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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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  • #7341
    JimInMD
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    Hey, hbob.. thanks for the pricing by disc comparison. A small word of support, and other factors. When you add in Artist Royalties (GD, Ice Nine and other songwriting royalties), mixing and mastering costs, allocations for overhead and eqpt (TRI, vault storage, GD staff), restoration, Plagent, Rhino production costs and D. Lemieux... I have always had $10 a disc stuck in my mind as a threshold figure. If you go too much below that the whole stack of cards this house is built on could collapse under its own weight. I don't have figures and am not an insider. But I think this release is expensive because its massive. To my knowledge, this is the biggest box set ever produced. Fitting, don't you think?
  • #7342
    fourwindsblow
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    Dave L. quote:
    "As a tribute to how great the packaging is this is without a doubt the most impressive package I've ever seen of any audio release ever by anyone" Can you post a video of the box sometime soon thanks.
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    Order problems
    Of course they wouldn't ever admit individual releases at this time. Their trying regardless to sell out this massive blotted and surely well done box. As a collector and fan I still won't back down and pay $750 for 80 discs. I don't get Rhino and their decisions. I did buy Delaney & Bonnie W/ Eric Clapton On Tour Rhino Handmade $80 4 discs. 3 shows. Way over priced! I still play the original single release. Now "YES "incredible New 1972 Box Set CTTE shows what 7 shows 14 disc I purchased From Import CD online store located in California to my door in NY. What $60 bucks. Say what u will this dead box $200 overpriced. Wolfeman
  • #7344
    hbob1995
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    "Hideously Priced" ? I think not
    $699.98 is expensive. Don't get me wrong. But look at the price per disc of the music when compared to other box sets:- Spring '90 = $11.11 per disc - May '77 = $10.71 per disc - Spring '90 TOO = $10.44 per disc - 30 Trips = $8.74 per disc - E'72 = $6.16 per disc So this set is not priced badly at all. Plus hopefully the cds themselves will be packaged a bit better then the E'72 sleeves which everyone hates. And a book of 288 pages should be worth a few dollars. I think this box is fairly priced. Expensive? Yes. Hideous? Not even close. Rock on
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    Order problems etc.
    Well it looks like they are sorting out the ordering problems. Emails have been arriving on this and I agree they are unclear at times on what is being done. However, they do provide order numbers for the cancelled and OK order(s). What you need to do to check things are now OK is go to the check status option on the store site and individually check all the order numbers you have received, whatever the emails may have said. The cancelled one(s) will say order cancelled and the OK one(s) wil say back ordered. If it turns out that either you have too many or too few ( I.e. None!) boxes on order then you have something concrete to get back to the store help people about. Having order numbers to reference will help them a lot. They seem to prefer to reactivate cancelled orders rather than just let you re-order from scratch but you can offer this if you have no or insufficient orders up and running. On the question of individual releases, they have said that there will be no individual releases of CDs but this does not rule out downloads. They have issued the downloads as a USB stick as the combined size of the high res flac files and the 320kb MP3 files would take forever to download. This would not be the case with individual shows. If you want it all you should still go for the USB stick as it will be the cheaper option than paying for and downloading each show individually.
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    mbarilla
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    Grateful prof,,
    What flavor scraps will you be serving ? that is a very generous offer. Way more than Customer Service has dished out. When and where can I send the funds ? but first things first, before my debit card is tied up. Are your servers equipped to handle more than three orders at the same time if somebody is interested in your pizza crust scraps from 85 ?
  • #7347
    wissinomingdeadhead
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    The only show I want is....
    10/27/79, I've been rallying for that one since Dicks Picks Volume 1, PLEASE release individual shows, PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE!!!!!!!!
  • #7348
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    The case for individual downloads
    On the whole interesting conversation. If the band wants to release this set, they should be able to (the Mercedes-Benz argument). I also completely agree with the argument that many have made that the individual members of the band and their families should be richly compensated for all their hard work and for the great times they shared with so many of us. That said, demand clearly is greater than supply, which means there's still money to be made, from the 6501st person and after who didn't get to buy the box set, and for those who for whatever reason would purchase individual shows, either to manage cash flow or because of a lack of interest in certain periods. The high price of 30 Trips is justified (presumably) by the fact that each purchase is 1/6500, the high quality of the recording, etc. so making more box sets available would be a mistake. Making individual shows available for download only (although I LOVED the approach with the 72 shows) would preserve the value of the complete box set, while still allowing more people to spend money, which would furthur compensate the band. Everybody wins. I'm a Dave's Picks subscriber; it wouldn't bother me if those shows were available for download either, and I would continue to subscribe. The more the music can get out there, the better. Regardless of how people may feel, the box sets will sell out. But if no future options exist to buy individual concerts in the future, the band is leaving money on the table, and restricting the distribution of some of its best shows ever by only allowing 6500 with $700 to spend in June 2015 to purchase the music.
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    I would like to announce...
    ....the pre-order of an 80 cd box set of me listening to this 80-cd box set. I will not yet announce the order in which I will listen to it (unless it is somehow leaked to the anxious public). You can purchase this as a CD-box (it comes in an authentic lunch-box from my youth), or, for an extra $200, I will phone you directly every time I am listening to one of the CDs, and allow you to enjoy the high fidelity of me listening over your phone-line. The first 100 orders will receive a real scrap from the meal I was eating while listening, sealed in a specially made "steal your face" tupper ware container! First ten orders get an extra special treat--Bobby will "sing" the out chorus to Hell in a Bucket for your answering machine, guaranteeing that none will ever actually leave a message! Act soon, cuz this baby is certain to sell out quickly!
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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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