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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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  • Dennis
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    Rupert in the House

    Just to keep the record straight.

    Rupert Holmes porn soundtrack showed up yesterday,,,, guess I made the first 200,,, got an autographed copy!!!!

    If interested the first 15K takes it! You know this is the one you've been waiting for.

    Happy scare your dog day and Vguy I don't mind a political poke or two. Just for the sake of argument. :-)

  • billy the kiddd
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    I would really like.....

    to see these shows released: 9/20/70, great acoustic set, 2/17/79, Keith & Donna's last show, the Dead played fantastic, 9/11/81 my favorite Greek Show, you kinda had to be there, 7/13/76, seeing the Dead in the tiny Orpheum Theatre was very special. 6/17/75. the Crazy Fingers opener was worth the price of admission.

  • daverock
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    cover bands

    I would think you would need at least two original members of a band to move it out of the cover band category. Nick Mason's Saucerful of Secrets, for example, could not be, and wasn't presented as Pink Floyd. LiveDead69 feel like a cover band, despite having Tom Constanten on keyboards. Both good bands - but basically cover bands.

    The only time such a band could be passed off as the original article would be if members left gradually over a period of time while the band in question was still working, so that there was only one person left who was there at the beginning.
    There is only one original member of Hawkwind left, but as he has been carrying the banner consistently for 54 years, no one seriously suggests that he should stop using the name. When he hangs up his hat it remains to be seen whether the others will carry one as Hawkwind. Gong have, under similar circumstances, and that works.
    Ironically, concerning Hawkwind, circa 2000 there was another band gigging who featured about 4-5 original members - yet they were considered the cover band while the one with the lone original member seemed like, and was, the real thing.

  • bluecrow
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    Folsom Night 3

    Complete total blissful smoking crater

  • Vguy72
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    They made a drone SYF in Colorado?!?....

    ....so cool.

  • Speckled Jim
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    Preorder blues

    Anyone who preordered the FLAC download have any luck yet? I've heard nothing back from dead.net "customer service" since the automated reply (received Sunday AM, after I sent a request for help with my non-existent download Friday PM), suggesting that I read the FAQ page :(

    I know it's a long holiday weekend, but this should be an easy problem to fix, especially given that plenty of people seem to be having trouble with it... I'm really looking forward to listening to this music. But needless to say, I won't be preordering again.

  • Chuck
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    cover bands

    A cover band cannot have any original members of the music they play Dead and Co, Furthur, The Dead, Phil and Friends Any of Mickey's or Bill's bands Are not cover bands Dark Star Orchestra is a cover band

  • Vguy72
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    Upon reflection....

    ....yeah. Disc inserts shouldn't be this frustrating. I usually trim my fingernails extremely tight. Let Them Grow!
    Regarding replacements? I used something called damage control when one of those Libby glasses came shattered. Is damage control still around?
    And apologies now for my non-music related rants at times.
    I'll do better.

  • Gratefulhan
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    A quick note on Dead & Co

    So I have to say that that this tour has been quite an improvement over recent years. I completely understand the criticisms of this band, especially the tempo issue. However not only have they picked up the tempo they are playing with more vigor on this tour. I miss Billy, but Jay Lane is tremendous drummer and I really dig his style. I am couch touring the Folsom show right now and they sound good. Except they just announcing that are having a lightning alert so they stopped the show for a bit.

    Lightning notwithstanding, I am glad that this is the last tour. 8 years is long enough and it seems like they are playing some of their best music for the last tour. So they are seemingly going out on top at least when compared to some of the previous years to my ears. Good times!

  • proudfoot
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    Mine did NOT arrive today

    Hmph.

    I mean, I have serious wood for this release.

    Tomorrow holiday so no delivery.

    Wednesday I am at work all day.

    (I just don't want some asshole to steal it while I am away if it's left on front porch).

    UPS or USPS?

    Hang in there, Proudfoot. Hang in there. Steady....

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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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live in shame die in vain feed the poor stop the war(s)!
did 6/10/73 yesterday, and now my first round of fun listening to the entire box has been completed; planned on stretching it out over several months when the order confirmation was received, and it worked out well as DaP fourty seven got mixed into the rotation several times. For round 2, I'll re-listen more critically with the Bose QC-35 headphones to hear the subtle differences each of these recordings. I'm sure I'll be hearing some surprises.
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Mary, belatedly can I contact you about an issue with the discs on this one, and can you remind me how I do such...

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send me a PM!
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Has anyone else received a similar email about trying to get replacement discs.

Your email has come to my attention, and I apologize for the tardiness of this response.

Unfortunately, I have been advised that we no longer have stock for the disc you need replaced.

I am very sorry that we cannot fulfill your replacement request. We will refund you 50% for this item. (Please allow up to 5 days for funds to post to your account.)

May I also offer you a digital download of the Here Comes Sunshine box set? (If you would like to pursue this offer, please let me know whether you would prefer your download files in the FLAC or ALAC format.)

I apologize again for this frustrating experience.

Sincerely,

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They cannot get you replacement discs but they can put the set on sale for $140.23 in their holiday sale? Hey now on that.
Cheers

No one has offered me a refund,they just sent me more faulty discs that don't play.It will cost me even more to send this back,I can't see them refunding all the postage & import fees that I had to shell out.

Wow, given the recent comments, who would have thought that the HCS box would be available for $140, listed in the Black Friday sale. That means they should/must have shipped any replacement discs for faulty or damaged at no cost BEFORE they sell another set... Had to jump through three Hey Now hoops to post this... talk about Lost Sailor...

Sydney - why should you be expected to send faulty discs back? You have said they are faulty - that should be enough for them. Don't they believe us if we say discs are faulty? A little respect would be nice - do they think you might be trying to pull a fast one? Ridiculous.

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It's on sale, but it's not available? What's up with that?

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Purchased the ALAC digital download since the discs were unavailable. Many of the dowloaded tracks have dead air.

I have purchased many of the box sets over the years and never have I run into so many issues. Disapointed to see so many other devotees with similar issues. Hope this gets resolved soon. The set lists are awsome and I can not wait to kick back and listen.

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