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    THE BEST OF THE GRATEFUL DEAD LIVE is the ultimate live collection, a two-disc set with recordings selected from the band’s official live albums on Warner Bros. and Arista, plus a few tracks from their many archival live releases, beginning with “St. Stephen” – from the group’s first official live album, 1969’s Live/Dead – and ending with the poignant “So Many Roads,” taken from the band’s final concert at Chicago’s Soldier Field in July of 1995

    “We wanted to follow up the 2015 The Best Of The Grateful Dead studio set with a live counterpart, and have focused our efforts on the band’s primary live albums as well as some key tracks from archival concert releases,” says band archivist and producer David Lemieux. “Just as there was nothing like a Grateful Dead concert, there is also nothing like a live Grateful Dead recording; it’s no secret that as good as the Dead’s studio recordings were, they excelled in front of an audience, and this set provides an overview of just how great the Dead were live in concert.”

    THE BEST OF THE GRATEFUL DEAD LIVE will also be available as Apple Lossless and HD FLAC digital downloads on release day.

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    icecrmcnkd
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    Stereotypes
    Don’t be mislead by them. Charles Manson was a hippy. There goes the stereotype that all hippies are friendly. All Dead Heads are friendly and unselfish. Also not true.
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    Sorry, Tin Hat. Things can sadly get a tad cantankerous around here. Whereas most Deadheads will share a hemp sandwich and give you the tie-dye shirt off their backs at a concert, here in Cyber-Land it's quite a different story. I got a jolt of online culture-shock after I joined the site myself. Plenty of us take the negativity with a grain of salt (and a sense of humor). But there remains a small legion of perpetually dissatisfied, eternally combative types who believe that their personal preferences define them as individuals, so disagreeing with their tastes means you must either dislike them or that they're somehow "wrong" (the never-ending, tiresome 70s vs 80s debate, for example). In my opinion, Grateful Dead music was always (and still is) about the journey, not the destination. Ever fluid, ever evolving, and ever expanding. With plenty of room on the bus for everyone, Pranksters and Cranksters alike...
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    Cousins Of The…
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    @Tin hat "newbies"
    You wrote:"i thought deadheads were supposed to be cool and welcoming" In my 50+ years of collecting all kinds of different music, I realized that Deadheads are not any more cool or more welcoming than any other group of fans. Or any less for that matter.
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    SkullTrip
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    "Oh, the humanity!"
    We're in the thick of the feeding frenzy, Stoltzfus. Can't you hear the bones crunching?
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    stoltzfus
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    they can't all be Dave's Picks
    such vitriol everywhere I go. I am really amazed humanity hasn't eaten itself yet.
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    wow ~ i thought deadheads were supposed to be cool and welcoming ~ not superior to anyone wanting to get on the bus at any point or anytime but welcoming them like a family ~ im embarrassed ~ and i apologize for the rudeness and ignorance of many of these post ~ i hope this mean spirited group posting all of these demeaning prideful threads do not discourage anyone from buying this music and enjoying it and the wonderful spirit it brings ~ i too have a big dead catalogue and this one will be a welcome addition to bring along when i hop in my friends cars and take a ride ~ rain or shine ~ welcome young and old! buy one and smile ,smile ,smile !
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    You need to learn how to accept and love people for who they are, forgive them of their shortcomings, and help them understand your point of view. That's good sense for all of us. You sound so unbalanced, blaming the people who buy the tickets, but not the band selling them? You forgive the rich band because they provide something you enjoy, but you persecute the rich consumers because they have something you don't. Hypocrisy through and through. Love, accept, forgive, teach. Peace.
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    snowflakes, really? lol, what a used up old trumpian saying. If I was a newbie, which this is obviously geared to, then I would want the cream right off the top, not rehashed, re-released stuff, this is just another money grab. Anyone seen the price of those 2018 summer dead and co tickets? Wow, must be nice to be rich and young, I had to work for a living when I was a kid, not get it from mommy and daddy. Oh by the way andyman, your boy is about to go down, and we can't wait.
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    stoltzfus
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    bought it after my first show in 82. I still have it. great cover art. I remember St. Stephen. This release also reminds me of So Many Roads. that's a great release. disc one always makes me horny for more 66 GD. Mindbender...
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    icecrmcnkd
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    I had that on cassette and listened to it many, many times before seeing my first show.At this point I remember listening to it, but don’t remember anything on it. So I looked it up on Wikipedia and don’t really remember the song list but see that there were 2 live tracks which clicked a switch in my brain and I remembered that those 2 live tracks grabbed me unlike any of the other tracks on the cassette. I was always drawn to live recordings before ever seeing a concert. A lot of that caused by the live recording of Heard It Through The Grapevine on the CCR Greatest Hits cassette I had. Live music recordings found me and guided me to the bus stop......
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THE BEST OF THE GRATEFUL DEAD LIVE is the ultimate live collection, a two-disc set with recordings selected from the band’s official live albums on Warner Bros. and Arista, plus a few tracks from their many archival live releases, beginning with “St. Stephen” – from the group’s first official live album, 1969’s Live/Dead – and ending with the poignant “So Many Roads,” taken from the band’s final concert at Chicago’s Soldier Field in July of 1995

“We wanted to follow up the 2015 The Best Of The Grateful Dead studio set with a live counterpart, and have focused our efforts on the band’s primary live albums as well as some key tracks from archival concert releases,” says band archivist and producer David Lemieux. “Just as there was nothing like a Grateful Dead concert, there is also nothing like a live Grateful Dead recording; it’s no secret that as good as the Dead’s studio recordings were, they excelled in front of an audience, and this set provides an overview of just how great the Dead were live in concert.”

THE BEST OF THE GRATEFUL DEAD LIVE will also be available as Apple Lossless and HD FLAC digital downloads on release day.

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Submitted by icecrmcnkd on Sat, 05/26/2018 - 13:06

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That’s the answer to your question. 35 shows from 87-92 have been released. And that doesn’t count the 9 from 87-95 in 30 Trips.
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