― Sean Witzman (trip maker), Wednesday, 29 September 2004 19:11 (nineteen years ago) link
― Roy Williams Highlight (diamond), Wednesday, 29 September 2004 19:27 (nineteen years ago) link
― 57 7th (calstars), Wednesday, 29 September 2004 20:26 (nineteen years ago) link
Au contraire. Au contraire.
― Hurting (Hurting), Wednesday, 29 September 2004 21:42 (nineteen years ago) link
i take umbrage with this comment.and so would CCR.
me rawk.you snow.
― eedd, Wednesday, 29 September 2004 23:18 (nineteen years ago) link
― Hurting (Hurting), Wednesday, 29 September 2004 23:20 (nineteen years ago) link
Help/Slip/Frank rules
― Jackson, Wednesday, 29 September 2004 23:22 (nineteen years ago) link
― Mark (MarkR), Thursday, 30 September 2004 03:11 (nineteen years ago) link
― roger adultery (roger adultery), Thursday, 30 September 2004 04:49 (nineteen years ago) link
Thank You
― Uncle John, Saturday, 27 November 2004 21:20 (nineteen years ago) link
― gypsy mothra (gypsy mothra), Sunday, 9 January 2005 08:49 (nineteen years ago) link
― chaki in charge (chaki), Sunday, 9 January 2005 09:05 (nineteen years ago) link
― Mark (MarkR), Thursday, 31 March 2005 18:07 (eighteen years ago) link
― Mark (MarkR), Friday, 1 April 2005 14:01 (eighteen years ago) link
Does this new version sound better:Europe '72 Remastered with bonus tracks?
― Lemonade Salesman (Eleventy-Twelve), Friday, 1 April 2005 15:17 (eighteen years ago) link
And LS, Europe 72 sounds better (though the original still sounds fine to me) and the bonus tracks are worth it.
― Scott CE (Scott CE), Friday, 1 April 2005 17:02 (eighteen years ago) link
― Lemonade Salesman (Eleventy-Twelve), Friday, 1 April 2005 17:08 (eighteen years ago) link
― Scott CE (Scott CE), Friday, 1 April 2005 17:32 (eighteen years ago) link
― Mark (MarkR), Friday, 1 April 2005 17:52 (eighteen years ago) link
YOU DON'T HAVE TO SPEND MONEY ON GREAT LIVE DEAD RECORDINGS. Archive.org and Furthur both have plenty of 1st rate SOUNDBOARD and other high quality recordings.
Download these for starters FOR FREE:
1977-05-08 - "one of the best" (5/7 and 5/9 were good, too)
1972-05-26 - soundboard
1977-05-26 - (same month/day as above, but different year)
1977-11-06 - "one of he best"
1970-05-02 - Harpur College (hard to find, but available as a Dick's Pick if you can't find it as a free download)
1971-04-28(?) - Fillmore East
1971 - Port Chester
1969 - Ark
1973 - Pavillion
1978 - Red Rocks
1973-11-11
1972-05-26
1968-02-14
1969-03-16
1970-02-13
1970-05-06
1981-02-21
1985-04-08
Lots of these are available as soundboard (SBD), just look for it. The Soundboards from 77 were especially high quality.
Sorry the dates are not in chronological order, but I started out doing it highest quality first and then I just went through my discs and chose the best for sound quality and performance. The above represent a good many hours of great live Dead: flub-free, energetic and good singing.
... and YES, I did learn all about bold punctuation from comic books!
― Lemonade Salesman (Eleventy-Twelve), Saturday, 2 April 2005 02:41 (eighteen years ago) link
― charleston charge (chaki), Saturday, 2 April 2005 02:46 (eighteen years ago) link
― Lemonade Salesman (Eleventy-Twelve), Saturday, 2 April 2005 02:50 (eighteen years ago) link
As far as paying $$...
I think "Go To Nassau" is just FANTASTIC! "Live Without A Net" is way overlooked, too, although I can see why people wouldn't like it. It grows on you, though.
― Lemonade Salesman (Eleventy-Twelve), Saturday, 2 April 2005 03:05 (eighteen years ago) link
1977-06-09 - soundboard1977-02-26 - soundboard1977-04-22 - soundboard1969-02-22 - soundboard
all totally killer quality top notch, but I'm not familiar enough to tell apart the 77's yet. I think 06-09 is the one that really is blowing me away lately.
― Lemonade Salesman (Eleventy-Twelve), Saturday, 2 April 2005 03:15 (eighteen years ago) link
― Lemonade Salesman (Eleventy-Twelve), Saturday, 2 April 2005 03:30 (eighteen years ago) link
― charleston charge (chaki), Saturday, 2 April 2005 03:42 (eighteen years ago) link
'77 - '78'72'69 - '70'74
I like the warmer, funkier mid-70s stuff more than the turn of the '70s acid, I guess. Curious if there is anything in the '80s that might interest me. Downloaded a couple of supposedly great shows from '79 and Jerry was already sounding pretty rough.
― Mark (MarkR), Monday, 14 November 2005 15:43 (eighteen years ago) link
― Mark (MarkR), Monday, 28 November 2005 23:59 (eighteen years ago) link
It's incredible: early Dead at their greaser/psychedelic-Tex-Mex best. The fidelity is insane too, it's like these cuts were recorded yesterday. It sounds way better than even the stuff on that Birth of the Dead comp. so crazy. There's a slowed down version of "Cream Puff War" on here that's great, a studio "Standing on the Corner", a version of "Stealin" that has an arrangement that's totally cooler than the one from the 1st single!!!!! I am not shitting you! this version of "Stealin'" is just tough ... it's just incredible. Any 1st album fan (and if you're *not* a first album fan yer nuts, get outta my face) needs to get this at once..
― Stormy Davis (diamond), Friday, 23 December 2005 06:47 (eighteen years ago) link
Two From the Vault (1968) - really good
Grateful Dead Download Series Number 6 (also 1968)- also very good
but Dick's Pick's 12 (1974) - which is a favourite of Suzy Creamcheese, I think , from another thread - is a soft ultra-noodley show.
Which were the more harder jamming/ rocking years?
― Bob Six (bobbysix), Wednesday, 28 December 2005 16:02 (eighteen years ago) link
in his autobiog Phil Lesh sez that 74 (the 'wall of sound' era) was the Dead's finest year musically, and i sorta agree w/ him - personally i like the noodle-jazz stuff they got into round about 72-74, def. post-Bitches Brew rock music (and they cld still get pretty intense when they wanted to - just a diff. sound/emphasis). garcia certainly swapped gtrs round abt 70 and that seemed to make a major diff. to his playing
― Ward Fowler (Ward Fowler), Wednesday, 28 December 2005 19:55 (eighteen years ago) link
I'm looking for the best recording of Dark Star - other than Live/Dead (which is just incredible). Is there another recording that is nearly as awesome, yet different?
Is the Greyfold 1-hour remix any good?
― Other One, Saturday, 21 January 2006 18:48 (eighteen years ago) link
― Mark (MarkR), Saturday, 21 January 2006 18:59 (eighteen years ago) link
And I don't know, '73 Dark Stars are my favorite ('73 was my favorite year). There is a capital Dark Star from one of these '73 DPs ... Dick's Picks Volume 19, maybe? '73 was a great year for Playings and Eyes, both of which are represented well on this DPs.
― Suzy Creemcheese (SuzyCreemcheese), Saturday, 21 January 2006 22:42 (eighteen years ago) link
I bought one but I'm keeping it in shrink-wrapped mint condition as an investment for the time being.
― Bob Six (bobbysix), Saturday, 21 January 2006 23:11 (eighteen years ago) link
― Mats Blomqvist (Blomqvist), Tuesday, 30 May 2006 06:57 (seventeen years ago) link
― Suzy Creemcheese (SuzyCreemcheese), Tuesday, 30 May 2006 12:34 (seventeen years ago) link
― Mats Blomqvist (Blomqvist), Tuesday, 30 May 2006 13:31 (seventeen years ago) link
― Lee is Free (Lee is Free), Friday, 16 June 2006 15:33 (seventeen years ago) link
― BrianB (BrianB), Friday, 16 June 2006 16:01 (seventeen years ago) link
― Mark (MarkR), Thursday, 11 January 2007 03:31 (seventeen years ago) link
― the table is the table (treesessplode), Thursday, 11 January 2007 04:41 (seventeen years ago) link
― Jamesy (SuzyCreemcheese), Thursday, 11 January 2007 04:43 (seventeen years ago) link
― Jamesy (SuzyCreemcheese), Thursday, 11 January 2007 04:47 (seventeen years ago) link
Has anyone heard Three From the Vault yet? I'm definitely going to pick this one up.
― Trip Maker, Thursday, 23 August 2007 19:12 (sixteen years ago) link
RELEASE 8/27/72 SBD WTF 35 YEARS SOONE HOMMIE
― ▒█▄█ ▄▄ ▒█▄█, Friday, 24 August 2007 02:08 (sixteen years ago) link
lots on webarchive.org, tho i think i've got several (on ancient cassette, so mebbe time for refreshments)
― dow, Sunday, 26 August 2007 03:53 (sixteen years ago) link
Ugh, that's a sore spot, dow. Archive.org used to have about 1,000 soundboards up; thanks to Bobby, Archive took them down a few years ago.
I haven't been keeping up w/ the Dick's Picks for the past few years, but no doubt they've probably released some good ones. Don't have the patience right now to rank all of the DPs, but off the top of my head I love DP 12 (Boston '74).
― Jamesy, Sunday, 26 August 2007 09:00 (sixteen years ago) link
Jesus Christ "He's Gone" on Europe '72 is so, so solid & great
― J0hn D., Friday, 19 October 2007 15:29 (sixteen years ago) link
Yeah, it's incredible. If you can get this bootleg from later that summer, 8/27/72, in Oregon (after Pigpen really is gone), not only is the "He's Gone" ever better, there's a ridiculously great cover of "Sing Me Back Home"---it's also on the So Many Roads box set, but the whole show is that great.
― Euler, Friday, 19 October 2007 15:33 (sixteen years ago) link
Maxmillion: not Taper's Choice, but I have seen them too. This was Richard's Pictures.
― Reeves Gabrels' Funko Pop (majorairbro), Sunday, 27 August 2023 05:44 (seven months ago) link
listening to 10/28/79 at Cape Cod this morning, not sure how I'd missed this one until now, it's a pretty hot show and one of those where the first set damn near bests the second set. you know you are in for a treat when the first set opens with a 12-minute "Half Step" into an 18-minute "Franklin's". the outro jam on the set 1 closing "TMNS" is fire too.
― Maxmillion D. Boosted (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Wednesday, 30 August 2023 15:19 (six months ago) link
lol that's about 50% more "Franklin" than I need! I did listen to set one this morning, Jerry starts creaky but warms up. Good setlist, nice "Althea."
― Large, Complex, Detailed but Irrefutable POST (Dan Peterson), Wednesday, 30 August 2023 21:26 (six months ago) link
yeah it's a lot of "Fraklin's" but I think it's 100% justified
the second set "China > Rider" is worth it for the Phil bombz and when Bobby mistakenly tries to steal Jerry's "I wish I was a headlight" verse
― Maxmillion D. Boosted (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Wednesday, 30 August 2023 21:40 (six months ago) link
79 fall tour is pretty great, I've always been partial to 10/31/79 Nassau Collisium.
― BrianB, Wednesday, 30 August 2023 22:55 (six months ago) link
dipping into some '83 shows - an absolutely unhinged Jerry performance on "New Minglewood Blues" from 9/2/83 went waaaay beyond my expectations.
― Western® with Bacon Flavor, Tuesday, 3 October 2023 01:02 (five months ago) link
Yeah, that was a surprisingly decent show when it came out as a Dave's Pick a few years ago, I dug large parts of it. Although I always laughed when Phil opened the show with his, "Citizens of Boise, submit or perish – you are a conquered people" intonation and the band promptly launched into...... "Wang Dang Doodle".
― Maxmillion D. Boosted (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Tuesday, 3 October 2023 14:28 (five months ago) link
Ha. I don’t think the dead doing WDD conquers anyone.
― tobo73, Tuesday, 3 October 2023 14:41 (five months ago) link
xp i clipped that exact section afterwards!
― Western® with Bacon Flavor, Tuesday, 3 October 2023 15:41 (five months ago) link
New to me, the "Dark Star" from 2/21/69 at the Dream Bowl. Really liking this version a lot, feels like one of the earliest versions where it feels like the entire band is locked into the improv.
― Maxmillion D. Boosted (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Friday, 3 November 2023 22:02 (four months ago) link
Thanks, Jon!
https://archive.org/details/gd69-02-21.sbd.owen.7859.sbeok.shnf/gd69-02-21d1t03.shn
― The Triumphant Return of Bernard & Stubbs (Raymond Cummings), Friday, 3 November 2023 23:02 (four months ago) link
Not the longest version, but nonetheless an epic, prismatic one.
― The Triumphant Return of Bernard & Stubbs (Raymond Cummings), Friday, 3 November 2023 23:07 (four months ago) link
Thanks for this. I needed a good Dark Star>St. Stephen>The Eleven to lift my spirits. That last one is just so joyous to me.
― il lavoro mi rovina la giornata (PBKR), Saturday, 4 November 2023 00:17 (four months ago) link
Listening to without a net, was wondering who the smokin trumpet player was on “let it grow”, realized it’s Jerry’s midi guitar lol
― brimstead, Tuesday, 16 January 2024 21:45 (two months ago) link