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I still have barely scratched the surface of the Pacific Northwest box. Same with the R.E.M. BBC box. So, like the last several years I tell myself I'm not going to subscribe next year, and then I immediately subscribed after watching the video this morning. Addiction?

Dave's Picks 2019 subscription and the first release Vol. 29 announced. A great show, Swing Aud. 2/26/77. http://www.dead.net/almanac?eml=2018October25/4458581/6131962&etsubid=27625223

Yeah, but you got the cool photos!

Courtney Barnett

Phish

Saw that. Dave recently released a July '76 show from SF. Other than the total fun of being at this Passaic and Beacon shows, not my favorite era of GD music in retrospect, but I have the subscription so I'll check it out.

I caught a lot of the second set of Oakland 8-5-79 on Sirius in my car yesterday. I thought it was outstanding. Not sure I had ever spent much time listening to that show.

I noticed the Wilco photo staring right at me. Can't make out the other posters.

Ha! I knew the photo you posted on Instagram couldn’t have been all of it. Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk

Summer Teeth!

My box was delivered to my office yesterday but I was out for the Jewish holiday. I'm in today and it is still sitting unopened. Good thing I have my car with me, that would be a bear to carry home on the train I'm going to try to resist having my first listens of each show be on my phone or iPod. These shows are going to deserve the full home system, but that's going to take me a lot longer to get through. We'll see if I can resist.

I always get a kick when I flip to the GD channel and hear something from a show I was at. Today’s edition: U.S. Blues from the Beacon, June 14, 1976. Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk

Unfortunately looks like I'll be missing them in Boston. Dang.

Wow. I'm in for the pre-order.

I got a shipping notice email from the Grateful Dead Store.

I saw that too. Don't remember if I saw it on FB or Instagram. Very cryptic, but must mean a live release from some BBC performance is imminent.

Pearl Jam. First time for me.

Huge bummer for all the fans who traveled from far and wide, and those who spent tons of $$ to rent RV's. Always good to listen to Billy Breathes. There was a recent podcase celebrating the 20th anniversary of the release of BB, they had Trey on the phone for about an hour talking about it. Great stuff.

Excellent show, and I got to buy a re-release vinyl of Alone Together. We wore out the grooves to our original colored vinyl back in the high school days. I've seen Dave about 7-8 times over the last 5 years, it's always a good show. Physically he's old and creaky, he walks with an awkward old man limp, but give him a guitar and mike and his guitar playing and vocals haven't lost a thing. Remarkable. I thought Cropper has lost something off his guitar fastball, but his playing had his unmistakable sound, and it was great to hear his songs in the set, all those Booker T and Otis Redding and Bl

There was, but surprisingly not with Cropper and Mason. The way the show works is that the band comes out sans Cropper and Mason and does about a half hour of an opening set. During that set they did Change. The female vocalist in Dave's band is quite good and really let it rip.

Dave Mason and Steve Cropper

Same. Saw Beck in Boston last month, he finished his main set after 1 hour and 10 minutes. You have to be kidding me. You don't deserve an encore after playing for 70 minutes. There was no curfew issue, he finished his encore set by 10:40 at a venue with an 11:00 curfew.

I was in high school in the early-mid '70's and started in with the Dead, Allmans, New Riders, Hot Tuna, etc., and then Phish, Warren, etc, so I come from a place where my favorite bands always had completely different shows every night. The goal is always to see as many shows on consecutive nights as possible as there would likely be no repeats. So I'm not one for the pre-fabricated shows, some of which have the same banter, every night. I do see those shows but would never go multiple nights. And not to say I don't enjoy the big shows/big tours, but knowing there's a lack of spontaneity does

23 years ago today. Damn it always hurts.

Thanks for the report. I've been wondering, what did the Nels and Warren set consist of?