Grateful Dead

....but worth every penny. 👌

Grab it if you can, I know it’s costly but it will be well worth it, believe me 🙏😊😎

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Not to be obvious, but the all-music (cd) version of the 80-disc 30 Trips box is back onsale here for under $700. Look under "box sets." They must have unearthed a few stray cartons in the warehouse, or they were expiring. I have visions of the last scene in "Raiders Of The Lost Ark" imagining what's in Warner's vault. If you missed out the first time like I did and are on the fence, pull the trigger. A must-have if you can, endless hours of pure listening bliss. And what a fascinating historical audiodoc, a show a year from the most profound live band ever.

The biggest kick in the pants for me has been digging the later-era shows. I had my head in the sand for ever, focusing 95% on Ron/Keith-era Dead. Now that I'm more open to 80s and 90s shows, it's all new again. What a blast.

To concur, I hear what's left of golden-era songs in what they have morphed into in the late 80s/90s. Jerry's lead lines, for instance - he can only string together a weak phrase or three at a time, but now and then a lick from the early seventies will kind of reveal itself... in listening to 1971, you hear the seeds of what will be. As was just posted.

In 1993, 95, I'm hearing the ghost of what once was... like an archaeological dig. Bittersweet, fascinating.

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That pretty much sums up my attitude and position when I saw the band in 1981 and 1990. Also, knowing how songs developed adds to the interest of earlier, less developed versions. Listening to a "Playing In The Band" from 1971, for example, is enhanced knowing how that song would develop during 1972 and beyond. Many others examples exist where themes crop up in jams that are later developed, and its great to hear those ideas in their formative, less well developed stages, with the hindsight of knowing how they would mature. So the continuity angles works in reverse, too.

Imagine my surprise, I bet you were too, when I took out the booklet on this release and discovered a new format, probably due to the content.
Cool articles and photos.
One note of interest, the assertion that the band would be releasing a live album soon from the upcoming tour of Australia, Japan, New Zealand. What happened to this tour? Cause as we know the next live album was from the 1980 Warfield/Radio City shows.

I listen to all the years.
Each year is listened to in context of what came before and the foundation that was built.
Seeing shows from 89-95 was totally with an understanding that those weren’t the golden years of the band, but that I was still witnessing an amazing band with an amazing history, and those shows were still better than any other band I had seen or heard.
And in between shows I had cassette tapes of the older shows, which reinforced that fact that I needed to keep going to shows during the later years. Because those shows were still a lot of fun, and that band was still really amazing.

Yes, you are right-all the years connect with each other, right up to the last shows they played. Late 1967-1974 are just my favourite years, but the same principle of continuity is evident throughout their career. There can't be many people who favour 1990s shows who don't at the very least have knowledge and appreciation of the music and the context in which it was played during the 1960s. In fact, maybe it would be impossible to really enjoy 90s shows without this prior knowledge and appreciation.

That would be if you didn't have to jump through the reCAPTCHA hoops at all.

I didn’t have to do reCAPTCHA on the second post. It remembered me from the first post.