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    Pacific Northwest ’73-’74: The Complete Recordings Boxed Set

    WHAT'S INSIDE:
    6 Complete Shows On 19 Discs
    • 6/22/73 P.N.E. Coliseum, Vancouver, B.C.
    • 6/24/73 Portland Memorial Coliseum, Portland, OR
    • 6/26/73 Seattle Center Arena, Seattle, WA
    • 5/17/74 P.N.E. Coliseum, Vancouver, B.C.
    • 5/19/74 Portland Memorial Coliseum, Portland, OR
    • 5/21/74 Hec Edmundson Pavilion, University of Washington, Seattle, WA
    Mastered in HDCD from the original master tapes by Jeffrey Norman at Mockingbird Mastering
    Masters transferred and restored by Plangent Processes
    Original Art by First Nations Artist Roy Henry Vickers
    Photos by Richie Pechner
    Individually Numbered, Limited Edition of 15,000

    Includes an immediate digital download of "Eyes Of The World (P.N.E. Coliseum, Vancouver, Canada 5/17/74)"

    "We were in the Pacific Northwest...between somewhere in Washington and some other where in Oregon. The road took us to the lip on a ridge, from where we could see around us for many miles in all directions … It was breathtaking to behold, but as we watched, we had a firm realization that we were witnessing something even more beautiful than our eyes could ever take in … Life causes life. Heaven and Earth dance in this way endlessly, and their child is the forest. And so there we were, epiphanously watching that grandest and most glorious dance of life—of which we are just a tiny part—awed by a magnificence without beginning, without end..."

    Bob Weir, “Sell Headwaters—Everyone Wins,” San Francisco Chronicle

    The Pacific Northwest offers up a rich feast of land, sky, and water. It is ripe with influences, abundant with symbols, deep and spirited. It should, therefore, come as no surprise that the Grateful Dead played some of their most inspired shows on these fertile grounds. It does, however, sometimes take a breath for the elements to re-align years later. It seems for us, they finally have and we are able to present not just a glimpse of the band's extraordinary exploratory tour through the region, but a two-tour bounty as the PACIFIC NORTHWEST ’73-’74: THE COMPLETE RECORDINGS.

    For PACIFIC NORTHWEST ’73-’74: THE COMPLETE RECORDINGS, we've paired two short runs made up of six previously unreleased shows - P.N.E. Coliseum, Vancouver, B.C. (6/22/73); Portland Memorial Coliseum, Portland, OR (6/24/73); Seattle Center Arena, Seattle, WA (6/26/73); P.N.E. Coliseum, Vancouver, Canada (5/17/74); Portland Memorial Coliseum, Portland, OR (5/19/74); and Hec Edmundson Pavilion, University of Washington, Seattle, WA (5/21/74). Each show has been mastered in HDCD from the original master tapes by Jeffrey Norman at Mockingbird Mastering. The transfers from the masters were transferred and restored by Plangent Processes, further ensuring that this is the best, most authentic that these shows have ever sounded.

    PACIFIC NORTHWEST ’73-’74: THE COMPLETE RECORDINGS comes in an ornate box created by Canada’s preeminent First Nations artist Roy Henry Vickers (more on this tremendous artist soon). To complement the music, the set also includes a 64-page book with an in-depth essay by Grateful Dead scholar Nicholas G. Meriwether and photos by Richie Pechner.

    Due September 7th, this release is limited to 15,000 individually numbered copies and available exclusively from dead.net. You'll want to grab a copy while you can and sit back, relax, and enjoy all the exclusive content we'll be rolling out over the next few weeks.

    Looking for something a little more byte-sized? The collection will also be available for HD digital download in FLAC and ALAC, exclusively at dead.net, on release day. You can pre-order it now too.

    Get it while you can.

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  • #2201
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    Hold on hendrixfreak....
    ....I need to make some more popcorn and mescaline.
  • #2202
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    Noon-ish is not the best time to catch a full-blown show.....
    My memory has clearly telescoped events, because I almost think I remember rolling over in my sleeping bag and, for breakfast, snorting a pile of 'chocolate' mescaline off one of those mini-cereal boxes. I definitely took some blotter. But even if we'd 'slept in,' it must of been 10-ish or something. Surely we'd had some water and a snack, probably provided by a merciful neighbor. We were still 15 and we looked like what we were: goddamm-near children! Ah, so I was saying, we dropped acid and snorted mescaline and fired up the pipe with Numero Uno and, hey, is that freakin' Jerry on stage? Wait, Bobby. Phil. Bill. The piano guy. Jer kept dipping his cigarette into a brass ashtray and, when he re-lit it, it flared up. I didn't hit the blow til '75 but later, I thought, freebase. I hope someone can clarify this, but I think I recall the band starting just a bit after NOON(!). As far as I was concerned at the time, they fucking rocked the place for hours. I do recall, as I often feel, feeling goofy about a camera while tripping. But I managed to snap off three shots, of which two survive, which catch the three guitarists blasting away on Playing in the Band, then turning towards each other to converse more intimately, finally arriving in a tight circle and sending tides of sound across the crowd. I think this was the time I experienced Phil's bass as physical, purple pulses in my chest and the realization that vibrations, rather than corporeal reality, were at the heart of existence. I clearly remember the gospel treatment at the end of He's Gone and at the end of Sugar Mag, Weir thrust his arm skyward for stop time, ran back to his amps, downed the rest of a Heineken and raced back to the mic for the coda. Still, I was 15, down front at one of the biggest gatherings of humans in history. I did look back over the crowd, but, as usual, there wasn't much profit in looking back. Not with the Grateful Dead killing it in front of me.
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    The Soundcheck
    The Allmans rocked big time. They'd slayed us at RFK after the Dead when, exhausted and dehydrated, we had retreated to the shaded overhang of RFK and been simply psychedelically rolled over by the ABB. They smoked the Dead that day. Back to the Soundcheck. I got up and hiked around the scene while it was still afternoon. A very loose scene with lots of elbow room, cool air, breathing. I returned to our space, easily located, for The Band. It was nearly sunset when the Grateful Dead took the stage. We had all the room we needed. I started the soundcheck boogie-ing upright, shakin it to the rock 'n roll. I had snorted some mescaline and taken maybe a half tab of the blotter. Everyone knew this was unprecedented in GD history. Here we were, groovin' on a cool pine forest evening, high but not pressed and our favorite band was blasting away on the finest sound system we'd ever heard. I do not recall individual songs, just the transition between comprehensible songs and jams that had us smiling for reasons we knew not. [Beautiful Jam from So Many Roads is blasting in the background as I write these words.] I do clearly recall the feeling of complete ease as I nestled down into my sleeping bag, head on cool gallon jug, looking up at the band just jamming away. We rode it out after the band departed and the next thing we knew, it was morning and the crowd was bustling, hustling, and by noon it was show time all over again.
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    Hendrixfreak
    I hope you are writing these in a word processing program and saving them.You probably should combine your memories and pictures and put it out on the internets where it will hopefully be forever preserved. Maybe upload the final version to the archive someday.
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    Any headphone listeners out there? Or maybe you don't need them. I find the bass on this GSTL recording overwhelming. Bertha and Help On the Way are good places to start. I don't get the same thing with the SB I have if this show. I think Jeff Norman boosted it somehow. Anyone else notice it? Garyfarseer - what kind of medicine?
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    The greatest missed show on Earth
    Long story shrunk to size... We had to get home on 10 June 1973 because we were exhausted, dehydrated, broke, without tickets, food, water, anything, so we thumbed back and tried to blend into humanity. I was 15. I lived with my parents, of course, and they needed to see some evidence that I was alive. They never even said a word about my setting out for a multi=day excursion in jeans and a t-shirt. We just did it. We heard the 10 June show was smokin' and we were pissed. We were NOT going to be caught short like that again. No effin' way. So when the news broke of a show with all three of the greatest rock bands of that time -- the Grateful Dead, the Allman Brothers and The Band -- we were on it like white on rice. Tickets cost $10.50? We had 'em. And we'd just seen the Allmans at Madison Square Garden in, May? I smuggled in a bong. A young cop caught me. An older cop said, "Let him go. It's a bong. Don't worry about it." Jesus, this whole law enforcement thing was confusing! But my view was broadening... Late July 1973. The older brother of a hot schoolmate of ours was driving to Watkins Glen. We signed on. Me, Mark L, David W, and a few others. We brought our backpacks. We had a little food. A shit-ton of Numero Uno. No alcohol. I had a sheet of blotter. Someone's adept use of the map enabled us to skirt around the worst of the traffic and we actually accessed the grounds in fine fashion, probably 12 hrs ahead of the hoo-ska-boo that eventually developed. The van's inhabitants split into units and we never saw our driver-host again, until a week later, just before the 31 July - 1 August shows back at Roosevelt Stadium. (Biggies, waiting for release...) So we hike over to the "gate," passing food trucks that specialized in big scoops of weed. We snickered, fully equipped. We were still 15. We entered the gates around midday and for some reason no one took my ticket, so I immediately doubled back to the chain link fence and passed my whole ticket to a have-not. Instinct, communal instinct. Later, my parents said that friends of theirs in Europe had seen footage that included my entrance into the concert site. The stage was perhaps 2/3 of a mile away. As we walked down the gently sloping hill towards the stage it was obvious we were a bit early. In earlier shows we were leery of getting too close because of the physical crush, the volume and the collective high that sometimes ... got a bit hairy. But fresh off missing 10 June, we marched down and claimed a beautiful space about 20 yards from the stage, just a bit left of center. On our way, we'd grabbed a few one-gallon water jugs that were set out free by Bill Graham in response to the scene at RFK in DC 6 weeks earlier. I found myself high on mescaline, laying on my sleeping bag with my head resting on a cool one-gallon jug of potable water and passing a doobie when the crowd sputtered and roared. It was late afternoon and the Allman Brothers had just taken the stage.
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    Throughout the fall of 1972 and through the winter-spring of 1973 I had ingested numerous psychedelics, including the wonderful agent known as mescaline and naturally a few substantial doses of the Lady Herself. At one point, with my buddy Moose, we were sitting atop a van-sized boulder in a 2,000 acre wooded preserve near home and we focused on the visual margin between the rock beneath us and the ground in the background and felt that we had lifted the boulder upon which we sat perhaps several inches into the air, then lowered it again to its natural resting place. But I digress... June 1973 and me and David W are hitching to RFK in DC about 200 miles away for the 9-10 June 1973 shows. It's summer. So obviously we go in t-shirts, jeans, sneakers, with a ticket and few single dollars/dead presidents in my pocket. Next to the sheet of oval 4-way blotter. A little smokum in the sock, in case we got stopped. Look, we're 15, okay? 16 was months away. We were just up for adventure, loud rock 'n roll and, um, a closer look at the scene. I remember that some of the serious traveling hippies with LSD-dead eyes were there selling pipes, but also passing them around. We had long hair but we were little kids! These folks looked 50 but were probably 20, i.e., impossibly old, grizzled and of unknown origin. But no one actually bothered us, nor was there any attention. Everyone treated us as adults. So we slept on the ground on the grassy parts outside the stadium that night. No water, no food, no equipment. The next day, temperatures climbed towards 100. We were smoking a joint by the grate that blocked one entrance and a black cop motioned us over. We approached cautiously. "Hand me some of that, will you?" he asked. "WHAAAT???" was our initial reaction, having already experienced the pleasure of being cuffed and harassed by the cops for having a beer in the park. Turned out, cops can be cool, too. We burned two with the cat and we bid each other a good day. He was clearly amused by the scene, but in a groovy way. This was 1973 and racism and violence over the Vietnam War made longhairs outcasts, just like minorities of every stripe, then and now. Short story long, me and David split a 4-way and the Dead played that afternoon, opening for the ABB that night. The lines for water were long. We survived on The Lady, a little water and some "Numero Uno" substance we thought was hash but turned out to be opium. Worked for us that day, though, the heat was excruciating and I'm sure a lot of folks needed help in the heat. I got up close for Chinacat at the end of the first set. I was mesmerized. Bobby played a Gibson SG, which in my mind meant "bass guitar." Phil was playing a big possibly semi-hollowbody bass that said to my untutored eyes, "rhythm guitar." But I was already a huge Phil fan (being a Jer fan was too obvious) and this had me confused. At some point some idiot hurled a lit M-80 onto the stage (June 9, right? obviously in close proximity to July 4??) and it rolled up to Jer. In that day, he had a stage mannerism of sort of shuffling in place and I saw him move his right foot forward in perfect time and using the tip of his cowboy boot sent the live M-80 back out over the crowd. I don't even recall hearing it explode. The music was pretty loud.
  • #2208
    icecrmcnkd
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    Nice warmup HF
    Patiently waiting for the grand finale....
  • #2209
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    Backstory and launch....
    The briefest of backstories: Six years old in 1964, persuaded my mom to buy me a Beatles LP at the checkout counter of the local discount store. Played it on monaural phonograph with one 12" speaker output. Rocked as child. 13 years old in 1970, convince mom to drive me and a friend to a Chambers Bros concert. We dug the music but were too young for 'action.' 15 years old, summer of '72, catch The Byrds and New York Rock 'n Roll Ensemble at college outside Saugerties NY where The Band rec'd Big Pink five years earlier. We drove by Big Pink. (Still Pink.) We were 15. (An older brother was actually driving...) Since 1971, been spinning American Beauty and Skull & Roses LPs on the same phonograph as in 1964, only now it's in the basement where our ping-pong table and hang-out couch are located. 19 Sept 1972, I jump in a car full of older heads with an ounce of hash in my pocket, 33 days after my 15th birthday, and we proceed to the Roosevelt Stadium in lovely Jersey City, New Jersey, and catch my first Grateful Dead show. I had already been 'experienced,' but did not drop at this show; too chaotic, large crowd, determined to survive and catch my ride home. I listened for familiar songs, jams, anything -- nothing! Everything was different. Records, shme-cords. This scene was crazy. Maybe 10,000 people screamin' high groovin', freakin', dancin', gyratin', handing you things you knew best to pass along... I was alone in the giant crowd with the music louder but sweeter than anything I'd ever heard before. The music rocked, I just couldn't grab onto a big Jerry jabbin' guitar riff that would remind me of Skull & Roses. Obviously, this was no American Beauty. As Jer once said, recording in a studio is like building a ship in a bottle. Playing live is like being on the ocean in an open rowboat. And that's kinda how I felt -- out there, surfin', knew I'd have to get home ... 3 hours into the show, I do remember saying to myself, "Well, all righty then, damn good show, YOU CAN STOP PLAYING ANYTIME, I'M GOOD. GOTTA GET SOME REST... MUST SNAG RIDE HOME..." Part II, coming ...
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    icecrmcnkd
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    Thanks dmcvt
    The photos of the stage show how high it was. Need safety railings to keep the musicians from falling off.
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Pacific Northwest ’73-’74: The Complete Recordings Boxed Set

WHAT'S INSIDE:
6 Complete Shows On 19 Discs
• 6/22/73 P.N.E. Coliseum, Vancouver, B.C.
• 6/24/73 Portland Memorial Coliseum, Portland, OR
• 6/26/73 Seattle Center Arena, Seattle, WA
• 5/17/74 P.N.E. Coliseum, Vancouver, B.C.
• 5/19/74 Portland Memorial Coliseum, Portland, OR
• 5/21/74 Hec Edmundson Pavilion, University of Washington, Seattle, WA
Mastered in HDCD from the original master tapes by Jeffrey Norman at Mockingbird Mastering
Masters transferred and restored by Plangent Processes
Original Art by First Nations Artist Roy Henry Vickers
Photos by Richie Pechner
Individually Numbered, Limited Edition of 15,000

Includes an immediate digital download of "Eyes Of The World (P.N.E. Coliseum, Vancouver, Canada 5/17/74)"

"We were in the Pacific Northwest...between somewhere in Washington and some other where in Oregon. The road took us to the lip on a ridge, from where we could see around us for many miles in all directions … It was breathtaking to behold, but as we watched, we had a firm realization that we were witnessing something even more beautiful than our eyes could ever take in … Life causes life. Heaven and Earth dance in this way endlessly, and their child is the forest. And so there we were, epiphanously watching that grandest and most glorious dance of life—of which we are just a tiny part—awed by a magnificence without beginning, without end..."

Bob Weir, “Sell Headwaters—Everyone Wins,” San Francisco Chronicle

The Pacific Northwest offers up a rich feast of land, sky, and water. It is ripe with influences, abundant with symbols, deep and spirited. It should, therefore, come as no surprise that the Grateful Dead played some of their most inspired shows on these fertile grounds. It does, however, sometimes take a breath for the elements to re-align years later. It seems for us, they finally have and we are able to present not just a glimpse of the band's extraordinary exploratory tour through the region, but a two-tour bounty as the PACIFIC NORTHWEST ’73-’74: THE COMPLETE RECORDINGS.

For PACIFIC NORTHWEST ’73-’74: THE COMPLETE RECORDINGS, we've paired two short runs made up of six previously unreleased shows - P.N.E. Coliseum, Vancouver, B.C. (6/22/73); Portland Memorial Coliseum, Portland, OR (6/24/73); Seattle Center Arena, Seattle, WA (6/26/73); P.N.E. Coliseum, Vancouver, Canada (5/17/74); Portland Memorial Coliseum, Portland, OR (5/19/74); and Hec Edmundson Pavilion, University of Washington, Seattle, WA (5/21/74). Each show has been mastered in HDCD from the original master tapes by Jeffrey Norman at Mockingbird Mastering. The transfers from the masters were transferred and restored by Plangent Processes, further ensuring that this is the best, most authentic that these shows have ever sounded.

PACIFIC NORTHWEST ’73-’74: THE COMPLETE RECORDINGS comes in an ornate box created by Canada’s preeminent First Nations artist Roy Henry Vickers (more on this tremendous artist soon). To complement the music, the set also includes a 64-page book with an in-depth essay by Grateful Dead scholar Nicholas G. Meriwether and photos by Richie Pechner.

Due September 7th, this release is limited to 15,000 individually numbered copies and available exclusively from dead.net. You'll want to grab a copy while you can and sit back, relax, and enjoy all the exclusive content we'll be rolling out over the next few weeks.

Looking for something a little more byte-sized? The collection will also be available for HD digital download in FLAC and ALAC, exclusively at dead.net, on release day. You can pre-order it now too.

Get it while you can.

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Submitted by Oroborous on Sun, 09/09/2018 - 08:52

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Sorry, off topic...no box here YET! Thanks to the heads up from good folks here, was able to finally get the 30 Trips music edition recently. Had a hell of a time ripping many of the discs. Many read and sync errors. Especially problematic were many disc 2 last track (drums) or last couple of tracks. I believe the 94 Terrapin took forever. In fact, if I wasn’t using Exact Audio Copy on my custom server, I don’t think I would of been successful! Everything so far seems to play fine.... So, did anyone else have any of these problems? I know some have speculated that perhaps some of these rereleased sets were RMA or B stock etc? Just wondering if anyone else had, or has recently experienced any of this phenomena? FYI, don’t think it’s my machine as other things have been fine.....
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Submitted by LedDed on Sun, 09/09/2018 - 09:19

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I got the same 30 Trips, and they were all clean and burned in easily the first time. Sometimes I use compressed air to blow fuzz and dust out of the disc burner, that doesn't hurt. I also have to say I love the 30 Trips. I'd heard a bunch before but didn't have it all in my possession. The patches don't bother me. As far as furniture with a short leg, well, that's a functional disability. That's like a guitar with a broken neck - unplayable. As far as the scratches, those are just cosmetic, and each of us can decide how uptight we want to be about such things.
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Submitted by MDJim on Sun, 09/09/2018 - 09:30

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I am not sure how or if they plan to address this. I did notice in prior offerings, the digital files were the same price as the physical product. This time they are cheaper. It's quite possible the digital downloads are just the music this time around. Good luck and happy listening to all.
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Submitted by nitecat on Sun, 09/09/2018 - 09:35

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I think many here would be interested in this new book soon to be published. Full disclosure: Jarid, the author, is a good buddy. Hello Scott, I am excited to announce the launch of the Kickstarter campaign for THIS OLD BUILDING: The Closing of Winterland, a photo documentary book of my rare images punctuated with tails of adventure from those who experienced this amazing event. This limited edition 8.5x11, hardbound, B&W art book celebrates the final show at Bill Graham's legendary music venue in San Francisco on New Year's Eve 1978 with the Grateful Dead, the Blues Brothers, the New Riders of the Purple Sage and thousands of fellow Deadheads. I invite you to reserve your copy for a pledge of $35. Throw down a bit more for additional rewards like gift giver packages or your choice of an enlargement from the book. You'll find all the pledge details on my Kickstarter page where you can view my campaign video, see photos, and hear the story of how this book came to fruition. With the 40th Anniversary of that final night nearly upon us, THIS OLD BUILDING: The Closing of Winterland will bring forth deep recollections and reignite your excitement for this historic event. https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/433001477/this-old-building-the-cl… Thank you and stay in touch. Cheers- Jarid
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Submitted by snafu on Sun, 09/09/2018 - 09:54

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If the old put it in the cart and see what is left works it looks like they've sold around 5000 copies this week. If true very wierd. Not sure why so many would wait. Not too important it will sell out maybe by the end of the year. Good news for all who want the shows to keep coming. One thing I know little about is downloads. I hope they get that fixed on a 1st run basis eventually for those that want it. As for the OCD while the short leg is certainly functional. Would you be satisfied with a new car someone at the dealer backed into but was still useable? I seriously doubt it
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Submitted by Dennis on Sun, 09/09/2018 - 09:49

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They come from Theyville. A small hamlet in Iowa where they have opinions about EVERYTHING!
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Submitted by Mind-Left-Body on Sun, 09/09/2018 - 09:55

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I had similar issues with skips on the last Trax of several CDs from all different bands. What I found was the only last tracks that were skipping were the ones where the full 80 minutes of Music had been utilized on the CD. The problem didn't happen on a CD with 45 or 50 minutes. I found that if I slowed the CD rip speed down to 1x, the problem would usually go away. Then out of curiosity, I tried ripping at normal speeds on my work laptop, which was much newer then my home desktop Tower which I had had for many years. In my mind it was a combination of the age of the CD burner and the fully packed 80-minute CDs. Also still waiting. How's the sound everybody? I'd really be interested in kayak guys assessment in particular, because he was very excited about plangent.
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Submitted by DP36 on Sun, 09/09/2018 - 11:02

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Utopia. Only way I can describe what my ears is exeriencin.' This PNW collection sets the bar with sound quality. This sounds as good if not better than Boxilla. Before we get too crazy, lets’s put the TOO and the multitrack recordings aside. With the 90’s box’s not considered, this is it! Sound is rich and upfront. Everyone is heard; balance is excellent to my ears. Rainy weekend in S. Jersey and GOGD PNW blasting on the grande delux all day. I’m caught between CD’s and high-res download with my wallet open and my cash falling out. The Totem will come, I will open it, look at all the trinkets, read the book, and then close the lid. I just think it’s silly to take out a digital copy (CD) of the show and put it into a CD player when I can play the digital files (at 192/24 vs. 44/16) with a tap on the mouse. I’ll clarify; for me it doesn’t work. I’ve said before here that music listening is a lifestyle. We all have our different ways of going about it. I play the downloads, but continue to buy the hard copes. However, Boxilla got me… I had to decide; just could not buy both. I bought the Bolt specifically for the 192/24 and missed out on the physical book and hoopla. No disc skipping with the downloads. Cheers all!
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Submitted by Butch on Sun, 09/09/2018 - 11:09

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Thanks Dave it's everything I ever dreamed of. Life is good.
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Submitted by ticktocktyler on Sun, 09/09/2018 - 13:23

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PING! That's it exactly. Digital files won't skip. I always back these expensive downloads up. I bought the box as well because I want it. I will never open it so I have what I am calling "Schrodingers Discs". They exist in a state of being both scuffed and not scuffed as I am not opening the box to find out.
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Submitted by simonrob on Sun, 09/09/2018 - 14:53

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Why would anyone pay almost $200 for something that they will never listen to. Like buying a car and putting it in the garage and never driving it. All is ephemeral and material things have no real value whatsoever. Surely these truths are self-evident. Explanations welcome.
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Submitted by MDJim on Sun, 09/09/2018 - 15:37

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I can't explain that.. but it's not that much different than what I do. I open it, rip all the CD's.. read all the stuff, liner notes, newspaper clips, all of it - hopefully uninterrupted.. then pack up the box, set it on a shelf in my office and give it a close listen or three or thirty three.. After that I rarely deal with the physical product, at best once every two to three years. If I lose my music drive and backups at the same time (it has happened), I have the hard media to rip and rebuild.. but I have not opened the E72 Trunk in a couple years. When I last moved about 8 years ago I was listening to CDs primarily when working late, etc. So I kept tossing in CDs. I ended up tearing a couple of the jackets from E72.. so I bought seconds of all the ones I listened to a bunch (perhaps two thirds of the shows). Then I just started listening to digital media. My brother will probably be the beneficiary of the extra CDs I no longer listen to. I do have lots of LPs.. I have been keeping up, but I don't have space to set up my turntable and retro system. None of this makes sense, but I do like the physical media and one day I will no longer work. .. so I plan to revisit all this stuff one year, probably sequentially. I don't think this makes any more sense than what was posted earlier.. I guess the music is most important. ..but one day I will open Bickershaw, re-read those liner notes and a smile will come to my face. It's all good, I guess I am a completist. Perhaps many of us are. I bet there is one or two of us out there that are OCD when it comes to really, really good GD. I'm not sure if I am there yet.. but who knows what tomorrow might bring.
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Submitted by Kayak Guy on Sun, 09/09/2018 - 15:53

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i really like it. the package is a 3D sculpture, totally unneeded, but beautifully done and a pleasure to own. the digipaks are great, the individual disk artwork is great, there is probably a story behind it all i haven't gotten yet. a wonderful mysterious box, the essay is standard Nick Merriwether (Joe Friday) reporting of reviews and interviews, it places the shows in historical context and covers all the factoids about the venues. it also has more art, or the same art in a different context to reinforce the ties between the images and the shows. the sound on the CDs is amazing. Phil is omnipotent, Billy is dancing, Bob is high in the mix, Keith is also very present in the mix, even Donna seems to have been adjusted down to less than overwhelming. it makes me wonder what the previous Dave's releases would have sounded like with a little Plangent processing to the reels. we need a new subscription series of Plangent Processed reels and stop making Dave choose what shows get the inferior processing for Dave's Picks and what gets the Plangent treatment for box sets.
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Submitted by ArthurDent on Sun, 09/09/2018 - 16:06

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if you look on eBay for the 30 trips "all music" edition, they are for sale for over $1,000. And it's open. Someone has the original box for $5,000. Not that that will sell for that, but the answer to the question - "Why would someone buy something for $200 and not open it?" can be answered by eBay. FYI - All music edition 30 trips is in the store for $699, so it's not exactly unobtainable. I find it amusing that people bitch hard about Dave's picks selling out, yet this has not. I realize the price is more, but the quality and material is stunning. Last Dave's Pick with the audience patch was amusing. I probably wouldn't have bought it singly, but as a subscription I'm ok, as the next release could be 1969 or some other fantastic set. The cost per show for a subscription is reasonable, as with the box set. I wish they would allow owners of the CD's to download at least the 24 bit FLAC, many other (Amazon) CD sellers bundle digital with physical CD purchases. My purchase has shipped, but will not make it from TN to FL for another 3 days, which is seriously annoying. It's not like they had no idea my order from 3 months ago was supposed to ship to arrive on release day.
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Submitted by pzega@comcast.net on Sun, 09/09/2018 - 17:02

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I did the digital download and there seems to be a lot of “static” in some of the songs. Do you hear that with the CDs?
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Submitted by bob t on Sun, 09/09/2018 - 17:12

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Just so beautiful sound wise. Not complaining or anything but when I listened to the Weather Report Suite always had that great audience copy where someone yells "Civilization" and "Dark Star, Dark Star" at the start of the Prelude. With that being said... who cares.. heading towards the 46 minute Playing in the Band... Hope everyone who is scheduled for UPS tomorrow gets their box.. Carolina and Mid Atlantic friends please start to prepare.... bob t
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Submitted by ArthurDent on Sun, 09/09/2018 - 17:12

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try VLC player, as if you can't play back at the high bit rate, there may be skipping/artifacts. What resolution files ? What player ? Other similar files play ok ?
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Submitted by MDJim on Sun, 09/09/2018 - 17:40

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The better the system, the more imperfections in the original source recordings can come to light. If you notice them they can be ever-present. I was playing the Lions 7/5/73 Garcia Live 6 show from San Anselmo for a friend at his house.. his system probably costs as much as the cars most people drive.. [all you kinds out there, go to school and become an Orthodontist] anyway.. I think it sounds fantastic, especially the My Bloody Valentine and all he had to say at the end was, what's up with that hiss.. I had to laugh. I went home and there is a small hiss present in a couple of the songs, especially Second That Emotion when they are fine-tuning the mic for the new Trumpet player. Still, throughout most of the set, the sound was pristine.. I swear you could hear a pin drop. These are old recordings with flaws.. and as good as warm as some of us (me ;D) think it sounds, there are anomalies. I will have to check this out when mine comes hopefully tomorrow. Glad to get all these feedback.. the great stuff, warts and all. Love it.
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Submitted by 80sfan on Sun, 09/09/2018 - 18:40

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This is already among my favorite box sets and im not even finished with it yet. Top 5 favorite dead box sets (not including this one) Europe 72 (even though I missed out the steamer I've managed to collect most of the shows) Fillmore 69 July 78 GSTL Spring 90 TOO Honorable mention: winterland 73 I love all the others but these are my favorites. I'm guessing this new box set will crack the top 5 before too long...
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Submitted by Vguy72 on Sun, 09/09/2018 - 20:19

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....probably the best song the Dead ever penned.
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Submitted by Thats_Otis on Sun, 09/09/2018 - 21:05

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Montana Dark Star? Still freaks me out too... Invasion of the Body Snatchers is about to come on TV. Jerry approves of both Love
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Submitted by Alain on Sun, 09/09/2018 - 23:11

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I made a purchase like this a few years ago. But less expensive. It was the vinyl of the Record Day: "Dark Star" of May 4, 1972 at L'Olympia de Paris (France). I have never listened to this disc because I do not have a platinum for vinyls. But I bought it because it was the "Dark Star" of the first concert of the Dead that I attended. Fetishism, then. As I own the Europe '72 The Complete Recordings box, I have the opportunity to listen to this concert anyway.
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Submitted by simonrob on Mon, 09/10/2018 - 03:32

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There is surely a big difference between (a) buying an expensive box, opening it, checking out the goodies within and ripping the CDs and (b) buying an expensive box and an almost equally expensive download, never opening the box and only listening to the download. Buying the box and downloads so that one can sell the box unopened on eBay later is a possible logical explanation but one has to be sure that the item can and will sell at the desired price and at the desired time.
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Submitted by daverock on Mon, 09/10/2018 - 03:37

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I am not sure I have ever bought something without the intention of using it-but my house is full of things that I used to use but no longer do,that I can't bring myself to get rid of. You never know when you might fancy having a go with an item that has been in the attic for donkey's years. Hence a house full of books, records, cds, dvds etc. Some things I have, but no longer use, are beautiful in themselves-the green Cadillac Gretsch duo jet in the spare bedroom is hard to get rid of. Others-I very rarely drive, but still have a car-I just keep...in case. Stupid really! Incidentally, I only bought that Paris 1972 Dark Star on vinyl last week. Brilliant-I haven't compared it to the cd version-but I am well pleased with it.
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Submitted by dreading on Mon, 09/10/2018 - 04:15

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I have only listened to disc one so far. It really is a good mix. One odd thing I've noticed, and this is relative to other Grateful Dead releases. When I play it on headphones I can hear a lot more of the audio artifacts then on other shows from this year. It seems to be predominantly on the right side. Noticeable only on headphones. Strange however because some of the noise I'm hearing sounds like what I've always thought the term flutter described. And plangent is supposed to get rid of flutter. I can't emphasize enough how slight the noise I'm hearing is. Slight enough you need headphones to pick it up. I also can't emphasize enough that it's not deal breaker by any means. I've heard it in a couple spots and that's it. Like I said the only reason I mention it is because the type of noise it is seems to be that which plangent is supposed to eliminate. Maybe a lifetime in the record business and I don't know what flutter is. Or maybe some did get through.
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Submitted by LoveJerry on Mon, 09/10/2018 - 04:24

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I took the day off work. Someone else will have to feed the plants. There was a little bit of good news. Instead of delivery being expected by 8 p.m. it's been updated to 4 p.m. Hey 80s fan, I was surprised that the winterland box set from 1973 was so much lower on your list then this new one. Is there something you don't like about that one? They just seem to almost go together just going by the years. If I had to go desert island with only 2 box sets, I would pick Europe 72 as my first, and instead of Fillmore West 1969, I would go with winterland 1973, and then just grab the best of Fillmore West 1969 3-cd set that came out. I feel like I have my cake and eat it too then.
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Submitted by MDJim on Mon, 09/10/2018 - 07:16

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Interesting.. I listened/watched to some of this yesterday for the first time. It could be because it I was showing someone something in YouTube and there it was the Up Next bar to the right. Still.. strange coincidence. Man.. we have gotten six inches of rain here the last two days, my river is perhaps three feet above the bottom of my basement and holding.. the pumps are running all the time to drain it and we have another hurricane on the way seemingly tracking right towards us. It's Coming Right For Us! I need a big box set to weight down my front porch so it doesn't drift away.. it's a matter of life or death! (and will make for some great listening while a monster storm is heading my way).
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Submitted by Slow Dog Noodle on Mon, 09/10/2018 - 08:20

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No shipping notice, no delivery yet. Hopefully this week we'll catch wind of something. I guess i'll stream these listening parties for the time being to get me through. Because I have no other Dead shows to listen to in my collection. Ha Ha.I want the new box though! Everyone is raving about it!
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Submitted by fourwindsblow on Mon, 09/10/2018 - 08:36

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Right in the middle of the remnants of Tropical Storm Gorden I wait for the UPS truck. Tracking say's the PNW box is on the truck and out for delivery. Hang in there Jim. Here comes sunshine.
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Submitted by nitecat on Mon, 09/10/2018 - 08:59

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Tracking says Wednesday delivery. I have grate anticipation since these are two of my favorite years-so jazzy. I do like all the years. In anticipation for these yummy six shows I've been playing other years and not listening to the listening parties. I look forward to hearing these shows with open ears. This weekend I've been watching the Dead & Co stream from Alpine Valley I had waiting for me in my nugs stash. It's inspiring seeing the band have a successful summer tour playing the songs we love so well.
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Submitted by matchewy on Mon, 09/10/2018 - 10:06

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Hey all, for anyone who has listened to 5/19/74 or is already in possession of the box set, there is chatter over on the vinyl thread about vocal dropout on Sugaree through El Paso (side C). Anyone notice faint vocals on the CD's?
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Submitted by Thats_Otis on Mon, 09/10/2018 - 10:17

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... hey, hey, hey, it's Santa Fe day! Looks like VGuy beat me to the punch tho, (which is appropriate, as he has been singing this shows praises for some time.) It is a doozy! Here is a link to the Hunter Seamons matrix: https://archive.org/details/gd1983-09-10.139379.mtx.seamons.ht112.flac16 The PNW Box should be coming today... Monday ain't so bad :) Peace
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Submitted by gr8fuldean on Mon, 09/10/2018 - 12:18

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Is anyone else missing the Playin' from 5/21/74? It is supposed to be 46:59 minutes long on disc 18 and my downloaded track is empty. All other music is there. Cannot imaging it's just me with this problem.
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Submitted by Numb on Mon, 09/10/2018 - 12:23

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Luckily off today....box arrived before 10 am.....even rainy outside...what more can you ask? Some look for perfection, while others just enjoy! Only on disc 2, but the China/Rider is hot, so pretty much digging in for the remainder, just waiting for a visit from Florence!
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Submitted by hatch655 on Mon, 09/10/2018 - 12:31

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Got my shipment this past Saturday. Warmed up by reading the booklet and reminisced mentally about the Wall. I toured during 1973-74, but since I'm from NY, never had a chance to visit the Northwest. I did see my share of shows, though-Roosevelt Stadium, Hartford, Phila-you get the picture. Anyway I put in the first disk of the first 73 show, and once the goosebumps disappeared, I just started smiling. The mix on Bertha was screwed up in the beginning-I used to LOVE that. Sound guys scurrying around on the side of the stage, trying to get everything dialed in just perfect. Sometimes when you were in the audience, it sometimes took 1 or 2 or 3 songs to get everything just about perfect. you didn't mind waiting cause you always knew they were gonna fix it and boy was it ever worth the wait! The mix on this show is great-every instrument prominent in the mix, but none overbearing. Gonna listen nice and slow so that I always have something to look forward to.
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Submitted by raguz13 on Mon, 09/10/2018 - 12:39

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Got the box set yesterday and ripped em to itunes. Everything went smooth. All I can say is WOW, sound clarity setlist everything is just perfect.Definitely my all time box. Thank's Dave and Deadnet you really came through on this one. Jerry is on fire in these recordings, a peak couple a year's no doubt. For those still waiting you are gonna love it.
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Submitted by raguz13 on Mon, 09/10/2018 - 12:39

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Got the box set yesterday and ripped em to itunes. Everything went smooth. All I can say is WOW, sound clarity setlist everything is just perfect.Definitely my all time box. Thank's Dave and Deadnet you really came through on this one. Jerry is on fire in these recordings, a peak couple a year's no doubt. For those still waiting you are gonna love it.
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Submitted by raguz13 on Mon, 09/10/2018 - 12:39

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Got the box set yesterday and ripped em to itunes. Everything went smooth. All I can say is WOW, sound clarity setlist everything is just perfect.Definitely my all time box. Thank's Dave and Deadnet you really came through on this one. Jerry is on fire in these recordings, a peak couple a year's no doubt. For those still waiting you are gonna love it.
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Submitted by Wilfred on Mon, 09/10/2018 - 12:45

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Tracking link started working this afternoon, so my box has now officially commenced its long strange trip to The Netherlands!
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Submitted by Gollum on Mon, 09/10/2018 - 13:06

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Yeah, that happened to a bunch of us. My 5/21/74 Playin was missing from the Apple lossless download. Awaiting a fix.
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Submitted by ticktocktyler on Mon, 09/10/2018 - 13:14

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I have offered the track in Flac for those missing it. PM me for the link. Just take it and convert to ALAC and you will be golden.
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Submitted by hendrixfreak on Mon, 09/10/2018 - 13:23

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I too recall several people scurrying across the backline on stage at the beginning of shows in '72-'73, tweaking knobs, etc., and always imagined that this must have been annoying for the band. You are the only person to mention this within my earshot in the 45 years since. I did not see the GD in '74, as I was hitchhiking across the country, but I did notice that no scurrying seems to have occurred after the return from the hiatus. By then, they had their touring system well in hand. So, in a way, 1973 still represented an early version of the GD, the epitome of the a long musical march from '66 to '70, '71, '72, and finally '73, with song writing and chops maturing -- BUT still not the total professional presentation, e.g., their concert rigs. Sh*t, when I first saw the GD, Jer had just turned 30 and had not one gray hair on his dual-pig-tailed head. And I had just turned 15... Lookin' forward to the summer '73 shows coming our way. Still waiting in Denver.
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