An institution in American rock music, the Grateful Dead continue to surprise the ears with new arrangements and altered styles. If their playing continues with the force that was heard in San Bernardino, the spirit of the Dead will live on. - Sun Telegram
We are more than pleased to kick off this year's Dave's Picks series with the much requested and quite spirited complete performance from Swing Auditorium, San Bernardino, CA 2/26/77. The Swing ’77 show was a unique beast, unlike any others from this era: as the band’s first concert of the year, it bridged the gap between the new and re-emerging sound of the returning 1976 Grateful Dead and the precision excellence of the spring ’77 Dead. Debuting two of their most intricately crafted songs of the 1970s, “Terrapin Station” (to open, no less!) and “Estimated Prophet,” the Dead demonstrated right from the start of this new touring year that they were not going to be a nostalgia act; they were going to be as adventurous and ambitious as they were at any time in their career.
Join the adventure as they soar through tried and true ("Playing In The Band," "Tennessee Jed"), well-loved covers ("Mama Tried," "Samson and Delilah," "Dancing In the Street"), and epic new jams.
Rounded out with three songs from Santa Barbara, CA 2/27/77, this one was recorded by Betty Cantor-Jackson and has been mastered to HDCD specs by Jeffrey Norman.
Dave's Picks Volume 29 is limited to 20,000 individually-numbered copies*.
*Limited to 2 per order. Very limited quantity available.
High Fives!!....
The Beatles - Yellow Submarine
Jimmy Cliff - Better Days Are Coming
Jimmy Cliff - Music Maker
GD - Vancouver 5.17.74
GD - Schwing!!
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....edit. Submarine has It's All Too Much, Hey Bulldog & Only A Northern Song. 3 underrated Beatles psychedelia tunes.
*RSD 2019 ‘Grateful Dead’
Grateful Dead / Warfield, San Francisco, Ca 10/9/80 / Grateful Dead-WEA
Grateful Dead / Warfield, San Francisco, Ca 10/9/80 & 10/10/80 (CD) / Grateful Dead-WEA
* Now in our fifth year as the Official Beer of Record Store Day, we’re bringing together independent beer and independent record stores by reigniting our collaboration with longtime friends the Grateful Dead, as well as re-releasing the fan-favorite American Beauty pale ale. We’re also turning up the volume with the creation of Sage & Spirit, a limited edition 10-track vinyl album that will release on Record Store Day (Saturday, April 13).
Featuring a handpicked collection of Grateful Dead melodies, Sage & Spirit was curated by the band’s audiovisual archivist and legacy manager, David Lemieux. After combing through the band’s expansive discography, Lemieux selected the following tracks to appear on this collaborative Record Store Day release: “Sugar Magnolia,” “Eyes Of The World,” “Lost Sailor,” “Saint Of Circumstance,” “High Time,” “Unbroken Chain,” “If I Had The World To Give” and “Sage and Spirit.” Also featured on the album are recordings of “Jack Straw” and “Brown-Eyed Women” from the band’s European tour in 1972. The perfect accompaniment to a pint of American Beauty, copies of Sage & Spirit will be sold, starting on Record Store Day, Apr. 13, at independent record stores around the country.
“Choosing the songs for ‘Sage & Spirit’ really didn’t take long, but that’s not to say I didn’t put a lot of work into it. My directive was, ‘You’re sitting on the porch. It’s a summer day. You’re drinking a Dogfish Head American Beauty and listening to the Dead,’ and immediately I thought, ‘I got it,’” says David. “I was so inspired by that directive that the record turned out to be just that; the soundtrack to a summer day – or really any day. It’s mellow and meditative, and every song is a truly beautiful track.”
With the help of friend and 2019 Off-Centered Art Series artist Michael Hacker, not only have we created a psychedelic album cover for Sage & Spirit, we’ve also created the Official Poster of Record Store Day, and in true Hacker fashion you’ll find an intricately woven story of collaboration and celebration … with one very special surprise. Dim the lights and dig out that black light, because this year’s work of art is none other than a blacklight poster! This limited edition poster will be available for free at select stores and bars that sell Dogfish, as well as on Record Store Day at participating music retailers.
... VA / Woodstock - Mono PA Version / Atlantic-WEA...
RSD 2019
Was just listening to tracks from the Dead Ahead bonus disc yesterday. Notable He's Gone for dual Jerry-isms on the "Steam Locomotive" line.
I bet this RSD release is going to be satisfying. One I will gladly wait in line for...
Thanks for the info LMG...
Warfield 1980 Shows
That is good news if they have those tapes in order to release 10/8 and 10/9 80. I guess the rumor had always been maybe those tapes were gone.
So how about releasing the full Warfield and Radio City run? Wouldn't that be an awesome box! I would be the first to try and sign up for that one.
2.28.70 ~ "I asked my baby one time"
And I said please
I said please
let it shine
your light
let it shine
http://www.deadlists.com/posters/1970s/19700228.html
https://archive.org/details/gd70-02-28.sbd.cotsman.9377.sbeok.shnf/gd70…
"after things begin to get better"
that Grateful Dead synchronicity
I recently was gifted a bunch of GD CDs from 80 and 81.
Last evening I started listening to 9/25/80, the start of the Warfield run.
This morning I come here and Davevikes talks about the Warfield run (and RCMH) as a good box release.
Wow.
I love when things like that happen.
Yowza! What is THIS?
So, another good day for TDIGDH - Dick's favorite show (2/28/69), another Family Dog (2/28/70 - Lovelight Sandwich!), Salt Lake City 73 (Dick's Picks 28,) and the final night of the Uptown 81 run (maybe the weakest of the three, but still a good show with a great setlist...)
However, today's MUST listen is the practice session the boys had at Bobby's studio in 1975. Here is the link: https://archive.org/details/gd1975-02-28.sbd.smith.93779.sbeok.flac16
It is unlike anything I've ever heard... put it on in the background, and prepare to be blown away!
Peace
50th Anniversary of 2/27/69 Dark Star
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/27/opinion/grateful-dead-dark-star-anni…
Nice take on the magic of Dark Star
Speaking of synchronicity......
CAPTAIN BEEFHEART & HIS MAGIC BAND - "TROUT MASK REPLICA" coming on RSD 2019
Deadvikes
the posting on recordstoreday.com states 2 LP or 2 cd neither is enough space to be 2 full shows. So it might still be the case that they do not have the full shows in the archive. Will be interesting to see what is released. I will admit is was sad to see the 2/28/69 show not get released this year. Unless that is going to come a different way.
Does anyone else have the…
Does anyone else have the same feeling in their bones as I do that we may be in for a new release anouncement tomorrow ? 😺😺😺
RSD 2019 Jerry Garcia & ...
https://recordstoreday.com/SpecialRelease/10644
AND
The Dead release is the acoustic sets from the 2 shows...
2/28/75 at Bob's
Wow....what a jazzy little snack that was! Thanks That's Otis.....the newly revealed from this band never fails to amaze me! Sound on this is amazing from the archive!
Just Arrived and Next: Jimmy Cliff - The Harder They Come Soundtrack on Vinyl
Earlier: Peter Tosh - Equal Rights & Legalize It On Vinyl
Later: I feeling March coming on......GD 03/23/75 - have not heard this one but I have the download and I heard its a good one
RSD 2019 - Warfield 10/9 and 10/10/1980
Anyone have any info on this? Looks like it's gonna be out of 2 CDs version as well!
https://recordstoreday.com/SpecialRelease/10707
RSD 2019 - Warfield 10/9 And…
RSD 2019 - Warfield 10/9 And 10/10/1980
Anyone have any info on this? Looks like it's gonna be out of 2 CDs version as well!
https://recordstoreday.com/SpecialRelease/10707
...it’s an all acoustic album from the two shows
Snack Benefit - 3/23/75
Today is Jam session day from 1975 for sure.....wow! Not sure how it happened, was looking over my March un-listened to shows and marked this one, and then That's Otis sent that link, and here I am in outer space....what a combo! The only lyrics are from Bill Graham on the intro....so far!!
10/9 and 10/10 Record Store Day
10/9 and 10/10 are great annivesary shows as well.
If they are releasing two CDs from this batch of three set shows, they cannot possibly be releasing the entire shows. Two acoustic first sets???
10/9 And 10/10 Record Store Day
Agreed Jim....these two shows are MONSTERS....30+ tunes each. Has to be a compilation which could foretell a box set? Maybe???
2.28.75's Bouncey Jam....
....now i'm not usually one to judge, but If you like music even a little bit, and that jam doesn't put a smile on your face, I don't know what will. Damn I love this band!!!!
RSD 2019 -CD release
...two acoustic sets, 2CD release $19.99
...that ‘jam’ made me smile ; )
sorry folks, but...
only the acoustic stuff from 10/9 and 10/10???
I just went soft for that release.
Gimme the electric Viagra as well, PLEASE.
Bouncy jam
Cool jam for sure and I'm almost positive that a portion of this was included as a track on one of the early Anthology box sets. I too stumbled upon this version, but it was over the summer when I was in a freak situation without a job having some time on my hands during the day and just chilling out, exploring the archive and finding these cool little nuggets. The studio sessions are a treat to listen to there's some awesome stuff in there. They're totally spontaneous a lot of the time.
Excellent find and share.
Sixtus
P.S. I am reminded after a complete listen through, what an absolute monster February 28th 1969 is. Phil is out-of-this-world totally leading the charge, like audio-DNA intertwined with Jerry on a jubilant twirling Unstoppable dance. It's so groovy and mind-bending, A+
RSD Warfield release
Sure would be nice to get a setlist. Anyone know if this is basically what's been released in the acoustic Reckoning ?
Or are we assuming it is the same release with the box extras?
Acoustic Dead being released....
....time to rejoice if you ask me. But that's me.
10/1980 Setlists
These are the complete setslists for both shows:
10/09/80
Warfield Theater - San Francisco, CA
Set 1:
Dire Wolf
Dark Hollow
Been All Around This World
Cassidy
China Doll
On The Road Again
Bird Song
The Race Is On
Oh Babe It Ain't No Lie
Ripple
Set 2:
Feel Like A Stranger
Friend Of The Devil
Mama Tried
Mexicali Blues
Peggy-O
Little Red Rooster
Brown-Eyed Women
Tennessee Jed
The Music Never Stopped
Set 3:
Alabama Getaway
Greatest Story Ever Told
High Time
Lost Sailor
Saint Of Circumstance
Terrapin Station
Drums
Not Fade Away
Wharf Rat
Sugar Magnolia
Encore:
Casey Jones
10/10/80
Warfield Theater - San Francisco, CA
Set 1:
On The Road Again
It Must Have Been The Roses
Monkey And The Engineer
Jack-A-Roe
Dark Hollow
To Lay Me Down
Heaven Help The Fool
Bird Song
Ripple
Set 2:
Mississippi Half-Step
Franklin's Tower
Me And My Uncle
Big River
Candyman
Beat It On Down The Line
Row Jimmy
New Minglewood Blues
Althea
Jack Straw
Set 3:
Scarlet Begonias
Fire On The Mountain
Samson And Delilah
Big Railroad Blues
Estimated Prophet
Eyes Of The World
Drums
Truckin'
Nobody's Jam
Black Peter
Around And Around
Promised Land
Encore:
U.S. Blues
Fish, On Acid
No, not Phish, Fish. This is what happens when you give a fish too much LSD.
https://otagomuseum.nz/blog/otago-museums-sunfish-the-largest-known-spe…
One of these washed up on the shore new Santa Barbara this week, undoubtedly lured by the sounds of Live Dead being played on the beach. Mystery solved, ok back to your regularly scheduled listening.
re: Those Setlists....
Man, I'll say the 10/10/80 show does it for me. That Setlist - WOW. Although the purist in me would want the whole lot. But that's just being acoustically greedy.
The sad reality is I haven't had a record player since probably the early '90's and knowing myself if I started now it would turn into something like my outrageous Lego collection....
Anyone know if these suckers are gonna be released on CD too? A long shot but hey one can dream big.
Happy Friday in Deadland.
Sixtus
acoustic GD? sure, I'll listen
but to release the acoustic without the electric...no, no, no.
the acoustic would stimulate my synapses...oh, just you wait until the electric happens...oh, yeah...I am so ready...
"NO ELECTRIC SETS FOR YOU!!!"
psychedelic azure spheres like you wouldn't believe.
RSD release
Yes they are being released on cd and LP, both say 2 disc. By my math that is a big difference in amount of space available. Both are listed a RSD only releases, so i do not know if they will go out to the mass market.
Thanks for the Bouncy Jam
Never heard that one before. I like the conversations they're having in between jams. Sixtus, did you say that's been released before?
Was that Warfield acoustic stuff on PBS at one point? Or is that Dead Ahead I'm thinking of? All I remember is I caught my dad watching it one night, and he grabbed the remote and change the channel quickly, as though I walked in on him watching porn. Call it a missed opportunity I guess, but I often think I should have broken out a spliff.
Re: Keithfan
Hey KF, yep, that Bouncy Jam was included, or at least a segment of it, on the reissued/remastered Blues For Allah that was initially released as part of the second anthology box set. I forget which track it is, but it is one of the instrumental tracks listed here following the Blues for Allah track:
Blues for Allah Remastered Track Listings:
Disc: 1
1. Help On The Way/Slipknot
2. Franklin's Tower
3. King Solomon's Marbles: Part I: Stronger Than Dirt/Part II: Milkin' The Turkey
4. The Music Never Stopped
5. Crazy Fingers
6. Sage & Spirit
7. Blues For Allah: Sand Castles & Glass Camels/Unusual Occurrences In The Desert
8. Groove #1 (Instrumental Studio Outtake)
9. Groove #2 (Instrumental Studio Outtake)
10. Distorto (Instrumental Studio Outtake)
11. A To E Flat Jam (Instrumental Studio Outtake)
12. Proto 18 Proper (Instrumental Studio Outtake)
13. Hollywood Cantata (Studio Outtake)
And the PBS acoustic stuff you're referencing was indeed from Dead Ahead, which was incidentally from this acoustic run in fall '80...I catch that from time to time on good ole public tv.
Sixtus
RSD Release
I feel a bit underwhelmed, myself, I must admit. Hardly a fair substitute for 2/28/69. Still, at least it isn't a Dave's Picks. Other people seem happy, and I get to save a few bob, so it all pans out.
RSD Release
I am bipolar on this one.
On the one hand.. the acoustic stuff from 1980 was both excellent and excellently recorded.
On the other hand, there is not nearly as much variation in the acoustic stuff as the electric. At least that's my memory when I last compared the not released acoustic stuff to Reckoning/For The Faithful. So it loses the new car smell very quickly and becomes sort of a novelty piece or something I am in the mood for less frequently.
The acoustic 1970 acoustic sets, although tasty and might I say historical, just don't sound as crisp or as good as the 1980 acoustic stuff. When I first got around looking for Reckoning and trying to get it and listen to it.. it was horribly out of print super expensive. I looked everywhere for it and after about six months to a year of looking, it was magically re-released as For the Faithful. It was (is) so good and I finally had some less spaced out GD I could play for the non-believers around me. You know.. 4 minute songs you could tap your feet to, etc.
Still, I will gladly buy this and listen to it with an open mind and I am sure I will love it. It just likely won't see a ton of play time. It's all good though.. I know there are some that will kill for this stuff and are looking forward to it. I knew a couple people that think the acoustic stuff is the very best of the GD. We are a big tent crowd, I say bring it on.
10/02/80 Warfield Acoustic set, To Lay Me Down.... end of song
Has anyone ever listen to this when Bob sings an extra verse at the end!!! Oh man someone is pissed... You can hear someone say you F everything up, or something along those lines. Brent says everyone makes mistakes and you can hear Jerry try to say thanks a couple of times... Anyone have any color on this if they were there??? I can never make it out... bob t
Velvet Underground - Live at Max’s KC
Had to pick this one up today when I spotted it on vinyl at the local B&N.....they keep sending me coupons and I can’t resist..sounds very nice!
Happy Friday Dead People!
KCJ
Acoustic Dead
In a way it would have made more sense, to me, to release a whole evenings music from the Warfield, including both the acoustic and the electric sets, rather than two evenings acoustic sets. If Dead shows can be said to follow a narrative arc, then this is release is a bit like printing the first chapters of two separate novels, in one book, instead of printing one complete novel.
I would agree that the 1980 acoustic sets are more satisfying than the 1970 ones. But...I heard the 11/8/70 acoustic set for the first time a few weeks ago-and that one really impressed me. The electric part of that show, needless to say, is incredible, even on the audience recording I heard. If they ever get round to releasing audience recordings-they could start there.
letting go of a few DiPs, DaPs
Hey gang, it's been a while so I hope everyone in Deadland is doing well or getting close. For a while, the gatekeepers must've decided I was a robot (that's what SHE said), but I've been grooving to some New Riders courtesy of cosmicdavid (thanks bro!), the latest DaP (nice '76-'77 transitional show) and a few of the 50th anniversaries (Electric Ladyland, smaller White Album, etc).
In anticipation of funding some kinda irresistible box coming our way this year (Boston '69, Capitol '71??) I'm letting go of
DiP 21, 11-1-85
DaP 18, 7-17-76 w/bonus disc
Dap 23, 1-22-78
Dap 27, 9-2-83
If anyone is interested, please PM me. All were played once and remain like new. Ideally, someone would like them all. Fairness is my watchword. And now, back to your regularly scheduled programming. ..
Which is my next question: when does Aoxomoxoa drop and what's the thinking on the live companion CD? Late '68 single-disc show featuring the same songs?
Also, if the new Warfield RSD is on 2 CDs, and there's ~80 minutes of acoustic advertised, is the balance likely to be excerpts from the electric sets? I'd be down with that...
Cheers all, HF
Daverock, Record Store Day
https://recordstoreday.com/SpecialRelease/10709
I figure that Daverock, and maybe Simonrob, will appreciate that more than most of us.
RSD part II
And then I see the Sly and The Family Stone release.
Recorded the same day and at the same location as the Janis release.
Will probably have to get both, along with the Warfield, and maybe that mono Saucerful of Secrets too.
RSD Electric on the EEL
Jerrygarcia.com just released news that Electric on the EEL will will be released as a 4-LP 180 gram set in celebration of Record Store Day on April 13th in a limited edition of 2,000
It just keeps getting better to be a deadhead
Warfield/ Radio City Run
I believe the run was 25 nights, with three sets each night. Wow, this would be a mega box that would have to exceed Europe 72, if they ever go this route. I am in.
Dave's 4 this morning, what a great show and now Wembley 4/8/72. Still need more!
More from Ace's Studio 2/28/75
I haven't let go of this really cool Studio jam session quite yet after a very necessary revisitation courtesy of That's Otis, I believe.
https://archive.org/details/gd1975-02-28.sbd.smith.93779.sbeok.flac16
There is a treasure-trove of Awesomeness among all of the tracks on this date. But especially, when you listen to the 'Stronger than Dirt' tracks, you will absolutely hear Phil playing his awesome Jazzy riff from 1973-ish when they would jazzily jam. Jazz. Jam. That's a lot of jazz. It's unmistakable; when you listen in the context of Stronger Than Dirt you realize Phil has dropped a beat or two to accomplish that tune. I had never realized STD was based on that little Jammy segment.
And that's just one Epiphany among many. Standout listens: both of those Stronger Than Dirt jams, the They Love Each Other Jam segment which is so ridiculously funky and cool, as well as the Shakedown Street labeled Jam. Of note, excerpts of all of these tracks also appeared on that Blues for Allah remastered version. That was a productive day.
Stellar.
Sixtus