The Good Ol' Grateful Thread
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TenderLovingKiller®
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Yeah, I prefer a more upbeat blue grassy version but the slow version is really good too. It feels like a completely different song.
AC Slaughter
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Dicks Pick 19 is a great 73 show, one of my personal faves. The Pacific NW Comp from 73-74 would be a great add, albeit not a full show if thats what youre looking for specifically. Also Daves pick 34 from 6/23/74, which also has a bonus disc with stuff from 6/22/74. Dicks Pick 20(two shows) or 33 would be a solid 76 add.
Jeff Lerner
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I'll second DP 33. Love that one. As for 74, you really can't go wrong.
wmeugene
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If you're looking for 73, Dave's 5 (11/17/73) is one of my all time favorites, would concur with Dick's 19 as well.
For 74, the two Dave's Picks from Feb 74 are both great. I really like Dick's 31 which is a compilation of 3 shows from August 74 and Dick's 12 (the 2nd sets of two June shows - Boston/Providence) is a classic.
For 75, I'd recommend One From The Vault (8/13/75).
76 is a little tougher but still lots of great shows. Dave's 18 (7/17 and 7/18), Dick's 33 (10/9 and 10/10), and the NYE show (which was commercially released) would be my first recs.
Colonel4Bin
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Anyone remember the price of the Dead anthology? I think it was like $450 or something but I can’t recall.
I’ve got a couple breakouts from the box that I got secondhand (Reckoning, WAN) that are fetching some crazy money. I regretted not picking it up but I know they had plans to repress it before they left QRP last year. I’m thinking they’re going to eventually repress it but who knows.
Both sound spectacular but not sure I play them enough to justify the prices they’re selling for individually, which would be more than what the actual box sold for.
I’ve got a couple breakouts from the box that I got secondhand (Reckoning, WAN) that are fetching some crazy money. I regretted not picking it up but I know they had plans to repress it before they left QRP last year. I’m thinking they’re going to eventually repress it but who knows.
Both sound spectacular but not sure I play them enough to justify the prices they’re selling for individually, which would be more than what the actual box sold for.
yukbon
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450 without discounts The Story of the Grateful Dead
imtheocean
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Caught a local Dead cover band, Easy Wind, last night doing the Sunshine Daydream setlist. Enjoyed it way more than I thought I would. Nailed the transitions, and had a sax player come out for Bird Song & Dark Star, Branford Marsalis style. They had a belly dancer come out during drums, which didn't seem particularly dead like, but tbh was preferable to a recreation of naked pole guy.
AC Slaughter
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We have a Dead tribute band in south Tx called Deadeye and they definitely due the music justice. Wouldnt mind if they added some sax and belly dancers tho!
imtheocean
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Repress of Circles Around the Sun ~ Interludes for the Dead (2LP and 4LP) is up - I went with the 2LP.
AC Slaughter
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Welp, this might be the nerdiest thing I’ve done in a while. I’ve always thought the original Europe 72 album was missing quite a bit due to the format of a 3 LP set and the entire Europe 72 run was really redundant if you listened to all of it, which I know has been done around here. I have been wanting to put together a playlist that essentially creates a 3 set concert to try to get the best of that run without having to choose one concert or miss out on the Dark Stars and The Other Ones that the original album missed. So I wrote down all the songs they played on that tour, how many times they played them, and noted if they were in either set 1 or 2 and if they were set openers, closers, encores and so on. I took the most common ones and created the setlists, trying to replicate the way order they would be in the best I could. Then I went to Heady Version to find the highest rated versions of each song and those are typically the ones I used in the actual playlist. The “concert” is nearly 6 hours long, with each set around an hour 45 minutes but you can break it into a 2 set concert if you’d rather.
The set one is pretty representative of their first sets with a Bertha opener(Most common opener with 8), PITB towards the back end and a Casey Jones closer(CJ Closed 16 out of 22 first sets).
The second set has a Truckin’ opener(they opened 7 second sets with it) into the other one which was pretty common, with some other common set two songs.
The third set is Dark star>Sugar Mag> Caution which they did several times and ends with a NFA>GDRFB>NFA which they closed 10 shows with.
The encore is One More Saturday night which they did as the encore damn near every time they did one on the tour and if they didnt do an encore they likely closed out the second set with it.
Anyway let me know what you think. Are there are songs you think should be in there over others, or other versions of these songs that should have been included instead?
Thanks for coming to my DEAD Talk
The set one is pretty representative of their first sets with a Bertha opener(Most common opener with 8), PITB towards the back end and a Casey Jones closer(CJ Closed 16 out of 22 first sets).
The second set has a Truckin’ opener(they opened 7 second sets with it) into the other one which was pretty common, with some other common set two songs.
The third set is Dark star>Sugar Mag> Caution which they did several times and ends with a NFA>GDRFB>NFA which they closed 10 shows with.
The encore is One More Saturday night which they did as the encore damn near every time they did one on the tour and if they didnt do an encore they likely closed out the second set with it.
Anyway let me know what you think. Are there are songs you think should be in there over others, or other versions of these songs that should have been included instead?
Thanks for coming to my DEAD Talk
MikeH
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Colonel4Bin
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Sheeeeesh
Trying to decide which Grateful Dead concert to reissue on vinyl is kind of like ordering from the menu of a three-star restaurant: no matter what you pick, it’s not just going to be good, it’s also going to be unique and memorable. Faced with such an embarrassment of riches, and trying to remain true to our vision of hitting a different year with each release, we decided to do what any sensible Dead Head would do: go BIG. Hence, our 8-LP release of Dick’s Picks Vol. 33! Fresh from a year-and-a-half touring hiatus, and back to full, two-drummer strength, the Dead opened for The Who as part of Bill Graham’s historic Day on the Green concerts in 1976. This Pick captures both dates in their entirety, and features one of the most monumental medleys (and that’s sayin’ something!) in band history with a 60-minute, 10-song journey through “St. Stephen”/”Not Fade Away”/”St. Stephen”/”Help on the Way”/”Slipknot!”/”Drums”/”Samson and Delilah”/”Slipknot!”/”Franklin’s Tower”/”One More Saturday Night” on the first day. Day two offers excellent takes on two solo Garcia favorites, “Might as Well” and “The Wheel,” that were new to the concert repertoire and a particularly fine “Ramble on Rose” among other highlights. Bill Graham had honored the Dead by selecting them to close the year’s stellar series of Day on the Green concerts, and that—perhaps coupled with the presence of formidable co-headliners The Who—sparked some of the band’s finest performances of the period.
But it’s not just the performances, or the fact that we hadn’t done a 1976 vinyl reissue, that drew us to this concert. This “Betty Board” is one of the cleanest recordings in the whole series, and with a fresh mastering for vinyl by Jeffrey Norman at Mockingbird Mastering, lacquer cutting by Clint Holley and Dave Polster at Well Made Music, and a pressing on 180-gram black vinyl by our friends at Gotta Groove Records, this is—dare we say it—the best-sounding Dead vinyl release we’ve done. Seriously…the test pressings (which were reviewed by Jeffrey Norman, Dead archivist David Lemieux and Real Gone’s Gordon Anderson) were just fantastic, so present and crisp. We’ve included a 4-page, full-color, LP-sized insert that captures all the extensive graphics that were on the CD release, too. It’s our biggest Grateful Dead album ever…limited to 6000 hand-numbered copies! We have pressed up 1750 copies to ship now at a special low price. Limit 3 per customer. Don’t delay…our Grateful Dead LP releases always sell out immediately.
GRATEFUL DEAD: Dick’s Picks Vol. 33—10/9 & 10/10/76, Oakland Coliseum Stadium, Oakland, CA (Limited, Hand-Numbered, 180-Gram 8-LP Set)
Side A
Promised Land
Mississippi Half-Step Uptown Toodeloo
Cassidy
Side B
Tennessee Jed
Looks Like Rain
Side C
They Love Each Other
New Minglewood Blues
Side D
Scarlet Begonias
Lazy Lightning
Supplication
Side E
Sugaree
Side F
St. Stephen
Not Fade Away
St. Stephen
Help On The Way
Side G
Slipknot!
Drums
Samson And Delilah
Slipknot!
Side H
Franklin’s Tower
One More Saturday Night
U.S. Blues
Side I
Might As Well
Mama Tried
Ramble On Rose
Cassidy
Side J
Deal
El Paso
Loser
Promised Land
Side K
Friend Of The Devil
Dancing In The Streets
Side L
Wharf Rat
Dancing In The Streets
Side M
Samson and Delilah
Brown-Eyed Women
Playing In The Band
Side N
Drums
The Wheel
Space
The Other One
Side O
Stella Blue
Playing In The Band
Side P
Sugar Magnolia
Johnny B. Goode
Djxfactor511
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Grateful Dead - Wembley Empire Pool, London, England 4/7/1972 (Live)
JGB - Pure Jerry: Coliseum, Hampton, VA, November 9, 1991
On the list for next RSD
JGB - Pure Jerry: Coliseum, Hampton, VA, November 9, 1991
On the list for next RSD
Hemotep
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I'll be passing on the Dead set again, but I'm very stoked for the JGB. It's a great set list and Hornsby is on that night too!
Also skipping on the Dead set because I impulse bought that Dick's Pick 8LP set, lol.
bdm105
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Trying to decide which Grateful Dead concert to reissue on vinyl is kind of like ordering from the menu of a three-star restaurant: no matter what you pick, it’s not just going to be good, it’s also going to be unique and memorable. Faced with such an embarrassment of riches, and trying to remain true to our vision of hitting a different year with each release, we decided to do what any sensible Dead Head would do: go BIG. Hence, our 8-LP release of Dick’s Picks Vol. 33! Fresh from a year-and-a-half touring hiatus, and back to full, two-drummer strength, the Dead opened for The Who as part of Bill Graham’s historic Day on the Green concerts in 1976. This Pick captures both dates in their entirety, and features one of the most monumental medleys (and that’s sayin’ something!) in band history with a 60-minute, 10-song journey through “St. Stephen”/”Not Fade Away”/”St. Stephen”/”Help on the Way”/”Slipknot!”/”Drums”/”Samson and Delilah”/”Slipknot!”/”Franklin’s Tower”/”One More Saturday Night” on the first day. Day two offers excellent takes on two solo Garcia favorites, “Might as Well” and “The Wheel,” that were new to the concert repertoire and a particularly fine “Ramble on Rose” among other highlights. Bill Graham had honored the Dead by selecting them to close the year’s stellar series of Day on the Green concerts, and that—perhaps coupled with the presence of formidable co-headliners The Who—sparked some of the band’s finest performances of the period.
But it’s not just the performances, or the fact that we hadn’t done a 1976 vinyl reissue, that drew us to this concert. This “Betty Board” is one of the cleanest recordings in the whole series, and with a fresh mastering for vinyl by Jeffrey Norman at Mockingbird Mastering, lacquer cutting by Clint Holley and Dave Polster at Well Made Music, and a pressing on 180-gram black vinyl by our friends at Gotta Groove Records, this is—dare we say it—the best-sounding Dead vinyl release we’ve done. Seriously…the test pressings (which were reviewed by Jeffrey Norman, Dead archivist David Lemieux and Real Gone’s Gordon Anderson) were just fantastic, so present and crisp. We’ve included a 4-page, full-color, LP-sized insert that captures all the extensive graphics that were on the CD release, too. It’s our biggest Grateful Dead album ever…limited to 6000 hand-numbered copies! We have pressed up 1750 copies to ship now at a special low price. Limit 3 per customer. Don’t delay…our Grateful Dead LP releases always sell out immediately.
GRATEFUL DEAD: Dick’s Picks Vol. 33—10/9 & 10/10/76, Oakland Coliseum Stadium, Oakland, CA (Limited, Hand-Numbered, 180-Gram 8-LP Set)
Side A
Promised Land
Mississippi Half-Step Uptown Toodeloo
Cassidy
Side B
Tennessee Jed
Looks Like Rain
Side C
They Love Each Other
New Minglewood Blues
Side D
Scarlet Begonias
Lazy Lightning
Supplication
Side E
Sugaree
Side F
St. Stephen
Not Fade Away
St. Stephen
Help On The Way
Side G
Slipknot!
Drums
Samson And Delilah
Slipknot!
Side H
Franklin’s Tower
One More Saturday Night
U.S. Blues
Side I
Might As Well
Mama Tried
Ramble On Rose
Cassidy
Side J
Deal
El Paso
Loser
Promised Land
Side K
Friend Of The Devil
Dancing In The Streets
Side L
Wharf Rat
Dancing In The Streets
Side M
Samson and Delilah
Brown-Eyed Women
Playing In The Band
Side N
Drums
The Wheel
Space
The Other One
Side O
Stella Blue
Playing In The Band
Side P
Sugar Magnolia
Johnny B. Goode
The write up makes me want to fomo in. But idk if I will
Hemotep
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With 6000 I think it'll be around for a while.
Colonel4Bin
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I got the last one for $110 shipped like 6 months after it was released. I don’t think you’ll have any problem getting it below this price. There’s certainly an over saturation of that market, and they just keep flooding it.
I mean do we really need another Europe 72 RSD release?