Grateful Dead

Hey Now Billy!
Your mention of a Chinacat > Cumberland made me go digging.
In my wanderings, I realize you're off by a decade, it was '85 (vs. '95) they ripped that out.
Gonna give it a listen this morning.
Love these crumbs and following the trail to the cookie.

Be Well People
Sixtus

I’ll just add to 1st shows intel et el. Definitely recommend stands for bookshelves. Your tweeter/horn should be positioned at ear height! If possible, place your speakers equal distance apart with your listening spot forming an perfect triangle. Use the rule of fifths (thirds usually not practical). Experiment with distance to back wall: too close and it’ll sound to muddy/bassy, too far out and it’ll sound to thin…
Using same brand usually ensures good speaker synergy.
Can’t recall hearing the other brands (which might be telling in itself) but have heard Klipsh and liked em.
If you can’t get a trial, at least you should be able to return them if for some reason you really don’t like them.
Good Luck, may the force be with you lol

3/9/95 it was a typo. Thanks for setting me straight, lord only knows what I would do if someone didn't keep on eye on me.

....need to check that out. Currently waiting at the doctors office. Freakin' starving over here!

...May Your Four Winds Blow You Safely Home....or something like that.
Hopefully no BlowOut though.
Good Luck to You, Sir!

Sixtus

....party on Garth.
That propofol ain't no joke.
Then I checked the Dow. Can I go back to sleep please?

good health to all

Propofol means not knowing what they did to you.

in my case is that as I came "out of it," I found myself already in conversation with someone and my awareness of that lagged behind the actual conversation. Gawd only knows what I am saying before I become aware I'm talking.

Of course, check the headlines -- lots of that goin' around.

Vguy -- not only congrats on the results, but you may be the first among us to celebrate your anal probe on dead.net!! A first! Yes!

Sending smiles your way, my man. And thanks for the visuals....................

HF

I like Jer's voice and the sound of his guitar. There's one JGB release I really love but it escapes me now as to which one. I just kind of shuffle through them and listen without committing all of the details to memory. There's a lot up there already - at age 56 I could be at capacity - so adding more new data could begin to push the old out.

And make no mistake about it, folks - this old world ain't what she used to be (sighs).

My advice to Jer would be, don't quit your day job. Some in the know have alleged that he was a live beast and just lived to be on the road, while others assert that as captain of that particular ship he got a bigger cut and needed the cash to support his habit. Probably a bit of both... on a good night it was damn good and on a bad night it was... boring.

Vguy way to keep the metal torch burning. Metal! Turn it up to 11! \m/ God I used to love metal before I got into the Good ol' Grateful Dead and became a Grateful Dad. I still stoke my metal jones occasional... it's good music to drive fast to or get ready to compete in anything, but remains a fixture of my adolescence. Pictures in my locker from Hit Parader of Judas Priest, Iron Maiden, and AC/DC along with Cindy Crawford and various SI swimsuit models.

Ah, the eighties. Now all my favorite bands are 80. What the hell happened?

Last five:

Led Zeppelin - How the West was Won
The Doors - L.A. Woman
Aerosmith - Rocks
Eric Clapton - Crossroads 2: Live in the Seventies (disc 3)
Elton John - Goodbye Yellow Brick Road

\m/

....yeah. i can see the attraction to it.
It was like seven or eight seconds of absolute bliss.
Danger Will Robinson.

....yeah. i can see the attraction to it.
It was like seven or eight seconds of absolute bliss.
Danger Will Robinson.
See? I just double posted.
Time for bed.

Last Man Standing - Jerry Lee Lewis
Love It To Death - Alice Cooper
Bakersfield Sound cd3 - Various
Sun Singles Collection Vol3 cd3 - Various
Lucky Charms - Michael Messer

Last Dead Daves 16 3/28/73. Two cds of mainly high energy country rock followed by a 3rd cd with Dark Star, Eyes, and Playing. Like listening to two different bands in a way.

Nice one

Other One

Dogfish Head is finally in the house. Maybe tonight I will have one.

Coors Extra Gold! Yes, definitely remember that one. We were so excited when it came out and then only had it onnce as it wasn't that great.

First time my and my friends got our hands on a full case of beer in like 8th grade, it was a case of Coors Extra Gold.
That was back when like one beverage would give you a real killer buzz; having an entire 24 of those things was like infinite heaven at the time.

Do they even make that stuff anymore or has it gone the way of Bud Dry?
So many Legends.

Be Well People!
Sixtus

P.S. - and Holy $hit, look at that 60-CD BOX!!!!!

It is here and it is a whopper - 60 cds - soo many great shows - the box for the next 10 years.. only 6000..

I don't complain very often

But this release....why?

Is this the hottest stuff available?

Really?

Hmm...

My first listen was unremarkable, nothing resonated with me.

I took it on a road trip and after a few hours of driving and my headspace was void of any distractions I put in disc 1 and hit the whole show. Nothing new to report but I did like what others have noted as the highlights..

Row Jimmy, Brown-Eyed Women, Let It Grow, Might as Well, The Other One>Stella Blue>The Other One, Cassidy, Looks like Rain, and Brown-Eyed Women were all well played and the recording is very good.

Is it the best of the vault, no, but I think there's enough good material to keep it from getting the Razzie Award. I am looking forward to Baltimore '73 for sure. Why was it released in the opening slot? Well, I am tempted to think in their minds '76 is the new '77 and perhaps '73 is the new '74. Plus the recording is really good. I kind of feel the same way about the new big box, the Junior version of Boxzilla.

My take. I have grown to like a good portion of this one but the road to Baltimore has my full attention.

Certainly propofol creates 'conscious amnesia' but a lot of times the anesthetist will also use Versed/midazolam for the procedure(s). This med is notorious for yielding that classic "we now join your conversation in progress" feeling. The orderlies I used to chat with when I worked in a hospital said that most people coming out from under midazolam are known for oversharing in the minutes of consciousness before they begin to form new memories. Exaggerations and full-blown lies are common enough, too. Perhaps it's midazolam's reduction in blood flow to the prefrontal cortex that is responsible.

Anybody home?

Too much propofol…

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.

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.

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 !

...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.

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.

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.

Wonder how they will fit this show on 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.

So - Jim - are we looking at the first Daves 4 disc-set PLUS a bonus disc.. ?

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.