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With such a long career and so much success our Grateful Dead section is quite expansive. You will find reviews and information on a wide variety on subjects.  Select one of the topics above and surf away.  

Releases and Reviews

Download Grateful Dead releases
Live Grateful Dead archival recordings 

Grateful Dead Download Series
Dick's Picks 
Multi-track Vault series -- are now available for direct downloading through iTunes or through Dead.net's own GDStore.com.

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Merl Saunders RIP - (10-24-2008) 16:44 PDT SAN FRANCISCO -- Keyboardist Merl Saunders, the gentle lion of the San Francisco music scene best known as co-captain of guitarist Jerry Garcia's solo excursions outside the Grateful Dead, died Friday at Kaiser Permanente Medical Center after fighting infections.
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Donna Jean and the Tricksters - Album debut - Jan. 29, '08

Vault Releases:
The New Grateful Dead release series: Road Trips. From the GD website. 
" Here's the deal: We all loved the Dicks Picks series. Over the course of 36 amazing releases between 1993 and 2005, GD archivists Dick Latvala (R.I.P.) and David Lemieux continually blew our little minds plucking one righteous show after another from the vaults.

With Road Trips we're going to try something a little different. We want to plug in a few more pieces of the Grateful Dead puzzle by putting the spotlight on different tours and series of shows that have been neglected through the years. 

Also, every Road Trips release will come with a beautifully designed booklet containing an essay about how the music on the discs fits into the Dead's long history, plus many rare and never-before-seen photographs."

We think you'll agree it's a pretty cool package.

Vault Release Miscellaneous
Winterland 1973: The Complete Recordings - 9 discs

Coming in Sept. Rocking the Cradle: Egypt 1978 CD/DVD

Road Trips Series
Road Trips Vol.1. No 4 - Live Oct. 1978 - Released Aug. 2008

Road Trips Vol.1. No 3 - Live Summer '71 - Released May 2008

Full Show Road Trips 
Download only

Spectrum 11/5/79 | Spectrum 11/06/79 - Sept. '08 release


Grateful Dead Download Series
Vol. 2 | Vol. 3 |Vol. 5 |Vol. 7 | Vol. 8 | Volume 9 | Vol. 10 | Vol. 11 |Vol. 12  | Family Dog

Dick's Picks:
Dick's Pick #36
One of the top Grateful Dead shows - 9/21/72 

DVD Releases
Coming in Sept. Rocking the Cradle: Egypt 1978 CD/DVD

Dead Ahead Expanded w/bonus material review - Order

Festival Express Includes the G. Dead in 1970

Studio Releases
Now available individually, single studio CD re-masters; previously only available by purchasing the box-set Beyond Description.
Wake of the Flood |Mars Hotel |Blues for Allah | Terrapin Station |Shakedown Street | Go To Heaven | In The Dark | Built To Last
Dead Set | Reckoning

Of interest
Donna Jean and the Tricksters Album debut Released Jan '08

Dark Star Orchestra
performs 5/5/77 - Order

Phil and Friends DVD - October 31, 2006, release date.

Books:
Grateful Dead Gear: The Band's Instruments, Sound Systems, and Recording Sessions from 1965 to 1995 - Order

Jerry Garcia Band -  Garcia Band releases are in a separate section.

Vince Welnick - RIP - S.F. Chronicle article - See also

Grateful Dead to Receive Lifetime Achievement Award 
The Grateful Dead, among others, will be honored at the 2007 Grammy's with the prestigious Lifetime Achievement Award.

Grateful Dead Symphony
An Orchestral Tribute to the Music of the Grateful Dead 
by Russian National Orchestra

"The essence of the Dead's music was improvisation, and the root of that is an attitude that says transformation is at the center of all art. Dead Symphony takes different fragments of the Dead's music and reweaves them into a sparkling tapestry that satisfies a whole 'nother realm of possibility." 

Dennis McNally, Grateful Dead Historian and Publicist

Additional release information is available at itunes.

CD
 
MP3 download
 

Donna Jean and the Tricksters - Donna Jean teams up with the Zen Tricksters. 

Misc. Grateful Dead

Aretha Franklin's reissued album Live at Fillmore West, on the last page of the liner notes is a photo of her sitting in a chair at the Fillmore. To the left, there are paintings on the wall including one of the Grateful Dead.

G.  Dead memories - stories; Meeting Jerry, NYE '72 ...

Rob Goetz reviews - Most of 1989 and some from '71 & '79.

Ramble on Joe
- Some terrific tape recommendations through the years and full concert reviews of select shows.

Bob Minkin Photos - New. Phil and Friends Dec. 17 - 19, '04 

Garcia releases: Been All Around..| Box Set | Pure Jerry

Weir Here review, Bob Weir compilation's, one side studio and one side live; priced like a singe disc, yet it has two.

Any Robert Hunter fans? He co-wrote all the songs on Jim Lauderdale's album Heading for the Hills

Miscellaneous Grateful Dead Information

Grateful Dead and Yes tour?
Yes Dead tour The Grateful Dead and Yes considered touring together in 2004; I guess this never materialized. Cool logo though! 

We began a project of Grateful Dead songs.

An essay about the Grateful Dead's interpretation of Freddie King's blues classic "Hide Away."

A super interview with David Lemieux, Grateful Dead tape archivist, by Eric Levy. 

Visit our page of Grateful Dead personnel to see who played in the band at various times.   

An article about Warren Haynes from the SF Chronicle

Dick's Picks Volume 26

Go to Nassau 
Grateful Dead

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 Go to Nassau _Grateful Dead

Grateful Dead - What's New

 

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