I'm with Evan - full shows, not compilations please. OK of course I'll buy it , but it ain't right.

Well this is pretty much what I've come to expect from the dead/rhino experience. Out of touch with reality. There is no doubt in my mind that us heads want FULL shows and not compilations!!!! I will be very interested to see how this series does a few tours in after the shine wears off versus the digital download series. Oh Yeah... and there is no digital download available... Nothing like going back in time.. What is next... release on vinyl. You and I fellow deadheads know that this is all about the dollars now. So hopefully someone sees the light and looks at the marketing analytics and realizes that the dollars are in FULL SHOWS. ... and please try and figure this out Rhino before a generation of deadheads fade away... Until then... Vine on!!!

I apologize in advance for my LONG comment, but I have some pretty strong feelings about this subject.

Okay I am seeing a lot of negative reactions from fans here, and I must confess that I am in complete agreement with the consensus. Now before you folks running this site and releasing the music categorically dismiss my objections, please allow me to enumerate why I believe this is a huge mistake. First, however, let me say that I own EVERY single Grateful Dead release, all the CD's of the original albums, all the Dicks Picks, all the vault series compilations (both on CD as well as DVD), al the released VHS tapes, which of course, I then ordered every one on DVD when they were released. I also own all of the Jerry Garcia releases, both live and studio.

Now, I may sound like I am contradicting myself here, but let me say clearly that I absolutely LOVE the 10 disc "So Many Roads" collection, and I get the strange feeling that perhaps it is a misguided interpretation of the overwhelmingly positive response to this particular compilation that has spurred on this latest move toward "bits and pieces" of shows.

Look, let me be perfectly honest here. The Europe '72 release, as well as the early "Grateful Dead" and Skull & Roses "albums" were fine in their historical context for a newly emerging force like the Dead, and happen to be some of my favorite releases from that time period. However, fans have evolved since those days. So while a one time release of a massive 10 disc set like "So Many Roads" even in modern times, will be greeted with feverish enthusiasm, this latest push toward that philosophy for the new "Road Trip" series seems ill advised. Let me be frank here and say that, while I have purchased every single Grateful Dead musical and video release, I will not be buying any of these.

I would be willing to bet that they are insanely great cuts, but that just doesn't cut it, pun intended. Fans like myself, who have been following the band for decades (and in my case, my father introduced me to them when I was but a small child) are not interested in this snippets and snapshots concept. Perhaps if Jerry was still alive and the band was still touring as the original Grateful Dead was until 1995, this might be a more efficacious idea. I leave it to greater minds than mine to answer that question. Suffice it to say that while these little pieces of classic shows might be awesome, in and of themselves, I believe that most fans are clamoring for entire shows. I agree with the person who, obiously mystified, asks the poignant question, "This is what you replace Dick's Picks with?!"

I also agree with Evan Hunt in that you folks are usurping all context from these shows by doing this. I would much rather trade with a fan for the complete show of questionable audio quality than get a soundboard copy of little bits and pieces that lose the flourishing story that is, to me at least, what a Grateful Dead concert truly epitomizes.

By the way, I can't speak for anyone else, but if you really want to release multiple shows in a city or tour, say all of the Nassau Colliseum shows from September of a particular year, then do that. I will buy it. That is a far superior way of getting out several shows than is the "Road Trip" series, which seems to offer a mere smattering of parts of shows, nothing more.

Well, that's my two cents at least. I seriously hope that you folks reconsider this direction and go back to the "entire show" concept.

Not getting my money on this. I want full shows. As many others have stated, this "mix" of songs from different shows does not represent the Grateful Dead.

The idea to end Dick's Picks is probably the worst yet.

Until Rhino can actually invest some intelligence into the Dead Head community and what they want to hear, my money will go to Umphrey's McGee.

If you're going on with this 'tour' concept, at least make the shows highlighted available for download. It's obvious that someone has listened to the shows to know what the highlights are, so the audio quality must be worthy of release. We, as Deadheads, are used to glitches and 'technical difficulties', so they don't have to be perfect by any means.

I have to agree with the omission of Cape Cod as being highly strange. The only thing I could think of was that you were going to release the show subsequent to this 1st Road Trips. That seems even more strange to 'double up' 1979 releases when there's many years to cover.

The next download release should be 12/31/84...
...2nd set is in a league of its own! :-)

Scott