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    Winterland June 1977: The Complete Recordings

    Winterland June 1977
    The Complete Recordings

    The Shows

    June 7, 1977
    June 8, 1977
    June 9, 1977

    Boxed and Ready to Go!

    Sound the imperial trumpets! Bang the drum! Pop that champagne! Another Grateful Dead box set is comin’ your way! Yes, in the grand tradition of the beloved Fillmore West 1969 and Winterland 1973 boxes, comes Winterland June 1977: The Complete Recordings, a 9-CD box set that is sure to knock your tie-dyed socks off.

    At this point, we probably don’t need to hype you on the glories of ’77 Dead. It was a magical time for the band, which was reinvigorated by a plethora of great new material—“Terrapin,” “Estimated Prophet,” “Passenger,” “Fire on the Mountain”—and really hitting its stride again following the October ’74 to June ’76 performing hiatus. The group spent much of the first three months of 1977 recording their Terrapin Station album with producer Keith Olsen, and Garcia also managed to find time to complete the much-anticipated Grateful Dead movie (which opened June 1, 1977). The third week of April, the band embarked on what most Dead Heads agree was one of the greatest tours ever: 26 concerts in the East and Midwest in a little over a month—an awesome stretch that produced so many great shows, a few of them already released in the Dick’s Picks series and subsequently (and more, no doubt, destined to come out down the road.)

    So when the Dead returned to San Francisco’s Winterland for shows on June 7, 8, 9, they were pumped up and feeling good! They treated their hometown fans to three superb concerts that included excellent versions of much of their current repertoire, from the new combo of “Scarlet Begonias” > “Fire on the Mountain,” to a truly colossal, more than 30-minute “Help on the Way” > “Slipknot!” > “Franklin’s Tower,” “Saint Stephen,” “Terrapin,” “Good Lovin’,” “Not Fade Away,” “The Other One”… too many favorites to mention (you can see the complete song lists here). Winterland June 1977: The Complete Recordings contains every note recorded from the three shows, more than nine hours of prime Dead, all taken from the master analog tapes, restored using the Plangent Processes, and mastered in HDCD by that inimitable sonic tweakster, Jeffrey Norman.

    The nine discs are packaged in a beautifully designed box that includes artwork by Emek (you loved his crazy Winterland ’73 phantasmagoria); a 28-page booklet featuring a wonderful and illuminating new essay by Rolling Stone senior music editor David Fricke (who dubs this a “box of paradise and circus… six complete sets of inspired risk and collective explosion”); lots of great Winterland action shots by noted GD shutterbugs Ed Perlstein and Bruce Polonsky; and a couple of little pieces of period memorabilia we won’t reveal here.

    clicking here. We know you’re gonna dig it! And rest assured, there’s plenty more where this came from: We know you love the box sets; well, we do, too!

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    steve2973
    14 years 9 months ago
    Ah, memories!
    June 7, 1977 - had the last final of my senior year at Stanford that day, then headed to Winterland for Night 1. Afterwards, we congregated at someone's house in E. Palo Alto, where we partied and (what else?) listened to bootleg Dead tapes all night long. Home for a few hours' sleep, then back to Winterland for Night 2. No all-night party that night, allowing enough rest to prepare for Night 3 on Thursday. Somewhere along the way, it occurred to me that this wasn't 3 concerts; it was one 3-day concert with some long breaks between sets. 2/23/74 is still my favorite single show of the ones I saw, but June 1977 was the best run. I'm a sucker for CDs of shows I went to, and these were great ones. Never had such a good time in my life before. I'd like to have it one time more.
  • Seth Hollander
    14 years 9 months ago
    Login issue (and music)
    People w/Login problems:Before building a new account, try substituting the full email address you use for the account as the user name. I couldn't log in with my user name, but my e-dress logged me in just fine. Music: 6/9/77 is a personal favorite, so I ordered this happily. But we've seen too many of the few releases per year go to '77 material. Berkeley 6/85 or 7/82 runs would make GREAT releases (boxed, not Road Tripped), THE EGYPT BOX SHOULD HAPPEN, an Orpheum 7/76 box would ROCK!, a 10/81 Europe box w/Melkweg and Barcelona 10/19 material would be Wunderbar, and then there's so much more that hasn't been touched on in the 80s and 90s. So no more 77 please! And how about getting around to releasing 2/26/77 or a 2-disc reduction of 11/4/77 with that crazed Truckin... We want everything! NOW! At a good price, too! Seth
  • rdevil
    14 years 9 months ago
    absolutely yes
    Three complete shows, I will definitely buy this. Yes there are a lot of releases from '77 but it was a great year. Personally, I'd prefer more (even more) releases from '73/'74 but I enjoy '77 too.I remember getting these shows on cassette years ago and I think I was a little underwhelmed at the time. Maybe I was comparing the shows to 5-7, 5-8 and 5-9 or maybe I'm thinking of the December Winterland shows from that year--the memory is a little hazy. What's funny is I had the same reaction to the '73 Winterland box set. I sought out one of those shows (on cassette) because of the Playin/UJB/Morning Dew/UJB/Playin and thought it didn't sound quite spontaneous enough. I had a lot of tapes so I guess the more Dead you have the pickier you become. Anyway, that box turned out to be the best CD purchase I've ever made and I'm guessing this next box will be more of the same. A couple packaging issues: I really hope the CDs are better protected in this box than in other recent releases. The cardboard sleeves are totally unacceptable. The artwork of the last box was very nice and this one looks nice too, but I'd rather pay less and get "roadtrips" caliber artwork. Money is tight and the music is more important than the extras. As for future releases, more '73 and '74 complete shows (please don't chop them up). I agree, though, that a complete show from the '80s is due. There were a ton of hot shows at MSG; how about releasing that smoking show, I think it was '87, with the hot second set Shakedown and the Good Lovin'>LaBamba>Good Lovin'?
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Winterland June 1977
The Complete Recordings

The Shows

June 7, 1977
June 8, 1977
June 9, 1977

Boxed and Ready to Go!

Sound the imperial trumpets! Bang the drum! Pop that champagne! Another Grateful Dead box set is comin’ your way! Yes, in the grand tradition of the beloved Fillmore West 1969 and Winterland 1973 boxes, comes Winterland June 1977: The Complete Recordings, a 9-CD box set that is sure to knock your tie-dyed socks off.

At this point, we probably don’t need to hype you on the glories of ’77 Dead. It was a magical time for the band, which was reinvigorated by a plethora of great new material—“Terrapin,” “Estimated Prophet,” “Passenger,” “Fire on the Mountain”—and really hitting its stride again following the October ’74 to June ’76 performing hiatus. The group spent much of the first three months of 1977 recording their Terrapin Station album with producer Keith Olsen, and Garcia also managed to find time to complete the much-anticipated Grateful Dead movie (which opened June 1, 1977). The third week of April, the band embarked on what most Dead Heads agree was one of the greatest tours ever: 26 concerts in the East and Midwest in a little over a month—an awesome stretch that produced so many great shows, a few of them already released in the Dick’s Picks series and subsequently (and more, no doubt, destined to come out down the road.)

So when the Dead returned to San Francisco’s Winterland for shows on June 7, 8, 9, they were pumped up and feeling good! They treated their hometown fans to three superb concerts that included excellent versions of much of their current repertoire, from the new combo of “Scarlet Begonias” > “Fire on the Mountain,” to a truly colossal, more than 30-minute “Help on the Way” > “Slipknot!” > “Franklin’s Tower,” “Saint Stephen,” “Terrapin,” “Good Lovin’,” “Not Fade Away,” “The Other One”… too many favorites to mention (you can see the complete song lists here). Winterland June 1977: The Complete Recordings contains every note recorded from the three shows, more than nine hours of prime Dead, all taken from the master analog tapes, restored using the Plangent Processes, and mastered in HDCD by that inimitable sonic tweakster, Jeffrey Norman.

The nine discs are packaged in a beautifully designed box that includes artwork by Emek (you loved his crazy Winterland ’73 phantasmagoria); a 28-page booklet featuring a wonderful and illuminating new essay by Rolling Stone senior music editor David Fricke (who dubs this a “box of paradise and circus… six complete sets of inspired risk and collective explosion”); lots of great Winterland action shots by noted GD shutterbugs Ed Perlstein and Bruce Polonsky; and a couple of little pieces of period memorabilia we won’t reveal here.

—Blair Jackson

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please send me a PM with your order numbers and relevant email address and we will try to find out what's what. Thanks!
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Just received my boxed set and, lo and behold, it came with the BONUS DISC!!! Yippee! Even more fantastic music from an incredible tour. Thank you, Grateful Dead Store. I don't know about other's noted problems, but I'm thrilled with your service and have never had a problem except for a few broken cases every now and then. No biggie. You guys are the best. Todd
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A year and half later, I finally had the cash to order this, and what do you know ... a bonus disc. Now that's a bonus.
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The link to the store is broken (it 404s) and I can't find a download version of this in the store or any message that it is sold out or in fact any trace of it ever having existed. Which is kind of a shame - I'm streaming the show from archive.org, but I am broadly in favour of handing over some money instead.
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I think it is sold out. This set re-appeared (BRIEFLY) last fall, and I jumped in and bought it in Nov. 2014. After a while, it disappeared again. (Maybe they just found a few extra sets kicking around the warehouse or something?) I was pleased -- and somewhat shocked -- when my box set arrived WITH THE BONUS DISK. Sorry it seems to be gone again. Seems like a set they might want to "resurrect"
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I hope this set returns at some point, though I'm not counting on it. I'd love to get it as a mate for my Winterland 1973 box. It's surprisingly hard to find at a reasonable price on the secondary market. That's what I get for missing it years ago, I suppose.