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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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    BornXagainXdead
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    Best of the Grateful Dead Live*
    *excluding the greatest vocal performer ever to belong to the Dead
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    Fine and Dandy...
    I applaud the effort to condense so much into two discs. I set out to make a "best of Spring '90" road set. It filled 25 CDs.
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    This One Is For The Normies
    This is for the normies only...
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    Pigpen & Donna
    I would've added a Next Time You See Me or Chinatown Shuffle from Europe 72 and Also A Sunrise from Spring 1977.
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    marye
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    personally
    I've always been really partial to the Ripple from Reckoning, which is pretty much in my DNA now because I played it so much in the wake of my first show. It has a lot to do with my being here now, most likely! So I'm glad it made the cut.
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    I wish somebody could find the tape of one of the best shows I ever saw (Actually the whole run of 4 nights was amazing). Wednesday, 11/11/70 at something called the 45th Street "Rock Palace" in Brooklyn. A couple of songs into the second set out popped Jorma, Jack and Papa John from the Airplane who were playing the next night at the Fillmore East. They played most, if not all, of the rest of the set. There is a copy of this show on Archive but the quality is horrendous. I've asked both David Gans and Betty Cantor if they know of a copy but neither does. I don't think tapes from the next 3 nights have ever surfaced. So Dave, if a better copy of this show exists please release it. It would be a great money maker.
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    PatagonianFox
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    what's the point of this release?
    i already own everything on it. ---
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    SkullTrip
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    Um...
    ...pass.
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    Agree, this is not for us
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QulcQ5Afd7I
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    I'd rather see one of these sets
    derived from bonus disks from Dick's, Dave's Picks and Road Trips series.
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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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