Grateful Dead / 30 Trips Around the Sun / definitive 4CD live set

As part of their 50th anniversary celebrations, the GratefulDead are issuing a gargantuan 80CD box set that includes 30 unreleased live shows – one for each year the band was together from 1966 to 1995.

30 Trips Around The Sun will contain 73 hours of music and cost almost $700, and is exclusively available via the band’s Dead.net website. An even more limited, custom lightning-bolt USB drive edition is also being released if digital files are your thing.

Thankfully, if you can’t stretch to these lavish limited edition sets, a more modest four-CD version of 30 Trips Around The Sun will be made widely available in September. This smaller set includes 30 unreleased performances – one from each concert in the boxed set. As a bonus, the four-CD collection starts with Caution (Do Not Stop On Tracks), from the band’s earliest recording session in 1965 (this is on seven-inch gold vinyl in the big box). The booklet in this set includes an essay by Dead aficionado Jesse Jarnow dissecting every track in the collection.

30 Trips Around The Sun will be issued on 18 September 2015.

• • UK Pre-order: 30 Trips Around The Sun The Definitive Live Story
• • USA Pre-order: 30 Trips Around The Sun: The Definitive Live Story
• • CANADA Pre-order: 30 Trips Around the Sun the Definitive Live Story
• • GERMANY Pre-order: 30 Trips Around the Sun-the Definitive Live Story

Track listing

Disc: 1
1. Caution (Do Not Stop On Tracks) – The Emergency Crew
2. Cream Puff War (Live at Fillmore Auditorium, San Francisco, CA 7/3/66)
3. Viola Lee Blues (Live at Shrine (Exhibition Hall, Los Angeles, CA1/10/67)
4. Dark Star (Live at Greek Theater, Berkeley, CA 10/20/68)
5. Doin’ That Rag (Live at Dream Bowl, Vallejo, CA 2/22/69)
6. Dancing In The Street (Live at Winterland, San Francisco,CA 4/15/70)
7. Ain’t It Crazy (The Rub) (Live at Fox Theater, St. Louis, MO 3/18/71)
8. Tomorrow Is Forever (Live at The Palace Theater, Waterbury, CT 9/24/72)
9. Here Comes Sunshine (Live from San Diego Sports Arena 11/14/73)

Disc: 2
1. Uncle John’s Band (Live from Parc des Expositions, Dijon, France 9/18/74)
2. Franklin’s Tower (Live From Lindley Meadows, Golden Gate Park, San Francisco 9/28/75)
3. Scarlet Begonias (Live at Cobo Hall, Detroit, MI 10/3/76)
4. Estimated Prophet (Live at Capital Theatre, Passaic, NJ 4/25/77)
5. Samson And Delilah (Live at Providence Civic Center, Providence, RI 5/14/78)
6. Lost Sailor>Saint Of Circumstance (Live at Cape Cod Coliseum, South Yarmouth, MA 10/27/79)
7. Deep Elem Blues (Live at Lakeland Civic Center, Lakeland, FL 11/28/80)

Disc: 3
1. Shakedown Street (Live at Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 5/16/81)
2. Bird Song (Live at Manor Downs, Austin, TX 7/31/82)
3. My Brother Esau (Live at The Centrum, Worchester, MA 10/21/83)
4. Feel Like A Stranger (Live at Agusta Civic Center, Agusta, ME 10/12/84)
5. Let It Grow (Live at River Bend Music Center, Cincinnati, OH 6/24/85)
6. Comes A Time (Live at Cal Expo Amphitheatre, Sacramento, CA 5/3/86)
7. Morning Dew (Live at Madison Square Garden, New York, NY 9/18/87)

Disc: 4
1. Not Fade Away (Live at Oxford Plains Speedway, Oxford, ME 7/3/88)
2. Blow Away (Live at Miami Arena, Miami, FL 10/26/89)
3. Ramble On Rose (Live at Zenith, Paris, France 10/27/90)
4. High Time (Live From Madison Square Garden, New York, NY 9/10/91)
5. Althea (Live at Copps Coliseum, Ontario Canada 3/20/92)
6. Broken Arrow (Live at Knickerbocker Arena, Albany, NY 3/27/1993)
7. So Many Roads (Live at Boston Garden, Boston, MA 10/1/94)
8. Visions Of Johanna (Delta Center, Salt Lake City, UT 2/21/95)