HERE COMES SUNSHINE 1973 (17CD SET)

Back to product page

Post reply Log in to post comments

May 2, 2023 - 7:51am

861 replies

Dead Admin

Joined:
April 28, 2021

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.

Comments

sort by

Recent

Recent Oldest A to Z Z to A

Reset

May 10, 2023 - 2:45am

#711

daverock

Joined:
September 1, 2014

Winterland 74

Is that right, though, about them being lost after the movie soundtrack came out ? The 5 cd compilation didn't come out until 2004, and it seems strange that things would have been treated so carelessly at that late stage of the game.
May 10, 2023 - 2:15am

#712

Alan57

Joined:
July 17, 2022

Winterland 74 Box Reply

Given that they have multitracks of the 4 shows it would seem a no brainer.However someone on Hoffman’s once posted that they thought the tapes were accidentally lost/destroyed shortly after they were used for the movie soundtrack.
May 9, 2023 - 11:50pm

#713

daverock

Joined:
September 1, 2014

Why they don't sell out

Not wishing to be indelicate, but there must be less Deadheads alive now than when the first boxsets came out. It's a dying population and a problem facing many religions - how to hook the kids?

Sport also gives men something to talk about. It's not just men in England either - the only person I know who plays football is my friends 8 year old granddaughter. Consequently my friend - a woman for Gods sake - now talks about football too.
May 9, 2023 - 9:40pm

#714

Deadheadbrewer

Joined:
February 2, 2010

I stand corrected

I could've SWORN when I listened to 3/1 from the FW box the other night something in the literature or parephenalia mentioned 6900 copies! :) Was it initially ANNOUNCED to be only 6900, then immediate demand convinced the powers-that-be to move the number of copies up to 10,000?

And dang--I plum forGOT about TTATS! Hmmmm . . . would I leave the FW behind in lieu of TTATS, figuring that I could always listen to Live Dead?
May 9, 2023 - 5:45pm

#715

Vguy72

Joined:
June 29, 2007

Top three boxes....

....I don't have Fillmore '69 (just the smaller version), or E72 (a have about twelve shows purchased Ala cart), so with that being said.
30 Trips - 30 shows
Spring '90 Too - best sounding box
The PNW box - packaging
......
The '78 box is a close 4th - also packaging.
May 9, 2023 - 4:55pm

#716

KRIYAS

Joined:
June 18, 2007

Penalty Box(es)

If you didn't get the listen to river box if available get. Been really getting into lately and there's just so much good stuff that covers a few different years. Like the 2-3 different years that have been put in last few boxes. And I;ll also say the last one MSG 81-83 don't sleep on this either. Been in the mix at work since I got it, plus the black light box art is cooler than bearded skeletons any day. Chillin with a nice Glenmorangie tonight the sun was actually out today, thank you sun.
Lastish:
Grateful Dead: Buffalo 5/9/77
Van Morrison: Astral Weeks
Pink Floyd: A Momentary Lapse of Reason
Waylon Jennings: Honkey Tonk Heroes
Jimi Hendrix: Are You Experienced? really dig the stone free and highway chile
May 9, 2023 - 3:38pm

#717

Mr. Ones

Joined:
July 25, 2017

Fire On The Boxsets!!

Which 3 you would choose obviously is going to depend on which boxes you were fortunate enough to get, and of course, personal preference. For me, I would have to take:

FW ‘69 (+ bonus disc!!).
Europe ‘72
Listen to the River-why this one?? Well, it covers multiple tours, AND it has ‘71 shows!!

That’s just me. I really enjoy reading other people’s choices as well.

“Sports was invented to give men 2 things”:
Something to get excited about
Something to repeatedly break your heart.

Kind of like falling in love when you think about it. 😂💜
May 9, 2023 - 3:28pm

#718

cloverman

Joined:
June 4, 2007

Fillmore West 1969 Box Set

The fillmore west complete recordings box set that came out in 2005 was limited to 10,000 (not 6900) - and the LP sets that followed recently were limited to 9,000.

Just thought you should know :-)
May 9, 2023 - 3:13pm

#719

That Mike

Joined:
November 1, 2014

An Octopus Or A Kraken

In case of fire: Only 3 box sets? An interesting challenge.
The Winterland boxes 73 and 77, for sure, because they are both great, and easy to carry. For the third, I’d have to go with the 30 Trips box - NO other artist/band/being has such a unique collection. You could keep a lot of Heads very happy with the 30 Box - something for everyone. Because my dog would want to help, he will take the Wilco Yankee Complete box and likely Miles’ Complete Bitches Brew.
Oh to be an octopus, or perhaps a Kraken.
PS - Why are boxes selling slower? I can only add from my perspective that the international shipping fee at $70 is a big barrier. Nope.
May 9, 2023 - 2:25pm

#720

smyler

Joined:
November 9, 2007

Re: Surprised This Hasn't Sold Out

It's certainly the one I've been waiting for Deadheadbrewer; Kezar since Dick's Picks Vol.1 and this box since the list of shows appeared at the time of the Dave's Picks launch. Three of these shows were on that list and, aside from the legals surrounding the Allmans appearances, there was always going to be some kind of box based around these.

I'm also a little surprised it hasn't sold out, particularly as this is a smaller edition that then past three (12.5k, 13k and 12k respectively). I do get the feeling buyer numbers have declined a little in the last year or two. I can't recall how long Fillmore West took to sell out (it was 10k), pretty quick I think, but not as quick as the full Get Shown The Light, which was 15k and sold out overnight. I don't recall any other box sets selling out particularly quickly, they're normally around for a few months.

The drop in Dave's Picks sales appears to me to be about a decline in subscriber numbers rather than a response to any particular show, although I do appreciate that you don't have to commit to a subscription before the first two shows are revealed.

Three boxes I'd grab before leaving a burning house? Let's limited it to Grateful Dead boxes and I'd probably say Pacific Northwest, June 76 and Listen To The River on the basis that Get Shown The Light is still available (oh dear, that would mean leaving 30 trips behind!)

Last 5

Sonny Rollins - Freedom Suite
Rev. Gary Davis - Harlem Street Singer
Grateful Dead - Feb 28th 1969 from Complete Fillmore West
Mingus Big Band 93 - Nostalgia In Times Square
Buddy Miles - Live

John Perry Barlow

John Perry Barlow

Forums

Dead Store Products

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.

Just seen pictures of the set..

And it doesn’t look like $70 worth of postage IMHO. Jeez I’m becoming an old whinging pensioner.

Happy Will

Box looks fairly compact. Agree the postage seems high. This is going to be an awesome box. Think hard about getting caught outside looking in simply over some postage. Less than 1000 left. I'd smash the "Buy" button. Don't think you'll regret it in the long run.

Box gifts

I was thinking this morning, that if they want to put extraneous gifts in box sets, something useful would be appreciated. A couple of pairs of socks would come in handy.

Ha Ha DaveRock

A couple of pair of socks, ruthless!

I agree for the most part I want standardized box sizes to make storage more manageable. I also understand, though, that some of this stuff provides income for other artists. For one, I havent ordered one glass or shirt or playing cards. Looking at deadandcompany site, I think their tshirts are more my style. The last tour tie-dye has me thinking about pulling the trigger, even though my last (GD) show was 34 years ago. Have seen Bob and Ratdog and Phil and Friends shows.

Gifts

I'm always hoping to find a little paper in there...

Downloads

Stillwaters wants a downloadable version of the Mickey Hart mix of Workingman's Dead and Garcia (50th Anniversary Edition)!!!

Stillwaters is getting upset!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Bonus schwag....

....I liked the tickets that came in the Spring '90 boxes.
Spinning Dicks 28 SLC 2.28.73.
New box image looks tight!

Can't Wait

Super stoked for this box set.
Recordings from 73 and 74 always used to be hit or miss with me.
Most sounded flat and the vocals were paper thin (especially the 74 WoS tapes).
But the Winterland 73 box was a revelation.
As was Dave's Picks 5.
Now quite a few 73 (and 74) shows have become some of my favorite repeat plays.
Looks like it'll be arriving close to my birthday, too.
A week off + new GD box set = bliss.

This Box is going to be awesome

Fingers crossed for safe arrival, and no defective, damaged, or missing discs.

Based on the photo, the CD’s in cardboard sleeves suggests that the Box won’t be as tall as the May 77 or July 78 Boxes, maybe a little bigger than the wooden Warlocks 89 Box.

Shipping Notification

Nothing from dead.net yet, but UPS has notified me that my shipment from WEA Gnarlywood is on the way and is scheduled for delivery next Friday. Yeaaaaah boy!! Bring it!!!

Woohoo!!!

I also got an email from UPS that I have a package coming from Gnarlywood to be delivered by 6/30.

Oh shit....

....notifications coming out already? 🥳.
Gnarly.

Help on the Way

…though we tried/hopefully to upgrade to just UPS so we don’t have to deal with our PO nightmare 🤞
It’d be sweet: 73 box o dead and D&C steaming 3 nights. Proper holidaze 🤞

Just got mine!!....

....the 28th.

UPS/Gnarlywood and Dead.net

Yup, got notifications from both.

Shipping notice!

So happy. I feel like, in the past, Dead products have shipped on the release date, or after the release date. Great news. I enjoy all the releases, but I’m really looking forward to this boxed set.

I just realized....

....the Iowa show is a four-disc show.
Iowa gets all the good ones.

Here Comes Sunshine box set

TheRelayer74: Hi everyone I am new to the site and I wish to buy the Here Comes Sunshine cd box set I have not set up an account yet and I am from the UK I wish to know if there are any problems shipping to the UK from the online store what service they use and what are the possible postal charges many thanks Kevin

Go to the thread on Steve…

Go to the thread on Steve Hoffman Forums about this set.You will come across a code that gives you a 25% discount and reduces international shipping charges by 75%.It was still working a few days ago.
Bear in mind you unlucky Poms get hit with outrageous customs duty charges.

Sure the notices are easy!

Got mine also,,,, now lets see how long it takes :-)

Vguy and Iowa

Iowa may get all the good shows, but, the rest of the time they're stuck being Iowa!

Discounts on Steve Hoffman

Things like that are quite annoying. These things are expensive if you live in England - or anywhere else outside the U.S. come to that. Why they have to play these sort of games I'll never know. Offer a discount or don't, surely.

Having said that, I have always been impressed with customer service on here. The boxes and cds are always well packed, and while they seem to take a long time to arrive, it just seems like that because Americans get there's, and review them right away. You are then expecting yours in a day or so. And it obviously takes a bit longer to get to where I am than somewhere in California. I don't have a problem with that at all.

Occasionally a cd or L.P. is faulty - but very rarely. Only once in both instances for me. And on both occasions, I got replacement discs sent out. Again, living a long way out, it might seem to take a while before they turn up - but turn up they do.

There are hidden costs with duty, import charges etc, and these seem to vary depending on where you live in England, which is a bit odd. These box sets are appreciably more expensive than any others I buy. As are the Dave's Picks.

I've ordered this set. If you like 1973, and can afford it - way to go. As was said earlier, all box sets have shows, or parts of shows that are less than stellar. They all add to the whole, though. I'm waffling so I'll go! But that'y my experience in a nutshell.

Records at same time?

I noticed my order says cd and vinyl shipping at same time, but web page says 7/28?!

Opinions

UPS has my Box

I upgraded to UPS Ground for $7.99.
I decided that this Box is too important to be passed off to USPS.
UPS has to recalculate the delivery date, so I don’t know yet when that will be. But it better be before the day that was estimated for USPS delivery.

International shipping/running out of shelf space:
It is being offered as a download.

Delivery date updated....

....to tomorrow?! 🤯

It's......here

Apparently it's been waiting for me at home since yesterday in San Dimas, CA. I'm out of town until monday night....just gotta wait a couple of more days. Hope yall get yours soon!

Since HST was collected on…

Since HST was collected on this set along with shipping to Canada I’m hopeful UPS will not be able to charge me any extra fees as there should not be any tax for them to collect?

It's here!!....

....thats gotta be a record.
#9773.
Measures 10×10×3 btw. Tad larger than the GSTL box.
And....it's beautiful.
First stop? The Hawkeye State.
No spoilers, but it comes with a couple of unexpected treats.
I'm putting one of them to good use already.
And no. It's not 4 way windowpane.
'Cries in fractal visuals'....

Minor spoiler....

....Bobby snuck in a Des Moine in Truckin'.
Fast TLEO's are the better TLEO's.

And Loose Lucy ...

at the faster tempo as well.
Cheers

More spoilers please

What's it sound like then?

Found Mine in the Bushes...

...out by the mailbox. #5711 is ready for action. Glad it didn't rain last night.

here comes sunshine 1973

i only ordered this on friday 6/23...got a confirmation but tried using the order number to find the status but it says no such order exists should i call them? amazingly it reads as though some have received this already in CA i persume.

6-10-73

The 4CD release doesn't seem to have a comment section.
Ordered the first day and my confirmation says release date 6-30-23.
Store page lists release date as 7-28-23. Which is it I wonder?
Guess I'll find out eventually. Good to see the box is shipping on time for once.
Cheers

1ST SHOW

The June release date is for cd. July is for vinyl. This has become a common practice lately.

A box in the bushes

It's amazing what you can find in the garden if you look closely enough.

A box in a bush....

....is worth two in the hand.
Re; The Sound?
Same as it always was. Pristine. Although, there are a couple tracks so far that have that reverberation/echoey/tinny thing that I've heard on other '73 releases at the start of early set songs. I wonder 🤔 what that is?
(I'm through Iowa and Santa Barbara so far.)

shipping notice drops

Tracking number created, via UPS, so a day or two before delivery date prediction. Down in the flood up here in Vermont, deluges on the hour. Listening to first night of Dead&Co. at Fenway, lovely.

Well?

They've had my money almost 2 months. No shipping notice yet. Papa Bear, have I been a bad boy?

UPS indicating Friday

RIF LOL - thought it was today - it's Friday by 7PM - sets up a great weekend!

Looking forward to it!

Bad Boy Gary

Gary, this is happening to you because you skipped past that "Victim" the other night . . . :)

Well (part2)

Same boat as Gary Ordered 2 May but no shipping notice or email from dead net. Nothing on my UPS account. Logged in and its "IN Progress". I guess i should've paid the express shipping in stead of standard . BAd boys forever

Everyone's Sunshine will arrive! :)

The box isn't even officially released until Friday . . . same day as the newest GarciaLive!

There's some newly-remastered Dixie Chicken and Sailin' Shoes CDs this month, each one complete with outtakes and live material. Those (like this box of Sunshine) are also through Rhino, who really take care of us folks who love old and/or obscure rock-n-roll.

Dead Head Man

I always can be wrong, but, my calendar say 7/31 on Jerry stuff.?!..

The Little Feat stuff,,,, out takes are always a crap shoot, interesting one was a demo of Easy to Slip for, get this, The Doobie Brothers! Two remastered originals,,,, I can't hear a difference from memory of albums,,, they sound good. I wanted for the two live shows,,, be warned they're short shows.

Anybody have thoughts about the stones re-re-releasing 40 licks,,,, 4 lp set, price ok,,,,, thinks it's worth having?

I did order from Real Gone Records Rupert Holmes porno sound tracks! Hoping to be one of the first 200 so I get a signed copy!

..... If You Like Pina Coladas and listening to porn,,,, then you must be blind?

Rhino store

Get the Little Feat WFC Box if you don’t have it.

I’m looking forward to the remastered Ziggy Stardust Blu-ray and soundtrack.

This probably isn't going to go over well....

....but I just ordered it regular shipping. Doh!

other boxes

I'm looking forward to the new box set of the first few albums by the West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band - due out tomorrow. Legendary L.A psych band from the 60's.

I'm also wavering about the Jimi Hendrix At Winterland October 1968 box, which came out over 10 years ago. Prior to it's release, I got a grey area box called "3 Nights at Winterland", on Reclamation Records, which, unlike the official box, features all 6 shows. I have always assumed the Experience Hendrix official box has better sound - and now it's getting harder to find I am thinking perhaps I should snap up a copy before it disappears altogether.
Maybe I should just be satisfied with what I've got - apart from three songs, the one I've got sounds like an official release.

Dave Rock- WCPAEXB

Thanks for the heads up Dave on the new Artex box.
I just put on my Childs Guide tee and pressed buy!

Shipping/Conekid

Received my notification last night. UPS Surepost! Why?
Conekid, I know you are an expert in this area, so is there anyway to change this to a straight UPS delivery and aviod the USPS part. I logged on to my UPS account but do not see an option to change it.
Appreciate any help you could provide.

UPS USPS

DEADVIKES go into your UPS account and when you track your package ( Dead 73 box ) there will be an option to upgrade delivery change it to UPS GROUND I did and it skips the USPS transfer and I got it one day faster it will cost $6.99

product sku

081227847036

Product Magento URL

https://store.dead.net/en/grateful-dead/special-collections/here-comes-sunshine/here-comes-sunshine-1973-dead.net-exclusive-[17-cd]/081227847036.html