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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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April 6, 2017 - 9:28am

#201

rajha2

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Why is this still on sale?

I can only answer for myself, and it's very simple; DiP 18 and, if i felt I needed any more than that, Red Rocks is available separately. on a separate note; does anyone know, is Betty getting her dues; I and several others have asked, and I haven't seen any kind of response at all. If not, surely a Pledge page would be good; or is there already one up? Anyone know?
April 6, 2017 - 8:26am

#202

wadeocu

Joined:
April 1, 2008

Kayak Guy hit the nail on the head

"This should make Rhino happy, the release of widely circulated Betty shows does better than the Betty's that never circulated.Maybe all those years of circulation gave people a taste of what they are willing to pay for now and the stuff that stayed hidden is too unknown to buy?" This is very insightful indeed. I can see no other explanation for the disparity.
April 6, 2017 - 4:41am

#203

Kayak Guy

Joined:
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Taking the threads back from the hackers

This page for a while was filled with hackers posting away. when i translated some of it through google before it was cleaned up, it was polish slang for "i like this place" and "these people are funny". This set rocks BIGLY, you should consider yourselves lucky its still available for cost and still numbered editions. If you don't have it yet, it's worth the money and the artwork is fantastic, in the style of a graphic novel. Compared to other recent boxes that feature Normanized versions of Betty's that have been in circulation for 30 years, This July 78 box has 4 unreleased Betty's, well 3 and a Stereo upgrade from the mono that circulated. This should make Rhino happy, the release of widely circulated Betty shows does better than the Betty's that never circulated. Maybe all those years of circulation gave people a taste of what they are willing to pay for now and the stuff that stayed hidden is too unknown to buy? In any event if you haven't got it yet, you really should grab this box before it sells out and it becomes speculative on ebay, if just for the box and artwork.
April 5, 2017 - 6:21pm

#204

JimInMD

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The Bigger Question is....

Why has this not sold out, its fantastic. Yes.. music today and the constant Russian Hackers is a big part of the reason, the other part is beyond an initial rollout strategy, they have no involvement. For the longest time this thread faded was not even prevalent from the home page of dead.net. I'm not complaining, I have mine and love it.. I just come to this thread from time to time and think wtf?
April 5, 2017 - 4:24pm

#205

Kayak Guy

Joined:
June 4, 2015

Why is this still on sale?

You all have good guesses, as good as mine, which is. The real reason this is still available is the meltdown of Music Today shortly after the release, the website going to comments only mode for months until the Dave's subscription was announced, when NOTHING was available for purchase, and the still cryptic hint above that at some point it will be available digitally "on release day". Its very likely there are 2000 people that would have bought the box if it was the only option, but waited for the digital version instead. Add to that some short term memory loss and short attention spans and you have over 2000 copies left of this box set which I like much better than the Spring 77 box. I love this artwork and would have spent lots of dead presidents on T shirts, posters, and other schwag if offered. I also feel many people pay attention to their browsers and for months this site has been unsafe and I have to click through 2 browser warnings just to log in that say the site is bad for my internet security. NO where else on the internet do i have to click the 2nd "Are you Sure?" dialog box. What's up with that, someone saving IT money by waiting for a new interface, maybe ROAR as the core in the fall? Meanwhile the site limps along on, unsecured until the next explosion when Dave's 22 goes on sale shortly before May 77 part 1 ships and people find out if they got a limited edition or music only version. I bet that will be fun times on the board ;)
April 5, 2017 - 11:01am

#206

wadeocu

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2,551 of these left

I agree Dschian on each of your points. I think it is noteworthy, however that this one is dragging on with 17% of the inventory still left after a year. I think they planned on this one moving faster and I don't blame them. I would have thought that 3 totally uncirculated betty boards and two classics with one only circulating in mono would have generated more buzz. I suspect Rhino and Co. thought the same and thus the 15k. It seems like each release gets core customer sales in the 10k range. That number represents those of us who are so pathetically obsessed that we buy everything no matter what. Then the remaining 5k in sales are the "investors" and occasional buyers. I think that dependable 10k in sales per release is pretty clearly indicated by the numbers set for the FW69 box, early DaPs etc. I think the DaP numbers have gone up only because of the demand created by the second hand market. I do find the hue and cry over limited editions a bit exasperating as I think I understand the considerations being made here and the need to limit stock on hand and warehousing. Really, if we would dependably buy 100k per release they would gladly print it; I'm sure of it. We cant blame the manufacturer for trying to avoid inventory warehousing expenses. This release is a clear indication to me that they have the number set just about right to accomplish their goal of printing and moving releases on a continual release schedule.
March 31, 2017 - 6:37pm

#207

Dschian

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Yup, 80% of the run sold in one year- Rhino knows its base well

Yup, 0ver 80% of the run sold in about a year; at this rate, the rest will probably sell in the next two to three years. Based upon what I've seen buying modern cd and lp releases, it's not unusual for a run to take a few years (and sometimes up to twice that time) to sell out, even for many popular releases. In that respect, wadeocu, yes, Rhino knows its customer base quite well. Nearly every other Dead limited edition/limited release has sold out relatively quickly (from a few days to several months), and even the slower ones, like the second Spring '90 box and the May '77 one, sold out within a few years or less. Believe it or not, Rhino's goal is probably not to make sure that these sell out in a heartbeat, but to sell the greatest number without multiple production runs or endless inventory. I for one am glad that people don't always have to rush to immediately buy one or have to otherwise search for it on ebay at inflated prices. Recently Rhino sold over $2 million dollars worth of the new box set (before the all-music release that followed) within three days, even with the first marked by technical difficulties- by any standard, that's pretty impressive nowadays for physical media.As a follow-up to my recent post below, finally got a chance to hear my Winterland 1977 box again (I have a huge listening backlog) and came away much more impressed by it than by the first May 1977 box, with the exception of the latter's 5/13 show, which is excellent and the best of them. I still do think, though, that overall the Summer 1978 box outranks the May '77 box in quality of shows.
March 31, 2017 - 6:29pm

#208

Dschian

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1977 the last great year for the Dead?

Rbmunkin, while in some respects 1977 WAS the last great year for the Dead- chiefly in the reliability of their musicianship, according to what I've heard from later years- it certainly wasn't their last great year for many listeners in terms of many, many great later performances. To put my bias in context, my favorite Dead years are 1969 and 1972-'74, so I'm not an '80's deadhead, though I attended the bulk of my shows during the earlier part of that decade and love many of the shows from its first half.I have both the May 1977 box set and the July '78 one, and to my ears the 1978 one is substantially better. I say that because while the 1977 performances in that box are all reasonably strong, they're not always particularly exciting to me. The band, and Jerry in particular, strike me as being in a more predictable, professional mode at the shows in this earlier '77 box release (though I expect the new '77 box to be substantially better performances, based upon the bits I've heard). I find the improvisation more raw, energetic, and dynamic in the 1978 box, and to me that's what makes shows stand out. Also, the song selection is a bit more varied, which I appreciate. While 1978 may be weaker overall as a year (and I haven't heard most of either year), I find these performances to be better than much of what I've heard from '77. Similarly, according to what a listener likes, great boxes (if not great recordings) could be put together of performances from the early 80's or even the Spring/Summer 1985 tour, I believe. One slight drawback of the 1978 box is that the recordings have a bit less depth to the sound, but that goes with the territory of later 2-track soundboards. If you like the '78 sound, definitely get this box while it's still around! I think that they're all (and not just the Red Rocks shows) excellent performances and better ones than the Dave's Picks releases from '78 so far.
March 28, 2017 - 8:14am

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March 19, 2017 - 8:36am

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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.

Out for delivery....

....taking a late lunch at work to meet the mailman....talk to y'all later!!...

Digital download art

Folks, there were some technical issues with this earlier, but now those who bought the Digital FLAC or ALAC downloads will be able to get the Box and individual show cover art for the release to go with their music. Here's the link (it's a .zip file). Sorry for the confusion! http://www.dead.net/sites/default/files/july1978coverart.zip

Prints?

According to the tracking link, this set is waiting for me at my doorstep! Can't wait to get home from work... Does anyone know if GD are selling prints of any of these covers? Really into the 7/1 art work and would love to have a full print framed!

I Almost Forgot...

...How grating Bobby's slide can sometimes be in '78. The first Werewolves encore (7/3), there is a point of near-wincing wherein all I am hearing is what sounds like a dentist's drill in my teeth. Thanks Ace! So far, my only small harrumph. Carry On. Sixtus

Saw the mailman four houses down from mine....

....my mailbox, again, had that eerie greenish glow. Awesome shipping box, awesome interior box. It's....it's....beautiful. Kudos dead.net team. Blown away once again. #11167 will be cherished forever. All discs in place, no obvious blemishes. Paul Pope artwork is stellar. The comic book influence is sweet. I keep expecting Batman to be in here somewhere. Tim Truman from DaP 5-8 is also a comic artist. Loved his covers too. Does anyone know Jim Lee's #? He could pull it off too....tap into those superhero artists....Spinning KC as I chow on leftover lasagna. Sounds as good as it looks. Thanks many times over....

So true...

7/5/78, Bobby's slide solo in Sugaree is atrocious! Still, I'm digging this set regardless.

So true...

7/5/78, Bobby's slide solo in Sugaree is atrocious! Still, I'm digging this set regardless.

7/7/78

I am really digging the Music Never Stopped from the 7/7/78 show. I hope all those boxes still in the ether arrive soon. Let the masses have their music!! Cheers

Future Box Set and Dave's Picks Recommendations

I just got my July '78 Box (#6994) in the mail today, and can't wait to sink my ears into it! I don't ever come around these parts really, so I'm not sure if these ideas have been thrown out there yet. In keeping with the 5 show Box Set theme like May '77 and July '78 (and Fillmore '69 for that matter), how about a May/June 1973 Box with 5/13, 5/20, 5/26, 6/9, and 6/10. What a monster of a set that would be! As far as Dave's Picks go, we all love the '72-'78 stuff, and now we've gotten plenty of that. For some of the future Dave's Picks releases, I'd love to see the '80-'83 period delved into much more deeply...would like to see a good few releases from this period. Really looking forward to a Summer full of fun with my daughter and Dave's Picks 18+ Bonus disc and this July '78 Box. Thanks for taking to time to check out folks' recommendations!

Box #10,576 Has Arrived

This is my first box set I've ordered from dead.net. I am really digging the Terrapin Station from Arrowhead. Fantastic quality! Cannot wait to hear them all!

@Davesenergyguide - Re: Artwork - Motherlode

Thanks for the upload of the artwork. Usually I check this site like every hour, but I am a bit behind due to uploading all of this music to iTunes and burning my copies. I am on the St. Paul show, and if this is the weak sister here, all I can say is WOW because the second set is currently blowing me away. Great job by DL2 once again. If this is the beginning of returning Betty Boards, then OMG, we may be starting THE Golden Age of Dead shows if these 5 are any indication. Betty For President! You go girl! Rock on

Wamsutter?

Really? I live in Wyoming and can tell ya NOTHING...EVER...goes through Wamsutter. Even us residents.Wow,your box is on the tour-de-force. Good luck. Me...still no joy. Oh well.

Fillmore

Just announced: Dead & Co at the Fillmore Monday 5/23. Kicker: it's a free show, tickets on sale online only, no tickets at the door...

Dave's Energy Guide....

....you can't slip that Phish reference past me hbob.....

Wamsutter redux

jrf68 - Ha ha. Truer words may never have been spoken. That is a long lonely stretch of interstate and Wamsutter is no oasis in the (red) desert. Bummer no box yet. My license plate begins with 5 and I got mine on Monday... Hopefully the Pony Express delivers yours soon.

Wamsutter blues...

That is most definetly "Me & My Uncle" country. Cambell Co.? Me,22. Paradise Lost....

Question for the Old School Audiophiles / The Mix

I have a question for one of you old school audiophiles about the mix. I don't have output levels on any of my current equipment.. but I couldn't help myself by comparing this to some of the '77 Betty Boards I have. This sounds like the output is higher, more saturated.. and yes ultimately.. louder. I usually prefer the softer mixes, I have the gunpowder to add more volume than my ears can take if need be.. But the mixes here are explosive, and I guess in a good way. Its not a criticism. Is anyone else noticing this? One Man, wjonjd?

Wamsutter, WY....

....I Googled that place 'cause I was bored. Pop 481?....I bet that box was lonely.... ....was-a-mutter you!....lol

Wasmutter

481, that's 40 more people than the town I live in :D.

The whole town of Wamsutter....

....could have fit in the Milkweg I bet....

It's here!!

Corner of shipping box slightly smashed but contents intact.First in: 7/7 since I've listened to that show over 100 times but never in stereo. What an epiphany compared to the cassette from years ago and the CD-R I have now. Wamsutter to Fernley, better hope it doesn't take a detour up to the Black Rock Desert. JIM - I'm not an audio engineer but this is louder on my arbitrary scale of Dave's Picks all being at '40' on my stereo volume dial.

Err on the slide of no slide

Bob Weir's slide "playing" kind of abrasive on an otherwise stellar FOTM. Anone know the months during '78 when he played slide? Seems like from May forward. I don't hear it on the 12/31/78 FOTM, but I do hear it on the Stagger Lee (where it actually sounds real good). Not sure if it was an on/off thing from night to night?

holy sh*t this thing is nice

first class all the way aroundman we are fortunate that someone cares enough to produce something like this, and for betty for recording it so long ago amazing box of awesome

Heavy

The goods were patiently waiting (undamaged save for a dent in the outer box) in my mailbox when I got home today. I was solo, so I cranked up Disc 1 on the JBLs in the living room. First thing I noticed was the vocals were loud to the point of some distortion. The mix seems to settle down some after the first few songs, but there is still a share of odd sounds, like the kick drum tone. I'm about to head down to the studio where I'll try Disc 2 on the nice monitors. I'm going to be surprised if anything here is sonically as good as the best Bettys from 1977. Performance-wise, it strikes me that the GD knew damn well this was not their audience. They bring a mighty effort to the first half of the show, practically masquerading as rock stars. I'm very interested to hear how the second half of this show sounds. Coming soon to speakers near me!

Bobby's Slide

May sounds about right. Someone on one of these threads pinpointed it a year or so ago and I think its in May.. Its at its worst in the beginning and it can pop up on seemingly any song. Later in the year he was regulated to the GD version of slide time-out, where the 'slide' only appears on the dreaded slide only songs such as Rooster, CC Rider and a few others. Similar to the technique I used to block out Donna wails.., after countless hours of mind control, meditation and electroshock therapy.. I have trained my brain to overlook the slide anomalies and enjoy what are often otherwise very enjoyable shows. _____________________________________________________ ...and One Man, the second disc rocks.. from the jam in Estimated through the soulful redemption of Wharf Rat, its special. I honestly tuned out the rockers at the end because I suddenly wasn't alone so I cant comment on them. ...and Chris Grand, agree. This is a thing of beauty. I honestly prefer it to 30 trips. Don't get me wrong, I love 30 trips.. but that box was like eating too much on Thanksgiving. A great meal but too over the top. This box covers all bases, right size, right price, great shows, great sound, wonderful art/package and the added bonus of more than half the music previously did not circulate. An instant classic.

3443 in Lawrence, KS!

This is SO good on so many levels.Thank you Betty, thank you David, thank you Rob, thank you Jeffrey! Etc. etc. Love the rocks box and all its glorious, affordable, beautiful, enduring awesomeness! -One super happy Hoopsie!

Wamsutter...

@JiminMD - yeah, but that's 481 people surrounded by about 4000 square miles of nuthin' except antelope and sage brush! And a gas field. Which is why there are any people there at all. @ jrf68 - no not Campbell. Albany.

Q

My bad. :)

Sacramento

My July 1978 box made it to Sacramento at 2:06 PM, less than 150 miles away. Must be a two-night stand as the delivery date has now been pushed back to Friday by the end of the day. AAAAAARGH!

I hear ya David

I've been tracking mine all week, got hung up in Great Falls for 2 days and only now arrived in Seattle. I'm 10 miles away and it's going to take until Friday? Sigh....

The Sacramento Phillie's Start Looking Good

Its the last day of the tour.. can't blame your box for wanting to hang around Sacramento an extra day, can you? If its any consolation.. my box came a day early, hopefully yours will too. Hang in there man. This isn't '68 special, but its special nonetheless, and well worth the wait.

The slide

Why does everyone hate the slide so much?Do you not like the slide at all, or do you like the slide but not when Bob is using it? I can't play any musical instrument so ignorance is bliss. Donna: She sounds good with JGB in '76, but has some not so great moments with the Dead. So, one of the bands was giving her something backstage which affected her performance?

re: Bobby's Slide - Jim

Unlike you, I'm unable to ignore the slide; his solos on 7/3 Werewolves roll into one long clam! I just started 7/5, and here comes the slide trying to overpower Jerry. Other than that, Jerry's on fire throughout these shows, 7/1 is a ton of fun, and Mickey's bass drum can be obnoxious at times, to my ears he was mic'd much better in 76.

re: Bobby's Slide - Jim

The Slide

It's because he plays out of tune.

Re: Cousins

Even after practice and years of experience, Bob wasn't a great slide player. I felt the same.. honestly, the electroshock therapy only made it worse.. but years of therapy and 12 years of transcendental meditation in Nepal and here I am. At peace. I'm with you man.. start with some therapeutic breathing and pastel colors. If all else fails, I will send you a dart board in the shape of a slide guitar. ______________ Slide Guitar Dart Board related side-bar (honestly 100% true, you cant make this stuff up).. When I was in high school and cutting my teeth on the GD and all its accompaniments.. me and my older, much cooler and smarter brother shared a basement with a kick ass sound system, a full sized fridge, a pool table, ping pong table, a dart board and a very curious, super cool cat that liked to get stoned (don't tell my aging parents). So every night when we got off work she would come down and hang out with us. (Peta folks chill out.. she actually really liked it). Anyway.. after a few years of checking us out.. one day we were playing some dart game and the cat jumped up in the air and caught the dart. It freaked us all out.. she jumped at least four feet in the air, caught the damn thing, landed, it still in her paw and proceeded to lick the same paw, like she found some spec of dirt that needed cleaned. We were slack jawed. She had been checking us out for years.. it was a learned behavior, if she heard darts from anywhere in the house, down she would come and assume the same spot on the carpet and watch the darts fly. Don't freak out.. she was no dummy.. she had a sneak attack, her paw actually came swiped from the back end and she always caught the feather part (if that makes sense). Her paw moved faster than the dart in the same direction it was going. She NEVER caught the point of the dart. As far as I know, we had the first dart catching cat.. and it amazed my friends until the day she died. Cool and true story. Kimba the dart catching cat - and she LOVED the Grateful Dead as does our current non-dart catching cat Bagira. Edit: One add.. so we were clever hippies.. and we quickly realized the trick to catching darts was to come in from the back side and try to 'catch the feather part' and so human dart catching became a fun not-sober sport of chance in my youth. Kimba was infinitely better than us mortals. Enter my brothers d.f. buddy (I can only assume a later Darwin award winner) Jeff Dimwitt as we called him. Stepped up to the plate to try his hand at dart catching.... I could go on...

Box in Hand

Beautiful packaging! Can't wait to listen!

The Hottest Part of the Day

Agreed, the 7/1 show catches fire near the end of EP whence the Gar goes moderately cray-cray and doesn't let up through the remainder of the show. I can see (hear) why it was hyped. It's fab. The bass drum still bugs me -- especially in the drum solo, where it totally dominates -- and I do not like Weir's guitar tone in '78, even when he's not playing slide (and it got even more tinny by the time he got to Egypt, but don't get me started on that and Billy's broken paw). These are minor quibbles. We are lucky to hear this from a good audio source. My commute tomorrow will consist of the entirety of 7/3, beginning at 6am Eastern. Can't wait!

May 77 Album Art

Thank you for posting the link to the individual album artwork for this box. Any chance you have the same thing for the May 77 Box?

May 77 Album Art?

Thank you for posting the link to the individual album artwork for this box. Any chance you have the same thing for the May 77 Box?

Today I learned....

....that the Giants Stadium show on 9.2.78 had Willie Nelson opening. I suspect that arrangement was discussed over a few fat joints backstage two months earlier. The Wheel is turning and it can't slow down.....

Slide guitar

Watch the master Duane Allman. You play slide by being exactly over the fret and moving your hand with vibrato. Not everyone can do it well. Bob took a long time to get mediocre.As per Donna, she said many times she couldn't hear herself well. In that case a trained pro backs off the mic! Donna just wailed, and many times it was harsh. Half of singing is listening when doing harmony. Period. This box is gonna be go to for summer no question. I love the 72 vibe the best, but this is gonna make for good times this summer.

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