With 2015 clearly being the year of the biggest Grateful Dead revival interest to date, the band has decided to release a HUGE 80-disc Grateful Dead box-set entitled Thirty Trips Around The Sun that will be released by Rhino Records on September 18. This unique box-set will be limited to 6,500 numbered CD sets and 1,000 lightning bolt shaped USB drives. Of course this collection features 30 complete Grateful Dead live concert recordings, one previously unreleased show from each year the band toured. A four-CD compilation of set of one song from each show, entitled Thirty Trips Around the Sun: The Definitive Live Story 1965-1995 will also be issued.
This release is priced at less than the cost of a ticket to one of the Chicago Fare Thee Wells shows (secondary market) at $699.95 and includes a bonus vinyl 45 with a 1965 version of “Caution (Do Not Stop on Tracks)” A-side and “Box of Rain” from the final song played on July 9, 1995 at Soldier Field in Chicago as the B-side. The box also comes with a 288-page book that features an extensive, career-spanning essay by Nick Meriwether, who oversees the Dead archives at the University of California, Santa Cruz. Another unique collectors items and one of a kind find will be a scroll that displays and illustrates how the band’s live repertoire has changed through their history. Head on over here to preorder the set..
