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Yes, repetition in Deadland is a real kill joy. lol And here we go... (so much for waiting until Day 2)

Red Rocks 1978. Holy Grail, Batman!

I believe these three are only available in audience 7/1/78 Arrowhead Stadium: Kansas City, MO • 7/3/78 St. Paul Civic Center Arena: St. Paul, MN • 7/5/78 Omaha Civic Auditorium: Omaha, NE plus first red Rocks shows I am happy David gratefulseconds.blogspot.com

Ordered HAPPY TUESDAY, DEADLAND!!!!!!!

Sweet cover, too. And like someone else said, I, too will exit the comment boards until the next release announcement. I love the first day of comments, but not the eventual (day 2?) "best era" bickering and the incessant whining about not getting the show/era/cover art that was hoped for. Now the question is whether I slow down my 30 Trips listening to incorporate DaP 18 and this box. I'm just finishing DaP 17, and then could get back to 1975, but that leaves a long time before the June '76 release shows up . . .

nice!...

Sing me back home a song I used to hear. Make my old memories come alive.Release The Ark. and turn back the year. Sing me back home before I die

As my first show was Syracuse in May of '78, I'll be interested in hearing this. FWIW, people should watch the video. There are a lot of comments in this thread that would be cleared up by watching David L. And, it's entertaining as usual. No surprise Spacebro prefers an '87 Red Rocks show. Anyone who has read these boards for a while knows what he tends to like. His review of it makes me want to check it out. I got rid of my 1000 CDRs of live Dead years ago when we moved, since there is now so much officially released. But I recall that the 7/8/78 show was pristine. I do wonder how much better a remaster will sound. I haven't really found that there is a giant upgrade between official releases and good soundboards like virtually all of Betty's are. We'll see. My guess is that there will be at least one more $100-$200 box this year. Based on how much was spent last year, I imagine TPTB will want to put out as much as they think people will buy. And they now think people will buy more than they thought a few years ago. My opinion.

What a great set! The size, price, era, all good! as is the Flac/Alac option. I hope they release a lot of 3 to 5 show boxes across the eras, so people can pick what they like. FOr some of the 80's, where tape quality and performance quality are purported to be inconsistent, I'd be happy with a 10 or so disc set of highlights compiled from a tour or a year, but for 78, the shows were great and the recordings are supposed to be good as well, (I have a couple of these on pirated CD already) so i'm happy to order my box right now!

This looks like it will be a lot of fun. Hopefully with this release we will start to learn more about the status of the Betty's and which of the three groups this is from. And maybe what else is in that group that has been acquired by the Dead. Three previously unavailable SB's from 78 - big smiles. Tying two threads together, when did I get on the bus? It was in a couple phases. In 78, I had a friend in high school who turned me on to a few Dead songs during my junior year. That summer I bought "What a long strange trip its' been" (Best of GD) on cassette. It got almost all my play in my car daily on my way to and from work after school. I really loved a lot of the songs on that compilation (Ramble On Rose, Cosmic Charlie, Brown-Eyed Women, Tennessee Jed). Thanksgiving 78 we had the chance to see them live at the Cap Centre during my senior year. They only played about three songs I knew (T Jed, Brown-Eyed Woman, PITB) but it was magic. Probably was on the bus and not gonna jump, but still more to learn. The very next night, they were live on FM from Cap Theatre in Passaic, NJ. I made my very own (and first) bootleg that night off the radio. I only had one blank, and after the first set, I had used most of both sides. Never mind, something else I had taped off the radio was soon taped over as the second set began. That tape sealed it, as if there was ever a doubt, despite still not knowing much of what I was hearing (Shake it Sugar Bee). I played those two cassettes far beyond any reason to expect them to survive, but one of them is still in my old tape box. I was on for good, but still absorbing anything I could. Eventually, I found a path to bootlegs from other people (there is a lot of this stuff, from shows that weren't over the radio? Oh my. I found my way to a few ill sounding bootlegs, always falling back to my own show from Passaic. Then somebody gave me a copy of 7-8-78. The first honest-to-God real bootleg from the underground world in good quality. The Ramble on Rose from that show had a beat that was so different from the official releases it was almost a different song. It bounced, it rolled, it was alive. The Terrapin was an encore? They played Werewolves of London? Looking for bootlegs was no longer something to do and hope it was ok, clearly there was a world of access out there far deeper than I realized, and I had to have more. I had been on the bus, but I found out it had been the local (show to show when they came to town, albums, the odd radio show). Now I was on the long-haul bus, get everything possible to listen to, as there are gems undreamed of. So that ties the two threads, how I got on the bus, and this release. 7-8-78 means a lot to me, but I imagine it means much the same to many of us. Happy days!