Dave’s Picks Volume 57 contains the complete show recorded at the Uptown Theatre in Chicago on February 1, 1978, and also includes some songs from the previous night’s concert.
…The Uptown Theatre, originally a movie palace, opened in 1925. From 1978 to 1981, the Grateful Dead played 17 shows at the Uptown. The January 30 & 31, and February 1, 1978 shows comprised the band’s first concert run at the venue.
This very first Dead run at the Uptown is infused with bold exploration from the monster first set of classics (“Jack Straw, “Friend of the Devil,” “Me and My Uncle”) with a “Sugaree” reminiscent of May ’77 to close things out, from Bobby’s powerful delivery of “Samson and Delilah,” to the Rhythm Devils’ spacey psychedelic…
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The Grateful Dead performed at The Warfield in San Francisco on October 4 and 6, 1980, as part of a historic 15-night residency celebrating the band’s 15th anniversary. These shows featured a unique three-set format: one acoustic set followed by two electric sets.
Highlights from the acoustic sets of these specific dates were recently compiled and released as a limited edition live album titled The Warfield, San Francisco, CA Oct 4 & 6, 1980 for Record Store Day Black Friday 2025.
A perfect blending of older cuts from Dead’s extensive repertoire, these two sets include classics like ‘Bird Song’, ‘Cassidy’, ‘Dire Wolf’, and ‘To Lay Me Down’, amongst many others, with each set ending with ‘Ripple’. Produced for…
Dave’s Picks Vol. 56, the fourth and final Dave’s Pick of 2025, feature two nearly complete shows recorded March 20, 1981, and March, 21, 1981, at the Rainbow Theatre in London. The shows were the opening two nights of a four-night stand at the venue.
The concerts, which were the first time The Dead returned to Europe in seven years, feature performances of such Dead classics as “Friend of the Devil,” “Scarlet Begonias,” “Fire on the Mountain,” “Althea,” “Truckin’” and “Alabama Getaway.”
“These London shows are right up there with the best,” Dead archivist David Lemieux says in a video shot in front of Big Ben. “Some really, really wonderful, wonderful music to end the year.”
…contains 3 CDs: the remastered album, rehearsals/soundcheck from their Aug. 12, 1975, show at San Francisco’s Great American Music Hall, and performances from their June 21, 1976, concert at Pennsylvania’s historic Tower Theatre.
Blues for Allah came on the heels of the Dead’s self-imposed (and ultimately) brief hiatus which began in October 1974 following a run of five shows at San Francisco’s Winterland. After recharging in November and December, the band began thinking about a new album in January. Jerry Garcia, Phil Lesh, Bob Weir, Mickey Hart, Bill Kreutzmann, Donna Jean Godchaux, and Keith Godchaux would set up camp at Weir’s home studio in Mill Valley, California. Rather than perfecting songs in the studio which had been…
“In the fall of 1990 the Grateful Dead were on another career high, with the two new keyboard players bringing a fresh sense of adventure and inspiration to the music.
Brent was sorely missed by everyone, but the Dead rose to the challenge and were creating some of the best music of their second half.
We left the weekend in Paris to head over to London with a sense of joy that the Dead were not going anywhere, and in fact kept getting better. Hearing Jerry sing “sometimes we visit your country and live in your home” in Paris at the second show, we knew we were experiencing something special that was likely not going to happen again. These moments of…
Rhino assembles a single-CD, nine-song ‘Gratest Hits’ from Grateful Dead, marking the band’s 60th anniversary with the original studio versions of such classics as “Truckin’,” “Sugar Magnolia,” and “Touch of Grey.”
…The last attempt at a single-disc best-of for the Dead arrived in 2003 with The Very Best of Grateful Dead, a 17-song, single-CD anthology. Gratest Hits is considerably shorter at just nine songs; eight of those (all except “Scarlet Begonias” as originally heard on From the Mars Hotel) appeared on The Very Best of. Nearly half of Gratest Hits (“Friend of the Devil,” “Box of Rain,” “Sugar Magnolia,” and “Truckin'”) has been culled from 1970’s seminal American Beauty, one of two landmark LPs in an Americana vein released by…
The Grateful Dead celebrates its diamond 60th anniversary this year with Enjoying the Ride, a sweeping 60-CD collection that maps an epic cross-country road trip along the “Heady Highway” with stops at storied venues where the music, the moment, and the magic of the Grateful Dead reliably converged.
Spanning 25 years of legendary live performances, this expansive collection spotlights defining shows from 1969 to 1994 at 20 venues that consistently inspired the band to new heights — Winterland, Frost Amphitheatre, Madison Square Garden, and Hampton Coliseum, among them. Whether playing the intimate confines of Fillmore West or beneath the open skies at Red Rocks, the Grateful Dead never played the same…
The Music Never Stopped, is the worldwide retail breakout compilation curated from the Grateful Dead 60th Anniversary, limited-edition, dead.net exclusive boxed set, Enjoying The Ride.
This 3CD or 6LP set (also available digitally) includes 27 tracks representing every one of the venues in the bigger box. Three tracks have premiered online today as part of this collection: versions of “Scarlet Begonias,” “Touch of Grey” and “Fire on the Mountain” from the aforementioned Greek Theatre set on July 13, 1984. (“Touch of Grey,” released three years later on the group’s studio album In the Dark, would of course become an improbable Top 10 hit – a fascinating achievement for a band well-established as an institution by then.)