If not you might be pleased to learn they are releasing an 80 (that’s not a typo, that’s eighty) disc set of live gigs.
http://www.rollingstone.com/music/premieres/grateful-dead-archivist-details-massive-new-80-disc-box-set-20150602
I’m flabbergasted. Will anyone actually listen to 80 discs? It beggars belief, but Deadheads are known to be obsessive.
I know we have some Deadheads hereabouts. Are any of you thinking “Why yes!. There is a gap in my Dead collection and it’s about 80 discs long” and shell out for this?
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No shit? – https://theafterword.co.uk/dead-nice/
Too much stuff gets posted here to read everything and I’m here too infrequently.
I’m very sorry if I’ve wasted anyone’s time. It was completely unintentional.
no harm done – as you say, it’s hard to keep track of all the new posts – and you can never have too many posts about the Dead anyway!
Oh, and I blame illegal drugs.
I might go for the condensed 4 cd set as I don’t have any of their live stuff.
It is imposible to have too much live Dead.
It is imposible to have too little Dead.
I have one live dead tune, an album of Dylan covers, and Dylan and The Dead. Put me off for life!
Do you have enough Dead threads?
only tied-dyed ones
far out, baby
I was lucky enough to discover archiveDOTorg a long while before Grateful Dead Industry Breadheads Incorporated got their restraining orders out and made the lossless content there streamable only. As a result I have around 30Gb of carefully chosen prime live Dead flacs. This new set looks tempting though….
Mark Ellen pointed out on Twitter this morning that the box set is 4 days long. 4 days. 4.
As the set is in chronological order, with the first show being from 1966 and the last from 1995, I cn confidently state that if you spent 4 days listening to it all in one stretch, it would pan out thus:
Day 1. starting off with rather primitive but intense rockin’ pyschedelic blues, with elements of more country/folk/americana being introduced half way through the day. A band growing up very fast and expanding their range of styles
Day 2. the best day! A great canon of songs and consistently imaginative jamming
Day 3. The early to mid-eighties. Setlists start to go a bit stale. Health problems for Garcia. Keyboard player Brent Mydland’s wretched stadium rock songs are not a patch on the timeless Garcia/Hunter classics.
Day 4. A brief reignition of the flame around late 89/90, with their absolute best late-period tours. The band much more focused again. And then a very sharp drop-off at the very end, with Garcia’s voice and guitar-playing deteriorating rapidly. It’s sad to listen to some of that stuff.
JG certainly sounds very frail on the later stuff unfortunately.
Having read both this thread & its Bargepole sister, I can confidently state that the most insightful comment on the Dead is minibreakfast’s.