Makes sense. The average price for those early ones are well over $200. Kind of crazy. Some being advertised for $1000.
I was guesstimating that the band has released probably ten percent of it's shows. Maybe more. But if you assume there have been over 80 releases on Daves and Dicks - some having two shows you could count that as about 90 and then the mega releases of 72 tours, spring 77, etc. then all the miscellaneous road trips, vault releases plus random one offs. I would assume they are close to 200-230 releases. Maybe that's high.
Then you think about how many shows that will just never be released due all sorts of factors. Like maybe two shows form 95 would ever be released and that's being optimistic. Plenty of duds throughout the years which made the high points so good. I would expect there are a good 500 shows that are immediate nos. And then plenty more that are just middling - good shows with some highlights, some bumps but not of top caliber.
All this to say, where does the threshold lie where they start to release shows that are just fair? Another way to put it, how many shows do you think are worthy of an official release? 300? 400? That's nearing a fifth of their shows which seems to be a stretch in this skeptical zoner's mind.
I tend to lean towards the early recordings where it's harder to find good material. Do we need late 80s and 90s shows at all if there are already boards of the good shows?
There are some dozens of shows attended between 77 and 95 that I await official release. To my ear they hit way more than they missed, and even the worse clunkers were still the Grateful Dead.
Start with two runs in 1982 ~ Greek in May and Red Rocks in July.
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Yeah but the first five are
Yeah but the first five are HDCD, man.
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Market, schmarket. Let there
Market, schmarket. Let there be songs to fill the air.
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I unloaded a couple of the
I unloaded a couple of the early ones a while back to pick up one of the box sets, fair deal imho considering I bought em at face
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Makes sense. The average
Makes sense. The average price for those early ones are well over $200. Kind of crazy. Some being advertised for $1000.
I was guesstimating that the band has released probably ten percent of it's shows. Maybe more. But if you assume there have been over 80 releases on Daves and Dicks - some having two shows you could count that as about 90 and then the mega releases of 72 tours, spring 77, etc. then all the miscellaneous road trips, vault releases plus random one offs. I would assume they are close to 200-230 releases. Maybe that's high.
Then you think about how many shows that will just never be released due all sorts of factors. Like maybe two shows form 95 would ever be released and that's being optimistic. Plenty of duds throughout the years which made the high points so good. I would expect there are a good 500 shows that are immediate nos. And then plenty more that are just middling - good shows with some highlights, some bumps but not of top caliber.
All this to say, where does the threshold lie where they start to release shows that are just fair? Another way to put it, how many shows do you think are worthy of an official release? 300? 400? That's nearing a fifth of their shows which seems to be a stretch in this skeptical zoner's mind.
I tend to lean towards the early recordings where it's harder to find good material. Do we need late 80s and 90s shows at all if there are already boards of the good shows?
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There are some dozens of
There are some dozens of shows attended between 77 and 95 that I await official release. To my ear they hit way more than they missed, and even the worse clunkers were still the Grateful Dead.
Start with two runs in 1982 ~ Greek in May and Red Rocks in July.
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Roarshock, I agree there are
Roarshock, I agree there are shows I would like but also not that the masses would want to pay for.