cash to get a personal tour of the Vault, Dave should make a Vault chat and give us a virtual tour.

60th Box

Whatever it is, hope the announcement doesn’t break the website before I’m able to place my order.

Thanks Cousins

No accurate info in Dead Base 50.
Lists the setlist for both dates, and says that 9-16 is probably not correct.
Found a Jerry setlist website that backs up what you said.

Changed the dates on my files.

Also, Stealin’ and Same Thing on 95970.sbd-lp.davenport are from 11-29-66.

Uncle T’s 85 Prime

Boo-yah, sign me up!

Though you’d think for a major milestone they’d do something comprehensive…but this is DN we’re taking about so who knows…it’d make a great module for a mega multiple module box : )

85' box

Must go all the way Greeks to Chula Vista!

Cheesecake

is the GD of the dessert world

And it is delicious, Dennis

Thank you for the recipe my man

A Decade of Geeks!

72 disc 500 Beans. hahha

FWB

Presuming you meant a Decade of Greeks, (not Geeks) ... ; )

Arrived in the Netherlands

The plane carrying my Dave's 53 from Frankfurt has landed in Amsterdam. With a bit of luck it'll be delivered in the coming week.

A couple of things...

Did any of you bid on Garcia's white "Go to Heaven" suit he wore for the cover? Looked pretty spiffy :>

My 53 is due monday, I'm clearing the boards.

We went to see the Garcia Birthday Band at the Crystal Ballroom in Portland last night. They were celebrating 1968. I got to hear live versions of:

Cosmic Charlie
Alligator
Mountains of the Moon
Easy Wind ( they did some tunes not aligned with 1968)
Dark Star
Mason's Children
AM Dew
Cryptical>
TOO>
Cryptical
Lovelight

A wonderful fun evening with my honey! We were talking about they might play "Clementine", and she wasn't familiar with this outtake. So I ask this well versed forum, where can I find a good version of "Clementine"?

Thanks in advance for your good ideas,
nitecat

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