As a devoted Deadhead with probably 2/3rds of their entire official output, I'd rank the GD Movie Soundtrack 5-cd set as one of their top-tier collections. The Dead were at the peak of their peforming IMO, the selected cuts are extremely well-played, and I think the sound balance on them is relatively faithful to their live sound at the time as such collections go.
Very much enjoyed this video, and subscribed. I've been collecting the big box sets and just found the one major set missing from my collection which was Spring 1990. Found it at a record store where it had been sitting, according to the store owner, on top of a book case in the store since the day he bought the store from the prior owner a year ago. He had no idea what it was. He thought it was a book sitting up there with a bunch of other music related books and never bothered with it. -- I've never seen the Terrapin Station one up close like you showed it. Will have to look for that one.
Terrapin Station was released to promote what the band were tentatively calling Terrapin Station, a museum of their archives (which is now on display at an Jose State University) which they were attempting to build a permanent location for.
There was a set for the 11/73 and 2-74 Winterland shows that is my favorite as I had the opportunity to attend those shows my faves would like to get the 5 cd set from the 10-74 shows.
Unfortunately there are more CDs that are out print. Rocking the Cradle- Egypt, Nightfall of Diamonds, To Terrapin, Houston , TX 11-18-72, Family Dog 4/18/70, and a likely a few more are all out of print. Most of the box sets and Dave's Picks are limited releases as well, so when they are gone, that is it. However and thankfully Real Gone Music has reissued all of the Dick's Picks and they are working their way through the Road Trips. Road Trips was a limited release so it is nice that they are available again. However most of the Road Trips releases had bonus discs that came with many orders, but Real Gone Music is not producing those. For me personally I like having the CDs. I rip everything to my computer, but I like knowing that along with having a back up hard drive, I have the CDs as well.
I remember getting Go To Nassau when it came out and absolutely loving it. It got lost during a move. Years later I found a copy at a church thrift store for $1!! Love that one so much. Hoping you will do an MSG box set unboxing!
@@PureGerry I will admit that listening to shows constantly I get a bit jaded from time to time. However, MSG had me in its grip from start to finish (which is no small feat at 14 CDs). It's exceptional!
I have the Terrapin Staton set. I think i bought it in 1998. It's not the limited edition one. I have some boxes of dead cd's. A lot of the old Dick's Picks. I think I have the first 20 or so. I have a whole case of tapes from when we used to still record on tape. Dead forever in one way or another.
That Terrapin Station CD set was released as a benefit CD to raise funds for a museum. performance space in San Francisco. that sadly never came to fruition. I believe the reason it remains out of print is because people kinda felt ripped off when the GD got all that money and nothing ever happened. The reason CDs are still being released is because they are cheap to produce and the profit is much greater than LPs. But CDs are going away, New autos don't even come with CD players anymore. You mention "Easy Streaming" that is why Universal Music/Rhino isn't releasing this stuff because once they release a CD then the media is out there for those of you who want this stuff. For me, my favorite years of GD is 69-73. And when they release shows from this era on vinyl then I'm all in.
I have some unusual GD ephemera from 1975. Two sampler vinyl discs the size of a 45 but played at 33 1/3. Old and in the way/Keith and Donna on one disc and Robert Hunter/Seastones on the other disc. With small postcard size cover artwork/documentation etc. These are on Round Records. Are these rare/collectible?
I have the Keith and Donna one as well! According to Discogs listings, both sell for only a couple bucks so I don't think they are super valuable. My copy is inherited from my dad's old collection, likely acquired by being on the fan mailing list back in the day. For me, there is a lot of emotional value even if the dollar value is pretty low.
@@PureGerry Thanks for the reply. Yes, I received mine from the fan mailing list. I was also digging into my vinyl and I have pristine copies of Ace, Kingfish, Wake of the Flood and Grateful Dead's first album. WB to GD Records and Round Records. I need to bust out my turntable. ;o)
Less said, more Dead. The Landover show is killing me. ( I got off the bus in '88.) I went to every Landover show from 1979-1988. Thank's for sharing with us. NFA
There are plenty about, on the secondary market, I think the word 'Rare' means something different in the USA, to the rest of the world. If you want the CD now or tomorrow you will always end up paying over the odds,if you want it in the future you will always find one at a better price.Besides who is to say that Deadnet Rhino will never release the limited edition on another format,or record store release, they are in the business of extracting money from fans.
Here's one that frustrates me to no end: As part of the Roadtrips, two full shows were released as download only: Spectrum 11/5/79 and 11/6/79. Even though Roadtrips is widely available for download, these two sets are NOT! (They can be streamed as audience tapes on archives but of course, that is far inferior quality). I am perfectly willing to pay (or trade) for those official download releases. Any ideas how I can get a hold of them?
I have the Fillmore West 1969 box set, including the bonus CD that came with preorders. I also have the 5 CD Grateful Dead Movie soundtrack. The one out of print set that I'd like to have is the June 1977 box.
I was never that big of a fan of their 1969 sound so I wouldn’t have bought the box set but thankfully my gf at the time didn’t know that and got it for me as a b-day gift. I’ve learned to love that box set. The jams & overall quality of play from each of the band members is top notch. I consume pretty much everything from ‘69-‘80 & periods of ‘81-83 + ‘87-89. Imo their absolute peak was mid 73 until their “last hurrah” in 1974 -every concert was excellent. I do like periods in 77 & 80 as much if not better but they weren’t consistent like they were before their 1975 hiatus. Taking that break was the worst thing they could’ve done bc that was when half the band lost themselves to severe drug addictions.
I'm put off by the "won't sell you" language. They're sold out, right? Is that "won't" or is that "can't"? To do another run of these items, they would want to be sure enough would sell - would they?
In case you don't know this: The Terrapin set came out as a fundraiser for the Rex Foundation. Even back then, it was fairly expensive ($40 if I recall correctly). So it was part of the promise to buyers willing to cough up the extra bucks that this would be a relatively lavish design as well as a strictly limited release. This may explain their reluctance to make it generally available, even 25 years after the fact.
Have them all. I was a little disappointed about the GD box set, because the multi track masters from this October 1974 run don’t have Ned Lagin in the mix, except for when he was on Seastones, which I do not think is in this collection.
Had all of these and then some! Also tons of pressed live bootleg CD boxed sets from Luxembourg and Italy made in the late eighties- early nineties, practically all the Betty Boards and a lot of late eighties shows-Beautiful lavish sets with posters and all kinds of totchkes! All would now be worth serious money, though I wouldn't have EVER parted with them...All stolen in 2000... I've slowly got all the official stuff back, mostly. Still have the complete original released Dick's Picks series though! They were in a separate house! 👍😊⚡
Here's another download I can't find for the life of me: Jerry Garcia Band, June 26, 1981, Warfield Theatre, San Francisco, CA (aka Garcia Live Vol 1.5). Any ideas how to get this one? Willing to pay or trade.
I had that, found it on CD-R at a record store in the 90s. My version had the Other One through Spanish Jam sequence from 2/14/68, and a few tracks from 5/23/69, notably the Dark Star.
The Landover show (Terrapin Station Live) was different than the Dick's Picks series in the sense that the band had the multi tracks of the show so the show was fully mixed unlike the Dick's Picks which are just releases of the two track, stereo live recording. That accounts for the amazing sound quality. Dick's Picks is not sourced from the multi tracks of the show, just the two channels that came out of the PA.
I had most of the official releases that I wanted, except for the Fillmore box. Now I don’t have any collectible Dead at all. My entire music collection was stolen in September 2018. It was 50 years in the making. Now I don’t even bother.
Holy smokes, that's a an awesome pick up. I'm curious - Is there a name on the suitcase? If I remember correctly, they offered to put a custom name on the trunk when they were originally offered for sale. I've heard a lot of people got names like "August West" and other Dead in-jokes.
The prices people demand for these cd's are outrageously high..100's of dollars. You'd think Grateful Dead productions would always keep these available instead of purposely making only a few, guaranteed to sellout in a minute. Just an "extra disc" from a box set go for hundreds of dollars on Ebay. It's ridiculous and shameful. Making the music exclusive to only the extremely wealthy is antithetical to the Grateful Dead. Pigpen would be pissed off.
Been looking for Mars hotel, reckoning, blues for allah, that one with touch of grey on it (I forgot what it's called) and some jam stuff - nada - and I'm not doing the net thing sight unseen. The warehouses have nothing - what's going on. Like the most American band in the world and it's become too exclusive for the people - and Dicks and Dave's picks run a pretty penny.....
I’ve been coming across a lot live live shows from England? They are a good price, supposedly radio shows from BBC, and good set lists. Anyone tried these? R they worth it? Seem a little too good to be true
Often times these bootlegs or unofficial releases are radio recordings. I’m not sure the details why, but they’re much more common from Europe and England than they are from the states.
The funny thing is, I got into them via the shortest versions of their most accessible songs on the studio albums American Beauty and Workingman’s Dead.
Terrapin Station Box was to create funds in creating a Grateful Dead museum with the entrance being the Wall Of Sound unfortunately it never came to be have it in my collection
I never understood the business model of 'Hey we got this here CD but we aint selling it to you' If the Dead were smart (and by their own admission are or were 5 really dumb guys) They would sell me any CD I ever wanted. Makes sense right?
The best argument I've heard centers around warehouse space and logistics. With all of the Dave's Picks, Dick's Picks, Road Trips, annual box sets and more, it's just too much for them to keep everything "In Print". So they do numbered limited editions of physical media, and then they can move on to the next project more quickly. That being said, I hate that some stuff is out of print and the only way to hear it is to spend big bucks on Discogs or to pirate it. If the Dead were smart, they'd sell high resolution downloads of things that are "Out Of Print" and never have to worry about warehouse logistics for this back catalog.
Funny enough, I bought the GD Movie Soundtrack in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame gift shop of all places. Right off the shelf.
As a devoted Deadhead with probably 2/3rds of their entire official output, I'd rank the GD Movie Soundtrack 5-cd set as one of their top-tier collections. The Dead were at the peak of their peforming IMO, the selected cuts are extremely well-played, and I think the sound balance on them is relatively faithful to their live sound at the time as such collections go.
Except for the blasphemous decision to seriously edit the Eyes of the World.
@@D-Fens_1632 If it was in fact edited, I can’t tell the difference. I just love it
@@smartluck100Try and find the original.
I was at that Cap Center Show! It was Sublime!!!!
Very much enjoyed this video, and subscribed. I've been collecting the big box sets and just found the one major set missing from my collection which was Spring 1990. Found it at a record store where it had been sitting, according to the store owner, on top of a book case in the store since the day he bought the store from the prior owner a year ago. He had no idea what it was. He thought it was a book sitting up there with a bunch of other music related books and never bothered with it. -- I've never seen the Terrapin Station one up close like you showed it. Will have to look for that one.
looking forward to the in and out of the garden review/unboxing!
This may be what finally makes me get a cd player
The may 1977 Tuscaloosa show on boot only? Sooo good.
I was at 3/15/90. Twas good. RIP Brent & Jerry
Terrapin Station was released to promote what the band were tentatively calling Terrapin Station, a museum of their archives (which is now on display at an Jose State University) which they were attempting to build a permanent location for.
There was a set for the 11/73 and 2-74 Winterland shows that is my favorite as I had the opportunity to attend those shows my faves would like to get the 5 cd set from the 10-74 shows.
Unfortunately there are more CDs that are out print. Rocking the Cradle- Egypt, Nightfall of Diamonds, To Terrapin, Houston , TX 11-18-72, Family Dog 4/18/70, and a likely a few more are all out of print. Most of the box sets and Dave's Picks are limited releases as well, so when they are gone, that is it. However and thankfully Real Gone Music has reissued all of the Dick's Picks and they are working their way through the Road Trips. Road Trips was a limited release so it is nice that they are available again. However most of the Road Trips releases had bonus discs that came with many orders, but Real Gone Music is not producing those. For me personally I like having the CDs. I rip everything to my computer, but I like knowing that along with having a back up hard drive, I have the CDs as well.
I remember getting Go To Nassau when it came out and absolutely loving it. It got lost during a move. Years later I found a copy at a church thrift store for $1!! Love that one so much.
Hoping you will do an MSG box set unboxing!
Just ordered my copy of the MSG box a couple of days ago. I’m looking forward to it!
@@PureGerry I will admit that listening to shows constantly I get a bit jaded from time to time. However, MSG had me in its grip from start to finish (which is no small feat at 14 CDs). It's exceptional!
I have the Terrapin Staton set. I think i bought it in 1998. It's not the limited edition one. I have some boxes of dead cd's. A lot of the old Dick's Picks. I think I have the first 20 or so. I have a whole case of tapes from when we used to still record on tape. Dead forever in one way or another.
That Terrapin Station CD set was released as a benefit CD to raise funds for a museum. performance space in San Francisco. that sadly never came to fruition. I believe the reason it remains out of print is because people kinda felt ripped off when the GD got all that money and nothing ever happened. The reason CDs are still being released is because they are cheap to produce and the profit is much greater than LPs. But CDs are going away, New autos don't even come with CD players anymore. You mention "Easy Streaming" that is why Universal Music/Rhino isn't releasing this stuff because once they release a CD then the media is out there for those of you who want this stuff. For me, my favorite years of GD is 69-73. And when they release shows from this era on vinyl then I'm all in.
"But CDs are going away" Like LP Albums went away? Who knows what will be.
I'm surprised that Terrapin Station is so hard to find today. It was available officially for years - well into the 00s
I have some unusual GD ephemera from 1975. Two sampler vinyl discs the size of a 45 but played at 33 1/3. Old and in the way/Keith and Donna on one disc and Robert Hunter/Seastones on the other disc. With small postcard size cover artwork/documentation etc. These are on Round Records. Are these rare/collectible?
I have the Keith and Donna one as well! According to Discogs listings, both sell for only a couple bucks so I don't think they are super valuable. My copy is inherited from my dad's old collection, likely acquired by being on the fan mailing list back in the day. For me, there is a lot of emotional value even if the dollar value is pretty low.
@@PureGerry Thanks for the reply. Yes, I received mine from the fan mailing list. I was also digging into my vinyl and I have pristine copies of Ace, Kingfish, Wake of the Flood and Grateful Dead's first album. WB to GD Records and Round Records. I need to bust out my turntable. ;o)
Less said, more Dead.
The Landover show is killing me. ( I got off the bus in '88.) I went to every Landover show from 1979-1988.
Thank's for sharing with us.
NFA
There are plenty about, on the secondary market, I think the word 'Rare' means something different in the USA, to the rest of the world. If you want the CD now or tomorrow you will always end up paying over the odds,if you want it in the future you will always find one at a better price.Besides who is to say that Deadnet Rhino will never release the limited edition on another format,or record store release, they are in the business of extracting money from fans.
its a shame that deadnet rhino does business that way because its really good music.
@@sm-jones5911 Agreed, but their business plan works in the way that they never have overstocks.
@@jonathanlake6053 Overstocks...that would be terrible....the end of business...
Here's one that frustrates me to no end: As part of the Roadtrips, two full shows were released as download only: Spectrum 11/5/79 and 11/6/79. Even though Roadtrips is widely available for download, these two sets are NOT! (They can be streamed as audience tapes on archives but of course, that is far inferior quality).
I am perfectly willing to pay (or trade) for those official download releases. Any ideas how I can get a hold of them?
I have the Fillmore West 1969 box set, including the bonus CD that came with preorders. I also have the 5 CD Grateful Dead Movie soundtrack. The one out of print set that I'd like to have is the June 1977 box.
I have two cds, one is Grayfold all instrumental and Flashback with the Grateful Dead. And a lot of bootlegs. Jim
Terrapin Station Live, is more like the Vault series. It was made from multi-tracks. It was also sold as a limited numbered edition.
I was never that big of a fan of their 1969 sound so I wouldn’t have bought the box set but thankfully my gf at the time didn’t know that and got it for me as a b-day gift. I’ve learned to love that box set. The jams & overall quality of play from each of the band members is top notch. I consume pretty much everything from ‘69-‘80 & periods of ‘81-83 + ‘87-89. Imo their absolute peak was mid 73 until their “last hurrah” in 1974 -every concert was excellent. I do like periods in 77 & 80 as much if not better but they weren’t consistent like they were before their 1975 hiatus. Taking that break was the worst thing they could’ve done bc that was when half the band lost themselves to severe drug addictions.
I'm put off by the "won't sell you" language. They're sold out, right? Is that "won't" or is that "can't"?
To do another run of these items, they would want to be sure enough would sell - would they?
In case you don't know this: The Terrapin set came out as a fundraiser for the Rex Foundation. Even back then, it was fairly expensive ($40 if I recall correctly). So it was part of the promise to buyers willing to cough up the extra bucks that this would be a relatively lavish design as well as a strictly limited release. This may explain their reluctance to make it generally available, even 25 years after the fact.
Have them all. I was a little disappointed about the GD box set, because the multi track masters from this October 1974 run don’t have Ned Lagin in the mix, except for when he was on Seastones, which I do not think is in this collection.
Had all of these and then some! Also tons of pressed live bootleg CD boxed sets from Luxembourg and Italy made in the late eighties- early nineties, practically all the Betty Boards and a lot of late eighties shows-Beautiful lavish sets with posters and all kinds of totchkes! All would now be worth serious money, though I wouldn't have EVER parted with them...All stolen in 2000... I've slowly got all the official stuff back, mostly. Still have the complete original released Dick's Picks series though! They were in a separate house! 👍😊⚡
Terrapin limited is awesome
Here's another download I can't find for the life of me:
Jerry Garcia Band, June 26, 1981, Warfield Theatre, San Francisco, CA (aka Garcia Live Vol 1.5). Any ideas how to get this one? Willing to pay or trade.
Anyone ever had the Bear Trap cd?
Thank god I borrowed it and copied. What a great blend
I had that, found it on CD-R at a record store in the 90s. My version had the Other One through Spanish Jam sequence from 2/14/68, and a few tracks from 5/23/69, notably the Dark Star.
The Landover show (Terrapin Station Live) was different than the Dick's Picks series in the sense that the band had the multi tracks of the show so the show was fully mixed unlike the Dick's Picks which are just releases of the two track, stereo live recording. That accounts for the amazing sound quality. Dick's Picks is not sourced from the multi tracks of the show, just the two channels that came out of the PA.
That's not entirely accurate. Most of the 2 tracks were seperare recording mixes, not recordings of the PA feed.
I had most of the official releases that I wanted, except for the Fillmore box. Now I don’t have any collectible Dead at all. My entire music collection was stolen in September 2018. It was 50 years in the making. Now I don’t even bother.
Sorry to hear.
Just copped the Europe 72 complete recordings and man I’m over the moon about it. Won the auction and got it $1000 less than a used one.
Bully 👌
Holy smokes, that's a an awesome pick up.
I'm curious - Is there a name on the suitcase? If I remember correctly, they offered to put a custom name on the trunk when they were originally offered for sale. I've heard a lot of people got names like "August West" and other Dead in-jokes.
@@PureGerry this cat didn’t put the decal on it but you’re absolutely correct
Jug was released in 1999
They should make every cd just cdrs. We got digital, we got vinyl. Time to put the format out to pasture
How about the ROUND RECORDS mailing to HEADS
I bought as many dead records as I could on ebay.All original print not the new ones..The love the bootlegs.
The prices people demand for these cd's are outrageously high..100's of dollars. You'd think Grateful Dead productions would always keep these available instead of purposely making only a few, guaranteed to sellout in a minute. Just an "extra disc" from a box set go for hundreds of dollars on Ebay. It's ridiculous and shameful. Making the music exclusive to only the extremely wealthy is antithetical to the Grateful Dead. Pigpen would be pissed off.
Keeping them all in stock and available is expensive and would take away from their ability to issue new stuff
Thanks for sharing.
Thank you
I just watched a DavesPick on ebay going for $850. Dang.
A big regret in life - not buying that Mother McCree's. I was poor, I was worried about sound quality. Stupid stupid me.
More cds!
I have one of the terrapin sets (:
Been looking for Mars hotel, reckoning, blues for allah, that one with touch of grey on it (I forgot what it's called) and some jam stuff - nada - and I'm not doing the net thing sight unseen. The warehouses have nothing - what's going on. Like the most American band in the world and it's become too exclusive for the people - and Dicks and Dave's picks run a pretty penny.....
Hey man! Great video. Dropped a like.
Can you give me a line to your shirt?
Thank you!
It’s an old one made by @danieljmerton on Instagram. Not sure he is still selling this one, but he makes some cool dead bootleg shirts.
you should check out Roon for streaming your own files.
I’ve been coming across a lot live live shows from England? They are a good price, supposedly radio shows from BBC, and good set lists. Anyone tried these? R they worth it? Seem a little too good to be true
Often times these bootlegs or unofficial releases are radio recordings. I’m not sure the details why, but they’re much more common from Europe and England than they are from the states.
@@PureGerry I think there is a copyright loop hole that allows this to happen.
In answer to your question, yes - you have coming across a lot of live shows from England.
I never really got into the Dead, but I thought they were a jam band that could only be truly appreciated hearing live.
The funny thing is, I got into them via the shortest versions of their most accessible songs on the studio albums American Beauty and Workingman’s Dead.
Not so. I enjoy the studio recordings WAY much more than the live.
Terrapin Station Box was to create funds in creating a Grateful Dead museum with the entrance being the Wall Of Sound unfortunately it never came to be have it in my collection
Its funneywhen. Your. Born. 19 38. Oooo the old beddy. Bord
I never understood the business model of 'Hey we got this here CD but we aint selling it to you' If the Dead were smart (and by their own admission are or were 5 really dumb guys) They would sell me any CD I ever wanted. Makes sense right?
The best argument I've heard centers around warehouse space and logistics. With all of the Dave's Picks, Dick's Picks, Road Trips, annual box sets and more, it's just too much for them to keep everything "In Print". So they do numbered limited editions of physical media, and then they can move on to the next project more quickly.
That being said, I hate that some stuff is out of print and the only way to hear it is to spend big bucks on Discogs or to pirate it. If the Dead were smart, they'd sell high resolution downloads of things that are "Out Of Print" and never have to worry about warehouse logistics for this back catalog.
What makes you think they have them?
Terrapin Station was 30,000 made.
Terapin station live (amazon) 32$
Long road trip sound.(amazon) 32$
Mother's....(amazon) 118$
Wrong terrapin station
GD Movie Soundtrack, not Long Strange Trip soundtrack
Spot on with MMUJC
"Big fat woman with the meat shaking on her bones"
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