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Post by kate on Apr 12, 2014 21:52:42 GMT -5
Tom, do you have a favored period, years, or tours? I have all but a handful of the Dicks Picks, and those I don't I've been purchasing upon reissue by Real Gone Music which has been releasing the series in reverse chronological order for some time now. In fact, I just received DiP 19 two weeks ago, a wonderful show from one of my favorite years (73) and absolute favorite tour therein (Fall)...otherwise, if you're open to suggestions, I can certainly provide a few! /Kate
Incidentally, while some DiPs may be hard to secure, there are other series for which original copies are still purchasable, such as Road Trips and some spectacular small box sets, as well as the iTunes download collection if physical media is not an absolute requisite...let me know
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Post by tom1960 on Apr 13, 2014 8:43:14 GMT -5
Kate, the time period I'm most interested in hearing is mid to late 70's. Any info you can provide me online or offline would be most appreciated.
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Post by earleg on Apr 14, 2014 10:51:17 GMT -5
I had to look it up but now I know what the Stealie is. After seeing it over the years did not know it had a name. [laughing] Steal Your Face
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Post by Admin on Apr 17, 2014 12:35:25 GMT -5
Chronological recording history
The Emergency Crew: 11/3/65 (The Warlocks, demo) The Grateful Dead: 3/17/67 Anthem of the Sun: 7/18/68 Aoxomoxoa: 6/20/69 Live/Dead: 11/10/69 Workingman's Dead: 5/??/70 American Beauty: 11/2?/70 Vintage Dead: 1971 Historic Dead: 1971? Grateful Dead (Skull & Roses): 10/6/71 (?) Europe '72: 11/??/72 History of the Grateful Dead, Vol. 1 (Bear's Choice): 7/13/73 Wake of the Flood: 10/15/73 Skeletons from the Closet: ? From the Mars Hotel: 6/27/74 Blues for Allah: 9/1/75 Steal Your Face: 6/26/76 What a Long Strange Trip It's Been: 7/??/77 Terrapin Station: 7/27/77 Shakedown Street: 11/15/78 Go to Heaven: 4/28/80 Reckoning: 4/1/81 Dead Set: 8/81 In the Dark: 7/6/87 Dylan and the Dead: 1/31/89 Built to Last: 10/31/89 Without a Net: 9/90 One from the Vault: 4/15/91 Infrared Roses: 11/1/91 Two from the Vault: 5/12/92 Dick's Picks, Vol. 1: Dick's Picks, Vol. 2: Hundred Year Hall: 9/95 Dick's Picks, Vol. 3: 11/95 Dick's Picks, Vol. 4: 2/96 Dick's Picks, Vol. 5: 5/96 Dick's Picks, Vol. 6: 10/96 Dozin' at the Knick: 10/96 Dick's Picks, Vol. 7: Fallout From the Phil Zone: Terrapin Station [Live album]
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Post by kate on Apr 17, 2014 23:22:14 GMT -5
Jim, to complete the catalogue, just add Dick's Picks Nos. 8-36; Road Trips Vols. 1:1 - 4:5; Dave's Picks Vols. 1-10; Europe 72 - the complete recordings; Winterland 77 box set; Winterland 73 box set; Spring 77 box set; the entire iTunes download series; Veneta 8/72 (cd & DVD); So Many Roads box set; .... oh screw it, just check out the Dead's complete discography here with the color coded USA Today legend:
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Post by Admin on Apr 26, 2014 12:53:29 GMT -5
Jerry Garcia on the early days of the Dead. I guess I knew they descended from the country and blues but it didn't register until I read this.
Garcia tell the story from the beginning:
"I got into old-time country music...and in order to play string-band music you have to have a band, you can't play it by yourself. So I would be out recruiting musicians.... Bluegrass bands are hard to put together because you have to have really good bluegrass musicians to play, and in Palo Alto there wasn't really very many of them - not enough to keep a band going all the time.... I decided to put together a jug band, because you could have a jug band with guys that could hardly play at all.....and Weir finally had his chance to play because Weir had this uncanny ability to really play the jug.... And Pigpen, who was mostly into playing Lightnin' Hopkins and harmonica....
"[The electric band] was Pigpen's idea. He'd been pestering me for a while, he wanted me to start up an electric blues band....because in the jug band we used to do blues numbers like Jimmy Reed tunes and even played a couple of rock & roll tunes, and it was just the next step.... Theoretically it's a blues band, but the minute we get electric instruments it's a rock & roll band.... We put Pigpen on organ immediately, and he was doing most of the lead vocals at the time."
"We stole a lot of, at that time, the Kinks, and the Rolling Stones - King Bee, Red Rooster, Walkin' the Dog....we were just doing hard simple rock & roll stuff, old Chuck Berry stuff, Promised Land, Johnny B Goode - a couple of songs that I sort of adapted from jug band material. Stealin' was one of those, and that tune called Don't Ease Me In was our first single, an old ragtime pop Texas song. I don't remember a lot of the other stuff.... Oh yeah, we did It's All Over Now Baby Blue from the very beginning because it was such a pretty song. Weir used to do 'She's got everything she needs, she don't look back....'"
- from Signpost to New Space, 1971
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Post by kate on May 7, 2014 14:49:47 GMT -5
This day in history 37 years ago signaled the initiation of a triad of shows that are arguably 3 of the finest in the Dead's prolific history, with Boston (5/7) and Buffalo (5/9) sandwiching the epochal Cornell concert....indeed, among deadheads one need only say "Cornell" or "5/8" to be instantly understood. I've posted from 5/8 before, so here are few from the other nights...as hot as Dallas right now!
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Post by geezer on May 7, 2014 19:17:42 GMT -5
Do we like the Grateful Dead? You saw the kites. Now here's Sue's piano... And I'll have to get a pic of my office desk!
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Post by kate on May 7, 2014 19:27:01 GMT -5
A very cool graphic representation of the longitudinal performance catalogue created by a far more industrious Head than I...
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China-Rider, paired versus individual performances...
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And Dark Star performances...
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Post by kate on May 7, 2014 19:29:57 GMT -5
Do we like the Grateful Dead? You saw the kites. Now here's Sue's piano... And I'll have to get a pic of my office desk! That's GOOOOOD Karma.......
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Post by earleg on May 7, 2014 23:01:02 GMT -5
Jerry made black t-shirts popular. Prior very rarely ever saw one worn by person or in a store. Maybe? Bob helped polo shirts gain popularity.
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Post by kate on May 8, 2014 17:47:37 GMT -5
Jerry made black t-shirts popular. Prior very rarely ever saw one worn by person or in a store. Maybe? Bob helped polo shirts gain popularity. Perhaps, but getting men into Daisy Dukes just never caught on...
Edit: I invite my fellow female forumites to double click
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Post by earleg on May 8, 2014 19:17:18 GMT -5
LOL! Must be early '80s. at least those custom type guitars caught on for a bit.....little while. (I still have a white polo or 2.) ;^P
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Post by kate on May 9, 2014 19:24:34 GMT -5
I'd like to enquire as to the progress the TM Science & Technology division is making on that Time Machine I commissioned a few weeks ago...it certainly would have been nice to travel back 40 years to Buffalo this evening! Regardless, as long as it's completed for the Winterland run beginning 6/9 (notice how I'm impliedly making up my own rules of transversing the time burrito, like only moving between simultaneous dates - a fiction within a fiction; weird!)...I'm booking seats now, with preference to anyone with a stash of Bears' White Lightning...be safe out there!/k
Edit: It's now a matter of record: I said I'd like to go to Buffalo (!)
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Post by Admin on Jul 11, 2014 8:50:14 GMT -5
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