Release Date: 07 February 2025
Label: Real Gone Music
Packaging Type: Box Set
No of Units: 1
Barcode: 848064018322
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Description
Grateful Dead archivist Dick Latvala considered this show to be the finest outing on the entire Spring 1977 tour, and, as any Dead Head knows, that is high praise indeed! At the time this was released on CD, the Dead weren't sure a market existed (ha!) for three and four-CD packages, so this four-LP set leaves off eight songs from the show, but consider what songs are here: a phenomenal "Help on the Way"/"Slipknot!"/"Franklin's Tower" comes after
one of the definitive renditions of "Sugaree" and a terrific "The Music Never Stopped," with Phil Lesh's slithering bass leading the way in recording engineer's Betty Cantor-Jackson's mix. But sides E, F & G offer one of those sublime (and, in this case, never to be repeated) sequences of songs that only the Dead could pull off in concert; after the rarely-performed "Sunrise," a
medley of "Estimated Prophet"/"Eyes of the World"/"Wharf Rat"/"Terrapin Station" (a truncated version two months before its official release)/"Morning Dew" brings the show home, as Jerry Garcia's soloing on "Morning Dew" reaches heights seldom attained even by him. This was a knockout release on its first very limited vinyl run (check out those resale prices), and we've improved on it with a fresh mastering job by Jeffrey Norman (in his own
words, "the sound is better than the original heard on the Brookvale release"), and lacquer cutting by Clint Holley and Dave Polster at Well Made Music. Pressed on 180-gram black vinyl at the plant we've been using to great acclaim for all of our Grateful Dead releases, Gotta Groove Records, and
limited to 2000 hand-numbered copies!
Tracklisting
William S. Fischer
Walter Bishop Jr
Walter Bishop Jr.'s 4th Cycle
Voivod
Various Artists
Various Artists
Various Artists
Various Artists
Grateful Dead
Grateful Dead
Grateful Dead
Grateful Dead
Grateful Dead
Grateful Dead, Aum, Flying Burrito Brothers
Grateful Dead
Grateful Dead
