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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.
Re: Help>Slip>Franks
wow.. that's a tall order, Muleskinner.
Someone is going to throw out the 8/13/75 One from the Vault at the American Music Hall (Brooklyn Ray.. thanks so much for the 8/13/75 pint glass btw, got it Thursday), its up there.. perhpa not my fav. I think you nailed it with 5/9/77. The 2/26/77 Swing Auditorium version is another special '77 highlight. I really like the Day on Green 10/9/76 version too. Hot.
The 10/8/89 is one of the finer I was fortunate enough to see. I even like the mid 80's raunchy versions. They were usually high energy barn burners. Wow.. great question. I even think the Dave's Picks 4 version is special..
paging Dr Vguy / paging Dr Jim
Hey sir! Actually I'm pretty clueless on King for the most part. I have really loved 11/22/63, and as we talked about on the Shining, I read and enjoyed it, and The Green Mile is one of my all time favorite movies and book. I also read It maybe last year...that really got me, besides some of the weirdness towards the end. Haha.
But I really don't know much else by him. Oh I think I read the The Langoliers, after there was a TV special on it when I was ~10 I think. That was a great / creepy concept.
I've always heard of Salem's Lot and I think one of my buddies was talking about Gunslinger. Do you have any recommendations for a neophyte??
Edit
Jim:
Great to hear from you. I have all of those for 1FTV, Day On the Green, and a bootleg of the Swing so I definitely have homework to do! I'd love to hear some of the 80s raunchy versions, any recommendations?
And you were at Hampton?? Envy is a poor man's brother..I've really enjoyed that set. I'm sure you've posted on it here before, but did you see both shows?
Well, now that you mention it....
....Salem's Lot (duh), Pet Semetary, Thinner, Night Shift and his coup de grace, The Stand. Best....book....ever.
Most of his film translations come out pretty good. Green Mile is awesome. Love Maximum Overdrive too. Corny fun....
Dancin' in the Streets (again)
I am really enjoying the late era, old school Dancin' in the Streets.
Check out Ventura '84 as an example. Its no 4/15/70, but its pretty good nonetheless. Perhaps I am just a little relieved to see the disco beat slowly evaporate away from the arrangement...
alright.. back to your regularly scheduled insanity..
Hey Muleskinner, great to see you too.. I'm humbled to say that I saw a disproportionate amount of Help>Slip>Franks in the mid '80's. I need to relisten to a few before I recommend. Its possible some I have not listened to since I saw them. I caught the east coast breakout on my birthday in Hampton, '83. I walked to the 6/27/84 Merriweather show from my parents house, that was a smoker. I did catch both Warlocks shows (thanks Tracey). Smiles and tears all around.
They were all special, that's one of those arrangements that is so classically Grateful Dead, no matter the year, venue, band, etc. they are almost always special.
(oh.. muleskinner is the real bob, Hi Bob).
Stephan King
I have a couple buddies who worked at his radio station in Bangor. They tell stories of awesome Halloween parties. And King used to share ideas with them of stuff that he was thinking about too.That would be quite fun
Pet Sematary will chill ya
Regular Scheduled Insanity....
....I think I just found the title for King's next book. You know, he is a decent guitar/banjo player?
Damn. I left out Christine and Cujo. (shudder)....
I didn't know
Mr King could swing that thing.You ever see the front of his house in Bangor with the bats in the fence?
I've seen some pics of his house....
....I would live there. Creepy, yet classy....
Yup, that's it....
....one would think someone of his notoriety would live in a mansion with like three pools and a tennis court. Looks pretty humble if you ask me. King also had his issues with drug addiction. Wrote most of his best books drunk off his ass while flying on coke. I can barely sign my name when I'm in that state....(the alcohol, not the powder).
The Wheel keeps turning
http://articles.chicagotribune.com/1994-05-26/features/9405260136_1_gra…
Read this if you don't mind....
Kings house
I understand he only is there a few months a year as winter there is truly a bitch.Mainers are a very hearty bunch! Somewhat crazy too..............
Submitted for the approval of Captain Trips..
That's awesome, and doesn't surprise me.. I knew King was a music fan (We stayed at the Stanley Hotel in Estes Park a few years back, I still think of it aka the Overlook when I hear Bad Moon Rising) and he also has had some good Dylan references (From A Buick 8, least subtle of all).
Good stuff, I definitely remember my buddy telling me about The Stand, this makes the recommendation unanimous! Going in the queue.
Great stuff too, Jim, and the fact that you could Walk to the Merriweather troubles me to no end. Haha. I see that show had Eyes Of The World > Why Don't We Do It In The Road. I haven't listened yet, but how cool is that?
And coincidentally (or not), my* I mean Dylan's (Freudian slip..Jim is on to me) next show I'll see is going to be Portland, Maine in July. Looks like ~2 hours from Bangor? Not sure how far from Derry.
Third box car, midnight train..
King Help-Slip-Franklins
Definitely agree that The Stand is King's masterpiece. I read both the original and unabridged versions, and I think the original version flowed a little better. Could be just because that was the first one I read, way back in early high school. Dug several of the other King books mentioned, but I did not notice "It", or the Tommyknockers, both good choices.
As far as H-S-F, I think it will always be the version from One From the Vault,8/13/75, probably because that was one of the few shows for which I had a really good quality tape. As I recall, the tape included more of the introduction from Bill Graham, he mentioned that he had a bet with Ron Rakow, won the bet, went double or nothing, and as a result was getting paid $50 to be there, then he went on to introduce the band. That H-S-F is permanently etched into my brain.
Edit: Noticed your Derry reference, and upon re-reading your initial post, noticed you mentioned you read It.
"King's one of us!"....
....or, are we one of King's? Deep thoughts, by Jack Handy
....funny how an innocent comment (this time by Mr. Muleskinner), can flare up this board. Y'all should get acquainted with a King novel, if you have the time. A storyteller among storytellers....he's also a huge baseball fan. Bonus points. Unfortunately, he's a Red Sox fan. (Sorry boblopes)....
Beloit, Gainesville, Floydada
As usual, I'm enjoying the conversation as it winds and twists in its own organic way. Interesting comment by Stolzfus re Beloit and Gainesville... I've spent time in Beloit, WI and Gainesville, FL. Not much time, mind you, but enough to say... Hey, there's two places I've been. I know those two places and here they are in the same comment.... Well don't that beat all.
Reminds me of the time I drove somewhat out of my way to visit Floydada, Texas. Why, you ask, would anyone drive out of their way to visit Floydada Texas. Well that is an excellent question my friend. Because, other that being just a great name, you really haven't missed much if you haven't been to Floydada. But I went out of my way to see it because of a song.... As the consummate singer/songwriter James McMurtry said when he was Live in Aught-Three: "Contrary to popular belief Robert Earl Keen did not write that last song. I wrote if for my buddy Max Crawford from Floydada Texas. Floydada didn't fit the meter, so I used Levelland." .
Now, in that same recording James relates some other interesting tidbits from his buddy Max, but they were of a slightly political bent, so I won't repeat them here. I will say however, that if you like a songwriter with a knack for turning a phrase, then do yourself a favor and check him out.
Americana at it's best....
....McMurtry, King, Floydada and The Grateful Dead....
Help>Slipknot>Franklins-Muleskinner
My all time favourite version Of the Help-Slipknot-Franklins jam is 9/6/77 at Winterland.
Thanks for the tip off about the Live Paul Butterfield Blues Band release from 1966. I always thought their first album was one of the best blues albums made in the 1960s. Mike Bloomfields slide guitar is incendiary-crackling with energy.
PS I am guessing you have worked it out-or already know, that people in Britain write dates a bit differently than you do in America. When I say 9/6/77, I am referring to 9th June 1977, not 6th September!
HSFranklins
#1: 8/13/75 "OFTVault" - The Muhammad Ali of HSF's#2: 10/9/76 "DP 33" - The Mike Tyson of HSF's
#3: 9/10/91 "TTATSun" - The Sugar Ray Leonard of HSF's
#4: 5/22/77 "DP3" - The Larry Holmes of HSF's
#5: 3/30/90 "WOANet" - The George Forman of HSF's
And....it's Monday...
In the car, just wanted to post - it's become increasingly more difficult to find a BOAT version of anything anymore, because there's just so much that's been released. But I do love the July '78 Lazy Lightning => Supplication. I regarded this combo as somewhat of a throwaway for many years, and then a good friend mentioned it as one of his all time favorites. I regard his taste in Dead music as I regard Dick's, which is to say, I always take a listen, because his ear is always right on the money. I find the energy and performance of this box set Lazy / Sup superb.
Jack
I am really digging this Jack A Roe. The 2nd set looks tasty as well. Let Monday begin!
https://archive.org/details/gd1977-05-26.sbd.ashley-bertha.31291.sbeok…
King, Monday, and H>S!>F
Again this board has turned on a dime to toss out yet another topic of personal passion; specifically, Stephen King tall tales. By far my most beloved book series I've ever read (even trumping Lord of the Rings) is The Dark Tower series. Muleskinner touched on The Gunslinger, but from there over the additional six books everything explodes outward into one of the most compelling, rich, exciting and simultaneously heartbreaking adventure tales you will ever read. There is some very cool crossover of characters that occurs throughout this series as well - wherein several characters show up in other books King's written outside of this series (Flagg, anyone??). I also really enjoyed the sequel to The Shining called Dr. Sleep which I read a few years ago. I have several of his compendium/short story books as well and there are some real gems in there.
As for the Help > Slip! > Franklin's debacle of trying to pick a best version....gotta agree with all that have been thrown out there (certainly 5/9/77 ranks up there as top notch of all time or close to it). I also really enjoy the 9/25/91/Boston Garden version from DP 17 (referenced this show last week; I guess I know what I like). There is also a cool one from 6/14/76 if memory serves me well, wherein they kinda of go off on Slipknot for a while and they get some cool passages going before launching back into Franklin's. Of course the One From the Vault version is like a perfect introduction of the band with their respective instruments and any newbies who wanna get a good condensed dose of how its done right should always take up this mantle.
Here we are back on a Monday; at least there is a light at the end of the tunnel as this Friday is my birthday so something little to look forward to I suppose. Age is only a number right???
Have a Great Week, All!
Sixtus
Hey DaveRock
"PM"s are just like "Emails" but sent via the GDM network rather than through the WWW email network. These comment threads are a rather small town and you are new here. I want to give you some advice. PMing you is like having a quiet talk off to the side, away from the party. I saw a row of six ducks pass by the other day. I'm sure you were not the second, fourth, or sixth!
Favorite Stephen King book
Favorite Stephen King book will always be "It"...scared the hell out of me when i first read it.
Favorite H>S>F is a tough one....probably 6/9/77. As for later years, there was one played during the philly oct 89 run that stuck with me for a while (whole run was awesome)...
Favorite Stephen King Book
For me, by far the best S.K. book is : THE SHINING.A fine example of a "book that's better than the movie."
Mr. King, by the way, is no fan of the Kubrick film. The "monster" in this book is an alcoholic father lumbering around the house at night, endangering the life of his wife & kid...which, for me, is alarmingly close to my childhood reality...thus primordially scary. I like a few other King books, but none as much as The Shining.
The Tommyknockers
A seriously freaky book. I think I was battling strep when I read it some 27 years ago...
11.22.63....
....that's the book that started this conversation. Click back two or three pages....
never have read any of SK's books
seen several movie versions. does that count?
strange fingers of light float in air. (they float, Georgie.)
Retirement is still a ways off, but I plan to read a bunch of his stuff then.
Stephen King
The Shining was great, The Stand was AWESOME, and Duma Key was also excellent
Rock on
it's important to leave a paper trail
hahaha
uh, in response to Encroached's waiting room story
Marye:
Also from "Different Seasons," I seem to recall an excellent story, I think entitled "Quitters Inc.," wherein cigarette smokers make serious commitments to quitting; and if they happen to lapse and light one up, watch out! Quitters Inc. responds swiftly & horrifically. I remember really liking that one.
Quitters, King
Quitters, Inc actually comes from the short story collection Night Shift. Of the few King books I've read, it was the first and still my favorite. I've gone back to those stories again and again over the decades since middle school. The first one, Jerusalem's Lot, I prefer to the whole novel it precursors, Salem's Lot. The latter's a classic and was likely harder hitting when brand new, but when I finally read it a year ago I found some of the characterizations distractingly unrealistic. But still really scary and well worth a read. The TV movie (with David Soul) was pretty faithful, I think.
The Dark Half, a much later book, started brilliantly but when it climaxed it read like a screenplay (perhaps King's intent by then) more than a novel. But then again, I read it 25 years ago.
If anyone's seen the 90's film The Game (Michael Douglas & Sean Penn), I think it borrows liberally from the Quitters, Inc story. Never saw the Quitters film, though.
While we're topic-ing horror/suspense novels, I'm going to plug my friend Mike Hughes' King-influenced (to an extent) Lights series: Blackwater Lights, Witch Lights, and final installment about to be published. E-books only, so very cheap if you want to give a newer author a try for page-turning weirdness.
Help SLip Supplication
A few years back, I realized that the LL>SUP combo usually has some awesome jamming between and throughout Supplication. Soon after I started trying to collect all the Supplications and it seems like 78 has most of my go to versions. As for HSF, I always enjoyed 3-24-90 and ,most the 75-77 performances. Another cool thing about both HSF and LL>S, is that they also have great studio versions as well, which isn't always the case. IMO BFAllah is the last album that the GD pushes boundaries and are really challenging themselves, with Terrapin Station shortly after, being probably the last song they approached this way. After BFAllah they started adding songs that they had been playing for years to their albums, and the new ones were simple/easy to pull off, as a result the studio albums become even less essential then they already were. But man stuff like the first side of Anthem, all of AoxomoxoA (orig 69mix), all of WD and AB, most of Wake and almost all of MArs Hotel, those are high quality snapshots of some great GD tunes. Also one thing I never really could get that used to is the vocal effect (Chorus, leslie,out of phase vocals?) Jerry used on some of his solo efforts like Run for the Roses, I guess I'm just used to hearing that song done acoustically and Jerrys voice sounding like normal Jerry.
Lazy Lightning
I love Lazy Lightning > Supplication. I'm forever bummed they stopped playing it just before I started seeing shows (except for instrumental interludes doomed to never explode into the big finale). The rhythmic stuff Jerry throws in during the vocal reprises & outros is one of my favorite Grateful Dead motifs. Right up there with the Uncle John's jam for me, for pure, exhilarating Deadness.
The '78 box one's indeed hot, as is 5/11's on Dick's 25. A pair of really hot Brent ones from '80 are released, too: Go to Nassau & the expanded Dead Set. First one I ever heard was from a fall '81 tape (whose date escapes me), and I was hooked.
My closest encounters were:
* 3/21/86 ~ Phil & Jerry were moving the Supplication jam into the vocal finale, when Bob defiantly refused by singing the opening verse to Let It Grow right overtop...forcing the others to capitulate into that song instead.
Weird, fun little set, anyway, with a Dupree's and an epic Bird Song.
* 2/16/07 ~ Bob actually sang the vocal finale...yes! No LzL, though. And no Phil or Jer.
Tied for my fave Ratdog show, though, along with 7/22/02 at the Recher Theater in Towson, MD (Jim, were you there? Matilda Mother!)....
Dead studio albums
For me, Anthem and Blues For Allah are at the top as favorites, especially for pushing their boundaries. I look at In The Dark as a classic in terms as American Beauty, Workingman's Dead and even Wake of the Flood. To my ears, it's a return to their blues, folk and rock roots, yet contemporary at the same time.
Listening habit: 6/06
1938 Count Basie "Decca Recordings" (7-9) Disc 21950 Bird & Diz w/ Monk, C.Russell, B.Rich (1-6)
1955 JJ Johnson "The Eminent JJJ, Vol.2" (7-12)
1956 Billie Holiday "Lady Sings the Blues" (8-11)
1956 D Gillespie "Birk's Works" (1-17!) Disc 1
1962 B Webster/H Edison "Ben & sweets" (3,5,6)
And today is the 45th anni of the official release of ABB @ Fillmore East
Agree with Sixtus about 8/13/75 H>S>F to intro newbies - I did just that with a 24-yr-old, guitar slinger who was duly impressed.
Always will remember Nicholson's, "honey, I'm home", from the Shining. lol
Hey Lightnin'?....
what's supp?....(I made that one up all by myself. I'll see myself out now)....
All the years combine
Got home tonight and decided to plunder the DVD boxset. The Truckin' Up to Buffalo show from 7/4/1989 floated to the top. Ship of Fools in the second set is magic.
The dvd boxset is quite a steal for all the material you get. Anyone have a favorite from that box?
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