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    July 1978: The Complete Recordings

    What's Inside:

    • Five Complete Shows on 12 discs
    • 7/1/78 Arrowhead Stadium: Kansas City, MO
    • 7/3/78 St. Paul Civic Center Arena: St. Paul, MN
    • 7/5/78 Omaha Civic Auditorium: Omaha, NE
    • 7/7/78 Red Rocks Amphitheatre: Morrison, CO
    • 7/8/78 Red Rocks Amphitheatre: Morrison, CO
    Mastered in HDCD by Jeffrey Norman
    Artwork by esteemed cartoonist Paul Pope
    Intro and show-by-show liner notes by Nicholas Meriwether
    Producer's Note by David Lemieux
    Individually Numbered, Limited Edition of 15,000
    Release Date: May 13, 2016

    Announcing July 1978: The Complete Recordings

    We’re pleased to announce JULY 1978: THE COMPLETE RECORDINGS, five incredible unreleased shows and the first official release from the long-lost tapes, recently returned to the Grateful Dead’s vault. Follow the Dead on a sonic journey through a superb selection of settings, an often epic adventure that finds them winning over Willie and Waylon fans in Kansas City, conjuring charisma in Omaha, and elevating the Red Rocks beyond their already spiritual planes. With five distinct performances painting the masterpiece of 1978, Betty Cantor-Jackson's always-pristine soundboard recordings, and the "hall-of-fame pedigree" of the Dead's first-ever shows at the legendary Red Rocks Amphitheatre, this is one release that far exceeds excellence in music, sound quality, and rarity.

    Limited to 15,000 individually numbered copies, JULY 1978: THE COMPLETE RECORDINGS includes Arrowhead Stadium, Kansas City, MO (7/1/78), St. Paul Civic Center, St. Paul, MN (7/3/78), Omaha Civic Auditorium, Omaha, NE (7/5/78), and Red Rocks Amphitheater, Morrison CO (7/7/78 and 7/8/78) - all of the performances in this collection are drawn from the band’s master soundboard recordings, each newly mastered by Jeffrey Norman. The set also features original artwork by esteemed cartoonist Paul Pope (D.C. and Marvel comics) and in-depth liner notes written by Nick Meriwether (Grateful Dead Archives at the University of California, Santa Cruz), as well as a producer’s note from producer David Lemieux.

    Due May 13th, we anticipate that this extraordinary box will sell out. Your best bet is to pre-order it now, then sit back, relax, and enjoy all the exclusive content we'll be rolling out over the next few weeks right here.

    Looking for something a little more byte-sized? The collection will also be available for HD digital download in FLAC and ALAC, exclusively at dead.net, on release day.

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    Dr Rhino will take care of your disc problems and replace them, that is part of what he does.Jim
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    07/03/69Reed's Ranch - Colorado Springs, CO https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/736x/63/af/83/63af83aedb5631990c0e… Devin Mikles (solo act) Holden Caulfield Blues Band Zephyr Alice Cooper The Grateful Dead Charlie Miller SBD 2015 https://archive.org/details/gd1969-07-03.132377.sbd.miller.flac16 Green Green Grass Of Home > Slewfoot Sitting On Top Of The World Morning Dew High Time Me And My Uncle Casey Jones He Was A Friend Of Mine Turn On Your Lovelight
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    A Big Heartfelt Thanks To You All
    You have widened my vocabulary. Juicy Wiggle is making its way into peoples vocabulary in my neck of the woods. Others are using it and it is taking on a life of its own. What does it mean again.. wait, nevermind.. ..and so the juicy wiggle begins...
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    Since peeing has been brought up...My best pee experience occurred on a train in 1973, an open boxcar (between Atlanta & Birmingham). Me & a friend had hopped on, hobo-style. The incredible vision: while the train was speeding, standing at the open door, peeing------the pee did not fall but streamed out horizontally in a straight line------all the way past the caboose------still connected with its pouring source unbroken & getting longer, longer & longer------ An amazing sight indeed.
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    David Duryea - cool find
    that was quick , thank you
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    Red Rocks Tee
    Here's one. https://www.amazon.com/Rocks-Amphitheatre-Morrison-Grateful-Shirts/dp/B…
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    anybody know where to get the Red Rocks Tee for this set, I would also be interested in the water bottle ? they have been floating around since time of release,, the graphic is same as 7.8.78 cover art on a burgundy color tee :)
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    Did anyone else catch the Bravo show with Bob and John? Was a half hour show. Don't remember name (and just watched it last night!) But it was a decent funny interview with the two and they played an acoustic friend of the devil. I only caught it because a friend called me and gave me a heads up. If you can find it somewhere, worth the 20 minutes it takes to watch.
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    Thanks for the heads up David, I checked my copy of this show and right off audience with people talking loud about bullshit while band was jamming off. The Charlie copy was GREAT. Once again people on this site have pointed me to a better copy than the one I had. Hard to impossible to find "better" copies without more ears. I downloaded the entire collection off the archive years ago, but I don't go back to look for "better", got best while I was there, if better comes along I count on it being pointed out here. Bathrooms and drunks that need to piss - Years ago I had a girlfriend whose parents were big drinkers (not drunks), but boy could they drink. At one of their parties her aunt got pass drunk and pissed in the dryer. How she did that I don't know, but it stunk for quite a while. In my group we had a guy who rented a house and threw huge parties. This was a small house in the woods. The house was a square donut, you came in front door and right in front of you was a door to the bathroom, on left was dining room, behind that kitchen, right into living room, and right again bedroom, and right again back to front door. That square space in middle of the house was bathroom, heat system. Just a small square house. At this one party I was leaning against the bathroom door shootin the shit with buddies and we're all tripping balls. I guy comes up and asked about the bathroom and I said someone's in there. He's standing there looking like someone who has to go. Finally he starts to walk around the house. A second person came up and I told them the same thing. Finally a third came. So now I have these 3 people in a holding pattern walking around the house. We're all laughing about this when after twice around the block the first guy says are you sure someone's in there, I look and say oh good I got to go, and went in first. At Lockn last year me and my buddy still had a chuckle over the holding pattern at that Gates Ave party. Ok, one final one. Saw Simon and Garfunkel in Central Park in 82. We got there very early, like 6 hours before show time. We were in the top 10% of the crowd. They said a half a million people showed up. When I see the crowd pictures I can not believe how close we were. Once again tripping balls. At some point we decide to head to the port-a-potties before crowd got any larger. Well there was a good line in front of every stall. We had to be 30 people back. I started in with a rolling monologue of water and bathroom jokes for maybe a dozen people around me while we're all waiting. Then I start telling people to watch the faces of the people coming out when done. Most spoke of relief, some of disgust, but everyone around me were laughing their asses off. Two quick things about concert,,,, no 3 things. First it WAS a great concert to be at. Among the group of about 12 of us there was one guy who after waiting 6 hours, decided he was going to start to head out and beat the crowd. There was a half a million people there and we we're really squeezed in. Guy says good bye, S&G start playing, now the crowd really squeezes forward. An hour later he was maybe 20 feet from where he started, between songs we kept waving to him and yelling "bye". After show this crowd started moving away, got out to street and still a sea of people. We were going to take the subway back to lower Manhattan, but the people were packed like sardines in the stairways down waiting for the platforms to clear. I had never seen such a crowd. We begged off the subway and just started walking towards the World Trade Center. About a dozen of us, tripping heavily. We seem to move thru some rough areas, we just stay tight together and moved fast, very fast. Never gave anyone time to act upon us. Years later I heard Public Enemy's "Welcome to the Terrordome" for the first time the line hit me "move as a team, never move alone and welcome to the terrordome. Well that rambled on! Have a good weekend all.
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    I hope you get some takers. I practically woke up setting my jaw for the 45th. The Ugly Beauty (TM) rules! Jerry on humbuckers. If ever there were a show that left you totaled, this would be it. See ya in August.
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July 1978: The Complete Recordings

What's Inside:

• Five Complete Shows on 12 discs
• 7/1/78 Arrowhead Stadium: Kansas City, MO
• 7/3/78 St. Paul Civic Center Arena: St. Paul, MN
• 7/5/78 Omaha Civic Auditorium: Omaha, NE
• 7/7/78 Red Rocks Amphitheatre: Morrison, CO
• 7/8/78 Red Rocks Amphitheatre: Morrison, CO
Mastered in HDCD by Jeffrey Norman
Artwork by esteemed cartoonist Paul Pope
Intro and show-by-show liner notes by Nicholas Meriwether
Producer's Note by David Lemieux
Individually Numbered, Limited Edition of 15,000
Release Date: May 13, 2016

Announcing July 1978: The Complete Recordings

We’re pleased to announce JULY 1978: THE COMPLETE RECORDINGS, five incredible unreleased shows and the first official release from the long-lost tapes, recently returned to the Grateful Dead’s vault. Follow the Dead on a sonic journey through a superb selection of settings, an often epic adventure that finds them winning over Willie and Waylon fans in Kansas City, conjuring charisma in Omaha, and elevating the Red Rocks beyond their already spiritual planes. With five distinct performances painting the masterpiece of 1978, Betty Cantor-Jackson's always-pristine soundboard recordings, and the "hall-of-fame pedigree" of the Dead's first-ever shows at the legendary Red Rocks Amphitheatre, this is one release that far exceeds excellence in music, sound quality, and rarity.

Limited to 15,000 individually numbered copies, JULY 1978: THE COMPLETE RECORDINGS includes Arrowhead Stadium, Kansas City, MO (7/1/78), St. Paul Civic Center, St. Paul, MN (7/3/78), Omaha Civic Auditorium, Omaha, NE (7/5/78), and Red Rocks Amphitheater, Morrison CO (7/7/78 and 7/8/78) - all of the performances in this collection are drawn from the band’s master soundboard recordings, each newly mastered by Jeffrey Norman. The set also features original artwork by esteemed cartoonist Paul Pope (D.C. and Marvel comics) and in-depth liner notes written by Nick Meriwether (Grateful Dead Archives at the University of California, Santa Cruz), as well as a producer’s note from producer David Lemieux.

Due May 13th, we anticipate that this extraordinary box will sell out. Your best bet is to pre-order it now, then sit back, relax, and enjoy all the exclusive content we'll be rolling out over the next few weeks right here.

Looking for something a little more byte-sized? The collection will also be available for HD digital download in FLAC and ALAC, exclusively at dead.net, on release day.

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"My Dingaling..." amazingly (sadly?) Chuck Berry's only song to reach #1 on the hit parade.
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Funny, the 7/5 LazyL>Supp. was the one track on that show that seemed to NOT impress me much on first listen. Supplication starts energetically, but kinda turns into a hot mess as Phil's signature lines sometimes don't seem to to fit what the rest of the boys are doing... It almost feels like Supplication is played too fast for that particular song... rushed and frantic by the end - like they're tripping over themselves to get to the finish (they DID end the set after this one so maybe they were in a HURRY to get backstage for some reason...........) But maybe it didn't grab me (yet) because my fav LL>Supp is the patient 5/22/77 version with Jerry playing deliberate, fat chords with that crystalline tone - I freaking love that version... when Jerry hits the fat chunky chords going into the final vocal on Supp... I'll give it a few more listens to this 7/5 version - see if I warm up to it. But the 7/5 show overall sounds amazing to me. What an amazing box this is. Thanks Betty. Thanks Dave.
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Two of my more favorite releases are from 78 .... DP 18 and the DaP that came out last year from 78 (forget the #). With DP 18 being in my top 3 of all time. So, I was happy to sign up for this box. However this was the yr I thought I'd scale back my dead purchases ... I have so much dead music it's crazy. Well I can't stop buying these releases .... Is there a support group to help wean me off? My wife can't understand it (but she is a good egg about it). Side story. I work in burbs. Had to go into Boston for work twice this week. Both days I missed train home by a few seconds and had to take a later train. Man I will never cure that vice of always leaving too late to go somewhere....it's irritating. My poor family have to deal with it too ( and my dead habit).
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set arrived safely, red skeleton packaging took a hit Time to remove the bonus disc from Dave's Picks 18 and give this set its fair time. That bonus disc is freakin great !!!!! 5 stars Hey people if you are waiting for your set - check out - 5.17.78 https://archive.org/details/gd1978-05-17.sbd.scotton.miller.109000.flac… Some killer performances here starting off with a first in touring history "Mississippi Half-Step Uptown Toodeloo -> Franklin's Tower" & ending the set with a bang Looks Like Rain Tennessee Jed Funiculi Funicula Lazy Lightning -> Supplication (Banter before Funiculi - Bobby with false Birthday announcement, Billy and Mickey this time hahaa) 2nd set has a very interesting and gooey "Not Fade Away"
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#5496 has landed here in Woodbury, CT. The container was crushed a bit and so is the box itself and a few of the sleeves inside. The discs look like they're intact though. I feel kinda bad complaining about this since the CD's seem ok. Does anyone have Dr. Rhino's email address?
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1973 Lion's Share, San Anselmo, CA.Garcia & Saunders a MOST excellent archival release from the JG Estate. She's Got Charisma>That's Alright Mama is a jam fest. Merl's Tune>Lion's Share Jam is also a jam fest. The whole show is a jam fest. Oh did I mention that this is a BETTY BOARD!!!!!!!!!!!! GET THIS ONE!!!!! Go to jerrygarcia.com to preorder.
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Dr.Rhino@rhino.com Is the top or bottom crushed? Top's got the number - if you have a good number, you may want to keep it, might not get another numbered box... Talk to Mac about it, he's cool. Bob
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The sides were crushed... the numer on top is intact but one of the sides of that lid is crushed in. The first 3 shows are fine - the slip cases for the 2 Red Rocks shows are the ones that were damaged.
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...safe and sound in South San Francisco, two days ahead of scheduled delivery.
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Love the energy of the opening act for Willie's Picnic! Looking forward to the rest of the shows! Thanks Dave and all that made this happen! Wow - this month we got the bookends for 1977 - DaP18 from 1976 and July 1978 boxset. Definitely two different vibes, like the Ying and the Yang of Grateful Dead music. Loved the mellowness of Orpheum run and the almost slow melodic placement of notes drifting and ebbing thru time. Contrast that with the powerhouse run of July 78, wow. We are truly lucky fans! Speaking of music releases, does anyone have any of the 1/2 speed vinyl (45 RPM) of Peter Gabriel's first four solo albums? Was curious if they sounded as good as indicated. Another new release coming up is the Zappa Road Tapes releases. Is it Gail doing a money grab or is it good material? They've included the caveat like the Dick's Picks, but suspect they might not take the time like Dick, Dave, Jefferey Norman or even Frank took fixing what they could... One final question, anyone get the Live in Toronto King Crimson release? Having three drummers with full kits up front with the rest of the band was something to see, was just curious if it translated well to CD... One final tidbit - got a ride from the Airport after my Vegas trip from a friend of my wife who does Uber on the side. I was playing DaP5 for her since she knew I was a deadhead and she liked it. She said she had spotify. I told her she should check out full shows to get the full tapestry vs just the studio albums. Suggested checking out Dick's Picks and Dave's Picks and she was a little horrified because she thought I was saying to check out Dick Pics instead of Dick's Picks - I'm claiming the fifth (or is that 750ml) - it was the day after too much tequila with Vguy72 and I think I was still slurring my words ;) Funny thing that english language...
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These shows.. a month and a half short of 38 years. Red Rocks, in particular.. the rest are sort of bonus discs in a way. I didn't bother pulling down the audience tapes, so they are new to me. Funny story Bob, so the next time your wife sees this friend of yours, she is going to ask about the Dick's Picks you were trying to turn her on to.
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#14147 has arrived! I'm more excited about this box than I was for 30Trips. I'm starting to float off the couch just reading Daves intro... Dead.net...bring on the July '78 t-shirts
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Gail passed in October 2015 so I'm pretty sure she isn't grabbing any money from Road Trips 3. I have Road Trips 1&2 and they're pretty Frankin' good. Road Trips 3 is from 1970, a pretty under represented year for official Zappa concert releases. Edit: Road Tapes, not Road Trips
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Did not know that about Gail. Think I'll check them out - thanks!
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nothin'.
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The box landed in the borderland (US/Mexican)! All I can say is, "Holy Mother of ___" this is awesome!! Listening to the first show now. It sounds ... well, I'll let you make up your own mind!! Thanks a million for those who were involved in this project!! Where is the '78 box merch? no skull coffee mug? Todo esta bueno!!
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jrf, you can have mine.. I'm done with it for now. I put it back in the box and sent the horse and driver off that delivered mine, tout de suite.. The horse is well fed, the rider rested and I gave them both a drop of Owsley's finest. Bet you get it tomorrow. I'm into the second disc of the first show. I have to say, this is about what I expected.. but my expectations were high. I agree with the previous comment that I am bit psyched about this than 30 trips. Just the right size, price and the quality, including the physical box and sleeves. Practically perfect.
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To start, Third: takimoto. Boston burbs, Welcome. perhaps we are neighbors! I hail from slightly West, but inside 95. Barely. However, and interestingly, your other attributes sound eerily reminiscent of my own existence, which I find both humorous and humorous. And convincing. The Family is a tough thing, but we All feel it could just be so easy If Only They Listened! Having good Heads locally MUST be a good thing. I share in your endeavor to spread these truths, All of them.Also, your mention of DP18 set off an alarm in my mind as to its awesomeness as it also sits on a proverbial shelf as a Powerhouse To Be Reckoned With. And Yes, that was a lot of CAPS. Second (and First, implied): "I'm moving to Australia." - Bobby, 7/8/78. That Estimated. So Nice. Of course, I couldn't resist, and jumped distinctively to this show; but from the start. And yes it Rocks. And sounds magnificently FIERCE. They were on A Mission. Accomplished. Enticed for the rest of this Masterpiece, Sixtus P.S. Jim, your French is impressive. It has a bit of, eh, je ne sais quois...
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I was looking for a catchy phrase in old English.. but Shakespeare was never my thing.. so I threw in some French hoping no one would notice. I think it was Dantian's horse idea, cracked me up so I am getting some mileage with it. Whoever said their box was on Spring Tour has a nice touch too.. I bet we would have been fine without the tracking, and no on the wiser that our boxes were going all over the country.. Dicks Picks never came with tracking, did they?
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....but not worrying. Took a break and watched The Force Awakens for the sixth (?) time. However, I had Mrs. Vguy in tow for her first viewing. She stuck through it like a (storm) trooper. In the end, her only comment was, "Ben's a jerk." Yeah, she paid attention, and yeah, he is....
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i forgot already
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Listening to Dick's 18(prepping for the Box-o-Rocks) and would swear that I heard,between LL Rain & Brown Eyed Woman Bob say to the boys "four eyed women" before launching into BEW....end of LL Rain(also think I hear someone ask him "yeah Bob,what's happenin'?) ?
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Cousins Of The..., mon frer, right you were and here it is!First show sounds great as I expect they all do. Don't like the packaging (unhappily familiar with the artist already and sleeves sized wrong for my CD shelves) but that's all going in a closet anyway. Love the size/cost of the box. Whatever the details of the packaging, 3-5 shows at $80-150 with a decent booklet but no price-inflating "extras" is THE box set format for me! Hope all are enjoying tonight or soon. Hope the damaged-in-shipping sufferers are few in number, and rapidly assisted. Maybe another small box in October?
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Wow! I'm really impressed with the beautiful packaging! Nicely done!
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I am wondering what/how the numbers are assigned to each purchase order. I order the box sets, on the first day and is usually very early morning on East Coast. Yet, I always manage to get a really high serial number each time. My last name, does start with a "W"..... Has anyone else, whose last name is, towards the end of the alphabet, notice the same thing? Or those who have last names with A, B, C, etc notice, if they tend to get lower numbers?
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are not assigned in any fashion. They probably just print off the shipping labels and hand strips to several people who grab a stack of boxes off the appropriate pallet and slap 'em on. Each box set number is, however, unique.
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What a beautiful package and I love the artwork, it feels more "GD" to me than Spring 1977, or either of the 1990 boxes.The problem is the size of the package and it won't fit on either my CD or DVD shelves so it'll go back in the nice shipping carton and be in the storage room by the end of the day, next to the Spring 1977 and 1990 boxes in their shipping boxes. It ripped without issue and will be made into set long flac suites today so it can be loaded to my walkman and jukebox HD for weekend listening. Beautiful set but how about some standardized sizing in the packaging. A mere 0.75 inch shorter in width and it would fit on any DVD shelf. If you slice the shrinkwrap on the bottom seam you can slide the bottom out of the shrinkwrap and get to the CDs and booklet without taking the shrinkwrap off the top cover.
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The box art is very Dead-like. I like it better than both of the Winterland box sets, as well as the May 1977 box set art. As far as the art style, I like it better than the 2015 Dave's Picks artist, but not quite as much as Tony Millionaire from Dave's Picks 9, 10, 11, & 12. I think I like the design better too. I can actually leave the CDs stored in their cases without ripping the case from extracting the CDs too often. There also is not the issue with scratching the CDs by removing / replacing them inside the cases. All in all, I think they did a great job. I would love to see Roger Dean do the next one....can you imagine his take on the Dead?
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#6881 landed a day early in this vast cultural wasteland that is somewhere north of Poughkeepsie. Lately I've been pondering... Could it ever be possible for any one person to have far too much live Grateful Dead to listen to....? I have come to the conclusion, 'Most definitely not'. In my approaching old age, after every other part of my body has declined and/or failed, I'm hoping that my ears will still function adequately enough for me to continue to enjoy all of these sonic riches with which we've been blessed. Sort of a 401k for the mind...
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I am impressed, however I may be right up there with about that many viewings of TFA. Glad you took your lady along for the ride too. Admittedly, I lost it the first time I saw the movie esp the scene in which your wife references "Ben is a jerk." An understatement. He devastated a good portion of my childhood in one fell swoop! But we will hold out for sweet revenge in Ep VIII...One Can Hope. But, admittedly, no better way to wait for some good ole GD IMHO. I hope Rox Box arrives for you very soon! Sixtus
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Love 78! This box juxtaposes nicely against the DaP 18 mellow vibes. What a time to be alive! Thanks Dave L and all!
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Love 78! This box juxtaposes nicely against the DaP 18 mellow vibes. What a time to be alive! Thanks Dave L and all!
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Love 78! This box juxtaposes nicely against the DaP 18 mellow vibes. What a time to be alive! Thanks Dave L and all!
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Received yesterday, love the packaging-- including the shipping box. Best shipping box I have ever received. Even the Mrs. liked it. Listened to Arrowhead last night and that is one fine, fine short-ish show played for mostly country fans. That set must have blown some minds. The Terrapin through JBG just rips. Cannot wait to get to the rest. I have off tomorrow and Friday as the family is moving to a new house. I will be jamming this box hard while packing and moving. Perfect timing really. Stereo is always the last thing packed and this will be the perfect soundtrack for the move. Last comment-- love that the liner notes include a review for the Omaha show, which confirms Oroboros' account of it raining inside the arena. I am looking forward to hearing that show.
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But no art work comes with it. :( Why not? £78.53 is a lot of money to pay for a download and every amazon purchase always gives you the album cover along with it.
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Finishing up the first show, such great stuff so far! Does anyone else know the Dead ever did Estimated post-drums other than this show? Really cool out of Space!
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...note that the artwork is available via link above for those looking for it... Sixtus
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Ha, that Dik Pics is hilarious. Actually after Gayle Zappa died her son Ahmet is in charge of the estate. He has since banned brother Dweezil as touring "ZAPPA PLAYS ZAPPA". That's only been going on for 10 years but Dweezil (who is one hot sh*t guitarist) can no longer call it that. I can't seem to wrap my head around that. I bought the Crimson release Live at the Orpheum which was highlights of a recent show. Very, very, did I mention it's a very heavy sound? the exact opposite of our recent GD Orpheum release. Once in a while I need my senses to be assaulted. A seven headed beast of a lineup for sure. I'm deciding about getting the new one, I believe that is a full show. Still waiting on this 78 box
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Takimoto- Sign me up as well for the support group, but I'll probably be late as well in showing up. I also suffer from tardiness despite the 3 minutes ahead on my watch setting. Love Jerry- Brilliant call on the Roger Dean idea. There must be enough funds at Rhino to throw his way. Those spacey landscapes are favorites of mine. Last years Yes 72 box was perfect. Without a doubt the GD logos & artwork over the years are the industry standard. It only adds to this collecting obsession to be blown away by cool GD artwork. The Emek boxes were perfect for me & even the about face kill the cartoon artwork of the May 77 box has really grown on me. The E 72 individual shows were spot on with the 5/18 (Happy Anniversary Munich show) & the 4/29 Hamburg being my favorites. Sorry but last years Dave's are my least favorites by far.
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I'm stilll waitingI-I-I'm still waiting I'm stilll waiting I-I-I'm still waiting B2B: great line: a 401K for the mind
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Wow. Really good. Great Estimated and a Wharf Rat I need to listen to again.
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Number 00054 loped home yesterday. The WeTransfer scans that deadenergyguide shared yesterday are great for smaller devices, but if anyone would like to see higher-res, color-corrected versions, let me know where to email them at jgs@archstglassinc.com. I have already sent the jpgs to all of you who already requested them. HOWEVER, I have been on the road and may have missed somebody – if you haven't received your scans yet, please let me know. (I know they're all theoretically identical little clones, but after always getting editions in the last half, if not the very tail end of releases, it was cool to get a double-digit copy. Now onward to the music. . .)
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with a colorful shipping container, carefully opened up to reveal a very well designed and very colorful box. I carefully unsealed that and find five just as colorful containers that really could pass for DVD keep-boxes.I flip thru the book and find that's well illustrated with photos, drawings, reproductions of some of the paperwork from these shows. I have already read David Lemieux's "Anything But Safe And Sane" which I like. First up is 7/1/78 Arrowhead, Willie Nelson's 4th of July Picnic, disc 1. It's a wonderful surprise and a good reason why I went with the box instead of just 7/8/78's 2.2 disc set. This box set package is more happily colorful than 2013's May 1977 box, but the total playing time on this is noticeably shorter than May 1977. I hope this box is nominated for a Grammy and wins it for best packaging.Just reading Lemieux's notes, we really have to give thanks to Rob Eaton, who along with others of Rhino's staffer were able to retrieve the original master recordings. I will enjoy!
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Bummer about the continuing Zappa family squabble - isn't there enough to go around? Saw ZPZ a few times, once with Bozzio as guest drummer. Saw the Dweez a couple of months back with the Experience Hendrix 2016 tour. He was good, but not flashy like Zack or Kenny Wayne. I like to check out Project Object too for my Zappa coverband fix. Going to get that CR full show release, will let you know how it sounds... I hope they mic'd it right to hear the three drummers distinctively and nothing gets muddled together...
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Everything looks visually intact. Commencement on ripping the discs starting.....now.
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KeithFan- Love Pierre- legend. Lucky to have him sounding through our airwaves! Philly area seems to get treated well in terms of shipping/ delivery- shows too- love 9/21/72 (DiP 36), but I digress. Listening to the '78 box in order. Arrowhead last night- tight little show- great start. Maybe spin it once or twice more before moving on. I like to savor each one; no sense in rushing through it. Happy listening, all! Enjoy the day!
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Due to play on the Central CA Coast by day's end Thursday Date/Time Activity Location 5/18/2016 - Wednesday 8:35 am In transit FERNLEY, NV 5/17/2016 - Tuesday 9:26 pm In transit WAMSUTTER, WY 10:22 am In transit MOUND CITY, MO 5/16/2016 - Monday 10:17 pm In transit OLATHE, KS 5/13/2016 - Friday 8:19 pm Departed FedEx location FEDEX SMARTPOST INDIANAPOLIS, IN 8:09 pm Arrived at FedEx location FEDEX SMARTPOST INDIANAPOLIS, IN 5/12/2016 - Thursday 9:17 pm Departed FedEx location FEDEX SMARTPOST MARTINSBURG, WV 5:20 am Arrived at FedEx location FEDEX SMARTPOST MARTINSBURG, WV 5/06/2016 - Friday 8:12 am Shipment information sent to FedEx
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At least its heading your way and in a straight line. Just finished the first show, nice little set.. lots of energy, well recorded. Fun. I wonder if this is the show where Willie dosed?
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