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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
    hendrixfreak
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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 phil_head on Wed, 09/12/2018 - 16:13

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Well I must have someones disk 15 and they have my 16 ;)
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Submitted by twoswans on Wed, 09/12/2018 - 16:37

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Third disc of Portland 6/24/73 was the 2nd most scuffed and it played through perfect. What a great Dark Star!!
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Submitted by stoltzfus on Wed, 09/12/2018 - 16:48

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are they using simians to pack this ish up? wowie zowie. gotta head home to check on "the precious". please be complete and clean...
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Submitted by twoswans on Wed, 09/12/2018 - 17:32

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The discs are scuffed. Some worse than others but of the three that had marks all played through. One disc is really scuffed with two rather wide lines so I took photos and will request a replacement disc. For those who have yet to purchase this remarkable Box, I highly suggest you pull the trigger as everything about this release is just spectacular. The performances, the mix, artwork and booklet are impressive. Perhaps the best Wall of Sound releases to date. Too many details to list here but so far after hearing three shows it’s a must for any Deadhead.
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Submitted by itsburnsy on Wed, 09/12/2018 - 17:35

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Listening to this over the week and weekend, very excited to hear these re-mastered. Seattle is my adopted home too! And, Lyle Lovett at Chateau ste Michelle Saturday night, what a voice. Can someone tell us who ordered digital copies if the shows came with individual show cover art? I import these box sets as individual shows so each song doesn't have to have the day/location. Something like; Pacific Northwest '73-'74 Box Set (5.17.74 - Vancouver, BC) as the Album name. Dave et al can't you provide some quality images to download for our digital copies? If anyone has some please post. Hope you guys get the discs issues fixed. It's happened to me twice, and the good Dr Rhino always took care of it, just takes a while.
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Submitted by Slow Dog Noodle on Wed, 09/12/2018 - 17:36

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As luck (or fate?) would have it, Im in Portland for a few days, but have heard from reliable sources that the box has touched down in Chicago. Here's hoping there are no issues with packaging, missing or scratched discs etc. based on some of the comments below. But even if there are, it'll be ok. There are bigger worries out there, namely hurricane Flo. Here's hoping everyone has gotten put of there, and damages aren't too bad. If you're anywhere near the pat get to high ground and if you can, bring some dead music with you to keep your spirits up.
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Submitted by DP36 on Wed, 09/12/2018 - 17:42

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Unlike the 30TATS USB, no digital booklet came with the download. Just one jpg and 166 tracks. If I were to complain, this would be the complaint; that there is no book. Buy the download, get the book in mail. That would be fair. I thought a book should have come with the $600 USB bolt, but only a PDF was included on the USB. The profit margin on the downloads vs. the physical box must be...? eh not my department. I'll just stick to listening to the music....and all if have to say is FFFFFFFFfffffffffff. This PNW box is a monster! Sound quality is breathtaking. I am in love. Cheers!
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Submitted by stoltzfus on Wed, 09/12/2018 - 17:45

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BINGBINGBINGBINGBINGBING!!!!!!!!!!!!! :)))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))
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Submitted by stoltzfus on Wed, 09/12/2018 - 17:56

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this is treeeeeemendous. ifn i coulda bought TTATS, i woulda ifn i coulda bought E72, i woulda i could and did buy this one. awesome.
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Submitted by Fred-Garvin on Wed, 09/12/2018 - 18:33

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Received an apology email with a link to the corrected archive and a new download code. Rather than just the 1 song, they repackaged the whole thing.....downloading now! Didn’t take em long to make it right.... But thanks again to the Kind Hearted Soul who let me dload a replacement on Friday so I wasn’t missing out....I’ll delete that file when I’ve verified the replacement is copacetic!
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Submitted by Vguy72 on Wed, 09/12/2018 - 19:28

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....now I know why. Through both Seattle shows so far. No skips and grate sound.My step-daughter lives fifty miles from the NC coast. She's booking it up north to Virginia now. Run, Cassie, Run!! edit. That pic on page 4 of the book is sweeeeeet!
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Submitted by cogrady35 on Wed, 09/12/2018 - 19:30

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Any Nmbr's under 10,000 left among the 3,300+ left i imagine they're all mixed up together in a huge colorful raffle wheel made of soft velvet ...next to the outgoing boxing conveyer belt. what's that like, you think?
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Submitted by Obeah on Wed, 09/12/2018 - 19:36

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Box #11763 arrived this evening. Physical status report: all discs present and accounted for, although #1 is very badly scratched and #11 is also scratched in several places. I didn't want to start my night on a bad note so I grabbed 6/26/73 Seattle and let 'er rip. I had a lot of '73 in my tape collection back in the day, but (for whatever reason) nothing after Kezar until the Fall tour, so these summer shows are brand new to my ears. I'm in the 4th week recovering from surgery and I'm still off work, so this beautiful box arrived at a perfect time to lift my spirits. My wife took one look at it and raised an eyebrow: "that's beautiful! It's going on the mantelpiece." She's over there now, moving soapstone boxes, Japanese pottery, Chinese chops, a brass puja vessel and other such objects to make room. It'll fit right in. :) This is the first GD box set I've picked up. I've been a Dave's Pick's subscriber for a few years but somehow to my everlasting regret I always get caught snoozing on the box sets. Not this time! Cheers everyone.
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Submitted by RobbZ on Wed, 09/12/2018 - 20:50

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Quick inspection verifies all discs present and accounted for...although 2 discs appear to have some kind of minor scuff or funk on them, but doesn't appear to be a big deal. I'll know more tomorrow when I play them...can't wait!
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Submitted by Vguy72 on Wed, 09/12/2018 - 21:29

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....that the end of the Seattle '73 show is a Weir onslaught. Truckin'->TOO->Bobby McGee->TOO->Sugar Magnolia. Johnny B. Goode. Holy begeezes!! This show is so impressive, I might just play it back to back.
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Submitted by DeadJeffinPDX on Wed, 09/12/2018 - 22:05

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#01757 - Sound quality off the charts, so good. Overcomes the nicks and scratches of this release. A few dings on the box here and there, and my cardboard fish had three bends/folds in its head! But.....sound quality.....very nice.
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Submitted by DeadJeffinPDX on Wed, 09/12/2018 - 22:15

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I forgot how good Vanc. ‘73 really was. Long and languid. Here comes sunshine, indeed.
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Submitted by Drifter's Escape on Wed, 09/12/2018 - 23:45

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I received box 14913 today in the Pacific Northwest.Totally random (although I'm pretty sure Bill Walton or some other poobah skimmed 00001). With my Dave's subscription and other releases like this it's like a major Holiday 6 times a year. Thank you Grateful Dead Inc. What a wonderful box.
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Submitted by Mr. Pete on Thu, 09/13/2018 - 04:00

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Mr. Lemieux, I want to take a minute, or so, to thank you and your staff, for the job you have done with this box set and ones in the past. It makes it possible for "old" dead heads, like me, to get music that we would normally not have access to. The quality of Norman's work is...wonderful. The art work, on your boxes is beautifully executed. This new box is excellent. Again, thanks for your efforts bringing Grateful Dead music to all of us. Mr. Pete----------> aging hippie p.s. PLEASE give some serious consideration to a Greek box. I was never able to make any of these shows and would love to hear them before I can't!! p.s.s. You need to make the cd covers a bit bigger so they do NOT scratch the discs while being inserted. Nugs does an excellent job with their style of cd covers. Just a thought!
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Submitted by Bach 2 Bach on Thu, 09/13/2018 - 04:06

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...for another freebie? even sadder.
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Submitted by Mr. Pete on Thu, 09/13/2018 - 04:30

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I do NOT understand the posted comment...Trolling? I thought my comment(s) were VERY clear. I "appreciate" the music Dave and his staff puts out for all of us. It is excellent quality with the occasional glitch. Nothing is...perfect.In NO way was I looking for.....any free stuff. At my age I have all the things I will ever need. If I started to listen to only my Dead cd's I would take me the next forty years listening eight hours a day! As noted...I would love to hear a Greek box...which I would "gladly" pay for!! Again...I do NOT understand the response posted on this site. Maybe I am must old and...stupid! Mr. Pete--------> aging hippie
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Submitted by Thats_Otis on Thu, 09/13/2018 - 05:21

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Hot damn! It is unusual that I feel the need to write about each time I listen to a release, but this one is out of this world! Jerry kills Black Peter, GSET and RxRBlues keep the set chugging along, (especially GSET - sounds like it's close to going off the rails, but they keep it just on this side of chaos...) and then the jam suite! What an incredible chunk of music! Last night, I was grooving hard, then Phil's bass solo comes on. At first, I'm very excited, then a little ho hum... then, AS SOON as I thought that it was time to move on, out comes Jerry for one of the coolest things I have heard in a long time. The Phil/Jerry jam is just gorgeous Space, then in comes Keith... finally the whole band, and it all ends up in a jam that reminds me SO MUCH of 70 Miles Davis. Killer! And I haven't even mentioned TOO>Wharf Rat! What a show!!! I agree with many here that feel like Dave sometimes goes a little above and beyond with his hyperbolic enthusiasm for these releases, but I feel like his SeaSide chat about this particular show is just exactly perfect. All of the highlights he mentions are truly HIGHlights! I'll spare you all an update on disc 4... some guy on the internet wrote something along the lines of "Disc 4 of PNW box, PNE73: Sugar Mag, Casey Jones, Johnny B Goode - worst disc of GD ever?" Well, after hearing the first 3 discs of this mind-blowing box set, I'm betting I'll be wowed by those three tunes as well. Peace
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Submitted by Born Cross Eye… on Thu, 09/13/2018 - 05:52

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I must be the real Jerry Garcia, guitarist with the Grateful Dead.Mr. Pete is no troll. Anyone who says he is just doesn't know what they're talking about. Mr. Pete is a good honest man. Respect.
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Submitted by snafu on Thu, 09/13/2018 - 06:02

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Ignore them. You're right they're trolls. There's an insular group of hypersensitive know it all posters here who need to mess with people. The good folks at Rhino take good care of us and I appreciate their work greatly. Not feeling the need to hyprcritically analyze every note. I feel the same about a Greek box. For me though I was lucky enough to see every one. Enjoy I sure do. .....Another aging hippy
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Submitted by SpaceBetween on Thu, 09/13/2018 - 06:41

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This wonderful piece of art arrived at my place yesterday: from USA to Switzerland in just two days!Anyway I had to pay custom charges, the equivalent of about 44 US dollars. So in the end the box costed me about 300 US dollars. But I'm happy with it. Thank you Dead.net and thank you Rhino!
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Submitted by docmarty on Thu, 09/13/2018 - 06:54

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I didn't think you were a trollI did however think you couldn't spell ageing..... so I looked it up.... Apparently aging is the American spelling and ageing the English Apologies for my bad thoughts PNW arrived here in England yesterday Up to Me and Bobby in Seattle '73 so far And it all sounds just exactly perfect..... DM - ageing ex doc
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Submitted by HaGizMo on Thu, 09/13/2018 - 07:11

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I'm not sure where folks come up with the number of box sets ordered / remaining from what seems to be their order confirmation. I just ordered mine the other day & the 1st 5 digits of the "order number" are 13740. I don't know if that's right for with some other box sets I've noticed dead.net puts a banner on there saying something like "less than 5,000 left". Anyways, there you have it if indeed my order # means 13,740 have been ordered.
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Submitted by simonrob on Thu, 09/13/2018 - 08:16

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It has nothing to do with order numbers. It is simply a question of seeing how many you can put in your shopping cart before it refuses to take any more. If you can put 13740 in your cart but it refuses to accept 13741, this suggests that there are 13740 left. Tip: Do NOT hit the "Checkout" button.
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Submitted by Europe61 on Thu, 09/13/2018 - 08:24

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box #14346 arrived in Berlin,Germany yesterday but delivery attempt failed since I was at work by noon...picked it up myself today at an UPS collection point 10 minutes from work and had to pay 51,32 Euros for taxes and so called "brokerage" with the latter being more of a ransom to get my box released... one bottom corner of the box is slightly damaged,disc #16 doesn't look pristine but plays fine... I'd rather prefer USPS shipping,arrives later but cheaper than 53,99 US$ for UPS shipping and handling fee as the only option for ordering and no "brokerage" upon arrival and might slip through customs... HAPPY though
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Submitted by mhammond12 on Thu, 09/13/2018 - 08:51

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I don't think the "trolling" comment was directed at Mr. Pete.
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Submitted by PatagonianFox on Thu, 09/13/2018 - 10:41

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email said i would lose my account for inactivity if i did not sign in soon. i'm pretty sure dead.net does not save payment information, but i just wanted to give everyone a heads up, so they can prevent their account from being hacked. -----
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Submitted by PatagonianFox on Thu, 09/13/2018 - 10:46

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email said i would lose my account for inactivity if i did not sign in soon. i'm pretty sure dead.net does not save payment information, but i just wanted to give everyone a heads up, so they can prevent their account from being hacked. -----
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Submitted by Born Cross Eye… on Thu, 09/13/2018 - 11:09

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PatagonianFox posted: received fake email asking me to sign into dead.net email said i would lose my account for inactivity if i did not sign in soon. i'm pretty sure dead.net does not save payment information, but i just wanted to give everyone a heads up, so they can prevent their account from being hacked. ----- The body of the email message is: (name withheld), In an effort to maintain the best possible experience for our users, we periodically remove inactive accounts from the site. We noticed you haven’t logged in for over 5 years. If you would like us to keep your account, simply log in to the site within 2 weeks. If you don’t remember your password, you can reset it HERE. www.Dead.Net/User/Password Thanks! ----- I used to have 2 accounts at dead.net. I removed one almost 10 years ago, about 5 or more years ago, I tried to login to dead.net using that account and password. It didn't work. I understand the meaning of this email is that the system operators (sys-ops) are simply cleaning out old inactive email accounts so customer service can server the active customers better. I take it in stride, I'll see what happens in 2 weeks. I sometimes log onto dead.net 2, 3, sometimes 4 or more times, especially the other day when this Pacific Northwest boxset was shipping.
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Submitted by Born Cross Eye… on Thu, 09/13/2018 - 11:09

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PatagonianFox posted: received fake email asking me to sign into dead.net email said i would lose my account for inactivity if i did not sign in soon. i'm pretty sure dead.net does not save payment information, but i just wanted to give everyone a heads up, so they can prevent their account from being hacked. ----- The body of the email message is: (name withheld), In an effort to maintain the best possible experience for our users, we periodically remove inactive accounts from the site. We noticed you haven’t logged in for over 5 years. If you would like us to keep your account, simply log in to the site within 2 weeks. If you don’t remember your password, you can reset it HERE. www.Dead.Net/User/Password Thanks! ----- I used to have 2 accounts at dead.net. I removed one almost 10 years ago, about 5 or more years ago, I tried to login to dead.net using that account and password. It didn't work. I understand the meaning of this email is that the system operators (sys-ops) are simply cleaning out old inactive email accounts so customer service can server the active customers better. I take it in stride, I'll see what happens in 2 weeks. I sometimes log onto dead.net 2, 3, sometimes 4 or more times, especially the other day when this Pacific Northwest boxset was shipping.
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Submitted by jbxpro on Thu, 09/13/2018 - 11:10

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Will we ever know what's in the inner box in the box? It could be a dead cat, but only direct examination will reveal that.
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Submitted by CaseyJanes on Thu, 09/13/2018 - 11:19

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I received same email
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Submitted by Dead man still… on Thu, 09/13/2018 - 11:25

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Man O'man.... You guys really outdid yourselves with this boxed set. Unbelievable artwork and fantastic quality. I participated in both the '73 & '74 concerts at Hec Ed pavilion, wall of sound and all. I'm walkin', I'm talkin, and proud that I can still remember those (and many other) Dead moments! Thank you so very much.
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Submitted by Dead man still… on Thu, 09/13/2018 - 11:25

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Man O'man.... You guys really outdid yourselves with this boxed set. Unbelievable artwork and fantastic quality. I participated in both the '73 & '74 concerts at Hec Ed pavilion, wall of sound and all. I'm walkin', I'm talkin, and proud that I can still remember those (and many other) Dead moments! Thank you so very much.
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Submitted by outpost on Thu, 09/13/2018 - 11:33

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Just received my package, here in the UK, and it only took around a week, which is fantastic. Had to pay Customs and VAT, but still well worth it. Some serious listening coming up over the next few days.
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Submitted by outpost on Thu, 09/13/2018 - 11:35

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changed my password just in case
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Submitted by bob t on Thu, 09/13/2018 - 12:00

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so if they have our emails hopefully that is all they have???
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Submitted by rombumzora on Thu, 09/13/2018 - 12:11

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This box sounds so fucking beautiful. "Looks like Rain" from Portland 73 makes me melting away, and now "Box of Rain" (while it's raining outside, even thundering) seems to be even prettier than the one from Vancouver.The songs are mostly played quite slowly, but that makes me listen much more to the details and the finesses. I wasn't blown away by Phil's bass explorations (Vancouver) and found "The Other One" much more interesting. Keith's piano playing stands out on almost every track. "They love each other" is surprising at every corner and it's got that funny rhythm. Well you can't really describe music, you have to listen to it. I had to laugh about how many customers are into numbers (of the box). If you're into the music, what does it matter? Enjoy, enjoy, Yippie!!!! RNB
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Submitted by rombumzora on Thu, 09/13/2018 - 12:12

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This box sounds so fucking beautiful. "Looks like Rain" from Portland 73 makes me melting away, and now "Box of Rain" (while it's raining outside, even thundering) seems to be even prettier than the one from Vancouver.The songs are mostly played quite slowly, but that makes me listen much more to the details and the finesses. I wasn't blown away by Phil's bass explorations (Vancouver) and found "The Other One" much more interesting. Keith's piano playing stands out on almost every track. "They love each other" is surprising at every corner and it's got that funny rhythm. Well you can't really describe music, you have to listen to it. I had to laugh about how many customers are into numbers (of the box). If you're into the music, what does it matter? Enjoy, enjoy, Yippie!!!! RNB
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Submitted by simonrob on Thu, 09/13/2018 - 12:26

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They also have our names. Looks like a hack job. I have sent a PM to MaryE asking her to look into this. The website is also sluggish right now for no obvious reason. I also don't think the "trolling" comment was aimed at Mr. Pete. I do have a good idea who it was aimed at, but I don't think it was a reasonable comment bearing in mind the content of the post it was probably aimed at.
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Submitted by SkullTrip on Thu, 09/13/2018 - 12:22

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I'm with mhammond12. I don't think the trolling comment was aimed in Mr. Pete's direction. Seems like it might have been in response to an earlier post in the thread.
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Submitted by TedW on Thu, 09/13/2018 - 12:18

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Great job, the music is beautiful (Ted from Hartford, CT)
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Submitted by FastGM3 on Thu, 09/13/2018 - 12:27

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I got a nice even number, looks good on the ticket anyhow. I ordered back on June 12th, was surprised at how high the number was but I'm ok with it because it doesn't play music anyways. :-) Extremely Grateful, the music is incredible. The art and creation of the box is beyond beautiful, even the art on the inside of the box lid is amazing.
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Submitted by Mind-Left-Body on Thu, 09/13/2018 - 12:28

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And it wasn't meant like a "troll" who stirs up internet fights. It was meant like trolling for fish - you know, to make a large sweep with a dragnet and catch what you can. Or in this case, trolling the message board crowd for a free box set. I'm going to get bombarded with rotten tomatoes for this, but....I find the audio in the 1973 shows to be a little bit "off". Jerry too low, flutteryness in places, Keith coming and going from parts of the show. Certainly not as good as DaP 16 and 21, or 30 Trips 1973, or really any 1973 show that comes to mind. I'm only one disc into show #3, but there's just some ooomph missing. I could change my mind, I keep listening. The vocals are very tinny in places.
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