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Grateful Dead May 77 Box Set Announced

Just a half hour ago dead.net announced they are releasing the new Betty Board Box Set from 1977 :-)

May 5 New Haven, CT

May 7 Boston, MA

May 8 Ithaca, NY

May 9 Buffalo, NY

... and will be transferred by Jeffery Norman using Plangent Processing (WOW that's great news)

Get Shown the Light, limited to 15,000 individually numbered copies, is available to pre-order exclusively from the Dead site. The Cornell set will also be available as a digital download in Apple Lossless and FLAC formats beginning May 5th. The Barton Hall concert will also be available in three-CD, limited-edition five-LP, digital download and streaming formats.

The full Light set will come in an elaborate box constructed by Masaki Koike, featuring a book by Peter Conners, Cornell '77: The Music, the Myth and the Legend of the Grateful Dead's Concert at Barton Hall, and an essay by Dead scholar Nicholas G. Meriwether. (Conners' book will also be available for purchase separately.)


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fjn04
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Any Vinyl????
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jayrossi13
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There is vinyl, it's just the Cornell show (5 total LPs). 

The vinyl is not from the original analogue tape. 
fjn04
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As much as I love American Beauty, I really enjoy the Godchaux era dead. I just wish all their live stuff sounded as good as Reckoning. Europe 72' is pretty good sound wise, but not at the level of Reckoning. Cheers -Don
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tomic601
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I ordered the 3 CD set

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otherone OP
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So with this new May Box Set here, the entire Spring 1977 Tour (except for 2 shows) have been officially released. How awesome!

I would bet that they will be filled eventually now that Betty's stuff is returned.

@ the 11:00 mark of Dave's seaside chat over at dead.net he acknowledges that SEVERAL HUNDRED, yes, that's right... Several hundred reels were returned that make over a 100+ shows to be releases over time.

Fun time to be a head!

@jayrossi13: Plangent Process is all you need to know here (as good as it gets).  Not sure if the Digital 24bit resolution will be available.  But this will shine even at 16bit

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