Grateful Dead Vinyl Box Set Review

The vinyl looks great but more importantly sounds amazing.

Grateful dead vinyl box set review.

Egypt 1978 2cd 1 dvd set by grateful dead box set original recording remastered edition 2008 audio cd audio cd portland memorial coliseum portland or 5 19 74 limited 6lp. The grateful dead spring 1990 2 cd box set limited edition digipak hdcd sealed 89 99 grateful dead 30 trips around sun 11 10 67 shrine la brand new 1967 hdcd oop. Pacific northwest 73 74. Between 1967 and 1970 the grateful dead recorded five studio albums for warner bros.

The next year the grateful dead hit the same cities in the same order trying to tap into the magic. The complete recordings the latest grateful dead box set contains six complete concerts from two of the band s best years 1973 and 1974 i broke my review into two parts with part 1 covering the three 1973 concerts from vancouver portland and seattle. The year 1976 was one of the most important moments in the storied history of the grateful dead. The grateful dead are putting out an 80 disc box set yeah 80 disc.

To complement the music the set also includes a 64 page book with an in depth essay by grateful dead scholar nicholas g. No info on what grateful dead song it will be conan o brien 06 02 15 for 700 00 there are some criticisms that i want to get out of the way up front. The sleeves that hold the cds aren t so good. Almost two years prior they had announced that they would end touring as playing arenas and stadiums proved to be a money losing pursuit.

On 180 gram vinyl with lacquers cut from the original analog masters. 29 5 19 77 fox theatre atlanta ga 5 21 77 lakeland civic center arena lakeland fl 6 cd set box set edition by grateful dead 2012 audio cd. Meriwether and photos by richie. The less than good news is that we are given a complete and detailed portrait of the grateful dead in late 1971.

American beauty and workingman s dead were their new albums bob weir s compositional prominence is coming into its own and the band is largely delivering western songs all that cowboy stuff. The complete recordings comes in an ornate box created by canada s preeminent first nations artist roy henry vickers more on this tremendous artist soon. This is an extremely well designed and crafted box set. They re thin and they look like they could end up scratching the discs.

The box set itself came in a protective box looks like a pizza box designed with day of the dead insignia which kept the actual box set safe during shipping. Records that formed the psychedelic canon on which the band s live legend was built.