Grateful Dead Box Set - Spring 1990 (The Other One)

Listening to Copps and Albany first, the two shows I was in. Pure heaven, finally something that captures the energy of the moment.

 

Same thing with the first box, Rocky. I should have kept it but I just don't have the room.

 

My Wake Up To Find Out discs came today.
I asked my wife to order me the complete set for Christmas.
I am sure she will, but now will have to wait a few months to hear it !!!
So I am living vicariously through this thread.
Glen

 

I hope this is the first of a wave of hi-Rez releases. I hate to buy stuff twice but some shows like One From the Vault or the 73 Winterland shows in hi-Rez would be great.

 

Is the cardboard attached or free standing?

 

Have only had time to listen to the first show. Great sound and great performance. I can tell I am going to spend some time with this one.

 

Skipped forward to the 3/28 Nassau. I don't remember them doing Revolution? I also don't remember any previous Dead covers of The Weight before 3/18?

 

Hearing how great this set sounds, it makes me wish they had just redone 3/24 as a standalone concert instead of needing 4 releases for the complete show.

 

Drums/ Space are incredible on these.

 

Well, that's an opinion spoken as fact, isn't it? Point being, I saw 20 shows from '82-'85 and I guess I caught them at one of the biggest lows of their career. However, a few of these shows rank with the best music I've ever witnessed live (SPAC '83, '84 and '85 among them). Here in 2014, I've only got so much time to listen to music. I am aware that set lists mean nothing when compared to how stuff was played, but I'm in general agreement with Rne, with one addition: MIDI = unlistenable; not something I want in perfect sound quality. I want to buy it, but I just can't. I know I'll be annoyed/disappointed.

As with Rne; enjoy your new material!

 

I kept thinking that when listening to the first show from here. Really kinda annoying if you ask me. How hard would that have been to add a few extra songs that have already been released ?

 

Is it just attached via a magnet, it is not really attached. It might take a little bit of energy to remove it the first time.

 

my magnets have already fallen out... may glue em in

 

Maybe we should start a campaign to have Jeffrey Norman rework this show from the multis for a digital only release?

 

Debut version of The Weight was 3/28/90. They did Revolution dating back to around 1983.

 

First Revolution was 10.12.83 at MSG.
Second Revolution was 10.17.83 in Lake Placid. (An amazing show).
Third Revolution was 10.22.83 at the Carrier Dome in Syracuse.

Saw all three of these- good times.

 

[QcouldUOTE="US Blues, post: 11074950, member: 50197"]First Revolution was 10.12.83 at MSG.
Second Revolution was 10.17.83 in Lake Placid. (An amazing show).
Third Revolution was 10.22.83 at the Carrier Dome in Syracuse.

Saw all three of these- good times.[/QUOTE]
I could only find Revolution on one commercial release....Terrapin Lmited 3/15/90.

 

Get Back, Day Tripper, Hey Jude, Rain, Lucy in the Sky, Revolution, Why Don't We Do it in The Road, Blackbird, Tomorrow Never Knows and All Too Much...did I miss any other Beatle songs The Grateful Dead played?

 

I Want To Tell You

 

OK, you can tell me.

 

Also, not exactly Beatles but.........
That Would Be Something

For awhile in 1995, they were supposedly soundchecking "Watching The Wheels" with Vince Welnick singing. I don't know if there were planning to debut it later on.

 

Poking around on Google after reading this I found this interview with Vince from March 95 which is an interesting snapshot of the time. He mentions "Watching The Wheels" and also alludes to a "Strawberry Fields" cover.

 

Vince was responsible for a lot of the Beatles covers the last few years.

 

I am loving this set. The sound is wonderful. I wish they'd go back and remix the first Spring 1990 box set and send me a free copy! Actually, I would spend the money to buy it again for it to be mixed from the mutli-tracks.

I guess there is no doubt that the band really was ON for this tour. But I also wonder how many other great runs would be more apparent had they been professionally recorded and could be professionally mixed. I really wish the shows from June 1991 were multi-tracked. I always thought that with Bruce & Vince, the 'busy-ness' of the performances were a put off to some because the soundboard (and audience) mixes can be all over the place. Sometimes Bobby or Jerry would kick some midi stuff on and it would come blaring out on top of a run that someone else was doing or Jerry would switch and the volume would go down... and all those keyboards shoved off to the right... If it could all be evened out, it could pretty awesome.

 

I am seriously considering buying the hi-res digital downloads of the first Spring 1990 box since I missed it when it came out, and I don't want to pay the outrageous prices on eBay. But if there's some chance they may re-mix, maybe I will wait. Does anyone really think this is a possibility?