Grateful Dead: Barton Hall, Cornell U. 5/8/77 & "Get Shown The Light" box set*

It's been at least a decade since I've heard Cornell. I'm going to consider it a "new" show. I've got some 76 in the queue to prepare.

 

Prepare for an eargasmic experience.

 

Well you can emulate how it was for your average suburban fan far from the inner circles of tape trading in the late ‘80s; first forget any official live GD you have heard except the released albums like Live/Dead or Skull & Roses, then spend the next month only going to the Archives and listening to audience tapes or any sbd with a couple of tape gens in them all with varying states of questionable sources, speeds and mastering (stay away from anything Charlie Miller did for Pete’s sake!) then when 5/8/77 and 5/9/77 hits your porch, blow the doors out.

 

Nicely put!

 

I'm starting to get excited even though I've heard Cornell and Buffalo many times. Judging by how fast they released this after acquiring the tapes I think Team Dead is probably excited too.

 

Sorry to ask you experts a dumb question but as a "Dead Newbie" what is the Sunshine Daydream set?

 

Anyone know the source for Dancin' In The Streets that they included on the expanded edition of Terrapin Station?

 

8.27.72

One of the other Holy Grails...

 

Sunshine Daydream Deluxe CD/Blu-ray (Exclusive) | Grateful Dead

 

Well, the Allmans camp used this on Duane's box set a few years back, so I thought something reciprocal was in the works then... But nothing appeared.

 

Pretty sure it's the same DAT recording from the Betty Board reels that circulated among traders, as that was long before the reels returned to the Vault. The new version freshly taken from the reels at higher bit rate and then run through Plangent Processing and mastered by Jeffrey Norman should be an improvement, although that version certainly sounded fine.

 

They used Sugar Magnolia from that show on the box, not BIODTL, IIRC. (AAU - Acronymns Are Us).

 

Indeed I do, it sounds promising. As long as they're not disco versions

 

I like those Disco era Big Rivers.

 

Oh, that's right! "BIODTL" was supposed to go on the Ladies and Gentlemen release, but they couldn't clear it - that's what I mixed it up with.

 

Gotcha, and I think you are right - I'd forgotten that was the case. Anyway, as I've mentioned on either this or the Grateful Thread, I would love to see more of the Allmans/GD collaborations officially released. Especially 2/11/70 and 6/10/73, in that order of priority, but am also not holding my breath.

 

I've never heard a note from any of the shows. I love Dick's 29 - especially the 5/21/77 show. Looking forward to all of it.

 

Hope they do as good a job with the vinyl on this that they did with the Sunshine Daydream vinyl.

 

Yeah, about that...

 

Thanks. Perhaps you're right.

I can't do downloads here, unfortunately. I've never been a downloader, in any case.

 

Listening to the Charlie Miller board of 2/17/82 Warfield. A very enjoyable show so far (I'm up to Tennessee Jed at the moment).

[Oops, posted in wrong GD thread. I'll take this opportunity to say that given the Europe '72 track record and even more importantly, the fact that the music only edition was created in order to address the high demand for the limited edition and people's complaints about the limited nature of that set, it is very hard to imagine a scenario where they let the music only edition go out of print before release day. I don't think Rhino/dead.net/the powers that be are actively trying to generate bad will.]

 

I'll probably order the FLAC on May 5th.
I have no interest or need for the packaging.

 

I'm kind of glad I'm getting the book and stuff, but had I known they would do the lossless download for this, I would have opted for that.

 

Yes. I bought Fillmore West 1969 thinking it was a full concert. The cover art was tricky. Certainly it has the appearance of a full concert and from the track list on the back. I would not have bought it had I known it was a compilation. I want as many of the 1969-72 concerts as I can get. I don't need all of them, just a lot of them.

I was delighted when Criterion brought out The Emigrants (1971) and The New Land (1972). Both richly rewarding films. Nice to see them again in hi-def after they'd disappeared for a generation. My parents took me to see these when they were new. Zandy's Bride (1974), too. Not as good because it's burdened with Gene Hackman who was the wrong actor for the part, but a fine film nonetheless, released by Warner Archive. Further, this type of film is no longer made in the USA. The younger generation in Hollywood despise westerns or historical westerns. They think the genre is something to be ashamed of. But recently Europeans have made a growing number of small, low-budget westerns about emigrants to the American west necessarily filmed in other countries standing in for the American west. I can furnish the short list if you're interested.

 

Eh, you know, there is another forum here for all this Bergman and other European art-film talk.