grateful dead remasters

The remasters sound great! These are the remasters originally released in The Golden Road boxed set, now available individually for the first time. Fantastic HDCD sound, lots of bonus tracks, excellent liner notes.

Steppin' Out is astonishingly good. It's from the same tour as Europe '72 and includes some amazing jams. There are a bunch of songs that wouldn't have been included on Europe 72 because they'd been on Live Dead or Skull and Roses, but these versions are all-timers. There's also some great Pigpen stuff. My favorite track is a ripping version of "Sitting On Top Of The World" with a Garcia solo for the ages. Sound quality is superb. It's one of the best Grateful Dead releases *ever*.

Most of the Dick's Picks series have very HQ sound given the fact that they were taken from live tapes. I would draw your attention to Dick's Picks Vol 3 May 1977 from Pembroke Pines, FL. This recording was made by the famous Betty Cantor-Jackson.
A commercial release of note for sound quality is "Nightfall of Diamonds", recorded at the Meadowlands.
The MFSL LP of "American Beauty" is also worth having if you can get your hands on a copy.

The Dick's Picks series of live Dead is indeed one of the best things to ever happen to the cd format. As Slipknot stated, Volume 3 is great!
Danlevy, I've been waiting for the individual remasters, especially American Beauty and Workingmans Dead.
When did they release them?

The best studio Grateful Dead recordings are those included in "The Golden Road" box set. These disks are truly amazing. The included bonus tracks are relevant on each disk. the individual liner notes are worth the price of the box set. They are the best recordings that I have ever heard in HDCD. They are wonderful in a non-HDCD player, but they are that much better in an HDCD player.

The Dicks Picks series are also well recorded. Some of the shows that they choose are, in my opinion, questionable. As Slipnot mentioned, the "Betty Boards" are the live shows to look for. My suggestion is to find a quality copy of my personal favorite, 05/08/77. This is the favorite of many. I have seen quite a number of bootleg CD's of differing quality. Maybe someone on Audiogon knows of a quality copy.

HAPPY LISTENING AND HAVE A GRATEFUL DAY!

want great sonics...get the pizza tapes.
want great jams...get 3/23/75 --it was a dead benefit show w/ merle saunders. bootleg only. its the whole blues for allah album, but is just heavenly for the jam. better than anything i've heard, and i've heard a few thousand sets...

rhyno