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"When we began discussing audio projects to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the Grateful Dead back in 2012, we knew we wanted to do something completely unprecedented. We could think of nothing more exciting or ambitious than a career-spanning overview of the band's live legacy focused on what best tells the story: complete concerts. Our first criterion was the very best live music to represent any given year in the band’s history. We wanted to make sure that there were not only the tent-pole shows that fans have been demanding for decades but also ones that are slightly more under the radar, but equally excellent. For those who listen to the entire box straight through, chronologically, the narrative of the Grateful Dead's live legacy will be seen as second to none in the pantheon of music history." - David Lemieux

We are more than pleased to announce the Grateful Dead's most ambitious release ever: 30 TRIPS AROUND THE SUN. Available as both an 80-disc boxed set and a custom lightning-bolt USB drive, the collection includes 30 unreleased live shows, one for each year the band was together from 1966 to 1995, along with one track from their earliest recording sessions in 1965. Packed with over 73 hours of music, both the boxed set and the USB drive will be individually numbered limited editions.

The 80-disc boxed set is individually numbered and limited to 6,500 copies, a nod to the band’s formation in 1965. Along with the CDs, it also includes a gold-colored 7-inch vinyl single which bookends the band’s career. The A-side is “Caution (Do Not Stop On Tracks)” from the band’s earliest recording session in 1965 with the B-side of the last song the band ever performed together live, “Box Of Rain” recorded during their final encore at Soldier Field in Chicago on July 9, 1995.

The box also comes with a 288-page book that features an extensive, career-spanning essay written by Nick Meriwether, who oversees the Dead archives at the University of California, Santa Cruz, along with special remembrances of the band submitted by fans. Also included is a scroll that offers a visual representation of how the band’s live repertoire has evolved through the years.

The USB drive version* will be shaped like a gold lightning bolt with the Grateful Dead 50th anniversary logo engraved on the side. The drive includes all of the music from the collection in both FLAC (96/24) and MP3 formats and is an individually numbered limited edition of 1,000 copies. Digital version of the book also included on USB.

Shows will NOT be sold individually on CD. This release is sure to sell out quickly so pre-order your copy today and stick around as we will be revealing a mighty fine selection of music, art, and much, much more right here.

(Looking for a smaller 50th Anniversary commemorative keepsake? September 18th will see the release of a four-CD version of the collection titled 30 TRIPS AROUND THE SUN: THE DEFINITIVE LIVE STORY 1965-1995. More on that here.)

ROLLINGSTONE.COM SONG PREMIERE AND EXCLUSIVE DAVID LEMIEUX INTERVIEW
Head on over to Rollingstone.com for the very first listen of "Morning Dew" 9/18/87 Madison Square Garden, David Fricke's exclusive interview with archivist David Lemieux, and the reveal of 30 TRIPS AROUND THE SUN's '69 and '84 shows.

*Helpful hints for using your USB:

Running the 30 Trips Player / Reader program:
On Windows – Navigate to the USB drive and double click the PCStart.exe file to run.
On MacOS – Open the GD 30 Trips drive, and double click the MacStart to run.

Viewing the digital book:
You can either view it within the program that comes on the drive, or by opening the PDF directly.

To view the PDF, open the PDF folder on the drive and the USB_bk_spreads_08-31 file within. Selecting the option within your PDF reading application to view as a “single page” might be preferable to viewing as a continuous document.

Importing music into iTunes and other library programs:
When you import the songs from the USB into your library, the information used to identify the track will likely leave them sorted incorrectly. Please use the song list found here to re-number the songs for each show so that they playback in the correct order.
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November 13, 2015 - 12:03pm

#1231

Sixtus_

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...and I Shall Repent

...and thus I shall find salvation. St. Stephen queued up, Estimated Prophets to follow! Thanks for the compassionate understanding of my festering morality question. Man it feels good to come clean after all these years. I suppose if that is indeed my biggest offense things will prolly turn out alright. Sixtus
November 13, 2015 - 11:19am

#1232

dantian

Joined:
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Brother Sixtus

Play 6 St. Stephens and 4 Estimated Prophets, this shall be your penance...
November 13, 2015 - 10:59am

#1233

JimInMD

Joined:
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Re: sixtus

Dammit sixtus - I knew it was you, I knew it was you all along! I want my tape back you rat bastard! I leant a box of tapes to a friend back in high school.. it had several of my choice possessions, one being a crisp '76 Chicago Auditorium tape with a wonderful Mission in the Rain. The bastard never returned the box. (you know who you are, Mark L.). I didn't listen to a Mission in the Rain that good until I discovered LMA a little more than a decade ago. That was in the pre-car, pre-job lawn cutting days, so a box of tapes actually took some scratch to save up for. I knew the guy.. much like a coke-head who owes you money.. he simply started avoiding me. I guess we can laugh at it now.
November 13, 2015 - 10:57am

#1234

JimInMD

Joined:
June 27, 2011

Tape Karma

..at least it was only your pinky finger. Must have been some high gen. aud's.
November 13, 2015 - 10:52am

#1235

Zuckfun

Joined:
March 18, 2010

Tapes cont'd

Yeah, if the worst offense is swiping a bootleg tape from someone, you're probably ahead of most of us. Awhile ago, a friend lent me a dozen or so tapes- He was by far my greatest connection to high quality recordings. On my way to the car with the tapes, while it was raining, I dropped the box in the parking lot. The tapes sprawled out on the ground in the rain. To this day, he keeps my pinky finger in a jar by his bedside table, as a warning and reminder to fellow travelers. I was always like, who needs the pinky finger anyways. Actually, the tapes mostly survived the incident, unfortunate though it was.
November 13, 2015 - 10:21am

#1236

Sixtus_

Joined:
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The Cornell Tape...and Does this Make Me a Bad Person?

So for the longest time I’ve sat on this story, and when I think back on it, I of course realize that it goes against essentially every grain of goodness within the GD’s community, but on the flip side, I was pretty young, uninformed (obviously) and totally naive. But, since this topic has now miraculously surfaced on this awesome board, I will now relay the story of how I acquired the Cornell show on Maxell XLII, many many years ago. I was 14 years old, and hitch hiking, for the first time ever, with my older brother on Martha’s Vineyard during summer time, just looking for someone nice to pick us up and bring us somewhere, anywhere there may be action. We weren’t at all familiar with the island, but for those who may be, there is this little community of homes that look like gingerbread houses – that’s the only way I can describe it – very ornate outsides, with lots of colors, steep roofs, etc. Well, our ride dropped us in the vicinity of this little community so we began wandering around. Wouldn’t you know, one house was having a party, and some guys, older than us, invited us up and handed us beers. And, you guessed it, GD was playing. At the time, I was still totally naive to anything beyond a few albums like Live Dead and Europe 72 as well as of course their studio stuff. But what I heard coming from their boombox was pristine GD, and clearly in a live setting as they were going nutty and just jamming like mad. I recall looking at the small pile of tapes on the floor, and the one that was playing was indeed Cornell ’77. I was awestruck. As the night went on, and I consumed more beers, I feel like I must have gotten a little more confident. Because I clearly recall that on our way out of that house party, I stopped and took the Cornell Tape – the 2nd Set – and secretly reveled in the amazing find I just acquired, albeit via an essentially & completely immoral path. Nonetheless, I came back home and immediately shared it with my couple of buddies who also happened to like the Dead. We were all just blown away by this recording – not only what was being played, but of course the quality was like listening to a CD. From the moment I acquired this tape, despite the questionable method, I have never looked back and have been on the quest to get as much of this stuff as I could. Looking back on it, I am not at all proud of the fact I ‘permanently borrowed’ someone’s killer copy, maybe their only copy back then, of this fabled show. But what I also realize is that it was a personal turning point for me in the history and lore of the wake that this band created, and for that I am incredibly thankful. And, furthermore, now that I am older, I make it a point to share share share and turn people on to this thing I was so lucky to have stumbled upon even when I didn’t understand the significance of the stumble. I hope I can be forgiven by this wonderful community, as this has been something I have always wanted to get off my chest and hope I can now move past it....so I ask, does this make me a bad person? Sixtus, shamefully
November 13, 2015 - 9:56am

#1237

JimInMD

Joined:
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Big Box Blues

Did I mention I hate Apple? I literally just finished ripping all the CD's from Boxzilla. Low and behold.. my last ITunes 'update' changed my settings to lossy from lossless (ALAC). Fortunately.. its just the Box and Dave's 16 that are affected.. Unfortunately.. I had a good bit of time into this. Did I mention I hate Apple? Sorry.. but besides overpriced products they have become sucky the last couple years... Time to reburn and set up some Physical Therapy for the carpal tunnel I will surely develop after importing all this stuff and getting it 'exactly perfect.' Did I mention Apple sucks?
November 13, 2015 - 8:40am

#1238

Zuckfun

Joined:
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Tapes cont'd

Thanks for the interesting insights into the tape trading community. Perhaps there is still some effort to prevent some music from circulating. It's been years since the Archive allowed soundboards to be downloaded. And there's the recent example of the previously missing soundboard copy to 3/26/72, which then appeared on the Archive just a few days after 3/26/72 was officially released as DP14. Though these days, with torrent sites, and the ease with which digital media is shared and spread, any attempts to prevent the spread of music seems largely symbolic. Then again, I really don't know much about these things.
November 13, 2015 - 7:38am

#1239

TheDude77

Joined:
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About to place an order....

...and noticed that there's free shipping on orders over $75 for the month of November.
November 13, 2015 - 7:14am

#1240

Kayak Guy

Joined:
June 4, 2015

tape trading culture

The gap method of marking tapes was usually not for GD tapes and started with Mike Millard who would create drop outs during different songs for every copy he made and kept notes of the "flaws" to tell who allowed his tape into circulation. This was so he could blacklist them from the southern California trading circles.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike_Millard The Latvala "tags" were usually an additional cassette gen before the DAT, their lineage would be SBD MR>C1>DAT. Eaton would add a 2nd cassette gen to his seeds before allowing them to slip into circulation, these would be SBD MR> C1>DAT> C, he would seed these on a GD trading group called section 9 on Compuserve. None of the reel transfers done by Eaton have ever slipped into circulation and are in the vault. These are the source of the 1972 Academy of Music shows. When Dick died GDM went after the people that had copies of Dick's SBD MR>C1>DATs and threatened legal action if the tapes made it into circulation. I know one person that John Cutler, who he didn't know, called and demanded the return of the DATs he had gotten from Dick, who used to send out copies to friends on future potential Dick's Picks. These recordings are known as the Dick Leaks and considered "hush tapes" not to be traded publicly. The Betty tapes in circulation come from the "Unindicted Conspirators" who shared the PCMs made from the reels on DAT in the late 1980's and became the WBOTB project in the late 1990's. They have a lineage of SDB MR>PCM>DAT Eaton finally started sharing his DATs, not the Betty's reels he transferred though, via Charlie Miller in the last 10 years. In the 1990's there was a more GD related type of hoarding that involved allowing shows circulating in DAT to be shared on cassettes, which was degrading the quality of the recordings in circulation by letting cassette generations into the lineage. These people were the "gene pool" crowd and would only trade with people who had the expensive DAT equipment and shut off people that made cassettes for friends and tainted the gene pool. It was these elitists that also fought against allowing the DATs to be transferred to CDs, using the same excuse of tainting the gene pool.

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"When we began discussing audio projects to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the Grateful Dead back in 2012, we knew we wanted to do something completely unprecedented. We could think of nothing more exciting or ambitious than a career-spanning overview of the band's live legacy focused on what best tells the story: complete concerts. Our first criterion was the very best live music to represent any given year in the band’s history. We wanted to make sure that there were not only the tent-pole shows that fans have been demanding for decades but also ones that are slightly more under the radar, but equally excellent. For those who listen to the entire box straight through, chronologically, the narrative of the Grateful Dead's live legacy will be seen as second to none in the pantheon of music history." - David Lemieux

We are more than pleased to announce the Grateful Dead's most ambitious release ever: 30 TRIPS AROUND THE SUN. Available as both an 80-disc boxed set and a custom lightning-bolt USB drive, the collection includes 30 unreleased live shows, one for each year the band was together from 1966 to 1995, along with one track from their earliest recording sessions in 1965. Packed with over 73 hours of music, both the boxed set and the USB drive will be individually numbered limited editions.

The 80-disc boxed set is individually numbered and limited to 6,500 copies, a nod to the band’s formation in 1965. Along with the CDs, it also includes a gold-colored 7-inch vinyl single which bookends the band’s career. The A-side is “Caution (Do Not Stop On Tracks)” from the band’s earliest recording session in 1965 with the B-side of the last song the band ever performed together live, “Box Of Rain” recorded during their final encore at Soldier Field in Chicago on July 9, 1995.

The box also comes with a 288-page book that features an extensive, career-spanning essay written by Nick Meriwether, who oversees the Dead archives at the University of California, Santa Cruz, along with special remembrances of the band submitted by fans. Also included is a scroll that offers a visual representation of how the band’s live repertoire has evolved through the years.

The USB drive version* will be shaped like a gold lightning bolt with the Grateful Dead 50th anniversary logo engraved on the side. The drive includes all of the music from the collection in both FLAC (96/24) and MP3 formats and is an individually numbered limited edition of 1,000 copies. Digital version of the book also included on USB.

Shows will NOT be sold individually on CD. This release is sure to sell out quickly so pre-order your copy today and stick around as we will be revealing a mighty fine selection of music, art, and much, much more right here.

(Looking for a smaller 50th Anniversary commemorative keepsake? September 18th will see the release of a four-CD version of the collection titled 30 TRIPS AROUND THE SUN: THE DEFINITIVE LIVE STORY 1965-1995. More on that here.)

ROLLINGSTONE.COM SONG PREMIERE AND EXCLUSIVE DAVID LEMIEUX INTERVIEW
Head on over to Rollingstone.com for the very first listen of "Morning Dew" 9/18/87 Madison Square Garden, David Fricke's exclusive interview with archivist David Lemieux, and the reveal of 30 TRIPS AROUND THE SUN's '69 and '84 shows.

*Helpful hints for using your USB:

Running the 30 Trips Player / Reader program:
On Windows – Navigate to the USB drive and double click the PCStart.exe file to run.
On MacOS – Open the GD 30 Trips drive, and double click the MacStart to run.

Viewing the digital book:
You can either view it within the program that comes on the drive, or by opening the PDF directly.

To view the PDF, open the PDF folder on the drive and the USB_bk_spreads_08-31 file within. Selecting the option within your PDF reading application to view as a “single page” might be preferable to viewing as a continuous document.

Importing music into iTunes and other library programs:
When you import the songs from the USB into your library, the information used to identify the track will likely leave them sorted incorrectly. Please use the song list found here to re-number the songs for each show so that they playback in the correct order.
PDF
Text

Weir's f***** cowboy songs

Comment on Dough Knees: I love the Grateful Dead's cowboy songs. I love almost all Dead. Why are we here if we want to throw stones at the band. We might as well mention how friggin' sick we are of all that stupid electric guitar. Sorry; I had to say something because your comment made me feel bad. It is so easy to be nasty, as if what they did for so many years wasn't hard work and we could all have done it better.

:) :) :)

ststephen1971...I sent a PM

Weir's f***** cowboy songs

I totally agree with this post. And to each their own...but I always really enjoy Bob's cowboy songs, no matter how many times they played Me and My Uncle, El Paso, Big River, Mexicali Blues or Mama Tried. Bob delivers those songs well, and more often than not, Jerry plays great bubbling, country lines underneath in his own distinct way. They could have added a few different ones over the years...would have loved to hear Jerry on Big Iron (which Bob did with others). But, heh, the last thing I would accuse the Dead of is being boring or repetitive.

Selling out

It has finally happened. Less then 100 to go. Get yours now before it is too late Rock on

Western

Funny coincidence that this morning I listened to Denver 73 Road Trips on a 2 hour NJ Transit commute. The opener is me and my uncle. I'm thinking to myself they are really ripping through this cowboy tune. Jerry is simply blazing over Bobby's verses. He steps up big time as if he is in a guitar shoot out with a bunch of Bakersfield's legendary slingers. I'm thinking I'm not going to be able to sneak in any naps on this train ride. Several tunes in they hit Mexicali & later Big River. Now I'm dreaming I'm in the Southwest. Works for me.

I stand corrected

Look...I don't disagree ocassionally there could be a killer El Paso or Big River...normally on Jerry's part...but....attending a string of shows in the late 80s meant I'd get these every other night and they could get tedious.... However...if you enjoy them...fill your cup....after all one man's mission in the rain is another man's samba in the rain hey

Countdown

20 days until the PYTHONIC box ships.

Weir's f***** cowboy songs

Someone once asked me when I "knew" that I was a Dead Head. My simple answer was, "when I started enjoying the cowboy songs." Nuff said. Well maybe not - I wanted to add that I include The Race Is On in the list of cowboy songs (or southern rockers or whatever you want to call them). I thought they should have played this one more. Did anyone else see pictures of the 30 Trips box? Looks awesome.

"Cowboy" songs

It's not really cowboy songs, but Country & Western. Funny thing is, that's the music Jerry was raised on(Grand Ole Opry broadcasts) and played when he first picked up the guitar, and the main influence on their sound and songwriting. There is more Folk & Country influence in the Dead's songwriting and choice of covers than Blues(or maybe equal part..)

81 copies remain

of this 80 disc wonder Boxthulu the Sleeper of L'emieux lies dreaming...

The Fifty Fizzles

What happened? The 30 Trips box is great but it has not been celebrated. This 50th celebration year has been nothing but concerts. Thanks to Deadbase 50 to liven things up. Hoping for a whopping Fifty Fall Finale.

Fizzles? Hardly.

It's a bit tough to say 'yeah, the thirty-concert set is great, but what have they done for us lately?' What other bands mark an anniversary in so much style? (And it's not like we've been short of major releases in non-anniversary years, either.) With the new books and revised reissues, there seems to have been plenty of documentation, and of course there's FTW as well ... so I'd struggle to think of any anniversary of anyone that's been better served. But I certainly wish that they'd got 30 Trips out earlier in the year so we could have got all our listening done before the 51st anniversary ....

30 Trips Listening Parties

Was there ever a hard decision made about setting up a board or a site or a facebook page for listeners of 30 Trips to listen and discuss the shows in a specific order? If so, can someone post what the decision was? Very interested in doing this!

Cowboy up

Well they certainly wore out Me and my Uncle. It was the most played song in the band's history. Sometimes I get a little tired of it but other times I find myself really getting into a killer version and there are many good ones. My all time favorite is the one sandwiched into Dark Star on Rockin the Rhein. It comes almost out of nowhere and then disappears back into Dark Star but it is LIVELY. Also love El Paso, I just have to sing along to it every time. Mexicali Blues is also always fun to hear. The way they built their sets with Jerry, Pig and Bob taking turns is one of the things that makes them so unique and fun to listen to.

Uncle Sandwich

If memory serves, there's another such sandwich at the 1971 Felt Forum shows. That one emerges from a vocal-less Dark Star. Magical indeed.

Uncle Sandwich

It was Dark Star - Uncle - Dark Star - Sittin' on Top of World. Exquisite performance, the whole show. Also, New Riders with Garcia. I had the good fortune to attend that show. It was broadcast on NY FM radio (and maybe nationally, don't know). 12/5/71

cosmic journey to El Paso

And let's not forget that left turn into El Paso out of the Veneta Or. Dark Star.

Weir's f***** cowboy songs

I says cowboy

F$$;;ng Cowboy Songs

Billy actually was a cowboy. Remember in the GD movie where he was sitting there drinking wine and talking about breaking horses. That's the good stuff there. Jerry used to do some cool cowboy songs too. Ol Tex Ritter kind of stuff.

Cowboy album

Weir says he's working on an album of cowboy songs. So there's that for you all to look forward to. Speaking of cowboys I hope Barlow is recovering well. 66 boxes left. Buy soon if you're on the fence.

I missed part 5 of the

I missed part 5 of the listening party. Can anyone help, please?

Wondering Why....

->People Make The World Go Round 9-1-74.Pure Jerry Vol. 4Get some. :) Happy Friday/Saturday everybody.

Bobchi

There was no 5.Busy year me thinks.... bit off more than.....? ;) "..just in case we both are wrong.."-Jerry kick tonight

Listening party 5

I think was actually part of Celebrating Jerry, but was never put up on the 30 trips page. You can catch it here: http://www.dead.net/jerry2015?intcmp=home/latest1 "Our fourth and final listening party celebrates Jerry's finest moments from our upcoming 30 Trips Around The Sun release." It contains: '68 Dark Star '73 Eyes '77 Terrapin '95 Visions of Johanna Thanks to Allman for first bringing this to our attention.

I sincerely hope

that the Lindley Meadows show (the MAIN reason I bought this box) contains all the stage banter I remember from my bootleg cassette. I mean, the show barely takes up 1.2 discs, so there's no reason not to include it. I want to (need to!) hear about the woman backstage having a baby (Phil: "Is there a doctor in the house?") In the confusion about where the woman having a baby is actually located, Phil says, "maybe there's one out there, maybe there's one back here, nobody knows for sure..." and Jerry starts playing Happy Birthday. Phil informing the audience the correct pronunciation of the next tune, "Truckin'" and Bobby saying "God willing we'll remember the words..." and asking the crowd to "mouth the words real vividly." These things add to the ambience of this magical show for me. I hope they included them. This show is in my top 2, of. all. time. Every tune is just perfect, perfectly played and perfectly felt. I know Claney knows what I'm talking about.

Your Opinion (And Yes It Matters)

What the hell is it about this band that keeps us coming back for more…and more…and more. My first thought was that no other band conveyed the sense of family, friends, and community or more precisely WE ARE ALL ONE! than the Grateful Dead. I've followed countless bands but never like I've followed the GD. They always made me feel like they cared about me/us. What're your thoughts? And why the hell isn't the ship date 8/29?

Oh, thanks for the

Oh, thanks for the clarification. I used to check the page a couple of times a week and noticed they changed the songs every couple of weeks or so and I was away for a while so I thought I just missed it. Nice to see the Celebrating Jerry page. I'm going to listen to those now.

Countdown

19 days until the CYCLOPEAN box ships.

if you could....

If you could remove 10 original songs from the GD's catalogue, what would they be? I would wager they would be mostly keyboardist songs, but let's see? For me... 1. If The Shoe Fits 2. Samba In The Rain 3. Wave To The Wind 4. I Will Take You Home 5. We Can Run 6. Easy Answers 7. Long Way To Go Home 8. Don't Need Love 9. Maybe You Know 10. Let Me Sing Your Blues Away Childhood's End, When Push Comes To Shove, Never Trust A Woman, Far From Me, Easy To Love You, Money Money, and Tennessee Jed are also close, but those are my ten. Is it weird that I kinda like Revolutionary Hamstrung Blues? Next Topic...Dream Setlist!

???

Tennessee Jed????????

It appears...

That there are 54 copies of Gargantua available, all I can say is GET ONE WHILE YOU CAN!!!!!!! Time is winding down, what happens first, it SELLS OUT or it STARTS SHIPPING? HAPPY SATURDAY DEADLAND

Boxes ordered/sold count number?

wissinomingdeadhead, how and where do you find these numbers?PM me please, Thanks

finally got mine ordered!!

When this box was announced I thought for sure it would sell out before Aug 28, which happens to be the day of my first paycheck in 4 years (been living off my wife's income while I have been in school). I got a job in June as an 8th grade math teacher but knew I would get no check until the end of August. Told my wife when this box was announced that if they were not sold out when I got my first check I was buying it. Well, yesterday was the day and I could not have been happier that there were still about 80 copies left when I ordered. Now I am super pumped! can't wait to see the contents of the box. Have a grate day dead land.

53 boxes left

So these will be gone by next week end. That is about 1-2 weeks longer then I predicted back in June Get 'em while you can or forever be sorry Rock on

Mr. Jack Straw

Wow! We often disagree and are in polar opposition on some issues that have come up on this board, but your list and runner ups reads almost exactly as I would make it! Like ToddWCorey (and the silent majority) I was suprised to see T. Jed there, however. I often drop it when deleting a pair of First Set songs to shrink a show into 2 CD lengths, but that's only 'cause I have so many perfect Jeds already... My list would copy yours except Jed. Ironically, my choice in Jed's stead is also a song many people hold dear: Box Of Rain!(All the insipid Hippies-writing-for-Hallmark lyrical content of Eyes Of The World without the jammy bits and with the Phil-bellow... just my opinion...). And Cowboy songs? The Dead re-opened the world of Country music for me through those songs! Cash, Haggard, Wills, Williams- I enjoy them all after The Dead reminded me that I needed to hear them. Big River is one of the ALL TIME greatest Americana lyrics! Sing Me Back Home is amazing! El Paso is great!Years of hearing Country-Pop radio in my childhood left me thinking Country was soulless crap, but The Dead led me back to the good stuff! I do often drop the Cowboy pair when compressing shows onto 2 discs, but I have plenty of great Cowboy songs on the shelf already.

@ Johndrano

Congratulations on the job AND the box set!

Speaking of trivia

Only 47 left of The Box That Rox !

Seth

I recognize Jed is probably not on anyone else's list. It's not that it's a bad song, but that repetitive riff after each line kinda grates on me. Plus, it seems like all versions are identical...there's no spot for jerry to really soar. I love most cowboy Dead (especially Big River and Jack Straw)...except Mexicali....maybe that one can take Jed's place. I love Box of Rain. I don't find it hippie-dippy, rather, it is especially poignant given the circumstances around it's writing. "What do you want me to do, to do for you, to see you through?" and "Such a long, long, time to be gone, and a short time to be there" are beautiful words from a young man to his dying father. It's also kind of cool that the latter verse was also the last one sang by the Grateful Dead on 7/9/95.

sorry

double post

Lindley Meadows

What Dantian said!! Preach it, Brother! (Also, Chris Grand will understand - CG, where are you?)

Lindley Munchies

And don't forget the crowd banter on the KILLER AUD of this show. Not that it will be on the official release. Like the guy after Music Never Stopped saying, "aw...he's got the MUNCHIES man!"

Less than 35!

Countdown & an apology

18 YES 18 days left until ORCA ships!!!! APOLOGY To ALL who sent me PM's PLEASE PLEASE accept my sincerest apology for not responding to you kind folks in a timely manner, it seems that when I log in to this site I no longer have that green banner that states "Log in successful, & in red, you have ?? unread new message(s)" I checked yesterday on a whim & discovered I had 14 unread messages dating back to early July, I did respond to everyone. I'd like to know why I no longer have that "log in..." banner I didn't change any settings, I guess it's just one of those quirky computer things, some of these messages became quite testy, however I ignored the negative messages & responded kindly, anger on begets MORE anger I take the WWJD approach, (What Would Jerry Do). So to ALL who sent me a PM either in kind or in anger I'm truly sorry for coming off as a smug person & not responding back in a timely manner or in some cases not at all, I hope I rectified this situation. I'm not a smug person in the least, I consider myself to be a KIND DEADHEAD who feels it's ALL ABOUT THE MUSIC & anytime I can turn on I will as I will NEVER tune out, THANK YOU for UNDERSTANDING, Jimmy HAPPY SUNDAY DEADLAND!!!!!!!

apology accepted (for all the other ones, too)

Apology accepted, and for all the other ones, too.

transportation

Does anyone know how the box will be sent USPS or UPS/FEDEX. I can't remember how they sent Europe

I says Weir

When Bobby sings, Garcia plays. It is good to remember this dynamic, whatever the Bobby song may be. Think on Lazy Lightning, etc. To cut Bob from the picture is to lose great dimensions. Barlow wrote some amazing lyrics. So did Johnny Cash, and the great Hippie bashing come Iraq War peace marching Merle Haggard. The great Bob Dylan has one of his many feet in country; so does Mr. Neil Young. It's American music, and the Europeans can't get enough of it, so there must be something to it. The Dead were always an ensemble. The fans might pick a star, but the band never did. Bob Weir was not always my fave vocalists, but Jerry can be off, too, for sure. (He tends to be a more consistent vocalist in his own band in later years), but when Bobby sings Me & Bobby McGee it feels like the definitive version beyond any doubt on this listeners part(no offense Janis - I love you, too); Bob Weir can have a deep and rich vocal as good as anybody's. I've heard him referred to as Jerry's cheesy sidekick so often, I have to assert that on many things the man is astounding. Rhythm guitar? No one better, some as good, but no one better.

Something like a miracle...

Is anyone buying two of these with the intent of selling one at a non-ridiculous but modest (10%) profit or so? If so, please email me. The wife is not agreeing to let me get this at this time due to some financial issues, and the credit card can't take a $700 purchase right now. But if you have intention to buy an extra, or if you would do it in exchange for a small sum, please email me. I'd pay it back over about the next 2-3 months. Figure w/ all the help I'd given here, I might as well ask. But I assume I will be taking my chances on ebay come October. OR... I will trade 2 external 8 Terrabyte Raid Arrays (mirrored hard drives). They go for $500 each new. 1 I used for about 10 minutes. So that's $1000 value, for trade.

word to the wise

27 copies left people..get it now before its gone for good

Cant wait

Very excited. But always looking to the future...when is the may 77 pt 2 boxed set gonna get released?

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