Grateful Dead

So far I've played every disc through the second one from the last RFK show with no issues. No clue or noticeable scratches. Two discs were loose in the packaging upon arrival. Haven't had a chance to rip them yet but don't expect that to be an issue.

Got a costumers letter last Tuesday. Picked up some money yesterday and drove about 30 miles to costumers office to pay the regular import taxes. No longer possible - if the amount is above EUR 150 you have to fill out an online declaration (by the way: not so simple), receive a number and than you can try again. But the costumers guy was very helpfull so at least I got my box earlier this day. Have to pay EUR 44,63 for additional taxes.
After reading all the comments about defective discs and so on I was more than surprised that all (!) CDs stucks in their pockets and only Disc One from show 06/10/73 has had a very very small glueprint. I take a litte isopropyl and now the disc looks fine. Still haven't listen to any of the discs so press the thumb that everything will be fine.
As for replacement discs: After years of buying via dead.net I've only had trouble one time. I got in touch with Dr. Rhino and got my replacement within 3 or 4 days.
Get in touch with Dr. Rhino via drrhino@wmgcustomerservice.com or dr.rhino@rhino.com (don't know if this one still works). Also you can send Marye a note - she's always more than helpful
Gar-see-ya from the sunny Isle of Fehmarn
JJ

Hello everyone, I received my copy a few weeks back and immediately noticed how damaged the discs were when ripping them to my computer. I have been trying to contact customer service for 3 or so weeks multiple times about this issue without hearing back. Can you tell me exactly who you contacted? Last time I had this issue was a few cracked discs on the first spring 90 box set and I called them up and it was immediately taken care of. I have about 9 or so discs that need replacements, so frustrating. Any help would be extremely grateful. Thank you and take care.

Only 1 disc had minor glue, so as suggested, I applied 91% isopropyl and removed it easily.

I have had the opposite issue with my newer CD player. My old 5 disc Onkyo began to skip constantly. I purchased an Emotiva HDCD single player unit and have had no problems whatsoever. No skips so far with any of the HCS discs. Just to appease myself, I played a few on the old Onkyo and got some intermittent static/skips in different spots.

Listening to the Allmans set for the second time and very much enjoying it.

....going in the player soon.
Finishing up Dave's 31 first.

People are starting to get notifications that they will be shipping replacement discs fairly soon without stating an exact time frame.
And no they didn’t have to send in pictures of the discs.
Finally some good news.

I was at the Folsom shows (so was Jeff Smith). It was something else all 3 nights and I'll get all 3 but was just texting a friend that if I could only have one it would be that first night. I think an off-the-radar smoker from near beginning of tour was Phoenix (Talking Stick) with a Death Don't Have No Mercy. Couldn't quite pull that road trip off. 2nd night Wrigley is another big one I think (brother was there.) Back to Folsom - I really really dug what I was hearing and want to check out some of the other nights (for those in the cheap seats an audience finally uploaded today for 2nd night Gorge, looks like the tour tapers skipped those shows).

Back to the music at hand. Just finished the last disc of 6/10 (went through box in chronological order.) What a sweet set with Dickey and Butch. Fortunately that disc played clean, 1 of maybe 4 total from box that didn't have some sort of problem. Back to Set I 6/10 right now. Wanted to hear that Morning Dew opener again :)

Charlie3 - thanks for the suggestion on the firmware update. Never had occurred to me, I'm not that tech savvy. I'm ripping with an external drive M-Disc by LG to a Mac. Most of the problem discs have visible issues but I think there's at least 1 that appeared flawless. Looks like there's a u toob video I'll be checking out later.

I agree with Oro, the Folsom Field shows were very strong. They were the only three-night run except SF. Someone mentioned the first Folsom show, I agree there , too. Very strong show.

Hey Gary - check out the Philly show and Gorge night 2. I haven't watched the Boulder shows, but of everything else those two get the job done well. Gorge night one, total clunker, glad I suck around in the 98 degree heat to see show 2. Pretty sure in Philly, they knew they better play a good show or they was gonna get their @sses kicked by that crowd, woooo, rough

So far so good through disc 2 of 5/26, fingers crossed for the remainder. For people with newer CD players, you might want to see if a firmware update will fix the issue for discs without any apparent flaws. I recently replaced a 6CD player due to inability to read increasing numbers of discs and replaced it with a Yamaha single CD player. Initially the new machine would not play several discs that have caused problems on other players (DaP 28 for example). Upon updating the firmware to the latest version it played all of the discs that it was previously unable to play, including those with obvious scratches as well as those with no visible flaws, and everything I have put in the tray since. I wouldn't have thought that a new player would immediately need a firmware update, but the installed firmware was pretty out of date and it was a pretty easy fix to turn put the update on a thumb drive plug it in and turn a faulty player into a player that so far has worked flawlessly. If you have a new machine and are having problems with discs that appear flawless it might be worth checking out.