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Official Grateful Dead Thread

Auditorium Theatre in Chicago on 6/28/76 - http://bt.etree.org/details.php?id=554233

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First post in this forum. Let's send prayers and thoughts to Bob. He collapsed on stage in Portchester the other day.

I've noticed on this forum most of the music is about CDs. Wondering if there are any other tape heads out there? I have a few dozen shows via the various CD sources but listen to my tapes (about 1000) far more often. Even put a tape deck into my car (XJS). I'm an analog guy through and through. When it comes to live stuff I've done a lot of taping of shows as have friends so most of my stuff post 1985 are low generation or master sourced.

Hope everyone has a grate day.

ps. will play some of the Porchester '71 run today. Great stuff and the debuts of many classics as well.
 
Best wishes to Bob for a speedy recovery!!

Yesterday I picked up a bunch of Dead stuff from a local garage sale..

Vinyl: Europe '72 palm tree label in NM shape, no booklet though

CDs: Dick's Picks #18 and #21, "Go to Nassau", "Ladies and Gentlemen, The Grateful Dead" and some import looking thing called "Trouble ahead, Trouble behind, The Dead Live ! '71"

I left a few CDs behind because I either had them (Hundred Year Hall) or wasn't enamored of them (Shakedown Street, Long Strange Trip GH), but I may go back as there were some other LPs there I might pick up.
 
I had about 500 cassette tapes of live GD in the late 80's/early 90's. But once downloading lossless digital files that were made from the master reels started to become available, I lost interest in the cassettes - they just couldn't compare sonically. I still have about 20 cassettes I kept for posterity, and I do own a very nice home cassette deck, but I don't really play them. But I certainly would never begrudge anyone from enjoying them!!!
 
Skylab said:
I had about 500 cassette tapes of live GD in the late 80's/early 90's. But once downloading lossless digital files that were made from the master reels started to become available, I lost interest in the cassettes - they just couldn't compare sonically. I still have about 20 cassettes I kept for posterity, and I do own a very nice home cassette deck, but I don't really play them. But I certainly would never begrudge anyone from enjoying them!!!
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Ditto. I had perhaps 100 or so cassettes from a couple lots; one set even had a bunch of hand drawn DeadHead doodlings for covers. But with so much available digitally; i mean even shows I had attended in Wisconsin, it seemed pointless to hold onto a bunch of tapes I never played.

Wound up selling them on Barter Town here :thmbsp:
 
wharf rat said:
First post in this forum. Let's send prayers and thoughts to Bob. He collapsed on stage in Portchester the other day.

I've noticed on this forum most of the music is about CDs. Wondering if there are any other tape heads out there? I have a few dozen shows via the various CD sources but listen to my tapes (about 1000) far more often. Even put a tape deck into my car (XJS). I'm an analog guy through and through. When it comes to live stuff I've done a lot of taping of shows as have friends so most of my stuff post 1985 are low generation or master sourced.

Hope everyone has a grate day.

ps. will play some of the Porchester '71 run today. Great stuff and the debuts of many classics as well.
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Port Chester '71 run rocks! You'd be WR from ECF I imagine.

Andyman said:
Best wishes to Bob for a speedy recovery!!

Yesterday I picked up a bunch of Dead stuff from a local garage sale..

Vinyl: Europe '72 palm tree label in NM shape, no booklet though

CDs: Dick's Picks #18 and #21, "Go to Nassau", "Ladies and Gentlemen, The Grateful Dead" and some import looking thing called "Trouble ahead, Trouble behind, The Dead Live ! '71"

I left a few CDs behind because I either had them (Hundred Year Hall) or wasn't enamored of them (Shakedown Street, Long Strange Trip GH), but I may go back as there were some other LPs there I might pick up.
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Nice score! PM me next time you'll be in the Boston area, you can have my extra E72 booklet :)
 
wharf rat said:
First post in this forum. Let's send prayers and thoughts to Bob. He collapsed on stage in Portchester the other day.

I've noticed on this forum most of the music is about CDs. Wondering if there are any other tape heads out there? I have a few dozen shows via the various CD sources but listen to my tapes (about 1000) far more often. Even put a tape deck into my car (XJS). I'm an analog guy through and through. When it comes to live stuff I've done a lot of taping of shows as have friends so most of my stuff post 1985 are low generation or master sourced.

Hope everyone has a grate day.

ps. will play some of the Porchester '71 run today. Great stuff and the debuts of many classics as well.
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I don't have any tapes any more, :no: but a year or two back I did download every single show that was available, can't remember if it was dead.net or a bittorrent site, they're all live audience recordings, and I have to say I prefer them lo-fi or no to almost all the 'official' releases. They total about 12000 songs. I'll never run out of dead as long as I live.


I was listening to a 69 show earlier today, forgot which one, however. it was a smokin' 'lovelight' and from the audience sounds, it was a really small show.
jaz
 
Is that the original original release, or the 1972 remix?


AFAIK the only versions available are the remix, unless you buy the vinyl that came out, ?last? year, or the very original vinyl release. It should say in the liner notes 1972 jerry garcia

I'm aching to get my grubby mits on the original mix. What's become of the baby, and mountains of the moon are quite different. (I have a really crappy mp3 copy of one or both)


either way, it's got to be worth a fortune! Personally, I'm glad to see it being played, instead of stored and 'looked at'
jaz
 
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