Grateful Dead

Any of the other Bama peeps been able to get a sales tax to come up and get your order through yet? I'm still stuck and sad. Fingers crossed it can get fixed.

@Amosesmoses I’ve messaged admin and they messaged the tech department, so hopefully a fix will be soon. I would like to order the box set too.

....Alabama heads can't order because of a sales tax snafu?
I've been here for a long time. Seen some weird shit. But that's a first.

@VGUY72 I think this is something new. I bought the sub for this years Dave’s Picks back in October or November and until this box set was available I have never had trouble ordering from dead.net.

Seven weeks and six days until....I start complaining about shipping again.

Checking out at the store got worse after the update.

Thanks for your efforts SWR…hopefully we get some resolution soon!

I also subscribed to Dave’s a few months ago and didn’t have any issues back then.

Late Spring '73 was a "Dream Box", my answer in those what-box-do-you-want-to-see regular go-arounds. Did I think it really had a chance? Not really. As in, "No Way." Kezar stand alone seemed likely. I figured the attorneys would sort out 6/10 but good chance 6/9 and 6/10 would get spun out in some other release. And yet here we are - late Spring '73 - Des Moines, Santa Barbara, Kezar, RFK - straight run, in all its glory. Unfreaking real. Thank you Dave, and all others driving this train, for your guiding hand and vision. We are so lucky!!

So the show that in some way underpinned this box concept, for me, was Des Moines. Many years ago I fell in love with the idea that the GD would play a venue like the Iowa State Fairgrounds on a June day, say like 6/16/74, and a somewhat blustery day based on Bob's shirt early in the show, and lay down a complete brain-melt show out in the greater corn field Midwest. And many awhile later I learned they had played the Fairgrounds a year earlier on 5/13/73. I got to know the jam sequence from 5/13 winter of 2010/11 on a regular night time canyon country drive to and from Escalante for a project. 11/11/73 Disc 3 was also in that rotation. Great deep space driving music. Got you safely where you needed to go. And later I got to thinking that Des Moines '73 should be released and I envisioned it as part of a box - and so it is.

And a curious 5/13 Garcia guitar fact - he played 3 diff electric guitars (only known show) - Alligator, Erlewine "Numbers" Strat, and the 1st Irwin "Eagle" (thank you DeadEssays).

Take care everyone. May your beer be cold and tasty, be it kin to a Tank Slapper Double Rye, a Desert Fog, a Rupture, or a Bud Light. All good.

Noticed on another forum someone had pasted their charges with the $30 discount applied from the code…but they were also charged $14 and change for shipping.

If you sign in and order it removes the $14 shipping charge, but the code will not work.

In other words, we’re paying about the same as if we used the code. Yes?

....or have some rec'd both discounts?

Wake of the flood, laughing water, 49
Get out the pans, don't just stand there dreaming, get out the way
Get out the way

Here comes sunshine
Here comes sunshine

I ordered earlier today and was happy to get free shipping.

....is what I was charged. I hate math.

Giving out discount codes to some but not all.

Please sometime today raise a glass or at least a positive thought for my friend Craig...I found out today that he died last Sunday. He had talked FOR YEARS about wanting 5/13/73 getting the official release treatment.

He also made (and gave) me a loooooot of discs over the years.

Here's to you, Craig. Rock in peace.

Arrived Friday night. I love this release! In a word: Lazy. It feels slow and lazy to me like the band got all hashed out or down or something before going on. Not the tightest show but a clear mix and this is why I love the Dead so much, variety and lack of perfection. Which suits me perfectly.

On the fence with the Aerosmith tickets, they're charging way too much, but taking the Crowes out with them and it will be the last time to see them, unless another Vega$ residency pops up. How funny when I was growing up Vegas was where they put Elvis out to pasture and all the rat packers... now it's where old rock bands go to get rich and die.

Last five:

Grateful Dead: Dave's Picks 46 (second listen as of this post)
Metallica: 72 Seasons (last song my favorite I dig metal but not thrash)
Stevie Wonder: At the Close of a Century (disc two)
Linda Ronstadt: The Best of Linda Ronstadt, the Capitol Years
Deep Purple: Burn (Expanded & Remastered)

\m/

....although, methinks Ledded is posting on the wrong board.
It happens.
Been there.
I haven't smoked real hash in years. I remember being numb.

Dead shows were less bumpy after Pigpen dropped out, that's for sure.

Dry your eyes and take your song out
It's a newborn afternoon
And if you can't recall the singer
You can still recall the tune

Dry your eyes and play it slowly
Like you're marching off to war
Sing it like you know he'd want it
Like we sang it once before

And from the center of the circle
To the midst of the waiting crowd
If it ever be forgotten
Sing it long and sing it loud
And come dry your eyes

And it taught us more about giving
Than we ever cared to know
But we came to find the secret
And we never let it go

And it was more than being holy
Oh it was less than being free
And if you can't recall the reason
Can you hear the people sing

Right through the lightning and the thunder
To the dark side of the moon
To that distant falling angel
That descended much too soon
And come dry your eyes

Come dry your eyes

Sorry, but this has been in my head all morning.

I just ordered the box and attempted to order the t-shirt that's supposed to drop on 6/30 with the box. Only size small and medium available??? WTF!

I've been hanging out here and ordering ALL releases since day 1 (don't let the avatar date fool you) and it is AMAZING how screwed up it is!!!

Rant over! have a great day, gang

Woo hoo!! Was able to order to an Alabama shipping address this morning. Now I can stop mucking up this board with complaints and start getting excited for the new jazzy one-drummer '73 Dead!

Nice job Fourwinds.

Hey Mikey, someone has to tell the Leafs
1) their not the Sabres
2) and/so they need to play ALL 60 minutes….arrrrrrggggghhhhh
Oh well, it was fun while it lasted…sorry homey

Interesting, no SBDs for 6/18/83? Still can’t believe I didn’t go to this one….idiot

And may the four winds blow Graig safely home to the big 73 jam in the beyound!

Aaaaannnd,
Great News Amos!

Just wanted to be the first to point that out. Not that I expected it to go fast.

STL Box is 13,000 copies and is still available.
MSG Box is 12,500 copies and is still available.
PNW Box and Giants Stadium Box (don’t know how many copies) both took a while to sell out.

HCSS 1973 Box has been reduced to 10,000 copies.

FW 69 was 5000 copies.

The magic number appears to be between 5000-10,000 copies for ‘normal’ Boxes.
May 77 broke the website and required an All Music Edition.

Any other potential Boxes that could break the website?
Winterland Oct. 74 audio and video might.

....you got yours? Yes. Did I get mine? Yes.
Not to sound selfish, but I'm a happy camper.

Conekid, the Giants Stadium Box was limited to 10,000. I believe 6,000 for the Blu-ray and 4,000 for the DVD.
Fillmore West was limited to 10,000.

Would love to see that Winterland 74 Box.

Oberon finally flowing in MN. No talls boys yet, hopefully they are on the way.

But now I feel pleased over the new box set, which I ordered the same day it was available för that.

To me the real deal here is the RFK Stadium shows. For the past 35 years or so I have been looking at a poster with a picture from the June 9th show. Bought it in San Francisco in September 1986 but I'm not sure when I first hung it on a wall in my home. Remember having it on a wall when I last went to school in 1988/89. Since then I have framed the poster and it has been above my stereo and TV-set since 2002.

The June 10th show was one of the first tapes I got in the early/late Spring in 1985 after having a Tape Trader ad in issue #5 of The Golden Road fanzine. I havent worn out the tapes but back then I listened to some of its content, especially Bird Song and Playing in the Band, Dark Star and the third set. The longer version of Playing in the Band was one of the first such I ever listened to. Before that my Playing experience was limited to the one on Skull n Roses. So it really blew my mind 38 years ago.

Well, looking forward the box set! Later this week I will probably get Dave's Picks #46. I paid taxes and Post office fee yesterday morning.

Micke Östlund,
Växjö, Sweden

And yet I still missed out on it back then.
Good thing I have 3/4 of it so far on Plangentized/Normanized vinyl.

DV, I haven't seen 16 oz cans this year.

That one caught many off guard. It was the first limited and numbered release they put out. I think this was the last effort made by GD Merchandizing at about the same time they handed over production reigns to Rhino. There was also the mini box which was quite cool actually.. I bet a lot of folks opted for the mini box. Why would we need all four shows when they went through the work to pick the best of the run and put it in this neat little mini box for us?

In hindsight it probably woke a lot of us up that we can't be complacent and head down to the Barnes and Nobles CD isle to pick up whatever Dicks Picks suits us whenever we want to buy it.. often years after it was released.

Or as Homer Simpson said, "D'oh!"

Wish they would release the final vinyl of this series and be done with it.

I want to mark this one as DONE!

It came out before I knew deadnet existed. I didn't get a laptop until 2010, so it probably also came out before I was making online purchases of any kind. That's why I didn't get it - and why I'm hoping 3/2/69 comes out on vinyl sometime soon.
Dicks Picks, Road Trips and all the stand alone releases used to be available from a British shop called Spin Records mail order. I haven't done badly.

Was on the fence at the time - finally went to buy it and it had sold out in previous 24 hours or so. Still a bit painful all these years later. I'm never gonna return to vinyl so hoping for a Plangent CD release.

The information to buy it came out in the Grateful Dead Journal that was mailed to your house. I bought 2 copies one for me and one for my brother.

In the immortal words of Terri Hatcher, "They're real and they're spectacular"

Still, my favorite box might just be Europe 72. But it's a very, very close call.

The first 3 box sets to be released and still the top 3 in my book.

Totally agree. After a long hiatus, I just started listening to Winterland 73 regularly again. It is outstanding.

THIS is the one we've been waiting for, and while the icing (6/10/73) is available separately, I would think this cake would be of far more interest than some of the more recent boxed sets, no?

The Fillmore West '69 box sales were limited to 6900 (because of the number 69, like the Europe '72 was limited to 7200). No one could imagine people plunking down $100 or more for a box of CDs at a time when folks were giving up on the medium. The GD and Rhino took a risk on those, not realizing how many Heads would come out of the woodwork to purchase the old live material. Based on buying trends at that time there was a very real chance that they could produce all those boxes and end up with half of them left over, which possibly would have swamped the boat of the folks who were trying to get shows released; the releases could have ground to a halt had that occurred. Kind of like why the first few Dick's Picks were one or two CDs; no one had ever tried to sell a set of three CDs before, so who knew if anyone would buy such a "monstrosity"? Thankfully we all bought them, and so here we are today, with an embarrassing wealth of Grate music in amazing packages.

Be kind, rewind.

p.s. I always figure that given the opportunity, I would grab the Europe and FW boxes on the flight from the flaming house, and try to get the July '78 box under an arm. Just love that 1978 box!

...for me since I missed all the early boxes.
You know which box I will grab on the way out of the fire.
Just look at my username.
Hopefully none of us will have to make that choice.
Cheers

The listening party audio does not match what is listed.
In fact, the 2nd song is "Black Throated Wind", which does not even seem to be on the set list for any of these 5 shows.

So... what is the deal?

May like Fillmore 69, but the Steamer Trunk!!!!

Oh, and it's worth about 4 times as much.

..... and I be grabbin' the axe.

It was correct at first, but somehow it's been switched to the DaP #46 listening party

Reading the comments about HCS 73 finally made me jump off the fence and buy it. JIMINMD and DEADHEADBREWER made good points about how it was in the aughts, when Dick's Picks were easily available, and physical media seemed a bit passe. That and the seemingly limitless contents of the archive combined to lull me to sleep around '07-'08 or so, just not even paying attention to what any record companies were releasing. So I didn't even know about the Europe and FW box sets until years afterward. I even missed the first few years of Dave's.

And yet somehow here I was, staring at this year's box set and not pulling the trigger. So thanks to everyone who finally made me see sense. BLUECROW's note in particular was sobering ;)

Do you think there will ever be Winterland 74 box?

I'm a little confused. This appears in the description: "Digital convert? We've got you covered too. On the very same day you can collect your hi-definition download."

Does that mean if I buy the CDs I get a digital download as well?

It's certainly the one I've been waiting for Deadheadbrewer; Kezar since Dick's Picks Vol.1 and this box since the list of shows appeared at the time of the Dave's Picks launch. Three of these shows were on that list and, aside from the legals surrounding the Allmans appearances, there was always going to be some kind of box based around these.

I'm also a little surprised it hasn't sold out, particularly as this is a smaller edition that then past three (12.5k, 13k and 12k respectively). I do get the feeling buyer numbers have declined a little in the last year or two. I can't recall how long Fillmore West took to sell out (it was 10k), pretty quick I think, but not as quick as the full Get Shown The Light, which was 15k and sold out overnight. I don't recall any other box sets selling out particularly quickly, they're normally around for a few months.

The drop in Dave's Picks sales appears to me to be about a decline in subscriber numbers rather than a response to any particular show, although I do appreciate that you don't have to commit to a subscription before the first two shows are revealed.

Three boxes I'd grab before leaving a burning house? Let's limited it to Grateful Dead boxes and I'd probably say Pacific Northwest, June 76 and Listen To The River on the basis that Get Shown The Light is still available (oh dear, that would mean leaving 30 trips behind!)

Last 5

Sonny Rollins - Freedom Suite
Rev. Gary Davis - Harlem Street Singer
Grateful Dead - Feb 28th 1969 from Complete Fillmore West
Mingus Big Band 93 - Nostalgia In Times Square
Buddy Miles - Live

In case of fire: Only 3 box sets? An interesting challenge.
The Winterland boxes 73 and 77, for sure, because they are both great, and easy to carry. For the third, I’d have to go with the 30 Trips box - NO other artist/band/being has such a unique collection. You could keep a lot of Heads very happy with the 30 Box - something for everyone. Because my dog would want to help, he will take the Wilco Yankee Complete box and likely Miles’ Complete Bitches Brew.
Oh to be an octopus, or perhaps a Kraken.
PS - Why are boxes selling slower? I can only add from my perspective that the international shipping fee at $70 is a big barrier. Nope.

The fillmore west complete recordings box set that came out in 2005 was limited to 10,000 (not 6900) - and the LP sets that followed recently were limited to 9,000.

Just thought you should know :-)

Which 3 you would choose obviously is going to depend on which boxes you were fortunate enough to get, and of course, personal preference. For me, I would have to take:

FW ‘69 (+ bonus disc!!).
Europe ‘72
Listen to the River-why this one?? Well, it covers multiple tours, AND it has ‘71 shows!!

That’s just me. I really enjoy reading other people’s choices as well.

“Sports was invented to give men 2 things”:
Something to get excited about
Something to repeatedly break your heart.

Kind of like falling in love when you think about it. 😂💜

If you didn't get the listen to river box if available get. Been really getting into lately and there's just so much good stuff that covers a few different years. Like the 2-3 different years that have been put in last few boxes. And I;ll also say the last one MSG 81-83 don't sleep on this either. Been in the mix at work since I got it, plus the black light box art is cooler than bearded skeletons any day. Chillin with a nice Glenmorangie tonight the sun was actually out today, thank you sun.
Lastish:
Grateful Dead: Buffalo 5/9/77
Van Morrison: Astral Weeks
Pink Floyd: A Momentary Lapse of Reason
Waylon Jennings: Honkey Tonk Heroes
Jimi Hendrix: Are You Experienced? really dig the stone free and highway chile

....I don't have Fillmore '69 (just the smaller version), or E72 (a have about twelve shows purchased Ala cart), so with that being said.
30 Trips - 30 shows
Spring '90 Too - best sounding box
The PNW box - packaging
......
The '78 box is a close 4th - also packaging.

I could've SWORN when I listened to 3/1 from the FW box the other night something in the literature or parephenalia mentioned 6900 copies! :) Was it initially ANNOUNCED to be only 6900, then immediate demand convinced the powers-that-be to move the number of copies up to 10,000?

And dang--I plum forGOT about TTATS! Hmmmm . . . would I leave the FW behind in lieu of TTATS, figuring that I could always listen to Live Dead?

Not wishing to be indelicate, but there must be less Deadheads alive now than when the first boxsets came out. It's a dying population and a problem facing many religions - how to hook the kids?

Sport also gives men something to talk about. It's not just men in England either - the only person I know who plays football is my friends 8 year old granddaughter. Consequently my friend - a woman for Gods sake - now talks about football too.

Given that they have multitracks of the 4 shows it would seem a no brainer.However someone on Hoffman’s once posted that they thought the tapes were accidentally lost/destroyed shortly after they were used for the movie soundtrack.