Dick's Picks 31

GD Monthly Flash just arrived here in MD. In addition to the mention of DP 31 posted before, here is DL2's monthly Q&A:

Question: I have heard the Grateful Dead's vault contains a massive amount of tape, and in many formats. How much tape is there, and what sorts of formats?

Answer: The Grateful Dead have about 15,000 audio tapes, about 3,000 video tapes, and more than 250,000 feet of 16mm film. The audio formats include just about everything that has been around since the mid-1960s: 1/4" reel-to-reel, 1/2" reel-to-reel, 1" reel-to-reel (8 track tape, from which albums such as Two From The Vault and the Fillmore East 2/11/69 release were produced), 2" reel-to-reel (16 track and 24 track, from which most live and studio albums after 1969 were produced), DAT, CDs, cassettes, 48 track digital reel-to-reel tapes, ADAT, Beta PCM digital tapes, and a few other random formats of which the vault may have just one or two examples. As for video tapes, again, just about every format from the late 1960s: 1/2" open reel (from which some of the archival footage of the NRPS used on the Closing of Winterland DVD was found), 2" Quad video (from which the Grateful Dead's Closing of Winterland performance was used for the DVD), 1" video (Dead Ahead and So Far were produced from this format), U-Matic (most reference tapes from the 1970s, 1980s and 1990s), VHS, D-2 (a digital mastering tape from which View From The Vault Vol. 1 was drawn), Betamax, BetaCam SP and Digital BetaCam. As for the 16mm film, most of it is from the Winterland, October, 1974, concerts, but there are a few other interesting items, such as the film on which most of the Grateful Dead's music videos were shot ("Throwing Stones," "Foolish Heart," etc). For all of these formats, the Grateful Dead vault and studio has equipment on which virtually every format can be played back, with very few exceptions.

David Lemieux
Audiovisual Archivist
Grateful Dead Productions

DP27 had the same effect on me...

lol!

pvt ryan was starship troopers without the space bugs.

LOL!

Private Ryan did a great job of conveying the horror of storming the beach under all that fire. That scene when the first boat lands and opens and all the soldiers in front immediately get killed. Ughh. The rest of the movie was Hollywood tripe.

Dick's Picks rides again ..... #31 will be out around March 15th. It will be a four CD set with almost five hours of music from the last three nights of the 1974 summer tour - August 4-5-6, Philadelphia Civic Center and Roosevelt Stadium, Jersey City. More info to come, so stay tuned ....

I HOPE THAT IS TRUE!!!

Actually, there was one scene near the end of Private Ryan where that kid is trying to disable the treads of one of the tanks with a grenade or something and he holds it a bit too long and his body parts go in all directions--it was like *poof* he was gone and no one was like, "hey where'd the kid go?"

I liked Band of Brothers . I realize it's a mini-series , as opposed to a movie , but I thought it did a good job of conveying the realities of war from a soldier's perspective .

Hey now Sherlock, BOB is great. And you are right about Apocalypse Now, top 5, but not the top.

Band of Brothers: also a good book, as are most of his books, especially Lewis and Clark.

Actually, there was one scene near the end of Private Ryan where that kid is trying to disable the treads of one of the tanks with a grenade or something and he holds it a bit too long and his body parts go in all directions--it was like *poof* he was gone and no one was like, "hey where'd the kid go?"

That was based on a true story as told to Speilburg by this one veteran. The part about having a anti-aircraft gun with exploding shells fired at troops is based on real events too.

But hey now! What about 8/6/74? I so hope this is true, because I'd love to hear that first set in all it's glory.

I couldn't get Office Space out my head the entire time I watched BoB, but I enjoyed every episode nonetheless.

non-sequitor

marge schott has gone to join her boy hitler

Great choice if those 8/4-5-6/74 rumours are indeed valid. But when will i ever get my Fall 1971 or Fall 1979 pick ?!? :^)

Seriously though, it will be great if this is the real deal for DP 31. Very curious about the selection!