HERE COMES SUNSHINE 1973 (17CD SET)

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WHAT'S INSIDE:
Five complete, previously unreleased performances on 17CDs
Des Moines, IA 5/13/73
Santa Barbara, CA 5/20/73
San Francisco, CA 5/26/73
Washington, D.C. 6/9/73
Washington, D.C. 6/10/73
Recorded by Kidd Candelario, Betty Cantor-Jackson, and Owsley Stanley
Newly restored and speed-corrected audio by Plangent Processes
Mastered by Jeffrey Norman
Liners featuring notes from Canadian author, Ray Robertson, The Owsley Stanley Foundation, and Legacy Manager and Audio Archivist, David Lemieux
Art and Design by GRAMMY® Award-winning Art Director, Masaki Koike
Custom-dyed Tenugui and an exclusive poster featuring an illustration by Mary Ann Mayer

Limited Edition Individually Numbered To 10,000
Exclusively At Dead.net

"There’s the simple fact that the band members were old enough and experienced enough by now to be virtuosos on their instruments (what other group—rock or jazz or any other kind of music—could boast a trio of spectacularly singular talents such as Garcia, Lesh, and Weir?) but were still young enough to want to play and play and play some more, the happy, itchy inclination of youth. As a few of the shows in the Here Comes Sunshine boxed set attest, it wasn’t unusual for a 1973 concert to exceed four hours. And within the shows themselves, there are nearly nightly examples of hour-long orgies of tune-linked songcraft and juicy jamming." - Ray Robertson, HERE COMES SUNSHINE 1973 Liners

8 years in and the Grateful Dead are a little bit of everything to everyone. They are putting up textures and tones of rock, of jazz, of country, with set-morphing vibes and long stretches of improvisations that are completely keyed into the sum of their parts. Keith Godchaux is here with his cascading notes. Donna Jean too. Both finding their footing and keeping things steady in the wake of Pigpen's unfillable gap. The spring of 1973 feels transformative for the Dead - no more so than the May and early June shows, complementary yet remarkably different, soon-to-be cornerstones of everyone's tape collections, and now, 50 years later, set to be part of the band's official canon.

HERE COMES SUNSHINE 1973 is a limited-edition, 17CD boxed set with five previously unreleased, highly sought-after Dead shows, including: Iowa State Fairgrounds, Des Moines, IA (5/13/73), Campus Stadium, UCSB, Santa Barbara, CA (5/20/73), Kezar Stadium, San Francisco, CA (5/26/73), and Robert F. Kennedy Memorial Stadium, Washington, D.C. (6/9/73) and (6/10/73).

During the spring, the band road-tested most of the songs they would record that summer for WAKE OF THE FLOOD – their first studio album in three years – including early live versions of “Mississippi Half-Step Toodeloo,” “Row Jimmy,” “Stella Blue,” “Eyes Of The World,” and, the set’s namesake, “Here Comes Sunshine.” Also tucked into the collection are songs destined for the Dead’s 1974 studio album, FROM THE MARS HOTEL – “China Doll,” “Loose Lucy,” and “Wave That Flag,” a precursor to “U.S. Blues.”

The new repertoire slipped neatly into the fluid setlists alongside songs honed on the 1972 European tour (“Jack Straw,” “Tennessee Jed,” “Brown-Eyed Women”), Chuck Berry perennials (“Promised Land,” “Around And Around”), classic country (“Big River,” “The Race Is On”), and incredible jam sequences: “He’s Gone”> “Truckin’”> “The Other One”> “Eyes Of The World.”

Due June 30th, the individually-numbered, limited-edition 17CD set features vibrant graphics and custom-designed folios by GRAMMY® Award-winning Art Director Masaki Koike, a custom-dyed Tenugui and an exclusive poster featuring an illustration by Mary Ann Mayer, and liner notes by Canadian author Ray Robertson, The Owsley Stanley Foundation, and David Lemieux. And, of course, it features newly restored and speed-corrected audio by Plangent Processes, mastered by Jeffrey Norman.

Digital convert? We've got you covered too. On the very same day you can collect your hi-definition download.

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July 13, 2023 - 7:16am

#211

Mr. Ones

Joined:
July 25, 2017

Vegas In June

I had a friend get married in Vegas 17 years ago. One day, it was “only” 113 degrees. Yes, it was a dry heat, but it’s the closest thing I can think of to being inside an actual oven!!
I was there for 5 days, and spent a total of 15 minutes outside (except for travel to & from Elvis Wedding Chapel). Never again!!
Just got my box yesterday, and only had time for disc 1. Like DAVEROCK, only this first disc was loose. It played perfectly. I’m just going to go through in order, all 17 discs. This weekend should be a blast!!
July 13, 2023 - 5:55am

#212

topchinacat

Joined:
March 24, 2020

desert heat

I've lived in the Palm Springs area for 15 years and was born/raised in the midwest... I personally prefer heat to cold, but that's just me. I'm in Vegas (cooling off a few degrees!) and took a walk over to the Sphere yesterday ... and nope, it hasn't melted yet! just like the cold, one prepares for the seasonal ugly weather and looks forward to the paradise weather that will shortly ensue. And I was here (Vegas) for the Dead with Steve Miller opening... great shows, very hot (pun intended), with a perfectly timed LLR with bolts of lightning comin our way. BTW... I really enjoyed them at the Aladdin... super-trippy to a casino loaded with gambling Heads!
July 13, 2023 - 5:42am

#213

Dennis

Joined:
November 1, 2012

Tombstone Man

check your pm's
July 13, 2023 - 5:36am

#214

dmcvt

Joined:
April 4, 2013

91% did the trick

Three bucks at CVS and an hour of time spent to obtain, then cleaning glue bits off HCS CDs. Surprised that 91% worked so well when the 70% just melted it enough to smudge. Of course it does not fix the scratches. Hope someone, anyone at WMG/Rhino checks these boards and sees all these comments, absolutely will send replacement request for the scratched CDs. Did not want to wait five weeks to replace 6-7 glue edged CDs, like when I requested replacement for a defective CD on DaP 46. Now I can listen to an entire show... wowee zowee!!! The artwork is great but this concept of lightweight cardboard slip cases, not so much.
July 12, 2023 - 6:52pm

#215

Vguy72

Joined:
June 29, 2007

I'm through all but the second set of 6.10....

....so far, so good. Good thing this wasn't sent out now, or it would have melted in the mailtruck/porch.
I hope that Sphere doesn't start sagging.
To be fair though, a record did occur last/this year. 293 straight days under 100. Beat the old one by three days.
Being born and raised here, I'm pretty much used to it. 48 below? I'm Nicholson in The Shining.
It is a dry heat so shade and sweat helps. Better than 96 degrees and 80+ humidity. Shade does jack shit and at a certain point, ones body can't sweat anymore.
I learned a new term the other day. Wet bulb temps.
The wet-bulb temperature is the lowest temperature that can be reached under current ambient conditions by the evaporation of water only. Even heat-adapted people cannot carry out normal outdoor activities past a wet-bulb temperature of 32 °C (90 °F), equivalent to a heat index of 55 °C (131 °F). Copy/paste.
We don't have a pool, but a couple of casinos near us offer free pool access to locals, so that's cool.
Not ordering any vinyl until September for obvious reasons.
Phish's Summer Tour is off to a hot start in Alabama btw.
Alabama Getaway!
July 12, 2023 - 6:25pm

#216

thismikebenz

Joined:
November 3, 2010

pointilist poster

I believe I first saw that poster included with old copies of the original LP Wake Of The Flood. So the picture is maybe current to 1973.
July 12, 2023 - 6:19pm

#217

Oroboros

Joined:
June 4, 2007

# 05678 arrived

I don't see any glue or obvious scratches but of course who knows?

Have had great luck in the past (10 yrs ago, maybe?), only once received a defective disc and it was promptly replaced.

Hope for the best as I play through these shows.

Ditto to the complaints on slotted cardboard sleeves which I usually end up tearing to get the disc out.

Pretty packaging, but would be as happy with shelf friendly more plain CD covers, especially with a reduced price.

Gotta admit I loved the poster as it reflected the band members when I first got aboard the bus.

Wonder what the date was she drew this nice pointillist Dead portrait.

"Teachers open the door, but you must enter by yourself."
July 12, 2023 - 6:18pm

#218

proudfoot

Joined:
August 2, 2020

Hot?

GD 94 Las Vegas
115

And the show sucked (6/25)
July 12, 2023 - 4:25pm

#219

tombstone

Joined:
November 11, 2007

Rhino's Business Model

I didn't get to order this set in time. Just didn't have the money to spare this time around. That brings me to a point I've made in the past. Remember, before Rhino, when you could just purchase releases as you saw fit at your own leisure? Now, here we are. Rhino insists on making virtually everything in numbered, limited quantities which negates the very idea behind music being for the ages. And they seem to have mangled this one big time with all these horror stories of unreadable discs and glue on the playing surfaces. This kind of issue was present on The Doors 40th Anniversary releases in 2007. There were manufacturing issues which rendered many of the discs unplayable for the first song or two. They also managed to completely botch the vinyl covers on those releases in 2007. At what point do all these bands under the Rhino umbrella decide enough is enough? Not yet, I suppose. I do hope all of you with disc issues are given replacement discs as should be the case.
July 12, 2023 - 3:19pm

#220

wilfredtjones

Joined:
June 4, 2007

anecdotal report

Through 5-13-73 on 3 complete close headphone listens on different players, twice on CD and once on the digital or 'ripped' files. All good despite minor scratches and glue removed via 91% bong cleaning solution. Nice, if not mind-blowing show. Very tight, but there are mix issues. Definitely worth future listens barring a 'self-destruct' feature e.g., my DaPs 1-4. :-) :-) :-)¯

Be well all and as always stay Grateful. On to 5-20 in a bit...Fingers firmly crossed...

John Perry Barlow

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WHAT'S INSIDE:
Five complete, previously unreleased performances on 17CDs
Des Moines, IA 5/13/73
Santa Barbara, CA 5/20/73
San Francisco, CA 5/26/73
Washington, D.C. 6/9/73
Washington, D.C. 6/10/73
Recorded by Kidd Candelario, Betty Cantor-Jackson, and Owsley Stanley
Newly restored and speed-corrected audio by Plangent Processes
Mastered by Jeffrey Norman
Liners featuring notes from Canadian author, Ray Robertson, The Owsley Stanley Foundation, and Legacy Manager and Audio Archivist, David Lemieux
Art and Design by GRAMMY® Award-winning Art Director, Masaki Koike
Custom-dyed Tenugui and an exclusive poster featuring an illustration by Mary Ann Mayer

Limited Edition Individually Numbered To 10,000
Exclusively At Dead.net

"There’s the simple fact that the band members were old enough and experienced enough by now to be virtuosos on their instruments (what other group—rock or jazz or any other kind of music—could boast a trio of spectacularly singular talents such as Garcia, Lesh, and Weir?) but were still young enough to want to play and play and play some more, the happy, itchy inclination of youth. As a few of the shows in the Here Comes Sunshine boxed set attest, it wasn’t unusual for a 1973 concert to exceed four hours. And within the shows themselves, there are nearly nightly examples of hour-long orgies of tune-linked songcraft and juicy jamming." - Ray Robertson, HERE COMES SUNSHINE 1973 Liners

8 years in and the Grateful Dead are a little bit of everything to everyone. They are putting up textures and tones of rock, of jazz, of country, with set-morphing vibes and long stretches of improvisations that are completely keyed into the sum of their parts. Keith Godchaux is here with his cascading notes. Donna Jean too. Both finding their footing and keeping things steady in the wake of Pigpen's unfillable gap. The spring of 1973 feels transformative for the Dead - no more so than the May and early June shows, complementary yet remarkably different, soon-to-be cornerstones of everyone's tape collections, and now, 50 years later, set to be part of the band's official canon.

HERE COMES SUNSHINE 1973 is a limited-edition, 17CD boxed set with five previously unreleased, highly sought-after Dead shows, including: Iowa State Fairgrounds, Des Moines, IA (5/13/73), Campus Stadium, UCSB, Santa Barbara, CA (5/20/73), Kezar Stadium, San Francisco, CA (5/26/73), and Robert F. Kennedy Memorial Stadium, Washington, D.C. (6/9/73) and (6/10/73).

During the spring, the band road-tested most of the songs they would record that summer for WAKE OF THE FLOOD – their first studio album in three years – including early live versions of “Mississippi Half-Step Toodeloo,” “Row Jimmy,” “Stella Blue,” “Eyes Of The World,” and, the set’s namesake, “Here Comes Sunshine.” Also tucked into the collection are songs destined for the Dead’s 1974 studio album, FROM THE MARS HOTEL – “China Doll,” “Loose Lucy,” and “Wave That Flag,” a precursor to “U.S. Blues.”

The new repertoire slipped neatly into the fluid setlists alongside songs honed on the 1972 European tour (“Jack Straw,” “Tennessee Jed,” “Brown-Eyed Women”), Chuck Berry perennials (“Promised Land,” “Around And Around”), classic country (“Big River,” “The Race Is On”), and incredible jam sequences: “He’s Gone”> “Truckin’”> “The Other One”> “Eyes Of The World.”

Due June 30th, the individually-numbered, limited-edition 17CD set features vibrant graphics and custom-designed folios by GRAMMY® Award-winning Art Director Masaki Koike, a custom-dyed Tenugui and an exclusive poster featuring an illustration by Mary Ann Mayer, and liner notes by Canadian author Ray Robertson, The Owsley Stanley Foundation, and David Lemieux. And, of course, it features newly restored and speed-corrected audio by Plangent Processes, mastered by Jeffrey Norman.

Digital convert? We've got you covered too. On the very same day you can collect your hi-definition download.

Get out the way

Don’t just stand there dreaming…

Woo Hoo!!!

Thanks Dave/Rhino/Norman and those who made the recordings.

Holy Crap!

WOW

FINALLY!!!

the June 9/10 shows have been on this radar for, well, since my birth (which was 6/10/73).

This clearly explains my obsession; its in the deoxyribonucleic acid aka My Soul!!

Be Well People!
Sixtus

Just came to lament Gordon Lightfoot

Then found this "secret" release!--I heard nothing of this release in my e-mail?? I wondered if they weren't going to do RFK for the 50th, given how Dave alluded to the shows a few years back in a, "Yeah, we DO need to get those out, don't we . . . " kind of manner. Got the coffee mug, too, since I never have had a GD coffee mug.

Be kind, rewind.

p.s. Received the announcement e-mail about two hours after ordering the box!

Trouble ordering

I have tried ordering this in safari and chrome but the order will not go through. I’ve tried different cards but dead.net will not accept a payment.

BD15Dead....

....gets you 15% off.

What is....

Top of the cover picture, above the skull

There appears to be a set of ice climbing tools?

anyone?

Allman/Dead RFK Box

Dick Latvala's and Kirk West's proposed project is obviously not happening now. Bummer. Glad the Deads sets are getting released, but that project would be been fucking awesome.

Sickles? Harvest like?

Trouble Ordering

I had trouble ordering. I added a new credit card and that fixed the problem.

Dennis

Those are hockey sticks.

Information on the digital files

So there is absolutely no information on the digital files beyond offereings in FLAC and ALAC. I assume that one or both are 24 bit, but would love some further information before deciding whether to buy them or the discs. HELP!

Zing!

Rimshot for AJS. Good one.
Jesus saves, passes to Moses, he shoots, he SCORES!
Cheers

Oh yeah....

A bit better than a freakin' Bolo clue (not casting asparagus, Bolo)...

The dream is here: five big '73 shows, 50 years later.

I still think they might package the Watkins Glen soundcheck with the WotF 50th.

And coming in two months. Righteous! Thanks Dave & Co.

They possibly are...

They look like scythes which are used to harvest the wheat.

I should add...

That the fourth disc for 10 June 73 with Dicky and Butch bodes well for ... something! A bunch of people had to agree on that, including lawyers, no doubt, so that it's happening I take as a good sign.

Pretty much any "good sign" is a good thang these days.

The '73 GD is particularly good at high volume! This is my Snoopy kick-up-my-heels post.

OMG!!! I think I just died…

OMG!!! I think I just died and went to Heaven. It's been a shitty year and a half for me. I've been to the hospital twice and was recently diagnosed with B-Cell Lymphoma. I have been through chemo and a Bone Marrow transplant and still receiving therapy and treatments but getting better each day at home. Listening to the Grateful Dead helped me through the trying times. I know I was a dollar short and a day late to miss the 6/10/1973 show but I did attend and enjoyed my "very first show" 6/9/1973 at RFK. I have been on the bus ever since. I would like to thank the Grateful Dead and the crew at GD Merchandise and especially for David L for finally putting these shows out. You have made my day!!
Peace/Love and save the world! Steve

Shout out to Big Steve!!!

....get better buddy!

Nice

These shows have been a long time coming. I know at some point they tried getting the RFK shows with Allmans released but problems developed. Space brother commented a few post back about it. Anyway, bring it on!

Big Steve

I 2nd VGUYS shout out of get better soon!

My First Dead Show Des Moines '73

Man, I have been waiting for the Des Moines show for a long time. Yes, I was just a sixteen year old punk at my first Dead show with many many many more to come. This old dude is excited.

Big Steve Get well brother…

Big Steve Get well brother. Hearing your happiness makes this release even better.

73 Men Sailed Her

Beyond stoked by this announcement. 1973 just might be my favorite year in all of Deadom, so 17 discs from that period--including the legendary RFK shows, finally--almost sounds too good to be true. Somebody pinch me!

Agree with previous comments about the Allmans: there are a number of recordings out there in which GOGD/ABB members share the stage, but few if any have seen official release, presumably due to legal complications. If the lawyers got together and figured things out well enough to get the Dickey/Butch/GD set released, maybe there's more to come? A guy can dream.

I'm in.

Wow sitting at my desk and then…

I got a YouTube notification for Ramble On Rose and saw it was from 6/10/73…I was like huh? Stopped me in my thoughts, is this foreshadowing? It sounds great! Then another alert right after that for the Dave’s couch side chat about the box set! Started listening to Dave and stopped. Went and ordered it and the vinyl without thinking. And now thinking what a nice week it’s been. Great news for a Tuesday! Finished couch side chat and waiting for No. 46, with something beautiful on the horizon!

Can’t Order

I’ve tried two cards and PayPal and am being rejected every time. I have been texted by the banks and have confirmed that I made the attempted order but the cards are still rejected. PayPal just says there’s a problem and won’t open. I can’t talk directly to my bank customer service dept because it’s 20:17 here and the line doesn’t open for another 12 hours. This may wellbe the first cd boxset that I can’t get.

Edit. I moaned too soon! After several attempts I finally got PayPal to work so my order is in. Why is it so difficult to get these systems to be fool proof?

The Healing Power...

of the Grateful Dead. Absolutely real.
Best wishes for brother Big Steve!
Cheers

Big Steve and 6/9

Keep it up with that healing. I never miss out on a '73 show, but, like you I missed 6/10 and attended 6/9. I don't remember seeing you there (ha), but I enjoyed it so much I've never understood how 6/10 could live up to the hype. Now we'll know.

The Grateful Dead subreddit on reddit....

....is just going off!!
Awesomesauce.

A bit expected....

But much appreciative.
Play '73 DEAD play '73 DEAD LOUD!!!

Both Steve's

Dave L. has high and mighty praise for that 6-9-73 show on the couch side chat.
You are both lucky to have seen that one.
Can't wait!

The Ramble On Rose from RFK....

....is up and streaming on Spotify.

Trouble Ordering

I am having trouble ordering DP 46 and pre-ordering Here Comes Sunshine on the online store. Have tried multiple different devices and have had three different relatives/friends try unsuccessfully as well. Can anyone please help? Have successfully ordered several things in the past few months. Not sure what changed.

Here Comes Sunshine box

Finally! The RFK shows see the day of light! I have been waiting for these forever! The other 3 shows will be the icicng on the cake. Happy day indeed! Go Big Steve! Get well bro'.

Wow

This is exciting!!

my first tape!!

I know a birthday boy who's going to be just elated. Happy for you, bro!!

These cornerstone shows were in my very first clutch of Maxell tapes twenty years ago.

Ordered on 3rd try

Two cards rejected then Paypal came to the rescue like a shining white knight. So happy to get this one as I've wanted RFK forever. Can't wait for this to arrive but will make do with my 2023 RSD vinyl from Boston 77.

let's go let' go let's go

big Steve you are a tough guy.
Keep On, what a pleasure each morning opening the window, drinking a good coffee and breathing fresh air. Nothing does match Life. Enjoy
a new box for a great year, but how to forget Pacific North West, Nassau, LA, Denver, dp28, Boston Oklahoma and the winterland box.
the third set of 6/10 from It takes a lot to laugh to the end is the highlight with Merl and Dicky Betts.
all the best shows of 73 are past but not gone.

trouble ordering

PParish - I have noticed that the only way I seem to be able to order these days is to sign in as a guest. Might be worth try if you are still having difficulties.

HF

Forget what I was saying earlier about me not being interested in Allmans and Dead members jamming on the same stage. I seem to have changed my mind for some unknown reason.

scythes or hockey sticks?

with a rope attaching them?

Go Big Steve! / Harpur / more 73 or not to 73

Big Steve, good wishes + healing thoughts coming your way, sir. Chemo... what a long strange drip.

Anyone else listening to Harpur College rn? :)

Folks I'm honestly on the fence about this box set, not bc I have any doubts about the music (I practically wore out my Maxell XLIIs of Kezar back in the day) but I already have about 30 shows in my collection from '73. So it's good seeing the enthusiasm here, and tbf the only show besides 5/26 that I've heard from this bunch is 6/10. I look forward to hearing more, esp about Santa Barbara if anyone was there!

Also can’t order

3 credit cards and PayPal all with no love.

Order is in

Finally got my order in, but what a hassle it was.

Order as guest....

....I did, and went through PayPal first attempt.
Using Chrome.

Can't order the box set

I don't know if anyone from dead.net reads these but this website will not let me order the new boxset. I have tried as a guest and it doesn't take my order. I have tried using safari, chrome, and edge on a pc, MacBook, and iPhone with no luck. I have also used 3 different credit cards and PayPal and dead.net still will not take my order. I have ordered Dave's Picks and other boxsets in the past and I have never had an issue. Please take my money, I would like to order this!