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Official Grateful Dead Thread

I def miss getting a batch of trades in the mail. I had at least 1200hrs of GoGD and 400hrs of Jerry stuff in 1995. Sound quality was NOTHING CLOSE to the official CD versions, but it'd be fun to dig thru them now in retrospect. I gave them all away at OCF 1999 iirc. After i decided to start buying the Dick's Picks.
 
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Just announced: Dave's Pick 34 is gonna be 6-23-74!! Bonus disc will be ~80mins of 6-22-74. Finally! YES. :banana:

To include the first ever Phil & Ned Seastones performance. Many feel it was also the best live version.
 
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Those good ol' Maxell XL II 90's. Brings back alot of fond memories. (But, i gave 'em all away for good reason.)
You can pry my official GoGD CD collection from my cold, DEAD hands! Next 2 DaPs are gonna be killer.

That said, i reckon the olde 90's era cassettes are more reliable after 30 years than lossy CDRs.
 
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Those good ol' Maxell XL II 90's. Brings back alot of fond memories. (But, i gave 'em all away for good reason.)
You can pry my official GoGD CD collection from my cold, DEAD hands! Next 2 DaPs are gonna be killer.

That said, i reckon the olde 90's era cassettes are more reliable after 30 years than lossy CDRs.
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I most likely will never get rid of my tapes. Most have been gifted to me through the years and its cool to think of all the places they could've been. Also, I was gifted about 2k tapes from an old taper, including masters of some fine fine fine 90-91 recordings that sound better than any torrent/LMA download.

The official releases sound good but I spend that money on new bands/records. I like a little fuzz and grime with my GD ;)
 
Hear ya. I have a massive CD/LP collection of all kinds of music. I got rid of the tapes mostly to simply create more storage space. Tapes are fun, but you gotta admit they are a bit clunky.
Very few holes left to fill with the official CD releases now. Just about every tour and year that was taped from the board is now represented. For completists the 80s & 90's are yet to be comprehensively represented, but the peak years are a bounty.
 
I'm an analog guy and enjoy the spinning of records and tapes. Plus I'm just cheap. I would love to have some of box sets out there. The Fillmore '69 comes to mind.
 
Remembering Bear on what would have been his 85th birthday.

Alvan Meyerowitz
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"Augustus Owsley Stanley III (January 19, 1935 – March 12, 2011) was an American audio engineer and clandestine chemist. He was a key figure in the San Francisco Bay Area hippie movement during the 1960s and played a pivotal role in the decade’s counterculture. Under the professional name Bear, he was the soundman for the rock band the Grateful Dead, whom he met when Ken Kesey invited them to an Acid Test party. As their sound engineer, Stanley frequently recorded live tapes behind his mixing board and developed their Wall of Sound sound system, one of the largest mobile public address systems ever constructed. Stanley also designed the band's trademark skull logo...."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Owsley_Stanley
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Listening the the NFC game while on-line when I hear Donna Jean and Bobby singing Estimated Prophet going into a commercial break. San Francisco will always be a GD city.
 
I got my DaP33 a couple days ago - have played the first two discs so far. Excellent sound quality and the show is killer. I had a boot of that show, so I knew it was good, but the sound quality is definitely improved with this official release. Great stuff. I like the “just exactly perfect” Grateful Dead that was 77 :)
 
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