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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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  • Jason Wilder
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    '74 and '75 and some stats
    On my 2nd listen of '75 right now, and it's better than I thought. Sure, a little rough around the edges with some lyrics and new tunes, but the jams are sweet. I'm a bit biased and Help>Slip and Music Never Stopped are some of my favorite tunes, not to mention Franklin's Tower. '74 also grew on the second listening. In terms of stats, here are some notes on some of the rarities on 30 Trips. Here are the songs that had seen the fewest live releases on CD (not counting video/downloads) prior to 30 Trips, taken from the wonderful Grateful Dead Lyric and Song Finder site at http://www.whitegum.com/intro.htm: No previous releases: Tastebud, Cardboard Cowboy, Don't Need Love, La Bamba, Days Between, I Fought the Law, Salt Lake City, Samba in the Rain, I Just Want to Make Love To You. Once: Keep Rolling By, Don't Mess Up a Good Thing, Gangster of Love, You Don't Have to Ask, It's a Man's World, Tomorrow if Forever, Seastones, It Takes a Lot to Laugh It Takes a Train to Cry, Broken Arrow, Corrina, So Many Roads, Way to Go Home, That Would Be Something. Twice Cream Puff War, King Solomon's Marbles/Stronger than Dirt/Milin' the Turkey, My Brother Esau, Liberty, Visions of Johanna. Thrice: Ain't It Crazy (The Rub), On the Road Again, Hey Jude Finale, The Same Thing, Maggie's Farm, The Last Time, Wang Dang Doodle. Four times: He Was a Friend of Mine, In the Midnight Hour, Mountains of the Moon, The Race is On, Hey Pocky Way. Five: Nobody's Fault But Mine, C.C. Rider, Smokestack Lightning, I Will Take You Home, Blow Away, Just Like Tom Thumbs Blues. Also, FWIW, if you just count the discs, Box of Rain (161) doesn't make an appearance, and would have come in right behind Brokedown Palace as the most played tune not to appear in 30 Trips, save for the vinyl. Anyway, I think I'm go to play around with the first ten a bit before moving on to the middle third of the box. Enjoy them out of order and compare them, etc.
  • mbarilla
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    Worcester '83 - has been on the tip of Dave's tongue
    for a while, so I think that is the one he wanted out there. I like April 83 shows 4.12.83 4.13.83 and to close out the tour is a barn burner 4.26.83 !!! And dang it !!! What about a soundboard for 6.24.83 ? Some extra hot playing in quite a few of those 1st set tunes Candyman -> Little Red Rooster Althea Hell In A Bucket Deal and killer second set !!! Check it out people 6.24.83 !!!!! Holy Cow
  • Mytime
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    Actually just listened to this yesterday unaware that this was the anniversary. Interesting show but definitely not worth occupying phone memory. Does have an Uncle John's Band, though. Overall not in same league as other 30 trips shows I've heard so far. 87 much better.
  • Born Cross Eye…
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    Meriwether's book
    I finally got around to read the extra long "liner notes" / book / essay, or just plain "Shadow Boxing The Apocalypse: An Alternative History of the Grateful Dead" by Nicholas Meriwether.It's a very good read, it covers just over 30 years of the Grateful Dead if you include the "Prologue: New Year's Eve, 1963." Very well researched and authoritative from Meriwether's point of view. It reads year by year with the selected show included and other details that is just plain facinating. Most of everything he covers in this tale has been already known to Dead Heads for years in various points of view. If you haven't read this essay yet, by all means take the time to read it. I also have been reading most of the submitted stories from the Dead Heads. I read one story of someone who tripped on LSD of their first show and were clean and straight for all other following shows that this person saw. My own story is similar, but smoked a lot of some really potent marijuana before my first show, and every show after that I saw clean and sober. I only had to "put up" with the beautiful smells in the arenas that I saw the Grateful Dead in, namely The Spectrum in Philadelphia and Madison Square Garden in New York City and a few other places.
  • matchewy
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    Without a Net Vinyl
    To compliment Analog Productions' recent audiophile vinyl release of Reckoning, they should release and audiophile Without a Net.
  • mbarilla
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    no LIG here, but this show is hot !! 5.6.90 please consider for Official release. Thank You for your consideration Rhinos
  • mbarilla
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    Without A Net -- Top Notch Grateful Dead
    Love everything about that release, good call Alain. I just scored 2 copies of Without A Net on vinyl !! Oh boy !! one sealed and the other in pretty good shape.. Unfortunately it was not for the price my friend found it for,, he found a sweet copy of Without A Net 3LP for $1.00 ! for a late 80's "LIG" 7.17.88 - is one of top quality
  • matchewy
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    @Alain
    You are certainly not alone. I love the "Without a Net' version. The LIG and Bird Song from Without a Net are my favorite tracks from that set. Both have those sweet Mickey/Brent interplays that were so trippingly intense during the Spring 90 tour.
  • KeithFan2112
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    LIG / WRS Dial-a-Melt
    The 11/4/77 (DaP 12) performance of Let It Grow is a notch above most. The jam is spectacular, very Santana-like. For a WRS that stands out, take a listen to the Beyond Description Bonus Disc (it's from one of the October '74 Winterland shows that they recorded for the Movie Soundtrack, but it's not the version that was released in the movie or CD). Bobby sings his ass off in Part 1 like no other version.
  • Alain
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    Let It Grow
    Am I alone in considering the Let It Grow appeared in Without A Net as an absoluty fabulous version, with a concise jam, inventive and burning ?
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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.
PDF
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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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