Grateful
Dead: GET SHOWN THE LIGHT - All Music Edition,
5 - 7 - 8 - 9 May 1977
CD500
- 11 CDs
Rhino, 2017
Grateful
Dead: GET
SHOWN THE LIGHT
- ALL MUSIC
EDITION
May
1977 set on 11 discs: 5/5/77 - 5/7/77 - 5/8/77 - 5/9/77
The individually numbered, limited-edition version of the MAY 1977: GET SHOWN THE LIGHT boxed set is now officially sold out. You can still get the remastered audio from all four shows on CD right here. We want to make sure that everyone who wants the music is able to get it! This edition only includes the 11 CDs in four folios and a booklet of liners, housed in a simple slipcase. It will not be numbered.
WHAT
DEAD HEADS HAVE BEEN SAYING ABOUT...
NEW HAVEN 5/5/77 "Here is a prime
example of the saying 'the whole is greater than the sum of the parts'
... It's called synergy and the Dead wrote the book on it."
BOSTON 5/7/77 "The music they laid down brought me places I had not been before."
CORNELL
5/8/77 "...the single best rock performance anywhere, anytime, by
anyone."
"There was just some kind of magical connection this night between the
band members and the band and the audience - some texture, or some type
of cosmic or celestial force is in the room."
"This show is, was, and always will be Mecca."
BUFFALO 5/9/77 "...an awesome display of the Dead's captivating power"
PRODUCER'S NOTE: If you've been on this list for quite some time, then you will know our emails about releases are often flush with hyperbole. We can't help it, really - for we, like you, are Grateful Dead fans above all else. Just like you, we've spent countless hours debating the merits of show over show, year over year. We've kept a watchful eye on your wish-lists and carefully considered how to make - excuse the cliché - your dreams come true. And once we've made our commitments, we are steadfast in our determination to conjure up those dreams fully-formed and nearly perfect. Sometimes these heights cannot be reached without physical and cosmic elements aligning, and that, dear friends, is why it has taken so long for us to bring you THE ONE and the epic shows that surrounded it. No need for even the slightest embellishment here, 5/8/77 Barton Hall, Cornell University: Ithaca, NY, has for decades, been THE resounding favorite; you've said it yourselves - the "holy grail" of Grateful Dead shows. Thanks to the passion and perseverance of Dead Heads like you, we are beyond pleased to finally be able to present this show and its brethren, the fabled four of Spring '77, in sonically pristine condition.
MAY 1977: GET SHOWN THE LIGHT is a collection of what is unanimously believed to be the most sought-after previously unreleased complete shows the Grateful Dead ever played. Collected, traded, and debated for decades, "the beloved Golden Trinity" of Boston, Ithaca, and Buffalo, along with their New Haven prelude, have inspired fans to "get on the bus," converted critics, and even garnered national attention (Cornell was added to the Library of Congress' National Recording Registry). But until now, you've never really heard them quite like this!
The Dead is in the details... how serendipitous is it that the notorious Betty Boards were returned to the archive just in time for the 40th anniversaries of these shows? Lovingly sourced from these well-reputed recordings, we invite you to experience four utopian shows just like they happened, to "be inside the music" as engineer Betty Cantor-Jackson intended. Whether you listen to each night on its own or imbibe the whole lot at once, we suspect you'll hear why every note mattered. Much like we were, you will be hard-pressed to determine which of these fine documents - will it be the understated but nuanced New Haven, Boston's festive fantasy vibes, the monumental catharsis of Ithaca, or Buffalo's dreamy exuberance - is truly "the best." Does it really matter? We think not.
Show #1: Veterans' Memorial Coliseum - New Haven, CT (5/5/77)
Disc
1
1. Promised Land
2. Sugaree
3. Mama Tried
4. El Paso
5. Tennessee Jed
6. Looks Like Rain
7. Deal
8. Lazy Lightning>
9. Supplication
10. Peggy-O
11. The Music Never Stopped
Disc
2
1. Bertha
2. Estimated
Prophet
3. Scarlet Begonias>
4. Fire On The Mountain>
5. Good Lovin’
6. St. Stephen>
7. Sugar Magnolia
8. Johnny B. Goode
Show #2: Boston Garden - Boston, MA (5/7/77)
Disc
1
1. Bertha
2. Cassidy
3. Deal
4. Jack Straw
5. Peggy-O
6. New Minglewood Blues
7. Mississippi Half-Step Uptown Toodeloo>
8. Big River
9. Tennessee Jed
10. The Music Never Stopped
Disc
2
1. Terrapin Station
2. Samson And Delilah
3. Friend Of The Devil
4. Estimated Prophet
Disc
3
1. Eyes Of The World>
2. Drums>
3. The Wheel>
4. Wharf Rat>
5. Around And Around
6. U.S. Blues
Show
#3: Barton Hall, Cornell University - Ithaca, NY (5/8/77)
Disc
1
1. New Minglewood Blues
2. Loser
3. El Paso
4. They Love Each Other
5. Jack Straw
6. Deal
7. Lazy Lightning>
8. Supplication
9. Brown-Eyed Women
10. Mama Tried
11. Row Jimmy
Disc
2
1. Dancing In The Street
2. Scarlet Begonias>
3. Fire On The Mountain
4. Estimated Prophet
Disc
3
1. St. Stephen>
2. Not Fade Away>
3. St. Stephen>
4. Morning Dew
5. One More Saturday Night
Show #4: Buffalo Memorial Auditorium - Buffalo, NY (5/9/77)
Disc
1
1. Help On The Way>
2. Slipknot>
3. Franklin’s Tower
4. Cassidy
5. Brown-Eyed Women
6. Mexicali Blues
7. Tennessee Jed
8. Big River
9. Peggy-O
10. Sunrise
11. The Music Never Stopped
Disc
2
1. Bertha>
2. Good Lovin’
3. Ship Of Fools
Disc
3
1. Estimated Prophet>
2. The Other One>
3. Drums>
4. Not Fade Away>
5. Comes A Time>
6. Sugar Magnolia
7. Uncle Johns Band
PRODUCTION
DETAILS:
• Four Complete Shows on 11 discs
• Sourced from the master Betty Boards, transferred and restored by Plangent
Processes • Mastered in HDCD by Jeffrey Norman
• Artwork by Grammy-winning graphic artist Masaki Koike
• Release Date: May 5, 2017