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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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snackeyp
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Got mine today.  Bought both the CD box set and the vinyl.  The CDs are stunning!  
Can't wait to get into the LP probably tomorrow or later on in the weekend.  
No complaints about the packaging.  Really beautiful.  OK, just one complaint:  the CDs don't stay put in their slots.  Mine were dislodged when I unpacked the box for the first time but none had any damage.  

On another note, I went to my local record store today and picked up the variety of swag items for the release party.  The tapers patch is pretty cool.  
Release parties/events like this should happen more often IMO.  It makes it a lot of fun, which is what music should be.    
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I believe the Cornell show sounds better than the other shows in the box set.  Has anyone else noticed this?
This is not to say the other shows don't sound really good, but Cornell sounds a lot better to me.  This makes sense considering its significance. I'm sure they went to great lengths to clean it up and make it perfect.

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Of note on the vinyl release... It's limited to only 7,700 copies.  These will dry up fast given that this is the holy grail of shows.  By comparison, most of the RSD releases of the Dead had similar print runs and are now very hard to find without paying a premium.  I got mine from Music Direct and I see that they no longer have them.  Might be a good time to get one if you are thinking about it, before they shoot up in price.  Less than 1,500 left on dead.net.
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I played the vinyl last night.  Got through sides one and two.  Sounds really good as expected.  What else can I say?  I gotta spin it a few more times to really compare the sound to the excellent sounding digital release.
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