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Grateful Dead Dave’s Picks Volume 18

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Grateful Dead “Dave’s Picks Volume 18” Orpheum Theatre San Francisco, CA 7/17/76 – 3 CD’s Plus a 4th (limited edition) Bonus disc. www.Dead.net – www.Rhino.com This eighteenth edition of the Dave’s Picks series is taken from the Dead’s “comeback tour,” from a six night stretch at the Orpheum Theatre in San Francisco. The three CD […]

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Grateful Dead “Dick’s Picks Volume One” Tampa, Florida 12/19/73 (2-CD’s)

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Grateful Dead “Dick’s Picks Volume One” Tampa, Florida 12/19/73 (2-CD’s) www.RealGoneMusic.com This was the first Dick’s Picks edition that was made available at www.Dead.net some twenty plus years ago in 1993. It’s also the last of a series of Dick’s Picks reissues from Real Gone Music. Real Gone started their countdown by first offering the […]

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Festival Express New Line Entertainment

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Festival Express New Line Entertainment DVD In 1970 the following bands got on a train and rode across Canada stopping to play in Toronto, Winnepeg and Calgary. The film which shows footage of them both in Concert and “ridin that train”, sat in a garage for thirty years. Imagine being on a week long train […]

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Grateful Dead “Dave’s Picks Vol. 17” Fresno, CA 7/19/1974 <3CD’s>

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Grateful Dead “Dave’s Picks Vol. 17” Fresno, CA 7/19/1974 <3CD’s> www.Dead.net – www.Rhino.com This seventeenth chapter of Dave’s Picks is resurrected from the Selland Arena in Fresno, CA recorded on July 19th, 1974. The performance occurred at a time when the Dead nearly bankrupted themselves hauling around their massive Wall of Sounds System which was […]

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Grateful Dead “Dick’s Picks Volume Two”

Richard L'Hommedieu americana, dicks picks, grateful dead, jam band March 1, 2016

Grateful Dead “Dick’s Picks Volume Two” Columbus, OH 10/31/71 www.RealGoneMusic.com Dick’s Picks Two (originally issued in 1995) is the lone single disc release from the magnificent “Dick’s Picks” series. All told: There were thirty-six “Dick’s Picks.” Nonetheless: This one packs a powerful wallop – flowing for nearly an hour of non-stop dynamic jamming. Weir’s guitar […]

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Grateful Dead “Dave’s Picks Vol.16”

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Grateful Dead “Dave’s Picks Vol.16” Springfield, MA 3/28/73 <3CD’s> www.Dead.net – www.Rhino.com Dave’s Picks 16 completes the 2015-fourth round of the latest series (four new box-sets of full performances are issued annually) with a show from Springfield, MA recorded 3/28/73 that requires three CD’s to capture this lengthy performance. Disc One: Trots out familiar first […]

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Grateful Dead “Dick’s Picks Volume Four” Fillmore East 2/13-14/1970

Richard L'Hommedieu dicks picks, grateful dead, making a Scene November 10, 2015

Grateful Dead “Dick’s Picks Volume Four” Fillmore East 2/13-14/1970 – 3 CD’s www.RealGoneMusic.com February 13-14, 1970 is one of the Dead’s most memorable appearances at Bill Graham’s historic Fillmore East. This NYC Fillmore run was partially released on vinyl in ‘73 “History of the Grateful Dead, Vol. 1 (Bear’s Choice,)” named after (Bear) Aka: Owsley […]

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Grateful Dead “Dick’s Picks Volume Five” Oakland Auditorium Arena 12/26/79

Richard L'Hommedieu dicks picks, grateful dead, jam band, making a Scene, oakland auditorium October 16, 2015

Grateful Dead “Dick’s Picks Volume Five” Oakland Auditorium Arena 12/26/79 – 3CD’s www.RealGoneMusic.com This full concert is taken from the first of the Grateful Dead’s run-up to New Year’s Eve at the Oakland Auditorium Arena; it also includes a hot preview of “Alabama Getaway” that preceded its appearance on the “Go To Heaven” album by […]

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Grateful Dead “Dave’s Picks Volume 15”

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Grateful Dead “Dave’s Picks Volume 15” Nashville, TN – 4/22/78 – Three-CD’s www.Dead.net – www.Rhino.com Mr. Lemeieux whose first name is Dave the namesake for the “Dave’s Picks” series that’s now reached its fifteenth volume. Dave states in the liners that when he released “Dave’s Picks 7” a concert that was recorded two days prior […]

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Grateful Dead Dick’s Picks Volume 6

Richard L'Hommedieu americana, dick's Picks Volume 6, grateful dead, jam band August 18, 2015

Grateful Dead “Dick’s Picks Volume Six” Hartford Civic Center 10/14/83 3-CD’s www.RealGoneMusic.com The first five Dick’s Picks were all taken from seventies concerts; this sixth Dick’s Picks installment was the first that yielded a live performance from the eighties. The two set show is delivered in its entirety on three discs with approximately three hours […]

Grateful Dead Dick's Picks Volume 8 Harpur College, NY

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Grateful Dead Dick’s Picks Volume Eight

Richard L'Hommedieu americana, dicks picks, grateful dead, jam band, making a Scene July 20, 2015

Grateful Dead “Dick’s Picks Volume Eight” Harpur College Binghamton, NY May 2nd, 1970 www.RealGoneMusic.com Harpur College May 2nd, 1970 is often ranked as one of the band’s best shows ever; it’s also a three-hour three disc box-set. This concert was captured around the time “Workingman’s Dead” was about to be released so the band was […]

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Grateful Dead “Dave’s Picks 14”

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Grateful Dead “Dave’s Picks 14” Academy of Music, NYC 3/26/72 – 3 CD’s – www.Dead.net – www.Rhino.com This is the fourteenth edition of the “Dave’s Picks” series of live performances from the bands vast tape vault. Recorded on March 26, 1972 in New York City at the now defunct Academy of Music, that was located […]

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Grateful Dead “Dick’s Picks, Vol. 11

Richard L'Hommedieu grateful dead, jam band May 11, 2015

Grateful Dead “Dick’s Picks, Vol. 11” Stanley Theater Jersey City, NJ 9/27/72 – 3 CD’s www.RealGoneMusic.com With the popular three LP “Europe ’72” set available decades prior, it took ten “Dick’s Picks” releases and nearly twenty-five years for the Dead’s archivist Dick Latvala to exhume this 1972 three CD release. Latvala selects the middle date […]

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Grateful Dead “Dick’s Picks Volume 12”

Richard L'Hommedieu grateful dead, jam band April 21, 2015

Grateful Dead “Dick’s Picks Volume 12” 6/26 & 28, 1974 www.RealGoneMusic.com These shows occurred during the same season and year that the Dead released “From the Mars Hotel” in fact, but they also continued to explore music from their previous album, “Wake of the Flood,” which was released just eight months prior. Though not indicated […]

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The Best of the Grateful Dead (2 CD’s)

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The Best of the Grateful Dead (2 CD’s) www.Dead.net – www.Rhino.com Issued as part of the Dead’s fiftieth anniversary, their “long strange trips” will (supposedly) conclude over the Fourth of July weekend (2015) with three shows titled “Fare Thee Well: Celebrating Fifty Years of the Grateful Dead” at Chicago’s Soldier Field. Previously there have only […]

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Grateful Dead “Dave’s Picks Vol. 13”

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Grateful Dead “Dave’s Picks Vol. 13” 2/24/74 (3 CD’s) www.Dead.net – www.Rhino.com The bottomless Dave’s Picks series presents handpicked Grateful Dead performances from over four decades of thousands of gigs. Volume thirteen unearths the entire three-set performance from the final night of their three-night run at San Francisco’s legendary (previously an ice-skating rink) Winterland Ballroom/Arena. […]

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Grateful Dead “Dick’s Picks Volume 13” Nassau Coliseum 5/6/81

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Grateful Dead “Dick’s Picks Volume 13” Nassau Coliseum 5/6/81 www.RealGoneMusic.com This is only the second of the (than) thirteen Dick’s Picks series that Dick Latvala selected from the eighties. Latvala kept no secrets about his preferences for early seventies sets, and was quoted “the eighties are a challenge for anyone.” I concur with Latvala as […]

Grateful Dead Dick's Picks 14 Boston Music Hall

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Grateful Dead Dick’s Picks Vol. 14

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Grateful Dead “Dick’s Picks Vol. 14” Boston Music Hall 11/30 & 12/2/1973 (4 CD’s) www.RealGoneMusic.com The deceased Grateful Dead tape archivist Dick Latvala selected the concerts for the Dick’s Picks series, “Dick’s Picks 14” is culled from their three-night run (only two nights are offered here) at the intimate Boston Music Hall, Latvala presents edited […]

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Grateful Dead Dave’s Picks Volume 12

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Grateful Dead: “Dave’s Picks Volume 12,” 3 CD’s, Hamilton, NY (discs 1 & 2) Toronto, Canada (disc 3.) www.Dead.net – www.Rhino.com This twelfth edition is taken from the band’s performances at Colgate University in Hamilton, NY on November 4th, 1977 plus a third disc of (bonus) material recorded two days prior in Toronto, Ontario. Only […]

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Jerry Garcia Band w/Nicky Hopkins Garcia Live Volume 5

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Jerry Garcia Band w/Nicky Hopkins Garcia Live Volume 5 – 2 CD’s – 12/31/75 ATO Records – www.JerryGarcia.com This is the fifth volume of this relatively new GarciaLive series from ATO Records who seemingly picked up the pieces from the now out of print “Pure Jerry” collections from the Jerry Garcia estate. Approximately two years […]

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Grateful Dead “Dick’s Picks Vol.15”

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Grateful Dead “Dick’s Picks Vol.15” Englishtown, NJ 9/3/77 www.RealGoneMusic.com 3 CD’s “Dick’s Picks Volume 15” is a complete performance from Raceway Park in Englishtown, NJ, an outdoor event with over one-hundred thousand fans in attendance. The New Riders of the Purple Sage and The Marshall Tucker Band also performed. How do I know these details? […]

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Grateful Dead “Dave’s Picks: Volume 11” Wichita, KS 11/17/1972 (3 CD’s)

Richard L'Hommedieu .blues, americana, dave's picks, grateful dead, jam band, making a Scene August 18, 2014

Grateful Dead “Dave’s Picks: Volume 11” Wichita, KS 11/17/1972 (3 CD’s) www.Dead.net – www.Rhino.com Recorded by the legendary Owsley “Bear” Stanley these original tapes have been re-mastered in HDCD, like many of these rerelease series (Dave’ Picks, Dick’s Picks, Road Trips, and etcetera) the sound quality noticeably improves as the evening wears on, similarly the […]

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Grateful Dead “Dick’s Picks Eighteen

Richard L'Hommedieu americana, blues, dicks picks eighteen, grateful dead, jam, making a Scene July 10, 2014

Grateful Dead “Dick’s Picks Eighteen” 2/3 & 2/5/78 (3 CD’s) www.RealGoneMusic.com This Dick’s Picks edition is somewhat unique in that disc one is taken from two shows that are combined to “create” a first set of performances. Disc two contains the entire second set from 2/3, and disc three is the entire second set from […]

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Grateful Dead “Dave’s Picks Volume 10″

Richard L'Hommedieu .blues, dave's picks, grateful dead, jam, making a Scene June 23, 2014

Grateful Dead “Dave’s Picks Volume 10” Thelma, Los Angeles, CA 12/12/69 www.Dead.net – www.Rhino.com Dave’s Picks, Vol. 10: Thelma, Los Angeles, CA 12/12/69 is a snapshot of the band just prior to when they would enter the studio to record “Workingman’s Dead,” and they’re hitting on seven of the eight tracks (“New Speedway Boogie” was […]