Vince Welnick R.I. P.

'74 was good although it has a unique sound. I think I wore that Louisville tape out in the 80's...nice to have the cd now.

I read Phil's book recently and it gave me a lot of perspective on the music. I recommend it, even to non-believers.

Okay....I'll ask again....what happened to Dick's Picks ????

Garebear:

That's a good question. Seems they stopped at #36. Go to deadnet.com and shoot them an e-mail with an inquiry. Then post it. I'm curious myself.I just picked up Phil's book and although I don't anticipate the same kinda dirt Rock Scully's book exposed it's still seems like it'll be a great read although so far it's a little heavy on the technical and classical aspects of music. '71-'72 were my favorite years especiallly the European shows.

Basically the vault was transferred over to Rhino Records not long ago. I'm aquainted with David Lemieux who took over for dick Lavatka (sp?) when he passed away, and David recently quit rather than go work with Rhino. It's unknown whether Dix Pix will continue, though given the greed of the remaining band members, especially Phil, it's hard to see them not releasing shows in some format. So for now it's just wait and see. A sorry state of affairs however.

I stopped buying any merch from GDM when the band reversed policy and made archive.org remove soundboard shows for download from their website so that they could sell them instead. This move was unmitigated greed. Even John barlow said as much. "The Dead" to me are just that. thanks JOND . I didn't know that.