May 1977: Get Shown The Light (All Music Edition)

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May 1977: Get Shown The Light (All Music Edition)

WHAT'S INSIDE:
Four Complete Shows on 11 discs
Four folios housed in a slipcase
5/5/77 Veterans Memorial Coliseum: New Haven, CT
5/7/77 Boston Garden: Boston, MA
5/8/77 Barton Hall, Cornell University: Ithaca, NY
5/9/77 Buffalo Memorial Auditorium: Buffalo, NY
50-page book of liners and photographs
Sourced from the Betty Cantor-Jackson soundboard recordings, transferred by Plangent Processes
Mastered in HDCD by Jeffrey Norman
Artwork by Grammy-winning graphic artist Masaki Koike
Release Date: May 5, 2017

WHAT DEAD HEADS HAVE BEEN SAYING ABOUT...

NEW HAVEN 5/5/77
"Here is a prime example of the saying ‘the whole is greater than the sum of the parts’ … It’s called synergy and the Dead wrote the book on it.”

BOSTON 5/7/77
“The music they laid down brought me places I had not been before.”

CORNELL 5/8/77
“...the single best rock performance anywhere, anytime, by anyone.”

“There was just some kind of magical connection this night between the band members and the band and the audience - some texture, or some type of cosmic or celestial force is in the room.”

"This show is, was, and always will be Mecca.”

BUFFALO 5/9/77
"...an awesome display of the Dead’s captivating power"

If you've been following this site for quite some time, then you will know we are often flush with hyperbole when it comes to our releases. We can't help it, really - for we, like you, are Grateful Dead fans above all else. Just like you, we've spent countless hours debating the merits of show over show, year over year. We've kept a watchful eye on your wish-lists and carefully considered how to make - excuse the cliché - your dreams come true. And once we've made our commitments, we are steadfast in our determination to conjure up those dreams fully-formed and nearly perfect. Sometimes these heights cannot be reached without physical and cosmic elements aligning, and that, dear friends, is why it has taken so long for us to bring you THE ONE and the epic shows that surrounded it. No need for even the slightest embellishment here, 5/8/77 Barton Hall, Cornell University: Ithaca, NY, has for decades, been THE resounding favorite; you've said it yourselves - the "holy grail" of Grateful Dead shows. Thanks to the passion and perseverance of Dead Heads like you, we are beyond pleased to finally be able to present this show and its brethren, the fabled four of Spring '77, in sonically pristine condition.

MAY 1977: GET SHOWN THE LIGHT is a collection of what is unanimously believed to be the most sought-after previously unreleased complete shows the Grateful Dead ever played. Collected, traded, and debated for decades, "the beloved Golden Trinity" of Boston, Ithaca, and Buffalo, along with their New Haven prelude, have inspired fans to "get on the bus," converted critics, and even garnered national attention (Cornell was added to the Library of Congress’ National Recording Registry). But until now, you've never really heard them quite like this!

The Dead is in the details... how serendipitous is it that the notorious Betty Cantor-Jackson soundboard recordings were returned to the archive just in time for the 40th anniversaries of these shows? Lovingly sourced from these well-reputed recordings, we invite you to experience four utopian shows just like they happened, to "be inside the music" as engineer Betty Cantor-Jackson intended. Whether you listen to each night on its own or imbibe the whole lot at once, we suspect you'll hear why every note mattered. Much like we were, you will be hard-pressed to determine which of these fine documents - will it be the understated but nuanced New Haven, Boston's festive fantasy vibes, the monumental catharsis of Ithaca, or Buffalo’s dreamy exuberance - is truly "the best." Does it really matter? We think not.

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June 2, 2017 - 10:42am

#851

Gary Farseer

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Pokin Around

Wondering how many have seen Long Strange Trip. How is it? I hope I can watch thru Prime today. Hope D&C continue to blow the roof off this tour. Trying to decide weather to get a couple of HD east coast shows. Before I fell out, I had contemplated going to a few shows. Now best I can do is the couch tour. That's OK. I got a good chair for chair dancin and wiggle buttin.
June 2, 2017 - 10:41am

#852

Vguy72

Joined:
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Re; Last Nights Dead and Co....

....that second set was phreaking phenomenal....awesome that you were able to be there mhammond. I will admit, I'm a little jealous....
June 2, 2017 - 9:32am

#853

mhammond12

Joined:
September 15, 2009

Last Nights Dead and Co

First set ended with Uncle Johns Band, New Speedway Boogie, and U.S. Blues. Second set included St. Stephen, Dark Star, Terrapin Station, Morning Dew. Not too shabby. Attended with my whole family, including my daughter, who's now a doctor (DVM). It was her graduation present.
June 2, 2017 - 9:25am

#854

reijo29

Joined:
June 18, 2012

KeithFan Dark Star 4/29/72

Just happened to revisit this particular Dark Star on Tuesday. It's another fabulous version that gets way out there. After about 30 minutes Bobby feels the need to reel it in & basically pastes the Sugar Mag intro over Jerry's deep dissonant exploration. Jerry has no choice but to move on and join in. Otherwise he'd probably still be left behind spinning off into some other world. So Bobby to the rescue until right after the Sunshine Daydream coda. Then Phil abruptly switches to Caution & off they go........
June 2, 2017 - 8:35am

#855

KeithFan2112

Joined:
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Great Plan 80sFan

Lyrical....almost. Beer in hand listening to the Dead sounds wonderful. Throw in a toke of the good stuff...aye, I miss it sometimes. It's Dark Star from 4/29/72 as I walk with the wireless Plantronics at the moment. Sun is shining but not too hot. Zero humidity. Ahhhh. This album has always borne the Skeletons playing poker cover art for me, with the title "Dead Hand in Hamburg". Keith's piano is about normal volume in the mix on this one (just mentioning it after some discussion last week about him being almost absent from some tracks on some of the E72 shows). Why am I not at work? Plumbing issues. Not one but two broken showers. Fixed the first one yesterday for about $30 in parts. Plumber wanted $800. Unreal- and I thought all of the scumbags were hired by the local KIA dealership. There's an extraordinarily good Caution coming up in a bit. I wonder sometimes if Pigpen would have eventually left the band if he hadn't become ill. Some of the stuff I've read indicated he was working on blues-oriented solo material near his time of departure. That tells me he probably would have grown to want more, not less participation in the set list each night. Where would that have fit in? With Bobby developing his own excellent vocal repetoire, it's hard to imagine 1977 interlaced with Pigpen tunes. Maybe I'm overthinking this, and the answer would simply have been longer shows.
June 2, 2017 - 8:12am

#856

Dennis

Joined:
November 1, 2012

Drums/Space

Back in maybe 81-ish, we talked some friends into going to a dead show with us. This was back when we were young and stupid and thought because you led the horse to water they would drink. Then they got to the Drums/Space portion. Right after drums ended and the space began my friend leans over and ask, "they are gonna play music again, right?" Last time we ever asked anyone to go to a show. Our core group still laughs about JB at that show :-) To be honest, D/S was usually a time to sit down, relax, burn one, talk about show to that point and what would come out of space. But there were several over the years that were very good. I remember a space at Hartford/New Haven(?), we had seats just off the floor across from stage and they produced a sound like a Frankenstein machine, you could hear the lightning bolts shooting over your head. I used to like "The Beast" for during drums. The drummers also had that thing that had like 10 snare heads on a pole and they could turn the heads to tighten and loosen the skin and change the pitch. The wood xylophone thing Mickey beat on was neat also.
June 2, 2017 - 7:56am

#857

80sfan

Joined:
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happy friday

Hope everyone is preparing for a fun weekend. Mine will consist of watching my kids play baseball, a BBQ with some family, and listening to the dead with a beer in my hand while i sit on the porch. I suspect many of you, even those with opposing political views, will be doing much the same. Let's try to remember that we have more in common than we think.
June 2, 2017 - 3:56am

#858

allman

Joined:
July 9, 2007

JOW

To avoid the political noids head over to the Jam of the Week - July 16, 1972Dillon Stadium Hartford, CT
June 2, 2017 - 2:16am

#859

daverock

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kyle-drums

Yes, DRUMS was great during the midi years. I live in England, so I never got to see The Dead live very often-only in 1981 and 1990, in fact. But I can remember in 1990, DRUMS was one of the highlights of the shows. It was very loud, and echoed out of the speakers placed all round the hall-a bit like listening at home where the sound goes from one speaker to another, but this time using countless speakers and about 100 times louder. It really took the shows to another dimension. But before the midi era, DRUMS was a bit useless. The one played at New Years Eve 1978 comes to mind. It seems to go on for ever, and is made worse by the fact that various "Merry" Pranksters, roadies, programme sellers-whatever start joining in, tapping on things as well. But The Dead weren't the only culprits in playing boring drum solos. In the early 1970s when I was in my teens, I used to go to loads of concerts-people like Black Sabbath and Deep Purple. Everything would be flying along, and then after an hour or so, band members would start sloping off stage...and the drum solo would start. After about 15 minutes, that stopped, and the drummer would go off-to be replaced by the lead guitarist-who would play an unaccompanied solo for about 10 minutes. It used to kill the atmosphere stone dead. Led Zeppelin were one of the worst-terrible! At the time, I thought they were just showing off...but in retrospect it seems likely that the groups were taking drug breaks. They always seemed to play like demons when they came back on, anyway.
June 2, 2017 - 12:34am

#860

SPACEBROTHER

Joined:
June 4, 2007

smh

A bomb threat at a Dead & Company show......on top of all the other not-so-great things happening in regards to current events is exactly the type of thing that inspires me to share my sentiment as in my previous couple of posts. To see that element start to seep into the Dead scene is most disheartening. Oh wait, a gifted box set from 5 years ago is a real 1st world problem.

John Perry Barlow

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May 1977: Get Shown The Light (All Music Edition)

WHAT'S INSIDE:
Four Complete Shows on 11 discs
Four folios housed in a slipcase
5/5/77 Veterans Memorial Coliseum: New Haven, CT
5/7/77 Boston Garden: Boston, MA
5/8/77 Barton Hall, Cornell University: Ithaca, NY
5/9/77 Buffalo Memorial Auditorium: Buffalo, NY
50-page book of liners and photographs
Sourced from the Betty Cantor-Jackson soundboard recordings, transferred by Plangent Processes
Mastered in HDCD by Jeffrey Norman
Artwork by Grammy-winning graphic artist Masaki Koike
Release Date: May 5, 2017

WHAT DEAD HEADS HAVE BEEN SAYING ABOUT...

NEW HAVEN 5/5/77
"Here is a prime example of the saying ‘the whole is greater than the sum of the parts’ … It’s called synergy and the Dead wrote the book on it.”

BOSTON 5/7/77
“The music they laid down brought me places I had not been before.”

CORNELL 5/8/77
“...the single best rock performance anywhere, anytime, by anyone.”

“There was just some kind of magical connection this night between the band members and the band and the audience - some texture, or some type of cosmic or celestial force is in the room.”

"This show is, was, and always will be Mecca.”

BUFFALO 5/9/77
"...an awesome display of the Dead’s captivating power"

If you've been following this site for quite some time, then you will know we are often flush with hyperbole when it comes to our releases. We can't help it, really - for we, like you, are Grateful Dead fans above all else. Just like you, we've spent countless hours debating the merits of show over show, year over year. We've kept a watchful eye on your wish-lists and carefully considered how to make - excuse the cliché - your dreams come true. And once we've made our commitments, we are steadfast in our determination to conjure up those dreams fully-formed and nearly perfect. Sometimes these heights cannot be reached without physical and cosmic elements aligning, and that, dear friends, is why it has taken so long for us to bring you THE ONE and the epic shows that surrounded it. No need for even the slightest embellishment here, 5/8/77 Barton Hall, Cornell University: Ithaca, NY, has for decades, been THE resounding favorite; you've said it yourselves - the "holy grail" of Grateful Dead shows. Thanks to the passion and perseverance of Dead Heads like you, we are beyond pleased to finally be able to present this show and its brethren, the fabled four of Spring '77, in sonically pristine condition.

MAY 1977: GET SHOWN THE LIGHT is a collection of what is unanimously believed to be the most sought-after previously unreleased complete shows the Grateful Dead ever played. Collected, traded, and debated for decades, "the beloved Golden Trinity" of Boston, Ithaca, and Buffalo, along with their New Haven prelude, have inspired fans to "get on the bus," converted critics, and even garnered national attention (Cornell was added to the Library of Congress’ National Recording Registry). But until now, you've never really heard them quite like this!

The Dead is in the details... how serendipitous is it that the notorious Betty Cantor-Jackson soundboard recordings were returned to the archive just in time for the 40th anniversaries of these shows? Lovingly sourced from these well-reputed recordings, we invite you to experience four utopian shows just like they happened, to "be inside the music" as engineer Betty Cantor-Jackson intended. Whether you listen to each night on its own or imbibe the whole lot at once, we suspect you'll hear why every note mattered. Much like we were, you will be hard-pressed to determine which of these fine documents - will it be the understated but nuanced New Haven, Boston's festive fantasy vibes, the monumental catharsis of Ithaca, or Buffalo’s dreamy exuberance - is truly "the best." Does it really matter? We think not.

kate_c.

i've seen two of your posts in one weekcomplaining about someone's negative comments-guess what, when someone has an opinion that is not aligned with your thoughts,even if it's about someone setting a price for something they selling or the band is slop before pigpen.its gonna be negative.it's their prerogative to say it's not worth it or no thanks.i think it's your emotional immaturity to anything negative or something you don't agree with.you could have left it to-"that's your opinion and i don't agree."instead you feel it's necessary to put someone down.earth without rain is a desert.

My Favorite Version

I just love this.

Pauses between tracks?

Hi all, A technical issue I'm hoping to resolve: Recently ordered this set, promptly downloaded the CDs to my iTunes collection. Getting 1-2 second pauses between most of the tracks which disturbs the flow of the music. Does anyone know what might be causing this, and how to fix it? Gareth

Gareth

It’s most likely caused by a setting in iTunes. Go into the iTunes preferences and see what is listed for import settings, as well as for playback settings.If you still can’t fix it then google it, there should be instructions somewhere.

Testing

1,2

Recommendations for a Newly Grateful Deadhead?

To icecrmcnkd, Thank you for your reply, much appreciated! If I may, I'd like to followup with a second question: it was only a year ago that I first discovered the Grateful Dead, and I'd love to hear recommendations from older fans about which live albums to listen to next? Thanks again, Gareth

Gareth

Real gone music is reissuing the Road Trip series. https://shop.realgonemusic.com/products/grateful-dead-road-trips-vol-4-…

Gareth

Newly Grateful Recommendations

You know, Gareth, it really comes down to what you like about the Dead... When I put in the Dead, I rarely want to listen to songs, so to speak. I tend to go for the long, inspired jams. For this, I would suggest the Winterland 1973 boxed set as No. 1, so far... though in general, shows from the 1973-1974 will be your best bet for this... That said, there are gems of shows throughout the years, though I've never personally been impressed by anything later than 1977. May 1977: Get Shown the Light (All Music Edition) is a great collection from this year. I also really love One from the Vault, Sunshine Daydream, & Dick's Picks, Vol. 14... The Grateful Dead Movie Soundtrack is an all-too-looked-over gem, too. Finally, if you can afford it, I'd recommend getting a copy of the Pacific NW '73-'74 boxed set while it's still available on this site. When these sell out on dead.net, they price-inflate like crazy to 2x their original cost or more.

May 1977: Get Shown The Light (All Music Edition)

Get Shown the Light, the box with the book, was limited to 15,000 copies, I read somewhere.But I can’t find anything on the All Music Edition that’s still available. Can somebody tell me how many of those were printed?

Best digital format?

So, I'm totally showing my newbie-ness, but when the formats are digital, which is the best to download? I'm thinking about uploading to iphone for maximum bluetoothing. Also, is the first selection a CD collection of the four shows? I didn't see it listed behind the All Music Edition, so I figured it must be sold out.

Schrodd, formats

16/44.1 is CD format, so you could convert to WAV or AIFF on a computer and burn CDs if you wanted to, as well as have the digital file on a music player.

The higher resolution files are for a computer or music player. If you wanted to burn CDs from those files you would lose the higher resolution that you paid more for.

Holiday of a lifetime?

First time I've ever seen R.I.P. included in the name of a firm pushing you to go on holiday ! Maybe its a plug for euthanasia.

maybe

they thought they were going for dead people as a marketing niche. Dead heads, dead people, I'm so confused... Anyway, they're gone for the moment.

Hi there, I downloaded the…

Hi there,

I downloaded the ALAC of this digital download but when I import into iTunes it is not recognizing the artist or songs and not creating an album. For the same ALAC download for Pacific Northwest ’73-’74: The Complete Recordings Boxed Set it worked perfectly in iTunes. Why does this download now import correctly? Thanks if anyone knows or can help.

Howdydoody

You should ask on the Dave's Picks 30 thread…there's more people on there and very few if any on here…hope it helps.

will do! thank you.

May 1977: Get Shown The Light (All Music Edition)

Since they sold out of the regular box set with all the bells and whistles, and had a huge demand, Dead.Net is selling an All Music Edition that "...only includes the 11 CDs in four folios and a booklet of liners, housed in a simple slipcase."

So, still the four shows, just without the special packaging and the unpublished book. This time, the order went through. Nothing on the website about this also being a limited release -- it's not numbered, but they don't specify if it's another set amount.

May 77 - Henryben

Excellent news ! I wonder if they will re-release other box sets in this format that originally sold out. Fillmore West 1969 is the one I sadly missed out on and would shell out for in a heartbeat.

Does somebody have problems with tracking number?

Hello,
I've purchased the fantastic Lyceum LPs more than a month ago and still nothing arrived.
I've searched for the tracking number done by the GD store on the DHL site but nothing appears.
I've yet written to the customer helpdesk, but I'm curious if somebody encountered my same problem.
Thanks a lot,
Fabianope

Fabian

Send a PM to Marye, she can help.

yes please

Fabian, send me a PM and I'll see if the Doc can shed some light here.

Fabian

Just to state the obvious, they are indeed fantastic records. I am half way through 5/25/72 at the moment - one that no-one really mentions. Probably because of the night after, which is a shame as it's a great show in it's own right. Curious "Good Lovin" - 14min 53 seconds, and no Pigpen rap - he just sings the opening the verses and the closing ones some 12 minutes later. In between we have spot on r'n'b jamming like no-one else.

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