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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.
Still waiting in Germany
Got my shipping note on 05/10 and nothing in my p.o. box till now.Anyone in Europe or especially in Germany has received the box or is
still waiting?
Just drop some lines before I will get in touch with costumer servive
and dr. rhino.
Gar-see-ya from the Isle of Fehmarn
JJ
Who's going??? Dead/Co In Charlotte...
Anyone heading to opening night of the tour? I will be there!!
Still waiting
Still not got mine in UK starting to get a bit frustrated!!
Claim to Fame
A few shows (and/or parts of shows) I attended over the years have seen official release.
I attended...
Grateful Dead:
4/1-3/90 Omni (S'90 boxes)
7/22/90 Tinley Park ("Hey Pocky Way" from DVD box All The Years Combine)
6/19-20/91 Pine Knob (DLS V 11)
6/22/91 Sondier Field ("Shakedown Street" from DVD box All The Years Combine)
3/22/92 Copps Coliseum (30TATS)
7/31/94 Palace ("Way to go Home" from the SMR box)
7/9/95 Soldier Field ("Box of Rain" from 30TATS vinyl single and bonus disc with pre-order of Phil's book SFTS and "So Many Roads" the SMR box)
Gov't Mule:
12/9/06 Riviera Theatre (from the DVD A Tale of Two cities)
Countless "Muletracks" downloads, too many to list but a notable one - Classic Mule Tracks from 7/20/99 Sisko's on the Blvd. Rare acoustic show in a venue that held about 60 people. One of the coolest shows I've ever attended!
Frank Zappa:
A few songs from 2/26/88 Royal Oak and 3/1/88 Frauenthal turned up on Broadway the Hard Way and Make A Jazz Noise Here. The only shows I got to see FZ live.
It's likely that there are other bands shows I've seen that were released at least in part that I don't even realize.
Fame to Claim
I attended:
Dead:
10/9/76 DP 33
12/29/77 DP 10
12/31/77 (bonus disc Closing of Winterland)
10/21/78 Road Trips Egypt W/Love
12/31/78
12/26/79 DP 5
12/28/79 Road Trips
1980 Warfield (11 shows)
Not Dead:
The Shadows Live in Paris(1975)
Can't remember any others at the moment...
Non-arrivals in europe
Someone posted on the eurotraders list that their box set arrived this morning, so it looks like another batch of orders are coming thru the system. Dr.Rhino are saying wait until 16th June before raising complaints about non-delivery. This would make sense as Royal Mail now state that deliveries to/from the US can take up to a month. If anyone is thinking about going down the download option, note that the split- second gap between tracks which were so irritating on the fare thee well downloads has been removed on the July 78 downloads. The flac files are also 192khz rather than 92khz which is to be welcomed although many portable DACs cannot handle that resolution - you should check before deciding whether to go for the flac option or the alac option.
Non-arrivals in europe
Someone posted on the eurotraders list that their box set arrived this morning, so it looks like another batch of orders are coming thru the system. Dr.Rhino are saying wait until 16th June before raising complaints about non-delivery. This would make sense as Royal Mail now state that deliveries to/from the US can take up to a month. If anyone is thinking about going down the download option, note that the split- second gap between tracks which were so irritating on the fare thee well downloads has been removed on the July 78 downloads. The flac files are also 192khz rather than 92khz which is to be welcomed although many portable DACs cannot handle that resolution - you should check before deciding whether to go for the flac option or the alac option.
Still waiting down under
Nothing down here yet. The last Dave's took nearly four weeks and for some reason went through Switzerland which has never happened before. Be nice if we had a tracking number just to keep tabs on our shipments. Two more days and it will be a month since this box set shipped. Don't know why I can have my relatives send me parcels from the U.S. standard mail and they arrive in a week/week and a half but Dead net shipments take a month?
Family Postal Service
Chilly sounds like you just found the answer to your problem, have future Dead.net orders shipped to the stateside family and they'll send it to you. Too funny, sounds like it would be faster.
6/76
That 6/11/76 of one hell of a show Sixtus. Two songs right off the bat I am usually not into - Tennessee Jed and Cassidy - are both steamin like a bucket of clams. Keith turns TJ into an old west saloon tune. The Scarlet is rockin. Second set..one of my favorite tunes, TMNS, is surgical - Donna sounds pretty good as well.
Seems like to many moments to jot down. How is this not officially released?
7/7/78 in STEREO
Just got finished listening to the 1st Red Rocks show, July 7th for the 4th time. I had this show as monophonic download via __-_____. I could never find the original Betty stereo mix, so I rarely listened to the mono "leak", that is somebody early who made the original copies of this show brought them down to mono. It just wasn't as much fun listening to it, so I didn't.This first Red Rocks show is a joy to listen to in stereo. Musically speaking, it just one notch below the 2nd night of 7/8.
Wow - been hard to keep up - always few days behind
Did not want any spoiler alerts before listening to the box, so I stayed away from this thread. Nice Boxset Dave!!!
Happy Belated Birthday Kayak Guy and have a happy Birthday Sixtus!
Wow Cousins, nicely done on the Warfield run, I'm so jealous! Loved Reckoning in college.
Vguy - can you believe the RedSox are 1/2 game out with that pitching and bullpen and their panda on the DL - goes to show an insert of fresh new talent can turn a team around!!!
Dead shows I attended that were released were 88 and 94 from 30TATS. Hoping the other Oxford 88 show is a Dave's Release!
Non-Dead: One track from Zappa's YouCan'tDoThatOnStageAnymore v4 when he played Umass.
Allman Bros Live at Great Woods DVD - show was better than DVD - interviews during songs - horrible editing - don't buy it, even for $1
A couple of shows from Pearl Jam when the first year they released every live show.
I think there's a few Live Phish shows I went to in the 90s.
Then there's a couple of Smashing Pumpkins, Phil and Friends and The Dead post-show sbd releases. They're good remembrance, but there's no remastering going on there like we've been spoiled by.
Glad I was away for the darker conversations. Favorite Stephen King Book is The Stand. Loved Night Shift collection of stories in HS too.
I hope the Sharks can rebound. Would love to see Jumbo Joe Thorton win a cup before Phil Kessel but it's been a good Cup to watch - glad the Refs are letting them play. Hope it goes to seven games!
If you like 6/11/76 check out 6/17/1976 too
https://archive.org/details/gd1976-06-17.mtx.seamons.91861.sbeok.shnf
this matrix is so sweet sounding, thanks hunter seamons! charlie miller also available.
great sound of keyboards, drums, jerry's special guitar only used 26 shows
Claim to Fame
Man I wish I saw them in the '70's...
4/17/83 w/ Stephen Stills (1st show)
10/15/83 Hartford - St Stephen
1984 Saratoga
6/27/85 Saratoga
9/5/85 Red Rocks
9/7/85 Red Rocks
3/30 & 4/1/88 (Road Trips)
7/2/88 Oxford, Maine
1989 Alpine Valley "Downhill" dvd show
1991 MSG 6 of 9 shows, incl. 9/10
3/27/93 Albany, NY - TTATS
10/14/94 MSG w/ crazy Scarlet>Fire
released life experiences
Thin, my list is even more modest. I mean, The Song Remains the Same? DP25? DP33? DP5? And your own 10/15/83? Love that whole pre-drums, much less outta space ;) That doesn't even cover the 70-74 (and recent summer '78) tales we've heard on these threads....
But we're all blessed to catch what we catch.
11/1/85 Dick's 21
3/27/88 DL Series 5
3/14/90 S90 TOO
3/15/90 Terrapin Limited
3/16/90 S90
3/30/90 S90
6/14/91 ViewVault II
(Without a Net ~
Let It Grow-3/14, Althea-3/15, Help>Slip>Franklin's-3/30)
Fare Thee Well/Santa Clara ~ oh, wait, they didn't press Record on those....
Roger Waters - The Wall in Berlin ~ 7/21/90
Richard Thompson - Dream Attic ~ "studio" album recorded live, sources include 2/16/10 (Aladdin Theater, Portland) though individual track dates aren't listed
The Who - 9/22/82 ~ brief Won't Get Fooled Again clip used in Schlitz TV commercial ;)
breakouts
Well, since you mentioned Madison '83 Stephen, Thin....
I feel utterly lucky to have caught these breakouts; the MD/VA corridor was smiled on in the 80's:
3/20/86 Box of Rain
3/27/88 To Lay Me Down
9/03/88 Ripple
3/14/90 Loose Lucy
3/15/90 Easy to Love You
3/16/90 Black-Throated Wind
3/17/91 Rubin & Cherise, plus 2nd New Speedway Boogie (1st east coast)
I had pneumonia for the Warlocks shows (if tickets were even possible), and missed Casey Jones on 6/20/92 because I sat out RFK that year. And 6/30/85 being my first show, I had no idea I was seeing Cryptical Envelopment. But I'm not complaining.
So Close
This doesn't really count as a breakout, but I snuck into the Greensboro Coliseum lobby 10/9/83 and heard the St. Stephen soundcheck through the crack in the door to the arena. They didn't play it that night, but broke it out at MSG two nights later. Doh!
So What Dave's Told Me About 6/11/76....
...here is a copy of my exchange with Dave Lemieux, back when I suggested Eyes of the World had been neglected...and then inquired about my all time favorite show (while I had his attention, which is hard to do because....SQUIRREL!!)________________________________________
Re: Thirty Days/Eyes of the World
February 1, 2014, at 12:12 PM
Hey Sixtus,
Thanks for the note. I'm a big fan of 6/11/76, too, and would love to release it if we ever got those tapes back. Such a terrific show, on a great tour.
DL
_________________________________________
Rumor has it, this gem is among the Lost Betty's!
Some Day,
Sixtus
P.S. Weather result of my exchange with Dave or not, he did reply to my initial inquiry (though not published here) about the absence of Eyes of the World in 30 days of Dead (at the time) and promised he would add it to the year's lot. And so, it arrived come November...on the 30th.
Friendship Day....
....never heard of it. I thought every day was Friendship Day. Makes it much less confusing, but that's just the Deadhead in me....
Ah, vacation
I'm 4 days in, and 7 more to go, total relaxation...almost.
Now, don't get me wrong, I love my wife more than anything, but without the benefit of work and several hours away from each other each day, I just wanna know, do women ever shut up? I mean, if I wasn't around would she be talking to the cat nonstop?
I'm sure she has her little gripes about me too, though I can't imagine what they might be, but I find it very suspicious that she feeds me bacon everyday, even after I've clutched my chest in discomfort a few times, and I'm pretty sure she noticed, because I could swear she cracked a smile one time.
I don't know, but if I was in the kitchen, I wouldn't ask her to come all the way from the living room just to get me a glass of soda when I'm much closer to the fridge, but that's just me. Geez, you're right there for crying out loud.
Know what I'm saying?
Happy Friendship Day VGuy
Let's do some Tequila to celebrate ;)
Vince - have a good one!
Tequila....
....that was a one off for a special occasion Bob. How about a nice ice cold IPA or four? Happy Friendship Year to you too....
Hey dantian....
....I hear ya. Love my wife to death, but 4-5 days into my vacations, I start thinking about work again. Try this. We finally retired our old cal king mattress after 14 years. Got a Simmons Beautyrest cal king. It's my mistress. We've spent the last four nights absorbing it. Talking, reading, watching Netflix, making out (tmi?). A new bed is a new spark. Come to think of it, my wife serves me bacon a lot too.....hmmmmm.....
Vguy72
You're a wise man, and that is sage advice.
Only problem is she already has plans to max out the credit card on another project, so the new mattress idea (which is brilliant, by the way) will have to wait.
Thanks for your wisdom anyway, brother!
On the up side, her new project will definitely keep me quite physically active in the yard (sounds like prison, coincidence?), so I'll surely work off all that bacon fat ;)
Lemme guess....
....a garden or a raised porch. Both grand projects....but you can't sleep on them ( well, maybe if you're in trouble )....we grow tomatoes, cucumbers and radishes here. Good heat crop....too bad we can't grow bacon....
Good guess, but already did that
That's so last month;) The garden is in and growing.
Now she wants a fence for the entire property, which I agree would be nice for the privacy, but damn, who knew it was so expensive. I'm just a city boy, don't know about such things.
And then we have to stain it ourselves? Well, OK, if you say so. There goes my vacation...
Then again, if we're working, she's not talking nonstop, so maybe it's a good thing.
One word....
....earbuds. Yeah, it's one word! Playing some sweet '74 ballads. Let it grow!!....btw. A nice fence adds property values....
Spouses and Breakouts
First.. don't act surprised that our significant others are on to us. You've probably heard of al-anon, the support group for friends and family of alcohol and substance abusers. Our wives/gfs/etc. are obviously members of head-anon and share tips and best practices on head-anon.com.
Whats worse, some ne'er–do–well hipster from this site told one of them exactly how much our collections are worth and now they are all trying to kill us. Starts with bacon, have a beer, gin and tonic, death mattress.. it always ends tragically.
Great conversation about breakouts and substantive shows attended. Antonjo, its more than possible we were grooving right next to each other on several occastions.
One man.. great St. Stephen story.. missed it by that much.
Caught a few breakouts and released shows.. my favorite, and this is a true story.. was how I got my Warlocks tickets. A friend got the flu and couldn't go (or was it pneumonia?).. she called me and off I went seven hours later and before cell phones hanging out in the lobby of a Holiday Inn waiting for someone I had never met that came and gave a ticket for each night.
The Box of Rain in '86 was memorable, I think I caught two different Help on the Way breakouts. Got the Watchtower breakout at the Greek.
Good topic, wish I had a better memory.
Speaking of waking up....
....one needs to fall asleep first. I hear something calling my name....
Jim
'Tis true, they got our numbers. And thank God for that, eh? Criticisms, colloquialisms and stereotypes are all in good fun, I wouldn't have it any other way than the way it is.
Vguy, speaking of '74, the star tonight for me has been the Dijon show from 30 Trips, which I finally listened to start to finish (sans Seastones, sorry, just can't do it), and man, what a gem!
I previously only appreciated the stand out UJB opener (I believe Danc, who is a good guy, turned me on to this a couple years ago), but now I know the majesty of the full show, and what a show it is!
Peace, all!
okay, Dijon....
Was going to spin 7/3/66 disc 1 for my morning commute (revisited disc 2 for today's--it greatly boosted my smile quotient in traffic).... But now you guys have put Dijon into my mind's ear.
Funny, that was the second Trip I listened to when the box arrived ~ after '66.
Haven't played it since, and I loved it first time around. Caution jam > Ship of Fools was all I'd previously heard, thanks to one of Dave's Taper's Sections. First set alone is worth the trip.
"(or was it pneumonia?)" ~ nice, Jim ; ) Makes me happy to know you were at the Warlocks. I actually missed a show in the pre-cell area because me and the friends who had my ticket (4/2/89) crossed our signals and never found each other. (Another Download Series, that one.) Had a ticket for 10/19/89, too (Help/Slip & Death Don't), but stayed home out of caution--owed it to my Mom, who'd been caregiving for three weeks--only to be given the official clean bill o' health the very next day.
That's okay, though, I also got a couple miracles. It all evens out. Still, though...those coulda had's...!!
Skttt, skttt, skttt
That's the sound of Slipknot! melting my face. It puzzles me that they didn't play HSF anywhere near as frequently as Scarlet / Fire, Estimated / Eyes, and some of the other longer songs. I guess it just makes it all the better. I don't listen to the Winterland June 1977 box set as much as I do the May '77 shows, but today is the anniversary of the June 9th show, so I put it on. Always a pleasure. Should have listened to the other two on their respective dates.
Anybody else running this show back today?
Strange happenings while playing the Dijon show
Earlier this year in early March, I driving northbound on the I-287 in Morristown New Jersey, I was playing Disc 2 with that crazy, good, warm and wonderful Set 1 closer of Playing in the Band. During Seastones, that's when traffic got a little crazy. There was an accident a few cars a head of me, somebody wanted to go faster than the car in front of it, so I eyewitnessed a rear-ender. On the southbound lanes, instant rubbernecking. Oh, see what happens when you play an in-concert recording of Seastones.However, the opening Uncle John's Band is one of my favorites ever since I got this tape about 25 years ago. The rest of the set is is very good, too. Discs 2 & 3 are excellent to say the least, but be aware of Seastones if you're driving ...
I had a dream
Last night and it was very vivid. It was Dave and a seaside chat. The next Daves will be a 4 disc set and it will be a Matrix show.Then I awoke with a full bladder and had to scramble.
And thanks to KeithFan..........
6-9-77 has just started the morning serenade. 39 years ago? 6-3-77 was my 39 year anniversary of my first rock show (Zeppelin). 1 shy of 40! Sobering shit I tell ya.Maybe I'll follow Norman Browns advice and have some whiskey for breakfast............
Whiskey Before Breakfast
Not a very sobering thought. Good folk/songwriting album.. perhaps my favorite Norman Blake offering..
Whiskey before breakfast.. Seastones traffic calamities... I am staying off the roads today.
Nothing to fear Jim
mear talk and bluff. Raisin Bran and coffee in reality! And this sweet 6-9 show.
Whiskey Before Breakfast
Actually the Seastones story has me cracking up more..
I have this visual of heavy traffic behaving, windows open, cars moving in and out their respective lanes like bees leaving and returning to the hive.. then Seastones begins to play and it all falls apart. Car parts flying through the air, 360's, horrible noises (in addition to whats blasting out of Cross Eyed's speakers), mayhem.
Great visual.
Some advice: Friends don't let friends drive Seastoned.
Not Much Claim, Not Much Fame
Attended a Nils Lofgren concert (Back It Up, Baby!) and, while standing at a urinal, met & had a conversation with Nils's brother (standing at the next urinal). Turned out he grew up in the same suburb (Bethesda MD) where I went to high school...
Famous people I've met....
....I was in the lot at Laguna Seca '88 before the show when I saw three guys fighting over a nitrous tank. A small crowd gathered before a golf cart pulled up driven by no other than Bill Graham. He laid into the guys and escorted them to the front gates with security and kicked them out. I followed, and when Bill turned the cart around, I stuck out my hand. He shaked it and I thanked him for everything he had done. That was the only altercation I can remember occurring at a Dead show....I also met Tim Burton once. Strange dude....
6/9/77
KeithFan--Playing this today, as well--at work on my little desk speakers, though. Fantastic show, definitely a favorite. To my everlasting sadness I missed out on the Winterland box, but the copies on archive over the past few days haven't been bad.H/S/F is the greatest, I also wish it had gotten ScarletFire frequency.
Fame
I have met Jesse Jackson, Dan Quayle, Bobby McFerrin, Dale Chihuly, Anita Hill; shook hands with Bill Clinton.
not hang out with, but meet.
also, yesterday, Seahawk Richard Sherman came and visited my school. I saw him from a distance (no "meet".)
gotta go right up to them, say hello, and shake their hand. Then move on.
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