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    July 1978: The Complete Recordings

    What's Inside:

    • Five Complete Shows on 12 discs
    • 7/1/78 Arrowhead Stadium: Kansas City, MO
    • 7/3/78 St. Paul Civic Center Arena: St. Paul, MN
    • 7/5/78 Omaha Civic Auditorium: Omaha, NE
    • 7/7/78 Red Rocks Amphitheatre: Morrison, CO
    • 7/8/78 Red Rocks Amphitheatre: Morrison, CO
    Mastered in HDCD by Jeffrey Norman
    Artwork by esteemed cartoonist Paul Pope
    Intro and show-by-show liner notes by Nicholas Meriwether
    Producer's Note by David Lemieux
    Individually Numbered, Limited Edition of 15,000
    Release Date: May 13, 2016

    Announcing July 1978: The Complete Recordings

    We’re pleased to announce JULY 1978: THE COMPLETE RECORDINGS, five incredible unreleased shows and the first official release from the long-lost tapes, recently returned to the Grateful Dead’s vault. Follow the Dead on a sonic journey through a superb selection of settings, an often epic adventure that finds them winning over Willie and Waylon fans in Kansas City, conjuring charisma in Omaha, and elevating the Red Rocks beyond their already spiritual planes. With five distinct performances painting the masterpiece of 1978, Betty Cantor-Jackson's always-pristine soundboard recordings, and the "hall-of-fame pedigree" of the Dead's first-ever shows at the legendary Red Rocks Amphitheatre, this is one release that far exceeds excellence in music, sound quality, and rarity.

    Limited to 15,000 individually numbered copies, JULY 1978: THE COMPLETE RECORDINGS includes Arrowhead Stadium, Kansas City, MO (7/1/78), St. Paul Civic Center, St. Paul, MN (7/3/78), Omaha Civic Auditorium, Omaha, NE (7/5/78), and Red Rocks Amphitheater, Morrison CO (7/7/78 and 7/8/78) - all of the performances in this collection are drawn from the band’s master soundboard recordings, each newly mastered by Jeffrey Norman. The set also features original artwork by esteemed cartoonist Paul Pope (D.C. and Marvel comics) and in-depth liner notes written by Nick Meriwether (Grateful Dead Archives at the University of California, Santa Cruz), as well as a producer’s note from producer David Lemieux.

    Due May 13th, we anticipate that this extraordinary box will sell out. Your best bet is to pre-order it now, then sit back, relax, and enjoy all the exclusive content we'll be rolling out over the next few weeks right here.

    Looking for something a little more byte-sized? The collection will also be available for HD digital download in FLAC and ALAC, exclusively at dead.net, on release day.

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  • #201
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    Why is this still on sale?
    I can only answer for myself, and it's very simple; DiP 18 and, if i felt I needed any more than that, Red Rocks is available separately. on a separate note; does anyone know, is Betty getting her dues; I and several others have asked, and I haven't seen any kind of response at all. If not, surely a Pledge page would be good; or is there already one up? Anyone know?
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    Kayak Guy hit the nail on the head
    "This should make Rhino happy, the release of widely circulated Betty shows does better than the Betty's that never circulated.Maybe all those years of circulation gave people a taste of what they are willing to pay for now and the stuff that stayed hidden is too unknown to buy?" This is very insightful indeed. I can see no other explanation for the disparity.
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    Taking the threads back from the hackers
    This page for a while was filled with hackers posting away. when i translated some of it through google before it was cleaned up, it was polish slang for "i like this place" and "these people are funny". This set rocks BIGLY, you should consider yourselves lucky its still available for cost and still numbered editions. If you don't have it yet, it's worth the money and the artwork is fantastic, in the style of a graphic novel. Compared to other recent boxes that feature Normanized versions of Betty's that have been in circulation for 30 years, This July 78 box has 4 unreleased Betty's, well 3 and a Stereo upgrade from the mono that circulated. This should make Rhino happy, the release of widely circulated Betty shows does better than the Betty's that never circulated. Maybe all those years of circulation gave people a taste of what they are willing to pay for now and the stuff that stayed hidden is too unknown to buy? In any event if you haven't got it yet, you really should grab this box before it sells out and it becomes speculative on ebay, if just for the box and artwork.
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    The Bigger Question is....
    Why has this not sold out, its fantastic. Yes.. music today and the constant Russian Hackers is a big part of the reason, the other part is beyond an initial rollout strategy, they have no involvement. For the longest time this thread faded was not even prevalent from the home page of dead.net. I'm not complaining, I have mine and love it.. I just come to this thread from time to time and think wtf?
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    Why is this still on sale?
    You all have good guesses, as good as mine, which is. The real reason this is still available is the meltdown of Music Today shortly after the release, the website going to comments only mode for months until the Dave's subscription was announced, when NOTHING was available for purchase, and the still cryptic hint above that at some point it will be available digitally "on release day". Its very likely there are 2000 people that would have bought the box if it was the only option, but waited for the digital version instead. Add to that some short term memory loss and short attention spans and you have over 2000 copies left of this box set which I like much better than the Spring 77 box. I love this artwork and would have spent lots of dead presidents on T shirts, posters, and other schwag if offered. I also feel many people pay attention to their browsers and for months this site has been unsafe and I have to click through 2 browser warnings just to log in that say the site is bad for my internet security. NO where else on the internet do i have to click the 2nd "Are you Sure?" dialog box. What's up with that, someone saving IT money by waiting for a new interface, maybe ROAR as the core in the fall? Meanwhile the site limps along on, unsecured until the next explosion when Dave's 22 goes on sale shortly before May 77 part 1 ships and people find out if they got a limited edition or music only version. I bet that will be fun times on the board ;)
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    I agree Dschian on each of your points. I think it is noteworthy, however that this one is dragging on with 17% of the inventory still left after a year. I think they planned on this one moving faster and I don't blame them. I would have thought that 3 totally uncirculated betty boards and two classics with one only circulating in mono would have generated more buzz. I suspect Rhino and Co. thought the same and thus the 15k. It seems like each release gets core customer sales in the 10k range. That number represents those of us who are so pathetically obsessed that we buy everything no matter what. Then the remaining 5k in sales are the "investors" and occasional buyers. I think that dependable 10k in sales per release is pretty clearly indicated by the numbers set for the FW69 box, early DaPs etc. I think the DaP numbers have gone up only because of the demand created by the second hand market. I do find the hue and cry over limited editions a bit exasperating as I think I understand the considerations being made here and the need to limit stock on hand and warehousing. Really, if we would dependably buy 100k per release they would gladly print it; I'm sure of it. We cant blame the manufacturer for trying to avoid inventory warehousing expenses. This release is a clear indication to me that they have the number set just about right to accomplish their goal of printing and moving releases on a continual release schedule.
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    Yup, 80% of the run sold in one year- Rhino knows its base well
    Yup, 0ver 80% of the run sold in about a year; at this rate, the rest will probably sell in the next two to three years. Based upon what I've seen buying modern cd and lp releases, it's not unusual for a run to take a few years (and sometimes up to twice that time) to sell out, even for many popular releases. In that respect, wadeocu, yes, Rhino knows its customer base quite well. Nearly every other Dead limited edition/limited release has sold out relatively quickly (from a few days to several months), and even the slower ones, like the second Spring '90 box and the May '77 one, sold out within a few years or less. Believe it or not, Rhino's goal is probably not to make sure that these sell out in a heartbeat, but to sell the greatest number without multiple production runs or endless inventory. I for one am glad that people don't always have to rush to immediately buy one or have to otherwise search for it on ebay at inflated prices. Recently Rhino sold over $2 million dollars worth of the new box set (before the all-music release that followed) within three days, even with the first marked by technical difficulties- by any standard, that's pretty impressive nowadays for physical media.As a follow-up to my recent post below, finally got a chance to hear my Winterland 1977 box again (I have a huge listening backlog) and came away much more impressed by it than by the first May 1977 box, with the exception of the latter's 5/13 show, which is excellent and the best of them. I still do think, though, that overall the Summer 1978 box outranks the May '77 box in quality of shows.
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    1977 the last great year for the Dead?
    Rbmunkin, while in some respects 1977 WAS the last great year for the Dead- chiefly in the reliability of their musicianship, according to what I've heard from later years- it certainly wasn't their last great year for many listeners in terms of many, many great later performances. To put my bias in context, my favorite Dead years are 1969 and 1972-'74, so I'm not an '80's deadhead, though I attended the bulk of my shows during the earlier part of that decade and love many of the shows from its first half.I have both the May 1977 box set and the July '78 one, and to my ears the 1978 one is substantially better. I say that because while the 1977 performances in that box are all reasonably strong, they're not always particularly exciting to me. The band, and Jerry in particular, strike me as being in a more predictable, professional mode at the shows in this earlier '77 box release (though I expect the new '77 box to be substantially better performances, based upon the bits I've heard). I find the improvisation more raw, energetic, and dynamic in the 1978 box, and to me that's what makes shows stand out. Also, the song selection is a bit more varied, which I appreciate. While 1978 may be weaker overall as a year (and I haven't heard most of either year), I find these performances to be better than much of what I've heard from '77. Similarly, according to what a listener likes, great boxes (if not great recordings) could be put together of performances from the early 80's or even the Spring/Summer 1985 tour, I believe. One slight drawback of the 1978 box is that the recordings have a bit less depth to the sound, but that goes with the territory of later 2-track soundboards. If you like the '78 sound, definitely get this box while it's still around! I think that they're all (and not just the Red Rocks shows) excellent performances and better ones than the Dave's Picks releases from '78 so far.
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July 1978: The Complete Recordings

What's Inside:

• Five Complete Shows on 12 discs
• 7/1/78 Arrowhead Stadium: Kansas City, MO
• 7/3/78 St. Paul Civic Center Arena: St. Paul, MN
• 7/5/78 Omaha Civic Auditorium: Omaha, NE
• 7/7/78 Red Rocks Amphitheatre: Morrison, CO
• 7/8/78 Red Rocks Amphitheatre: Morrison, CO
Mastered in HDCD by Jeffrey Norman
Artwork by esteemed cartoonist Paul Pope
Intro and show-by-show liner notes by Nicholas Meriwether
Producer's Note by David Lemieux
Individually Numbered, Limited Edition of 15,000
Release Date: May 13, 2016

Announcing July 1978: The Complete Recordings

We’re pleased to announce JULY 1978: THE COMPLETE RECORDINGS, five incredible unreleased shows and the first official release from the long-lost tapes, recently returned to the Grateful Dead’s vault. Follow the Dead on a sonic journey through a superb selection of settings, an often epic adventure that finds them winning over Willie and Waylon fans in Kansas City, conjuring charisma in Omaha, and elevating the Red Rocks beyond their already spiritual planes. With five distinct performances painting the masterpiece of 1978, Betty Cantor-Jackson's always-pristine soundboard recordings, and the "hall-of-fame pedigree" of the Dead's first-ever shows at the legendary Red Rocks Amphitheatre, this is one release that far exceeds excellence in music, sound quality, and rarity.

Limited to 15,000 individually numbered copies, JULY 1978: THE COMPLETE RECORDINGS includes Arrowhead Stadium, Kansas City, MO (7/1/78), St. Paul Civic Center, St. Paul, MN (7/3/78), Omaha Civic Auditorium, Omaha, NE (7/5/78), and Red Rocks Amphitheater, Morrison CO (7/7/78 and 7/8/78) - all of the performances in this collection are drawn from the band’s master soundboard recordings, each newly mastered by Jeffrey Norman. The set also features original artwork by esteemed cartoonist Paul Pope (D.C. and Marvel comics) and in-depth liner notes written by Nick Meriwether (Grateful Dead Archives at the University of California, Santa Cruz), as well as a producer’s note from producer David Lemieux.

Due May 13th, we anticipate that this extraordinary box will sell out. Your best bet is to pre-order it now, then sit back, relax, and enjoy all the exclusive content we'll be rolling out over the next few weeks right here.

Looking for something a little more byte-sized? The collection will also be available for HD digital download in FLAC and ALAC, exclusively at dead.net, on release day.

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Submitted by JJ Fehmarn on Wed, 06/08/2016 - 08:14

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Got my shipping note on 05/10 and nothing in my p.o. box till now.Anyone in Europe or especially in Germany has received the box or is still waiting? Just drop some lines before I will get in touch with costumer servive and dr. rhino. Gar-see-ya from the Isle of Fehmarn JJ
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Submitted by riggsjr on Wed, 06/08/2016 - 12:02

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Still not got mine in UK starting to get a bit frustrated!!
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Submitted by simonrob on Wed, 06/08/2016 - 12:05

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I got mine in the Netherlands. Shipping notice said it shipped on 10 May, like yours. Arrived here on 2 June after spending some time in the customs shed being assessed for tax. Sadly, I suspect this info will not boost your confidence.
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Submitted by SPACEBROTHER on Wed, 06/08/2016 - 12:54

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A few shows (and/or parts of shows) I attended over the years have seen official release. I attended... Grateful Dead: 4/1-3/90 Omni (S'90 boxes) 7/22/90 Tinley Park ("Hey Pocky Way" from DVD box All The Years Combine) 6/19-20/91 Pine Knob (DLS V 11) 6/22/91 Sondier Field ("Shakedown Street" from DVD box All The Years Combine) 3/22/92 Copps Coliseum (30TATS) 7/31/94 Palace ("Way to go Home" from the SMR box) 7/9/95 Soldier Field ("Box of Rain" from 30TATS vinyl single and bonus disc with pre-order of Phil's book SFTS and "So Many Roads" the SMR box) Gov't Mule: 12/9/06 Riviera Theatre (from the DVD A Tale of Two cities) Countless "Muletracks" downloads, too many to list but a notable one - Classic Mule Tracks from 7/20/99 Sisko's on the Blvd. Rare acoustic show in a venue that held about 60 people. One of the coolest shows I've ever attended! Frank Zappa: A few songs from 2/26/88 Royal Oak and 3/1/88 Frauenthal turned up on Broadway the Hard Way and Make A Jazz Noise Here. The only shows I got to see FZ live. It's likely that there are other bands shows I've seen that were released at least in part that I don't even realize.
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Submitted by Cousins Of The… on Wed, 06/08/2016 - 14:00

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I attended: Dead: 10/9/76 DP 33 12/29/77 DP 10 12/31/77 (bonus disc Closing of Winterland) 10/21/78 Road Trips Egypt W/Love 12/31/78 12/26/79 DP 5 12/28/79 Road Trips 1980 Warfield (11 shows) Not Dead: The Shadows Live in Paris(1975) Can't remember any others at the moment...
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Submitted by Steve Jones on Wed, 06/08/2016 - 14:16

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Someone posted on the eurotraders list that their box set arrived this morning, so it looks like another batch of orders are coming thru the system. Dr.Rhino are saying wait until 16th June before raising complaints about non-delivery. This would make sense as Royal Mail now state that deliveries to/from the US can take up to a month. If anyone is thinking about going down the download option, note that the split- second gap between tracks which were so irritating on the fare thee well downloads has been removed on the July 78 downloads. The flac files are also 192khz rather than 92khz which is to be welcomed although many portable DACs cannot handle that resolution - you should check before deciding whether to go for the flac option or the alac option.
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Submitted by Steve Jones on Wed, 06/08/2016 - 14:16

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Someone posted on the eurotraders list that their box set arrived this morning, so it looks like another batch of orders are coming thru the system. Dr.Rhino are saying wait until 16th June before raising complaints about non-delivery. This would make sense as Royal Mail now state that deliveries to/from the US can take up to a month. If anyone is thinking about going down the download option, note that the split- second gap between tracks which were so irritating on the fare thee well downloads has been removed on the July 78 downloads. The flac files are also 192khz rather than 92khz which is to be welcomed although many portable DACs cannot handle that resolution - you should check before deciding whether to go for the flac option or the alac option.
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Submitted by chilly1214 on Wed, 06/08/2016 - 14:22

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Nothing down here yet. The last Dave's took nearly four weeks and for some reason went through Switzerland which has never happened before. Be nice if we had a tracking number just to keep tabs on our shipments. Two more days and it will be a month since this box set shipped. Don't know why I can have my relatives send me parcels from the U.S. standard mail and they arrive in a week/week and a half but Dead net shipments take a month?
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Submitted by direwulf on Wed, 06/08/2016 - 14:30

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Chilly sounds like you just found the answer to your problem, have future Dead.net orders shipped to the stateside family and they'll send it to you. Too funny, sounds like it would be faster.
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Submitted by the420bandito on Wed, 06/08/2016 - 15:06

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That 6/11/76 of one hell of a show Sixtus. Two songs right off the bat I am usually not into - Tennessee Jed and Cassidy - are both steamin like a bucket of clams. Keith turns TJ into an old west saloon tune. The Scarlet is rockin. Second set..one of my favorite tunes, TMNS, is surgical - Donna sounds pretty good as well. Seems like to many moments to jot down. How is this not officially released?
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Submitted by Born Cross Eye… on Wed, 06/08/2016 - 15:30

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Just got finished listening to the 1st Red Rocks show, July 7th for the 4th time. I had this show as monophonic download via __-_____. I could never find the original Betty stereo mix, so I rarely listened to the mono "leak", that is somebody early who made the original copies of this show brought them down to mono. It just wasn't as much fun listening to it, so I didn't.This first Red Rocks show is a joy to listen to in stereo. Musically speaking, it just one notch below the 2nd night of 7/8.
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Submitted by boblopes on Wed, 06/08/2016 - 16:57

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Did not want any spoiler alerts before listening to the box, so I stayed away from this thread. Nice Boxset Dave!!! Happy Belated Birthday Kayak Guy and have a happy Birthday Sixtus! Wow Cousins, nicely done on the Warfield run, I'm so jealous! Loved Reckoning in college. Vguy - can you believe the RedSox are 1/2 game out with that pitching and bullpen and their panda on the DL - goes to show an insert of fresh new talent can turn a team around!!! Dead shows I attended that were released were 88 and 94 from 30TATS. Hoping the other Oxford 88 show is a Dave's Release! Non-Dead: One track from Zappa's YouCan'tDoThatOnStageAnymore v4 when he played Umass. Allman Bros Live at Great Woods DVD - show was better than DVD - interviews during songs - horrible editing - don't buy it, even for $1 A couple of shows from Pearl Jam when the first year they released every live show. I think there's a few Live Phish shows I went to in the 90s. Then there's a couple of Smashing Pumpkins, Phil and Friends and The Dead post-show sbd releases. They're good remembrance, but there's no remastering going on there like we've been spoiled by. Glad I was away for the darker conversations. Favorite Stephen King Book is The Stand. Loved Night Shift collection of stories in HS too. I hope the Sharks can rebound. Would love to see Jumbo Joe Thorton win a cup before Phil Kessel but it's been a good Cup to watch - glad the Refs are letting them play. Hope it goes to seven games!
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Submitted by Thin on Wed, 06/08/2016 - 18:17

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Man I wish I saw them in the '70's... 4/17/83 w/ Stephen Stills (1st show) 10/15/83 Hartford - St Stephen 1984 Saratoga 6/27/85 Saratoga 9/5/85 Red Rocks 9/7/85 Red Rocks 3/30 & 4/1/88 (Road Trips) 7/2/88 Oxford, Maine 1989 Alpine Valley "Downhill" dvd show 1991 MSG 6 of 9 shows, incl. 9/10 3/27/93 Albany, NY - TTATS 10/14/94 MSG w/ crazy Scarlet>Fire

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Submitted by antonjo on Wed, 06/08/2016 - 18:32

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Thin, my list is even more modest. I mean, The Song Remains the Same? DP25? DP33? DP5? And your own 10/15/83? Love that whole pre-drums, much less outta space ;) That doesn't even cover the 70-74 (and recent summer '78) tales we've heard on these threads.... But we're all blessed to catch what we catch. 11/1/85 Dick's 21 3/27/88 DL Series 5 3/14/90 S90 TOO 3/15/90 Terrapin Limited 3/16/90 S90 3/30/90 S90 6/14/91 ViewVault II (Without a Net ~ Let It Grow-3/14, Althea-3/15, Help>Slip>Franklin's-3/30) Fare Thee Well/Santa Clara ~ oh, wait, they didn't press Record on those.... Roger Waters - The Wall in Berlin ~ 7/21/90 Richard Thompson - Dream Attic ~ "studio" album recorded live, sources include 2/16/10 (Aladdin Theater, Portland) though individual track dates aren't listed The Who - 9/22/82 ~ brief Won't Get Fooled Again clip used in Schlitz TV commercial ;)

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Submitted by antonjo on Wed, 06/08/2016 - 18:42

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Well, since you mentioned Madison '83 Stephen, Thin.... I feel utterly lucky to have caught these breakouts; the MD/VA corridor was smiled on in the 80's: 3/20/86 Box of Rain 3/27/88 To Lay Me Down 9/03/88 Ripple 3/14/90 Loose Lucy 3/15/90 Easy to Love You 3/16/90 Black-Throated Wind 3/17/91 Rubin & Cherise, plus 2nd New Speedway Boogie (1st east coast) I had pneumonia for the Warlocks shows (if tickets were even possible), and missed Casey Jones on 6/20/92 because I sat out RFK that year. And 6/30/85 being my first show, I had no idea I was seeing Cryptical Envelopment. But I'm not complaining.
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Submitted by One Man on Wed, 06/08/2016 - 19:43

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This doesn't really count as a breakout, but I snuck into the Greensboro Coliseum lobby 10/9/83 and heard the St. Stephen soundcheck through the crack in the door to the arena. They didn't play it that night, but broke it out at MSG two nights later. Doh!
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Submitted by Sixtus_ on Wed, 06/08/2016 - 20:25

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...here is a copy of my exchange with Dave Lemieux, back when I suggested Eyes of the World had been neglected...and then inquired about my all time favorite show (while I had his attention, which is hard to do because....SQUIRREL!!)________________________________________ Re: Thirty Days/Eyes of the World February 1, 2014, at 12:12 PM Hey Sixtus, Thanks for the note. I'm a big fan of 6/11/76, too, and would love to release it if we ever got those tapes back. Such a terrific show, on a great tour. DL _________________________________________ Rumor has it, this gem is among the Lost Betty's! Some Day, Sixtus P.S. Weather result of my exchange with Dave or not, he did reply to my initial inquiry (though not published here) about the absence of Eyes of the World in 30 days of Dead (at the time) and promised he would add it to the year's lot. And so, it arrived come November...on the 30th.

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Submitted by antonjo on Wed, 06/08/2016 - 20:19

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That's still way cool ~ what a treat!
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Submitted by Vguy72 on Wed, 06/08/2016 - 20:39

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....never heard of it. I thought every day was Friendship Day. Makes it much less confusing, but that's just the Deadhead in me....
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Submitted by dantian on Wed, 06/08/2016 - 20:45

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I'm 4 days in, and 7 more to go, total relaxation...almost. Now, don't get me wrong, I love my wife more than anything, but without the benefit of work and several hours away from each other each day, I just wanna know, do women ever shut up? I mean, if I wasn't around would she be talking to the cat nonstop? I'm sure she has her little gripes about me too, though I can't imagine what they might be, but I find it very suspicious that she feeds me bacon everyday, even after I've clutched my chest in discomfort a few times, and I'm pretty sure she noticed, because I could swear she cracked a smile one time. I don't know, but if I was in the kitchen, I wouldn't ask her to come all the way from the living room just to get me a glass of soda when I'm much closer to the fridge, but that's just me. Geez, you're right there for crying out loud. Know what I'm saying?
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Submitted by Vguy72 on Wed, 06/08/2016 - 20:49

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....that was a one off for a special occasion Bob. How about a nice ice cold IPA or four? Happy Friendship Year to you too....
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Submitted by Vguy72 on Wed, 06/08/2016 - 21:09

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....I hear ya. Love my wife to death, but 4-5 days into my vacations, I start thinking about work again. Try this. We finally retired our old cal king mattress after 14 years. Got a Simmons Beautyrest cal king. It's my mistress. We've spent the last four nights absorbing it. Talking, reading, watching Netflix, making out (tmi?). A new bed is a new spark. Come to think of it, my wife serves me bacon a lot too.....hmmmmm.....
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Submitted by dantian on Wed, 06/08/2016 - 21:13

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You're a wise man, and that is sage advice. Only problem is she already has plans to max out the credit card on another project, so the new mattress idea (which is brilliant, by the way) will have to wait. Thanks for your wisdom anyway, brother! On the up side, her new project will definitely keep me quite physically active in the yard (sounds like prison, coincidence?), so I'll surely work off all that bacon fat ;)
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Submitted by Vguy72 on Wed, 06/08/2016 - 21:25

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....a garden or a raised porch. Both grand projects....but you can't sleep on them ( well, maybe if you're in trouble )....we grow tomatoes, cucumbers and radishes here. Good heat crop....too bad we can't grow bacon....
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Submitted by dantian on Wed, 06/08/2016 - 21:33

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That's so last month;) The garden is in and growing. Now she wants a fence for the entire property, which I agree would be nice for the privacy, but damn, who knew it was so expensive. I'm just a city boy, don't know about such things. And then we have to stain it ourselves? Well, OK, if you say so. There goes my vacation... Then again, if we're working, she's not talking nonstop, so maybe it's a good thing.
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Submitted by Vguy72 on Wed, 06/08/2016 - 21:49

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....earbuds. Yeah, it's one word! Playing some sweet '74 ballads. Let it grow!!....btw. A nice fence adds property values....
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Submitted by JimInMD on Wed, 06/08/2016 - 21:57

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First.. don't act surprised that our significant others are on to us. You've probably heard of al-anon, the support group for friends and family of alcohol and substance abusers. Our wives/gfs/etc. are obviously members of head-anon and share tips and best practices on head-anon.com. Whats worse, some ne'er–do–well hipster from this site told one of them exactly how much our collections are worth and now they are all trying to kill us. Starts with bacon, have a beer, gin and tonic, death mattress.. it always ends tragically. Great conversation about breakouts and substantive shows attended. Antonjo, its more than possible we were grooving right next to each other on several occastions. One man.. great St. Stephen story.. missed it by that much. Caught a few breakouts and released shows.. my favorite, and this is a true story.. was how I got my Warlocks tickets. A friend got the flu and couldn't go (or was it pneumonia?).. she called me and off I went seven hours later and before cell phones hanging out in the lobby of a Holiday Inn waiting for someone I had never met that came and gave a ticket for each night. The Box of Rain in '86 was memorable, I think I caught two different Help on the Way breakouts. Got the Watchtower breakout at the Greek. Good topic, wish I had a better memory.
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Submitted by Vguy72 on Wed, 06/08/2016 - 21:54

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....it starts with bacon and ends with pork belly, which is pre-sliced bacon. I had a bacon tree once, then I woke up. Jerry was grilling it....he's an awesome grillmaster....
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Submitted by dantian on Wed, 06/08/2016 - 22:09

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'Tis true, they got our numbers. And thank God for that, eh? Criticisms, colloquialisms and stereotypes are all in good fun, I wouldn't have it any other way than the way it is. Vguy, speaking of '74, the star tonight for me has been the Dijon show from 30 Trips, which I finally listened to start to finish (sans Seastones, sorry, just can't do it), and man, what a gem! I previously only appreciated the stand out UJB opener (I believe Danc, who is a good guy, turned me on to this a couple years ago), but now I know the majesty of the full show, and what a show it is! Peace, all!
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Submitted by JimInMD on Wed, 06/08/2016 - 22:28

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Dijon has been on my favorites list for more than 30 years. ..and since Boxzilla, I have only given it one listen. I keep trying to get around to a relisten. Where does the time go?

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Submitted by antonjo on Wed, 06/08/2016 - 23:48

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Was going to spin 7/3/66 disc 1 for my morning commute (revisited disc 2 for today's--it greatly boosted my smile quotient in traffic).... But now you guys have put Dijon into my mind's ear. Funny, that was the second Trip I listened to when the box arrived ~ after '66. Haven't played it since, and I loved it first time around. Caution jam > Ship of Fools was all I'd previously heard, thanks to one of Dave's Taper's Sections. First set alone is worth the trip. "(or was it pneumonia?)" ~ nice, Jim ; ) Makes me happy to know you were at the Warlocks. I actually missed a show in the pre-cell area because me and the friends who had my ticket (4/2/89) crossed our signals and never found each other. (Another Download Series, that one.) Had a ticket for 10/19/89, too (Help/Slip & Death Don't), but stayed home out of caution--owed it to my Mom, who'd been caregiving for three weeks--only to be given the official clean bill o' health the very next day. That's okay, though, I also got a couple miracles. It all evens out. Still, though...those coulda had's...!!
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Submitted by KeithFan2112 on Thu, 06/09/2016 - 05:54

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That's the sound of Slipknot! melting my face. It puzzles me that they didn't play HSF anywhere near as frequently as Scarlet / Fire, Estimated / Eyes, and some of the other longer songs. I guess it just makes it all the better. I don't listen to the Winterland June 1977 box set as much as I do the May '77 shows, but today is the anniversary of the June 9th show, so I put it on. Always a pleasure. Should have listened to the other two on their respective dates. Anybody else running this show back today?
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Submitted by Born Cross Eye… on Thu, 06/09/2016 - 05:07

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Earlier this year in early March, I driving northbound on the I-287 in Morristown New Jersey, I was playing Disc 2 with that crazy, good, warm and wonderful Set 1 closer of Playing in the Band. During Seastones, that's when traffic got a little crazy. There was an accident a few cars a head of me, somebody wanted to go faster than the car in front of it, so I eyewitnessed a rear-ender. On the southbound lanes, instant rubbernecking. Oh, see what happens when you play an in-concert recording of Seastones.However, the opening Uncle John's Band is one of my favorites ever since I got this tape about 25 years ago. The rest of the set is is very good, too. Discs 2 & 3 are excellent to say the least, but be aware of Seastones if you're driving ...
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Submitted by Encroached on Thu, 06/09/2016 - 05:38

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Last night and it was very vivid. It was Dave and a seaside chat. The next Daves will be a 4 disc set and it will be a Matrix show.Then I awoke with a full bladder and had to scramble.
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Submitted by Sixtus_ on Thu, 06/09/2016 - 06:15

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KeithFan, yup. "I've just been told now that everything is just exactly right." - Bobby Half-Step! And I'm off to the races. Sixtus
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Submitted by Encroached on Thu, 06/09/2016 - 06:18

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6-9-77 has just started the morning serenade. 39 years ago? 6-3-77 was my 39 year anniversary of my first rock show (Zeppelin). 1 shy of 40! Sobering shit I tell ya.Maybe I'll follow Norman Browns advice and have some whiskey for breakfast............
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Submitted by JimInMD on Thu, 06/09/2016 - 06:36

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Not a very sobering thought. Good folk/songwriting album.. perhaps my favorite Norman Blake offering.. Whiskey before breakfast.. Seastones traffic calamities... I am staying off the roads today.
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Submitted by Encroached on Thu, 06/09/2016 - 06:43

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mear talk and bluff. Raisin Bran and coffee in reality! And this sweet 6-9 show.
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Submitted by JimInMD on Thu, 06/09/2016 - 07:25

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Actually the Seastones story has me cracking up more.. I have this visual of heavy traffic behaving, windows open, cars moving in and out their respective lanes like bees leaving and returning to the hive.. then Seastones begins to play and it all falls apart. Car parts flying through the air, 360's, horrible noises (in addition to whats blasting out of Cross Eyed's speakers), mayhem. Great visual. Some advice: Friends don't let friends drive Seastoned.
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Submitted by Ken Goodman on Thu, 06/09/2016 - 08:32

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Attended a Nils Lofgren concert (Back It Up, Baby!) and, while standing at a urinal, met & had a conversation with Nils's brother (standing at the next urinal). Turned out he grew up in the same suburb (Bethesda MD) where I went to high school...
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Submitted by JimInMD on Thu, 06/09/2016 - 08:45

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Set next to Henry Kissinger on a plane about 10 years ago from DC to NY. I forgot to ask him about his bootleg tape collection.. I bet its massive.
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Submitted by Sixtus_ on Thu, 06/09/2016 - 08:59

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....I once met Laurence Fishburne on the sidewalk in DC outside a bar. He was FAR shorter than I expected Morpheus to be, in person. Needless to say I wasn't The Chosen One.
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Submitted by Vguy72 on Thu, 06/09/2016 - 09:18

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....I was in the lot at Laguna Seca '88 before the show when I saw three guys fighting over a nitrous tank. A small crowd gathered before a golf cart pulled up driven by no other than Bill Graham. He laid into the guys and escorted them to the front gates with security and kicked them out. I followed, and when Bill turned the cart around, I stuck out my hand. He shaked it and I thanked him for everything he had done. That was the only altercation I can remember occurring at a Dead show....I also met Tim Burton once. Strange dude....
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Submitted by mdboucher on Thu, 06/09/2016 - 09:09

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KeithFan--Playing this today, as well--at work on my little desk speakers, though. Fantastic show, definitely a favorite. To my everlasting sadness I missed out on the Winterland box, but the copies on archive over the past few days haven't been bad.H/S/F is the greatest, I also wish it had gotten ScarletFire frequency.
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Submitted by stoltzfus on Thu, 06/09/2016 - 10:02

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I have met Jesse Jackson, Dan Quayle, Bobby McFerrin, Dale Chihuly, Anita Hill; shook hands with Bill Clinton. not hang out with, but meet. also, yesterday, Seahawk Richard Sherman came and visited my school. I saw him from a distance (no "meet".) gotta go right up to them, say hello, and shake their hand. Then move on.
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