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G&T’s all round after that result 🏉🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 Bring on the springboks 🇿🇦 . I’m just re visiting Veneta 08/27/72 I know it’s a well worn favourite but I can’t get enough of the dark star>el paso segue - talk about the sublime to the ridiculous 😸😸
I’m so looking forward to dap 32 absolutely my favourite year 😸😸😸😸
On a more somber note , haven’t seen much from love my girl recently all ok out there ?

It really is that simple.

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If i'm not mistaken, tomorrow is the day for DaP32 to go on sale and I'm curious how long it will take to sell out the non-subscription copies available. Really looking forward to it myself, the artwork looks really cool to me and I'm stoked to get another show from that Spring '73 run to go along with DaP16 and 21.

Been pretty busy lately, so my listening time has been a little limited, but I recently burned a copy of 2/27/69 so that I can listen to it in my car, so I've listened to that a few times recently. That transition from Mountains of the Moon into Dark Star is the stuff, and that Dark Star is the one that is etched in my brain from Live Dead. Never gets old.

Shhhhh!, I don’t want to Jinx anything 😉
But yeah, so far, so good!

Edit; Brentski!!

....such a long, long time to be gone, but a short time to be there.

Nice Rick Jeanneret reference.

The Sabres are off to a great start.

73 Box; one of my favs, fall 73 so no surprise there. Always thought it sounded fine. Of course I’m from the “any of this sounds way better than those shitty tapes we grew up on” camp.....
10/19/89; didn’t have much time this weekend, but managed to sneak in second set; phew, really love this one. Great psychedelic midi stuff. Remember the Estimated really stood out, great show, hell great run. That 10/15/89 Jersey show y’all were talking bout the other day is a nice under the radar show too. Actually, the 10/16/89 release seems to go virtually unnoticed, which blows my mind as it is one of my top favorite releases! It sounds great, has a good set list and the playing is “primo”. Someday maybe we’ll get a box from this tour ☹️
Speaking of Primo, you out there homey? We get worried when we don’t hear from you for so long?
74 Movie; all your anniversary talk last week and a rare window of time that appeared, had me breaking out the Blu-ray on the 130” screen Saturday night. Even after all these years that shit just blows me away....when listening only, the often idiosyncratic 74 stuff, it’s easy to forget just how powerful these shows were and how on top of their game they were during this run. The energy blew me away! Remember thinking “this really should be THE indoctrination material” if you were trying to turn someone on ? 10/74, definitely desert island fare.
10/19/73; I’m not sure what it is about this show but it too is top shelf (“where mama hides the cookies”)!
Of all the amazing fall 73 shows there has always been something about this show? Didn’t get it all in, but enough and of course the meat and potatoes at the end left a smokin crater of my mind, .....again!
Damn, Rocktober, soooo much great Dead over the years!

Really dug into the box this past weekend on a long car trip - went through the 7/10/89 and 6/17/91 shows. Wow. This set keeps on getting better and better. Like many have mentioned here, I think my favorite of the bunch are the two 89 shows, but really, each show has so many great moments, and all sound so damn fine!

Great work on this one! It's really a top shelf production all around!

Now, on to Dave's 32!

BTW - 10/19/71, as featured on disc three of Dave's 3, is def. a 71 favorite of this head. The whole show cooks, and the banter between songs is great! I love before BIODTL, Jerry says something like, "sweet 16, that's the number" then Bobby chimes in "If you don't believe us, just watch," then they go into the song with a 16-beat intro. Fun stuff. Plus, Phil is EXTRA spiky.

Also, I agree with KeithFan that the Dark Star is special, though I would never skip the Sittin on Top of the World... love that tune, and I love how it comes out of nowhere. I also love how the DS lands in a sweet as pie Bobby McGee.

Peace

That's my best attempt to spell out Dan Aykroyd's voice inflection for the introduction of the Closing of Winterland. Today's occasion ties into Dave Rock's commentary on the Rocktober Grateful Dead bookends.

While Dave's Picks 3 features the show from October 24th, there is bonus material from the 21st, In including Keith's first Dark Star, 48 years ago. In the realm of Dark Stars I would give this one an A rating on the overall scale. There's really nothing not to like about it. The vocals are mixed really nicely. You can hear everybody playing, and Jerry pretty much leads the parade on this one so it's very Garcia-centric. Keith fits in like he's been doing it all his life. There is a Sitting on Top of the World interlude, but to be honest unless I'm listening to the concert as a whole, I like to just put Dark Star part one and part two right next to each other with the Crossfade on. You can't even tell there two different parts. It just sounds like one 17 minute awesome Dark Star. This one has grown on me over the years. I guess the only complaint is it's too short; but that's not uncommon for 1971. And I have to admit, sometimes the longer ones that have all of the atonal cacophony wake me up at night when the noise begins - but hey, if that's the Genesis of creation then so be it, I'll throw on December 6th 1973.

BTW - glad people are enjoying June 30th 1974. The true person to thank, the source of my treasure trove of soundboards shall remain nameless, to protect the guilty. No seriously, if I were to divulge that a name, there would be hordes of deadheads at his house trying to hop the walls of his estate. Celebrity has its hazards and I need to respect this man's privacy.