• 2,500 replies
    clayv
    Default Avatar
    Joined:

    Who's up for a revolutionary evolutionary ride? DAVE'S PICKS VOLUME 30: FILLMORE EAST, NEW YORK, NEW YORK 1/2/70 captures the Grateful Dead as they make their first foray from the experimental 60s into their early 70s acoustic Americana period. Yes, this one is a little bit country and a little bit (psychedelic) rock and roll.

    When the "Magnificent Seven" - Pigpen on percussion, T.C. on keys - first took the stage on 1/2/70, evidence was clear that the trip was about to take a turn. From their western wears to the twang in Jerry’s “broken-string blues,” it appeared they'd brought the Bakersfield sound to the Big Apple. They worked through much of what would become Workingman's Dead, stunning the crowd with laid-back numbers like "Uncle John's Band," "Casey Jones," and "Black Peter." Just the same, they satisfied 60s stalwarts with magical versions of "Dark Star," "St. Stephen," and "That's It For The Other One." Sonic alchemy, indeed!

    DAVE'S PICKS VOLUME 30: FILLMORE EAST, NEW YORK, ​New York 1/2/70 has been rounded out with a bit of 1/3/70 (the subscribers-only bonus disc features the bulk of 1/3/70). It was recorded by the great Owsley "Bear" Stanley and has been lovingly mastered to HDCD specs by Jeffrey Norman.

    DAVE'S PICKS VOLUME 30 is limited to 20,000 individually-numbered copies*.

    *Limited to 2 per order. Very limited quantity available.

Comments

sort by
Recent
Reset
  • Angry Jack Straw
    Joined:
    FW69

    For those of you fortunate enough to have both the CD box and the vinyl releases, is there any perceptible difference in the sound quality between the two?

  • wilfredtjones
    Joined:
    screamless PITB's?

    Apropos of a recent spin of DP18 Disc 2, does anyone know how many other K&D era sctreamless PITB's there are?

  • Lovemygirl
    Joined:
    *Re/ Fillmore West boxset

    ...All this talk about the ‘Fillmore West Vinyl ‘
    release, has me been lsten’n to My copy/ Mix of March 1st 1969 is amazing and NEW!!! “Primo” lol...
    Just listen to this part of the show and youll get blown away my brother and sisters...
    ‘New Potato Caboose’>>’Doing That Rag’>>
    ‘Cosmic Charlie’! Love it.
    ...All of the1969 “ Fillmore West Boxset” performances will see Vinyl treatment...
    All the Performances included in the limited vinyl Release will be givin an ‘upgrade in Audio’ for a nice treat with each individual track...I’m happy!, the band is going back to make some positive changes & upgraded audio....🙏❤️🤠

  • Oroborous
    Joined:
    69 box and Berry beer

    SNAFU, good point, would probably take total remarket/reconfigure to get around that....which could be good, or just remarketed rehash?? I guess for those of us late to the dance it’d be good? But yea, maybe not possible at all.

    Mr Smith, I would normally agree, strawberry beer? Yea, not big on all this peach lime peal double sour farmhouse session triple hopped yaddy, yaddy, yada........dam kids, get off my lawn!......but in this rare case it truly is scrumptious!
    Key is it’s not overdone, very subtle.....So if it’s that one week of the year when it’s usually starting to get hot, and the Beers fresh and ice cold, it’s quite refreshing......and kinda like Easter or Halloween!
    I’m of the ilk that feels like what the hell happened to Stouts, Porters and Ales?....I mean new stuff is cool, but not when there’s no shelf space left for the classics. It’s like having no 70s Dead at a record store cause they need more room for Taylor and Ariana et el....ok, maybe that’s a bit too far......anyway, #$*-=$& distributer out here refuses to get me my all time fav Anchor (Liberties, Porters, some of the new ales etc, not Steamers!), even if I pre order! Bitches!
    At least I get thier Xmas beer cause I buy like 12-15 cases a year and beer man tries to take care of us.

    Now, not to diss our brother Casey, I will certainly try and hunt some of that down and give er a whirl......it’s not like it’d be castor oil, I mean it’s beer for fugs sake! And maybe “sometimes you get shown the light”
    Now back to this tasty 7/12/89, JGs guitar sounds awesome, man this 89 summer tour is really growing on me....

    Oh yeah, brother CJ.......like good departed friend taught us about marathon drinking way back when, (which transposes to many things,) when we were young and dumenough to want to marathon drink, ahem, “drinking (or telling tales) is like running a marathon, you don’t want to go too fast, or too slow....”

  • stoltzfus
    Joined:
    1/17/69

    1/24, 25/69

    Yowzah!

    A big shoutout to my man Craig. Thank you x2000 for the CDs!!!

  • JeffSmith
    Joined:
    More Tales From The Gorge

    Bravissimo CaseyJanes! Great 2nd installment to your Gorge Saga. You've somehow conjured the ineffable vibe that has us all in its thrall. "We decided to post up and take a seat on these large boulders that separate parking from the entrance to the venue. As it turns out, this was a very fortuitous decision. There was already an old Deadhead biker dude who had done the same" is a beer spraying classic... Kerouac meets HST!

    Can't wait for the next chapter! In the meantime, to my horror, I just realized that I can't track down Part 1*. Would you mind re-posting or PM-ing it? I may not be the only mental midget in need. Many, especially including me, have done lots worse in these parts.

    *Could be due to several Desert Fog IPAs imported from ABQ & a fond memory of a Willie's Reserve Tube... Onwardth!

    Regarding strawberry beer – maybe that should be left to Glenwood Springs?

  • snafu
    Default Avatar
    Joined:
    Reissue of Fillmore

    Don't hold your breath on a full box set reissue of Fillmore. They committed to a ltd issue and so far their word unlike so many others means something

  • CaseyJanes
    Joined:
    Strawberry Beer!!!

    So due to the recent hubbub around here, for the last couple weeks, I have also been on the look out for some strawberry beer an have found nothing. So after reading the last few posts tonight, I was feeling kinda thirsty, but no beer in the fridge. Down to the local liquor store and guess what I’m drinking on now. Yes sirs, Strawberry Rhubarb Sour Ale from Great Divide, and brewed in your back yard Oroborous, or at least somewhere close in Denver so within reach. Maybe you can provide. Tastebud comparison for us with the Glenwood special that you’ve been talkin about? I have to say, I think this one is pretty damn tasty. I like the can as well! It’s black with pink flamingos under a pink marijuana leaf, or maybe that’s a palm tree?....no matter, I like it and bought 12 of them for my weekend at the lake listening to some GOGD and hanging out with the family!!!

    Peace all...have a great evening!

    KCJ

    And Oroborous: the rest of the tale is coming. You should know my friend, it’s important not to consume them too quickly!

  • icecrmcnkd
    Joined:
    2-27-69 vinyl Plangent

    It says Plangent Process inside the Box in the credits.

  • icecrmcnkd
    Joined:
    It was a fine French lager

    Mmmmmm......
    Gjoe-bell

user picture
Default Avatar

Member for

6 years 2 months

Who's up for a revolutionary evolutionary ride? DAVE'S PICKS VOLUME 30: FILLMORE EAST, NEW YORK, NEW YORK 1/2/70 captures the Grateful Dead as they make their first foray from the experimental 60s into their early 70s acoustic Americana period. Yes, this one is a little bit country and a little bit (psychedelic) rock and roll.

When the "Magnificent Seven" - Pigpen on percussion, T.C. on keys - first took the stage on 1/2/70, evidence was clear that the trip was about to take a turn. From their western wears to the twang in Jerry’s “broken-string blues,” it appeared they'd brought the Bakersfield sound to the Big Apple. They worked through much of what would become Workingman's Dead, stunning the crowd with laid-back numbers like "Uncle John's Band," "Casey Jones," and "Black Peter." Just the same, they satisfied 60s stalwarts with magical versions of "Dark Star," "St. Stephen," and "That's It For The Other One." Sonic alchemy, indeed!

DAVE'S PICKS VOLUME 30: FILLMORE EAST, NEW YORK, ​New York 1/2/70 has been rounded out with a bit of 1/3/70 (the subscribers-only bonus disc features the bulk of 1/3/70). It was recorded by the great Owsley "Bear" Stanley and has been lovingly mastered to HDCD specs by Jeffrey Norman.

DAVE'S PICKS VOLUME 30 is limited to 20,000 individually-numbered copies*.

*Limited to 2 per order. Very limited quantity available.

user picture

Member for

16 years 11 months

In reply to by CaseyJanes

Permalink

And a big Sunny Rocky Mnt. how do you do!
Nice to see Wjones and the always entertaining CaseyJ back with us.....
CJ, was worried you some how smuggled in your magic carpet, got turned on to some ultra government top secret veggies, lifting off somewhere between HCS and Dark Star, and decided to fly the length of the Columbia, eventually needing to crash in some uncharted PNW forest, only to be kiddnaped by a secret clan of Uber Sasquatch....”ancient alien theorist say yes!” Who we’re so high, intelligent and kind that we would never hear from the likes of you again, not that there’d be anything wrong with that lol
Couldn’t help but pick up on the less than Bolo type clue about “we weren’t listening to the return bus instructions” ha, bet a few of us here know where that’s going! Lol

BOX: yep, looking like whoever said the announcement was going to be after Dave’s 31 is gonna win the prize...
Prize you say? .......yea,
“Upon your death you will receive divine consciousness.....which is nice”

user picture

Member for

14 years 4 months

In reply to by Vguy72

Permalink

Its not a matter of snoozing and losing

Its about a SHITBRAINED SYSTEM AND LAMENESS ON THE PART OF THE PTB AT THE GORGE.

luckily for you all, i am headed to work...keeping my day job and all that

Have a pleasant day, y'all

user picture

Member for

6 years 6 months
Permalink

“My mom let me go to Grateful Dead shows when I was 12 or 13 years old. The things that taught me,” Austin told Relix in 2009. “And I think about these kids – it’s like a sense of community, a different sense of giving and caring – we’re all here together. If you create something, you’ll have this beautiful bubble that will occur.”

Read more: https://relix.com/news/detail/in-memoriam-jeff-austin/#ixzz5rt4azryg

😓

user picture

Member for

16 years 11 months
Permalink

What a bummer. Heard over the weekend he was in the hospital. These guys got me hooked into bluegrass in 2001-2002 era, and I was lucky to see them a bunch in the early aughts. Jeff was unquestionably the leader of that band. He was a great songwriter and a better singer. Time to put on an old Yonder show.

user picture

Member for

7 years 1 month
Permalink

The link to the book was cool. It reminds me of the stories I have had traveling with the dead in the 80's. It is like losing a faithful dog that was always there to make sure you were ok. You never forget those times. Some people may think it's just a concert but it was more then that. Those people would not understand unless they were there.

user picture

Member for

16 years 11 months

In reply to by carlo13

Permalink

Right on!

user picture

Member for

6 years 6 months
Permalink

If I have to explain, you wouldn’t understand (insert dead graphic)....I think you will enjoy the rest of my story....stay tuned!

user picture

Member for

6 years 10 months
Permalink

I told you all I have been exploring 1974 much more since accepting the sonic issues that go along with it. I'm full blown rampage now, which is ironic considering my last full blown rampage was 1974.

I have also observed there are only about a half-dozen Dark Stars from 74. That is almost a criminal act.

What I don't get is the popularity of DaP 2 Dillon Stadium. Awful audio. Is it simply because it's hard to get that it's so expensive on eBay? The show doesn't sound like anything special to me, maybe the poor audio is not helping. Can we all agree it's one of the worst sounding shows of 74?

And I will be needing rankings of all Eyes of the World from this year. I've come to the conclusion that they are the best ones, but if 73 needs to be included then so be it. Not interested in two drummer Eyes unless it's One from the Vault.

user picture

Member for

7 years 3 months
Permalink

Greek Theatre, 15, 16, 17 July 1988 just arrived today. It doesn't sound as good as a Normanized Plangent deal, but it sounds pretty good for a radio broadcast. Six discs for a little over thirty dollars.

Slaked my thirst while waiting for the box announcement. Not to mention the announcement is just the dangling of the carrot... the ship date can't be before Fall '19, at this point.

Jerry's vocal on the seldom played "Believe It Or Not," is extremely soulful. I'm just sayin'.

\m/

user picture

Member for

9 years 9 months
Permalink

11/17/73 is my favorite '73 version so far.

Coattail Skeletons 7/19/74 has a Dyno-MITE version.

user picture

Member for

13 years 6 months
Permalink

Now I'm thinking it may be the long awaited Boston Ark 69 shows. It's the 50th anniversary of the shows and Bolo said it's "about time those incredible shows were released". Bolo's clues may be hinting at Noah's Ark.
From Bolo's post:
Religious references: "grace of God", "glorious", "soul"
Storm reference: "Kesey's Thunder Machine"
Animal references:
1. "China"-----China CAT
2. "dark side of the moon"-----(pink floyd)-----ANIMALS
3. "Starbucks"------(Moby Dick)-----WHALE
4. "Cheetos"-----(Chester Cheetah)----CHEETAH

Right? Is anyone with me on this?

user picture

Member for

14 years 4 months

In reply to by Gollum

Permalink

Ark would be cooooool

What does a yellow dog say?

"Ark, man...Ark"

Your avatar is awesome

user picture

Member for

16 years 11 months

In reply to by stoltzfus

Permalink

....🤔 I have nothing.
Wait. Liberace tickled the ivories. Tusks are made of ivory. ELEPHANTS!
i still have nothing....

user picture

Member for

16 years 11 months
Permalink

May 77 - Number 3 Palladium April 29-May 4!
1st Leg April '78 Curtis Hixon>Huntington,WV 4-16-1978 What about Sporto?

June '85
OR
June '91

Alaska '80? Msg '79 or '81?

P.S. Mike Edwards, Mr, Pid, dstache, OneMan, ComicBodger, Space Face? I beg you call the tune... :-)\\

Stuart Walker? sherbear? marye? monsieur Joe EVERYONE?

Happy Summer and carpe diem...

Love, Jeff

user picture

Member for

9 years 9 months

In reply to by Butch

Permalink

9/11 at Alexandra Palace is a good one. Very long, very spacy. After 1974 they always seemed in too much of a hurry when they played it. The 1976 ones especially-too fast, too short. And that seemed to set the template for the song for ever after.

user picture

Member for

16 years 11 months
Permalink

...yes, those IPA's were good last night :-/ :-)

P.S. Traffic Lights x4 and Chimneys.

Multi-track from October 1969 or April 1971

Could be something from Fillmore West 1970 acoustic electric

Or more from 1989. Philadelphia Spectrum 3 shows

user picture

Member for

10 years 9 months

In reply to by mbarilla

Permalink

Hey looking for someone to pick up an extra pin from a couple shows. Anyone going to Bristow , Charlotte , Atlanta or Dallas ? I had plans to go to Bristow , Charlotte and Atlanta but my dog had heart attacks last week. Had to cancel all plans and keep him company

user picture

Member for

6 years 6 months
Permalink

Check your PM

user picture

Member for

8 years 7 months

In reply to by CaseyJanes

Permalink

Hopefully it’s a spectacularly Plangentized offering.

The real worry is Vault safety. Hopefully Warner has a better fire prevention system than Universal Music.

https://www.billboard.com/articles/business/8517618/universal-music-fir…

High Time to pick up the pace of releases, that way if something does happen in the future hopefully all the good sounding shows will have already been released.

user picture

Member for

11 years 4 months

In reply to by icecrmcnkd

Permalink

I probably won't be able to get the box...my wife looks at me strangely

user picture

Member for

7 years 1 month
Permalink

Wow, that article is sad. Especially Cheech and chong and rodney dangerfield. The Captain and tennille not so much.

user picture

Member for

16 years 11 months

In reply to by carlo13

Permalink

And what about Spinal Tap.....I was really hoping they’d rerelease an audiophile version of Smell the Glove!

CAPTCHA sux. I can handle one screen of "find the bikes, ya damn fool", but 6 screens of buses, crosswalks, and festering sores is too much.

It's not like we are trying to hack into Fort Knox or something

user picture

Member for

9 years 8 months
Permalink

First Girl of the North Country since 8/27/14 tonight in Stockholm (also first Can't Wait since 2012).

Not my video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OaFCERlqVPo

Sounding good. The Can't Wait is nice too...sounds like Stayin' Alive, haha. Waiting for a late summer / fall US announcement.

Anyone check out the new Rolling Thunder Revue box and Netflix special?

Gonna catch Dead & Company in ATL this weekend. Saw the Stones last Friday, first and only time for me. Worth it! Amazing that Mick had a valve in his heart replaced two months ago, he was all over the stage non-stop like it was the 70s. I got winded putting on the t-shirt I bought at the show.

user picture

Member for

9 years 8 months
Permalink

Just saw your post, I can check in Atlanta if you still need it. Thoughts to your dog!!! You are prioritizing correctly.

user picture

Member for

10 years 4 months

In reply to by icecrmcnkd

Permalink

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/25/magazine/universal-music-fire-bands-…

Here's an article I had just read before coming over here, and, sure enough it's already being discussed. I can't believe UMG lost millions of masters and were able to keep it silent for 11 years. The exceedingly long list of artists who were impacted is truly sad. Buddy Holly, Charles Mingus, John Coltrane, The Who, Tom Petty, The Carter Family, even a Martin Luther King, Jr speech that was recorded and released. Decca and Chess records. Unbelievable. Who knows what kind of brilliant work lay unreleased and unheard until the conflagration meant they would never be heard.

Also, I remember Dave made a joke on the Hofheinz 11/18/72 release page about not being able to hear Hoyt Axton Explodes without a turntable, though now it may be impossible for them to even think about a re-release as his masters are also thought to have been destroyed. I hope the artists get a massive settlement from UMG, which is worth $33 billion.

user picture

Member for

7 years 1 month
Permalink

In All in the family season 6 'Archie, the babysitter'. Gloria hires a babysitter and the babysitters boyfriend who comes over to hang out with her, brings over 2 albums. One is Blues for Allah and the other is the rolling stones. You can see both sides of B.F.A album with jerry and the band and the front pretty clearly. The boyfriend says " I brought over the grateful dead and the Rolling stones" and Archie says "yeah I've heard of those grave diggers before". Good episode.

user picture

Member for

11 years 7 months
Permalink

I was shocked to read this, never heard about it. Very sad indeed.

You can never believe they don't have fire system in these places and take a greater value in the stuff they have.

The BBC tossed out a chunk of Doctor Who's cause they needed the storage?

A wild spec I heard years ago on TCM was that 1/2 the movies made before 1950 are GONE.

user picture

Member for

7 years 1 month
Permalink

I think the films were watched over by people who don't give a shit. Then you get people like Dave L. And the others who protect their music and concerts with love and respect like they should be treated.

user picture

Member for

16 years 11 months

In reply to by carlo13

Permalink

....first I've heard of this as well. 100,000 masters? Oops indeed. Note to selves. Celluloid does not handle heat very well. That's why I keep mine in Montana. On the Canadian border. As Red Foreman would say, "dumbasses!"
One of my favorite TV dads. Up there with Archie Bunker and Al Bundy.

user picture

Member for

9 years 9 months
Permalink

NOT THE ASIA MASTERS!!!!!

But seriously, it's the greatest prog-gone-pop-rock album ever. Credit where it's due - producer Mike Stone pulled that record out of his ass.

I would have said maaaaybe Duke was better, but they crossed the line with Dukes Travels
- that song is as progressive rock as 1980 could possibly sound.

user picture

Member for

10 years 9 months

In reply to by KeithFan2112

Permalink

Hot Rize~Take It Home
String Cheese 9-3-98 Strawberry Music Fest.,Camp Mather~Yosemite,California
Herbie Hancock~Head Hunters
G.D. 4-14-71 Lewisburg,Pennsylvania
Hot Tuna 71-7-3 Fillmore~San Fran.
:O)

user picture

Member for

6 years
Permalink

Listening to the Englishtown half step this morning and towards the end of an absolutely fantastic version was brought to tears during the Rio grande refrain at the thought of that father and daughter picture from earlier this week .
Come on Donald stop being such a bell end and cut these guys some slack , the worlds not just a rich mans playground .

user picture

Member for

14 years 4 months

In reply to by perithecat

Permalink

As much as I have issues with the current administration, people come to this lil' area to escape all that.

May God welcome the father and daughter's souls to heaven. I am sincere in that.

Please let this board be a refuge from the ills of the world (wake up to find out that there's lots of ills in the world).

Grateful for life
Dead for life
Grateful Dead promote life
"the Grateful Dead are the antidote to the atom bomb" - Joseph Campbell

user picture

Member for

6 years
Permalink

Sorry , never meant to bring politics onto this site - it’s not even something I’m that bothered about anymore - as we say over here “ same shit different colour “ I guess the music caught up with me .

user picture

Member for

12 years 11 months

In reply to by perithecat

Permalink

I think you have to at least put 6/18/74 on the list of top performances in the 73/74 period.

I have to say.. although I do like 73/74 versions the most.. it is one of the few songs where the rearrangement did not ruin it for me. There are some true gems post hiatus. I believe it to be one of the better original songs in their cannon. When I used to hear the opening chords at shows, I perked up a bit and paid attention. It rarely disappointed.

ok. Back to your regularly scheduled Estimated > Eyes.

(Edit: Or Eyes>China Doll) :D

she refers to Jerry as "their vocalist and lead guitarist" (vocalist...singular...and listed ahead of guitar)

as I have said before: I don't listen to the GD for the vocals.

product sku
081227923761
Product Magento URL
https://store.dead.net/special-edition-shops/dave-s-picks-store/dave-s-picks-vol-30-1.html