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    Winterland June 1977: The Complete Recordings

    Winterland June 1977
    The Complete Recordings

    The Shows

    June 7, 1977
    June 8, 1977
    June 9, 1977

    Boxed and Ready to Go!

    Sound the imperial trumpets! Bang the drum! Pop that champagne! Another Grateful Dead box set is comin’ your way! Yes, in the grand tradition of the beloved Fillmore West 1969 and Winterland 1973 boxes, comes Winterland June 1977: The Complete Recordings, a 9-CD box set that is sure to knock your tie-dyed socks off.

    At this point, we probably don’t need to hype you on the glories of ’77 Dead. It was a magical time for the band, which was reinvigorated by a plethora of great new material—“Terrapin,” “Estimated Prophet,” “Passenger,” “Fire on the Mountain”—and really hitting its stride again following the October ’74 to June ’76 performing hiatus. The group spent much of the first three months of 1977 recording their Terrapin Station album with producer Keith Olsen, and Garcia also managed to find time to complete the much-anticipated Grateful Dead movie (which opened June 1, 1977). The third week of April, the band embarked on what most Dead Heads agree was one of the greatest tours ever: 26 concerts in the East and Midwest in a little over a month—an awesome stretch that produced so many great shows, a few of them already released in the Dick’s Picks series and subsequently (and more, no doubt, destined to come out down the road.)

    So when the Dead returned to San Francisco’s Winterland for shows on June 7, 8, 9, they were pumped up and feeling good! They treated their hometown fans to three superb concerts that included excellent versions of much of their current repertoire, from the new combo of “Scarlet Begonias” > “Fire on the Mountain,” to a truly colossal, more than 30-minute “Help on the Way” > “Slipknot!” > “Franklin’s Tower,” “Saint Stephen,” “Terrapin,” “Good Lovin’,” “Not Fade Away,” “The Other One”… too many favorites to mention (you can see the complete song lists here). Winterland June 1977: The Complete Recordings contains every note recorded from the three shows, more than nine hours of prime Dead, all taken from the master analog tapes, restored using the Plangent Processes, and mastered in HDCD by that inimitable sonic tweakster, Jeffrey Norman.

    The nine discs are packaged in a beautifully designed box that includes artwork by Emek (you loved his crazy Winterland ’73 phantasmagoria); a 28-page booklet featuring a wonderful and illuminating new essay by Rolling Stone senior music editor David Fricke (who dubs this a “box of paradise and circus… six complete sets of inspired risk and collective explosion”); lots of great Winterland action shots by noted GD shutterbugs Ed Perlstein and Bruce Polonsky; and a couple of little pieces of period memorabilia we won’t reveal here.

    clicking here. We know you’re gonna dig it! And rest assured, there’s plenty more where this came from: We know you love the box sets; well, we do, too!

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    kirkmc
    14 years 9 months ago
    More on VAT
    A quick Google search comes up with this: http://www.smallbusinesscomputing.com/emarketing/article.php/2194821 I'm lucky here in France: we hardly ever get taxed on imports. Only big packages get stopped by customs. In 25 years living in France, it's happened maybe three times.
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    redeemer
    14 years 9 months ago
    Re: the coupon
    Thanks, Marye, that makes sense.... It would be nice if there were a customer reward system of sorts. Don't get me wrong, the music IS the reward, I know, but still...I'm sure some of us lay down our money at every release, and a little nod in the way of savings would be a nice touch. Can't wait to hear this stuff!
  • simonrob
    14 years 9 months ago
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    Kirkmc, What you say about the EU try to get other people to do their dirty work for them, sorry, I meant collect taxes for them, is new to me. Whilst it is eminently possible, it seems unlikely. I only know the way things work here in Holland. If I order something from outside the EU I will typically have to pay customs on orders with a value exceeding about 50 Euros (less than that and it probably isn't worth their time). When the postman delivers such a package, before I receive it I am presented with an invoice from customs which lists 2 charges. The first is import duty and the second is VAT. Together these come to about 35% of the stated cost of the goods (and postage!). The customs check all packages that enter the country from outside the EU and levy these duties and taxes accordingly. One has to assume that this is a simpler and cheaper system than paying tax to the seller anywhere in the world outside the EU and then getting it transferred to the relevant authority in any one of the EU countries. That said, does anyone know a government department that opts for the cheapest and most efficient methods? I now feel obliged to mention the good old Grateful Dead as this is their site: As '77 was a good year I am eagerly awaiting this box which will hopefully be worth all the ordering hassles, anxious waiting, import duty, VAT, obscure US-levied taxes, refunds of obscure US-levied taxes, glue issues, green (= cheap 'n' nasty) packaging, availability of bonus discs and all the other traumas currently associated with getting ones hands on the goods. And I still keep coming back for more.
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Winterland June 1977
The Complete Recordings

The Shows

June 7, 1977
June 8, 1977
June 9, 1977

Boxed and Ready to Go!

Sound the imperial trumpets! Bang the drum! Pop that champagne! Another Grateful Dead box set is comin’ your way! Yes, in the grand tradition of the beloved Fillmore West 1969 and Winterland 1973 boxes, comes Winterland June 1977: The Complete Recordings, a 9-CD box set that is sure to knock your tie-dyed socks off.

At this point, we probably don’t need to hype you on the glories of ’77 Dead. It was a magical time for the band, which was reinvigorated by a plethora of great new material—“Terrapin,” “Estimated Prophet,” “Passenger,” “Fire on the Mountain”—and really hitting its stride again following the October ’74 to June ’76 performing hiatus. The group spent much of the first three months of 1977 recording their Terrapin Station album with producer Keith Olsen, and Garcia also managed to find time to complete the much-anticipated Grateful Dead movie (which opened June 1, 1977). The third week of April, the band embarked on what most Dead Heads agree was one of the greatest tours ever: 26 concerts in the East and Midwest in a little over a month—an awesome stretch that produced so many great shows, a few of them already released in the Dick’s Picks series and subsequently (and more, no doubt, destined to come out down the road.)

So when the Dead returned to San Francisco’s Winterland for shows on June 7, 8, 9, they were pumped up and feeling good! They treated their hometown fans to three superb concerts that included excellent versions of much of their current repertoire, from the new combo of “Scarlet Begonias” > “Fire on the Mountain,” to a truly colossal, more than 30-minute “Help on the Way” > “Slipknot!” > “Franklin’s Tower,” “Saint Stephen,” “Terrapin,” “Good Lovin’,” “Not Fade Away,” “The Other One”… too many favorites to mention (you can see the complete song lists here). Winterland June 1977: The Complete Recordings contains every note recorded from the three shows, more than nine hours of prime Dead, all taken from the master analog tapes, restored using the Plangent Processes, and mastered in HDCD by that inimitable sonic tweakster, Jeffrey Norman.

The nine discs are packaged in a beautifully designed box that includes artwork by Emek (you loved his crazy Winterland ’73 phantasmagoria); a 28-page booklet featuring a wonderful and illuminating new essay by Rolling Stone senior music editor David Fricke (who dubs this a “box of paradise and circus… six complete sets of inspired risk and collective explosion”); lots of great Winterland action shots by noted GD shutterbugs Ed Perlstein and Bruce Polonsky; and a couple of little pieces of period memorabilia we won’t reveal here.

—Blair Jackson

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please send me a PM with your order numbers and relevant email address and we will try to find out what's what. Thanks!
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Just received my boxed set and, lo and behold, it came with the BONUS DISC!!! Yippee! Even more fantastic music from an incredible tour. Thank you, Grateful Dead Store. I don't know about other's noted problems, but I'm thrilled with your service and have never had a problem except for a few broken cases every now and then. No biggie. You guys are the best. Todd
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A year and half later, I finally had the cash to order this, and what do you know ... a bonus disc. Now that's a bonus.
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The link to the store is broken (it 404s) and I can't find a download version of this in the store or any message that it is sold out or in fact any trace of it ever having existed. Which is kind of a shame - I'm streaming the show from archive.org, but I am broadly in favour of handing over some money instead.
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I think it is sold out. This set re-appeared (BRIEFLY) last fall, and I jumped in and bought it in Nov. 2014. After a while, it disappeared again. (Maybe they just found a few extra sets kicking around the warehouse or something?) I was pleased -- and somewhat shocked -- when my box set arrived WITH THE BONUS DISK. Sorry it seems to be gone again. Seems like a set they might want to "resurrect"
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I hope this set returns at some point, though I'm not counting on it. I'd love to get it as a mate for my Winterland 1973 box. It's surprisingly hard to find at a reasonable price on the secondary market. That's what I get for missing it years ago, I suppose.