GRATEFUL DEAD Dick's Picks Vol. 33 (8-LP, 180g Vinyl, Limited, Handnumbered Boxset)

(Real Gone Music) 8-LP, 180g Viny, Limited , Handnumbered (6.000) Boxset - Limited to 1 copy per customer/household, if you buy more than 1 you will receive a refund.

Deciding which Grateful Dead concert to reissue on vinyl is a bit like ordering from the menu of a three-star restaurant: No matter what you choose, it will not only be good, but unique and memorable. Faced with such a plethora of product, and staying true to our vision of hitting a different year with each release, we decided to do what any sensible Dead Head would do: go big. Hence our 8-LP box set of Dick's Picks Vol. 33!

Fresh from a year and a half break from touring and back at full strength with two drummers, the Dead opened for The Who as part of Bill Graham's historic "Day on the Green" concerts in 1976.

This pick captures both dates in their entirety, offering one of the most monumental medleys (and that's saying something!) in the band's history with a 60-minute, 10-song journey on the first day. From the second day, two Garcia favourites, "Might as Well" and "The Wheel", which were new to the concert repertoire, and a particularly fine "Ramble on Rose" are presented as further highlights.
Bill Graham had honoured the Dead by choosing them to close this year's series of "Day on the Green" concerts, and that - perhaps combined with the presence of formidable co-headliners The Who - led to some of the band's best performances of the period.

This "Betty Board" is one of the cleanest recordings in the entire run, and with fresh mastering for vinyl by Jeffrey Norman at Mockingbird Mastering, a lacquer cut by Clint Holley and Dave Polster at Well Made Music, and a pressing on black 180-gram vinyl from our friends at Gotta Groove Records, this is - let's just say it - the best-sounding Dead vinyl release we've ever done. Seriously... the test pressings (which were reviewed by Jeffrey Norman, Dead archivist David Lemieux and Gordon Anderson of Real Gone) were just fantastic, so present and crisp.

We included a 4-page, full-colour, LP-sized insert that includes all the extensive artwork that was also on the CD release. It's our biggest Grateful Dead album ever.... limited to 6000 hand-numbered copies!