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What are some of your favorite Dicks Picks? I'll start with mine.

DP 29: 5/19/77, 5/21/77

DP 25: 5/10/77, 5/11/77

Call me a '77 guy but that shit is just plain nasty!

Lets hear 'em! Or just your favorite shows in general.

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Dicks Picks 22- I love the sound on this one. Billy and Micky are rocking the snare drums hard.

Dicks Picks 7. I love me some 74. The Brown Eyed Women from this show is perfect.

Dicks Picks 13- You want energy? You got it. Let it grow/Deal is off the hook.

Dicks Picks 34- Half step is like heavy metal. Jerry goes off.

Dicks Picks 28- Box of Rain, period. Thats no slight to the other 4 cds, I just really like this box of rain.

Dicks Picks 35- Meaty.

Ok, I could go on and on. Every Dicks Picks has a moment or moments.

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I don't know them by number unfortunately....5-22-77 is one my all time favs, too bad they cut out the peggy-o and a few others(i ended up finding those on the archive i think).

05-22-77 Sportatorium, Pembroke Pines, Fl. (Sun)

1: Music*, Sugaree*, El Paso, Peggy-O, Minglewood, FOTD, Lazy Lightning*> Supplication*, Ramble On, Dancin*

2: Help*> Slipknot*> Franklin's*, Samson*, B. E. Women, Good Lovin, Sunrise*, Estimated*> Eyes*> Wharf Rat*> Terrapin*> Morning Dew* E: Sugar Magnolia

*appears on "Dick's Picks Vol 3""Funiculi Funicula" tuning before "Music" - "Terrapin" does not include "Lady With A Fan"

I also always loved this one from 76, one of my favorite playin sandwiches of all time(and they played it at grafeulfest this year)-

09-28-76 Onondaga County War Memorial, Syracuse, N.Y. (Tue)

1: Cold Rain, Big River, Bertha, Cassidy, Tennessee Jed, Minglewood, Candyman, All Over Now, FOTD, Let It Grow> GDTRFB

2: Playin> Wheel> Samson> Jam> Comes A Time> Drums> Eyes> Dancin> Playin E: Johnny B. Goode

so good. Phil lays down a nasty bass diddy at the beginning of let it grow which always tickles my fancy. :cheers:

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I don't know them by number unfortunately....5-22-77 is one my all time favs, too bad they cut out the peggy-o and a few others(i ended up finding those on the archive i think).

05-22-77 Sportatorium, Pembroke Pines, Fl. (Sun)

1: Music*, Sugaree*, El Paso, Peggy-O, Minglewood, FOTD, Lazy Lightning*> Supplication*, Ramble On, Dancin*

2: Help*> Slipknot*> Franklin's*, Samson*, B. E. Women, Good Lovin, Sunrise*, Estimated*> Eyes*> Wharf Rat*> Terrapin*> Morning Dew* E: Sugar Magnolia

*appears on "Dick's Picks Vol 3""Funiculi Funicula" tuning before "Music" - "Terrapin" does not include "Lady With A Fan"

I also always loved this one from 76, one of my favorite playin sandwiches of all time(and they played it at grafeulfest this year)-

09-28-76 Onondaga County War Memorial, Syracuse, N.Y. (Tue)

1: Cold Rain, Big River, Bertha, Cassidy, Tennessee Jed, Minglewood, Candyman, All Over Now, FOTD, Let It Grow> GDTRFB

2: Playin> Wheel> Samson> Jam> Comes A Time> Drums> Eyes> Dancin> Playin E: Johnny B. Goode

so good. Phil lays down a nasty bass diddy at the beginning of let it grow which always tickles my fancy. :cheers:

The Help/Slip/Franklins Dicks Picks 3 is long and nice. The solo in in Help just keeps going and going. Also is it me or does anyone else hear a Foolish Heart rif during Franklins?

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# 15) Englishtown , NJ 9/3/77 ; stellar "Half -Step"; second set "Loser".

#21) Hampton, VA 11/1/85 ; "Comes A Time", "Lost Sailor > D/S > St. Of Circumstance"

#32) Alpine Valley, WI 8/7/82 :"Sugaree'", "Music" sandwich. "Althea", "Let It Grow", "US Blues" set closer.

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I think a lot of folks already have some damn fine recordings of both spring and fall 77' smile.gif

Indeed. That is probably why it won't happen. But think of the quality of the $450 gargantuan coffee table box set!

My favs - been getting off on 25 (New Haven & Springfield, 5-10 and 5-11-78) yesterday and today. Then there is the ever popular 15, the afore-mentioned Englishtown, and 14 (Boston 11-30 and 12-2-73...a highlight of my freshman year).

Then there is 3 and 29 (had to drop out of tour to walk at college graduation so missed Pembroke and Lakeland).

Damn, once you get started on this topic it is hard to stop...cue Streisand "The Way We Were"...

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Indeed. That is probably why it won't happen. But think of the quality of the $450 gargantuan coffee table box set!

My favs - been getting off on 25 (New Haven & Springfield, 5-10 and 5-11-78) yesterday and today. Then there is the ever popular 15, the afore-mentioned Englishtown, and 14 (Boston 11-30 and 12-2-73...a highlight of my freshman year).

Then there is 3 and 29 (had to drop out of tour to walk at college graduation so missed Pembroke and Lakeland).

Damn, once you get started on this topic it is hard to stop...cue Streisand "The Way We Were"...

Well Chuck,

It's because those heady days are indelibly printed on our souls...for me the combo of age, footloose freedom, incredible mind opening drugs and the and at the very heart of it all..the center of that universe in the moment was the Grateful Dead...pulling us in and bringing us together like staples to a magnet.. :)

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Englishtown '77 is just a sonic assault! I'll go off the beaten path and make mention of the first song, because I can't think of a more thumpin', more rockin' version of "Promised Land" in '77! The "Peggy-O" is sweet to your soul, and the "Half-Step" is a sharp, monster rendition. It's one of my favorite first sets of the year because of the dichotomy between the alternating Bobby and Jerry songs; Jerry's tenderness and chemistry is really special at this show. He makes the hairs on your arms stand up during FOTD, Peggy-O, Half Step, etc. Meanwhile, this is Bobby at his bombastic best in '77, showing substance and showmanship can go hand in hand. It all comes to a head in "Music," where Jerry matches Bobby's spastic energy for a crackling set closer.

When I think of what the official releases have the potential to do, I think of this show. It's like someone shoved a rocket up this band's ass while strapping jumper cables to their fingernails! The energy is astounding.

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I edited my original post and added the dates for clarity.

Feb-23,24-1968 Dicks Picks 22 - I love the sound on this one. Billy and Micky are rocking the snare drums hard.

Sep 9-11,1974 Dicks Picks 7. I love me some 74. The Brown Eyed Women from this show is perfect.

May-6-81 Dicks Picks 13- You want energy? You got it. Let it grow/Deal is off the hook.

Nov-5-77 Dicks Picks 34- Half step is like heavy metal. Jerry goes off.

Feb-26,28-73 Dicks Picks 28- Box of Rain, period. Thats no slight to the other 4 cds, I just really like this box of rain.

Aug-6,7-71 Dicks Picks 35- Meaty

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DP 12 from '74 is amazing. Just loaded with awesome jams. They really set the tone with a groovin China Cat with a nice long jam in the beginning. What an epic Disc 3. One of most epic discs out there. Check it out!

Disc 3:

Weather Report Suite

Medley -- amazing little gem hidden in there

U.S. Blues

Promised Land

Goin' Down the Road

Sunshine Daydream

Ship of Fools

The U.S. Blues is incredible and has a different beginning than normal and it is so good.....

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DP 12 from '74 is amazing. Just loaded with awesome jams. They really set the tone with a groovin China Cat with a nice long jam in the beginning. What an epic Disc 3. One of most epic discs out there. Check it out!

Disc 3:

Weather Report Suite

Medley -- amazing little gem hidden in there

U.S. Blues

Promised Land

Goin' Down the Road

Sunshine Daydream

Ship of Fools

The U.S. Blues is incredible and has a different beginning than normal and it is so good.....

Oh yea!!!!! How could I forget #12? I have an alarm clock that plays CDs. I once had the Eyes from DP12 as my wake up song. Problem was, I would just lay there listening. I get up earlier than my wife and I was waking her up somewhere in a 12 minute Eyes. It had to go.

If I'm trying to teach someone about Phil, I alway play them this Eyes.

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DP # 30

March 25 is a Hells Angels benefit party. Donna Jeans first show. First set the band plays behind BO DIDDLEY.

First and only ARE YOU LONELY FOR ME BABY.

The jams during Bo Diddley set are outrageous.

" hahhhahahhaaahhah, I can't believe I ate the whole thing"

Bo Diddley

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Is DP#2 the one from Halloween Columbus, OH? Killer.

And the one from Winterland that has disc 2 (I think) open with Terrapin where Phil is rocking the chords. Nice Bertha opener (with Close Encounters tuning before it).

Are there no more DP's? Is it all Road Trips and Vault releases now?

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