I listened to the first disc of Three from the Vault thinking about Robert Hunter last night. It's from the Capitol Theatre in Feb 1971. One of these days I need to check out the New Riders of the Purple Sage recording with Jerry on pedal steel from the same shows.
― earlnash, Thursday, 26 September 2019 01:56 (four years ago) link
GRATEFUL DEAD: READY OR NOTNew Live Collection Features Nine Unreleased Performances From The Early ‘90s, Presenting What The Next Grateful Dead Studio Album May Have Been Available On CD, Double-LP, And Digitally On November 22;Limited Edition, Colored Vinyl Version Available Exclusively At Dead.netUnreleased Live Version Of “Lazy River Road” Available Now DigitallyThe Grateful Dead may have released the band’s final studio album – Built to Last – on Halloween 1989, but that didn’t stop them from writing new songs for the following years, adding several new tracks to their live repertoire in the early ‘90s. Sadly, the group was unable to ever complete them in a studio before the death of singer/guitarist Jerry Garcia in 1995.The world will never know what that album would have sounded like, but we do have a tantalizing idea thanks to a new collection curated by the band’s archivist David Lemieux. READY OR NOT features nine unreleased live versions of late-period Grateful Dead songs that debuted in 1992 and 1993. The collection’s tracklist reflects what might have been the band’s next official studio album following Built to Last.READY OR NOT will be released on November 22 on CD, digital download, streaming, and as a 180-gram 2-LP set, limited to 10,000 copies. Dead.net will offer an exclusive coloured vinyl version of the 2-LP set with one red LP and one blue LP, limited to 2,000 copies. “Lazy River Road” live from Chapel Hill, North Carolina on March 25, 1993, is available now digitally.“Ready Or Not has been a long time coming. It’s an album we've been working on for many, many years. This batch of ‘new’ Grateful Dead songs has never been compiled in one place and given its proper due as a huge part of the Dead's late-era legacy,” says Lemieux. “Many of these songs can easily stand alongside some of the Dead's oldest, most-loved songs as bona fide classics despite their short tenure in the repertoire. We've dug deep into the archive and listened to countless live versions of these songs to find the best, most definitive live performances. When the Grateful Dead were ‘on’ in their later years, their live concerts were as good as any era in their history. The nine songs on Ready Or Not exemplify how good the Dead could be in their later years of touring.”The collection focuses on the best unreleased live versions of these late-period gems, all mastered from the original digital soundboard tapes. Recorded live between 1992 and 1995, READY OR NOT spotlights performance by the final Grateful Dead lineup: Jerry Garcia, Mickey Hart, Bill Kreutzmann, Phil Lesh, Bob Weir, and new keyboardist Vince Welnick. Four of the album’s nine tracks originally debuted during a two-day period in February 1993, including “Lazy River Road,” “Liberty,” and “Eternity,” a song that Weir wrote with Rob Wasserman and blues legend Willie Dixon. Another was “Days Between.” This grand and achingly nostalgic Robert Hunter and Garcia composition closes the album with a version that was recorded in December 1994 at the Oakland-Alameda County Coliseum.Hunter – who worked mainly with Garcia – began writing with Weir again during this period. Two of their collaborations are featured on READY OR NOT: “Corinna” and “Easy Answers.” The album also includes “Samba In the Rain,” a song by Welnick that features Hunter’s lyrics. The album’s two remaining songs – “Way To Go Home” and “So Many Roads” – made their live debut in February 1992, just a few months before the live versions included on READY OR NOT. READY OR NOTCD Track Listing“Liberty” – Madison Square Garden, New York, NY (10/14/94)“Eternity” – The Pyramid, Memphis, TN (4/2/95)“Lazy River Road” – Dean Smith Center, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC (3/25/93)“Samba In The Rain” – The Omni, Atlanta, GA (3/30/95)“So Many Roads” – Star Lake Amphitheatre, Burgettstown, PA (6/23/92)“Way To Go Home” – Deer Creek Music Center, Noblesville, IN (6/28/92)“Corrina” – Madison Square Garden, New York, NY (10/14/94)“Easy Answers” – Spectrum, Philadelphia, PA (9/13/93)“Days Between” – Oakland-Alameda County Coliseum, Oakland, CA (12/11/94)
New Live Collection Features Nine Unreleased Performances From The Early ‘90s,
Presenting What The Next Grateful Dead Studio Album May Have Been
Available On CD, Double-LP, And Digitally On November 22;
Limited Edition, Colored Vinyl Version Available Exclusively At Dead.net
Unreleased Live Version Of “Lazy River Road” Available Now Digitally
The Grateful Dead may have released the band’s final studio album – Built to Last – on Halloween 1989, but that didn’t stop them from writing new songs for the following years, adding several new tracks to their live repertoire in the early ‘90s. Sadly, the group was unable to ever complete them in a studio before the death of singer/guitarist Jerry Garcia in 1995.
The world will never know what that album would have sounded like, but we do have a tantalizing idea thanks to a new collection curated by the band’s archivist David Lemieux. READY OR NOT features nine unreleased live versions of late-period Grateful Dead songs that debuted in 1992 and 1993. The collection’s tracklist reflects what might have been the band’s next official studio album following Built to Last.
READY OR NOT will be released on November 22 on CD, digital download, streaming, and as a 180-gram 2-LP set, limited to 10,000 copies. Dead.net will offer an exclusive coloured vinyl version of the 2-LP set with one red LP and one blue LP, limited to 2,000 copies. “Lazy River Road” live from Chapel Hill, North Carolina on March 25, 1993, is available now digitally.
“Ready Or Not has been a long time coming. It’s an album we've been working on for many, many years. This batch of ‘new’ Grateful Dead songs has never been compiled in one place and given its proper due as a huge part of the Dead's late-era legacy,” says Lemieux. “Many of these songs can easily stand alongside some of the Dead's oldest, most-loved songs as bona fide classics despite their short tenure in the repertoire. We've dug deep into the archive and listened to countless live versions of these songs to find the best, most definitive live performances. When the Grateful Dead were ‘on’ in their later years, their live concerts were as good as any era in their history. The nine songs on Ready Or Not exemplify how good the Dead could be in their later years of touring.”
The collection focuses on the best unreleased live versions of these late-period gems, all mastered from the original digital soundboard tapes. Recorded live between 1992 and 1995, READY OR NOT spotlights performance by the final Grateful Dead lineup: Jerry Garcia, Mickey Hart, Bill Kreutzmann, Phil Lesh, Bob Weir, and new keyboardist Vince Welnick.
Four of the album’s nine tracks originally debuted during a two-day period in February 1993, including “Lazy River Road,” “Liberty,” and “Eternity,” a song that Weir wrote with Rob Wasserman and blues legend Willie Dixon. Another was “Days Between.” This grand and achingly nostalgic Robert Hunter and Garcia composition closes the album with a version that was recorded in December 1994 at the Oakland-Alameda County Coliseum.
Hunter – who worked mainly with Garcia – began writing with Weir again during this period. Two of their collaborations are featured on READY OR NOT: “Corinna” and “Easy Answers.” The album also includes “Samba In the Rain,” a song by Welnick that features Hunter’s lyrics. The album’s two remaining songs – “Way To Go Home” and “So Many Roads” – made their live debut in February 1992, just a few months before the live versions included on READY OR NOT.
READY OR NOT
CD Track Listing
“Liberty” – Madison Square Garden, New York, NY (10/14/94)
“Eternity” – The Pyramid, Memphis, TN (4/2/95)
“Lazy River Road” – Dean Smith Center, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC (3/25/93)
“Samba In The Rain” – The Omni, Atlanta, GA (3/30/95)
“So Many Roads” – Star Lake Amphitheatre, Burgettstown, PA (6/23/92)
“Way To Go Home” – Deer Creek Music Center, Noblesville, IN (6/28/92)
“Corrina” – Madison Square Garden, New York, NY (10/14/94)
“Easy Answers” – Spectrum, Philadelphia, PA (9/13/93)
“Days Between” – Oakland-Alameda County Coliseum, Oakland, CA (12/11/94)
― van dyke parks generator (anagram), Tuesday, 8 October 2019 16:04 (four years ago) link
Interesting concept, but I'm now on Archive listening to "Samba" (a song no one ever liked) in the echoey Omni and it's dreadful, sorry.
― A breezy pop-rock feel fairly typical of the mid-'80s (Dan Peterson), Tuesday, 8 October 2019 16:43 (four years ago) link
In slightly more exciting news (and far better artwork), Dave's Picks 32 will be 3/24/73 at The Spectrum.
― soaring skrrrtpeggios (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Tuesday, 8 October 2019 17:14 (four years ago) link
I don’t get why anyone would spend $$ on that collection of new songs. If you really need to hear them they are widely available online. And several of those songs are undeniably terrible. I guess it’s cheap to produce and see who bites?
― tobo73, Tuesday, 8 October 2019 19:04 (four years ago) link
aside from "days between" (and maybe "so many roads") this stuff isn't very good ... and sometimes it's very bad!
― tylerw, Tuesday, 8 October 2019 19:22 (four years ago) link
― soaring skrrrtpeggios (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Tuesday, October 8, 2019 1:14 PM (two hours ago) bookmarkflaglink
Oh HELL yeah, this show has my favorite version of He's Gone, among numerous early 73 highlights
― J. Sam, Tuesday, 8 October 2019 20:06 (four years ago) link
its a stone cold classic, for the Phil solo alone
― tobo73, Tuesday, 8 October 2019 20:10 (four years ago) link
that ready or not album art... yikes
https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/61Fjq0-8DUL.jpg
― global tetrahedron, Tuesday, 8 October 2019 20:15 (four years ago) link
hahaha
https://i.imgur.com/jTSYC5q.jpg
That's much better.
― soaring skrrrtpeggios (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Tuesday, 8 October 2019 20:24 (four years ago) link
yeah reminds me of the other DP with the aliens. the one with the 'close encounters' intro to st stephen. still love that one
― global tetrahedron, Tuesday, 8 October 2019 22:23 (four years ago) link
i didn't know donna could sing!
I once mistook her for Kate Bush when a housemate was playing a Dead show
― sleeve, Tuesday, 8 October 2019 22:26 (four years ago) link
DaP 23! Eugene 1/22/78! One of my favorite entries in the series.
(xpost)
― soaring skrrrtpeggios (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Tuesday, 8 October 2019 22:38 (four years ago) link
― sleeve
ts: donna's version of "babooshka" versus her version of "escape (the pina colada song)"
― Spironolactone T. Agnew (rushomancy), Wednesday, 9 October 2019 00:49 (four years ago) link
Lol
― Beware of Mr. Blecch, er...what? (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 9 October 2019 00:50 (four years ago) link
I just wanna talk about how much I miss Dicks Picks cover art from Volume 19-24.
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/5/51/Grateful_Dead_-_Dick%27s_Picks_Volume_19.jpg/220px-Grateful_Dead_-_Dick%27s_Picks_Volume_19.jpg
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/f/f2/Grateful_Dead_-_Dick%27s_Picks_Volume_20.jpg
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/e/e2/Grateful_Dead_-_Dick%27s_Picks_Volume_21.jpg
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/d/d0/Grateful_Dead_-_Dick%27s_Picks_Volume_22.jpg
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/b/ba/Grateful_Dead_-_Dick%27s_Picks_Volume_23.jpg
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/6/61/Grateful_Dead_-_Dick%27s_Picks_Volume_24.jpg
― ☮ (peace, man), Wednesday, 9 October 2019 11:42 (four years ago) link
Those were good. I loved the 19 cover with the wheat field.
My unofficial ranking of the Dick's art:lightning bolt (19-24)tape box (1-6)mailers (26-30)cosmic moving fractals (31-36)fractals (13-18)one off Dick plaque (25)flying carpet (7-12)
― soaring skrrrtpeggios (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Wednesday, 9 October 2019 13:59 (four years ago) link
Agreed!
― ☮ (peace, man), Wednesday, 9 October 2019 15:33 (four years ago) link
The new Dave's Picks 32 confirming that there are still loads of great '73 shows to be mined. You know it's a good show when Phil pretty much nails the "Box of Rain" vocals.
― soaring skrrrtpeggios (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Friday, 8 November 2019 16:39 (four years ago) link
My parents were at the vol 24 show. It was their wedding night.
― brimstead, Saturday, 9 November 2019 05:31 (four years ago) link
haven't gotten to it yet but 30 from earlier this year fuckin knocked me over. one of the best shows ever.
― she carries a torch. two torches, actually (Joan Crawford Loves Chachi), Saturday, 9 November 2019 23:16 (four years ago) link
I've just bought Dick's Picks vol 36 for a high, but reasonable price.
― Duke, Thursday, 30 January 2020 21:13 (four years ago) link
Hesitated because I've got lots of 72 Dead. But went for it because I love 72 Dead
― Duke, Thursday, 30 January 2020 21:14 (four years ago) link
Hell yeah, September 72 might be their single best month
― J. Sam, Friday, 31 January 2020 02:25 (four years ago) link
Listening to the first set from Get Shown the Light from 5/5/77 and I've rewound the guitar solo on "Peggy O" three times now.
― Revolutionary Girl Utrenja (Tom Violence), Wednesday, 29 April 2020 23:25 (three years ago) link
i was spinning "the eleven" from 1970-04-24 for a couple friends just now (those of you who can't fuck with AUDs are missing out, that performance is fire) and it has me thinking again that i really am curious as to what a "power trio" dead would have sounded like, just jer, phil, and billy
of course they never played in that performance but it does make me wonder if the stems are out there of any of the multitrack shows from back in the day, if anybody's tried it, just mixing out bob and keith or tc or whoever else was with them that day
like, uh, you know, if you've ever heard the raw mix of "maggot brain" and there's a really prominent vibraphone part, or the way david cross is basically mixed out of the "red" version of "asbury park"
― Kate (rushomancy), Thursday, 30 April 2020 01:25 (three years ago) link
There are some interesting '74 single drummer shows on the Archive where the sound mix is jacked such that you can hear different incarnations of the band, like the Bertha from https://archive.org/details/gd74-06-16.sbd.fink.17701.sbeok.shnf/gd74-06-16d1t01.shn is basically just Jerry, Bill and Keith, not sure if there are any from this era that just capture Jerry, Bill and Phil though.
― BrianB, Thursday, 30 April 2020 16:07 (three years ago) link
Yeah, I've heard some weird mix shows and I definitely like hearing them. Half the time the Dead sound good it just seems like an accident! With all the tapes out there, there's so much room for fucking around... What Oswald did was interesting but it was all based on 2-track mixdowns, and it was 25 years ago now, and I'm tantalized by how much more is possible!
― Kate (rushomancy), Thursday, 30 April 2020 16:21 (three years ago) link
Lotta soundboards from this period sound wonky for the first 1-3 songs because they were just dialing in the sounds, people ever actually listening to these was the furthest thing from their mind (as opposed to Betty Boards and audience tapes)
― Paul Ponzi, Thursday, 30 April 2020 18:11 (three years ago) link
like, here's an AI trying to do "king solomon's marbles": https://jukebox.openai.com/songs/787978798
― Kate (rushomancy), Thursday, 30 April 2020 20:21 (three years ago) link
happy anniversary
https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/417X2A5X0EL.jpg
― mookieproof, Saturday, 2 May 2020 18:55 (three years ago) link
Wow man! Must check. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dick%27s_Picks_Volume_8
― dow, Saturday, 2 May 2020 19:12 (three years ago) link
― Kate (rushomancy), Thursday, April 30, 2020 4:21 PM (two days ago) bookmarkflaglink
Lol, sounds like The War on Drugs!
― He Ain't Heavy D, He's My Brother (PBKR), Sunday, 3 May 2020 03:40 (three years ago) link
Anyone been listening to the 36 From the Vault podcast? I find it's been pretty useful for me contextualising different time periods for the band as I've only just been getting into them over the last year or so. Also made with the assumption that people who listen to Dead live shows have a lot of patience for fucking around, which is probably fair.
― in twelve parts (lamonti), Sunday, 3 May 2020 08:06 (three years ago) link
The out of tune guitars in the acoustic set of Dick's Picks 8 make me wince.
― Duke, Sunday, 3 May 2020 12:41 (three years ago) link
I love the Dead, but I struggle with their acoustic sets.
― Duke, Sunday, 3 May 2020 12:42 (three years ago) link
So now https://www.jambase.com/article/grateful-dead-workingmans-dead-50th-anniversary--skipping Live/Dead" bummer, and what the Hell, man?? I realize we already had the Beyond-Deluxe Complete 1969 Fillmore Concerts or whatever the exact title may be, but can't afford that! Just the reremasted orginal and a bonus show would be fine.
― dow, Thursday, 7 May 2020 03:51 (three years ago) link
I love Vol 8. The Viola Lee Blues on that slays.
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Thursday, 7 May 2020 04:14 (three years ago) link
One of my local record stores just posted on Facebook that a customer has sold them a complete CD set of Dick's Picks.
― Pissed Jeans Genie C. Riley (PBKR), Thursday, 7 May 2020 11:58 (three years ago) link
xpost - Apparently there's a real dearth of good quality 1970 shows in the vault, which is why they jumped ahead for this '71 Capitol Theatre show.
I figured they would have done something for Live/Dead, but I guess not. My dreams of the '69 Ark box live on.
Meantime, this new Dave's Picks from 6/23/74 at the Jai-Alai Fronton is sounding fantastic and tiding me over. Long been a fan of this show, great to have an official release. The bonus disc from the night before is terrific too.
― soaring skrrrtpeggios (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Thursday, 7 May 2020 14:25 (three years ago) link
That one contains "the sole Grateful Dead performance of Chuck Berry's "Let It Rock." I don't think they ever delivered a version of "Around and Around" that I liked, so that is not going to sell me. I'll check it out though.
― Album Moods: Rambunctious; Snide (Dan Peterson), Thursday, 7 May 2020 16:22 (three years ago) link
Haha, that's nowhere near the peak of the show, but the "Let It Rock" does slay - I like it better than most of the JGB versions I've heard and it makes me with the Dead worked it into their Berry rotation more often.
It's the "Dark Star > Spanish Jam" and the jam into "Ship of Fools" that are the selling points for me on the main show.
― soaring skrrrtpeggios (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Thursday, 7 May 2020 18:39 (three years ago) link
https://youtu.be/r9vnz8nzZus
(in re: to the discussion above about wonky mixes, etc)
― tylerw, Thursday, 7 May 2020 22:45 (three years ago) link
Apparently there's a real dearth of good quality 1970 shows in the vault, which is why they jumped ahead for this '71 Capitol Theatre show.
Almost certainly, there are a handful more outtakes/alternative mixes in the can that haven't seen release from 1970 as well than what's been officially (Though, in both cases maybe more from the American Beauty era).
I think the reason that '71 show was picked had more to do with it being a full pristine 16-track recorded show (from the run that would become the '71 Grateful Dead/Skullfuck album) than anything.
Personally, I would have rather seen a two bonuses disks of assorted 1970 live rarities, outtakes, what have you, but given the heavy live focus that GDP has had on recent reissues, that was just not going to be the case.
― gregorianpants, Friday, 8 May 2020 05:40 (three years ago) link
Oh I don't think you are wrong, I'm just going with the somewhat official line about the lack of '70s shows. I have no doubt they could compile something much better, but they seem to be really all in on the full shows being packaged with these reissues.
― soaring skrrrtpeggios (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Friday, 8 May 2020 13:54 (three years ago) link
One of the good things about lockdown is that I've been able to get through the extensive live catalogue like never before. I'll soon be racking up a Gladwellian 10,000 hours expertise...
I've finally pushed past '72, and I'm really coming round to see the virtues of '77.
― Luna Schlosser, Sunday, 31 May 2020 23:04 (three years ago) link
feeling like more of a deadhead than ever these days. must be the summer. dick’s pick’s 12 (June 26 & 28, 1974, providence & Boston) is a new discovery for me. This Spanish Jam is sick!!
― brimstead, Friday, 7 August 2020 03:18 (three years ago) link
Reading through this thread like YES GIMME MOREIs there a definitive book/bio for a relative noob?
― incapacitant hairdresser society (rizzx), Friday, 7 August 2020 19:22 (three years ago) link
Having trouble setting up some kind of listening plan here too. Tips are surely welcome
― black dice live ft. jerry garcia (rizzx), Friday, 7 August 2020 19:26 (three years ago) link
A Long Strange Trip By Dennis McNally may be deifinitive.
Searching For Th eSound by Phil Lesh was quite good So was Bill Kreuitzmann's memopir but you might want to be better versed when you read that, not sure how important taht is.
Could do with a new take on the Deadhead's tape comapnion vol 1 now that the full gigs are avaialble and more of tehm.THought that was good when most of the sets available seemed to be trading incomplete and Dick's Picks hadn't been set up fully yet.Could be taht something like that is already around? But chronological layout is pretty important I think.
― Stevolende, Friday, 7 August 2020 19:28 (three years ago) link