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Buckle up as we take a deep dive into Giants Stadium!

What's Inside:

5 Previously Unreleased Complete Giants Stadium Shows On 14 Discs

7/12/87 (24-track masters)

7/9/89 (24-track masters)

7/10/89 (24-track masters)

6/16/91 (48-track masters)

6/17/91 (48-track masters)

Blu-ray/DVD video of the complete 6/17/91 show, mixed in surround sound Mixed from the multitrack master tapes by Jeffrey Norman at Bob Weir's TRI Studios Mastered in HDCD by David Glasser at Airshow Mastering with Plangent Processes restoration Individually Numbered, Limited Edition of 10,000

By 1987, the Grateful Dead had lived many of their nine lives but were about to embark on one not a soul had seen coming. In The Dark, their first studio album in seven years, had spawned a hit (A TOP 10 SINGLE FOR THE GRATEFUL DEAD?!) and "Touch Of Grey" begat a new generation with their fanny packs and their MTV and their undeniable quest to join the party already in progress. And boy, did the Dead let them in! But not without fine-tuning their sonic vibes to meet the new demand.

"The Swamp," as Giants Stadium was affectionately known, along with the grandstands the Dead had been frequenting, would seemingly equate with BIGGER and LOUDER, but the band "remained determined to give equal weight to the more subtle, oblique elements; to the exploratory improvisation and rhythmic complexities; to the fine details of the most heart-rending ballads as well as the weirdest dissonances in the jams."

With GIANTS STADIUM 1987/1989/1991, we retrace this journey from their 1987 breakthrough to their 1989 revelation ("the closest they ever came to sounding like a really polished stadium-level rock act, but the band’s penchant for breaking out of the constraints of song structure and into freewheeling improvisation will remind you just who you’re listening to here") to their transformative return in 1991, aided by elegance of Vince Welnick and Bruce Hornsby.

GIANTS STADIUM: 1987, 1989, 1991 features five previously unreleased shows that were recorded at Giants Stadium in East Rutherford, NJ on: July 12, 1987; July 9 and 10, 1989; and June 16 and 17, 1991. Originally recorded by John Cutler, each show has been mixed from the multitrack master tapes by Jeffrey Norman at Bob Weir's TRI Studios in San Rafael, CA, and mastered in HDCD by David Glasser at Airshow Mastering. The first three shows are mixed from 24-track masters. The final two from 1991 are the only Grateful Dead shows ever recorded to 48-track masters. We’re rounding things out with a little visual stimuli - the entire multi-camera 6/17/91 concert recording on either two DVDs or a single Blu-ray, both with a surround mix by Norman.

Due September 27th, this release is limited to 10,000 individually numbered copies and available exclusively from Dead.net. We highly suggest you grab a copy while you can so you can sit back, relax, and enjoy all the exclusive content we'll be rolling out.

Prefer your boxed set 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.

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August 30, 2019 - 12:47pm

#1231

bolo24

Joined:
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I'll see your JRAD...

...and raise you this Holly Bowling:

https://archive.org/details/hb2019-08-07.kpfa-fm.sbd.flac24

Best thing I've heard all week!
August 30, 2019 - 11:46am

#1232

Vguy72

Joined:
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So i found this JRAD show on relisten....

https://relisten.net/jrad/2019/08/17/cumberland-blues?source=188578
fast forward to the Cumberland please........it seriously rages.
August 30, 2019 - 10:49am

#1233

Slow Dog Noodle

Joined:
June 12, 2007

Joplin and Pig

The American Masters series on PBS was on last night featuring Janis Joplin. I watched nearly all of it, and it was great. Very well edited and lots of interviews, including Bobby, but I was surprised that there was absolutely zero mention of Pigpen, or Janis and Pig's "relationship".

I was always under the impression that Janis and Pig were pretty close, at least for a little while, but was that not the case? I know the story of the Looks Like Rain lyrics. A bunch of her boyfriends were discussed and interviewed, but it seems like Pig wasn't an important enough part of her life to make it in.
August 30, 2019 - 6:48am

#1234

stoltzfus

Joined:
January 13, 2010

Veneta 72

The vetoed morning dew...check out 8 21 72, as something similar happens. Jerry tries MD, but the band wants it to go elsewhere.
August 30, 2019 - 5:16am

#1235

JimInMD

Joined:
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Re: Last Two

Nice post, K.F.

I know I am in the minority, but that Veneta DS never moved me the way it does others. I sort of get a little bummed when Jerry begins to lean in on Morning Dew near the end and Bobby plays the opening riffs of El Paso over the top that ultimately signals how things went down. I just wonder what could have been on this day if they fell seamlessly into Morning Dew instead of what I think is a bit of a forced transition into El Paso. I do like the PITB and China>Rider from this show very much, however, some of the really top versions of these tunes.

When I see a four or five paragraph post from you these days.. it provides a mental image of a four or five car fender bender and a major impact on the morning commute somewhere in the Northeast :D. I sort of have this image of you talking into your phone, looking down to make sure it all went down ok when just behind you carnage and chaos erupts while you speed away blissfully unaware that 95 just got shut down in both directions. Sort of a Mr. Magoo meets Hunter S Thompson visual.

Last five
10/9/98 Hampton
10/8/89 Hampton
Meddle
Atom Heart Mother
10/8/89 Hampton
10/9/89 Hampton

Had not listened to Hampton in years.. Both great shows, had to relisten plus I was doing some finish work on the trim in my house and these shows somehow helped me focus and not screw anything up.

Edit: Mr. Magoo meets Hunter S. Thompson - I meant that in the most positive, whimsical way.. I am sure you are careful.
August 29, 2019 - 11:32pm

#1236

KeithFan2112

Joined:
August 6, 2014

LIFE Magazine / Last 2

Great LIFE magazine reissue from 2015 currently on news stands or eBay (cover has them in photo outtake from Road Trips Vol. 1 No. 1 from 1979, with Phil in the aviator cap and glasses. If you didn't read it in 2015, I highly recommend it for $9.99. Tons of great pictures. Fantastic articles, and I'm only as far as the description of it all coming together with the SF music scene.

Last two:

Veneta 8/27/72 - morphed me from 15 show casual Grateful Dead fan to raging Dead Head in April 2014. I hadn't been listening to much Dead that year, but I saw it on the shelf at Barnes & Noble and the hype sticker caught my eye: "At long last! The most requested show in Grateful Dead history" I hadn't heard of it before, but it was from '72, as was Rockin' The Rhein, the show that reeled me in nearly 10 years prior to that fateful day (despite having seen them in '89 & '95). So I bought it. Uhhhh, Bird Song did NOT sound this good on Ladies & Gentlemen or Three From The Vault. And as cool as Rhein's Dark Star was (especially Part II), Veneta was something far superior in my mind; but more to the point, it was altogether different except for the verses. I see how this Dark Star works now.....they improvise around some verses for a half hour. If only they had a dozen more of these on multi-track....
Dick crapped on this show, but he never heard the Full Norman, so all's forgiven. This one always gets an anniversary play. "Can you turn it up?? For fuck's sake?" Classic Bobby.

The Mosque 5/25/77 - About two months after picking up Veneta, I'd gotten my filthy hands on every E72 show available on dead.net. Up until then I was very anti-two-track. I had Dick's Picks 16, 18, & 20 from my initial run of shows I bought in the 10 years between Rhein and Veneta. Because of those, I had a hard time adjusting to two-track quality; but in my lust to own the best version of every song the Dead played live, I nabbed Dave's Picks 7 for The Music Never Stopped, which the folks on Heady Version assured me was unparalleled (plus it had Werewolves Of London - how bad could it be).

By August, just four months after the "Veneta experience" I was a completist at heart and had no desire to listen to anything else than the Dead (this is around the time I signed up here on dead.net and met all of you fine people). I had gotten over the two-track hump and picked up a metric shit-ton of out-of-stock Road Trips and Dave's Picks.

There was this elusive Dave's Picks Volume 1, however, that was selling for $200+ on eBay. Whoaa, what was that all about?!? So I did some investigation, and by all accounts it was the best thing this side of Cornell (whatever the hell that was). In any case, it was too steep for me at the time, as my bank account was already bleeding out from the previous blows my newly adopted completist mentality had levied upon it. So I offered a guy 35 bucks on eBay to burn me a copy of DaP 1 (this was definitely before I signed up on dead.net). He obliged and I had a copy of this precious commodity, 5/25/77, The Mosque, light sabers clashing on the front cover, the flagship to the Dave's Picks series.

It sounded perfect to me. I already had the May 1977 box set, the Winterland June 1977 box set, and by this time, copies of all the Dick's Picks '77 shows. The playing was perfect, the mix was perfect, the vocals were perfect, and the harmony vocals were perfect. The show sounded like a studio LP recorded in one take. I hadn't had time to fully absorb the other '77 stuff I mentioned, but I have in the years that have passed, and I really think they got tighter and more precise as May drew on. And Keith stopped playing (was allowed to abandon?) that awful synth-organ that dominates many April shows, up through Cornell (it drives me nuts on the Scarlet/ Fire that has become the standard). It seems to dissipate around St. Paul on 5/11, which is interesting, considering that's the opening show of the original May 1977 box set. I much prefer the acoustic piano and eventually the Yamaha electric that came along in the Autumn (the Fender Rhodes funk was long gone at that point).

The 5/25 Mosque show has to be heard end-to-end to fully appreciate. This post is long enough, so I'm about done, but the first set is one of the best of '77. The Mississippi Half-Step has a Rio Grandio section so perfectly sung and mixed by Betty; the Jack Straw is up there with McArthur Ct 1/22/78; the Brown-Eyed Women has one of the three best solos I've heard Garcia play on this tune (DP 29 and DaP 12 are also right up there). The Peggy-O is my favorite, and I imagine at least top 3 for most, in the context of post-hiatus Godchaux era versions. The second set is more of the same. Scarlet / Fire, Estimated / He's Gone, Other One / Wharf Rat / Other One / The Wheel. The show ends on a couple tunes I'm not crazy about - Around & Around / Johnny B. Goode. But screw it - it's like that 30 second blurb by McCartney that closes out Abbey Road - just skip it.
August 29, 2019 - 9:03pm

#1237

JimInMD

Joined:
June 27, 2011

Chez Sixtus

I think the party is about to begin..

It will go something like this.. but picture deadheads instead of dwarfs.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lEwfRTvl7Zo
August 29, 2019 - 7:46pm

#1238

bolo24

Joined:
November 25, 2009

Congrats, Sixtus!

Me and the Mrs. recently ventured down that same path.

We have lots of really good wine. What time shall we come over?
August 29, 2019 - 4:10pm

#1239

Sixtus_

Joined:
November 8, 2014

The Rec Area

...I truly am enjoying this thread, people.

Speaking of new Rec Areas....nuevo casa de Sixtus in Sudbury, MA has officially 'closed' as of today.
New Keys In-Hand.
And, somehow, we actually made some loot on this deal. I'm still stunned by that one.
Party Planning Commencing.
Oy Joyous day.

Happy Long (USA) Holiday Weekend Folks.

Sixtus
August 29, 2019 - 3:00pm

#1240

wilfredtjones

Joined:
June 4, 2007

Bong Rec Area

Believe it's near Kenosha. I used to live remotely in the area. Now I'm on the other side of the state and a bit further north. Pretty sure it's Richard J. Bong Rec Area. Named after a WI born Air Force pilot. And yes, I have hit the Bong. Looooong time ago though. :-)

https://dnr.wi.gov/topic/parks/name/richardbong/

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Buckle up as we take a deep dive into Giants Stadium!

What's Inside:

5 Previously Unreleased Complete Giants Stadium Shows On 14 Discs

7/12/87 (24-track masters)

7/9/89 (24-track masters)

7/10/89 (24-track masters)

6/16/91 (48-track masters)

6/17/91 (48-track masters)

Blu-ray/DVD video of the complete 6/17/91 show, mixed in surround sound Mixed from the multitrack master tapes by Jeffrey Norman at Bob Weir's TRI Studios Mastered in HDCD by David Glasser at Airshow Mastering with Plangent Processes restoration Individually Numbered, Limited Edition of 10,000

By 1987, the Grateful Dead had lived many of their nine lives but were about to embark on one not a soul had seen coming. In The Dark, their first studio album in seven years, had spawned a hit (A TOP 10 SINGLE FOR THE GRATEFUL DEAD?!) and "Touch Of Grey" begat a new generation with their fanny packs and their MTV and their undeniable quest to join the party already in progress. And boy, did the Dead let them in! But not without fine-tuning their sonic vibes to meet the new demand.

"The Swamp," as Giants Stadium was affectionately known, along with the grandstands the Dead had been frequenting, would seemingly equate with BIGGER and LOUDER, but the band "remained determined to give equal weight to the more subtle, oblique elements; to the exploratory improvisation and rhythmic complexities; to the fine details of the most heart-rending ballads as well as the weirdest dissonances in the jams."

With GIANTS STADIUM 1987/1989/1991, we retrace this journey from their 1987 breakthrough to their 1989 revelation ("the closest they ever came to sounding like a really polished stadium-level rock act, but the band’s penchant for breaking out of the constraints of song structure and into freewheeling improvisation will remind you just who you’re listening to here") to their transformative return in 1991, aided by elegance of Vince Welnick and Bruce Hornsby.

GIANTS STADIUM: 1987, 1989, 1991 features five previously unreleased shows that were recorded at Giants Stadium in East Rutherford, NJ on: July 12, 1987; July 9 and 10, 1989; and June 16 and 17, 1991. Originally recorded by John Cutler, each show has been mixed from the multitrack master tapes by Jeffrey Norman at Bob Weir's TRI Studios in San Rafael, CA, and mastered in HDCD by David Glasser at Airshow Mastering. The first three shows are mixed from 24-track masters. The final two from 1991 are the only Grateful Dead shows ever recorded to 48-track masters. We’re rounding things out with a little visual stimuli - the entire multi-camera 6/17/91 concert recording on either two DVDs or a single Blu-ray, both with a surround mix by Norman.

Due September 27th, this release is limited to 10,000 individually numbered copies and available exclusively from Dead.net. We highly suggest you grab a copy while you can so you can sit back, relax, and enjoy all the exclusive content we'll be rolling out.

Prefer your boxed set 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.

Is the cat....

....out of the bag?

It's ready to buy

Good luck everyone

87 show

Wasn't that a Dylan/Dead show? Any word if the Dylan stuff is included?

Sweet

Very, very nice to see something different as far as eras go.
:O)

I can’t help myself

I’ve placed an order. The process was amazingly pain free, no queues no failure to get to the payment method. Let’s hope the rest of the supply chain is as straightforward. Looking forward to getting it.

next month release date

so glad we are getting a Blu-ray with this release

just ordered, can't wait :)

Sold!!!!....

....liking the price too!

order complete

9999 left ;)

Going to MUATM @ Cabot in Beverly MA with Not Fade Away playing a preshow show.

Off by 2 hours

I predicted 10 am PST for the announcement.

Ordered the Blu-ray Box.
Can’t wait until September, I want it now.

Dylan/Dead

I'm sure the Dylan set is excluded, why this is a 14 rather than 15CD box. Those '87 second sets were nice and compact.

Can't wait for this one!

Dig The Span

I like the multi-year span on this box set as well as last year's PNW set. I hope this is the new trend. As always...GO BRENT!

NO Dylan Set

I just watched David's seaside chat and he confirms they did NOT include the Dylan/Dead set. I was really looking forward to that set so quite disappointing to say the least.

Venue Box

Cool that it is the same years as Electric On The Eel.

Blu-Ray!

Blu-Ray and 5 shows is nice! I was at at both the 6/16/91 and 6/17/91 shows. Maybe one of the '89 shows. No Dylan included on the '87, probably hard to put that together rights wise. Ordered the Blu-Ray so about 99,995 left :-)

Sound should be great given the Multi-Tracks. Grew up in NJ and saw tons of Giants' games at this stadium. Looking forward!

Trash has given us an appetite for art

garbage

I'd crack up...

... if this had sold out before everyone got home from the movies.

Should be no problems with the sound quality on this set.

Got The BluRay Box

Is this the first official BluRay? All of my videos are DVD or VHS (Yes, I still have several of these).

7/12/1987 encores?

is
Touch of Grey
Knockin' on Heaven's Door
from 7/12/87 included?

11

...have to agree with forensicdoceleven's comment. Succinct and to-the-point: Garbage

...PIG PEN will return

quick thoughts

This looks really cool – i love the late 80s/early 90s as everyone knows. I love the packaging of this release. I even like the price. I have really no complaints.....however, i’m probably going to sit this one out. I just don’t see myself listening to this as often as the others and don't want to spend money just for it to sit on the shelf.

Last year, when the 73/74 boxset came out i told everyone that, for once, i feel pretty complete. I’m at the point where I’ll always do the DaP subscription but i’m going to be a bit more picky about the box sets.

I hope everyone who gets this loves the hell out of it. Already looking forward to next year!

One man's trash...

...is another man's treasure.

And just because I like to poke the bear sometimes and armchair psychologists felt good about ripping on Jerry a day before his birthday yesterday...this one's for you guys.
Pigpen was a drunk and a lush. Your precious version of this band would have kept going on had he not been a loadie you whiners.

let the rotten tomato throwing commence!

16

I was at the June 16th show Jerry was playing hot! Didn't make it to the 17th.

Looks good! but.....

I feel like a summer 91 box would have been a real gem. The giants shows in addition to sandstone, buckeye lake, and soldier field would have been, well, pretty darn sweet.

I will probably opt for the stand alone and put the rest towards next years Dave’s Picks. Hoping for a sell out so these years get more love from GDP.

No complaints but rather a huge thank you for shining a light on the Vince years (with Bruce!) and more Brent is always welcome too.

Finally, the wait is over...

...now what are you all going to speculate on? The next Dave's, I guess. Amazingly crisp, pain-free ordering from Dead.net, a pleasant surprise. Still I just happened to come on and randomly check the boards when I saw it. Never got the email announcement or anything... could be demand will heat up by this evening.

Anyone on the fence about acquiring a Blu-ray player, do so if possible. The pricing has come way down and yes, they are better than dvd.

Not going to the movies tonight... staying in and watching the Broncos second-string. At least this video will be available next month.

80SFAN

Smart...save your coin...

Cool

I'm down for this one. I know the '91 Dark Star show pretty well, but somewhat less familiar with the others. This box is going to sound great and have some great music in it.

Not sure why some people have to be so negative about it.

Nice

I was at the July 12, 1987 show, looking forward to hearing it all again. Looks like it should be some cool late era dead, a period during which Garcia seemed reinvigorated as I recall. I remember when they started back up in '87 Jerry just seemed more animated on stage, looked more like he was having a good time on stage.

Good to see that the nattering nabobs of negativity wasted no time in condemning this release;) At least the condemnation was concise. I get if you feel that the dead peaked well before this period and have no interest, but what exactly do you get by hopping on here to let us know it is "garbage"? I mean do what you like, I just don't quite get it.

Nice.

More post-Keith material is always appreciated.

------

Giants Box

I have every show from the box on video but I don't have the audio from muti-track master recordings. So I would just like to say thank you.

*Re/ 2019 Box Set

...a grateful Deadhead I am, not a robot!
Artwork is Amazing too, I love it! 🙏❤️💀
PS: turn it upside down, notice anything😉
...it’s the Rock Mountain/structure on the ‘New Jersey TurnPike’ ,on the way to ‘Giants Stadium’!!!

BOOM!

Very nice. Psyched for this era and these shows. Especially with ole Brucey!

Sixtus

"Buckle up"

The first words at the top.

That is funny when we were at the 16 we were joking that we needed seat belts.

Giants Stadium

Wow, first boxed set I haven't been interested in. Those who are looking forward to it, enjoy!

2019 Box

This is sweet and another surprise at least for me. The Veneta Box also had a bluray. So this would be the second one to date. Why not move it up and make it a 4k release. Either way, this will be a great box! Excited and the cost is perfect. Will be seeing it tonight

Blu ray

@bigbrownie. I think this is the second official blu ray. The sunshine daydream box was available on blu ray.

Awrsomeness

Sweet. Hope it's still available over the weekend. Soonest I can order is Monday. Only 10k units? Yikes.

I need this.

Edit - Was able to secure one. So geeked.

Negative responses

Yep, even in Deadland there are the privilged. It's the Dead. It's Jerry. It's a from 3 peak years. Why bother complaining about not liking the era? Just skip it. Gives me a chance to get one. I'm glad the negative folks are passing. This is my SWEET SPOT!

1991-maybe

These shows don't mean so much to me, so I will happily pass this one by. There are so many other attractions out there. I would be tempted by the stand alone 1991 set, which looks to be the cherry on the cake-but I would prefer to buy it off Amazon UK than dead.net to bypass the potential hassles/postage charges.

*Re/ July 10th 1989

...Also what’s Grateful is the performance on July 10th 1989...Great drum jam with ‘Willie Green’ from the ‘Neville Brothers’ and the rest of them on thru >>>
*Iko Iko
*All Along The Watchtower
*Morning Dew
*Sugar Magnolia
Encore:
*Knockin' On Heaven's Door
🙏❤️😎

I wish I could buy just the blu-ray

These are good shows but I just won't get around to listening to them that much, and I don't really want the box and whatnot.

"The Monkey,

...Has Been Spanked!"...Opps, nope,..."The I, Has Been Dotted!"...damn, wait a sec,..."The Antenna, Has Been Adjusted!"...no, wrong..."The Truth, Has Been Stretched!"...wait, that's not it..."The Meatloaf, Has Been Seasoned"...dang it, one more..."The Order, Has Been Placed! That's what I meant!

BOX SET

hey all, hope you're as excited as i am about the new box set. i like all eras under the sun. my official prediction: Summer '90 is off. but i am still not disappointed. i kinda like a bit of variety of eras in one box set. we'll be getting some brent, and we'll be getting post brent. which i know that makes me an oddball but i really REALLY like post brent. also glad it won't be a long wait for the set to be released. hopefully wont be a rush job.

2019 GD Calendar

I'd have to say August is my favorite month so far. Jerry and (looks like) Hunter in a VW bus-o-copter with Palm Tree size MJ trees on the beach. I'll have a nice time looking at this one all month. Wish y'all could see it! It's good.

Happy Box release day everyone! For the record, I'm in on the box w/ DVD. Looking forward to it!

Thank you for including the DVD!!!

Ordered!!!! So excited. Great boxset and thank you for including the DVD!!!!

I was unsure about this at first...

...as I went to the 7/4/87 at Sullivan Stadium 8 days before this, and it was disappointing. Or so I remember. My final show as it turned out (only saw 2 though, plus a Jerry solo show... ). I moved to AZ soon after and got into the west coast pre-grunge bands like L7, Jane's Addiction, Faith No More and so on. But I digress.

The set lists posted here piqued my curiosity, so I went onto the archive to check them out and... wow. The 7/12/87 shows opens with a ripping "Hell in a Bucket," then straight into a sweet "West LA Fadeaway." Both Jerry and Bob sound totally focused and on their game, and the band sounds tight too. Lots of energy, on-pitch singing, snappy guitar licks. The drums were locked in. Brent was low in the matrix mix that I heard, but still, he seemed to be adding stuff without the plinky-plink sounds that I find annoying. Other strong songs in the show include "Loser" and "Throwing Stones/Not Fade Away." I was just cherry picking and listening to clips, not the whole show. But at this point I was pretty intrigued.

I then jumped ahead 2 shows to do more sampling, this time from the 7/10/89 show. "Franklin's Tower," "Walkin' Blues" and "Jack-A-Roe" are three of my favorite songs, and they're teed up right there for a first-set trifecta, along with "The Music Never Stopped" that features some pretty funky licks from Phil, albeit a somewhat tepid (to my ears) final solo from Jerry. The second set has some good later-era songs, including a 10-minute "Foolish Heart" and a nice fat "Iko Iko," among other things. Plus a "Knockin' on Heaven's Door" closer... Which I had seen at the 1987 show but which wasn't included as the encore on this set's first show (probably because Dylan had played along with them). Again, the energy sounded really strong. They weren't phoning this one in, from what I could hear on these boards. And these were just matrixes from the archive -- I can't imagine how they will sound as fully realized 24-track or 48-track recordings.

At this point I'm thinking this set will be tough to resist. But I still wasn't sure.

So I trundled on over to the 6/17/9 show. This one sounds unique. It open with "Eyes," which is pretty unusual, I think. (Correct me if I'm wrong....) Then three different "Dark Star" teases before they finally dive into it for real (for a short time -- 9 minutes or so, but still) shows them in a playful mood that could bring them to new corners of their musical map even 25 years into the trip. What finally sealed it for me was the 10-minute, skronking and stomping, greasy and jammy "New Speedway Boogie" deep in the second set. They sound like the band is rising up out of the swampy earth like some kind of primordial, prehistoric beast. Jerry's voice isn't polished (was it ever?) but he's in tune and gets the words right. I had my order placed before they got to the second verse.

Anybody on the fence about this release, my suggestion is to dig around the archive a little. You may (like me!) be surprised at what these shows have...

Forgive the rambling!

Nevilles

In light of the passing of Art "Papa Funk" Neville and the guest appearance on the later half of 7/10/89 2nd Set, this set takes on an especially important tribute (for me anyways) to another legend gone. R.I.P. Papa Funk.

Similar to Dave's experience with coming into the Dead, I came onboard in 84 at 16 years old. Caught my 2nd and 3rd shows at Alpine in 86 then 4th thru 6th at Alpine 87 a couple of weeks before this 87 Giants show.

Caught 1 show in 88 at Buckeye , then by 89 started upping my attendance by attending multiple shows on multiple tours. All in all about 50 shows between 84 to 95 plus two JGB shows in 91.

87 through 91 was filled with consistently fantastic music from what I attended and know these Giants shows are all A+++ Dead.

Thank you for releasing this. Now back to my Neville binge.

I dig the 2019 Box!

I have followed the discussion of gueses of wgatc6the box would be on the DaP 31 comments. I am fairly certain someone called this correctly or very close to it. Who ever you are nice work!

So I bought the blu rey version without hesitation. I am excited simply because I really got turned on the summer 91 tour about a year ago, so that is enticing on it's own. I only got to see the Dead with Vince so essentially he is my guy. I have able to have seen Bruce in post Jerry line ups and he is just great. So once I started to explore 91 shows they just clicked for me. Now having 2 more summer 89 shows is great, really can't go wrong there. Adding that 87 show is the icing on the cake. Admittedly I am not as much if a fan of 87 shows. I had many in tapes back in the day and besides 9/18, I remember an 87 Foxboro show standing out. Also TPTB have only released 3 87 shows with one being the aforementioned 9/18 show, plus the View from the Vault shows. I think this box set is covering a lot of good ground musically so it is win for me.

I ended up skipping the MUATM this evening. Although it would have been cool to have watched the 6/17 show on the big screen, I am feeling good that I will be able to watch it whenever I want on blu Rey. More importantly I spent the early afternoon with my wife visiting and catching up with one of my buddies, his wife and kids. I dont get to see many of my friends too often just due to work and life responsibilities...never know when some one will not be on this Earth anymore so I try to make time to see people. So after spending that time with my buddy, my wife and I got a bite to eat and went home. I am now going to fine tune myself, spin a few shows and relax. This is a good way to start The Days Between.

Peace to you all...

Garbage is right

Well maybe they mixed Brent out since its multtrack. Im happy for the people that got their wish, but I just cant stand it. I was at 2 of these shows, had a blast, but being there and hearing a palyback are 2 separate things. It ain't selling out by Monday. Right in the nuts.

I'm just not buying Dave's…

I'm just not buying Dave's hyperbole after the most recent Dave's Picks. Its a decent show but in my opinion not even in same orbit as the Fillmore East show that preceded it. He's gotta sell/move product I guess.
This boxed set is a pass for me.

Hey, this isn't where I parked my car..

Ok cool.

I was skeptical at first, I find the connection tenuous in the sense of consecutive shows across multiple years in a 65,000 seat arena, but shortly came around to the idea of multiple years of shows in good quality that people think highly of.

I love the connective tissue in releases like Europe '72, Spring '90 or even PNW '73/74, so I'm still not completely sold on (to me) an impersonal stadium across 5 years, but I'm more excited about the specific shows and the Blu-Ray as I read about them.

Brent > Vince/Bruce, I'm supportive as a neophyte still taking on anything I can get. Listening to GarciaLive 11 Deal from 1993 right now, I love the comment earlier about how this set matches the year of Jerry on the Eel. Happy birthday!

Brent, Vince, Bruce, anyways, I love it. Glad to see them represented, I want to hear it all. I don't blame anyone that isn't a fan, but I'm on board.

No you can't find it in no night club or no yacht club
And it ain't in the seats of a supper club
And sure as hell you're bound to tell
That no matter how hard you rub
You just ain't a-gonna find it on yer ticket stub

I'd never have expected them to strike a deal with Dylan & Co for his set of 7/12/87, but it's still too bad. Jerry and the boys pushing him to some rarities and ultimately the advent of the Neverending Tour in 1988 (check out Chronicles), not to mention the first Tomorrow is a Long Time since 4/12/63 Town Hall NYC, featuring Jerry on pedal steel for the first time in 15 years. Switching now to the Dylan boot of 7/12/87, I presume ya'll have it if you want it but I'm more than happy to provide if not, from the Dylan side of the road...got 4/12/63 too, and that should not be missed, period motherfucker. That's the one with the Last Thoughts on Woody Guthrie..

And though it's only my opinion
I may be right or wrong
You'll find them both
In the Grand Canyon
At sundown

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