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 9, 2023 - 10:46am

#281

proudfoot

Joined:
August 2, 2020

Colin...is that Peter Brotzmann's pic?

I saw his obit in the paper today...never heard of him...listened a bit on U toob...and now here is his image on your avatar?

Verrry interesting...
July 9, 2023 - 10:23am

#282

Colin Gould

Joined:
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Written in the soul Stax

I can’t comment on the box, but the music is very good especially when you consider that they are demo recordings. I have streamed the contents on Amazon music over several days and enjoyed it tremendously.
July 9, 2023 - 7:41am

#283

nuclearabbit

Joined:
November 15, 2010

Bad Discs

I have no knowledge of how the manufacturing process for these sets work, but as someone who had no issues with my set (#4615), I'm curious if the edition numbers for the people with bad discs are close together.
Is there anyone who had bad discs within 100 numbers of mine?
July 9, 2023 - 6:11am

#284

Dennis

Joined:
November 1, 2012

Charlie and Stax box

I agree on the stax box,,,, looks GREAT. I've been holding off, because of price. I've spent a lot of money on "stuff". Thought I'd try and hold off till Christmas and tell wife or son to get me a copy. Maybe get it before then? :-)
July 8, 2023 - 10:11pm

#285

deadmike

Joined:
June 13, 2007

Box set #07099

It arrived at the Post Office on Friday the 7th but I have only listened to the first CD from 5-13 this far. It played okey all the way through.

Normally it takes a while before I listen to all boxes all through because I don't fancy being forced to do it right away. Some boxes from the past are actually still unopened because I listen to a lot of other music and don't like to be forced to listen to that music either as fast as I can. Besides these boxes all are in limited edition and I prefer to purchase them when they are made available here on Dead net rather than buying them from eBay-"sharks" to "fantasy prices".

Now, 1973 is among my favorite Grateful Dead years, so I will go through this box "pretty fast". If some CD's are malfunctions then I do hope they will be replaced without having to send the entire box set back to California.
I have no complaints so far on the box set as a whole visually speaking, except maybe that some CD's are not attached to the actual covers. But I don't think those CD's have been sliding around in the mail. I found the inside stuff pretty tight packed after all.

Well, so far I feel good about the whole thing. Okey, so the "book" is only twenty-six pages but that doesn't matter to me. I seldom find time to read the thicker books that come with the box sets, so twenty-six pages are good to me unless the books are made up of mostly pictures.

Micke Östlund,
Växjö, Sweden

Update! I had to know ... fourteen of seventeen CD's was read properly by my CD-player and three was read after some searching by the player. All seventeen started properly on track 1 though. This is all I can do for the moment. Hopefully they all will play through in a normal way. We'll see.
July 8, 2023 - 6:57pm

#286

alvarhanso

Joined:
January 16, 2014

Box did arrive

8 out of 17 discs will need replacement. Was attempting to film an unboxing and instead filmed the state of the discs immediately out of the box. I was able to get everything ripped, no chance to listen to all 19 hrs 46 min to see if it ripped correctly. I did notice issues ripping a few disc's. Reinserted them, tried again, seemed to work. Will find out in days ahead if any skips or other issues. I think I still have a couple skips on June 76 box to correct on one show, come to think of it.

Oh, and a complaint I haven't seen here or on Steve Hoffman is that my poster was bent. They didn't make it flush, and the fold is in the middle of the poster. It sucks because there are only two "extras" in this box and one of them was deformed by poor quality control. And just under half the discs. Luckily, had some alcohol wipes from work for the few glue blobs. Just glad I have a video I'm going to include in my request for replacements, but disappointed my unboxing of Here Comes Sunshine turned into a sad Samba in the Rain instead. So far, through one disc of Des Moines, the sound is good. Not sure I'd go as gaga over it as I have seen, but also haven't hit the Betty portion.
July 8, 2023 - 4:49pm

#287

rasta5ziggy

Joined:
November 27, 2017

Disc Qual

Remember that complaints on issues are probably .0001% of the 10% of sales..........it's unfortunate when it happens but remember that it all gets worked out....enjoy the HCSS Boxset........it's da bomb!!!
July 8, 2023 - 4:02pm

#288

Vguy72

Joined:
June 29, 2007

Born Cross Eyed. You got a grate first concert!...

....my first rock concert was Iron Maidens Powerslave tour. Blew my 15 year old mind. I was also escorted there by my high school friends mom, who told us when she dropped us off, "be safe and have fun!" It was the first concert for both of us and we abided by her wishes. We said to ourselves, "We need more concerts!" after that show.
And 55 year old me still agrees.
You toob that Powerslave tour. Great one to pop ones cherry at.
Marco and I still go to shows. He went all in. Mtheoryaudio on IG. That's him. Heavy metal to the end.
July 8, 2023 - 3:43pm

#289

bluecrow

Joined:
September 21, 2015

Update - glue removal PSA

Couldn't be patient any longer so went to the big city to get 91% isopropanol aka 91% isopropyl alcohol. Worked like a charm on the glue - took 2 or 3 quick attempts with a couple/few drops each time and a soft cloth to remove all residue and the cleaned discs look "min"t. Yay, very much Yay! Funny thing was, one of the specklets is not glue (the one the I discovered on Disc 1 of Iowa) - it had a slightly different/lighter appearance, maybe its acrylic or maybe its a true imperfection on the playing surface, whatever it is it, is totally impervious to the isopropanol. It was the first one I tried and I thought "this is a failure" but when I tried the others they cleaned right off. So not all spots are necessarily "glue".

Like I said, all discs "ripped" but there were sonic anomalies where the spots are. With Iowa Disc 4 the glue speck was in Sugar Magnolia and the initial ripped copy had a ~10 second gap, and funnily, after the track was "finished", the last ~10 seconds of the track were played again. Just played the cleaned CD and play through was clean like I hoped.

Anybody who got a defective/damaged CD should feel free to ask for a replacement no questions. I'm programmed to try to fix something if it can be fixed. Definitely will be asking for a replacement of the Iowa Disc 1 with the mystery substance/imperfection and in my reach out I'll detail every disc that had an issue. Before that I need to listen to all the ripped tracks to make sure there's nothing else lurking that I missed, as was the case with that Disc 1. At this point I just have to shake my head at the whole spectrum of ongoing issues with these releases. The only other time I had a glue issue was way back with the Wall of Sound Road Trips, Disc 1, a big ole smear of it on Playing in the Band. Didn't know how to clean it and asked for a replacement copy and that one also had Disc 1 glue but somehow I managed to still make it play (not sure how).

DJMAC (and other ALAC folks) - glad to hear that help is on the way!

R5Z - Yeah IOWA!! I fell in love with the jam sequence ca. winter 2010 as it was in regular rotation for a repeated night time red rock desert commute back and forth to Escalant. So awesome to have this show released and in this dream of a box set no less. I found myself streaming part of that '73 Indy show yesterday afternoon. Another great Fall '73 show. Hadn't realized they did a sweet Playing sandwich around Mississippi 1/2 Step and Big River.

Jeff Smith - Yeah Boulder was awesome!! So glad you made it. Now I'm wishing I was at the Gorge.

Charlie3 - funny that you should mention that WattStax concert - recently came across the film footage of Rufus Thomas performing Funky Chicken and my jaw dropped. What an awesome rave up it is and the whole crowd scene is glorious. It had me looking into that WattStax, never had heard of it.
July 8, 2023 - 3:28pm

#290

Born Cross Eye…

Joined:
August 25, 2008

02618

Arrived in my "mailbox" on Friday, on the initial inspection was a small indent on the upper right front corner, no big deal after I unwrapped the cellophane shrinkwrap and slid the outer blue "collar" off and back on several times. Only one disc was out of its protective pocket, disc 1 of 5/13/73, all the rest are in perfect condition.

The first show I played was 6/10/73 - was my first rock concert and my first Grateful Dead show. It sounds much better than my previous tapes and CD-Rs of this show.

On page 25 of the essay booklet in the Jonathan David Sabin photo, if I recall correctly, I believe I am in this photo, although obscured. I remember seeing the guy standing on the sound reinforcement tower scaffolding with the white tee shirt. I remember the guy sitting in our row of seats not wearing a shirt and a short beard. I am hidden behind the shirt. I can see my cousin who was a student at American University at the time, making this box set a really valuable time tunnel for me. By the way, I was a mere 16-year-old teen who was escorted into this event.
I first heard Truckin' on the radio back in early 1971 and that was the bus. Although the first time I heard Truckin', I thought it was a new Steppenwolf song as I thought session musician Howard Wales sounded like Goldy McJohn at the time.
A great big thank you to Dave Lemieux, Mark Pinkus, Ivette & Doran, and whoever had the final say to include the aforementioned photograph.

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.

Sold out

Should have made 12,500 copies.
If Rhino cut the number to 10,000 because the previous two Boxes aren’t sold out yet, then they apparently didn’t grasp the importance of these ‘73 shows to Deadheads.

Downloads still for sale. Sounds like some people can download the files and others can’t. Typical Rhino screwup.

10,000 x $186.98 = $1,869,800.
Good haul.
But $2,337,250 for 12,500 copies would have been better.

SShular86

Whoopsie, IceCream got there first.... WMG did limit this one to 10K copies, maybe because they are still sitting on the MSG and River boxes which were 12.5K and 13K iirc. However they will and have already appeared on the secondary market, check there and maybe better, you can buy digital versions, though some folks that have done that are still waiting. Gone are the days when Dead.net made an effort to get the new music into as many hands as possible on or about the same day. Would not surprise me if future editions of Dave's have their production numbers rolled back. Sure wish they would release some of Europe 72 individual shows again.

DMCVT

Yeah I've always preordered and admittedly held off because of previous sets still available. I think I missed it by about an hour.
As for Europe, I've sent emails asking about it. Would love to see a reissue or individual shows.
I'll start hunting or just grab the single show.

Box?

Steve73 said a page back that he might order a second one...may want to reach out to him.

Disgruntled Hi Res digital GD Enthusiast…

Hi Res digital GD Enthusiast chiming in here: for $125 why can't we even get a simple PDF of the freakin' liner notes (along with proper digital artwork)? When I purchased the Pacific NW FLAC/24 download, I emailed a request to customer service and they kindly snail mailed me the hard copy liner notes. That was wonderful and appreciated, but all I need and expect is a simple digital copy. As further insult to injury, every single show has the same generic artwork for 6/10/73 RFK. Yes, I know there are other fans who will upload the proper artwork in due course. A purchase of the premium audio format should come with more than bupkis.

FLAC

So, FLAC pre-orders are going to wait until after the holiday weekend? If the wait is longer than that, please, respond to my customer service email and refund my money.

Thank you

New music

Thankfully I have a 4 day weekend. New Zappa Dead and Jerry. I’m locking the door and not answering. The new Zappa is absolutely mind blowing. The Dead I’ve listened to the 10th so far. Very nice. Jerry probably won’t get here for the weekend. Fun fact about the Jerry show which I went to ( during my 2 year interregnum in Boston 82/83) The CC Coll. is or was a hockey rink horrible acoustics small and mostly metal. It was very hot and humidity approaching 100%. At one point it started raining inside and after a minute I realized where that water came from and made a bee line for the side. Several thousand people’s worth of sweat condensation not a pleasant thought.
If you like Hot Rats/ Chunga’s you need to buy the Zappa already listened straight through twice

If Anyone Needs This Box

I purchased two. I was going to sell the spare on ebay but if someone was going to pull the trigger, shoot me an email at afperrone@liberty.edu and we'll work something out. I won't charge a huge mark up, just what it cost me plus shipping it to you.

WCPAEB

Daverock They are definitely one of the lesser known gems of the 60’s. When volume 2 came out the college student who ran the Jordan Marsh record store/dept. told me I needed it. I never looked back. Love the 3 Reprise issues ( though you can’t play volume 2 around the uninitiated- “In The Arena”) Where’s My Daddy great if not a bit over the edge. Markley full on shall we say unacceptable with what we know about child sexualization and a bit of a rip off by him of the actual musicians. The fifo is a tad juvenile but the sun dazed is a nice release. I still play the core 4 (part 1, volume 2, A Child’s Guide and Where’s) in order twice a month or so

Gary Farseer, FOMO, good advice

I took your advice and didn't order a second box. Like you, I've received several products from this page before getting the email, and some emails never arrived, but I've always received whatever I've ordered. This box threw off my usual level of rationality, however, because I attended the 6/9 show, and this will be the only opportunity to get it in a physical format (plus the other shows and the box's goodies). At about midnight last night, the email finally arrived.

The Mayor is a good head! :)…

The Mayor is a good head! :)

I was going to order another one and waited too long I guess.

New Garcia Live is nice, I like it.

Red and White

blue suede shoes
I'm Unkle Sam/how do you do
Gimme five
still alive
ain't no luck, learned to duck
Wave that flag, wave it wide and high

Thanks!

MayorMarionBarry Sent you an email. We can talk. Appreciated!

WCPAEB

Snafu - that's good to read. Yes, the more you know about Bob Markley the less happy you become. Weird how Ron Morgan, who plays scorching guitar on Volume 2, didn't even warrant having his picture on the cover. Seems like he's invisible, apart from his great playing. I have only played the first two so far, the stereo versions, and they are up there with the best.
Bit of a Zappa connection going on too, with "Help, I'm A Rock" turning up on Part One.

Just got my box only to find…

Just got my box only to find that Disc 1 from each show not playing on my player. All other discs play just fine. Disc 1 jut spins around tracking then comes up with No Disc error. Only happens on Disc 1. Haven't gotten through all the shows yet but already Disc 4 on the May 13 show has major skipping for Track 6 Sugar Magnolia starting at ~3:10-3:26 and then intermittently skips throughout the rest of the show. Disc surface is clean and no signs of damage so I think some serious issues on the disc pressing/transfer. Major disappointment. Hope I can get replacements.

Got em!

Wow! Here Comes Sunshine arrived Thursday, JGB arrived Friday, as well as a CD re-issue of early Sons of Champlin LP's. Blues Fest today thru Tuesday, and I may check out D&C at Boulder. Wow!

More Dead Head TV

This week at DreamsWeDreamed dot com:

"In Concert Against Aids" Press Conference
Dan Healy Part 2 of 3
Poster Artist Legal Fund Benefit Concert
Deadhead Profiles
The Dead News

I thought I was the only one…

I thought I was the only one whose FLAC pre-order hasn't materialized into downloads in my account. What a drag :(

The bluecrow has landed

hi ho hi ho its off to Folsom Field we go

Bluecrow....

....have a real good time!!

BC

Git Some!
Have a good show Bro!

Anyone know if it’s started?
I’m sure they’ll start late be but being a Dino I often miss the start.
Meaning, at 6:54 MT I still don’t have a feed from nugs?
Prolly just early, seem to recall they always started late there?

EDIT: sheeoot, operator error, already on Truckin, Doooahh. Idiot!
Dbledit: double doah lol, picture hand to forehead, able to scrol back…good set though!
Good energy, couple scorches, good sheet Mon!

problem

Well it looks like I fell in not-able-to-download camp :(.

Funniest part of all is that I gave in and only ordered the 6/10 show originally, then decided I want all the shows. The RFK show has said I could download it since the day of the announcement, and even when waiting till the correct time got an error every time I clicked it. And now I can't download either of them.

FLAC

A canned email arrived a few hours ago with instructions if my order is not delivered. Worthless because it does not mention how to deal with not getting access to pre-ordered downloads.

The June RFK show is free to download legally on Prime. The rest of the shows are "out there" too.

I feel conned.

Still lookin'

I guess I'm still looking if anyone has an extra coming. Damn!

Re/ some sad news my fellow Grateful Dead fans

… some very sad news which I wish I didn’t have to post, but my dear old friend and fellow ,artist, Stanley mouse, has suffered a stroke last week which has made him loss the ability to use his hands to create any more art work at this time. Doctors have made a statement that It’s going to take a long time with intense medical therapy. We are all praying for a positive recovery from this unfortunate illness tragedy. I ask all our brothers and sisters here on the forum on Dead.net to Please keep him in your thoughts and prayers and positive vibes for a speedy healthy recovery for our dear brother Stanley mouse. Stanley mouse is the infamous artist responsible for many of Grateful Dead’s “Art Of The Grateful” since the beginning of the band’s career and through out their entire career to date. Thank you everyone.
Have a grateful holiday weekend my brothers and sisters wishing all a rock’n time! Peace be with you. Be safe be kind and don’t forget to you “Smile Smile Smile!” Keep on truck’n folks!
🙏❤️💀🌹

Hooray for Stanley Mouse

Heres to his good health

Double rainbow🌈 at Folsum!@

....bad ass.
Did everyone survive June without gay people shoving their agenda "down your throat's?"
Yeah. You did.
Congratulations. You aren't assholes!

Holy Mother of Goodness

that blew a few feathers back into place

absolutely killer show

multiple double rainbows. beautiful evening. exactly perfect. near full moon tracking big and bright over far end of the stadium

Yeah BC

That must of been something!
Really good show, cept maybe that transition back into SSDD lol, Bob…
I know it was very enjoyable in the theatre on the couch, sure it was even better in person!
Looked packed? Think highlights for me were that Smokestack and Mayer on the whole Mr Fantasy/Hey Jude deal.
Good Sheet!

Flacs

My preorder shows as In Progress. Do we have any idea when digital downloads will be available? The JGB show was available immediately, I don’t really understand why Dead.Net has so much trouble with these. I don’t really want any more CDs, they take up too much space.

Wow! That pre-drumz looks tasty!....

....Eyes -> Shakedown -> St. Stephen -> Cumberland?!
'chefs kiss'

FLAC

We've heard from 1 Flac-er with a fulfilled order. Any others? I feel better knowing I'm not the only one left out in the cold.

I really wanted this music for my long-planned July road trip to CA National Parks... Bummer...

Instead I'm listening to my Garden music. '81&'83 are cool shows, but, man, these outstanding '82 shows carry the release. I was looking forward to hearing the SF show from '73...

Still Waiting For Downloads

Still waiting for my preordered downloads as well. Ticket was opened Friday morning. I’ve gotten the ‘sorry you’re experiencing technical issues’ email and that they are investigating.

The lack of any sort of timely updates is what makes this even more frustrating. If there’s a bigger issue with those users who pre-ordered (which there seems to be), any regular business would want to get out there in front of the issue, explaining the reason for the delay for the affected customers.

Downloads

I got my FLACs. Email me at afperrone@liberty.edu and I will tell you how I got it to work.

FLAC

Mayor Barry,

It is not surprising but it is disappointing that you are attempting to help us while customer service is silent... or at home eating burgers and drinking from the keg for the Fourth.

Will your college filter allow all the emails to enter?

You are going to get a gaggle of emails.

chef's kiss Cumberland

oh yeah it was!

Loved the whole show! Every song felt just about exactly perfect. Big big sound from the beginning. So cool to both hear and feel the music.

Interplay between Mayer and Chimenti is a real trip. Chimenti like a mad genius, with some crazy jazz phrasing - seemed Monk-like at times. Milestones > Days Between out of space was an awesome treat. Whole place to yet another level when the realized it was Scarlet out of Sugar Mags. Going Down the Road was such a fine fine encore.

Had an awesome hike with my sis in the foothills earlier this afternoon. Lots of wildflowers and the first chonky boi porcini of the year, Headed back to Folsom now Night 2. Later friends.

WTF! Is this some kind of…

WTF! Is this some kind of late April Fool's joke?
Here's what I have found going through this box set.

Iowa: disc 1,2,4 won't play, disc 3 plays
After experiencing this I went through all discs loading them up in between putting in control discs in my Denon deck. Control discs all play. But I then find with the remaining shows this.

S.B,CA: disc 1,3 won't play, disc 2 plays, but at track 3, ElPaso, at 15 seconds left glitches and keeps repeating, later at track 8, HCS, jobs completely out midway through and disc never recovers.

Kezar: discs 1,2,3 won't play.

RFK 9th: disc 1,2 won't play, disc 3 plays all the way through.

RFK 10th: entire 4 discs will not play.

I can put any other cd from 100's of CDs in and they all will play, so it's not suddenly the deck.

Who do I contact besides speaking to someone at customer service 10,000 miles away?

Anyone else coming up with similar issues?

Vguy72

Can you please tone down the negative political remarks. They are not welcome here. This site is for Grateful Dead discussion. You are a chronic offender with the political nonsense. Try not to be so angry all the time. There are political sites out there where you can vent to your hearts content.

Polly Tix

Occasional comments pop up from time to time.

It happens.

Even Bob Weir said to vote a certain way on 10 10 82 between Sugar Magnolia and Sunshine Daydream.

It's a shame....

....that being gay is political to begin with.
Never mentioned politics.
I though that topic was behind us in the '90's.
However, I guess I was wrong.

I’m sorry

Not really and I know how I’m not the 1st to say this. I’m now starting my 2nd time around and yep the cd slots have to be the worst idea since …..whenever
Luckily everything is cool. Gotta go to bags unltd get some of the hated jewel cases

WTF Is This Some Kind Of

Adding to your comment abut defective discs this seems to be a major issue with this set.Steve Hoffman Forums is alive with the sound of people whose discs arrived badly scratched,won’t rip or won’t play.Discs not even packed in their holders but floating around loose.Not everyone but plenty.
I’m guessing there is going to be a major disc replacement program needed here.When you get your box sets
1-Physically inspect every disc
2-Check each discs playability
3-If you intend to rip them try as soon as you can
When you have compiled your list of defective discs contact them.This is going to need patience and persistence on both ends to fix.They are either going to have to manufacture more discs or give out lots of refunds.Don’t accept discounts on future purchases.

Finished...

Weary of the incompetence and no longer willing to fund Dave's 'catch and release' trophy hunting exploits.

Yikes

Lotta negativity
Hope my discs are good
When I finally get 'em

Night 2 Folsom

Oteil singing High Time and another awesome Set II with a Ripple encore.

No box set yet….

I ordered this in May but my order hasn’t shipped. I can see my order when I search on dead.net but it doesn’t have anything about it being shipped or a tracking number.

Glad you dug it BC!

I sure did! Bob hasn’t Shatnerized too many things so far, and the new guys are killing it, Mickey too.
I’ve heard Mickeys been bringing it all tour. Looked like another gorgeous night!

Disc Woes continued…

The sound and music so far is fabulous, the production sucks! I haven’t had so many issues since my music only Boxilla.
Luckily my Exact Audio Copy SW is good, but it took a pounding on this one!
Almost all the CD #1 and a few others were out of the holders upon arrival, so, many smudged etc.
I’d say half the discs had a at least one song with issues! Fortunately I was able to eventually get them all to rip, but often I had to skip the tracks with read errors, remove the disc, buff out some smudges, nicks, etc, and rip again.
Many of the pesky discs showed no obvious signs of damage…if not for Exact Audio Copy, I’m not sure I would have been able to play them?
Very stressful, very time consuming. I think they may have changed plants again or something. The discs feel cheap, the shwag is kinda cheap, even the book is comparatively, kinda cheap…
The musics awesome, so hopefully all the discs will play ok…
Yep, no bueno!

No box til Friday, but...

Und, this is a big but! I'm a subscriber to nugs.net, so I checked to see, and 6/10/73 is available for streaming there. I wanted to do it properly and start off with Iowa, especially since I'd never heard it or Santa Barabara, but had Kezar as my third Dead tape (5/8/77 and 2/11/70 with Duane Allman, Peter Green, etc), and have listened to both RFKs over the years, but am getting jealous reading all of these reviews remarking on setting a new sonic standard for Dead releases. But a nice long drive tomorrow back to Boston will serve to whet my appetite further by streaming it. Just hope my signal holds up.

Also, I found 6/10 vinyl onsale yesterday for 135 and DiP 1 onsale for 115 (still higher than Real Gone's 100, and quick shipping, this one will arrive in 4 weeks, and will need to sort out shipping then with impending new address not yet finalized, also a worry for DaP 47). No more vinyl for me for a while, but at those prices, and for the quality of music, it's a no brainer. I balked at 175 here for the vinyl with the full box set being just 12 bucks more.

The Box

Having not received a shipping notice, and getting a wee bit nervous, I reached out to Dead net customer service last Friday. Got a response within 24 hours that it had shipped, gave me tracking #, and that it was scheduled for delivery to local PO Saturday. in theory it's there in a locker when I return tomorrow. I know the no shipping notice thing happens somewhat often with DaP but first for me on any order that I can remember and wasn't really seeing people mentioning it with this box.

Set II last night - They Love Each Other > China Cat > I Know You Rider > Fire On The Mountain > Other One (vs 1) > D/B/S > Eleven > US Blues > Morning Dew

I'm always there for Mickey and "D/B/S". "Bike horn" drums last night was a little out there weird, felt like I was having a hard time hearing the bike horns clearly. Didn't feel sound at seat last night had quite the balance and separation of first night. Still pretty good but a little blurred. The bike horn graphics on the screens got sorta freaking cool. Probably the most odd world music reference I've seen from Mickey at a show. but def want to hear a recording of the actual bike horn band that was being shown just to hear what that was about. That sequence of Fire > Other One into drums with the Eleven out of space - wowza yowza.

Before 3rd verse in Fire, Mickey leans out and says something to Oteil and Oteil replies and then Mickey blows him a kiss and next thing you know Mickey steps out from behind the drums up to Oteil's mic and lays down one of his rap verses for Fire - it was way cool. a first for D&C, at least on this tour. got to see him sing back with Further and Other Ones. Also Oteil played a banjo bass for Fire.

And yeah Oro that Fantasy > Hey Jude Coda Set I first night was super sweet. Not even on the radar and Mayer nailed it.

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