30 Trips Around The Sun Box & Digital USB

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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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September 9, 2015 - 9:47am

#4891

Kayak Guy

Joined:
June 4, 2015

Placebo-philes

Excellent article :) I'm not anti Vinyl, I have many thousands of records in storage, along with the analog system to play them. Records are a ritual I no longer have the time or space to enjoy. I like to listen to music in more than the 20 minute chunks allowed by lps. My post was that 10 years ago I read an article in a newspaper, the Wall St Journal, that interviewed a label big wig that stated it was their, the labels, intention to phase out CDs as a distribution media because they were the only method that allowed for an exact copy, which he called a "bootleg". It was the quote that stuck in my mind all these years. "Anyone with a PC has a bootlegging machine, no one has a record press in their basements". I found this strange as at the time, records were found at yard sales and flea markets, in collectors magazines or on the internet, but they were no longer being sold in stores and the old record shops were now Used CD stores. It seemed far fetched, but totally logical from a corporate point of view. That was when I started buying CDs the day they came out as I wanted a master I could make an exact copy from for my HD that I listen from. Now we have Vinyl as the hip the audiophile choice and CDs are closer to saved MP3s than the true audiophile releases they promised when they got everyone to buy the remasters on CDs of the records they already owned. Soon everything will be digital distribution and the players will no longer need to support non purchased files, because you can play your record on the record player. Again great article link, that has nothing to do with what I was talking about.
September 9, 2015 - 9:47am

#4892

claney

Joined:
July 20, 2007

My capitalist Bruthas

Some of the very people who were accused of being "Capitalist Stooges," happen to be the same people who PM'd me when I erroneously gave the impression I wasn't getting the Box. Their offers were universally kind and generous, and completely unprofitable to themselves - in the sense of capital. None of the "Communists" sent me any such messages. Thought it was worth mentioning.
September 9, 2015 - 9:42am

#4893

rrot

Joined:
October 3, 2009

And here I thought we'd

And here I thought we'd get through the anti-capitalist flamethrowing without anyone encouraging the idea of just stealing the music. Goes to show you don't ever know.
September 9, 2015 - 9:14am

#4894

Tony_is_dead

Joined:
April 23, 2009

50th anniversary box set

so are they shipping today?? I know they're not but it would be nice if they did...I heard they have used tracking of a cd in the past via the net I remember a neil diamond title had that I know a lot of you are laughing but he must've been afraid of teenagers uploading and downloading his cd for free once someone else bought one...far as this box set goes I can see someone burning someone else a copy and what can you say...700$ a pop is for the rich or the very very loyal grateful dead fan who are willing to give blood work extra shifts and work 2nd and 3rd jobs for awhile...I see it this way for the people who are worried this is a limited edition and they have or will sell it out...life is limited we will not be here forever so don't worry about such things...when I get my box set no one will know about it I will keep it secret if someone knew what kind of a collector you are odds someone will break in and rob you.
September 9, 2015 - 9:06am

#4895

accountantguy

Joined:
November 13, 2014

RE Beatles USB

Automaticslim, You have to use an MP3 tag editor to fix this. iTunes has one built in, you right click the song and click get info and it takes you to the screen where you can edit the metadata. I have seen your issue before, the problem is that MP3s have a "track number" and "disc number" field. It sounds like the track number is being used but not the disc number so it should just be a matter if going in and populating the disc number properly. I have had a lot of experience with this given all of the 3 disc dead releases. Final note is that a lot of players use the metadata (i.e. track number) and not the file name when sorting your songs for playback. This is why simply renumbering the files has no effect, it still sees 2 track 1s and without the disc number to further sort by it just plays them consecutively. Hope this helps.
September 9, 2015 - 8:53am

#4896

mhammond12

Joined:
September 15, 2009

Reselling

It would be a problem if a few were buying up all available product quickly then reselling at inflated prices but this doesn't seem to be the case here. 30 Trips has been (and still is as of this writing) available for purchase for months at the asking price from the website. For months. As far as speculation as to how the band members would feel about how the marketing and pricing of their product would fit into their "ethos" or "philosophy" I can provide a few clues. Rolling Stone did an article years ago about the start up of a new record company called Grateful Dead Records which included an interview with Garcia. The interviewer noted that Garcia was driving a Bentley and carrying a briefcase and wondered if this was counter to the Dead's hippie image. As I remember it Garcia said something to the effect that he had never cultivated any image and was making money providing quality product to the consumer at a fair price, which was the reason for the new record company. They wanted to ensure quality and profit. Also of interest is the movie Festival Express in which this argument is directly discussed. The bands were being confronted at each stop by activists who were upset by the fact that the musicians were hoping to make a profit from the tour. If I remember correctly the musicians response was basically "Of course we are!"
September 9, 2015 - 8:35am

#4897

dursin

Joined:
August 12, 2015

Placebo-philes

Some of the comments here reminded me of this article... http://www.anxiousmachine.com/blog/2013/12/10/placibo-philes
September 9, 2015 - 8:14am

#4898

rrot

Joined:
October 3, 2009

Charge hitting now...

Woohoo!
September 9, 2015 - 8:11am

#4899

Automaticslim

Joined:
July 9, 2014

Beatles USB

floridabobaloo, I have one of those Apple shaped Beatles USB's. Really amazing sound - I play it in the car and you can hear things you have never heard before on songs you have heard thousands of times. Only two problems with the USB: The Apple "Stem" is attached to the USB portion and a lot of people have lost theirs over the years - you have to be very gentle with it - that won't be a problem with the 30 Trips USB. The other problem is the White Album - since it is two records, each with an "A" side and a "B" side (no "C" or "D" side) you wind up with two songs as song 1, two songs as song 2, two songs as song 3, etc.when you load it on to a hard drive it truly corrupts the running order of the LP. I re-numbered everything and thought I had it right but when I went to play the album it reverted back to the two songs as 1, two songs as 2,.....Apparently I have neither the talent or authority to fix it. So my hard drive, which I play a lot more to avoid damage to the "Stem", goes: "Back in the USSR", "Birthday", "Dear Prudence", "Yer Blues",.....
September 9, 2015 - 7:09am

#4900

Found Sailor

Joined:
January 1, 2009

Why The Hate For Vinyl?

Geez, what's with the spate of hate for vinyl? Surely it takes more effort than the follow-on options, and I concede that it's subjective, but I'd invite anyone to come to my place and do a side-by-side comparison between vinyl, CD and whatever else. To me, there's no comparison and I'm willing to invest the time and money (and get up and flip the album every 18 or so minutes) if I'm in the mood for serious listening. That said, I also have a CD player and a few 160GB iPODs with uncompressed music. There's room for everything in audio-land, folks. No need to disparage old technology just 'cause it's old. To my old ears, vinyl is - and will likely always be - the best (you should hear the MSFL mono set of Beatles records I have!)

John Perry Barlow

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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

@Dusty.rambler

Ouch..sorry to hear that. Mine looked like whoever put the box together had no idea what they were doing. Just smashed the whole bottom portion instead of actually trying to fold the edges where the book is placed. Also have 1/2 inch rips in the two lower corners below the bottom of the book. Oh well..haha, everything else was fine.

Excuse Me Stewardess - I Speak Jive

If you think Dutch is bad... Ash nazg durbatulûk, ash nazg gimbatul, ash nazg thrakatulûk agh burzum-ishi krimpatul.

Jack Straw 80

Agree, it's a powerhouse. Go To Nassau and Dead Set are explosive. That jam leading up to the Jack Straw from Wichita is as good as it gets. I actually prefer 80 to 89 version.

Different Eras

What's up dead land. I always love discussing peoples favorite eras of this great music. Of course I know each year and for that matter each month and each show took on its own personality, but lets say we get 10 slots for the 30 years. I am giving 69 and 72 stand alone slots. What do your 10 look like? Pre 69 69 70-71 72 73-75 76-77 78-79 80-86 87-90 91-95

Bluegrass

Saying Old And In The Way is the second most influential band in bluegrass sort of skips right over Flatt And Scruggs, The Stanley Brothers, Ralph Stanley, Osborne Brothers, Jimmy Martin, etc. etc. etc... Just sayin

άλλη μια μπύρα, παρακαλώ

...in Greek.

re: mhammond

I can't argue with that.

Morgul, Simon, John, & Jim

Morgul, Gimb & durb Baggins & ash nazg, & thrak ul ishi Lugburz...! I envy you guys that saw the Untitled-era Byrds ~ great band. You almost wish they'd had their own name so they could be honored in their own right. Simonrob, I was graced to see John Hartford perform exactly once, too, in the mid-80's at Artscape (Baltimore's arts festival that I assume is still going strong? JiminMD?). I didn't know who he was at the time, merely tagged along with my best friend's family, who were bluegrassers. Shuffling on that little soapbox of his, he charmed all present: young adults, old adults, kids, and skeptical classic-rawk teens like myself. Still can't explain to my conscience how I failed to motivate for the acoustic trio of Hartford, Grisman, and (Mike) Seeger when they came to my favorite small theatre in Portland around '99. (And I'd only recently known of Mike via the Shady Grove liner notes...to wink back on topic.) Speaking further of Mr. Hartford, yes, Jim, the Aereo Plane crew is five-star music. "Steam Powered Aereo-Takes" from those sessions is not to be missed.

No one's mentioned...

...New Grass Revival. The Bush/Cowan/Flynn/Fleck lineup were so fun live. Their 80's studio albums don't do their performances justice, but there are moments: Can't Stop Now, Metric Lips, smokin' cover of I'm Down.... Flynn must make the ballot for most underrated guitarist alive ~ those choice, impossibly clean, lightning-fast runs he'd casually step forward to play, then step back again. The other guys, thankfully, have pretty much gotten their due. Bela's instrumentals were always the highlight for me. County Claire, Bigfoot, and I'll shout it again...METRIC LIPS!!!

How 'bout....

Strength In Numbers? Other than a few bad haircuts and even worse 80's clothes these guys were fun too.-Bela Fleck -Mark O'Conner -Sam Bush -Jerry Douglas -Edgar Meyer :)

How 'bout....

I stop double posting.Ooops...

Re:

Yes, and yes.. and yes. to the last three posts. Or I could post three separate Yes'. There's a festival in the foothills here called DellFest that's a hoot. On the Potomac river near Cumberland, MD. A very chill festival with a ton of great music. Old Crow Medicine Show is a wild one. ok.. a couple more non GD posts and I think I am going to have to break down and stream one of these shows..

Hey Jim

One of my favorite bumper stickers reads simply "DELL YEAH!"

Byrds1970

Yep, Simonrob, we rubbed shoulders at Bath in 1970 in the rain, best damn lineup of any festival that I know...still remember a very pregnant Grace Slick shambling through the mud on site...I am in Sweden, the missus is Dutch, from Brabant in the south...thanks for correcting my zpelling, not the first time its been required!

Bath Festival

So Dogon, you & Simomrob witnessed THAT performance of Atom Heart Mother? Sigh............. I don't suppose you also caught Fotheringay (and Floyd, and Jefferson Airplane, and the Byrds) at the Rotterdam Pop Festival that year? (of course, if we're talking Dell Fest ~ which must be cool if it's on the Potomac in Cumberland ~ gotta give a shoutout to Del McCoury and his boys....) ((John Cowan's 80's haircut was really....really....awful.))

bohlint

I break things up a little differently: '66-late '67 -- blues late '67-mid '69 -- add psychedelic mid '69-mid '71 -- add country late '71-'75 -- add jazz '76-early '78 -- add "disco" spring '78-early '79 -- start of "new sound" spring '79-'82 -- early Brent '83-summer '86 -- mid Brent Dec '86-summer '90 -- late Brent fall '90-'95 -- Vince I love hearing how different 'Heads think of eras!

eras

ToddW, I like your breakdown--I agree that Keith's arrival in Fall '71 was the beginning of a new era. I would probably consider the time with both Keith and Pigpen as a separate era. I definitely consider the time Bruce spent as a regular member (Fall '90 to Spring Tour '92) as a separate era from those last years with Vince.

Bath 1970

I was also at Bath, and 'twas amazing. My first festival too. Yes, very first performance of Atom Heart Mother with full choir at something like 6am the Sunday morning, my fav bands Hot Tuna, Jefferson Airplane, The Byrds et al. For folks who may be interested, my mate's archive www.ukrockfestivals.com/ has excellent coverage. I also remember Grace Slick, Jack and Jorma et al, early morning slow winding their way through part of the festival crowd, brush passing by me, laying horizontal, looking up. I missed my opportunity to dance naked on stage in the Airplane set, some guy asked me three times. The archive site has my Egypt '78 story too, and much much more!

True

True, with/without Pig deserves separation, but I only had 10 eras! I think spring '79-'82 deserves distinction as well, maybe spring '79-'80 and '81-'82? I think '82 is an underrated year, but maybe that's just because I grew up listening to April '82... April 12 is still my favorite Sugaree ever, not to mention the amazing Bird Song and deep Estimated!

@ Alvarhanso

Hi. I am French and I do not understand the English language. I am writing this with Google Translate.Alvarhanso, the 1974 concert comes from the city of Dijon, not Paris. There was a great Playing In The Band that night. I attended the Paris show given three days after the Dijon show. It was a soft and boring concert, unfortunately.

@ Antonjo

No, I didn't get to Kralingen, the Rotterdam Pop Festival (a.k.a. The Dutch Woodstock). The main acts were very similar to those that played at the Bath Festival as loads of American bands were in Europe that summer and got booked for both festivals. I did get to see Fotheringay at least once but I can't remember when or where.

more bluegrass

Open RoadIf you like or love bluegrass at all it would be well worth your while to check 'em out.Cold Wind. My favorite by far. :) P.S.-Hot Rize-second favorite.(band..that is) A must listen also. :)

Bolo?

DiscoCOBO Amazing

simonrob, Dutch etc.

Hi simonrob, no apologies needed. Since 2 months I have an American son-in-law, and he clearly has some trouble learning Dutch. That my daughter's English is very good (after traveling the world with him for 2 years) doesn't help either. Dutch is difficult for non-native speakers. But your Dutch sentence is good, you obviously used the example that you're most familiar with;). Grootjes is actually spelled groetjes (or groeten, if you want to lose the somewhat informal diminutive). However, I remember from highschool that English has it peculiarities too. For example, the sound of 'ea' changes, depending on surrounding letters: - hear - heard - heart - dead The laws of logic hardly apply to the development of languages. But then again, the Dutch usually adapt easily to other languages, if only because of their merchant nature. If you want to buy or sell something, you make sure you understand your trading partner. And after all, like music, trade is a universal language!

I'm disappointed...

I have been disappointed with the lack of "updates" on the new box set. I definitely thought Dave, or someone from Rhino, would have had much more information than just the opening video on this historic box set. A short discussion about the box, itself, would have been nice. From the first "chat" one would have gotten the impression that some more in-depth information would be coming. I guess I just missed it....or did I?I guess, at my age, I should have known better. Mr. Pete--------> aging hippie

You say groetjes - I say groenten

@Roland Bruynesteyn I used to make my dutch teacher laugh when I ended my emails to her with a new version of mvg (with friendly greetings). I would say met vriendelijke groenten instead (with friendly vegetables) !

response to Mr. Pete

Mr. Pete - right under the purple block that says "The Shows" it states: Oh boy! We intended to add announce all 30 shows throughout the pre-order period, but we got scooped! So now you have it, but you should stay tuned as we will be revealing tons of great music, artwork, and more. At least the book and all the music have been "revealed. But that was only due to the delayed shipment. At the very least it would be nice to get an update on the delay.

CRB

I know I'm mostly preaching to the choir here, but I had the good fortune to finally see Chris Robinson Brotherhood live last night here in Louisville. Wow... those guys bring the goods, don't they? Like the GOGD, they are a MUCH better act live than in studio. I was always a fan of the Black Crowes and I love Chris Robinson's voice, but I wasn't prepared for just how awesome Neal Casal and Adam MacDougall are when left to their own devices. Two thumbs WAY up!

Another Great Dark Star

On the way to work blaring Dark Star > St. Stephen > Mason's Children. Very accessible - good for all, but especially a DS neo, as they don't wander too far from rhythm and melody. Vocals are strong, playing is super tight. Great sound, probably the best they've captured Mason. The only complaint is that they began dropping the William Tell arrangement from St. Stephen at this point. But that's what FW '69 Complete is for;-)

Boxzilla - HDCD

hey.. I forget who asked the question if this box is going to be HDCD. ..was listening to Lemieux on Today in GD History this morning, they played a segment of the other Waterbury CT '72 show (sounded great). He did specify the shows sound great and were recorded on HDCD's. No surprise there. ..dig KeithFan's review of what appears to be a 1970 show. What is it? 2/2/70 at the Fox? In the immortal words of David Gans, "I never met a Dark Star I did not like."

Bath '70

If I recall correctly, Pink Floyd's wondrous first performance of Atom Heart Mother was introduced as The Amazing Pudding. Whatever, nobody knew what was about to hit them!

For what its worth..

Atom Heart Mother has always been my favorite Pink Floyd album. I know I am in the minority here and it does not get great reviews.. but that album always spoke to me, especially Fat Old Sun and the title track. I think it was the moment when they finally crawled out of Syd Barrett's song writing shadow and began to shine. Check out the newer versions of Fat Old Sun on Live at the Royal Albert Hall DVD, the acoustic version on the Meltdown Concert DVD and the audio only version on Live in Gdansk. ok.. I'm off my high horse, back to some GOGD. Still finishing the 9/23/72 segment from Waterbury CT. Very nice.. especially That's It for the Other One. The last Cryptical until 1985. Edit: Too bad they did not record the Atom Heart Mother on higher quality film Sherman.. set the wayback to June 27th, 1970 and hand me that bottle of orange tablets on the shelf. There is some grainy black and white footage that survived: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yVPwGExeLpI

joy joy

Love all the comments overnight and today. Want to know more about Bath...love those comments. Love the ukfestival site, tell your mate he has a great site and the effort of love shows. Ok guys, go back and explain some of that language posts, what were you saying? Europe guys, teach us more! G

Heads Up

I am listening to the shows backwards 95>66 I have just started the 88 show. The picks from 91,90,89 are fantastic. Very high level concerts. MSG, Paris, Miami big time venues and the music is top notch.

oh...yeah, that Dark Star was 2/2/70

Was in the car and kind of distracted (all of these other cars on the road, speeding up, slowing down). Jim, that is a great quote ("never met a Dark Star I didn't like").

Double Dutch

An informal way of ending emails/letters is to use the tag line "mvg" e.g. blah blah blah mvg Bill mvg means "with friendly greetings" I used to change that "deliberately" to mean "with friendly vegetables" - just to have a laugh about my lack of fluent Dutch. HaHa - not so much, eh.

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As The World Turns...

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Thanks Kate

Wicked cool, a little trippy even.

looking around this site.....just found this:

Uncle John’s Band (Garcia/Hunter)September 18, 1974, Palais des Expositions, Dijon, France An instant Deadhead favorite and long-term FM radio staple, the band reserved “Uncle John’s Band” for big late-show moments beginning soon after its late 1969 debut. Trekking through Europe with the enormous Wall of Sound speaker array — sent over by ship with a large stash of the band’s pot supplies — the Dead themselves were on the verge of retiring from the road indefinitely (or so they thought). But playing to a few hundred people in the French countryside seemed to give energy to the road-weary ensemble, and, in Dijon, “Uncle John’s Band” made a rare show-opening appearance in front of the tiniest Dead audience in years. The band shifts effortlessly into the jam and the music stretches casually, suggesting a number of spaces and possibilities, as if bookmarking them for the mammoth second set to come, from Garcia’s pointing solos to the coolly locked-in spaciousness discovered by Messrs. Weir, Lesh, Godchaux, and Kreutzmann just before the vocal coda.

thru 82 so far

revelations: shrine 67 is worth the 700 bucks, by itself providence 78, a worthy companion to DP25, the band is AGRESSIVE manor downs 82, blew my mind...was not expecting that san diego 73 should have come out a long time ago,...there is a gem every night in 73 so far not a sour note in the bunch i'm very excited

Agree, this is just amazing!

Agree, Shrine 67 is just amazing! Wow and sound quality is stellar. How this did not get released in the 60s is beyond me. If you are on the fence, just buy the whole thing, you will not be sorry! If you can wait 5 to 10'years though, I'm sure they will stream it like they did for all of Europe 72.

Amazon!

Just picked up a brand new 4 disc 30 trips box set for less than $32.00. Much cheaper than here.

Production Delays?

Sorry if this topic has been previously run into the ground, but what exactly are the problems causing this delay in shipping? Anyone know? At least we can stream it, and it all sounds awesome. I've just been bouncing around, tripping on different songs from different eras, not yet concerned about the chronologic fortitude, if you will. So, this is going to be a wooden box, no? Putting the names on the side is super cheesy, but oh well. Gimme enough swag on the inside of the box, and I'll get over it.

Kate

Stop the ride... I want to get on!

Mid October or October 31st ship date?

This page says mid-October but when you order it, it says October 31. How about some more pictures of the box set so we can see more of what we've been waiting months for? Trying to save some listening for when I get the box, but was hard to stop once I heard Shrine 67. I was originally hoping for an early 72 Pigpen show for 1972, but that doesn't diminish this great box set of shows.

$700 - 30 Trips around the sun OR Gisele table book

I'm going for the 30 trips... Wonder which will ship first?

sorry, tpsg,

"the wheel is turning and you can't slow down" (apologies: rather than a clever retort, GD lyrical quotes just seem kind of banal around here). Anyway, I don't regulate ticket sales to this particular attraction; but, as Uncle Pinkus is fond of saying, "If you be payin', then you'll be playin'". Bob, among the great unwashed horde, life is reduced to series of hard fiscal choices. If it's any consolation, last night - over a snifter of Courvoisier L'Esprit and a Montecristo #4 - David told me the 30 Trips book contains a highly detailed glossy centerfold of Jerry, circa 85, sporting black, Lauren, tent-wear whilst affecting a seductively contemplative chin-on-chest pose and dewed in a provocative sheen. Now you say, "Gisele who?"/p,K P.S. Because I know you're asking: 'yes, thank you, I do enjoy the occasional cigar'.

30 Trips 4 CD Set

Picked this up at Barnes and Noble for $30 and some change. You have to be a member ($25 a year) to get it at this price. The sound quality of the discs are MUCH better than the stream. Then again, I'm streaming the music thru A/V cables.

30 Trips // 4 CD Set - cheap cheap cheap!!!

$25 + change, free shipping, on ebay http://www.ebay.com/itm/Grateful-Dead-30-Trips-Around-The-Sun-The-Defin…

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