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    During the mid-1970s, the Grateful Dead saga was unfolding like a Greek classic. The Sisyphean Wall Of Sound had nearly broken the band. From it spawned a Medusa head of countless side projects, all deliciously fruitful but woefully not the same as the whole. The chorus lay in wait, pondering the reemergence of their heroes, and wondering if "THE LAST ONE" had really been it...

    But in early 1976, Apollonian light and healing would shine upon our intrepid wanderers once again. No more epic battles for the people with cops and lines and tightness, the Dead would return triumphant in smallness, playing intimate theaters and renting equipment along the way. No more ticket scams and greedy promoters, they'd give back with first ever mail-order ticket program, one that had a few kinks to work out but eventually served the fans well.

    Musically, June 1976 signaled a Golden Age of harmony and prosperity for the Dead. It marked an Odysseusian-like return for Mickey Hart. Donna Jean was in lock-step with the sirens' call. Jerry and Bob delivered orphic delight with solo musings like "Mission In The Rain" (the only tour they ever played it on), "The Wheel," and "Cassidy," emboldened by group effort. There was fresh repertoire from Blues For Allah, breathing new life to the Dead's continually morphing sound - as Weir once said of the '76 tour, they wanted to play "a little bit of all of it." Old favorites were re-envisioned with cascading tempos and unique sequencing, making the crowd question if they'd ever heard these songs before. And there was comfort and joy in the familiarity of watching the band make it up as they went along. By all means, it was clear that the bacchanalia of live Dead would reign on.

    And now the revelry from this epoch, evidenced by the near-studio quality sound captured on two-track live recordings by Betty Cantor-Jackson, lives on, bolstered by Jeffrey Norman's HDCD mastering. It's housed for posterity in a handsome box featuring original art work by Justin Helton. It’s documented in liners by Jesse Jarnow and photos by Grant Gouldon. And it’s ready for a spot on your shelf. 

    As part of our pre-order for this Dead.net exclusive boxed set, we'll be delivering downloads of each listening party - one for each show included in JUNE 1976 - to purchasers from now until the March 20th release. Order at any time before release and you'll receive all the listening parties to date.

    Individually Numbered, Limited Edition of 12,000

    What's Inside:

    • 5 Previously Unreleased Complete Shows On 15 Discs
    • Boston Music Hall, Boston, MA 6/10/76
    • Boston Music Hall, Boston, MA 6/11/76
    • Beacon Theatre, New York, NY 6/14/76
    • Beacon Theatre, New York, NY 6/15/76
    • Capitol Theatre, Passaic, NJ 6/19/76
    • Sourced from Two-Track Master Tapes, Recorded By Betty Cantor-Jackson
    • Mastered in HDCD by Jeffrey Norman
    • Restoration and Speed Correction by Plangent Processes

     

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  • #1271
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    3/22/69 Dark Star

    https://archive.org/details/gd69-03-22.sbd.cotsman.8994.sbeok.shnf

    ps I'd like to hear the rest of this show. This portion was fantastic!

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    Hey Kids!!
    Anybody have access to scans of the individual show folders?
    Mahalo!

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    New box sound is incredible. On that score it is definitely top notch.

    In terms of repeats, a lot of the earlier years were pretty repetitive. Less overall material and more new songs, which got repeated a lot. And for '76, there were only 2 tours (41 shows). Another tour might have broadened the menu some. And, no acoustic sets or extended runs with guests (Dylan) or personnel changes.

    # of different songs performed by GD year/# of shows):

    Over 100 different songs: 1987: 150 songs/85 shows; 1994: 145/84; 1990: 144/74; 1995: 143/47; 1993: 143/81; 1991: 138/77; 1989: 135/73; 1992: 134/55; 1988: 131/80; 1985: 130/71; 1986: 125/46; 1984: 125/64; 1981: 123/82; 1970: 119/142; 1982: 110/61; 1983: 110/66; 1980: 103/86.

    Less than 100: 1969: 97/146; 1979: 93/75; 1971: 90/82; 1972: 87/86; 1978: 86/89; 1977: 81/60; 1974: 83/40; 1973: 77/72; 1976: 66/41; 1966: 63/102; 1968: 46/117; 1967: 32/121; 1975: 28/4.

    Though I guess one should go ahead and do the different songs/show math if you want a real diversity rank. Though I guess sings per show would have to factor as well.

    And, surely, the lack of set lists from the early years depresses the numbers some.

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    With the caveat we can disagree about what qualifies fir a box, I nixed the ones that do not include full shows (So Many Roads, Golden Road, Beyond Description, GD Movie Soubdtrack.

    Year: # Boxes: Shows/ Discs
    1969: 1: FW CR: 4+/11 (2005)
    1972: 1: E72 CR: 22/73 (2011)
    1973: 1: W73 CR: 3+/10 (2008)
    1976: 1: J76: 5/15 (2020)
    1977: 3: W77 CR 3+/10 (2009); May77 5/14 (2013); GStL 4/11 (2017)
    1978: 1: J78 CR: 5/12 (2016)
    1989: 2: Warlocks 2/6 (2010); RFK 2/6 (2017)
    1990: 2: S90 6+/18 (2012); TOO 8/23 (2014)

    Multi Year:
    1973/74: PNW CR: 6/19 (2018)
    87/89/91: Giants: 5/14 + 1 DVD (2019)
    74/78/80/85/87/89-91: ATYC: 10ish/14 (2012).
    66-95: 30 Trips: 30/80 + '45 (2015)

    What's next? The absence of '68, '70, and '71 boxes is glaring. That would get my vote. 3 issues are: having the tapes, some stuff already released, and the deal for the Betty's may include getting them out first.

    October '68 is really interesting. You could do a break-up/make-up box with the Mickey & the Heartbeats shows (no Bob/Pig) on the 8th-10th; the Avalon shows with Bob back (11th-13th). And then the 10/20 & 10/30 shows with everyone back (& Cassidy & Bishop guesting on the 30th). IDK if they have tapes, though.

    Don't think they have fall '70 tapes, but 2/11, 2/13, & 2/14 deserve a complete release, though a lot of 2/13 & 2/14 is already out.

    Ditto April '71. That closing of Fillmore East run. 5 shows. Could also be issues with permission for the Beach Boys/Duane Allman stuff.

    Would love acoustic '80 stuff, but I don't think they have the tapes (as the Warfield release proves). And we just got peak Brent/Bruce with Giants, so I think Alpine or a Meetup video box is probably out.

    So I would predict Betty's. Likely from '73-'74. October '74 Winterland has already been released in part. So I would go '73. Either 2/9, 2/15, 2/17 or 5/26, 6/9, 6/10. .

    Sorry for legnth.

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    Dam kids, get off my lawn, and quit having so much fun! Lol
    Sounds like the box is a real Boobie Dazzler, glad your all enjoying it so much....I’ve been doing the Spring 90 shuffle instead, hard to believe it’s been 30 years!
    Also think I might use this time to try and get ripped the remainder of the huuuggge stack of Discs Dead.net Sandy Claus sent a ways back that I haven’t had time.
    Hey, have to find the upside right?

    VGUY: thanks for the Betty tip. That ought to be awesome!

    CHARLIE: Thanks for the huge laughs! I only rode the bus 2 years for half days to “trade school” Senior year we’d go to regular school in AM then head there via bus on the Thruway to another town/school district etc. (Stoners from like 6 different districts)
    Our school had 2 busses. One completely overcrowded with 70s freaks doing pretty much everything because 1) it was late seventies and the inmates were sorta running the asylum, and 2) because we had the coolest bus driver ever: this super hip black dude named Bill. I swear I saw him hit the bong on occasion!
    Only like a half dozen quiet/loner/awkward types rode the other bus.
    So as part of the journey, we’d have to go through a toll booth. So for some reason they’d always pull into 2 separate parallel booths at the sane time, bad move! Degenerates that we were we would use that opportunity being side by side, especially if there was a line, to have massive food fights, Er a, more accurately us idiots on the rowdy bus would pelt the “good” bus. It was becoming a thing with folks literally bringing old vegetables from there families gardens etc, just crazy stuff, especially if the good bus forgot to shut their windows!
    This went on for longer then you’d think, until one day some jack ass thought it’d be funny to get the booth attendant and no it wasn’t toll both Willy!
    So next day the circus comes rolling up and don’t ya know the fuggin State troopers are waiting for us....good bus sails right through and we get pulled over and boarded. Holy shit talk about people getting creative about stashing big bongs, various rotten projectiles, you name it, and poor ole Bill was freaking out! (Don’t Blame him!).
    Well being the seventies and “kids being kids” and 5 0 really not being that into it thank God, they basically just came through and shook some nap sakes and yelled a little and put on a show to scare us enough to “not jump off the balcony” Er, a, stop throwing shit out the windo etc, oh yeah, and from then on we always pulled up single file 😉

    PS: need to blow those hits out the windo Bra! LOL. Ozium helped too, but like you said, who did we think we were kidding!

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    BOG and Boxed

    I believe yesterday someone was asking if the BOG, Groovy Music was worth buying - absolutely!

    I suck at picking and ranking things, but every full or partial boxed sets I have listened to are among the very best...

    Really enjoy the lists, though.

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    So one of the few Dead.net musical releases I do not have is the FW box. My embarrassing admission is that at the time when it came out, I was more into shows from 72-74 and 77. Because of that and my cashflow at that time to a somewhat lesser extent I passsed on it. I was wise enough to get the 3 CD compilation which surprisingly came with the bonus disc.

    I had 3/1/69 on tape back in the day and the 3 disc compilation set so I am familiar with the shows. However seeing how highly regarded the FW box is on these lists has compelled me to make acquiring it my next conquest.

    Looking at the secondary market the 2 most expensive releases to acquire are: the FW box aand Dave's Picks Vol. 1. Spring 1990. TOO, the Warlocks, Dave's 2-4 get up there on prices as well. Right now on ebay there are a few FW boxes sitting at about $500. Recently a complete FW with discs only (no box no sleeves, just the loose CDs) on an auction went for $200. A cheap price for Dave's Vol. 1 is $250. It would be hard for me to shell out 500 big ones for the FW box. Similarly I am not keen on paying $250 for Dave's Vol. 1. However if I could get the complete FW box for $250 (discs, box sleeves) I would do that. I might have to wait for a while as I am not sure when or even if I will find it at that price. It just seems like that box is the "missing link" for me.

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    Talk about repetitiveness

    There’s a lot of song repetition in FW69.
    I don’t have the physical box, but do have a copy made out of digital ether. Also have 27,28 on vinyl which are made from Plangentized remasters. Thus, those who don’t want the FW Box rereleased are denying themselves a better sounding copy.
    Personally, I think I like 11-10-67 and 2-14-68 better than the shows in FW69 (not that I don’t like FW69).
    So Dave, bring on a 67/68 Box (after the 71 Box).

    Don’t forget about the From The Vault Box which contains a remastered 8-13-75 and a third disc with FTV2.

    Box speculation is fun. I agree with what others have said in the past, that ABCD Enterprises may have stipulated that the returned reels get priority treatment for release within a set time frame. ABCD is run by Deadheads, and they want the reels released just as badly was we do. I wonder how many copies of each release ABCD gets, and if they are unnumbered.

    Jamming to 6-15 set 2 right now.
    Sound quality on this release is spectacular.

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    For me it really depends on my mood at the time. Different box sets fit different moods. Having said that, FW '69 would be at the top of the list for that 2/27/69 Dark Star, just like Live Dead will always be at my favorite original album. That 2/27/69 Dark Star was instrumental in turning me on to the Dead in the first place, that whole Dark Star - St. Stephen - Eleven - Lovelight sequence was unlike anything that I had heard before. Once I discovered Live Dead it replaced most of the classic rock that I had been listening to on my morning ride to school on the bus.
    Looking back it surprises me sometimes that the school bus driver didn't just drop a few of us off at the police station. There were about 5 or 6 of us that would just sit in the back portion of the bus and smoke bowls, carefully covering the bowl and discretely passing it around. I mean, we thought we were slick, we'd hold our hits for as long as possible to minimize the smoke, but it obviously must have reeked. Everyone else in the back of the bus knew, and in fact pointed it out on one or two occasions. And yet, nothing was ever said. But I digress, I was talking about box set rankings...

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During the mid-1970s, the Grateful Dead saga was unfolding like a Greek classic. The Sisyphean Wall Of Sound had nearly broken the band. From it spawned a Medusa head of countless side projects, all deliciously fruitful but woefully not the same as the whole. The chorus lay in wait, pondering the reemergence of their heroes, and wondering if "THE LAST ONE" had really been it...

But in early 1976, Apollonian light and healing would shine upon our intrepid wanderers once again. No more epic battles for the people with cops and lines and tightness, the Dead would return triumphant in smallness, playing intimate theaters and renting equipment along the way. No more ticket scams and greedy promoters, they'd give back with first ever mail-order ticket program, one that had a few kinks to work out but eventually served the fans well.

Musically, June 1976 signaled a Golden Age of harmony and prosperity for the Dead. It marked an Odysseusian-like return for Mickey Hart. Donna Jean was in lock-step with the sirens' call. Jerry and Bob delivered orphic delight with solo musings like "Mission In The Rain" (the only tour they ever played it on), "The Wheel," and "Cassidy," emboldened by group effort. There was fresh repertoire from Blues For Allah, breathing new life to the Dead's continually morphing sound - as Weir once said of the '76 tour, they wanted to play "a little bit of all of it." Old favorites were re-envisioned with cascading tempos and unique sequencing, making the crowd question if they'd ever heard these songs before. And there was comfort and joy in the familiarity of watching the band make it up as they went along. By all means, it was clear that the bacchanalia of live Dead would reign on.

And now the revelry from this epoch, evidenced by the near-studio quality sound captured on two-track live recordings by Betty Cantor-Jackson, lives on, bolstered by Jeffrey Norman's HDCD mastering. It's housed for posterity in a handsome box featuring original art work by Justin Helton. It’s documented in liners by Jesse Jarnow and photos by Grant Gouldon. And it’s ready for a spot on your shelf. 

As part of our pre-order for this Dead.net exclusive boxed set, we'll be delivering downloads of each listening party - one for each show included in JUNE 1976 - to purchasers from now until the March 20th release. Order at any time before release and you'll receive all the listening parties to date.

Individually Numbered, Limited Edition of 12,000

What's Inside:

  • 5 Previously Unreleased Complete Shows On 15 Discs
  • Boston Music Hall, Boston, MA 6/10/76
  • Boston Music Hall, Boston, MA 6/11/76
  • Beacon Theatre, New York, NY 6/14/76
  • Beacon Theatre, New York, NY 6/15/76
  • Capitol Theatre, Passaic, NJ 6/19/76
  • Sourced from Two-Track Master Tapes, Recorded By Betty Cantor-Jackson
  • Mastered in HDCD by Jeffrey Norman
  • Restoration and Speed Correction by Plangent Processes

 

....a Police "cover" for the encore, followed by a 46 Days Phish "cover". Keeping in the theme. Is it a cover when a band member from the original band who now kicks ass in another band plays it?? Groovin'
6.9.76. RT 4.5. No bonus disc. The Eyes on this is fluttering....
https://youtu.be/P4ramoioWnw
....Ee-yes. It's simple!

Playing now, sounds great. Can’t wait to hear the Box’s Plangentized offerings.
76 slow?
That Hightime was, and it was awesome.
Samson isn’t slow at all, cooking right along.

All Hail Betty!

Sorry Vguy, you can’t claim a band name using Keithfan’s terminology without paying him royalties and/or lifetime free tix to shows, his choice.

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Submitted by Charlie3 on Sat, 02/15/2020 - 15:44

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Funny Icrmcnkd, I'm finishing up disc 2 of Road Trips 4.5 now, all this talk of June '76 led me to pull if off the shelf for another listen myself. Whetting my appetite for this box.

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Submitted by Vguy72 on Sat, 02/15/2020 - 16:05

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....nice.

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Submitted by Vguy72 on Sat, 02/15/2020 - 16:05

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....nice. So good, I "accidentally" posted it twice.

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Submitted by FiveBranch on Sat, 02/15/2020 - 16:11

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With the wood toned filigree and red in the graphic, my guess is that the box will have a theater styled theme to it. Pop ups would be fun :-D

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Submitted by Thats_Otis on Sat, 02/15/2020 - 22:26

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June 9, 1976
Boston Music Hall
RT - The Last
Ya'll ignore as much as ya'll forget

Peace

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Submitted by Vguy72 on Sat, 02/15/2020 - 23:28

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....beat the Blues and the Islanders. This is good. Wake of the flood, laughing water.
Thank you.

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Submitted by Gratefulhan on Sun, 02/16/2020 - 05:45

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This has probably been shared before but here is the video of 6/19:
https://youtu.be/z_bXHbUqOd0

Its nice - we get the companion video for this show.

6/18 is out there too but only half of the show the 2nd set I believe.

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Submitted by jpo on Sun, 02/16/2020 - 10:59

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I m living in France and since approximatively 1 year , we have very very big problems with shipping methods
In fact we never know if we ll receive orders and worst, how much we need to pay for customs duties.
Basically if we had something to pay any kind of box are really expensive.
I don t understand why all those problems happen , knowing since more than 20 years I ve bought everything produced by the Dead Net team .( all Boxes from the smaller to the largest, first DP's to RT to actual DP's and everything in between without any problems and now I m really hesitating.... !

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Submitted by Charlie3 on Sun, 02/16/2020 - 11:52

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Revisited 2FTV 8/23-24/68 this morning, first time I've listened to that in a while. Cool to hear that New Potato Caboose again. I remember thinking it was a really good sign when 2FTV came out, it sort of confirmed that 1FTV wasn't just a one off experiment and that there would probably be more shows released, but I had no idea the volume that we have now would ultimately be available.

Spinning the 2/22/69 Dream Bowl show from the 30 Trips Box, definitely the show I have listened to the most from the box. That transition from Mountains of the Moon - Dark Star is top shelf, and the Dark Star itself is one of my favorites, really similar to the classic 2/27/69 Dark Star from Live Dead, a version etched in my brain from repeated listens when I first got turned on to the Dead. Really, I like that Dream Bowl Dark Star as much as any from the FW '69 run. Great show, peak primal Dead.

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Submitted by Vguy72 on Sun, 02/16/2020 - 12:28

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....from the PNW Box last night. Things were humming along nicely until The Other One. Sometimes, the Grateful Dead can get outright scary, and the end of that TOO was one of those moments. Then those sick fucks decide to meld the cacophony and blossom into a spirited, upbeat Sugar Magnolia. Felt like I was taking a shower after picking my face up off the floor. They will never cease to amaze me. Five stars.

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Submitted by Oroborous on Sun, 02/16/2020 - 13:09

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JPO: we hear ya bro. As bad as it is sometimes here in the states, can’t imagine the extra frustration of waiting extra long just to see if you’ll receive it or not, and/or if you’ll get rapped by customs etc...

PRIMAL/Primo indeed! You made me smile just mentioning those shows and the cosmic lightbulb that went off in what’s left of my mind!

SENATOR: you sir, are a wordsmith!

From a gent in the UK...his company does a pretty good job of making t shirts with classic LP covers...Have East West By the Butterfield Blues Band and Truth by Jeff Beck along with an ATCO 45 label of Crossroads by Cream...anyway just got an email from them and this will be my next get ...

https://www.djtees.com/collections/new-ltd/products/grateful-dead-bootl…

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Submitted by carlo13 on Sun, 02/16/2020 - 19:23

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The estimated > tiftoo>eyes is spectacular. This show was also scary. This show should be shown to all people who have doubts.

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Submitted by JimInMD on Mon, 02/17/2020 - 06:20

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Carlo,

Congrats on the July 78 Box. 7/8 is no doubt one of the greats. They went in their A Game and didn't look back, from the setlist to execution to the recording and restoration efforts. I think the other shows get more press on these forums because they exceeded expectation, whereas we already knew 7/8 was spectacular. So glad you pulled the trigger.

As for scary shows.. I bet we could spend the rest of the year on this topic. So true and so many to chose from. In truth, I don't always have the mental energy for some of these scary monsters, and sometimes ff or skip around them to be revisited later.. I forget who it was that mentioned a scary Other One from these threads within the last day or two.. KF? Otis??

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Submitted by fourwindsblow on Mon, 02/17/2020 - 07:27

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Love them the scarier the better. imo

JiminMD and other Red Rocks fans -- I eventually find my way into the shows that are (nearly) universally beloved, but I have never been able to appreciate the Red Rocks shows. Of course, I know that sometimes you just don't get it and that's fine. But anyone who wants to share why they love 'em so much, or point me to moments that make 'em special to you -- I'd be much obliged.

I am pretty sure Dave doesn't keep up on the day to day posting here. I'm not sure he comes here often if at all. Try emailing him at Vault@dead.net

As for Red Rocks vs. 7/1-7/5/78, I find myself reaching for 7/1 and 7/5 more then either of the Red Rocks shows. I do think 7/8 is very good and both Red Rocks shows have great setlists, great performances and the sound is clean and bright. I think part of the allure and the reason they are so famous is because they circulated in high quality pretty early on.. and once a show picks up a little momentum and gains a reputation that's pretty much how they go down.

It's a tricky one though.. which one is best? I always seem to like the last one I listened to. I think on these boards, Arrowhead has gained a bit of a cult-like reputation, probably deservedly so.

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Submitted by daverock on Mon, 02/17/2020 - 11:05

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The stand out show for me in that box, every time I play them in sequence, is 1/7/78 Arrowhead. One of the most enjoyable shows of the year.

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Submitted by Vguy72 on Mon, 02/17/2020 - 12:17

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....that was me Jim. In fact, i'm still in bed with the covers over my face. inpenetrable fortress.

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Submitted by Lovemygirl on Mon, 02/17/2020 - 13:15

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...if I remember correctly there will be a vinyl release made available , I have to check into that, it’s been a crazy week and-half...

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Submitted by billy the kid on Mon, 02/17/2020 - 14:58

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41 years ago today, I was at the Oakland Coliseum seeing the Dead put on a great show! This was easily the best show I saw Dead play in the Oakland Coliseum, a facility II never cared much to see the Dead play at. But this show was a winner and hopefully it will be released as a Dave's Picks one day.

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Submitted by alvarhanso on Mon, 02/17/2020 - 15:36

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Big fluffer of Arrowhead here. Thought that was worth the purchase price with the artwork. Of the 2 Red Rocks shows, I've always had more of a preference for 7/7 than 7/8. Don't know why, perhaps pure devil's advocacy, though Cornell is still my favorite of the Triumvirate. But that July '78 box was a great release because 3 of the 5 shows had never circulated in SBD, and Arrowhead wasn't known to exist on tape at all from what I've read and Dave said in one of the videos.

As far as this box, I have ordered it and do look forward to it. We will have a lot of June '76 released soon. Hope it doesn't push my dream '76 release off the table for too long. 8/4/76 is a powerhouse show, and yes I know I can watch it on youtube and bask in the awesome sound quality on my studio monitors right now, but I think it would make a great Dave's 37.

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Submitted by stoltzfus on Mon, 02/17/2020 - 15:53

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Yes

Lots of scared people in the crowd that night. It was a dark and stormy night. Wasn't it?
More nitrous.
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Submitted by Charlie3 on Mon, 02/17/2020 - 16:58

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...taking my cues for listening choices from these threads and revisiting the July '78 box. I went with that smoking Omaha show from 7/5/78, it never seems to disappoint. There is just something about the energy of the shows in that box, really rocking high energy stuff with some swinging bass lines. I lack the musical vocabulary to describe it any better, but suffice it to say I dig it.

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Submitted by icecrmcnkd on Mon, 02/17/2020 - 17:56

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I took a cue from you and played 2-14-68 yesterday. That was just what I needed.

Now playing 6-22-73 to see what got Vguy so spooked (I actually know, that show is the best of the Box).
Not scary at all. Rather, quite spectacular.
Can’t believe that PNW hasn’t sold out yet.

Or that July 78 took so long to sell out.
Or that 8-27-72 hasn’t sold out.
Guess only Get Shown The Light can crash the website.

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Submitted by JimInMD on Mon, 02/17/2020 - 18:49

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..or like the Europe 72 announcement, which really destroyed the website. Since the subject came, I have to ask.. consider this a GD version of a political poll.

The initial production run (the E72 limited edition box set) was advertised as 7,200 copies. The announcement was made and in 1.00765 seconds the server crashed. This went on for a couple of days. Even I got shut out initially and I was sitting in front of my PC working when it was announced.

So they get the website back up, I think I got an email or something saying I could get one, perhaps I saw there were more and re-ordered.. I forget, but three days later the All The Music Edition was announced.

So my question, do you think they knew in advance this might happen, and had the All the Music Edition up their back sleeve as a Plan A or did they really have to scramble and come up with a Plan B? They have done this for E72 and Get Shown the Light (and to a lesser extent 30 trips).

I'm going with Plan A, a pre-planned publicity stunt of sorts.. Not that I'm upset, I'm just not a fan of drama.

They can announce the release before they finalize the number of CD’s to be pressed. But they set a number of cardboard boxes to be made.
All speculation.

So, what other Boxes can crash the website?

The recently requested April 71 Box?
Ark Box?
HF’s Fall 72 Box?
GD/ABB/Band Summer 73 Complete Box? Yeah, that probably would if it was a limited #.
Winterland Oct. 74 with video? Maybe.
Boxilla #2?

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Submitted by icecrmcnkd on Mon, 02/17/2020 - 19:15

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Can’t believe that PNW didn’t sell out yet.

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Actually, I can believe it since there are digital downloads available. Only us dinosaurs buy CD’s.

Well Vguy, the end of TOO drove my dog out of the living room.
Guess it got a little too weird for him.

.....scary shit. I swore I heard Jason, Freddy, Michael and Pinhead having a festival in my backyard.
The boyz eased me into a lullaby with Bobby McGee, then stole my face. Thats Leatherfaces job. Haha.

Vegas Odds are favoring Summer '73 w/ ABB & The Hendrix Fall 72, The Missing Reels box. Or should we just call them VGuy odds from now on?

A Crash Worthy Box. I like the sound of that.. Will 2021 be a crash worthy year?

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Submitted by billy the kid on Mon, 02/17/2020 - 20:19

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April 1971, all the shows from entire month. Also, the complete recordings of the Filmore East and Fillmore West, that would crash the site.

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Submitted by Roguedeadguy on Tue, 02/18/2020 - 04:08

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my vote for website crasher

I'm starting to think I'm never going to get through all the shows

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Submitted by fourwindsblow on Tue, 02/18/2020 - 05:29

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Coming up on the 50th ann. of these shows, but it's also the end of an era that should be celebrated in style. 1971 was the last time just the five founding members of The Grateful Dead would play together and the shows really rocked.

2/18/71 GSET: Bob: 'Moses come ridin' up on the guitar'

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Submitted by estimated-eyes on Tue, 02/18/2020 - 07:48

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I love the 1978 box and quite honestly, due to familial obligations I pass on most of the box offerings. But that 1978 box called me. Oddly, I have always missed or skipped releases dating to the Dick's Picks days, but somehow I have every single 1978 release. Somehow that year speaks to me.

Like most, the Arrowhead show was a revelation and I smile thinking about the melted faces of country music fans after that set. Red Rocks-- I confess that I don't hit the 7/7 show often. I think the Scarlet-Fire is rushed and not explored as well as they usually were in this era (or any era for that matter), so for me that is a bit of a deal breaker.

To the fellow asking why 7/8 is special, here is my 2 cents. 7/8/78 is a rager. As I was celebrating my 8th birthday with friends, folks in Colorado got to enjoy a perfect for this era GD show. The first set songs are all done spot-on, which was not a guarantee in 1978. The Deal closer keeps giving until they close it out. The 2nd set starts innocently enough and then takes off at Estimated and never lets up. In particular, listen to Bob in the post-Drums songs. He is just ripping during Franklin's, Sugar Mags and OMSN. Plus a 3-song encore with the very best Werewolves closer. Just a blistering 2nd set.

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Submitted by hbob1995 on Tue, 02/18/2020 - 08:00

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Whenever an item is available as a digital download, the physical item will take longer, usually much longer, to sell out.
The fact that the Giants box sold out so quick is a testament to its awesomeness.

Rock on

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Submitted by hendrixfreak on Tue, 02/18/2020 - 08:04

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At the first show, 7/7, the magic begins as the purple lights come on during Candyman, which matched the Purple Dragon we had taken several times that day and afternoon.

Can't you hear that special moment? Check your discs carefully....

On 7/8, the excitement begins when my buddy Peter pointed to the front rows -- everyone had bailed to dance in front of the stage (no longer allowed), so we boogied down for The Other One and Franklin's Tower. Surely you can hear that on the tapes, no?

It's all pretty clear to me, these many years later................

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