The Grateful Dead – Dick’s Picks Vol.1 & Vol.2 now available on vinyl

Dead heads, take note:

http://brookvalerecords.com/the-grateful-dead-dicks-picks-vol-1-vol-2-now-available-on-vinyl/

Later, Chris

 

Wow ... I've been dipping back into the earlier Dick's Picks CDs ... Jeez, it's been almost 20 years since they started the series. Volume 1 is pre-ordered here. Very nice ...

 

The entire Dick's Picks on vinyl is coming to vinyl. Wow. That's somewhere between insanely cool and just plain insane.

 

More towards the insane end of the spectrum, I should say. DP 1 was a 2 disc set. That's 4 LPs. The three and four disc sets will be utterly unmanageable.

Dead concerts were meant to be heard on tape. Breaking them into eight to ten 22 minute installments is just silly.

 

How many Dark Star's were harmed in the making of this series?

 

Wait until they release DP 29. Originally 6 CDs - how many LPs would that take?

As much as I might want to buy some on vinyl, I am going to have to resist the temptation. I will wait for some reviews before deciding.

 

Now that is funny!

 

Wow. This is going to get expensive.

 

Very funny!

Of course these will be digitally sourced?

 

That's what I am wondering. The description was not very specific. And as of late the dead have been wishy-washy with revealing the sources for their releases.

 

Will these come out this side of the pond?

 

Great news

 

I'm not sure what to make of this...so many of those long jams are going to be split by album flips. Seems to be CD is the optimal media in this case.

 

Proof of this goes back to 1969. Live/Dead was meant to be heard in a straight through 75 mins. The 2 LP set is now dated and quaint.
Release the Picks and all of the shows on Blu-Ray

 

Unless you are a Grateful Dead fan without a CD player ... like I.

 

It might be a good idea to keep an eye on spincds.com - they seem to have a deal with GD productions to get all the limited releases over here in the UK, though prices are high.

 

Received a nice personal e-mail from the record company's main dude thanking me for my pre-order yesterday. How 'bout that?

 

Good question.
Looks like these LP sets are limited to 2,000 copies each, domestically anyway.

 

Waay too pricey for my wallet. Oh well.

 

No cassette deck , but online sources (archive.org, youtube etc.).

 

When do the 8-track cartridges come out? No flips there.

 

Morning All,

My name is Karl Groeger and I am the owner of Brookvale Records and Looney Tunes. I am the one putting out the Dick's Picks series on vinyl.

We have been working very closely with The Dead on these releases and I welcome your questions and concerns.

As a fan first, I knew there would be challenges going into this project and I think we are doing an amazing job with them. I would like to address 2 concerns I see brought up here. Sound source and side splits. Of course these are critical.

While we want of course the source tapes to every show, we are at the mercy of The Dead for masters for both ART and MUSIC. For the first shows the Dead simply does not have the original masters for them. We had no choice except to go from the CD. My first reaction was, thats impossible, how do they not have the masters? Well after about 6 months of searching they just do not have them. It looks like though for future releases they have about 90% of the masters on all the volumes.

OK so we don't have the masters. Can we go from the CD? How is that going to sound? Well they sound great! (Check out the reviews on brookvalerecords.com).

We had a choice to use anyone we wanted to master this vinyl from the CD. We were suggested to use Rainbo pressing. I decided not to. I have been a HUGE face of both RTI and GOTTA GROOVE RECORDS. I think both plants have been making some great QUIET records. After about another 6 months of discussions, we choose Gotta Groove to re master and manufacture the vinyl on 1 and 2. And I could not be happier. Although YES the CD is not ideal to go with. BUT I think it came out EXCELLENT! Or I would not put my name on it. I have actually made LPS from masters on another project that did not sound half as good as these dead records do. I hope you will enjoy them.

SIDE SPLITS. Yes this is going to be another challenge for sure. With vol 2 you notice that it is a 3 sided record???? WHY ??? I decided to not make a side 4 because I could keep the JAM going on side 3. Where ever possible I will also keep the jam and do our very best with track listings and side splits. It will be a challenge YES. BUT I DO NOT THINK that its a reason NOT to do these.

I love vinyl. I think it is the perfect way to listen to The Dead.

I welcome your comments. (crap...ha ha).

Thank you for your time guys I hope this addresses some concerns.

Best,
Karl

 

I'm really jazzed for the 60's era releases from the series. I wonder how quickly they are going to churn these out.

 

Will need some source info... direct from CD won't work for me.