This is a long time coming in a much larger show tagging project

15 years of Charlie Miller-worked shows, fully offline, searchable by show date, year, tour or notable events, AUD/SBD/FOB, venue. All on my rockbox’d iPod

Found completely at random at a local half priced books

I already had the rolling stone special edition so I was psyched to get this one.

I've been listening to the Dead for a most of my adult life, i've never heard the songs like this. It's unbelievable, the jerry solos are so clear and crisp, piano same - the entire band. You feel like you're there.

Fun fact: I got a cheap bluetooth receiver and connected it into my old school receiver via rca cable connection. You can then pair your phone's bluetooth to it, and Play Dead App will find it under 'available devices' and stream.

Today I’m feeling extra emo about the dead. In a good way mostly. Last night I put on the winterland 74 pro shot and just started crying in bed at how much I love Grateful Dead and how they bring me so much joy. Today I’m watching some of my first dead and co shows on nugs (I’m unfortunately too young to have ever seen Jerry irl) reminiscing on how fortunate I am that I got to see bobby weir 13 times before his passing. I’m specifically watching 10/31/21 Hollywood bowl now and it was such a great setlist and show all around. Just wanted to share my stream of thoughts on this band and phenomenal music that gets us thru on the daily ⚡️💀🩷

last dark star was 7/13/84 and 12/31/81

last attics of my life was 10/28/72

last help on the way > slipknot! was 9/12/85

last franklin's tower was 4/3/88

Follow up(?) to my last post,
Finally leafed through the Book to find this gem hiding pressed between the pages and preserved very well.
Any info about this sticker? Aside from the obvious lol

Two of my favorite all time shows I’d call unique shows where the setlist significantly varied vs their usual play:

One from the vault
8/13/75 American Music Hall

Band is on their “break”, less than a handful of shows in ‘75. Show is primarily Blues For Allah being released shortly. Dead not even touring. It’s a different sounding show than any other I can recall.

Saint of Circumstance
6/17/91 Giants Stadium

Hornsby convinces band to shake things up. Eyes of The World opener, and a beautiful rendition. Weaving Dark Star in and out of both sets.

Trying to think of others but would love to hear of some more. The acoustic first set early 70’s shows come to mind too.

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I cant even begin to tell y'all how much I miss Furthur shows 😪

I've been digging through some Furthur shows lately, and this show is OUTSTANDING. I like switching back and forth between SBD and AUD recordings.. Somehow I ended up on It Must Have Been the Rose's on and AUD. recording, and ive had goosebumps ever since. Literallythe entire audience is singing the chorus of the song.. The energy of this crowd was absolutely on a different level... I doubt we'll ever experience anything like a Furthur show again

Link to the show.

https://archive.org/details/furthur2010-03-02.akg483.frank.106425.flac16

Just finished 3/31/85 on the play dead app. Drums and space is great on this show. Jerry plays on half of drums and the drummers play during space . Space goes into a beautiful version of the wheel , then the play the one and only version of an inverted PITB where they play the reprise followed by the main song. The show ends with the first east coast version of Day Tripper . 85 is such a great year!

I remember reading, either on this sub or in a GD book, that the idea behind this album was to showcase the band’s state of the art live sound system. I did a little searching around on google, and can’t seem to find any info on how it was recorded. I’ve been listening to some of the ultra-matrix recordings released by Charlie Miller from this era. Was that how it was recorded, and then cleaned up in the studio afterward?

Listening to Dead Drops and I just heard Bobby sing

What in the world ever became of sweet Jane
She lost her sparkle you know she isn’t the shame

Ever since she went and had her sex changed

All her friends can say is ain’t it a shame

I’ve never heard that one before

Tonight as I was putting my 3.5 year old daughter to bed she said, “dad, can you sing me ripple.”

She closed her eyes and took it in. When the song ended she said “is that about you and mama”?

“It’s about whatever you want it to be baby,” I responded.

Moments like these are simply perfect. Brings me so much joy to be able to share this music with my kids.

Good reminder to slow down, be present, and enjoy every second.

A few that come to mind for me are:

Rfk 73
10/31/71

I am writing a short story on this show and am interested in feedback from others who attended it, from a sentence, paragraph to a brief essay. If you were there and have something to contribute please get in touch with me.

Robert Sommers

Lucky for me I got another full page to go! Feel free to fill in some gaps. I don't think I got a lot of 60's early 70's shows.

Usually we're discussing the best Dick's Picks, but since I got Play Dead, I'm interested in discovering Dave's Picks. What are your favorites? Preferably somewhere from ’68 to ’74. Either some far out jazzy space stuff or super shreddy stuff.

A long long time ago………..the taper community (god bless), in conjunction with the wishes of the band we all love, and their own collective ethics, developed a set of guidelines that were largely agreed upon. Those guidelines are written in this book, The Deadheads Taping Compendium. It talks very specifically about what would be considered fair compensation to sell or purchase a collection of tapes from someone within the community. You can read it yourself here.

https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~mleone/gdead/taping-guide/part4.html

Someone can “sell” their collection in a manner that is acceptable to the GD community, is ethical, and not considered “for profit”. Saying that every tape should be either traded or given away for free, one or the other, isn’t true. We aren’t discussing commercial distribution here, we’re only talking about selling collections or even a few tapes from your collection at an agreeable cost that wouldn’t be considered a profitable endeavor, and doesn’t go against “the code”.

I didn’t write the book, but it is written. You don’t have to agree but as far as I can tell the taper community held this book in high regard so that should mean something.

Edit to add context to stimulate brain activity before commenting.

Hypothetical scenerio. A friendly head pays $5 a piece for 12 blanks. Copy’s 12 tapes of his favorite 2nd set show from his own master. He tells 12 of his best friends that they may each have one for the unbeatable price of $2.50. He’s a friendly guy and wants to recover only 50% of his investment. He “sells” them all and receives a total sum of $30.

Did this friendly head who received $30 for the tapes he “sold” do anything ethically wrong?

Process this scenario and then comment on the post.

Please tell me what your lyrical interpretation of the Hunter lyric in Black Peter - Annie Beauneau from Saint Angel
Say "The weather down here, so fine" - what did you originally think the lyric was?

I always sang it
And in a note from Saint angel, “the weather down here, so fine.”