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    "When we began discussing audio projects to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the Grateful Dead back in 2012, we knew we wanted to do something completely unprecedented. We could think of nothing more exciting or ambitious than a career-spanning overview of the band's live legacy focused on what best tells the story: complete concerts. Our first criterion was the very best live music to represent any given year in the band’s history. We wanted to make sure that there were not only the tent-pole shows that fans have been demanding for decades but also ones that are slightly more under the radar, but equally excellent. For those who listen to the entire box straight through, chronologically, the narrative of the Grateful Dead's live legacy will be seen as second to none in the pantheon of music history." - David Lemieux

    We are more than pleased to announce the Grateful Dead's most ambitious release ever: 30 TRIPS AROUND THE SUN. Available as both an 80-disc boxed set and a custom lightning-bolt USB drive, the collection includes 30 unreleased live shows, one for each year the band was together from 1966 to 1995, along with one track from their earliest recording sessions in 1965. Packed with over 73 hours of music, both the boxed set and the USB drive will be individually numbered limited editions.

    The 80-disc boxed set is individually numbered and limited to 6,500 copies, a nod to the band’s formation in 1965. Along with the CDs, it also includes a gold-colored 7-inch vinyl single which bookends the band’s career. The A-side is “Caution (Do Not Stop On Tracks)” from the band’s earliest recording session in 1965 with the B-side of the last song the band ever performed together live, “Box Of Rain” recorded during their final encore at Soldier Field in Chicago on July 9, 1995.

    The box also comes with a 288-page book that features an extensive, career-spanning essay written by Nick Meriwether, who oversees the Dead archives at the University of California, Santa Cruz, along with special remembrances of the band submitted by fans. Also included is a scroll that offers a visual representation of how the band’s live repertoire has evolved through the years.

    The USB drive version* will be shaped like a gold lightning bolt with the Grateful Dead 50th anniversary logo engraved on the side. The drive includes all of the music from the collection in both FLAC (96/24) and MP3 formats and is an individually numbered limited edition of 1,000 copies. Digital version of the book also included on USB.

    Shows will NOT be sold individually on CD. This release is sure to sell out quickly so pre-order your copy today and stick around as we will be revealing a mighty fine selection of music, art, and much, much more right here.

    (Looking for a smaller 50th Anniversary commemorative keepsake? September 18th will see the release of a four-CD version of the collection titled 30 TRIPS AROUND THE SUN: THE DEFINITIVE LIVE STORY 1965-1995. More on that here.)

    ROLLINGSTONE.COM SONG PREMIERE AND EXCLUSIVE DAVID LEMIEUX INTERVIEW
    Head on over to Rollingstone.com for the very first listen of "Morning Dew" 9/18/87 Madison Square Garden, David Fricke's exclusive interview with archivist David Lemieux, and the reveal of 30 TRIPS AROUND THE SUN's '69 and '84 shows.

    *Helpful hints for using your USB:

    Running the 30 Trips Player / Reader program:
    On Windows – Navigate to the USB drive and double click the PCStart.exe file to run.
    On MacOS – Open the GD 30 Trips drive, and double click the MacStart to run.

    Viewing the digital book:
    You can either view it within the program that comes on the drive, or by opening the PDF directly.

    To view the PDF, open the PDF folder on the drive and the USB_bk_spreads_08-31 file within. Selecting the option within your PDF reading application to view as a “single page” might be preferable to viewing as a continuous document.

    Importing music into iTunes and other library programs:
    When you import the songs from the USB into your library, the information used to identify the track will likely leave them sorted incorrectly. Please use the song list found here to re-number the songs for each show so that they playback in the correct order.
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  • mbarilla
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    Waiting for physical replacements 30 TRIPS
    I have contacted the Folks at CS, and they assured me I would be taken care of. Its been about 2 weeks and nothing, except for the immediate generated generic response "thanks for contacting us.. bla blah" I could have wrote "everything is fine and dandy with my order" and would have got the same generic response.. But really, "NO" everything was not "fine and dandy." Multiple failures in my 30 trips box sets. Over 2 weeks with nothing more than a generic response is unacceptable. I am using the appropriate contacts provided from the website I ordered from, will I get an acceptable resolution in a timely manner ? WTF is going on at the warehouse and other places that Rhino has picked. I have been ordering things, probably since 1998 or 2000. And 2015 is the 1st year I can remember any issues. This is like the 5th order that was screwed up this year for me. And the free shipping LOL, they finally put up a disclaimer, because what they were doing earlier was false advertisement.
  • Dennis
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    45 and searching for the sound.
    Glad someone mentioned where those 2 cuts on the 45 can be found. I have birth of the dead, so that's covered. I have a downloaded audience of last show, so I have Box of Rain. Doesn't sound as good as "official" copy. You're right about will probably never listen to either cut as a cut, but the anal side of me just likes to have things together and in order. Since I only got a used copy of Searchin for the sound, I never got (or even knew) about a cd. What is on it? Anything good? Or is it just stuff that's already out there?
  • deasos16
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    RE:USB - download or replace with a box?
    I thought the same thing too. I thought i would get all the goodies, just not the bulk of the CD's. Come to find out we only get the USB drive? And it still cost $700? That's unreal! You would think that without all the fancy manufacturing the USB would have cost less. That's why I assumed it would still come with the book, the 7", hell... even the box! That looked like some cool shit. And what do the USB people get? NOTHING!!!!
  • Ridin that Train
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    Searching for the sound was such a great read..
    really enjoyed Phil's book. I got the paperback so missed out on the CD. Hope to receive Bill's for Christmas this year. I have a bunch of books about the GD at this point. My first one was the inside history of the Grateful Dead, I could not put it down when I got it! I also remember how fascinating the annotated GD lyrics book was to me when I first read it. So much to learn about the long, strange trip!
  • mojobrojo
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    The BBB? REALLY?
    Surely that's not the way we handle things within this Community! Hey!-- nobody's more PISSED-OFF than I am about being treated like a mushroom as I impatiently wait for $700 worth of long-overdue Music-- SEVEN HUNDRED DOLLARS!!!-- but since when do we go whining to The Man when something is amiss inside our own "Family"? This clusterfuck will surely be remembered as one of the largest in Dead Merch history but we ARE gonna eventually get our Music-- YOU know that and I know that. There's no danger that Dave or Dr Rhino are gonna pocket our cash and run off to an out-of the-way Country without a U.S. Extradition Treaty or something! And neither Dead dot net nor Rhino are suddenly gonna declare bankruptcy leaving us to watch our hard-earned Cash flushed down a corporate toilet. Be Pissed! Be Let-Down! Be Sad! Vent a little on these Message Boards if you need to but the BBB??? REALLY?!?!?!?
  • JeffSmith
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    Still It's Grate Counterpoint
    Thanks Simon – you're right the early copies of Phil's book came with a CD. By the time I got my copy, that CD had become scarcer than a Rockin' the Rhein Bonus CD. Anyway, I have heard a soundboard version of that swan song Box of Rain. I'd still love a digital version of its official release. You can definitely hear the accumulation of years, but for me it underscores the bittersweet passing of all those years (I was 12 in 1965). For me, it provides a historic and poignant exclamation point to the amazing arc of the Grateful Dead's career.
  • simonrob
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    Box of Rain...
    was released on the CD that came with Phil Lesh's book "Searching for the sound".
  • Ridin that Train
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    That Box of Rain..
    doesn't sound too good. It's really just something to have for a collectible or for nostalgia purposes. I'm not sure you will listen to it more than once if you can get through it at all. It's pretty painful to listen to actually, you kind of start to feel the full weight of things, realizing it is the last song they ever played and how bad it sounds and it just made me sad when I heard it. Don't think I will ever listen to it again.
  • JeffSmith
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    Digital Version of the 7" Gold Vinyl
    I second Dennis Wlimot's request for digital versions of the "Caution" and "Box of Rain" that are on the 7" Gold Vinyl in Boxilla. I contacted dead.net, but was told they could not provide downloads. FYI: The "Caution" can be found on "Birth of the Dead", but the "Box of Rain" has not been officially released. I'd love the "Box of Rain" from Chicago 7/9/95 . . . Thanks somebody!
  • Dennis
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    7 inch 45
    Has anybody ripped their 45 to mp3 yet? I don't easily have access to a turntable anymore and would like to have these 2 songs in my files. If you ripped them to mp3 (best level) and would be so kind I'd take a copy,,, I'm sure they're small enough to email. dennis
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"When we began discussing audio projects to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the Grateful Dead back in 2012, we knew we wanted to do something completely unprecedented. We could think of nothing more exciting or ambitious than a career-spanning overview of the band's live legacy focused on what best tells the story: complete concerts. Our first criterion was the very best live music to represent any given year in the band’s history. We wanted to make sure that there were not only the tent-pole shows that fans have been demanding for decades but also ones that are slightly more under the radar, but equally excellent. For those who listen to the entire box straight through, chronologically, the narrative of the Grateful Dead's live legacy will be seen as second to none in the pantheon of music history." - David Lemieux

We are more than pleased to announce the Grateful Dead's most ambitious release ever: 30 TRIPS AROUND THE SUN. Available as both an 80-disc boxed set and a custom lightning-bolt USB drive, the collection includes 30 unreleased live shows, one for each year the band was together from 1966 to 1995, along with one track from their earliest recording sessions in 1965. Packed with over 73 hours of music, both the boxed set and the USB drive will be individually numbered limited editions.

The 80-disc boxed set is individually numbered and limited to 6,500 copies, a nod to the band’s formation in 1965. Along with the CDs, it also includes a gold-colored 7-inch vinyl single which bookends the band’s career. The A-side is “Caution (Do Not Stop On Tracks)” from the band’s earliest recording session in 1965 with the B-side of the last song the band ever performed together live, “Box Of Rain” recorded during their final encore at Soldier Field in Chicago on July 9, 1995.

The box also comes with a 288-page book that features an extensive, career-spanning essay written by Nick Meriwether, who oversees the Dead archives at the University of California, Santa Cruz, along with special remembrances of the band submitted by fans. Also included is a scroll that offers a visual representation of how the band’s live repertoire has evolved through the years.

The USB drive version* will be shaped like a gold lightning bolt with the Grateful Dead 50th anniversary logo engraved on the side. The drive includes all of the music from the collection in both FLAC (96/24) and MP3 formats and is an individually numbered limited edition of 1,000 copies. Digital version of the book also included on USB.

Shows will NOT be sold individually on CD. This release is sure to sell out quickly so pre-order your copy today and stick around as we will be revealing a mighty fine selection of music, art, and much, much more right here.

(Looking for a smaller 50th Anniversary commemorative keepsake? September 18th will see the release of a four-CD version of the collection titled 30 TRIPS AROUND THE SUN: THE DEFINITIVE LIVE STORY 1965-1995. More on that here.)

ROLLINGSTONE.COM SONG PREMIERE AND EXCLUSIVE DAVID LEMIEUX INTERVIEW
Head on over to Rollingstone.com for the very first listen of "Morning Dew" 9/18/87 Madison Square Garden, David Fricke's exclusive interview with archivist David Lemieux, and the reveal of 30 TRIPS AROUND THE SUN's '69 and '84 shows.

*Helpful hints for using your USB:

Running the 30 Trips Player / Reader program:
On Windows – Navigate to the USB drive and double click the PCStart.exe file to run.
On MacOS – Open the GD 30 Trips drive, and double click the MacStart to run.

Viewing the digital book:
You can either view it within the program that comes on the drive, or by opening the PDF directly.

To view the PDF, open the PDF folder on the drive and the USB_bk_spreads_08-31 file within. Selecting the option within your PDF reading application to view as a “single page” might be preferable to viewing as a continuous document.

Importing music into iTunes and other library programs:
When you import the songs from the USB into your library, the information used to identify the track will likely leave them sorted incorrectly. Please use the song list found here to re-number the songs for each show so that they playback in the correct order.
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This offering from 30 Trips is a classic Bruce/Vinnie show! The whole fall 1990 tour really. For a band who just hired two new players this tour has some mighty fine moments. New York to the UK and more! Good stuff!
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if someone could provide me with a copy on cd of this show from 30 trips around the sun I would be eternally grateful. a gorgeous show that you just have to listen to to know its one of the best ever. please let me know and I will provide my details.

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