Grateful Dead – Ready or Not (Live) (2019) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

Grateful Dead – Ready or Not (Live) (2019)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:21:41 minutes | 1,49 GB | Genre: Rock
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Grateful Dead – Rhino

The album consist of tracks debuted in 1992-93, none of which have ever been released as studio recordings. Including tracks such as ‘Days Between’, ‘Easy Answers’ and ‘So Many Roads’, this album includes some of their best live performances, all mastered from the original digital soundboard tapes. The album track list mirrors what would have been the Grateful Dead’s next studio album, following ‘Built to Last’ in 1989, had Jerry Garcia not passed in 1995.

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Grateful Dead – Ready or Not (Live) (2019) [Official Digital Download 24bit/48kHz]

Grateful Dead – Ready or Not (Live) (2019)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 01:21:41 minutes | 944 MB | Genre: Rock
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Grateful Dead – Rhino

The album consist of tracks debuted in 1992-93, none of which have ever been released as studio recordings. Including tracks such as ‘Days Between’, ‘Easy Answers’ and ‘So Many Roads’, this album includes some of their best live performances, all mastered from the original digital soundboard tapes. The album track list mirrors what would have been the Grateful Dead’s next studio album, following ‘Built to Last’ in 1989, had Jerry Garcia not passed in 1995.

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Grateful Dead – R.F.K. Stadium Washington D.C. 1989 (Live) (2017) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

Grateful Dead – R.F.K. Stadium Washington D.C. 1989 (Live) (2017)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 05:22:51 minutes | 6,61 GB | Genre: Rock
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Rhino Entertainment

The Grateful Dead battled the elements in July 1989, enduring drenching rains and stifling humidity during back-to-back shows at Robert F. Kennedy Stadium in the nation’s capital. In spite of the bleak weather, the band thrilled the massive crowds both nights with triumphant performances that rank among the very best of a busy year that included 74 shows and the release of the group’s final studio album, BUILT TO LAST.

ROBERT F. KENNEDY STADIUM, WASHINGTON, D.C., JULY 12 & 13, 1989 includes two previously unreleased concerts taken from the band’s master 24-track analog recordings, which have been mixed by Jeffrey Norman at TRI Studios and mastered in HDCD by David Glasser. The collection’s colorful slip case features original artwork by Justin Helton and a perfect-bound book with in-depth liner notes written by Dean Budnick, editor-in-chief of Relix magazine. The set will also be available as a digital download in Apple Lossless and FLAC 192/24.

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Grateful Dead – Pacific Northwest ’73-’74: Believe It If You Need It (Live) (2018) [Official Digital Download 24bit/192kHz]

Grateful Dead – Pacific Northwest ’73-’74: Believe It If You Need It (Live) (2018)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz | Time – 03:54:16 minutes | 6,94 GB | Genre: Rock
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Grateful Dead – Rhino

During the Grateful Dead’s legendary 30-year run, the band often visited its northern neighbours in Portland, Seattle, and less-than-often Vancouver. Even so, official live recordings from those cities are something of a rarity. Pacific Northwest ’73-’74: Believe It If You Need It highlights some of the best performances from Grateful Dead’s time in the northwest. The concerts in the set include: P.N.E. Coliseum, Vancouver, B.C. (6/22/73); Portland Memorial Coliseum, Portland, OR (6/24/73); P.N.E. Coliseum, Vancouver, Canada (5/17/74); Portland Memorial Coliseum, Portland, OR (5/19/74); and Hec Edmundson Pavilion, University of Washington, Seattle, WA (5/21/74). During the period when the shows were recorded, the Grateful Dead included: Jerry Garcia, Donna Jean Godchaux, Keith Godchaux, Bill Kreutzmann, Phil Lesh and Bob Weir. The recordings of the 1973 shows were made just a few months before the band released its sixth studio album, Wake of the Flood, which was its first without founding member Ron “Pigpen” McKernan, who died in March 1973, and the first on their new Grateful Dead Records label. The 1974 shows were recorded just a few weeks before the band released its seventh studio album, From The Mars Hotel. Each show was mastered in 24bit high-resolution audio from the original master tapes by Jeffrey Norman at Mockingbird Mastering. The transfers from the masters were transferred and restored by Plangent Processes, further ensuring that this is the best, most authentic that these shows have ever sounded.

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Grateful Dead – Complete Studio Albums Collection: 1967-1989 (2013) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

Grateful Dead – Complete Studio Albums Collection: 1967-1989 (2013)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 08:40:22 minutes | 9,91 GB | Genre: Rock
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Grateful Dead – Rhino

This new hi-res collection of the Grateful Dead’s studio work has been painstakingly produced from the original master tapes of each album, using their original mixes to produce a work that is truer to the original sound than any previous release. Included in this collection are the band’s 13 studio albums, spanning three decades and containing over 8 hours of music, lovingly rendered in hi-resolution…

The Complete Studio Albums Collection contains all 13 of Grateful Dead’s studio albums. Drawing from the 1960s, the bundle features the group’s gold-certified self-titled debut; Anthem of the Sun, which is the first with drummer Mickey Hart; and Aoxomoxoa, which boasts the live staple “St. Stephen.” Music from the 1970s includes: the back-to-back platinum releases Workingman’s Dead and American Beauty; Wake Of The Flood, the first with keyboardist Keith Godchaux who replaced founding member Ron “Pigpen” McKernan; From the Mars Hotel, which features the debut of “Scarlet Begonias”; Blues For Allah with the standout track “Franklin’s Tower”; and two gold albums in a row, Terrapin Station and Shakedown Street. The 1980s are represented by: Go To Heaven, the first with keyboardist Brent Mydland; the double-platinum In The Dark; and the group’s final studio album, Built To Last, which debuted on Halloween 1989.

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Grateful Dead – May 1977: Get Shown The Light (2017) [Official Digital Download 24bit/192kHz]

Grateful Dead – May 1977: Get Shown The Light (2017)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz | Time – 10:38:11 minutes | 20,94 GB | Genre: Rock
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Grateful Dead – Rhino

Four Complete Shows on 11 discs
Four folios housed in a slipcase
5/5/77 Veterans Memorial Coliseum: New Haven, CT
5/7/77 Boston Garden: Boston, MA
5/8/77 Barton Hall, Cornell University: Ithaca, NY
5/9/77 Buffalo Memorial Auditorium: Buffalo, NY
50-page book of liners and photographs
Sourced from the Betty Cantor-Jackson soundboard recordings, transferred by Plangent Processes
Mastered in HDCD by Jeffrey Norman
Artwork by Grammy-winning graphic artist Masaki Koike
Release Date: May 5, 2017
WHAT DEAD HEADS HAVE BEEN SAYING ABOUT…

NEW HAVEN 5/5/77
“Here is a prime example of the saying ‘the whole is greater than the sum of the parts’ … It’s called synergy and the Dead wrote the book on it.”

BOSTON 5/7/77
“The music they laid down brought me places I had not been before.”

CORNELL 5/8/77
“…the single best rock performance anywhere, anytime, by anyone.”

“There was just some kind of magical connection this night between the band members and the band and the audience – some texture, or some type of cosmic or celestial force is in the room.”

“This show is, was, and always will be Mecca.”

BUFFALO 5/9/77
“…an awesome display of the Dead’s captivating power”

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Grateful Dead – Red Rocks Amphitheatre, Morrison, CO 7/8/78 (2016) [Official Digital Download 24bit/192kHz]

Grateful Dead – Red Rocks Amphitheatre, Morrison, CO 7/8/78 (2016)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz | Time – 02:50:02 minutes | 5,45 GB | Genre: Rock
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Grateful Dead – Rhino

In the history of Grateful Dead performances, 1978 is widely praised as one of the group’s finest years. This set marks the official debut of one of their first ever performances at the legendary Red Rocks Amphitheatre, a show highly sought-after by Dead Heads, and the first official release of master recordings from the long lost “Betty Boards”. The complete July 8, 1978 show at Red Rocks is widely considered one of the greatest concerts in Grateful Dead history and now it’s available as a three-disc set.

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Grateful Dead – Grateful Dead Records Collection (Remastered) (2018) [Official Digital Download 24bit/192kHz]

Grateful Dead – Grateful Dead Records Collection (Remastered) (2018)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz | Time – 03:29:17 minutes | 7,92 GB | Genre: Rock
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Grateful Dead – Rhino

The four albums gathered here were released by the band’s own label, Grateful Dead Records: Wake of the Flood (1973), From the Mars Hotel (1974), Blues for Allah (1975) and the much-maligned live compilation, Steal Your Face (1976). The three studio albums, even if they suggest songs really different from what they have become later, are enjoyable. This is the album “live” that benefits most from the remastering, which it well deserved.

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Grateful Dead – Grateful Dead (Skull & Roses) [50th Anniversary Expanded Edition] (2021) [Official Digital Download 24bit/192kHz]

Grateful Dead – Grateful Dead (Skull & Roses) [50th Anniversary Expanded Edition] (2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz | Time – 02:26:40 minutes | 6,13 GB | Genre: Rock
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Grateful Dead – Rhino

“For the Grateful Dead’s second live album, released two years after its predecessor LIVE/DEAD, the band delivered an equally magnificent, but entirely different, Grateful Dead sound. Whereas LIVE/DEAD was a perfect sonic encapsulation of the band at the peak of their Primal Dead era, SKULL & ROSES captures the quintessential quintet, the original five piece band, playing some of their hardest hitting rock ‘n’ roll (‘Johnny B. Goode,’ ‘Not Fade Away’), showing off their authentic Bakersfield bona fides (‘Me & My Uncle,’ ‘Mama Tried,’ ‘Me & Bobby McGee’), and some originals that would be important parts of the Dead’s live repertoire for the next 24 years (‘Bertha,’ ‘Playing In The Band,’ ‘Wharf Rat’). Of course, the Dead were never defined by one specific ‘sound’ and amongst the aforementioned genres and styles the band brought to this album, they also delved deeply into their psychedelic, primal playbook with an entire side dedicated to their 1968 masterpiece ‘The Other One.’ This is one of the most deeply rich and satisfying tracks preserved on an official Grateful Dead album, up there with LIVE/DEAD’s ‘Dark Star’ and EUROPE ’72’s ‘Morning Dew.’ SKULL & ROSES sounds as fresh today as the first time I heard it in 1985, and as fresh as it was upon its spectacularly well-received release in 1971.” – David Lemieux

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Grateful Dead – Giants Stadium Boxset (Live) (2019) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

Grateful Dead – Giants Stadium Boxset (Live) (2019)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 12:46:18 minutes | 15,73 GB | Genre: Rock
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Grateful Dead Productions

By 1987, the Grateful Dead had lived many of their nine lives but were about to embark on one not a soul had seen coming. In The Dark, their first studio album in seven years, had spawned a hit (A TOP 10 SINGLE FOR THE GRATEFUL DEAD?!) and “Touch Of Grey” begat a new generation with their fanny packs and their MTV and their undeniable quest to join the party already in progress. And boy, did the Dead let them in! But not without fine-tuning their sonic vibes to meet the new demand.

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Grateful Dead – Fox Theatre, St. Louis, MO (12/10/71) (2021) [Official Digital Download 24bit/192kHz]

Grateful Dead – Fox Theatre, St. Louis, MO (12/10/71) (2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz | Time – 03:03:29 minutes | 6,05 GB | Genre: Rock
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Grateful Dead – Rhino

One of the shortest-lived iterations of the Grateful Dead was the band that existed December 1971 through March 1972. Jerry, Bob, Phil, Bill, Pigpen, and Keith formed a formidable version of the Dead that only played a few shows together before Donna Jean joined as vocalist, and before Pigpen would depart the stage for good in June 1972. What this sextet lacked in quantity of shows it made up for with creativeness, power, and inspiration.

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Grateful Dead – Fox Theatre, St. Louis, MO (12/09/71) (2021) [Official Digital Download 24bit/192kHz]

Grateful Dead – Fox Theatre, St. Louis, MO (12/09/71) (2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz | Time – 02:08:42 minutes | 4,24 GB | Genre: Rock
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Rhino Entertainment

One of the shortest-lived iterations of the Grateful Dead was the band that existed December 1971 through March 1972. Jerry, Bob, Phil, Bill, Pigpen, and Keith formed a formidable version of the Dead that only played a few shows together before Donna Jean joined as vocalist, and before Pigpen would depart the stage for good in June 1972. What this sextet lacked in quantity of shows it made up for with creativeness, power, and inspiration.

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Grateful Dead – Fare Thee Well: Complete Box July 3, 4 & 5 2015 (2015) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

Grateful Dead – Fare Thee Well: Complete Box July 3, 4 & 5 2015 (2015)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 13:06:02 minutes | 12,94 GB | Genre: Rock
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Grateful Dead – Rhino

In celebration of the 50th anniversary of Grateful Dead, the “core four” original members – Mickey Hart, Bill Kreutzmann, Phil Lesh, and Bob Weir – reunited at Chicago’s Soldier Field on 4th of July weekend for one of the most anticipated concert events in recent history. Joined by Trey Anastasio, Jeff Chimenti, and Bruce Hornsby. Fare Thee Well: Celebrating 50 Years Of Grateful Dead is the original members’ last-ever performance together nearly 20 years to the day of the last ever Grateful Dead concert with Jerry Garcia, which took place at the same historic venue.

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Grateful Dead – Cornell 5/8/77 (Live) (2017) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

Grateful Dead – Cornell 5/8/77 (Live) (2017)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 02:41:49 minutes | 3,21 GB | Genre: Classic Rock, Psychedelic Rock
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Grateful Dead – Rhino

Cornell 5/8/77 was recorded live directly from the soundboards by Betty Cantor-Jackson. After several years the master tapes were seemingly lost for good, but that all changed at the end of 2016. The lost tapes, or lost “Betty boards” as they are commonly known, finally made their way back home to the Grateful Dead vault, making it possible to officially bring the world this legendary show just in time for its 40th Anniversary. The complete live show has been Plangentized by Plangent Processes and remastered by GRAMMY ® award winning sound engineer, Jeffrey Norman.

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Grateful Dead – Aoxomoxoa (50th Anniversary Deluxe Edition) (1969/2019) [Official Digital Download 24bit/192kHz]

Grateful Dead – Aoxomoxoa (50th Anniversary Deluxe Edition) (1969/2019)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz | Time – 02:22:46 minutes | 5,24 GB | Genre: Rock
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Grateful Dead – Rhino

Remastered from the original 1969 recordings: Grateful Dead will continue their ambitious reissue series to commemorate the 50-year anniversary for each of their albums with Aoxomoxoa this June. Like all the albums in this ongoing series, Aoxomoxoa will be released approximately 50 years after its anniversary date as a two-album deluxe edition that includes the original album with newly remastered sound, plus a bonus disc of unreleased live recordings.

Grateful Dead audiovisual archivist Dave Lemieux says: “In 1969, for their third album, the Grateful Dead eschewed outside producers and created Aoxomoxoa themselves, beginning a run of self-produced albums that would continue until 1977. Scrapping the first sessions, which were recorded to eight-track tape, the Dead now had 16 tracks with which to experiment their psychedelic sound, with an album that included entirely Robert Hunter-penned lyrics for the first time.”

An enigmatic classic, Aoxomoxoa is messy and murky, mysterious and majestic – a perfect time capsule that is still stubbornly resplendent a half century after it first appeared. The album introduced favorites like “St. Stephen” and “Mountains On The Moon,” as well as “China Cat Sunflower” – a song that would continue to remain in the band’s repertoire.

The deluxe edition’s bonus disc features unreleased live performances captured over several nights in January 1969 at the Avalon Ballroom. Recorded several months before the release of Aoxomoxoa, the live tracks include early versions of two tracks from the album – “Dupree’s Diamond Blues” and “Doin’ That Rag.” The disc also includes the final live performance of “Clementine,” a song the band began performing in 1968 but was never released on a studio album. The band also played several songs from its second album, Anthem of the Sun (1968). Highlights include a dynamic romp through “New Potato Caboose” and an electrifying “Alligator>Caution” jam that captures Pigpen at his primal best.

When these shows were recorded, the band members were: Jerry Garcia, Bob Weir, Ron “Pigpen” McKernan, Phil Lesh, Tom Constanten, Mickey Hart, and Bill Kreutzmann.

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