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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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  • #391
    MilesM
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    Jerry and Los Lobos
    Yeah Jerry was a huge Los Lobos fan. I think and don't quote me on this but Jer's first gig post coma was a sit in with them somewhere in Cali. I think the story goes he went to see them play and just happened to get up onstage and start jammin. I know they talk about it in the book Dark Star.
  • #392
    mbarilla
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    September 1987 peak month for that year
    And JGB would light up October 1987 Bring on more shows from 1980's Ahahah,, more September 1987 and Dylan and the Dead performances. Terrapin Station - 2.26.77 - I have bootleg also "The Grateful Dead in Death Valley" with only 1st set portion of show and two filler tracks from Philly Spectrum - 9.12.88 - "Box of Rain -> Cold Rain and Snow" Definetely worth the $5 I would guess there are better quality performances of Terrapin Station they want to get out to the masses before that one. Similar to Dark Star, has so many, put out the ones that will/should impress the most and then go down the list. Seems like they are doing this with the Dark Stars from Brent era Nightfall of Diamonds Warlocks set Spring 90 with Branford - next up should be the 1984 Dark Star :)
  • #393
    JimInMD
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    '87 Trip
    ahhh, Muleskinner, the '87 trip.. I did ask David about this one several years ago. He said it is a Matrix, but the crowd noise isn't all that distracting. Plus.. its Madison Square Garden and the crowd sometimes went nuts at the Garden. The floor is suspended on top of Penn Station by steel cables, so it floats and when it gets really crazy they say you can feel it sway a bit with crowd. If the crowd noise wasn't there, it would just be wrong. Good to see you back man.. your enthusiasm and fresh ears carries this place sometimes. I dig the second set post space on that one. It was the third La Bamba over 9 days, and pre-internet.. so its likely a lot of the kind folks in attendance were caught off guard by that one. I think the movie La Bamba had just hit the big screen and Jerry was in the process of palling around with Hidalgo and friends just about this time. I recall hearing an interview from '87 or '88 and someone asked Jerry what he likes, what he was listening to these days, his response, "I really like Los Lobos" ..who as we all know can shred that song. Oh.. I have one more story about this show. I was talking to somebody that was there and backstage a few years ago. She said Garcia's response after he walked off stage was, "Hey.. we didn't suck tonight." Anyway.. lots of energy on this one, if you are hearing it for the first time, that energy is infectious.
  • #394
    muleskinner_blues
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    On topic
    And on topic for once...I know people talked up the 1987 Trip selection even before it was picked, but finished that one and I think it may be one of my favorites so far in the box. More than anything, just great presence on the audio quality, alot of crowd noise but not inappropriate or distracting. Really adds to it, in my opinion. Was that a matrix or something? And meant to respond to Wilfred earlier - Agree on 2/26/77, that's one of the few I've picked up as a bootleg and tough to believe it hasn't been released...first of a heralded year, Terrapin debut and opener, plus the rest of the show is great too. As you said, must not be in the vault?
  • #395
    muleskinner_blues
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    One Man / Dave
    Oh nice, thanks, I hadn't looked through all of that yet. I love those details and statistics, etc. Along those lines, here is a good site for his recording session and tour setlists, if you haven't been: http://www.bjorner.com/still.htm I need to get back to that box, I haven't listened for a week or two. Made it into the Blonde on Blonde sessions, which I think will be the most interesting in the set. Looking forward to some of those that no alternates have circulated to date...I Want You, etc.
  • #396
    DaveStrang
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    I didn't realize there was another book with the box. Once I looked at it, it was exactly what i was looking for. Thanks again.
  • #397
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    Dylan Masters
    I've been playing the 18 CDs as I haven't downloaded the main content yet (only the live/extras). So I don't know about the metadata. However, you can see where each released version first appeared if you dig down to that last book (under the CD book and above the 7-inch singles). There you will find which ones are the album versions, and which appeared on previous Bootleg Series releases. And it says in that book that everything in this box set is newly mixed, so that it sounds like you are reviewing takes in the control room. In other words, they are rough mixes compared to any that have been released before. I like that. You really get the fly-on-the wall experience that way. I finally got my answer to whether Dylan was reading the lyrics as he sang them. At one point Bob Johnston asks him if it would help if he had the lyrics on the music stand and Dylan says, "No, that wouldn't help at all, man."
  • #398
    Kayak Guy
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    Strummer Pic
    It is probably 11/26/82 in Jamaica when the Clash and GD shared the bill. Joe allegedly was giving Deadheads Mohawks back stage. https://archive.org/details/gd1982-11-26.sbd.fried-lai.1419.sbefail.shnf
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    http://www.dead.net/show/november-25-1982
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    That sounds about right since I don't recall The Clash being on the US Festival bill…but then again it's 35 years ago…as Sandy Denny said "Who knows where the time goes?"
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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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