Matthew, There were 4 books released in late 90's - early '00's called the Deadhead's Taping Compendium, Volume 1, 2, 3 and then an Addendum. They had reviews of every Dead show available on bootleg or official means at the time. Besides being a good read, at the back of the first 3 volumes, which each covered a time period in the band history, they had the best versions of songs from that time period. In the back of the Addendum, which included reviews of shows that had become available after the release of the other volumes, they had the best versions of the songs ever. While the lists were the opinion of the authors, they jive with what I see from other lists and from my own listening. I still refer to the lists, especially when I'm trying to turn someone on to the Dead and I know they like certain songs so I can find a show or shows with the best version of those songs and then hope they turn on to the rest. Here's the link on Amazon: http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_noss_1?url! =search-alias%3Dstripbooks&field-keywords=Deadhead%27s+Taping+Compendium . They may be out of print but it looks like you can get some of them used through Amazon or maybe find them in a local used book store.
Tony Jordan -----Original Message----- From: owner-deadli...@nemesis.cs.berkeley.edu [mailto:owner-deadli...@nemesis.cs.berkeley.edu] On Behalf Of Jacob Core Sent: Thursday, May 24, 2012 3:44 AM To: deadlists@nemesis.CS.Berkeley.EDU Subject: Re: Best Versions Played? -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 5/23/2012 4:18 PM, Wester, Matthew E., Au.D., C.C.C.-A wrote: > Is there a place to find a solid list of the best versions of a bunch of > Dead songs? There seems to be a lot of well-informed opinions in the > comments sections for shows on archive.org and they often lead me to > versions that no one mentioned in the Deadbase reader's polls, which is > surprising to me. Obviously, its hard to look at all the comments for > each show on archive.org. Is there a place besides Deadbase where this > has been attempted? > > Matthew Wester > While its not a polled list, people also post to http://www.dead.net/forum/best-version-ever *Disclaimer: I am drunk, so apologies if I misunderstood your question -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.17 (MingW32) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iQEcBAEBAgAGBQJPvebQAAoJEFK+bXFjnxSndWMH/Robm7tEhP0r6o+xIdyQy8kl yg0qijH4f9yLfaafMoFqBKTiuoCmzSQ0rAWIsZ5rvViheVpptPpimQdN2mcp2McH FDpwXsvfTlLcumG0pM+JXE7TUz9iUe7yZLl9lJnjakiq9N7UrAE/RABa9E1UDuTZ get7e3P7Kfv65iwPxgRI3H2rajzbzMnFCHnfov0ksOMcNedKMWGzWYn3KCaRcOny WLD8bWei2jK+/7Bu5sJk6oVVASesBtk0oOnZnCwQPImWB2YOQSoxijuue2G16XUK ake+3MbCAiU040TWUOtjNBuTtpm1XVe2gaShQDhqp3Ds6ZmIHzM2Z8N8G21XWUs= =JaC4 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
