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"You're like the old woman with a Virginia Ham under her arm, and she goes around cryin' cuz she's got no bread" - Tony Soprano.

I can't believe all the complaints. I, for one, am psyched about the new Dave's Picks. I could have only dreamed of having the quality of recordings offered thru the Dave's Picks series back in the day when I was attending Dead shows. I am also happy that Dave has packed these discs with bonus material nearly encompassing a complete second set from the same run of shows. I appreciate that Dave and the other producers arrange the tracks to get maximum usage out of the discs and so that no jamming from the featured show is interrupted (Space not withstanding).

Dave, please don't worry about greasing all these squeaky wheels complaining about the bonus tracks...some people are just looking for a reason to complain. There are many, many more of us thrilled with your Picks and eagerly await this newest one. Thanks much.

Very grateful for another 80’s show. Variety is the spice of life. Can’t wait to hear it.

Filler or no filler, I am a tiny bit concerned about the breaking up of Space...I am sure there is some reasoning behind what they did, besides adding more material, but it would’ve been nice if Dave explained it in his chat. I guess we’ll all know more when we listen to it.

They must be saving it for a box set.

And I detest a 35 min cd. So, I'm looking forward to the extra material, all good songs, even if the tracking is odd. Not a huge 80s fan, the 1984 show from 30 Trips was a good one, and I am a big fan of 7/13/84, not just the Dark Star but the Scarlet> Touch> Fire> Man Smarter is fantastic, too. Interested to check this one out. Hoping it arrives in a more timely fashion than Workingman's (still no arrival 10 days after a "shipping notice" that still has no status) and the last 2 Dave'ses. Luckily, I got Workingman's on amazon, and it arrived from them in 30 hours, for 17 bucks less. And Workingman's is one where I'll excuse the 38 min disc, since a nice sounding multitrack is included on 2 other discs. But then, the whole Angel's Share stuff makes one wish some of that space was used for interesting bits... Oh, and I just bought 99 min CDRs recently, and it's great to get full sets on a single disc that had been split before.

VGuy that was a pretty long sentence, though it was definitely a run on. Faulkner once stuffed 1,288 words in a sentence that was grammatically correct with ellipses, semi-colons, dashes, and commas aplenty. Perhaps that's why it took me years to finish Absalom, Absalom.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m3mUUupDtVA

These were my first three shows. So much of those three nights that I remember like yesterday, or at least no more than a few months ago. Scarlet Begonias is the song that flipped the switch for me about a year earlier. I was ecstatic to hear it that Friday night. It's more than held up on tape for all of these years. I didn't see anyone mention that some folks figured out you could climb the front wall of the building to get to the second floor to go in the (of course) unlocked windows of the balcony lobby. I think that was the second night. Saw one guy I remember inside as he ran down from the second floor celebrating his entry through the windows, after my friends and I entered the old fashioned way with tickets. Didn't seem like the greatest idea at the time. I chalked it up to impatience with the line. If they were paying customers and didn't fall onto and hurt anyone on the ground, I figured it was harmless. I was young. I didn't know how bad the gate crashing would get in the end.

One more thing about the Civic Center. It had a proscenium stage, so there wasn't room under the stage for the sound system amplifiers like in arenas where the stage is constructed with scaffolding. The PA amplifiers were stacked on either side with the LED level meters visible to the house. It was a really cool visual in addition to Candace's normal light show.

Philly was always a high energy crowd. Many great memories at Philly Dead shows. Passed by the civic center on Amtrak many times between NYC and DC in later years until it was torn down. Always made me reflect on great memories.

.....Janis sat in on Lovelight!!!
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Looking forward to this -I’ve been ordering the Dave’s Picks since the turn of the year on a one off basis -I think it’s got to be a full subscription in 2021 -to save costs?? if any ? only thing is the extra customs charges to Scotland,UK (£12+) is a bit of a pain -hopefully a full subscription works out cheaper long term than buying individually every few months :)

.....that was the longest sentence i've seen in my life!

been ready for this one for a good amount of calendars especially lately havent listened to music in give or take 7 months or some where there and grateful dead personally commend and respect yall who still love and jam 68 thru 74 as your perfered listening thats so far away from my function as of late and it will be wishful thinking just the thought of listening to jai alai you want to watch a grown man have a breakdown its been tryed and failed the only daves pick in my possession is boise 83 all the rest were donated to half price book a while back way back and still hope that some youngster may of stumbled upon five or six and was blown away and is still out there searching back to 84 yes my favorite year right between my other favorite and other to the right is it nostalgic maybe seeing as the bulk of my shows attended were those years yet stiill feel that aside they never sounded better 83 84 85 thas my personal recollection so seeing as my attendence on this site has been nil searching email account when this popped up maybe this is what the doctor precscribed and what a fun time and all the other grateful dead ancedotes also upon cleaning a chest out last night found my copy of the saragossa manuscript dvd yes jerrys favorite film yes its beyond the pale yes its polish and tne book was written some 200 years over surely and hopefully the lot of yous have watched it and or saw it back in 64 as myself did and still recall the day yes you needs brains to watch and anotner 100 to enjoi yes and its still the best yes neither china with it 3000 years of civilisation neither greeks with 4000 years of civilisations managed to produce anything close except propaganda maybe we are all in different in our own way and thats being modest