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    Hear ye, hear ye, hear ye! Gentle mistresses and most distinguished gentlemen, we have come upon the release of the DAVE'S PICKS VOLUME 37, from the Fifteenth of April in the year Nineteen Seventy-Eight, at ye olde College Of William & Mary in Williamsburg, Virginia. Cast your waistcoats and your bonnets aside, the Grateful Dead are on steady gallop from the opening high-kick of "Mississippi Half-Step" into a where are we going? where have we been? "Passenger," followed by full-on versions of "Friend Of The Devil," "El Paso," "Brown-Eyed Women," and a double-barreled "Let It Grow>Deal." Catch your breath and straighten out your tricorne because the 2nd set shows no bounds with delightful takes ("Bertha>Good Lovin'," "One More Saturday Night") and introspection ("Candyman," "Playing In The Band"). Then - great fifes and drums - it's 15 minutes of "Rhythm Devils," with band and crew gathered round to amplify the merriment before delivering a rare incantation of "Not Fade Away>Morning Dew" that sets the soul alight. Pure jollification!

    The town crier's addendum:

    Three bags full! Lest you feel 4/15/78 beginneth and endeth too quickly, we've selected highlights from Civic Arena, Pittsburgh, PA, 4/18/78 to satisfy your fancy.

    Limited to 25,000 numbered copies, DAVE'S PICKS VOLUME 37: WILLIAMSBURG, VIRGINIA 4/15/78 was recorded by Betty Cantor-Jackson and has been mastered to HDCD specs by Jeffrey Norman. It is guaranteed to sell out - often within hours.

    *2 per order. Very limited quantity available.

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  • Gary Farseer
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    I still have your original write up as a file on an older computer. I also think One Man did some extensive work/documentation on E72 and other tours.

    But all of this is heady stuff to me, just hard to keep up with this old brain...and I think I remember DHB's beer documentary.

  • Oroborous
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    Didn’t Deadhead brewer do a deep dive a couple years ago?
    Or maybe I’m thinking of Sixtus?
    I know DHB did listening with specially pared beers...

  • daverock
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    Sixtus - good post. I seem to have missed your posts on this year in the past - so apologies for that. You clearly have a lot to offer yourself in terms of write ups for 1972.

  • JoshByTheBay
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    Just got my shipping notice, hopefully everyone else who pre-ordered will get their tracking # before the end of today. Thank you also to Sixtus for that wonderful E72 Dark Star write up. I hope everyone here has a fantastic day :) much love ✌️

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    I know I am not up to the task.. it took me a couple months to get through my first listen all those years ago. I think I'd still be on it if I took notes, rewinding.. taking copious notes, editing down the notes, reslistening then tossing my notes and starting over..

    I do like this writeup from the Internet Archive on the topic. There is a write-up for each show that is pretty close to my impression. I believe it was done before the box came out, so some of the recordings used were not nearly so stellar. Some good light GD listening.

    https://archive.org/post/304297/europe-72-notebook

    Funny.. I took a brief pause from my 71 stream of consciousness yesterday and picked up Lille France. What a great little show.. A+ in my book. Phil's comment is just about perfect, "it felt like he was playing in the midst of a French impressionist painting"

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    I concur. if there is anyone 'round here who purports a vast knowledge of the Europe 72 jaunt, it's KeithFan. It's quite an endeavor, and I know a bit from experience, as I had done this for each of the Dark Stars several years back as I awaited Boxzilla. Likely many have seen this before, but in the spirit of being a team player, I offer an encore sharing of these efforts while we now await word from KF on his uptake for the balance of the tour:

    Here goes....

    4/8/1972 - Wembly Empire Pool, London - 32 mins; intense/fast paced first leg up til about 10 mins then returns to DS theme for 1st verse; spacey post-verse til ~17 min, then pace picks up for a few minutes, followed by a brief meltdown; additional spaciness around 24 mins followed by another full meltdown; interesting groove established around 28 min that has hints of Sugar Mag (into which it segues, flawlessly). No second verse.

    4/14/1972 - Tivoli Concert Hall, Copenhagen, DK - 29 mins; loose first 10 mins not overly spacey; gets spacey around 11 mins; interesting groove establishes around 16 min to head into first verse w/interesting beat; heads off into intense nearly 7-minute jam inclusive of a very tight and fast Feelin Groovy jam; final 3 minutes are a meltdown. No second verse.

    4/17/1972 - Tivoli Concert Hall, Copenhagen, DK - 31 mins; spacey opening to about 7:30 when first DS theme emerges leading to 1st verse at 9:45. Spacey post-2nd verse tries to take off but melts further around 19 min; returns to a partial groove around 24:30 and closes out with spaceyness in the last 2 mins. No second verse.

    4/24/1972 - Rheinhalle, Dusseldorf, Germany - Split by Me & My Uncle; 26 mins 1st half, 14:30 second half. Spacey opening until about 8:45 where it coalesces and falls into first DS theme around 10:15 followed shortly by 1st verse with slow, sparse notes. Spacey feedback following verse until 15:45 and then picks up into an intense, fast paced jam for just under 2 minutes before it becomes dissonant again leading to major meltdown which eventually heads into Me & My Uncle with ease. Second half: spacey reintroduction persists until about 7 mins, where Keith leads-in with some piano phrasing and then the band follows into a tight fast paced jam where Jerry plays some lines back and forth as if in conversation with himself and then maintains an intense level effortlessly segueing into Wharf Rat. No second verse.

    4/29/1972 - Musikhalle, Hamburg, Denmark - 30 mins; spacey opening for ~5 mins, then enters a groove and Phil hints at the Feeling Groovy jam until it finally is joined by Jerry a minute later until about 8:00, then the floor drops out into space. DS theme appears at 14 min which leads to first verse. Spacey post-verse noodling leads to major meltdown, settling in at 22 mins with a fat, fast-paced Keith-led groove. Final 4 mins are spacey & lead to major melt #2, dropping into Sugar Mag as DS finally melts away. No second verse.

    5/4/1972 - Olympia Theatre, Paris - Split by drums; 19 mins 1st half; 17:34 2nd half. Spacey opening til about 6 mins when fast paced jam kicks in until 11:20, slowing down then resurrecting the DS theme into the first verse. 4 mins of space leads into drums. Second half post-drums is very spacey until 7 mins, then kicks into overdrive with a very high energy jam leading to a phenominal Feelin Groovy Jam for several minutes before settling into the second verse. DS dissipates into the Sugar Mag from E'72.

    5/7/1972 - Bickershaw Festival, Wigan, UK - 19:49 mins; decent, coherent jamming for the first several minutes that congeals nicely around 8 minutes. Bottom falls out around 10 mins and leads to some light noodling, cymbal fills and space. DS theme emerges at 14:23 and heads into 1st verse. Space fills the air through the remainder of the song until it totally breaks down into drums. No second verse.

    5/11/1972 - Rotterdam Civic Hall, Netherlands - Split by drums; 13:45 mins 1st half; 30:34 mins 2nd half; Opens with a light, airy jam that persists to congeal into a decent groove as it treads in and out of spacey phrasing. This settles into a mysterious sounding jam that grows with intensity without a return to the DS theme before dissolving into drums. Emerging from drums, Phil and Billy duel for 2 minutes before Jerry joins back in with some complimentary thoughts; the DS theme appears around 5 min followed by 1st verse. A few moments of spacey feedback give way to spacey noodling that devolves into a full blow chaotic meltdown, only to emerge around 19:30 into a very nice, fast paced groove that hints at Caution and PITB jams. This eventually dissolves and a light, sparse outro ends the song as it heads off into Sugar Mag. No second verse.

    5/18/1972 - Kongressaal, Muenchen, Denmark - 28:20 mins; almost 2 mins of noodling before opening notes from Phil; a loose jam ensues around the DS theme for the next several minutes and then decays. At ~9 min an interesting jam emerges, which eventually settles back into the DS theme and 1st verse around 14:30. The remainder of this DS is borderline chaos as it treads in and out of varying degrees of a meltdown until it settles into Morning Dew. No second verse.

    5/23/1972 - The Strand Lyceum, London - 30 mins; Spacey opening minutes lead to tight fast paced jam commencing around 3:30 for two minutes and then it settles into another spacey jam digressing to almost…nothing. Billy and Phil then have a small duel until ~13:30 when the rest of the band fills back into a delicate groove which grows to into a jam reminiscent of the post-Truckin' foray from E'72 until about 17 mins, when they drop into the DS theme and 1st verse. Ensuing is additional delicate spaciness that transgresses into a frenzied meltdown madness, and eventually settles into Morning Dew. No second verse.

    5/25/1972 - The Strand Lyceum, London - 34 mins, out of Wharf Rat. Strong opening with a groove almost from the beginning, no noodling around here in the first 7 minutes. Then turns very spacey until 15 mins when DS theme appears, and heads off into 1st verse. Post-verse finds a Billy, Phil, and Keith duel for several minutes. At 21 mins, Phil institutes a mellow Feeling Groovy jam, soon joined by the rest of the band until ~25 mins. Final minutes are dominated by space and then a monumental meltdown before heading off into Sugar Mag. No second verse.
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    Be Well People!
    Sixtus

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    Keithfan seems like the man.

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    50 years ago today…………

    April 29, 1971
    Fillmore East, New York City, New York

    Set 1: Truckin'-Bertha-It Hurts Me Too-Cumberland Blues>Me And My Uncle-Bird Song-Playing In The Band-Loser-Dark Hollow-Hard To Handle-Ripple-Me And Bobby McGee-Casey Jones

    Set 2: Morning Dew-Minglewood Blues-Sugar Magnolia-Black Peter-Beat It On Down The Line-Second That Emotion-Alligator>drums>jam>Goin' Down The Road Feeling Bad>Cold Rain And Snow-China Cat Sunflower>I Know You Rider-Greatest Story Ever Told-Johnny B. Goode

    Encore: Uncle John's Band-Midnight Hour-And We Bid You Goodnight

    Don’t get me wrong, this is a very fine show, with more than its fair share of oddities and rarities. I enjoy the quirky goodness of any show that has a Dark Hollow and a Ripple, the Black Peter is wonderful, the Dew is powerful, and who doesn’t love an Alligator? And I sure do savor the CR&S coming out of GDTRFB, and the three song encore was the only time that happened all year.

    All that being said, almost without fail, this show was rated the best show of 1971 in Deadbase polls, which I never understood. Solid show—absolutely. Great last Fillmore East show by the Dead---you bet. Even so, maybe a teeny tiny microscopic step down from the previous night……………

    Rock on!!!

    Doc
    But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning……

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    Who’s going to write up 72?

    My vote would be Keith Fan. But it could also be a team effort. Anyway how about the liner notes to E72. Haven't they already been written up? teehee. H.A.D. waiting for this release. TMI?

    P.S. I'm not a robot.

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    The first disk smokes, especially LIG. It's very structured like a studio album but in a good way. If that is the right word.

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Hear ye, hear ye, hear ye! Gentle mistresses and most distinguished gentlemen, we have come upon the release of the DAVE'S PICKS VOLUME 37, from the Fifteenth of April in the year Nineteen Seventy-Eight, at ye olde College Of William & Mary in Williamsburg, Virginia. Cast your waistcoats and your bonnets aside, the Grateful Dead are on steady gallop from the opening high-kick of "Mississippi Half-Step" into a where are we going? where have we been? "Passenger," followed by full-on versions of "Friend Of The Devil," "El Paso," "Brown-Eyed Women," and a double-barreled "Let It Grow>Deal." Catch your breath and straighten out your tricorne because the 2nd set shows no bounds with delightful takes ("Bertha>Good Lovin'," "One More Saturday Night") and introspection ("Candyman," "Playing In The Band"). Then - great fifes and drums - it's 15 minutes of "Rhythm Devils," with band and crew gathered round to amplify the merriment before delivering a rare incantation of "Not Fade Away>Morning Dew" that sets the soul alight. Pure jollification!

The town crier's addendum:

Three bags full! Lest you feel 4/15/78 beginneth and endeth too quickly, we've selected highlights from Civic Arena, Pittsburgh, PA, 4/18/78 to satisfy your fancy.

Limited to 25,000 numbered copies, DAVE'S PICKS VOLUME 37: WILLIAMSBURG, VIRGINIA 4/15/78 was recorded by Betty Cantor-Jackson and has been mastered to HDCD specs by Jeffrey Norman. It is guaranteed to sell out - often within hours.

*2 per order. Very limited quantity available.

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Great stuff, but am noticing my set-up (MacBook pro with external drive) cannot find the last three tracks from disk 2 One More saturday nite, Lazy Lightening >Supplication). Anyone else having these issues. Thanks

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Could also mean "Radio City Music Hall."

Oh that Bolo!

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Lose my DaP’s try to sell me tea.....

How about a seaside chat apologizing for the constant screw ups by Rhino/Deadnet and a commitment to making things just exactly perfect.

It would go a long way if such a statement could be released, I am sure. It would also be better, in my eyes, if such a statement was to be made, that it could come from Marye rather than Dave. She has always seems genuine to me, and has always given me the impression that she makes a real attempt to be helpful. And usually is. Dave seems too keen on blowing his own trumpet.

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Thanks to BTK for posting details of the KPFA Grateful Dead Marathon. Have been listening for the last couple of hours - great stuff.

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Trumpet blowing and everthing else

Thou shalt not diss Dave
And Dave shalt not be dissed

Blow that trumpet, boyo!

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Agreed

5 23 82 so far

Earlier today on my own
10/6/80
No sleepiness on that show

10/2/80 post-drums :)))

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Ordered the Dave's Picks the day it was released...Got an order #, said it was shipped, Waited, Waited, Waited,,,Contacted Dead.net again , letting them Know I never received my CD, Got a email back 3 -4 days later asking me to RESEND my order # and Contact Info., By that time...SOLD OUT !...Great going Folks,...Also, there is NO WAY to call to talk to a Human Being about a problem like in the Past...Guess you people don't want to Communicate with your ''Valued'' Customers Huh ?...SAD, I've been a Subscriber since DAY ONE !...Ordering Dick's Pick's / Road Trips AND Dave's Pick's...But it looks like You've turned your backs on us old time subscribers....I Messaged a Complaint last week, But it looks like you removed my Complaint...Remember CENSORSHIP is a Bad Thing...And for the People at Dead.net to do this is EVEN WORSE !..ADIOS AMIGOS / AMIGAS....

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....Disney+ has The Muppets seasons 4 & 5. I haven't seen these since release (80-81). Cue the flashback memories. I have the first 3 seasons on DVD and have watched them over and over, but then they stopped putting them out in 2008.
Gonzo is my spirit animal.
All good things in all good time.
That hopefully applies to your situation as well Tom_Tom.

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50 years ago today…………..

February 21, 1971
Capitol Theater, Port Chester, New York

Set 1: Cold Rain And Snow-Me And Bobby McGee-Loser-Easy Wind-Playing In The Band-Bertha-Me And My Uncle-Ripple-Next Time You See Me-Sugar Magnolia-Greatest Story Ever Told-Johnny B. Goode

Set 2: China Cat Sunflower>I Know You Rider-Bird Song-Cumberland Blues-King Bee-Beat It On Down The Line-Wharf Rat-Truckin'-Casey Jones-Good Lovin'>drums>Good Lovin'-Uncle John's Band

Yes, the Dead were masters of the “big jam”, but if you need a “big jam” in order to enjoy a show, then just move along now, there’s nothing to hear here…………….

Short, wonderful, concise stoner Americana songs, played with conviction, ease, and gusto. What one of my students----who didn’t like it----called it “too honky tonk”. LOL!!!

Absolutely positively worth a listen!!

Doc
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Alright alright alright, some of my favorites are in 1971 and with our beloved gratefully friend & brother of the Grateful Dead forum, my friend the Doc! Long time ago, going back many years ago, I was blessed with a beautiful gift of some of his favorite 71 performances And I loved & still to this day , I’ll sit back and dig some 71’ from my collection thanks to my friend , Doc. Peace be with you Doc and everyone else here.

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Love '71. I always thought The Dead was more felt than heard. It's really all about the feelings and emotions in the music for me. For ME!!!

Ever since the Ripple false start the boys have been fantastic.

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So in addition to 1) 3+ months with no DaP36, and 2) almost nonexistent response from customer service and 3) getting multiple dead.net emails about "That GD item may sell out fast!" with picture of the already (3+ wks) sold out DaP37...

TODAY I get an e-mail from AMAZON saying "We found something you might like!" and a picture of DaP36 for sale on Amazon USED for $82!!! (insert GIF of me banging my f-ing head against a wall). Probably the copy that was supposed to be mine but GD sent to someone else....

But it's kinda funny that Amazon is reaching out to me proactively about helping me get me my DaP36 one way or another.... AT LEAST THEY'RE BEING PROACTIVE about it, unlike dead.net who for 3 months ignored multiple direct questions about something for which they I plunked down my hard earned cash after them BEGGING me to buy it.

Once again with feeling: Hey dead.net: DON'T BEG US TO BUY SH__ IF WE'RE THEN GONNA HAVE TO BEG YOU FOR MONTHS, WITH LITTLE IF ANY RESPONSE, TO GET IT TO US! Get you're f^%$g house in order, THEN AND ONLY THEN hump our legs with all your e-mails and social media and almanacs telling us what you're selling next! Kapish?

An absolute debacle, and on such a (IMHO) great release, too. I may be covering ground you have tread already, so apologies if I am, but have you reached out to the magical Marye? When I had an absolute nightmare with a previous release (one of many), she solved the issue. She certainly does her best to help, and I’m hoping she can do the same for you. Because I agree, stop pedalling all these trinkets and tea, get delivery of the music product done correctly and quickly, and when a bomb goes off like this, make it right!
Good luck, amigo!

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The Music Never Stopped
Drama we came across on prime. Not ABOUT the Dead per say, but their music features prominently in it.
Interesting look at how music can help with brain damage etc...and generational differences...
Some might find it a bit sappy, by I enjoyed it. Might be a nice watch with kids/adolescents?

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A decent movie. My understanding is that it is loosely based on a true story by Oliver Sacks. He wrote a series of essays documenting neurological medical conditions. In this particular case, a patient suffering from a debilitating brain tumor showed signs of improvement when taken to Grateful Dead concerts. Evidently he kept asking his caretaker, “Where’s Pigpen?”

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I think that all options are on the table, except for probably another 1976 box, but even that might be a possibility, they did release those two Spring 1990 boxes one year after the other. Multiple years from the same venue. A seasonal box. one show from each season of the year, probably not. One thing I do know for sure, what I wish would come out, or I feel will be released, never happens. Nothing has been released from the Frost, Greek, or Ventura, I feel that some of those shows are certainly release worthy, not all but some. My wish is for an Avalon 1969 box, or Winterland Oct 1974 box, so now we know that neither one of those will come out.

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Thanks Mike. I did mention/shoutout to Marye on this board many posts ago about my situation but I didn't hear from her. Is she still around? Anyway, I finally did (2 weeks~ ago) get a response when I reached out DIRECTLY to Dr. Rhino - that's when I was finally informed they were making another batch of unnumbered DaP36's.

However my multiple requests into dead.net were basically ignored for 3+ months and counting. If I hadn't stayed loud and been prodded by someone here to contact Dr. Rhino directly (who DID respond), I still wouldn't have heard a damn thing about the plan for a 2nd pressing of DaP36.

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Check your PM.

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I very confident that the box is of muti-track recordings that should narrow it down.

Dap 37 seaside chat Dave said "Delayed twice?" TRI would have been closed due to pandemic.

Dap36 seaside chat: Dave said "Jeff was working on preliminaries."

If it were from 2-track reel to reel that they could have done at home studio.

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There is no mention at all about box sets in this seaside chat. No official word from Dave or Rhino that it was delayed twice.
Hopefully, we will hear something soon, but who knows, it could be a fall release.

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Thin, in the past I too have had bad dealings with dead.net and rhino. Marye was my only help, no one else responded to my many inquires. I had many damaged and unplayable discs with the E72 box, took almost a year of constant complaining and emails and such to everyone on dead.net. This was before Dr. Rhino existed and no one helped me but Marye. I continued to make my voice heard over and over again and finally, they came thru with the goods and replaced all my defective discs. It was at the same time that Dave's picks was just starting up and I did not purchase anything from dead.net for 1 and a half years until they fixed what they promised.
I missed the first 5 Dave's because of this but I would not buy until replacements were sent. I do see your point, the powers that be just move on from a selling point and try to sell you the next thing on their list of products, (Tea, discs, etc...) sometimes acting like the last "big thing" never even happened.
All I can recommend is to continue to complain, get Marye involved and keep pressure on Dr. Rhino. I believe sooner or later, you will get what you paid for, but the failure of the sales and shipping dept. is a black eye that doesn't seem to bother anyone at rhino or dead.net.
They have the goods, and they know it.

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And when they do, pull the trigger because you can do it!

https://i1.wp.com/www.whereexcusesgotodie.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2…

That's one funny cartoon above! LOL!

My dream is the chopped up tapes used for "Dead Set" are found, restored and matrixed, so we get a Warfield, Radio City complete box set. It is the GD's Lost Ark of The Covenant!

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After multiple listens to Dave's 37. I still love it. In fact, it's one of the best of the last 2 years(not THE best). And, I'm still surprised!!
As far as everyone not getting their stuff, this is an unacceptable situation. Not sure how to resolve, but I wonder if a petition could be drawn up, and see how many signatures we could get, and send to Bolo, Marye, and Dr. Rhino. Just thinking out lout.
Oh, and the Zappa soundtrack has some real nice stuff(released & unreleased). The incidental music is interesting, and segues nicely with live 1992 Yellow Shark stuff.
Music is the Best!!

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I liked TMNS also. Where's Pigpen. Ha. Anyway, an authentic and interesting story. It's streaming on Amazon Prime for the next six days. This movie has become somewhat hard to find recently.. I'm surprised it popped up as streamable.

I forget where I heard about this, maybe tales from the golden road.. but there was a strong mention of what they had to go through to get Ice Nine to agree to let them use GD songs in their soundtrack, essentially Hunter had a big part in approving use of Grateful Dead songs in movies and advertising and was conscious of ruining the Brand / diluting or commercializing the content of the songs.

Definitely worth watching.

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thx Sam - I did send a mssg to Marye today. Hopefully she'll respond.

But yeah, they just collect the dough, and if the product is defective or doesn't arrive, they don't respond! IF you know who to reach out to (took me 3 months to figure that out) and make enough of a fuss they eventually deal with it (well, we'll see....)

Amazing that the GD would take our lifetime loyalty and purchases for granted and treat us like sh__. Like dogs, they think they can kick us (or ignore us) and we'll just keep coming back. Screw that.

Sorry for the negative vibes, but Unkle Sam is right: Squeaky wheel gets the grease! I'm being squeaky as hell so 1) I finally get my sh__ and can move on, and 2) maybe someone up the chain will actually see this and realize how f'ing broken this system is, and fix it for those of you good people who continue to buy from this site.

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That's a great cartoon. Michael Zagaris , photographer for the 49ers and the Oak!and As, also a rock & roll photagrpher , told two very funny stories on the Grateful Dead Marathon on Saturday that I hope some people had a chance to hear. When Bill Graham encountered Sid Vicious of the Sex Pistols
for their sound check at Winterland and Sid Viscous was wearing a swastika patch on his pants and Bill's reaction to it. Also, when Zagaris was going to photograph the Who at the Fillmore and Keith Moon was eating some mushrooms and he gave Zagaris some, and Zagaris said I've gotta photograph the show, and Moon said I've gotta play me fucking drums.

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I must be the last person in the continental US to get their Daves glass. Mine finally shipped, but now UPS is saying there is a weather delay. I live on the East Coast so it must have gotten plugged up in Texas. Oh well, I guess I’ll see it someday. Lol.
Edit: sure enough, there are Dave’s Glass already up on ebay. There’s just something ludicrous about the whole thing.......

Thin's comment of giving a life times loyalty to the GD reminded me that there is a big difference between The Dead and Deadnet. It sounds a bit grandiose, but The Dead were artists involved in creativity. Deadnet are a business involved in selling product.

I'll look up the Bill Graham interview. I have seen in depth interviews with him before and he was an interesting character. What I connected to with Bill Graham during listening to some of those interviews was his New Yorker world view from a European background encountering the Grateful Dead spirit together with that time periods' Zeitgeist. Bill and I are a different generation but with a similar background and hence a similar sensibility.

With Bill Graham being a child of WW2 and the Holocaust, I can imagine his reaction to Sid Vicious' Swastika regalia?! With that in mind, other Europeans that I have known including Russians who were both Jewish or Gentile would often have a casually mocking sense of humor regarding the Third Reich. For example: When drunk, partying, and posing for a group-party photo they would all give a Sieg Heil salute together - once again, both Russian Jewish, Orthodox Christian or Agnostic/Atheist. I once noticed a box of Trix cereal on their table in which the Rabbit cartoon character had the Hitler mustache drawn on it with sarcastic writing which was a combination of Madison Avenue Advertising mockery meets Joseph Goebbels' Minister of Propaganda content. It was just their sense of humor and was very witty.

It was all along the lines of, say, Charlie Chaplin mocking Hitler or the British films showing him doing a little Irish-Jig Dance after the fall of France.

More snow today in N.Y.C. I'm in the north west Bronx not far from where legendary taper Jerry Moore grew up and hung out near Gaelic Park where our GD played some great shows among other legends. I look out the window and cannot wait for Spring, a Lockdown end and out there somewhere are the long-lost Radio City/Warfield tapes! Positive vibes and prayers for those people in Texas and elsewhere.

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I am so sorry if I got that wrong, but I swear I heard Dave say those things. Maybe the vid got edited. I don't know?

It does make some sense.

I think the box was to be released fall/winter 2020, and I think the pre-order would have been announced 10/302020 when Shakedown Stream played the Dead Ahead video from 10/31/1980.

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No worries man. We all hoped for that second box last year. The only time I heard Dave mention a box set in the last six months was during the 2021 subscriptions, just saying something to the effect, we have a great box coming in 2021.

Sounds like you might have some insight on what it will be?

I just hope we hear something soon.

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What a great show, one of my favorites from the big box. February is the all time month for killer Grateful Dead shows.

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I purdikt the box announcement will be on 3/15 for Phil's 81st birthday.

It will be Alpine 89.

get yer money and place your bets, gang

February is indeed a good month for GD.

2 1 70
2 2 70
2 11 70
2 13 70
2 14 70
2/22/69
2/9/73
2/15/73

and a whole lot more

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2/14/68

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2 2 68
2 3 68
Lake Tahoe 68

Etc.

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I put in disc one of 1 17 79
It leads off with Bobby announcing to the audience that that night's show will need to be postponed because Jerry is sick on a respirator with pneumonia (not the rockin' kind)
Must have been recorded in November 78

Never heard THAT before

Then a switch to 1 17 79

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Carousel Ballroom 68

yes yes.

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FW 69! Show for show four nights in a row, perhaps the best run in GD history. Certainly worth it's weight in C4.

Full disclosure, I'd take 2/14/68 over any of the FW shows. Personal preference.

Ha.. And then there's that.

Perhaps.. I have a theory I believe I voiced here years ago.. in the early years or should I say back when they used to practice, rehearse and record.. they would often take January off or a combo of January and February off and work on new stuff and god forbid contemplate recording it. They would preview as much of it live before recording usually on the spring runs (71 Port Chester, 72 AOM, E72, 73 Maples, etc.). So the early year stuff was the preview and they would tour with it all year back when they believed it would help sell their albums. No wonder late fall stands out, and by Dec, holidays, family, weather would curtail a full month of touring. November being a reliably powerful month. But I think Dec 73 was strong, Oct. 89, 10/19/73, and I do like the warts and all early stuff.. Bird Song Feb 71, Maples, FE 70.. some of these shows might not even be releasable but I love them nonetheless. I like the embryonic flawed attempts, to me they are pure magic and we get to peek inside their creative process.

As things evolved it seemed the Chinese New Years run was the only set of Winter shows they might typically do in a year. They generally took some time off in the winter and recharged their batteries and the end of the year was to pack the schedule and get their 80 or so shows in before the cycle repeated itself. During this period they were primed and any flux in the new material was pretty much hashed out, the stuff that never worked had all but disappeared.

Anyway, I wholeheartedly agree with our Senator but I do love all months and all years. Nov was hot, but so was June, July, October, December and we can't forget those spring tour breakouts. And February at least early on. My two cents on best months.. I reserve the right to be wrong.

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Usually Mardi Gras and Chinese New Year concerts. Always fun because of all the revelry - floats, dragons, etc.

Historical footnote: our "krewe" was listed in the margins of the '93 Mardi Gras poster. Fun times!

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Chinese New Years and Marti Gras.

Back East, our main source of info for these previews of the year seemed to reach us via Duprees Diamond News and then by word of mouth.

Pre cell phone and pre internet were fine with me. The element of surprise is much more valuable than the sneak peek.

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At the end of the Grateful Tea video Dave says that he’ll be back ‘very soon’ to talk about ‘big music releases for 2021’ . I listened to it again just in case the forthcoming announcements were going to be beverage related but he definitely mentions music.
The lack of a 50th anniversary studio album could mean they don’t need to rush out the box set announcement to fit it in like last year.

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