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    "Cause it's always like that with the Dead, you know - it's always the whole thing." - News Journal

    As we close out the 2019 Dave Pick's series, we deliver on our promise to give you the "whole thing" with the complete performance from The Spectrum, Philadelphia, PA 3/24/73 and what a show it was! An upstanding "musical eulogy" to the recently departed Pigpen, the Grateful Dead conducted a potent study in contrasts on this bittersweet night. They found easy balance between tidy jams like "They Love Each Other," "Wave That Flag," "Playing In The Band," and introspective moments on "Stella Blue," "Sing Me Back Home," and a poignant "He's Gone." It was all laid down with a discipline and a polish unheard of in any of the truly exceptional shows that had come before it. Yes, you might say, they cleaned up nice to carry on the legacy as Pig would have wanted.

    Limited to 20,000 numbered copies, DAVE’S PICKS VOLUME 32: THE SPECTRUM, PHILADELPHIA, PA 3/24/73 has been mastered to HDCD specs from the 7" and 10" reels by Jeffrey Norman.

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  • KeithFan2112
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    Spring '73. When you finish dosing on DaP 16 & 21, don't forget this old gem, Dick's Picks 28th. IMHO this duo will stand toe-to-toe with just about anything from 1973.

    The Dark Star is obvious, but The Greatest Story Ever Told will take you by surprise. The sleeper is The Other One => Eyes of the World from the Salt Lake City show.

    February 26, 1973 – Pershing Municipal Auditorium, Lincoln, Nebraska

    "The Promised Land" (Chuck Berry) – 3:36
    "Loser" (Robert Hunter, Jerry Garcia) – 6:58
    "Jack Straw" (Hunter, Bob Weir) – 5:17
    "Don't Ease Me In" (traditional, arr. Grateful Dead) – 4:01
    "Looks Like Rain" (John Barlow, Weir) – 7:24
    "Loose Lucy" (Hunter, Garcia) – 7:04
    "Beer Barrel Polka" (Lew Brown, Wladimir Timm, Jaromir Vejvoda, Vaclav Zeman) – 1:07
    "Big Railroad Blues" (Noah Lewis) – 4:00
    "Playing in the Band" (Hunter, Mickey Hart, Weir) – 17:23
    "They Love Each Other" (Hunter, Garcia) – 5:51
    "Big River" (Johnny Cash) – 4:36
    "Tennessee Jed" (Hunter, Garcia) – 8:03
    "Greatest Story Ever Told" (Hunter, Hart, Weir) – 5:26
    "Dark Star" > (Hunter, Garcia, Hart, Bill Kreutzmann, Phil Lesh, Pigpen, Weir) – 25:23
    "Eyes of the World" > (Hunter, Garcia) – 19:09[a]
    "Mississippi Half-Step Uptown Toodleloo" (Hunter, Garcia) – 8:00
    "Me and My Uncle" (John Phillips) – 3:26
    "Not Fade Away" > (Buddy Holly, Norman Petty) – 6:34
    "Goin' Down the Road Feelin' Bad" > (trad., arr. Grateful Dead) – 7:52
    "Not Fade Away" (Holly, Petty) – 3:02

    ****************************************************

    February 28, 1973 – Salt Palace, Salt Lake City, Utah

    "Cold Rain and Snow" (trad., arr. Grateful Dead) – 6:30
    "Beat it On Down the Line" (Jesse Fuller) – 3:23
    "They Love Each Other" (Hunter, Garcia) – 5:54
    "Mexicali Blues" (Barlow, Weir) – 4:03
    "Sugaree" (Hunter, Garcia) – 8:03
    "Box of Rain" (Hunter, Lesh) – 5:18
    "El Paso" (Marty Robbins) – 4:42
    "He's Gone" (Hunter, Garcia) – 12:06
    "Jack Straw" (Hunter, Weir) – 4:48
    "China Cat Sunflower" > (Hunter, Garcia) – 7:20
    "I Know You Rider" (trad., arr. Grateful Dead) – 5:46
    "Big River" (Cash) – 4:26
    "Row Jimmy" (Hunter, Garcia) – 8:27
    "Truckin'" > (Hunter, Garcia, Lesh, Weir) – 12:02
    "The Other One" > (Kreutzmann, Weir) – 15:07
    "Eyes of the World" > (Hunter, Garcia) – 17:02
    "Morning Dew" (Bonnie Dobson, Tim Rose) – 12:40
    "Sugar Magnolia" (Hunter, Weir) – 9:11
    "We Bid You Goodnight" (trad., arr. Grateful Dead) – 3:05

  • icecrmcnkd
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    HENDRIXFREAK’s escapades

    And I thought I was cool at age 15 jumping my BMX bike.
    If I took off hitch hiking at that age my parents would have enrolled me in military school.

    Thanks for the stories, sounds like fun.
    Your shows should be released as a Box - Hendrixfreak’s Travels Box 72/73.
    Fully Plangentized and Normanized.

  • hendrixfreak
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    Thank you sir!

    Thanks Dr. Jim or Jim in Maryland or whoever you REALLY are........!!

    Hope you're right, we've booked Sat, Nov 2, to crank this new one. If it doesn't appear, our fall-back plan is 3-2-69 FW, where the good Mr. Grease delivers a few hot ones. So we'll rock regardless.

    I hope that they've worked out the kinks and deliver early or right on time for most everybody. Good luck to our long-suffering bros in Europe.

    I did break out 3-28-73 in anticipation and I've been mining the PNW box and, man, that whole year was huge.

    I know this is wrong, big time, but I'm already thinking about #33. Though I won't venture a guess as to content. (Okay, it's gonna be 1969...) Though I'm going to go out on a limb and repeat my box prediction for 2020: fall '72. If I keep it up, someday I'll be correct. In fact, if I remember correctly, that's what my ex-wife said to me when she gave me the heave-ho... [rimshot!]

    Okay, gents (and I hope a few ladies). Good luck on delivery. This one's gonna rock.

  • JimInMD
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    Hola HF.

    I expect this either leaning against the inside of my mailbox or on the front porch before 11/1. except for the last one, they have been delivered on or before the due date the better part of the last year, year and a half.

  • hendrixfreak
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    Question and a few memories

    So the "release date" is stated as Friday, Nov. 1.

    Does anyone recall whether pkgs -- for the lucky few for whom the system works -- actually show up on that date? Seems I remembered receiving a DaP on the "release date" in the past. (Tho not the last one.)

    Stoked to deliver this to my buddy living in the foothills here, without Internet (or women, but that's another story). The old man of the mountain has a monster old-school stereo that delivers WoS type impact.

    1973 holds a special place in my heart. Having attended 9-19-72, with Pigpen absent but alive, and the boys still sounding like E72, they turned a corner by early '73 and through evolving musicianship, instruments and sound system, they had a new sound. I got on a roll that year, two months after this show.

    In May, I saw the ABB at MSG -- I had a bong under my shirt. Cop stops me. What's that? An older cop tells the younger cop: "That's a bong. Let the kid go." Off we went. I was age 15.

    In June we jumped on a ride to DC, caught GD opening for ABB on 6-9-73; the Dead were good, but the ABB stole that one. I swear the extra half-tab to "top off" for the ABB had NOTHING to do with our impressions. But the day had cooled and the purple lights helped. EDIT: Yes, we missed 6-10-73 -- we were 15-year-old kids! No money, no food, due back in school...

    End of July '73, we jump on a ride to Watkins Glen and caught the whole two-day enchilada -- the afternoon/evening soundchecks for ABB, The Band and the extra-long evening GD warm-up, lying on sleeping bags in front of the stage, puffing fatties. Woke up the next day, right off snorted mescaline off a mini-cereal box and dropped a blotter as Jer & Co. came onstage at NOON. Etc. We hitched home and 48 hours later decamped to the lovely Roosevelt Stadium for two back-to-back shows with the GD and The Band (and Jer's b-day). Then one GD show at Nassau Coliseum in October. In 1974 I was hitchhiking across the country, turned 17 on the road, ended up in San Francisco in September, when the GD was overseas. I couldn't possibly hang for the October "farewell" shows -- no money, due back in school, had to cover 3,000 miles by thumb, blah blah blah.

    1973 ... a fine, welcome vintage. We will crank this one.

  • icecrmcnkd
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    Yeah Ursa

    If it wasn’t for capitalism, there would not have been people standing outside the venue with a cooler waiting to sell you an ice cold beer as you exited the show.
    Those beers were awesome, even though I now think that Sammy Smiths is crap. But they were exactly what I needed after a show. I didn’t start drinking alcohol until after the show, when it was time to slide into the post-show state of mind.

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    different reel sizes and sources

    I believe for most GD sources there is usually one common source especially for this show... I could be wrong about this but during 1973 many shows were recorded by Kid Canderlero who really was not a bona fide sound engineer per se.. he simply was assigned or volunteered to take on the responsibility of recording concerts. I also believe during this time it was rather a PA mix / soundboard recording. The GD was one of the 1st rock bands to capitalize on live recordings, Live Dead, Skull and Roses, Europe 72, Steal your Face 74 (which is the worst sounding LP ever produces by the GD), Dead Set, Rekoning, Without a Net; and numerous others. It's astounding to consider how much commercial live material they produced, probably more than any rock band. Off my head, I don't know any other group has released this much on major labels; I'm not counting the Dick's Picks type stuff. If you do count the other formats; the GD certainly have the record. As for most of the recordings, the GD never thought they would be releasing regular old soundboard "document" recordings but they have capitalized that market. They do a great job of restoration for the most part but sometimes you can't make a silk purse out of sow's ear like they say... some of the releases have been sub par in my opinion, April 6th 1982 is a good example ... it wasn't a upgrade at all really.

    As for reel sizes, usually it's all from the same sound source or mix. The idea is to never miss a second of music since analog format has a finite amount of space because of tape length. The recordist would have multiple tape machines and would stagger their start times so there was always music captured, sometimes they would even run cassette machines, it's called "interleave" recordings. Now with the advent of digital workstations they can seam different reels with out any real detection of an edit. However, Betty Cantor had her own reel deck on the side as well; like many of us here we believed that she had the actual masters, maybe she did on some shows, but we now know that that's not the case. (Betty Boards were obtained when she had a storage locker that went unpaid and some "collectors" paid off that debt and acquired those tapes ... that's where the infamous Cornell 77 came from)

    Overall, the GD have done a great job of marketing their live music and let's face it, some folks believe they have sold out but I will be the 1st to say and admit - that the Grateful Dead's whole scene was a fury of capitalism, right down the grilled cheese sandwiches in the parking lot

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    Can't wait for this one, the entire 3rd disc is a real face melter. Jerry in ultra fine form, vocals like butter, honey butter, just fantastic, miss you Jerry.

  • icecrmcnkd
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    Good find Jim

    ‘Bill Harris’ must be John Williams’ stage name.

  • DeadVikes
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    Don't forget the laughing guy in hat with glasses and mustache disguise, a young OROBOROUS*?

    And you are right about Dave's 21, Mr. Charlie62, if the sound quality is anything like this will be an awesome show!

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"Cause it's always like that with the Dead, you know - it's always the whole thing." - News Journal

As we close out the 2019 Dave Pick's series, we deliver on our promise to give you the "whole thing" with the complete performance from The Spectrum, Philadelphia, PA 3/24/73 and what a show it was! An upstanding "musical eulogy" to the recently departed Pigpen, the Grateful Dead conducted a potent study in contrasts on this bittersweet night. They found easy balance between tidy jams like "They Love Each Other," "Wave That Flag," "Playing In The Band," and introspective moments on "Stella Blue," "Sing Me Back Home," and a poignant "He's Gone." It was all laid down with a discipline and a polish unheard of in any of the truly exceptional shows that had come before it. Yes, you might say, they cleaned up nice to carry on the legacy as Pig would have wanted.

Limited to 20,000 numbered copies, DAVE’S PICKS VOLUME 32: THE SPECTRUM, PHILADELPHIA, PA 3/24/73 has been mastered to HDCD specs from the 7" and 10" reels by Jeffrey Norman.

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

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KEITHFAN
The announcement was hidden in the video.

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I just subscribed for Dave's Picks 2020. I can't wait, had to do it right away. I am really excited for Vol 33 10/29/77. I had it on tape back in the day and I haven't listened to it in at least a decade or more.

If anyone who complained about getting shut out of Vol 32 are reading this, now is the time. The subscription is up , go and get it. Even with the increase to 22K , these will all still sell out fast.

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10-29-77 is in the announcement at the top of the page.

Last year, and maybe before that too, the second release was also announced, but I think that it was announced just before the subscription window closed.

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Can't wait.

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No not Butch Trucks. "Butch" Defeo, guy who inspired the Amityville Horror. Will leave it at that. I did a paper on him in criminal psychology and got obsessed. I should really change it.

I guess you're right, nothing from LMG. I guess he'll post it once it arrives in his mailbox today.

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Good vibes fellas just the good ones I have a delivery scheduled for 10:30 a.m. except I'll be at work all day. Starting to feel a little queasy. Think I might have a little bit of a headache coming on. May need to go home early today...

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Is this thing on?

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I am so glad I am not a robot anymore. Been trying forever to figure out how to join the group. Been a fly on the wall for a long time and have enjoyed the conversations. Just never got to add anything. Doubt if I can add anything intelligent but it's at least nice to know I can try.

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Something's definitely not right. I've informed the tech folks. Sorry for the trouble.
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Got my shipping notice this morning. Psyched for this one. The Winterland box set really opened my ears to '73, a year I didn't previously pay much attention to. (I was young -- the tapes sounded "old". Live and learn). They've since become some of my favorite shows.

Now if the Giants box set would only find its way into my mailbox...

This is a fine sounding show that I’d love to have as an official release. The unofficial cd available in the UK sounds good to my ears.

The advice on the DaP 2020 page is to turn off the WiFi on your phone and then you will be able to place an order.

I just placed one in the cart using a Mac with Safari, but didn’t complete the purchase.

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That's an old memory butch. I also became obsessed with the amityville murders. He tried to blame it on LSD at one point. You are correct on the not hearing back on the Dap32 time question. All lies. Also he never tells the limited ed.# which is a clue.-----I'm in in 2020 sub.. peace

A nice little anniversary show, will certainly see the light of Norman one day. Did someone mention Fall '73.

10/30/73
Kiel Auditorium - St. Louis, MO
Set 1:
Here Comes Sunshine
Me And My Uncle
Ramble On Rose
Looks Like Rain
Deal
Mexicali Blues
They Love Each Other
El Paso
Row Jimmy
Jack Straw
China Cat Sunflower
I Know You Rider
Playin' In The Band

Set 2:
Mississippi Half-Step
Big River
Dark Star
Stella Blue
Eyes Of The World
WRS Prelude
WRS Part 1
Let It Grow
Goin' Down The Road Feeling Bad
Johnny B. Goode
Encore:
One More Saturday Night

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Might have to check that one out Jim. I’m a sucker for a WRS this time a year!

Yes indeed....Think we all know now...the wolf’s not only dire....he’s also a liar!

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Shipping notification landed today. Delivery by next Tuesday 😢.

I am sure this had been covered before, so my apologies for not remembering, but happened with Blair Jackson?

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I have been wondering that for a long time. He disappeared from here in 2011 when either he ended his writing relationship with Rhino or they pulled the plug on Blair's Golden Road and other contributions on official releases. I don't recall him writing for any of the 30 trips shows or anything else since? Has anyone else noticed something I missed??

His Golden Road blogs are still here at dead.net, albeit a bit hidden.
https://www.dead.net/tags/blair-jackson

Note that his absence corresponds with the low point in sales for archival releases (the Road Trips rock bottom). This came about half-way through their $10M ten year contract with the band for release rights from vault recordings initiated in 2006. It also corresponds with a turning point in releases, clearly focused on stimulating more demand and most certainly trimming costs. They opted for letting out bigger box sets (E72 anyone) and migrating to the limited release model (Dave's Picks and limited #'s on boxes). Get em, pull the trigger or forever be a slave to the secondary market. (From their perspective, this worked btw.. we went from 12k copies to 22k copies in nine years).

So Blair went by the roadside replaced with David Dodd's The Greatest Story Ever Told, which I also miss. It didn't last all that long, but was a great read.

https://www.dead.net/tags/david-dodd

The GSET was replaced by … well, nothing. There's no direct proof I can find that Blair disappeared to cut costs, but I have to suspect this was at least partly the cause. I do miss his monthly blog. The whole thing sort of got replaced by us.. and we're quite free.

Blair still appears on Jerry Garcia Band liner notes. I think he is one of the best, and his liner notes are a joy to read.

Got my shipping notice today.. Tuesday? Hopefully before.

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Hey Jim, thanks for the info.

I thought his departure was within the last couple of years, but I could be wrong about that.
I thought he wrote some of the early Dave's liner notes, #1 and #7. I also thought he was listed as co-producer on Dave's 1, or maybe that was the Winterland 77 box. I always thought it was odd that to introduce the series for Dave's Picks, the liner notes were written by Blair and not Dave. Anyway, I miss his writings and his knowledge of all the tours and music. Where did he go?

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hey, I just saw him over the weekend. He's over at Classical Guitar Magazine these days: http://classicalguitarmagazine.com/author/blairstringletter-com/
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I love Blair, felt like in the old days at least, like he was one of us, as compared to one of them 😉 meaning just a head, and not an employee if that makes sense? Remember when there was no internet, (BOOOO HALLOWEEN, I just scared the shit outta the youngsters!) and usually very little media coverage.......we so looked forward to the Golden Road!
Rock on Brother!

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Dave played it on today in grateful dead history but couldn't listen to it. Have it on now. THanks for reminder. Bob t

She delivers our discs on an old school Schwin, she baby sits our arrested development arses and generally keeps this place honest, aaaaannnd she was involved with Golden Road....You go Girl!
And Thanks for all you do!

10/30/73, looks tasty, need to check that out. Dammit Jim, you enabler!

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still no shipping notification (subscription) for Dave's 32. Good thing I now have 10-12-68 to keep me high. Truth...it's a MONSTER!

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I think he entered the new warehouse to check up on our missing boxes and never came back.

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....slow day at work, so imma gonna check it out!!

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And Never Came Out.

Too funny (and likely true). Considering it's Halloween, it seems Ghoulishly appropriate.

Clearly the new warehouse is haunted.

I'm thinking either 10/31/71 or 10/31/85. What could possibly go wrong?

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This is for Daverock and all you other loving deadheads, enjoy this Treat on this grateful hallwloween! 🙏❤️💀🌹🤠🎃🎃💀....
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***( Fillmore West, San Francisco, CA (8/21/68)
1. Dark Star (14:33)
2. St. Stephen (04:45)

1. The Eleven> (11:07)
2. Death Don’t Have No Mercy (08:09)
Enjoy my friend and everyone else Ana I mean Everyone! Be kind & god bless my brother & sisters! 🙏❤️😎💀🌹

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...when there’s one theirs always another right after another emerging from their beggars tomb under the bridge & why not? It’s halloween, day of the dead and a time when most crazy lunes worshipping the moon & a bit of witches brew...lmfao! Have a grateful evening everyone, peace be with you all, even the crazies lol 🙏😎🌹☠️🎃

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Very excited for the 2020 Daves Picks serirsvstart to be released to the fans, old & new Alike! 💀🌹🙏

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Just finished this one...second set is on fire...Thanks Jim!!!

Oh what big eyes you have Mr. Wolf...too bad you are blind.....

But we can see you!!!

Happy Halloween Dead People...anyone couch touring tonight and tomorrow?

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My dinners on fire.....oops, wrong one...
Doing 10/31/71, a 78 Warewolves, 10/31/85 set 1, and more 78 werewolves I
Awooooooooooo!!
Be safe boys and girls, careful with that chocolate, it’s a bit of a creeper!

EDIT; man forget just how good this 10/31/71 is, creeper indeed! The new lineup is already tight, but shits not too fully ironed out yet. Almost an Eyes vibe in there, love the rollicking segue into Maggie, hot Stephen, and this great early NFA-GDTRFB-NFA, Booyah! I have to check out more of this fall 71 stuff! Proper!

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Jerry is really having a blast with that bertha. He's really belting out the vibes on this one. It also has a dukes of hazzardy sound to it. Yeee yeeeeehaaaa!!!!!

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Sounds a little like jerrys guitar may have a busted string on bertha but still great. Mabey it's just me.

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Did someone say werewolves?

Aaaaaaoooooooooo!!!!!

Hell of an ending to great show tonight!!! Just finished it......

Aaaaaaaaoooooooooooooo!!!!!

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I guess I may be a bit biased, but this is a pretty good show. We arrived a bit late ( it was her fault - honest!) and the band were already stuck into Help-Slipknot-Franklins by the time we arrived . I could tell even before we entered the hall, standing in the foyer, that this night was going to be better than the previous one. I couldn't believe they were playing like THIS so early in the night.

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A very good show.

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Keeping the fall 73 anniversary streak going, check out the Morning Dew>Playin>UJB>Playin.... Second set seems only available on board. This jam evolves in the next week to the Playing>UJB>Morning Dew>UJB>Playin that they would do twice in 1973 and one more time at the cow place in 1974... Have a good weekend everyone. Bob t

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Dap 32 and Bob Dylan's Bootleg 15 (cd & vinyl) both showed up today :-)

Quick check of #32 shows sound to be just a 1/2 step better that what I had in stock.

Dylan will take a little time to digest.

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Just got my Dylan Bootleg 15, as well, PLUS The Doors Soft Parade 50th box. Dave's 32 arrives on Monday. It's going to be a good week for some music appreciation.

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