Grateful Dead live, Dick's Picks etc - S&D

Wonder if that indie-rock Grateful Dead tribute album ever got off the ground.

I play Ripple on a Gibson LG-1 for aero jr. as a lullaby and he really seems to love it

aw. bet that's adorable. anytime I pick up my guit to play for my little girl, she wants to join in with strumming, which makes playing most songs pretty difficult. it's awesome that she wants to learn though. today I caught her with a pick shoved down the front of her onesie.

Pearl Jam are notable for having commercially available recordings of pretty much every show they've played for the last 12 years, but that's still probably not as many as there are GD bootlegs over the decades

listening to some of these mid 80s live shows and actually digging mydland's keys -- he definitely has some weird sounds, but he's making them work!

though good lord, someone needed to tell weir to relax and quit hamming it up.

I'm pretty sure I'm gonna pop for the 2CD highlights of the spring 90 tour.

http://www.dead.net/store/spring-1990-shop/spring-1990-so-glad-you-made-it?eml=dn/080112/sprin90CD

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woah there was already a thread for this?? but ilx spent so much of 2012 discussing it in every other thread ever

I'm relatively new to these guys, but I'm really, really enjoying Dick's Picks 22. Previously, the only live records of theirs I heard were Live/Dead and Europe '72, so I don't have much to compare it to, but damn, I've just been having "this record is exactly what I need right now" moments with this thing all week. Anyway, thanks to everyone who recommended it on this and (I think) other Dead-related threads!

That's a great one! Might be my favorite Dead record.

if you like the early dead stuff - and who doesn't - then this road trips set is equally smokin:

http://www.dead.net/store/1960s/road-trips-vol-2-no-2

The "Casey Jones" on Dick's Picks Vol. 4 (Fillmore East 2/13-14/70) is so good - and interestingly you can really hear how this is the same band that made Aoxomoxoa - people sometimes talk about Workingman's Dead as a reinvention but this "Casey Jones," all high-octane and enthused instead of laid-back, really sounds pretty psychedelic San Francisco

just listened to the branford marsalis nassau 1990 show on the archive. http://archive.org/details/gd1990-03-29.aud.nawrocki.29191.sbeok.flac16
pretty good? listening to these latter day shows has been interesting anyway, they're almost a weirder band than ever at this point.

Would just like to say that the old CompuPost would've been so disappointed in the present CompuPost for not paying closer attention to all the new vault releases over the past five years. So much to catch up on.

Love skimming through '90s shows-- each show tends to have a few highlight songs, and the performance usually sounds totally nutty compared to the song's '70s/'80s incarnations.

So, I was thinking of proposing a Grateful Dead Live Tracks ballot poll, restricted to official live releases only. Is this something anyone would be interested in? A quick look at Spotify shows that there's a wealth of live stuff (think all of Dick's Picks / Download Series / etc.) on there for people to browse through.

Would definitely be a valuable resource if enough people participated. By the time its turn comes up on the ballot poll list, I might actually have heard enough material to vote!

Heh, yeah, there's a lot of shows to consider, even if you just keep the voting to officially released live albums. Plus, I might have to do some split between Songs That Don't Really Jam / Songs that Always Jam. In which case, songs like "Tennessee Jed," "Ramble on Rose," etc. -- ie, songs that were usually done in a standard way but every so often drifted into longer, jammed renditions -- into the first category.

But yeah, I'd love to helm a ballot poll, if for no other reason but to use the results as a resource. Before Archive.org zapped all of the GD SBDs, a group of people I know basically went through and did Top 20s for all the big songs (Dark Star, Playing, Eyes, etc.) and I used the hell out of those lists before the SBDs got wiped.

seems that Dick's Picks is disappearing. Prices rising where available. Drag, since there were several others I had meant to get hold of. Physically even in some cases where I just have the files.

should have bought them on amazon mp3 a month ago whn they were all on sale for under $5.

I don't really like Mp3 that much, wouldn't be buying i that form anyway. & it's not likely that that will be the stuff that sells out. I meant physically having the discs as i think I say in the message above.

my mistake - that's exactly what you said! well, I cleaned up at that sale anyways.

just finished my lonnnnnnnng trawl through archive.org live dead, 1966-1995, one show per year. totally a fun thing to do!

Were you looking for acclaimed "best" shows, or just grabbing at random?

kinda just grabbing at random or going off or recs from friends who are more steeped in this stuff. got to be a bit more of a slog there towards the end, but there were a few 80s/90s shows that were a pleasant surprise. http://www.tumblr.com/tagged/summer-of-dead

haha tyler i have seen all of those on tumblr and every time gone 'i must get around to catching up with those'

ha, not sure if they were the most popular things i've posted, but it's been a good time! just such a cool thing to have available, a band's whole (well almost) career onstage there to check out.

It is a unique, sometimes wonderful and sometimes horrible, thing.

http://brookvalerecords.com/the-grateful-dead-dicks-picks-vol-1-vol-2-now-available-on-vinyl/

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wonder if them coming out on vinyl might mean a rerelease of any of the cds that are disappearing/

I was sorta just hoping that with the release of the series on vinyl, the price / value of the CDs I'm missing will go waaaay down.

and yeah, these vinyl reissues, too expensive. Huge Deadhead here but not one of those 1% Deadheads. The bummer about stuff like this is that if I ever do decide to hop on board and buy this series on vinyl, the first few will already be sold out (limited to 2000?? That's crazy) and I'll spend a lot of time (and money) trying to track them down to 'complete the collection' (which I haven't even done with the DP CDs yet).

Still, DP1 (73, Tampa) is way underrated and one of my favorites.

I restrained myself from buying the Spring 1990 box set and I'll restrain myself again now.

"Still, DP1 (73, Tampa) is way underrated and one of my favorites."

took me a long, long time to realize it but this is so true

these are two of my favorites! garcia solos in top form on tampa/73 and on columbus/71 song selection & pacing rule, dark star ->rockout

Aside from the lovely 'Sunshine' that kicks things off, the best thing abt DP1 = no Donna!

Aside from the lovely 'Sunshine' that kicks things off, the best thing abt DP1 = no Donna!

No! Best thing is major Phil bombs during Space. A big part of why I love Nov and Dec of 73 so much.

The Space is frightening, the Truckin' sounds like Loaded-era Velvets, and Nobody's Fault But Mine! The whole second set of this is incredible.

just listened to 12/18/73 and it is another A+ Space gem (am sure my kids appreciated it as bedtime background music).

Such a rich and tasty era for the lads.

This is the wrong forum for this, but I couldn't quickly find a good Music Book thread... Can someone recommend a good book about the Dead?? I'm really in the mood for a GD biog, if there is such a thing.

I was wondering the same thing. Every Dead bio I've come across seems to be written by an uncritical insider.

thought the mcnally book was great, though yes, it is insidery (not wholly uncritical).

Good to know. I can only imagine a Dead bio being insidery ("dude, everything they did, was...like...magic...wait...what was I talking about?") or outsidery ("everything they did pales in comparison to the overwhelming genius of everybody else"). So it's nice that there's a somewhat critical Dead voice out there.

best/worst rock biographies

is probably the most active thread for books on bands.

Cheers for the McNally tip. I can get it secondhand for less than a Euro on Amazon marketplace.

lonngggggg nyer dead article: http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2012/11/26/121126fa_fact_paumgarten?currentPage=all

Guys, dead.net is doing their 30 Days of Dead thing again this week. Each day a free high-quality live song for download. Nice way to get a daily Dead fix.

again this "month", that should read

That NYer article is a fantastic read.

yeah, i think even if you're not a deadhead, it's just an interesting look at the whole phenomenon.

It addresses what I think is the most interesting aspect of the Dead, for sure.

Thanks for posting that, tylerw. As good an overview of the Dead and their periphery as I've come across.