"2-CD/1-DVD Collection Rocking The Cradle: Egypt 1978 Celebrates The 30th Anniversary of the Band’s Historic Concerts at Giza With Previously Unreleased Audio and VideoClick here for the full story.
Fans Who Pre-Order on Dead.net Will Receive an Exclusive Bonus Disc Containing Additional Egypt Performances. Pre-Order Available August 1st.
Available September 30 from Grateful Dead Productions and Rhino"
"Staggering gas prices curtailing your travel plans? Avoid the pinch and let ROAD TRIPS transport you far and wide while safely parked with your favorite listening device. Our latest 2-disc installment takes us to the magical Summer of '71 with stops in New Haven, Chicago and, for a limited time, sunny Southern California. All in brilliant HDCD and all for the same low $19.98.Click here for album details...
Special Offer
Early orders of Road Trips: Volume 1, Number 3 will get a special limited edition Bonus Disc containing a dazzling plethora of additional tunes from Summer '71."
From Munck Music:
"...On April 22nd, KBM Trio - the new power trio with Bill Kreutzmann (of The Grateful Dead), Oteil Burbridge (of The Allman Brothers Band) and Scott Murawski (of Max Creek) headlined the Green Apple Festival in Chicago. Later that same night the trio played a full 2 set show at Martyr's that had seasoned jam-band aficionados grinning in awe.
Luckily, we were there to capture a live multi-track recording of this event, which is now available on CDs and downloads. And - for a limited time - when you purchase the live Kreutzmann-Burbridge-Murawski Trio recording from Martyr's, we will include a FREE BONUS RECORDING of the trio's entire headliner performance at the Green Apple Fest!...And finally, as Bob Weir & RatDog are commencing their summer tour we'd like to remind you that Downloads of all 2008 RatDog shows (including the Beacon shows from New York City) as well as CDs and downloads from '03-'07 archives are all available at: RatDog Downloads.com..."
"By 1973 the Grateful Dead had entered the second era of its 30-year run (1965-95). With the death of singer Ron "Pigpen" McKernan that March, the band had lost its bawdy blues soul. But Bob Weir's full flowering as a rhythm guitarist and songwriter gave the band another front man in addition to Jerry Garcia.Click here for the full article.
The band's songwriting prowess and productivity also transformed the structure of its shows -- from free-form jam-fests taking off from a handful of numbers the musicians played most every night to performances centered on their growing stable of songs. The Dead could still unleash 40-minute jams, but the improvisational playing was increasingly corralled between the lyrics of set numbers.
The superb new nine-disc box set, "Winterland 1973: The Complete Recordings," captures the band on three hot November nights at its favorite San Francisco venue. The band rips through 72 songs in its inimitable blend of country, folk, jazz and psychedelia..."
First Appeared in The Music Box, April 2008, Volume 15, #4, Written by John Metzger.
"It’s hard to go wrong with anything that the Grateful Dead did in 1977. Even a compilation of material like Road Trips, Vol. 1, No. 2 comes out smelling like roses. Although nearly all of the shows from the era are worthy of release, the realization of this vision is impractical and commercially unviable, especially if a consistent level of sonic clarity is to be achieved. Of course, the utmost care must be taken when pulling the band’s songs out of context. In this particular instance, however, the collection’s jigsaw puzzle construction — which delicately reassembles the bits and pieces of a trio of concerts that were held within the span of five days in mid-October — arguably fares better than the full-length performances from whence they came."Click here for the full review.
The Dead's website proclaimed, "The Wait Is Over… The Winterland 1973 Box Has Arrived!" And this past weekend my mailbox did, too!
Nine discs (ok, ten, given the bonus disc from Cincinnati Gardens on December 4, 1973)...three complete shows of a hot run from an incredible era.
The tapes are taken from the two-track masters. The sound is not as dynamic as multi-tracks but compared to any other two-track tapes you have heard? Fuggetaboutit!
Dig the complete set lists from all three nights as well as the entry for the collection in the Dead's online store.
Meanwhile. download three versions of Weather Report Suite, one from each night of the run
Grateful Dead
Road Trips Vol. 1 No. 2
Grateful Dead/Rhino
2008
In conceiving Road Trips, the first archive series to emerge after the Grateful Dead initiated their business partnership with Rhino Records, the intent was to highlight significant phases of the band's performing career without impinging on previous reissues, in particular the highly esteemed Dick's Picks series. To that end, the basic premise of Road Trips is not complete concerts but rather selections from a specific phase of Dead history.
The second installment in the first volume focuses on the fall of 1977 when the band returned to the road with a collective vigor after completion of two time-consuming projects: The Grateful Dead Movie (1976) and the Terrapin Station (Arista, 1977) studio recording. Portions of this set cull ever-so-slightly from previous DP's, but the bulk, as is the intent, is made up of never before officially released performances finding the Grateful Dead in their favorite milieu—the musicians stretching out into a series of lengthy improvisations and segues that contain their (and the band's) own peculiar logic.
Click here for the full review.
Received word of this via email from Dead.net yesterday:
"A Dead.Net Exclusive
GRATEFUL DEAD, Winterland 1973: The Complete Recordings, the spectacular 9-CD set that captures the Dead during one of their peak years and at the top of their game. Winterland 1973, the long awaited follow-up to the ecstatically received Fillmore West 1969: The Complete Recordings, includes every note of three complete consecutive shows, NOVEMBER 9, 10 & 11, 1973 (save for the encore of November 9, which was not recorded).
Special Offer - BONUS DISC
Until April 30th, pre-order the Winterland 1973 box through dead.net and we'll send you a special BONUS DISC of previously uncirculated material recorded at Cincinnati Gardens on December 4, 1973.
Sirius Grateful Dead Channel Event:
Tune in Monday evening at 9pm EDT for the full November 9th Winterland show!"
