Grateful Dead Dave’s Picks 2019 Subscription

Only song I really needed to include that I didn’t was Scarlet Begonias. Maybe also Mr. Charlie or even Easy Wind

 

I boogied down with 4/2/73 HCS onward for a spell, what a great meltdown jam afterwards (did that one make the contest?), tight little Bobby McGee then WRS tee up for a quality Eyes. This show no doubt became a top fiver for me ever since its DaP release.

 

If I really look inward and choose one song on its lyrical merits, I'd choose I've Been All Around This World. It's the complete antithesis of most music I listen to, but I love Jerry's delivery. Here's an excellent website devoted to the traditional history of that song: “I’ve Been All Around This World” ~History, Lyrics & Banjo Tab | Native Ground

There's a verse that our boys didn't use that's published on that fine website, and I hope that this acknowledgement will be sufficient to allow fair use here*:

Bring to me my supper boys, I’ll eat ‘er done or raw
Bring to me my supper boys, I’ll eat ‘er done or raw
For I haven’t had a square meal since I left Arkansas
I’ve been all around this world

I'd have liked to hear Jerry sing that one.

*Website courtesy of
Native Ground Books & Music
109 Bell Road, Asheville, NC 28805

(Thanks, Archtop)

 

I like a good hoedown..
Cumberland Blues

And a nice slow blues...
West LA Fadeaway

and a shuffle...
New Speedway

a folky jaunt...
Duprees Diamond Blues
Stagger Lee

complex psychedelic wordplay
China Cat

Epic Prog
Help On the Way
Terrapin

and a good ol’ fashioned pop song
Touch Of Grey

but my all time favorite Dead tune...
Mississippi Half Step

 

Just 10 is hard...

Mountains of the Moon
Doin' that Rag
Black Peter
Ripple
Brokedown Palace
Loser
Wharf Rat
Jack Straw
Ramble on Rose
Row Jimmy

 

Brown Eyed Women
Unbroken Chain
Must Have Been the Roses
Sugaree
Ship of Fools
And loads of great songs

 

Are we doing 10 favorites from the concerts?

Mine is fairly predictable 70s stuff (mostly):

• Help/Slipknot/Franklin's Tower
• Eyes Of The World
• Scarlet Begonias
• Fire On the Mountain
• Sugaree
• Estimated Prophet
• Sugar Magnolia
• Shakedown Street
• Bertha
• China Cat / I Know You Rider

 

El Paso * 10

 

Day Job x1000000

 

Sounds kind of like when a woman says, 'I like you as a friend'...

 

Mine probably overlaps most with yours

 

As do I.

Outside of the song concept, compare/contrast the Dark Stars from 3/23/72 and 9/21/72:

• 9/21/72 (DP 36) - what congeals at 30:40 is a hootenanny to my ears;
• 3/23/72 (NYAoM bonus disc) - as for a hoedown, look no further than the below starting at ~16:10 (Jerry engages at 16:31) - that's a GoGD hoedown, IMO.

The difference between a hootenanny and a hoedown is that at a hoedown, the women exhibit propriety. At a hootenanny, all bets are off. Extrapolate as needed in a musical context.

 

LOL!!!

 

There’s always talk this time of year about a strong first pick to encourage subscribers for the year, but in what universe is anyone worried about the subscriptions not selling out?

 

I think perhaps a more accurate and incisive differentiation would be as follows...





Hoedown...


Hootenanny...

 

Coincidentally, I am currently being punished for my smart@ssedness. Because the entire time I was constructing the cuttingly sarcastic post above, Scarlet Begonias just finished and I've been FORCED to listen to Mexicali Blues while I've been typing all this!!!

 

I guess Karma is indeed a .....

 

<...harsh mistress...

 

Indeed...

 

Must be getting close to that final announcement for 2019

 

2020 Grateful Dead Wishlist


Dave’s Picks
5/26/77 Baltimore (need a stone-cold popular year classic to entice new and re-subscibers)
10/12/68 Avalon Ballroom (raw, primal)
10/10/82 Frost Amphitheatre (matrix)
10/18/72 Fox Theatre

Vault Release
RFK 6/10/73 (include Allmans set) – 4CD

Box Set
Beacon Theatre 1976 – 6CD

Bonus Freebie:
Release 3/24/90 as a complete, multi-tracked show

 

3/24/73
Grateful Dead ‘Dave’s Picks Volume 32’ Features March 1973 Concert

 

I like the modesty of your box set prediction. At that size they could do TWO boxes -- one of them could be a Brent box. I don't see them using a 77 show as subscription bait for the second year in a row, but if I'm wrong and we get another May 77 show to add to the mix, I won't complain.