Grateful Dead - Steppin' Out with the Grateful Dead: England '72 (4 CD, 2002) [FLAC]

 

Steppin' Out with the Grateful Dead: England '72 is a live box set from the Grateful Dead that collects performances from seven of their eight shows in England during their spring 1972 tour of Europe (their first tour of the UK and continental Europe)

The band visited England three times on the tour. They had booked four concerts in London (condensed to two) and one for Newcastle before touring mainland Europe. After the tour began, an opportunity came to return to England to play the stormy Bickershaw Festival, in between dates in Paris and Amsterdam. To make up for the poor sound and crowded shows at the last-minute replacement venue, the Empire Pool, they added more dates at the end of the tour, returning again to London for four performances at the acoustically favorable Lyceum Theatre in the West End. 

Grateful Dead

•     Jerry Garcia - lead guitar, vocals
•     Bob Weir - rhythm guitar, vocals
•     Ron "Pigpen" McKernan - organ, harmonica, vocals
•     Phil Lesh - bass guitar, vocals
•     Bill Kreutzmann - drums
•     Keith Godchaux - piano
•     Donna Jean Godchaux - vocals

Grateful Dead - Spring 1990 (The Other One) [23 CD, 2014] [24-192 + 320]

 Spring 1990 (The Other One) is a live album by the rock band the Grateful Dead. Packaged as a box set, it contains eight complete concerts on 23 CDs, recorded during the band's spring 1990 concert tour. It was produced as a limited edition of 9,000 numbered copies, and was released by Rhino Records on September 9, 2014. In addition to the music CDs, the box set includes a 144-page paperback book, three art prints, and replica tickets stubs and backstage passes from all eight shows.

Grateful Dead - Wake Of The Flood: The Angel's Share (2023) [FLAC]

The previously unreleased, never-before-heard, Grateful Dead session tapes for Wake Of The Flood.

Recorded August 6 -17, 1973 at Record Plant, 2200 Bridgeway, Sausalito, CA

Today, in continued celebration of Wake Of The Flood's 50th Anniversary, the Grateful Dead vaults have been reopened to reveal a treasure trove of studio material that Dead Heads have never heard before. For the third edition of The Angel's Share series, more than two hours of expertly-curated, previously-unreleased session tapes are now available via Rhino, for the first time ever on all DSPs worldwide. 

Similar to previous installments that accompanied milestone reissues of Workingman's Dead and American Beauty, Wake Of The Flood: The Angel's Share brings together the outtakes, alternate versions, and in-studio conversations behind the creation of the album, including "Eyes Of The World," "Stella Blue," "Mississippi Half-Step Uptown Toodeloo" and every other song on the LP. Some unexpected moments and revelations are found in takes of "Let Me Sing Your Blues Away," Keith Godchaux's first and only vocal on a Grateful Dead studio record, and Bobby Weir's continually evolving "Weather Report Suite." Also featured is the track "Phil's Song (Unbroken Chain)" that appeared later on The Mars Hotel. As the lid is lifted and the curtains are pulled back on a pivotal record – filled with classics that remain instant crowd-pleasers to this day – Wake Of The Flood: The Angel's Share transports the listener to August 6-17, 1973 at Sausalito, CA's Record Plant, turning it into a fly-on-the-wall experience of the band's joyous and collaborative process.

Grateful Dead - Sunshine Daydream (3 CD, 2013/FLAC + DVDRIP + 2xDVD 5)

Sunshine Daydream is a music documentary film, starring the rock band the Grateful Dead. It was shot at their August 27, 1972 concert at the Old Renaissance Faire Grounds in Veneta, Oregon. Unreleased for many years, the film was sometimes shown at small film festivals, and bootleg recordings of it circulated on VHS and DVD, and as digital downloads. A digitally remastered and reedited official version of the film was released on August 1, 2013, showing only one time in selected theaters as that year's edition of the Grateful Dead Meet-Up at the Movies. It was screened with Grateful Days, a new documentary short that includes interviews with some of the concert attendees. Sunshine Daydream was released on DVD and Blu-ray on September 17, 2013.

Sunshine Daydream is also a live album containing the complete August 27, 1972 Grateful Dead concert. Produced as a 3-disc CD and as a 4-disc LP, it was released by Rhino Records on September 17, 2013.

The name Sunshine Daydream is taken from the coda section of the Dead song "Sugar Magnolia". 

 

  

Grateful Dead - Live At The Cow Palace New Years Eve (3 CD, 2007) [FLAC]

Live at the Cow Palace is a live album by the American rock band the Grateful Dead. It was recorded at the Cow Palace in Daly City, California, on New Year's Eve, 1976. Released in 2007, it was the first Grateful Dead album produced under contract with Rhino Records.  The album was created by remixing and remastering the original 24-track concert soundboard tapes. 

- Jerry Garcia – guitar, vocals

- Donna Godchaux – vocals

- Keith Godchaux – piano

- Mickey Hart – drums

- Bill Kreutzman – drums

- Phil Lesh – electric bass

- Bob Weir – guitar, vocals 

Grateful Dead - Here Comes Sunshine 1973 (17 CD, 2023) [FLAC]

Here Comes Sunshine 1973 is a live album by the rock band the Grateful Dead. Packaged as a box set, it contains five complete concerts on 17 CDs. It was recorded in May and June 1973. It is scheduled to be released on June 30, 2023, in a limited edition of 10,000 copies.

Here Comes Sunshine 1973 contains recordings of these concerts:

    May 13, 1973 – Iowa State Fairgrounds, Des Moines, Iowa

    May 20, 1973 – Campus Stadium, Santa Barbara, California

    May 26, 1973 – Kezar Stadium, San Francisco, California

    June 9, 1973 – Robert F. Kennedy Stadium, Washington, D.C.

    June 10, 1973 – Robert F. Kennedy Stadium, Washington, D.C.

The box set also includes a poster and a tenugui.

At the June 10 concert, Dickey Betts and Butch Trucks from the Allman Brothers Band, along with Merl Saunders, sat in for the final set of music. The song "It Takes a Lot to Laugh, It Takes a Train to Cry" from that set was previously released on the album Postcards of the Hanging. 

 

Grateful Dead - Pacific Northwest ’73–’74 : The Complete Recordings (6 shows / 19 CD, 2018) [FLAC]

 

Pacific Northwest ’73 – ’74: The Complete Recordings includes every note the Grateful Dead played at P.N.E. Coliseum in Vancouver on June 22, 1973; at Portland Memorial Coliseum in Portland on June 24, 1973; at Seattle Center Arena in Seattle on June 26, 1973; at P.N.E. Coliseum on May 17, 1974; at Portland Memorial Coliseum on May 19, 1974 and at Hec Edmundson Pavilion in Seattle on May 21, 1974 spread across 19 discs. Jeffrey Norman mastered the original tapes in HDCD after a restoration process was completed by Plangent Processes.

Grateful Dead - The Warfield, San Francisco, California, October 9 & 10, 1980 (2019) [24-44]

The Warfield, San Francisco, California, October 9 & 10, 1980 is a live album by the rock band the Grateful Dead. It contains the two sets of acoustic music performed by the Dead on October 9 and 10, 1980 at the Warfield Theatre in San Francisco. It was produced as a two-disc LP in a limited edition of 10,000 copies, and as a two-disc CD in a limited edition of 6,000 copies. It was released on April 13, 2019, in conjunction with Record Store Day.

    Jerry Garcia – acoustic guitar, vocals

    Mickey Hart – drums

    Bill Kreutzmann – drums

    Phil Lesh – electric bass

    Brent Mydland – piano, harpsichord, vocals

    Bob Weir – acoustic guitar, vocals

Grateful Dead - Ladies and Gentlemen... the Grateful Dead [4 CD,2000] [FLAC]

 

Ladies and Gentlemen... the Grateful Dead is a four-CD live album by the Grateful Dead. It was recorded at the April 25–29, 1971 shows at the Fillmore East in New York City. Some songs on the eponymous live album Grateful Dead were recorded at these shows as well. The album, released in October 2000, was certified Gold by the RIAA on January 6, 2002. Unlike Dick's Picks, Road Trips, Dave's Picks, and certain other of the band's archival series of live album releases, which are simply two-track stereo recordings made from the soundboard during the concert, the shows on Ladies and Gentlemen were recorded on a 16-track multitrack recorder and were mixed down to stereo just prior to the album's 2000 release. 

Grateful Dead - Pacific Northwest '73-'74: Believe It If You Need It (3 CD, 2018) [24-192]

Pacific Northwest '73–'74: Believe It If You Need It is a three-CD live album by the rock band the Grateful Dead. It contains songs recorded at various concerts in the Pacific Northwest in 1973 and 1974. It was released on September 7, 2018. The songs on the album are excerpted from the 19-CD box set Pacific Northwest '73–'74: The Complete Recordings, which contains six complete shows and was released the same day.

    Jerry Garcia – guitar, vocals

    Donna Jean Godchaux – vocals

    Keith Godchaux – keyboards

    Bill Kreutzmann – drums

    Phil Lesh – bass, vocals

    Bob Weir – guitar, vocals

 

Grateful Dead - Winterland 1973: The Complete Recordings (9+1 CD, 2008) [FLAC + 320]

Winterland 1973: The Complete Recordings is a 9 CD live album by the American rock band the Grateful Dead. It contains three complete concerts, missing only the encore of the first concert. It was recorded on November 9, 10, and 11, 1973, at the Winterland Ballroom in San Francisco, California. The album was released on April 1, 2008.

A tenth, "bonus" disc was included with early shipments of the album. The bonus disc contains material from the December 4, 1973 concert at the Cincinnati Gardens in Cincinnati, Ohio.

Grateful Dead - May 1977: Get Shown the Light [11 CD, 2017] [24-192 + @320]

 

May 1977: Get Shown the Light is a live album by the rock band the Grateful Dead. It contains four consecutive complete concerts, recorded on May 5, 7, 8, and 9, 1977, on eleven CDs. It was released on May 5, 2017.

Dave McMurray - Grateful Deadication 2 (2023) [24-96]

Saxophonist Dave McMurray returns with Grateful Deadication 2, the follow-up to his acclaimed 2021 tribute album which once again finds the saxophonist reimagining the songs of the Grateful Dead with his gritty and soulful Detroit sound which draws upon jazz, pop, rock, soul, reggae, R&B, gospel, and more.

The album features McMurray’s Detroit band plus special guests Jamey Johnson, Oteil Burbridge, Bob James, and Don Was on a collection of Dead favorites including “Truckin’,” “Scarlet Begonias,” and “China Cat Sunflower.”

1. Playing In The Band

2. China Cat Sunflower

3. Bird Song

4. To Lay Me Down (feat. Jamey Johnson)

5. Truckin’

6. The Other One (feat. Bob James)

7. If I Had The World To Give (feat. Bob James)

8. Scarlet Begonias (feat. Oteil Burbridge)

9. Crazy Fingers

Grateful Dead - American Beauty (50th Anniversary Deluxe Edition) (3 CD, 2020) [24-96]

This three-CD set feature the original album with newly remastered audio, plus one of the most requested archival recordings in the Dead's vault - the unreleased concert recorded on February 18, 1971 at the Capitol Theatre in Port Chester, NY. On stage that night, the Dead debuted a whole new batch of songs, five in all: “Wharf Rat,” “Playing In The Band,” “Bertha,” “Greatest Story Ever Told” and “Loser.” Fans were also treated to a few standbys from the previous decade, including “St. Stephen” and an inspired “Dark Star>Wharf Rat>Dark Star” jam. Notably, keyboardist Ned Lagin (who played piano on “Candyman” on American Beauty) sat in with the band for the show. It's all been mixed from the 16-track analog master tapes by Jeffrey Norman at Bob Weir’s Marin County TRI Studios and mastered by Grammy® Award-winning engineer, David Glasser. 

Grateful Dead - Complete Studio Albums Collection (13 CD, 2013) [FLAC-HD + 320]

 

This hi-res collection of the Grateful Dead's studio work has been painstakingly produced from the original master tapes of each album, using their original mixes to produce a work that is truer to the original sound than any previous release.

Included in this collection are the band's 13 studio albums, spanning three decades and containing over 8 hours of music, lovingly rendered in hi-resolution:

The Complete Studio Albums Collection contains all 13 of Grateful Dead's studio albums. Drawing from the 1960s, the bundle features the group’s gold-certified self-titled debut; Anthem of the Sun, which is the first with drummer Mickey Hart; and Aoxomoxoa, which boasts the live staple “St. Stephen.” Music from the 1970s includes: the back-to-back platinum releases Workingman’s Dead and American Beauty; Wake Of The Flood, the first with keyboardist Keith Godchaux who replaced founding member Ron “Pigpen” McKernan; From the Mars Hotel, which features the debut of “Scarlet Begonias”; Blues For Allah with the standout track “Franklin’s Tower”; and two gold albums in a row, Terrapin Station and Shakedown Street. The 1980s are represented by: Go To Heaven, the first with keyboardist Brent Mydland; the double-platinum In The Dark; and the group’s final studio album, Built To Last, which debuted on Halloween 1989.

 "Built To Last" is included here in 16 bit audio and not 24 bit because the master tape is 16 bit PCM digital audio, unlike the previous 12 albums. The others are 24 bit 192 kbps.

 

VA - Fillmore : The Last Days (2 CD, 1972/FLAC + DVD 9)

 

Fillmore: The Last Days is a live album, recorded at the Fillmore West in San Francisco, California from June 29 to July 4, 1971. It contains performances by 14 different bands, mostly from the San Francisco Bay Area, including Santana, the Grateful Dead, Hot Tuna, Quicksilver Messenger Service, and the New Riders of the Purple Sage. It was released by Columbia Records in June 1972 as a three-disc LP. It was re-released by Epic Records in 1991 as a two-disc CD.

 Fillmore, a music documentary film showcasing the same run of concerts, was released on June 14, 1972. It was released on DVD on June 9, 2009. In addition to the concert material, the movie shows the emergence of the San Francisco music scene in the 1960s, and includes extensive footage of Bill Graham.

Fillmore: The Last Days is not a soundtrack album. Eight songs are included in both the film and the album, but eight songs are in the film and not on the album, and twelve songs are on the album but not in the film. 

 

Grateful Dead - To Terrapin: Hartford '77 (3 CD, 2009) [FLAC]

To Terrapin: Hartford '77 is a live album by the American rock band the Grateful Dead. It was recorded at the Hartford Civic Center in Hartford, Connecticut, on May 28, 1977, the last show of the band's 26-date East Coast tour in the spring of 1977. It was released by Rhino Records on April 7, 2009.

•     Jerry Garcia – guitar, vocals
•     Donna Godchaux – vocals
•     Keith Godchaux – piano
•     Mickey Hart – drums
•     Bill Kreutzmann – drums
•     Phil Lesh – electric bass
•     Bob Weir – guitar, vocals

Grateful Dead - Europe '72 (50th Anniversary Edition, 3 CD, 2022) [24-192]

Celebrating the 50th Anniversary of the Grateful Dead's iconic Europe '72 Tour with the original Europe '72 album, newly remaste red.

 In another industry defying move,the Grateful Dead followed up their first Gold Record, the 1971 liveshowcase SKULL ROSES , with another live album, one that to most fans and critics surpassed even the excellence of the previous offering. 

From April 7 to May 26, 1972, the Dead performed and recorded 21 live concerts, plus a set in a television studio, with every night being an exceptional display of the magic that was uniquely the live Grateful Dead. These concerts and this tour, 50 years later, are still considered one of the highest of high points in the Grateful Dead's performing career. In an era whena double album was rare enough,the Dead outdid even their own lofty standards by producing a 3 LP masterpiece that to this day is considered one of the finest live albums ever produced. Remastered from the original analog tapes, the album has never sounded better.

Grateful Dead - Fare Thee Well: Celebrating 50 Years of the Grateful Dead (all 5 shows , 12 CD) [FLAC + 320]

 

Fare Thee Well: Celebrating 50 Years of the Grateful Dead was a series of concerts which were performed by most of the surviving members of the Grateful Dead: Bob Weir, Phil Lesh, Bill Kreutzmann and Mickey Hart, joined by Trey Anastasio, Bruce Hornsby and Jeff Chimenti, to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Grateful Dead. The performances took place at Santa Clara's Levi Stadium on June 27 and 28, 2015 and Chicago's Soldier Field on July 3, 4 and 5, 2015. These performances marked the first time Weir, Lesh, Kreutzmann and Hart had performed together since the Dead's 2009 tour and was publicized as the final time the musicians would all perform together.

The three shows in Chicago were initially announced on January 16, 2015 as the only three Fare Thee Well performances. Due to the high demand for the Chicago concerts, concert promoter Peter Shapiro announced two more concerts in Santa Clara, California on June 27 and 28, 2015. 

•     Mickey Hart – drums, percussion
•     Bill Kreutzmann – drums, percussion
•     Phil Lesh – bass guitar, vocals
•     Bob Weir – guitar, vocals

with

•     Trey Anastasio – guitar, vocals
•     Jeff Chimenti – keyboards, vocals
•     Bruce Hornsby – piano, vocals

 

Grateful Dead - May 1977 (14 CD, 2013) [FLAC]

 

May 1977 is a live album by the rock band the Grateful Dead. It contains five complete concerts, on 14 CDs. It was recorded at five consecutive shows, from May 11–17, 1977. Packaged as a box set, it includes a booklet with a historical essay and photos from the concerts, along with individual liner notes for each show. Produced as a limited edition of 15,000 numbered copies, it was released on June 11, 2013.

The concerts included in May 1977 are:

•     May 11, 1977 – St. Paul Civic Center, Saint Paul, Minnesota
•     May 12, 1977 – Auditorium Theatre, Chicago
•     May 13, 1977 – Auditorium Theatre, Chicago
•     May 15, 1977 – St. Louis Arena, St. Louis
•     May 17, 1977 – University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, Alabama

 

•     Jerry Garcia – lead guitar, vocals
•     Donna Jean Godchaux – vocals
•     Keith Godchaux – keyboards
•     Mickey Hart – drums
•     Bill Kreutzmann – drums
•     Phil Lesh – bass guitar
•     Bob Weir – rhythm guitar, vocals

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