Name: Here Comes Sunshine 1973 (Dead.net Exclusive) [17 CD]
Brand: Grateful Dead
SKU: 081227847036
Price: 186.98 USD
Availability: InStock

Product Details

WHAT'S INSIDE:
Five complete, previously unreleased performances on 17CDs
Des Moines, IA 5/13/73
Santa Barbara, CA 5/20/73
San Francisco, CA 5/26/73
Washington, D.C. 6/9/73
Washington, D.C. 6/10/73
Recorded by Kidd Candelario, Betty Cantor-Jackson, and Owsley Stanley
Newly restored and speed-corrected audio by Plangent Processes
Mastered by Jeffrey Norman
Liners featuring notes from Canadian author, Ray Robertson, The Owsley Stanley Foundation, and Legacy Manager and Audio Archivist, David Lemieux
Art and Design by GRAMMY® Award-winning Art Director, Masaki Koike
Custom-dyed Tenugui and an exclusive poster featuring an illustration by Mary Ann Mayer

Limited Edition Individually Numbered To 10,000
Exclusively At Dead.net

"There’s the simple fact that the band members were old enough and experienced enough by now to be virtuosos on their instruments (what other group—rock or jazz or any other kind of music—could boast a trio of spectacularly singular talents such as Garcia, Lesh, and Weir?) but were still young enough to want to play and play and play some more, the happy, itchy inclination of youth. As a few of the shows in the Here Comes Sunshine boxed set attest, it wasn’t unusual for a 1973 concert to exceed four hours. And within the shows themselves, there are nearly nightly examples of hour-long orgies of tune-linked songcraft and juicy jamming." - Ray Robertson, HERE COMES SUNSHINE 1973 Liners

8 years in and the Grateful Dead are a little bit of everything to everyone. They are putting up textures and tones of rock, of jazz, of country, with set-morphing vibes and long stretches of improvisations that are completely keyed into the sum of their parts. Keith Godchaux is here with his cascading notes. Donna Jean too. Both finding their footing and keeping things steady in the wake of Pigpen's unfillable gap. The spring of 1973 feels transformative for the Dead - no more so than the May and early June shows, complementary yet remarkably different, soon-to-be cornerstones of everyone's tape collections, and now, 50 years later, set to be part of the band's official canon.

HERE COMES SUNSHINE 1973 is a limited-edition, 17CD boxed set with five previously unreleased, highly sought-after Dead shows, including: Iowa State Fairgrounds, Des Moines, IA (5/13/73), Campus Stadium, UCSB, Santa Barbara, CA (5/20/73), Kezar Stadium, San Francisco, CA (5/26/73), and Robert F. Kennedy Memorial Stadium, Washington, D.C. (6/9/73) and (6/10/73).

During the spring, the band road-tested most of the songs they would record that summer for WAKE OF THE FLOOD – their first studio album in three years – including early live versions of “Mississippi Half-Step Toodeloo,” “Row Jimmy,” “Stella Blue,” “Eyes Of The World,” and, the set’s namesake, “Here Comes Sunshine.” Also tucked into the collection are songs destined for the Dead’s 1974 studio album, FROM THE MARS HOTEL – “China Doll,” “Loose Lucy,” and “Wave That Flag,” a precursor to “U.S. Blues.”

The new repertoire slipped neatly into the fluid setlists alongside songs honed on the 1972 European tour (“Jack Straw,” “Tennessee Jed,” “Brown-Eyed Women”), Chuck Berry perennials (“Promised Land,” “Around And Around”), classic country (“Big River,” “The Race Is On”), and incredible jam sequences: “He’s Gone”> “Truckin’”> “The Other One”> “Eyes Of The World.”

Due June 30th, the individually-numbered, limited-edition 17CD set features vibrant graphics and custom-designed folios by GRAMMY® Award-winning Art Director Masaki Koike, a custom-dyed Tenugui and an exclusive poster featuring an illustration by Mary Ann Mayer, and liner notes by Canadian author Ray Robertson, The Owsley Stanley Foundation, and David Lemieux. And, of course, it features newly restored and speed-corrected audio by Plangent Processes, mastered by Jeffrey Norman.

Listening Parties & Seaside Chats

LISTENING PARTY: DES MOINES, IA, 5/13/73
"Don't Ease Me In"
"Around and Around”
"Here Comes Sunshine”

LISTENING PARTY: SANTA BARBARA, CA, 5/20/73
"Box Of Rain"
"They Love Each Other”
"Playing In The Band”

OFFICE HOURS WITH DAVID LEMIEUX

Track Listing

Iowa State Fairgrounds, Des Moines, IA (5/13/73)
Disc 1
   1.   PROMISED LAND
   2.   DEAL
   3.   MEXICALI BLUES
   4.   THEY LOVE EACH OTHER
   5.   BOX OF RAIN
   6.   LOSER
   7.   BEAT IT ON DOWN THE LINE
   8.   CHINA CAT SUNFLOWER>
   9.   I KNOW YOU RIDER
   10.   EL PASO
   11.   ROW JIMMY
   12.   ME AND MY UNCLE
   13.   DON'T EASE ME IN>
   14.   AROUND AND AROUND

Disc 2
   1.   TENNESSEE JED
   2.   BIG RIVER
   3.   BERTHA
   4.   JACK STRAW
   5.   SUGAREE
   6.   LOOKS LIKE RAIN
   7.   HERE COMES SUNSHINE
   8.   PLAYING IN THE BAND

Disc 3
   1.   MISSISSIPPI HALF-STEP UPTOWN TOODELOO
   2.   GREATEST STORY EVER TOLD
   3.   BROWN-EYED WOMEN
   4.   CASEY JONES

Disc 4
   1.   HE'S GONE>
   2.   TRUCKIN'>
   3.   THE OTHER ONE>
   4.   EYES OF THE WORLD>
   5.   CHINA DOLL
   6.   SUGAR MAGNOLIA

Campus Stadium, UCSB, Santa Barbara, CA (5/20/73)
Disc 5
   1.   BERTHA
   2.   ME AND MY UNCLE
   3.   BOX OF RAIN
   4.   DEAL
   5.   LOOKS LIKE RAIN
   6.   TENNESSEE JED
   7.   THE RACE IS ON
   8.   CHINA CAT SUNFLOWER>
   9.   I KNOW YOU RIDER
   10.   BEAT IT ON DOWN THE LINE
   11.   THEY LOVE EACH OTHER
   12.   PLAYING IN THE BAND
Disc 6
   1.   PROMISED LAND
   2.   BROWN-EYED WOMEN
   3.   MEXICALI BLUES
   4.   ROW JIMMY
   5.   JACK STRAW
   6.   BIG RAILROAD BLUES
   7.   GREATEST STORY EVER TOLD
   8.   HERE COMES SUNSHINE
   9.   BIG RIVER
   10.   LOSER
   11.   EL PASO
   12.   CASEY JONES

Disc 7
   1.   TRUCKIN'>
   2.   JAM>
   3.   THE OTHER ONE>
   4.   EYES OF THE WORLD>
   5.   STELLA BLUE
   6.   SUGAR MAGNOLIA
   7.   JOHNNY B. GOODE

Kezar Stadium, San Francisco, CA (5/26/73)
Disc 8
   1.   PROMISED LAND
   2.   DEAL
   3.   JACK STRAW
   4.   TENNESSEE JED
   5.   THE RACE IS ON
   6.   SUGAREE
   7.   MEXICALI BLUES
   8.   ROW JIMMY
   9.   LOOKS LIKE RAIN
   10.   THEY LOVE EACH OTHER
   11.   PLAYING IN THE BAND

Disc 8
   1.   HERE COMES SUNSHINE
   2.   EL PASO
   3.   LOSER
   4.   BEAT IT ON DOWN THE LINE
   5.   YOU AIN'T WOMAN ENOUGH
   6.   BOX OF RAIN
   7.   CHINA CAT SUNFLOWER>
   8.   I KNOW YOU RIDER
   9.   BIG RIVER
   10.   BERTHA
   11.   AROUND AND AROUND
   12.   MISSISSIPPI HALF-STEP UPTOWN TOODELOO
   13.   ME AND MY UNCLE

Disc 10
   1.   HE'S GONE>
   2.   TRUCKIN'>
   3.   THE OTHER ONE
   4.   EYES OF THE WORLD>
   5.   CHINA DOLL
   6.   SUGAR MAGNOLIA
   7.   CASEY JONES

RFK Stadium, Washington, DC (6/9/73)
Disc 11
   1.   PROMISED LAND
   2.   DEAL
   3.   LOOKS LIKE RAIN
   4.   THEY LOVE EACH OTHER
   5.   JACK STRAW
   6.   LOOSE LUCY
   7.   MEXICALI BLUES
   8.   ROW JIMMY
   9.   EL PASO
   10.   BOX OF RAIN
   11.   SUGAREE
   12.   BEAT IT ON DOWN THE LINE
   13.   TENNESSEE JED

Disc 12
   1.   GREATEST STORY EVER TOLD
   2.   CHINA CAT SUNFLOWER>
   3.   I KNOW YOU RIDER
   4.   HE'S GONE>
   5.   TRUCKIN'>
   6.   PLAYING IN THE BAND

Disc 13
   1.   LOSER
   2.   ME AND MY UNCLE
   3.   MISSISSIPPI HALF-STEP UPTOWN TOODELOO
   4.   BIG RIVER
   5.   EYES OF THE WORLD>
   6.   CHINA DOLL
   7.   SUGAR MAGNOLIA

RFK Stadium, Washington, DC (6/10/73)
Disc 14
   1.   MORNING DEW
   2.   BEAT IT ON DOWN THE LINE
   3.   RAMBLE ON ROSE
   4.   JACK STRAW
   5.   WAVE THAT FLAG
   6.   LOOKS LIKE RAIN
   7.   BOX OF RAIN
   8.   THEY LOVE EACH OTHER
   9.   THE RACE IS ON
   10.   ROW JIMMY
   11.   EL PASO

Disc 15
   1.   BIRD SONG
   2.   PLAYING IN THE BAND
   3.   EYES OF THE WORLD>
   4.   STELLA BLUE
   5.   BIG RIVER
   6.   HERE COMES SUNSHINE

Disc 16
   1.   AROUND AND AROUND
   2.   DARK STAR>
   3.   HE'S GONE>
   4.   WHARF RAT>
   5.   TRUCKIN'
   6.   SUGAR MAGNOLIA

Disc 17
Final set with Dickey Betts and Butch Trucks
   1.   IT TAKES A LOT TO LAUGH, IT TAKES A TRAIN TO CRY
   2.   THAT'S ALL RIGHT
   3.   PROMISED LAND
   4.   NOT FADE AWAY>
   5.   GOIN' DOWN THE ROAD FEELING BAD>
   6.   DRUMS>
   7.   NOT FADE AWAY
   8.   JOHNNY B. GOODE

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