Grateful Dead

No bias, you know what YOU like.

Was pleasantly surprised to get a notification that it shipped today - 3 days before the scheduled February 1 release date. Looking forward to receiving it next week.

I'm especially looking forward to DAP 30. 2 complete Fillmore East shows from very early 1970 with Dark Star, St. Stephen, Cryptical Envelopment Suite and lots of PigPen. This is bordering on '68-69 primal Dead although from what I understand these shows also have material from American Beauty.

As for the 2019 Box set, I'd love it if they issue the 1969 Ark Shows or perhaps from the Avalon Ballroom run. It's been a long time since the FW '69 Box and I'd love to have another box of primal Dead.

I guess my biases in Dead eras is showing. ;-)

....checking the national weather. -50 windchill in the upper midwest? I'm definitely not going where the winds don't blow so strange. Bundle up people. I couldn't even imagine....

$2,499, wow indeed.. I've already got one (it's vvery niicce).. but looking through the sellers other offerings, I decided to pull the trigger on a steeply discounted bridge in Brooklyn.

Glad to see the step up in packaging from Road Trips to Dave's Picks.. as others have said, the packaging scratched discs and they overdid it a bit on the made from recycled materials concept.. the CD covers looked like brown paper bags and the artwork, often quite good, was buried under a sea of brown cardboard stock. If I were buying some of these re-issues, I would prefer it not be the same as the originals..

Anyway.. lets hope the delay in shipping was caused by a hopefully successful attempt to address some quality control issues. It would be a shame if 2/26/77 was mired by blems, scratches and discs that don't play so good. Here's to hoping for excellence on this most excellent release.

heading out now...GD66 awaits.

Vancouver BC 7/29 and 30

:)))

2499$ for Spring Box

lol...

absolutely ridiculous. money must mean absolutely nothing to you if you spend that kind of money on GD.

freedom to do what you want in this life, aye.

but 2499$...for a box set of 1990 GD...

Lots of talk about road trips on ebay or real gone versions on here. I have some extra originals if anyone is interested. Up for trade preferable, but will sale at low cost. No bonus cds and none of the biggies (ie 1976, 1973, 1970). if interested, pm me and I can send a list of what I have.

Thanks Jim. This is good information. I noticed some of the sold prices don't show up when a best offer was accepted.

There is a Spring 1990 Box listed for sale for $2499! Wow.

..now I have to figure out how I did that. Let me look into it again, admitted eBay novice.

JimInMD got into a less than pleasant spat with the youtube bandit here last summer. Something I am not proud of.. I guess he could come back now, all that dust seems to have settled. Plus you can't embed youtube links into posts anymore anyway.

If you are logged into eBay and type in a search.. on the left margin there is a list of options and part way down there is an option called SOLD. Select this and it shows sold results for your search item. I didn't know you could do this until yesterday.. many thanks Charlie.

Now I can search confidently for the best price possible on that gold plated, ivory back scratcher with white rhino horn nubbins at the tip that I have always wanted.

I also heard that they don't come with the bonus discs. The good news is that eBay prices went down for the original series issue, since they're competing with real gone now.

I've kicked my morning off with dark star from November 11th 1973. That winterland box set is incredible. It's one of those that I think every good Grateful Dead collection needs to have. Even the non completists.

I wonder what the next box set is going to be. Just a hunch, but I wonder if there will be some kind of 1989 double Show release like they did with RFK last year. Or some other year with comparably good sound from the late 80s early 90s. And then I imagine another 70s box with maybe three shows. I'd be up for a huge box, but I don't know that Rhino is on that page right now. I hope I'm wrong. I would be fine with something like you're up 72, where were you at 20 shows from the summer and fall of 1972. Bring It On Home.