grateful dead remasters

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

I was blown away by the double CD "Ladies and Gentleman" the one with the Tie die swirl cover.Sonics were to die for.Interesting that it came out not on GD records but Arista.Guess the tapes off the board come out on Arista whereas the "Picks" were non-board,non multitrack issues.If anybody knows how this is decided fill us in.
Chazzbo

I wish they would have continued the "from the Vault" series. These were supposed to be multi channel recordings vs the stereo recording of the Dick's series. Think what could be done with those today with the multi-channel formats available.

Chazzbo, Dick's Picks is for two-track masters. The Arista releases are all multi-track masters.

Bundy, the "from the Vault" series *has* continued...they just don't call them that any more. "Steppin' Out", "Ladies and Gentlemen...", "Nightfall of Diamonds", "Hundred Year Hall" are all multi-tracks that fall under the "from the Vault" criteria.

Greh, the first batch of Rhino remaster releases came out on Tuesday of this week.