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    "When we began discussing audio projects to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the Grateful Dead back in 2012, we knew we wanted to do something completely unprecedented. We could think of nothing more exciting or ambitious than a career-spanning overview of the band's live legacy focused on what best tells the story: complete concerts. Our first criterion was the very best live music to represent any given year in the band’s history. We wanted to make sure that there were not only the tent-pole shows that fans have been demanding for decades but also ones that are slightly more under the radar, but equally excellent. For those who listen to the entire box straight through, chronologically, the narrative of the Grateful Dead's live legacy will be seen as second to none in the pantheon of music history." - David Lemieux

    We are more than pleased to announce the Grateful Dead's most ambitious release ever: 30 TRIPS AROUND THE SUN. Available as both an 80-disc boxed set and a custom lightning-bolt USB drive, the collection includes 30 unreleased live shows, one for each year the band was together from 1966 to 1995, along with one track from their earliest recording sessions in 1965. Packed with over 73 hours of music, both the boxed set and the USB drive will be individually numbered limited editions.

    The 80-disc boxed set is individually numbered and limited to 6,500 copies, a nod to the band’s formation in 1965. Along with the CDs, it also includes a gold-colored 7-inch vinyl single which bookends the band’s career. The A-side is “Caution (Do Not Stop On Tracks)” from the band’s earliest recording session in 1965 with the B-side of the last song the band ever performed together live, “Box Of Rain” recorded during their final encore at Soldier Field in Chicago on July 9, 1995.

    The box also comes with a 288-page book that features an extensive, career-spanning essay written by Nick Meriwether, who oversees the Dead archives at the University of California, Santa Cruz, along with special remembrances of the band submitted by fans. Also included is a scroll that offers a visual representation of how the band’s live repertoire has evolved through the years.

    The USB drive version* will be shaped like a gold lightning bolt with the Grateful Dead 50th anniversary logo engraved on the side. The drive includes all of the music from the collection in both FLAC (96/24) and MP3 formats and is an individually numbered limited edition of 1,000 copies. Digital version of the book also included on USB.

    Shows will NOT be sold individually on CD. This release is sure to sell out quickly so pre-order your copy today and stick around as we will be revealing a mighty fine selection of music, art, and much, much more right here.

    (Looking for a smaller 50th Anniversary commemorative keepsake? September 18th will see the release of a four-CD version of the collection titled 30 TRIPS AROUND THE SUN: THE DEFINITIVE LIVE STORY 1965-1995. More on that here.)

    ROLLINGSTONE.COM SONG PREMIERE AND EXCLUSIVE DAVID LEMIEUX INTERVIEW
    Head on over to Rollingstone.com for the very first listen of "Morning Dew" 9/18/87 Madison Square Garden, David Fricke's exclusive interview with archivist David Lemieux, and the reveal of 30 TRIPS AROUND THE SUN's '69 and '84 shows.

    *Helpful hints for using your USB:

    Running the 30 Trips Player / Reader program:
    On Windows – Navigate to the USB drive and double click the PCStart.exe file to run.
    On MacOS – Open the GD 30 Trips drive, and double click the MacStart to run.

    Viewing the digital book:
    You can either view it within the program that comes on the drive, or by opening the PDF directly.

    To view the PDF, open the PDF folder on the drive and the USB_bk_spreads_08-31 file within. Selecting the option within your PDF reading application to view as a “single page” might be preferable to viewing as a continuous document.

    Importing music into iTunes and other library programs:
    When you import the songs from the USB into your library, the information used to identify the track will likely leave them sorted incorrectly. Please use the song list found here to re-number the songs for each show so that they playback in the correct order.
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    Sent you a PM. I reacted too quickly to what you were saying in your post about downloading.
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    Economically Stratifying Deadheads
    This is not new. And not created by anyone or anything beyond reality. Some could afford to stay in hotels on tour, some could not. Some could afford top notch taping equipment, some could not. Some could afford to mail order for the whole tour the day it was announced. Some could not. All this box set does is continue the process. There is bitching about the outlay for a DP subscription each year, there is no magic price point. People would complain about having to pay shipping on 24 different orders if these were sold two per month for the next year. No one needs to "save $700" to get this. You need to put it on a credit card and pay it down over time beginning in October 2015. That's it. It is unfortunate that everyone cannot buy this. But it is also unfortunate that everyone can't take time off and travel to FTW, or to Terrapin Crossing, or on tour with Ratdog. Life and reality prevent that from happening. This is no different.
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    I sent you a PM :)
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    I sent you a PM.
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    Sorry double post Sorry for the negative vibes... Looking forward to the discussions on the actual shows...
  • #7466
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    perfectly reasonable?
    In this age of a 7 show 1972 Yes box set going for $75 or Phish 8cd Amsterdam box for $40 some of us can have the opinion that this is perhaps overpriced a bit. When you shop at Costco it's always cheaper cause you are buying in bulk, this simply does not apply here. Look I really, really want this but $765 for this is a lot of money for me and others. Perhaps the royalty fees are outrageously expensive & the remastering as well. I agree that the band members, GD employees, Rhino & everyone else involved deserves to be compensated but perhaps there is a better way to be a bit more inclusive without hurting the future GD business income stream & budgeting for other releases. It's a lousy feeling for me if I commit to buy it (because I know I can't quite afford it) & it's lousy if I don't and eventually see the sold out status.
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    OOPS! Missed 4-CD version!
    Oops. I missed the small print about a 4-CD "budget" version of this release, so I take back my comments about the $700 mega-box. (Although I wish there was something between 4 CDs and 80 CDs.... but it's not a perfect world.) Glad that there is a more affordable alternative. SO.... never mind my original post!
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    I doubt it, but I really hope the shows are in digipacks, as my Winterland 73 it unplayable now because of the melted glue from the packaging. I guess it doesn't get so hot in California, but for those of us in the south, the folded sleeves are not sustainable. I figure I'll burn them all or torrent them so that they're not lost. My Europe 72 CDs are also slowly being destroyed by those sleeves, no matter how obsessively careful I am with them. I also would like to put in my two cents that there must be a better way to keep the business model viable without making the box so unaffordable for most people. One can make money while and excellent commodities without economically stratifying deadheads. An all music option, multiple boxes. Even if someone saves up, many people just can't save 700 dollars on this stuff. There's just something obscene, especially with the limited editions (which I understand economically). It's like there's a few kids making the fanciest products in their wonderland jobs without paying any mind to its socioeconomic implications. I don't mean to criticize anyone for having the money to purchase (which I do) or the great jobs of producing the commodities, but AT LEAST THINK ABOUT and acknowledge that there is a cultural-psychological-economic issue with real life implications. I do, on that note, feel slightly bad for Dave for having to say and do things in a manner that I bet is quite repugnant to him.
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    don't get the 4CD release???
    I don't get the 4 CD release of 1 song from each year. It totally goes against what sets this band apart from the others and that is th transition from one song to a other. Love the truckin' > TOO transitions from Europe 72 and the Scarlet > fire from 77 and the boatloads of other examples. To have only lost sailor > saint of circumstance. But I guess if the goal was containment to four discs then they had to draw the line somewhere...
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    I bet if Chicago Bears season ticket/PSL holders had first crack at those Spring 90 TOO boxes they would be sold out ;)
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"When we began discussing audio projects to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the Grateful Dead back in 2012, we knew we wanted to do something completely unprecedented. We could think of nothing more exciting or ambitious than a career-spanning overview of the band's live legacy focused on what best tells the story: complete concerts. Our first criterion was the very best live music to represent any given year in the band’s history. We wanted to make sure that there were not only the tent-pole shows that fans have been demanding for decades but also ones that are slightly more under the radar, but equally excellent. For those who listen to the entire box straight through, chronologically, the narrative of the Grateful Dead's live legacy will be seen as second to none in the pantheon of music history." - David Lemieux

We are more than pleased to announce the Grateful Dead's most ambitious release ever: 30 TRIPS AROUND THE SUN. Available as both an 80-disc boxed set and a custom lightning-bolt USB drive, the collection includes 30 unreleased live shows, one for each year the band was together from 1966 to 1995, along with one track from their earliest recording sessions in 1965. Packed with over 73 hours of music, both the boxed set and the USB drive will be individually numbered limited editions.

The 80-disc boxed set is individually numbered and limited to 6,500 copies, a nod to the band’s formation in 1965. Along with the CDs, it also includes a gold-colored 7-inch vinyl single which bookends the band’s career. The A-side is “Caution (Do Not Stop On Tracks)” from the band’s earliest recording session in 1965 with the B-side of the last song the band ever performed together live, “Box Of Rain” recorded during their final encore at Soldier Field in Chicago on July 9, 1995.

The box also comes with a 288-page book that features an extensive, career-spanning essay written by Nick Meriwether, who oversees the Dead archives at the University of California, Santa Cruz, along with special remembrances of the band submitted by fans. Also included is a scroll that offers a visual representation of how the band’s live repertoire has evolved through the years.

The USB drive version* will be shaped like a gold lightning bolt with the Grateful Dead 50th anniversary logo engraved on the side. The drive includes all of the music from the collection in both FLAC (96/24) and MP3 formats and is an individually numbered limited edition of 1,000 copies. Digital version of the book also included on USB.

Shows will NOT be sold individually on CD. This release is sure to sell out quickly so pre-order your copy today and stick around as we will be revealing a mighty fine selection of music, art, and much, much more right here.

(Looking for a smaller 50th Anniversary commemorative keepsake? September 18th will see the release of a four-CD version of the collection titled 30 TRIPS AROUND THE SUN: THE DEFINITIVE LIVE STORY 1965-1995. More on that here.)

ROLLINGSTONE.COM SONG PREMIERE AND EXCLUSIVE DAVID LEMIEUX INTERVIEW
Head on over to Rollingstone.com for the very first listen of "Morning Dew" 9/18/87 Madison Square Garden, David Fricke's exclusive interview with archivist David Lemieux, and the reveal of 30 TRIPS AROUND THE SUN's '69 and '84 shows.

*Helpful hints for using your USB:

Running the 30 Trips Player / Reader program:
On Windows – Navigate to the USB drive and double click the PCStart.exe file to run.
On MacOS – Open the GD 30 Trips drive, and double click the MacStart to run.

Viewing the digital book:
You can either view it within the program that comes on the drive, or by opening the PDF directly.

To view the PDF, open the PDF folder on the drive and the USB_bk_spreads_08-31 file within. Selecting the option within your PDF reading application to view as a “single page” might be preferable to viewing as a continuous document.

Importing music into iTunes and other library programs:
When you import the songs from the USB into your library, the information used to identify the track will likely leave them sorted incorrectly. Please use the song list found here to re-number the songs for each show so that they playback in the correct order.
PDF
Text

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