Looking for some recommendations on extended improv that stays within general song structures or hits other thematic keys without truly getting "out there"
I'm a high school teacher sitting here listening to 7/31/74 Playin' with a lot of complaints from students who don't "get it" lol.
Thank you!
5/20/73 at Campus Stadium, UCSB, Santa Barbara, CA
Photos from the show here on dead.net
This show was also included in Here Comes Sunshine 1973 box set but this does not appear in the PlayDead app, yet.
I’m playing with the formatting and trying to be more comprehensive in these daily posts - always open to suggestions!
They’re really going about this the wrong way if they’re trying to entice people on the fence to stay.
Your first weeks of drops are a big run of shows? Cool technically, but to launch the app?
Pull out some weird one off shows. Jump eras. 95 shows and a 65 show in the same week. Do cool weird little stuff like “two shows played during the World Series” or “Two shows with the same guest in different years”.
These Dead Drops are clearly the biggest draw to the app — make em more of a special thing. This feels like cleaning out the vault. “Oh this run of shows is decent and we’ve got good tapes but this will never be a box set so we’ll just drop it on the app.”
Feels like a big missed opportunity and a really weird choice to go with a big run to kick off these drops.
I appreciate getting the whole run but, do they have to be released in sequence?
Also can we get some PRIMAL???
Listen Here: live.gd/1988-09-19
Recorded By: Dan Healy
Tape Transfer By: Sonicraft
Mastered By: David Glasser
Master Sample Rate: 24-bit/96 kHz
Source Media: Sony DT-90&120 DATs
"September ’88 at the Garden just keeps rolling. Night six opens with Touch of Grey, immediately lighting up the room. Lazy Red Rooster’s and a Dire Wolf’ follow, while a rare Brent tune, Far From Me, brings forth a strong Queen Jane from Bobby. The band is feeling it and Tennessee Jed has everyone singing before an extended Let It Grow closes the first set.
Victim or the Crime opens the second set and pulls the Garden into dark territory before Foolish Heart turns the corner. Then comes the glory with a Playing in the Band > China Doll > Playing in the Band, pre drums, now that’s a rare sandwich leaving no one hungry as they go into Drums > Space.
Out of space we get The Wheel > a standout Black Peter > Around & Around > Good Lovin’ and it has the Garden rocking before a powerful Quinn the Eskimo closes another epic night." - Martin Knott
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5/19/74 at Portland Memorial Coliseum, Portland, OR
https://live.gd/3QHS8WO
And the Pacific Northwest '73–'74: The Complete Recordings (cannot find in the app, yet)
5/19/77 at Fox Theatre, Atlanta, GA
https://live.gd/3QJjPP2
Also included in:
Dick’s Picks Vol. 29 (from the first track up until Estimated Prophet)
https://live.gd/3OL5aSU
So I’m listening to my second show on the app - 8/14/71 (after listening to one of the MSG 88 shows). There’s a gap in between songs on this one that I didn’t notice with the other.
Are some just this way or is there a setting I’m missing?
There are a ton of cheap dongle dacs out there that give a great performance for a low price!!
I noticed all of the recent drops were recorded on DAT. For the shows that were originally recorded to DAT, what is the point of upsampling from 16 bit to 24 bit?
If I start to play from a specific show date on the BROWSE BY YEAR option, I really wish it would play sequentially from that point onward instead of jumping into total randomness.
This is especially true when it comes to those legendary three-night runs. If I start on night one, I want the app to roll right into night two and night three automatically.
Continuous, endless playback is amazing, but having a "Sequential Mode" toggle for playback would take this feature to the next level. I have to throw them all in to a year by year playlist!
EDIT: For everyone saying create a playlist: Absolutely that works... Until the new release has an early calendar recording date. It's all fun and games until you have to redo an entire playlist to properly fit February 1, 1978.... If we had better playlist management (sorting, ability to multi select, etc.) it would be helpful but at this point both options suck.
What's easier to implement? Sequental playback or playlist/library management features?
Not sure if this has been mentioned already. Think about it, lots of times when we get the CDs, discs two and three are separated by drums/space, but now on Play Dead the audio is restored without the fade out/in. Shows like 4/20/84 that had a cut in the middle of Space are now one whole song and I didn’t have to splice it myself in Audacity after ripping the CD.
Just convenient
The 04/24/72 show has the Rockin' the Rhein album cover and not the cover used for Europe 72 The Complete Recordings my question is did they use the master tapes used for Rockin' the Rhein instead of the ones used for the complete recordings on the playdead app or are the the same set of masters? In my mind they would of probably remastered the show for the complete recordings and not used the one from the 2004 Rockin the Rhein album but I'm no expert in this matter
"The Grateful Dead have never “Boxed” up anything that wasn’t spectacular.
The 2013 May 1977 release begins on May 11th in St. Paul Minnesota and follows the band through five remarkable performances starting just two days after the Holy Trilogy. The first stop is St. Paul, then two at Chicago’s Auditorium Theater, downriver to St. Louis for a night and then Southeast to Tuscaloosa and the University of Alabama campus.
By Spring ’77, the band had been back on the road for about a year and you can hear the confidence growing every single night. This tour has often been described as “one long show,” and these performances make the case. There’s no letup—only forward motion. Songs stretch, transitions deepen, (Estimated > Eyes, Scarlet > Fire) and the listening gets better by the night. For most of these fans, this was the first time they were seeing Terrapin, Estimated and Scarlet > Fire…mind blown. I can just imagine what it was like, though we don’t have to imagine because these recordings bring you right into the room.
Chicago brings visits from Dr. Beechwood and Dr. Shot (Mickey and Billy in Scrubs) for an electric start to the second evening. Along the way we get the birth of Jack-A-Roe, Passenger, and Iko Iko. And then there’s Scarlet Begonias > Fire on the Mountain—plays 9, 10, and 11 as a pairing—all unfolding in the shadow of Cornell, each one completely different, especially the transitions.
It's hours and hours of listening pleasure from one of the great touring months in the band’s history." - Martin Knott
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5/16/72 at La Grande Salle du Grand Theatre, Luxembourg City, Luxembourg
https://live.gd/4vAC74X
5/16/80 at Nassau Coliseum, Uniondale, NY
https://live.gd/4sIkmy9
5/16/81 at Barton Hall, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY
https://live.gd/4tNlJMP
Happy Saturday to everyone.
The May 1977 box is now up. Here’s a link to a playlist: https://live.gd/42Vrn4p
5/17/74 at P.N.E. Coliseum, Vancouver, BC
https://live.gd/4cP3Mru
5/17/77 at Memorial Coliseum, U of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, AL
https://live.gd/4eKLfyd
Here's the one from today.
https://view.mail.nugs.net/?vawpToken=AO2LYXAXSY7UBLKTJ55ESKIK7U.10197
Does anybody have links to all the mails going back to launch? (Assuming these don't expire after a few days.)
It's nothing too substantial, but they have some comments on the recordings.