Grateful Dead

Dave, you're welcome!

The K.I.S.S. rule prevails with box sets. That is why the two Winterland boxes were the best - decent art, perfect shelf size, design does not impede the discs, the music is great - Really great! - and even a few pieces of swag. Keep it simple.

I had not purchased either of those.
Now, was the island on Lost purgatory?
And what about that ending where they are all in a church?
Still confused this many years later.
Love J.J. Abrams stuff, especially his Star Trek movies.
Cheers

The first box was 6 shows plus filler from 3/24/90, the second box, two (?) years later was called Spring '90: The Other One, which to me was just a good, clever use of a subtitle. They had 24 track tapes available for the first box, but they invested more time individually mixing those 24 tracks on each song on TOO.

And funny you mention the Giants Box, Vguy, was listening to 7/10/89. It sounds good, soundwise. Was less a fan of the songs themselves. Mainly Watchtower where Bob was maybe trying to slur his way through it like Bob Dylan, but he tried the same in Sugar Magnolia. Which reminds me of my least favorite parts of the Spring '90 boxes, the LLRs, LRRs, Queen Jane's, and others where his histrionics vault across the line of annoyance. Price of admission I guess.

Why is Spring 1990 box called The Other One?
Having a brain cramp and google will not tell me.
Are there two 1990 boxes?
Cheers

....were 24-tracks. I'm not very good at math, but I do know more tracks means better sound.
Re-Spinning King Gizzards Fishing For Fishies. I REALLY like that record. Great stuff.
Ambrose Kenny-Smith harmonica love.

I was putting my music room/man cave together last night, and opened up Spring '90, and definitely agree on that packaging. The boxes are big, but so what, they're oversized with these cardboard atrocities, too. But in Spring '90 and TOO, they really gave nice extras. I didn't originally have Spring '90, I got it in a trade about a year ago, and never really looked at all the extras, though I had wanted the set at the time for its book and program, also didn't realize it had the marketing stuff including 8x10 glossy. And the cds were still secured in the digipaks, unscratched (always a concern of mine on new to me stuff, why I prefer to buy new). My only complaint is the reason why I didn't buy at the time, the mix wasn't the multitracks the way TOO was. My memory of the extras in TOO was that they were not quite as extravagant, though it had a book on the tour that was good. The best thing about TOO was the sound mix, though I don't regret trading it for FW'69 Complete one bit (thanks again Pierre!).

So, don't mind a big ass box, as long as it has the cds well housed. Wouldn't mind some extras, tickets and marketing inserts are cool by me. Books even more welcome. One reason I really want Europe '72 is not just the steamer trunk, but the book as well. Think they should find a happy medium. Listen to the River works better in a practical sense than HCS. I'm happy we get access to these things, but there are serious quality control issues, and the more complex the design, the more those issues crop up. At least that's my take, for whatever it's worth.

What a show! No disc problems. Jerry blazes through the right channel.
I am born again 1973!

....Spring '90 and TOO was smart.
Then again, I remember complaints that you had to open the CD case to see the second set setlist lol.
I guess women aren't in charge of current packaging, because they are smarter, that's right.

More than a week ago I cleaned glue off my CD’s for the second time, then put them in CD sleeves.
I’ve now listened to all of them on a Cambridge Audio AXC35 CD player and they all played without any noticeable errors, skips, clicks, etc.
Happy for that.
Up next, try to get error free copies on a HD so that I can listen to them on a portable music player.
When I first got the Box I ripped the CD’s before listening to them because I was going on a road trip and wanted to play the audio files from a USB flash drive in the car. All the shows were defective……

Talk about intelligent CD packaging, Hendrix -Songs For Groovy Children 5 CD Box has cardboard CD sleeves that open when gently pressed on the edges. They have a single accordion fold inside that opens and makes the CD’s very easy to get out.
That deserves a Grammy.
Rhino should have to return all Grammy’s they’ve won in the past for packaging because of this epic failure.