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...Daverock and to anyone else interested about this RSD release. They are from the returned Betty Boards! Get a copy either one for this Primo Audio Quality release!!! 🙏😎❤️
Here is a “15 minute sample”...release sounds much better!

https://sos2208.akamaized.net/gdead/listeningparty/rsdwarfield/rsdwarfi…

Angry Jack Straw-thanks for the moving story about the poverty stricken children attempting to steal off apparently affluent tourists in the shadow of Notre Dame. Quite a powerful and thought provoking image. Makes me wonder who the victims were. Everybody, probably.

I am not accosted by children in London, but every time I go I have to step over homeless people lying on the street. I often wonder why I am in my position and they are in there's. Nothing to do with personal merit, that's for sure. Its always shocking to be witness to extremes of poverty and wealth rubbing shoulders.

Thanks for the feedback. It is the vinyl edition that interests me. Maybe I should get "Reckoning" down from the attic first, to see how the music grabs me these days. I can't say I have played it-or any 1980 acoustic Dead music, for that matter- in many years.

Given the enormity of the fire from an outside vantage point, I am shocked at how well the interior remained intact. Very fortunate.

Much like the stories being shared about people's first GD show, my memories of ND were shaped by the experience, not the cathedral itself.

Beautiful, ornate, mythical, etc. Yup. But not what I remember most.

While approaching the bell towers for the first time, I noticed a tourist being swarmed by a half dozen gypsie children. All reaching for his coat pockets in an attempt to pilfer. He scurried off. Their attention then turned to a young woman walking in front of us. "Do you speak English?" I overheard. "Not a word" she replied.

Off they ran in search of the next victim.

6-20-83 was a favorite that I lost or gave away years ago, and you hooked me up with a copy that I'm sure was from the same source.
The Bob Star->Other One->Wharf Rat->Sugar Mag(w/ Bobby's Aborigine dream rap) is by far one of my favorites. Of all time. I'm thinkin' there was a lightning strike during Wharf Rat at about the 5:06 mark, at the peak of "I'll get up and fly away.."

Thanks again man... :O)

Jerryweather indeed...

I don't have that one Bobby T, I'll have to put it on my phone. Dick's 25 hasn't grabbed me yet, but I like 30 Trips '78 a lot (5/14).

Last comment on 4/16/72 - just listened to NFA, Pt. 2 (again) on headphones - Bobby and Pigpen trade off the NFA lyrics so damn good at the end there, it'll make yer head spin.

I just saw the same thing.. I agree with what you have to say about 1978 also. One show from May that sticks out, just because I had the audience tape is 5/7/78 RPI Fieldhouse.... Start at the close of the first set with Music Never Stopped and listen to the end of second set... Awesome Iko out of Drums.. I am a huge fan of the end of 78 after the Shakedown material is released!! I wish the Red Rocks shows from August were on SB!!! We were totally on the same wave length especially that everyone calls me Bobby T and not Bob t even though that is my sign in!!! Bobby T

Warfield vinyl is awesome dude....do not hesitate. Still available for retail on Amazon as of yesterday as well as the CD. Sound quality is excellent in the vinyl. I have not heard the CD.

I must say I am very impressed with the overall presentation and sound quality of the few albums I bought on RSD. Both were delivered today. As advertised, nice and heavy. Pressed on coloured vinyl, they sound much better than the murky originals I got decades ago-one of them is padded out with all sorts of extras-booklets signed cards etc. They seemed expensive-but well worth it now they are here.

I wondered what The Dead's RSD album was like in terms of sound and presentation. Unless I have missed it, there doesn't seem to have been much reporting back on this one.

Bobby T - No sooner do I recommend a 1978 show from April than you recommend one from October. We clearly were typing the posts at the same time, judging by the time stamps . It's also kind of bizarre that I made a point about the April show having both a Scarlet Fire & Estimated Eyes, AND that I basically said that the next worthy shows in 1978 didn't come until they started playing the Shakedown Street material. And your show has a bunch of Shakedown Street material on it. Well it just so happens I have 10-17-78 on my phone and have cranked it up on the drive home. LOOK OUT STAGGER LEE!

Yeah I know the July box set is cool. There's also the show with Dick's Scarlet Fire from 9/2. Dick seem to like that one, or at least he said it was his favorite Scarlet Fire. Recording sounds like s*** so I've never listened to the whole thing.

Ok. Back to Grateful Dead Europe '72, I'm up to Farewell Copenhagen, 4/17. It's sick how much quality listening time I'm getting in now that I brought my headphones to work. Yeah that's me at work sporting the BackBeat Pros. I can't hear them they can't hear me; life is good. Note the dual monitor screensavers in the background; they rotate once a minute, randomly posting pictures from my high resolution Dead cover art folder.