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I have some close friends (even star heads) that might give me some "grief" for listening to the DSO on archive when the actual GD are readily available and through multiple vines. However, I must admit that I spend a fair amount of time listening to DSO on archive and had another one of those moments today.

I like to just pick a show and year and hit play without looking at the lists. Today I selected 5/17/07 at the State Theater and was (as usual) stunned. Maybe it was the Attics anchor in the second that brought it home. The list was not spectacular but the playing always is. That DSO concert recreated 12/7/93 and '93 doesn't always get a lot of love.

The point of this post? DSO is great and definitely worth all of your time to go back and listen to past performances. Also, lists and year don't always matter. It's the spaces between the notes that make the difference.

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i listen to DSO all the time but the John era stuff sounds like tee-ball to me in comparison to what's going down now.

Having just discovered DSO in 2011, I can tell a massive difference b/t those SBDs and the ones now. The difference b/t the dead and DSO is 2200 shows in, DSO is just getting better and better.

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Since I have a bad internet connection, I have always downloaded DSO from archive and have many, many NUGS.  I'm up to over 40 gigs of just DSO and love blasting my speakers outside during the warmer months and having my own little private show  :)

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My buddy rags me for listening to DSO all the time at home. He's like put dead on. I'm like this is the dead to me. I know that may sound like a sin but I have tons of perfect soundboards of DSO and I'd rather hear DSO in perfect soundboard than some board patch from the 80s. Now those 77 dead shows sound as good as any new recording but when I want to hear 80s dead I'll put on a DSO show. And I think that the 76 show in Asheville, the 76 in St. Louis and the 77 last night rival the dead in arguably their hottest period. DSO surpasses the dead IMO in the 80s stuff.

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I never listen to dso recordings unless it's a live stream and I'm not really sure why. Bought a couple of shows I went to and loved and I never listen to them. I've clicked an archive link and listened for a second but never keep it on. I never really thought about it until right now.

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McCoy Tyner is the man. Love his album Trident. And his work on Coltrane's My Favorite Things is nothing short of amazing.

I listen to both GD and DSO. I keep a bunch of shows in my car. GD gets the edge in more listening time but DSO definitely gets their fair share.

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I didn't bring it up but since it was I would like to say that I almost solely listen to Jerry and when I do listen to dso it is usually with JK. I don't feel like its tee ball at all. Actually a very polished product much like fabled 77. I prefer 69 and I love the often lack of polish and near reckless abandon Jeff plays like. Reminds me of my favorite era of Jerry's playing but I wouldn't call 77 or even 91 tee ball just cause it lacked the fury of 69. Polish can be nice.

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Lacks the fury of those years in my opinion too. Just his guitar playing....unwilling/unable to take it out far enough/take risks....over polished. This is my opinion- that the band is overall more musically adept now I think to be fact.

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So I decided to buy New Years.  It was a great show.  I can't do anything else but just sit here and listen.  Its better at home then when I was there.  The sound is so good.   I've seen Skip 4 times and I still haven't been in his "zone".  Sure I've heard some bombs, but for whatever reason I haven't had to much Skip.  On this recording he's in the mix and he is laying down some groovy shit.  I just cherry picked a couple of tunes.  I went with the Hey Jude/Lovelight mostly just to listen to Barraco changing up two different singing voices.  I've beaten this horse to death, but more beatings, Barraco sings Brent and Pigpin as Barraco, and totally captures the essence of both guys.  Amazing.  I just wanted to give lovelight a minute or two but I couldn't put it down.  Oh and I listened to white rabbit and besides lisa doing her thing Jeff just shreds that tune.  Its got a spanish jam flavor to it.  

 

 Back to my first post in this thread.  I said I've never really gotten into DSO recordings.  I'm into one right now big time and now a whole new world is open to me.  Amazing.  

 

Have since started at the beginning and the Shakedown has my walls rattling.  

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I need more shows.... :lol:  Can't find the original, but this is great as well!  Happy Valentine's Day Peeps!! :lala:

I recently was introduced to McCoy Tyner's music via my father inlaw's lp collection. Outstanding!!

 

 

Besides the Dead, Phil most prominently, my biggest influence is Mcoy Tyner:-)

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Since I have a bad internet connection, I have always downloaded DSO from archive and have many, many NUGS.  I'm up to over 40 gigs of just DSO and love blasting my speakers outside during the warmer months and having my own little private show  :)

So, I haven't tried downloading music from archive. I notice there are three different formats for songs on the archive. Why the differences? How do you go about it? I have a Mac and iPad.

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Since I have a bad internet connection, I have always downloaded DSO from archive and have many, many NUGS.  I'm up to over 40 gigs of just DSO and love blasting my speakers outside during the warmer months and having my own little private show   :)

So, I haven't tried downloading music from archive. I notice there are three different formats for songs on the archive. Why the differences? How do you go about it? I have a Mac and iPad.

 

 

Oh boy...I'll try. Someone please chime in if I should make an incorrect comment-quite possible!

 

There are different ways to go about DL'ing music on the LMA. It all depends on how much space you want to/ can afford to use, if you plan on burning files to CD/ or just play from computer, and if you care about audio quality. I always use the largest files, which are the highest fidelity (FLAC, Shorten), but require more HD space.  MP3 is the lowest quality, and the Ogg Vorbis is slightly better?, but uses more battery life (also outdated?). These two require the least ammount of space.

 

Just right click on each file separately, and save as.....(I usually just save to desktop, and then herd them into the program that converts them to WAV for CD burning). I believe there is a way to DL all files in one fell swoop, but as MP3. Again, I BELIEVE, but I may be incorrect.

 

I won't go into burning to CD, as that is a bit more complicated, and I haven't done this in a year or so. Perhaps someone else can help w/ this.

 

If you plan on listening from computer, I recommend using Winamp as your player (vs windows media), but most here prolly use itunes. Not sure if itunes can decode FLAC files.

 

I hope this helps! I had a friend walk me thru it the first couple of times, and that helped alot. I had issues with them playing in my car, and I stopped burning cd's. Now, they seem to play fine. Weird. I also realized I had way too many cd's that had not been listened to enough (listened to once when new, and filed/ stored). I find the listening experience more satisfying when on CD, but it's a bit of a PITA. YMMV... B)

 

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Unless you have more than 1 terabyte of free space, which an IPad doesn't, I would download the VBR mp3. You wouldn't notice the difference between the audio quality of the files unless you have some high-end audio equipment. OGG is good but not as compatible with different music devices and programs.

 

You can generally download all the audio files at once by downloading the "VBR ZIP" file that is generally in the top left. You can open that file using various programs, the most common I believe is winrar. You just use winrar to extract all the songs from the zip file, and then you're done.

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itunes indeed does not play FLAC files.  I'm a huge Apple fan, but that is ridiculous and you gotta call bullshit when you see it.

 

Given how cheap storage is these days, lossless is really the way to go.  A 2T external drive can be had for under $100, and you would need to be a serious completist to need more than that, lossless or otherwise.  (Says the completist who needs more than that...)

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