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    Anyone who has ever seen the Dead can testify that one of its shows will add quite a bit of color to the environment here at Stanford. Anyone who has not seen one of these spectacles should have the opportunity to do so. The Grateful Dead are an important part of the Bay Area's cultural history. Those of us who saw them last week can testify that the Dead are alive and well. The Concert Network would be hard-pressed to find an act which would bring Frost Amphitheatre to life as the Dead would. - The Stanford Daily

    As you know by now, we'd certainly have voted aye on this motion, so much so, that we've loaded up DAVE'S PICKS 49 with not one, but two complete Grateful Dead shows from the Frost Amphitheatre, Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA 4/27/85 and 4/28/85. The first shows from '85 in the series, these back-to-back hometown performances couldn't be more different while delivering the same level of passion and precision, five hours of it, in fact.

    In 1985, the band were celebrating "20 Years So Far," a feat that found them on these particular nights confident with invention in terms of both setlists and playing. There are old songs renewed, rare covers revived, undeniably nuanced Jerry moments, and a few surprises from Brent Mydland too. While it's impossible to select highlights, we can say with certainty that the overall clarity of these shows is unparalleled, courtesy of Dan Healy's recordings.

    Limited to 25,000 numbered copies, DAVE'S PICKS VOLUME 49: FROST AMPHITHEATRE, STANFORD U, PALO ALTO, CA 4/27/85 & 4/28/85 has been mastered to HDCD specs by Jeffrey Norman at Mockingbird Mastering.

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    ticket prices

    Don't know what the ticket prices started at for Phish at the Sphere, $1200 is scalper territory. As I understand it (never been to one) Phish used to go to some effort to control ticket prices. Not their fault scalpers in Vegas got crazy. They donated their efforts last summer at SPAC for two concerts for flood relief in VT and NY. Balk at anything past three digits, the last, a few nights ago in a 90 seat club, Tony Trischka quartet, $20, music was outstanding. Trischka has an album coming out in tribute to Earl Scruggs, guests include Billy Strings, Molly Tuttle, Sam Bush.

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    SOMEDAY...

    ...I'll ADD-UP the cost of the TIX for each of the 53 GD concerts which I had the opportunity to ATTEND, and...
    ...I'll guarantee that the total COST did not exceed $1,200.00...
    'nuff said!

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    uncle_tripel
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    LAST 5...

    ...LIVE @ Keystone, VOL. 1 July 1973 [Saunders, Garcia, Kahn, & Vitt]
    ...EAT A PEACH, Allman Brothers Band
    ...LOVE is All Around, Eric Burdon & War
    ...Sweet Baby James, James Taylor
    ...All The Roadrunning, Mark Knopfler & Emmylou Harris

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    The Sphere...

    Why would a band choose to play at a venue with such rip-off prices? Just another example of the all-pervading greed culture that has now gone far beyond the bounds of capitalism. I don't subscribe to that sort of culture and can't understand those that do.
    Glad to see that Vguy baulked at paying $1200 for a ticket.

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    Phish @ The Sphere looked awesome....

    ....couldn't justify $1200 however.

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    Understanding perspectives

    I think John Lennon's comment about Elvis was said from the perspective of a teenager living in the North of England in the 1950's. The amount of American music he would have heard - country, rhyhm and blues would have been very limited. So for him, before he heard Elvis, musically, it's understandable that there was nothing. It wasn't an objective statement based on historical study.

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    Lennon, Elvis, and RnR......

    Hey rockers!!!

    I say this as somebody who really likes Lennon, the early Elvis, and what came before.

    Lennon's comment that "Before Elvis there was nothing" is total BS. Anybody truly interested should read Birnbaum's "Before Elvis: The Prehistory Of Rock And Roll".

    To me, Elvis, never THE king, was a guy who was absolutely in the right place at the right time..............

    Rock on!

    Doc
    If you tried to give rock and roll another name, you might call it ‘Chuck Berry.....

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    best I could do!

    HN to death

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    H N

    RSD - got Jerry, Nightfall & King Cole

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    The Blues in England

    I might be wrong, but I don't think many people knew about the blues in England before they heard Elvis. The early 1960's seemed to be the watershed years for blues in this country...swiftly followed by Alexis Corner, Cyril Davis,The Stones, The Pretty Things, etc etc on and on... forever and ever.

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Anyone who has ever seen the Dead can testify that one of its shows will add quite a bit of color to the environment here at Stanford. Anyone who has not seen one of these spectacles should have the opportunity to do so. The Grateful Dead are an important part of the Bay Area's cultural history. Those of us who saw them last week can testify that the Dead are alive and well. The Concert Network would be hard-pressed to find an act which would bring Frost Amphitheatre to life as the Dead would. - The Stanford Daily

As you know by now, we'd certainly have voted aye on this motion, so much so, that we've loaded up DAVE'S PICKS 49 with not one, but two complete Grateful Dead shows from the Frost Amphitheatre, Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA 4/27/85 and 4/28/85. The first shows from '85 in the series, these back-to-back hometown performances couldn't be more different while delivering the same level of passion and precision, five hours of it, in fact.

In 1985, the band were celebrating "20 Years So Far," a feat that found them on these particular nights confident with invention in terms of both setlists and playing. There are old songs renewed, rare covers revived, undeniably nuanced Jerry moments, and a few surprises from Brent Mydland too. While it's impossible to select highlights, we can say with certainty that the overall clarity of these shows is unparalleled, courtesy of Dan Healy's recordings.

Limited to 25,000 numbered copies, DAVE'S PICKS VOLUME 49: FROST AMPHITHEATRE, STANFORD U, PALO ALTO, CA 4/27/85 & 4/28/85 has been mastered to HDCD specs by Jeffrey Norman at Mockingbird Mastering.

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Submitted by 1stshow70878 on Fri, 04/26/2024 - 07:12

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Had to look that up.
The spoken part between:
Redemption funds,
Stocks and bonds.
Scruggs, the master of the three finger rolling style. Changed everything.
Cheers

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Submitted by Oroborous on Tue, 04/30/2024 - 15:33

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For a real good time!
Hopefully we won’t have to wait another 10 YEARS for some 85 love!

Well 49 old friend, it’s been a gas but I guess it’s happy trails for awhile.
Tanks for the memories

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