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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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  • #3571
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    I agree with you, Nanno about '72-74 although technically, and you may agree, I think that era begins when Keith joins the band in Fall of '71. Is 1977 overrated? In many ways this is a matter of linguistics--does everyone agree on how '77 is rated? For my preference 1977 IS overrated in that my top ten, maybe even top 20 favorite shows are all pre-hiatus shows, while many regard '77 as their favorite year. To me those early Keith years with one drummer are the absolute best for many of the reasons you mentioned. But calling '77 overrated doesn't mean I don't think it's great; I do think it's great and listen to shows from that year as well as 76 very often. Wjond, I liked your post on '77 and I think you're right about how they played with such emotion. There are so many highlights from that year and your post made me think of the Comes a Time from 5-9 and the Wharf Rat from 5-7 among many others. I love that stuff; but overall, my favorite is the wide open jamming from the so called "golden era." To each his own, it's all good, as illustrated by the shows in this box. There's a lot to love from every year. But we all have our favorites.
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    I haven't streamed a note or read a word. It's a Xmas gift and since the family goes their own way on Xmas day I plan on diving in head first. Nothing against the streamers and readers, in fact I'm happy to read the positive reports on the quality of the sound and the shows.
  • #3573
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    Yup, me too.
    Haven't streamed and feeling no desire to do so. Looking forward to kicking back and getting lost in the ozone, but I'm a patient man. No knock on streamers, to each his or her own ...
  • #3574
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    re: Midway/re: Alain/re: Nanno
    Midway, I, too had a tape labeled Muir Beach Acid Test but I was always skeptical about the veracity of the date and venue. I also had a tape labeled Magoo's Pizza Parlor but I'm pretty sure it was some early studio stuff. Alain, fantastic post--loved hearing your first reaction to the Dead, especially since you weren't familiar with their music when you saw them for the first time. It was quite the opposite for me. My first show was Brent's penultimate show and I was well aware of the scene and the format and much of the band's history at the time; circumstances had prevented me from seeing them earlier. I was very impressed with the music and surprised by how prominent a role Brent played and how much he fired up the crowd.
  • #3575
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    yes - still waiting
    haven't streamed a note. if i wanted digital product, i would've bought it. not complaining about the delay either - it's more important to get it right.
  • #3576
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    Richard, In May 1972 I was still a teenager, I began to get old now. The concert on May 4th was fantastic, magical! I did not know the music of the Grateful Dead before, I had never heard of the Dead disk. So I discovered while live concert. I had the impression of a lively music, a music that was a living being, which evolved by itself. I had never before heard anything like Dark Star, it was really incredible. I was also struck by the diversity of the group's repertoire. I tried to dance, but it was not easy at all between the seats of the theater of Olympia. I remember having considered the Good Lovin 'played that night was for me an exuberant célébration. As I said here a day or two, this show is one of the three shows that have marked me most in my life. And you, what was your first Dead show?
  • #3577
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    anyone still waiting?
    Anyone out there still waiting for the big box to arrive on your doorstep before listening?
  • #3578
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    I didn't even try to hold out
    I knew I wouldn't be able to hold off, so I never even tried :) I've been working forward from the beginning. I've been thrilled with every show so far. The 5/16/81 show has the largest AUD patch (the whole last few songs), but it's a great show. The 8/31/82 has the lowest overall sound quality, but that show is also great, and the sound is acceptable, just a larger than normal amount of tape hiss. I'm still on the '84 show. If things stay this strong, I will be a very happy camper.
  • #3579
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    30 Trips
    I was one of the "30 Trippers" that was unable to control my desire to stream some of the shows from 30 Trips. I tried to only listen to the later era stuff from the box, but in the end I couldn't avoid listening to large parts of the '72-'73 shows...gosh darn it. Needless-to-say, the '72 and '73 shows are f-ing spectacular, of course. Anyway, I completely enjoyed the show from 10/12/1984! It is definitely a hot one, and I know you all will love it. The sound quality isn't the best (but it's fine), however the performance certainly makes up for it.
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    30 Trips HDCD
    The image of the 4-CD 30 Trips mini-box appears to have the HDCD logo. The image I found of the back cover isn't too clear, but I'm pretty sure. Maybe someone who bought the mini box can check and post. If the mini box is HDCD its a good bet the big box is. Incidentally, all the Dead's shows prior to them using digital recording at the shows (late 80's or 90's), were recorded to analog reel to reel or to analog cassette tapes. The former gets no more than 13-bit equivalent, the latter less than 10 (sometimes as low as 5 or 6 bits). You can't take a 13 bit recording of, say, a Europe 72 show, transfer it to a 20 bit medium, and somehow have added audio information to the file. The 16 bits of CD are already more bits than the original recording. Edit: Also, based on the link Ziffle provided, it appears distinctly possible that, because of the peculiar way HDCD is encoded into the 16 bit CD, that we would have been better off without the HDCD encoding at all. It looks like, because of the problems it creates in a regular CD player, the best way to use these HDCDs is to rip to wav, then expand the files to 20-bit using hdcd.exe (or something equivalent on a Mac). Then, losslessly compress to flac, or, if you use mp3, compress to mp3. Either way, compressing AFTER expanding out the HDCD encoding will alleviate the peak problems described in the link. The resulting flac (or other lossless) file will now have the HDCD information in a 20 (or 24) bit file, so you should get the advantages (if any) of HDCD without having to use an HDCD compatible player. Even though mp3s won't have this, they will still benefit from this process because you will have removed the peak compression problems caused by the HDCD encoding.
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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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That'd be 4 CD @Felt Forum '71 4-CD Set!
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