Grateful Dead

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!!

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!

check your pm's

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.

....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!

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.

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."

GD 94 Las Vegas
115

And the show sucked (6/25)

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.

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...