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What's Inside:
•Five Complete Shows
• 5/11/77 St. Paul Civic Center Arena, St. Paul, MN
• 5/12/77 Auditorium Theatre, Chicago, IL
• 5/13/77 Auditorium Theatre, Chicago, IL
• 5/15/77 St. Louis Arena, St. Louis MO
• 5/17/77 University Of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, AL
•14 Discs, 111 tracks
•Mastered in HDCD by Jeffrey Norman
•Artwork by Grammy Award-winning graphic artist Masaki Koike
•Period Photos by James R Anderson
•Historical Essay by Steve Silberman
•Individual show liner notes

Individually Numbered, Limited Edition of 15,000


MAGICAL, MYTHICAL MAY 1977!

If you're a Dead Head, chances are you've spent many an hour expounding upon the distinction of May 8, 1977, Cornell University, Barton Hall. Well, at the risk of preaching to the choir, we'd like to reintroduce you to a series of shows that matches said greatness from that same gloriously fertile season. While Barton Hall is well known, the astounding tour that surrounded it has occasionally flown under the radar due to the uneven quality of tapes in circulation. May 1977 is set to change all of that with a boxed set that zeroes in on this high-water mark in the Grateful Dead's long strange trip.

For a band resurrecting itself after a 20-month hiatus, there was a great frenzy of expectancy that surrounded the Spring of 1977. We anticipate a grand reoccurrence of this fervor with the release of May 1977, a 14-disc boxed set featuring five complete shows from consecutive stops on that magical tour. Mastered in HDCD by Jeffrey Norman at Mockingbird Mastering, the "psychoacoustic phenomena" as Jerry once put it, of St. Paul Civic Center Arena, St. Paul, MN (5/11) Auditorium Theatre, Chicago, IL (5/12, 5/13), St. Louis Arena, St. Louis MO (5/15) and Coliseum at the University Of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, AL (5/17) can now finally be appreciated. Each of these shows finds the Dead delivering punchier, more focused sets, tightening up the framework; each night turning out first-ever renditions ("Passenger,""Iko Iko,""Jack-A-Roe"), unloading potent new pairings ("Scarlet Begonias">"Fire On The Mountain", "Estimated Prophet">"Eyes Of The World"), classic covers ("Dancing In The Street") and soon-to-be staples ("Estimated Prophet," "Samson and Delilah"), and ultimately rising up to paradise.

And now for the nitty-gritty...

Due June 11, May 1977 is limited to 15,000 individually numbered copies. Presented in a psychedelic box that boasts an intricate die-cut design created by Grammy®-winning graphic artist Masaki Koike, the set also includes a book filled with stories about each show, as well as an in-depth essay by Dead historian Steve Silberman, who delves deep into the history behind the tour and the band’s return from its extended hiatus.

Once these 15,000 boxes are gone, May 1977 and its shows will never be available again on CD. However, the 111 tracks will be made available on release date as FLAC and Apple lossless full-set-only downloads.

Like its predecessors Europe '72: The Complete Recordings and Spring 1990, we expect May 1977 to sell out. Your best bet is to pre-order it now, then sit back, relax, and enjoy all the exclusive content we'll be rolling out over the next few weeks right here and on Facebook.com/GratefulDead and Youtube.com/gratefuldead.



Track Lost


Show #1
St. Paul Civic Center Arena, St. Paul, MN (5/11/77)

Disc 1
1. Promised Land [4:54]
2. They Love Each Other [7:38]
3. Big River [6:25]
4. Loser [7:39]
5. Looks Like Rain [9:18]
6. Ramble On Rose [7:48]
7. Jack Straw [5:54]
8. Peggy-O [8:43]
9. El Paso [4:44]
10. Deal [5:49]

Disc 2
1. Lazy Lightning> [3:32]
2. Supplication [5:20]
3. Sugaree [13:49]
4. Samson and Delilah [7:08]
5. Brown-Eyed Women [5:28]
6. Estimated Prophet [8:38]

Disc 3
1. Scarlet Begonias> [9:47]
2. Fire On The Mountain> [11:02]
3. Good Lovin' [6:29]
4. Uncle John's Band> [9:11]
5. Space> [5:48]
6. Wharf Rat> [9:51]
7. Around and Around [8:48]
8. Brokedown Palace [5:34]

Show #2
Auditorium Theatre, Chicago, IL (5/12/77)

Disc 1
1. Bertha [7:16]
2. Me and My Uncle [3:04]
3. Tennessee Jed [9:32]
4. Cassidy [5:05]
5. Peggy-O [7:52]
6. Jack Straw [5:45]
7. They Love Each Other [7:47]
8. New Minglewood Blues [5:20]

Disc 2
1. Mississippi Half-Step Uptown Toodeloo> [9:54]
2. Dancing In The Street [14:19]
3. Samson and Delilah [7:07]
4. Brown-Eyed Women [5:28]
5. Estimated Prophet [9:25]
6. Sunrise [3:46]

Disc 3
1. Terrapin Station> [10:13]
2. Playing In The Band> [8:36]
3. Drums> [4:06]
4. Not Fade Away> [14:15]
5. Comes A Time> [10:20]
6. Playing In The Band [7:00]
7. Johnny B. Goode [4:18]

Show #3
Auditorium Theatre, Chicago, IL (5/13/77)

Disc 1
1. The Music Never Stopped [8:37]
2. Ramble On Rose [7:33]
3. Cassidy [4:46]
4. Brown-Eyed Women [5:35]
5. New Minglewood Blues [5:06]
6. Friend Of The Devil [8:38]
7. El Paso [4:55]
8. Jack-A-Roe [5:56]
9. Looks Like Rain [8:17]
10. Scarlet Begonias> [7:05]
11. Fire On The Mountain [13:19]

Disc 2
1. Samson and Delilah> [7:24]
2. Bertha [6:52]
3. Estimated Prophet> [9:51]
4. Drums> [5:47]
5. The Other One> [16:28]
6. Stella Blue> [11:51]
7. Goin' Down The Road Feeling Bad> [8:05]
8. One More Saturday Night [5:21]
9. U.S. Blues [5:57]

Show #4
St. Louis Arena, St. Louis MO (5/15/77)

Disc 1
1. Bertha> [6:34]
2. Good Lovin' [6:07]
3. Row Jimmy [10:51]
4. New Minglewood Blues [5:33]
5. Tennessee Jed [9:35]
6. Lazy Lightning> [3:34]
7. Supplication [4:42]
8. Jack-A-Roe [6:24]
< 9. Passenger [4:31]
10. Brown-Eyed Women [5:16]

Disc 2
1. Dancing In The Street [18:49]
2. Estimated Prophet> [11:32]
3. Eyes Of The World> [12:48]
4. Drums> [3:13]
5. Samson and Delilah [7:28]
6. Ship Of Fools [7:41]

Disc 3
1. St. Stephen> [5:28]
2. Iko Iko> [3:54]
3. Not Fade Away> [9:38]
4. Sugar Magnolia [9:58]
5. Uncle John's Band [9:06]

Show #5
Coliseum, University Of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, AL (5/17/77)

Disc 1
1. New Minglewood Blues [5:46]
2. Mississippi Half-Step Uptown Toodeloo> [10:28]
3. El Paso [4:48]
4. They Love Each Other [7:42]
5. Jack Straw [5:37]
6. Jack-A-Roe [5:59]
7. Looks Like Rain [8:10]
8. Tennessee Jed [8:46]
9. Passenger [3:36]
10. High Time [8:32]
11. Big River [6:39]

Disc 2
1. Sunrise [4:35]
2. Scarlet Begonias> [13:02]
3. Fire On The Mountain [13:14]
4. Samson and Delilah> [6:43]
5. Bertha> [6:16]
6. Good Lovin' [6:02]
7. Brown-Eyed Women [5:34]

Disc 3
1. Estimated Prophet [8:55]
2. Terrapin Station> [11:23]
3. Playing In The Band> [12:20]
4. Drums> [4:49]
5. Wharf Rat> [12:53]
6. Playing In The Band [6:06]
7. Sugar Magnolia [9:15]


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 Post subject: TBD Dead - May 1977 Box Set
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Do Deadheads trade digitally the way that they used to trade tapes? Back when Jerry Garcia was alive, a $100+ boxed set of live shows would have been the antithesis of the whole mythical covenant between the Grateful Dead and their fans.


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Oh my, this looks like good stuff.

Andrew, I don't feel comfortable answering you directly, but common sense says..............(fill in the blank)

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Well...I guess my question was more along the lines of demand, rather than supply. The whole Deadhead ethos famously revolved around tapes being traded and shared, not bought or sold. The notion of selling their music in a Cadillac-style "limited edition" box seems more suited to a fake ad from a circa-1972 copy of National Lampoon.


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PostPosted: Tue May 07, 2013 12:29 am 
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That's still the attitude in the trading community (though many of them don't get that the law disagrees): alot of folks feel it's perfectly LEGAL to give any music away (especially live recordings) as long as no money is exchanged.

I don't personally have a moral issue with that (even though it does harm me as a retailer), but the bloggers interpretation of the law is pretty far off base.

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Geff R. wrote:
That's still the attitude in the trading community (though many of them don't get that the law disagrees): alot of folks feel it's perfectly LEGAL to give any music away (especially live recordings) as long as no money is exchanged.

I don't personally have a moral issue with that (even though it does harm me as a retailer), but the bloggers interpretation of the law is pretty far off base.

Analog tape trading is essentially legal, thanks partly to the The Audio Home Recording Act of 1992, but in the case of the Grateful Dead, also because they allowed it to happen for years. If they wanted to, of course, they could issue a takedown notice to any number of sites; Archive.org currently lists 4,527 streaming soundboard shows and 4,664 audience tapes. Being that the Dead have played nowhere near 9,200 shows (that works out to a show every night for twenty-five straight years) it seems clear that the tape traders have won.--at least as far as the Dead are concerned.

The Smashing Pumpkins had an "open-source" concert taping policy for a while, but I'm not sure if they still do--I think that to a certain extent venues are starting to crack down on taping because, as that thread about "annoying concert behavioirs" mentioned, it is annoying to be at a concert and seated right behind some guy who spends most of the show holding a video camera oer his head.


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 Post subject: TBD Dead - May 1977 Box Set
PostPosted: Tue May 07, 2013 9:07 am 
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Do Deadheads trade digitally the way that they used to trade tapes?

Yes via BitTorrent mostly. There are also some FTP sites and maybe even some old DC++ hubs still around. Trading by snail mail is not nearly as popular as it was even 10 years ago.
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That's still the attitude in the trading community (though many of them don't get that the law disagrees): alot of folks feel it's perfectly LEGAL to give any music away (especially live recordings) as long as no money is exchanged.

If the band says fans can trade or distribute shows, what does the law have to do with it???

Any band that's hosted on archive.org, either the Dead archive or the Live Music Archive, has given express permission to be hosted there. Other bands allow taping/trading but are not hosted at the LMA, e.g. Phish. Some bands allow trading of AUD recordings, but not SBDs. Some bands allow trading, but not electronically (Allman Bros.)


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I seem to recall reading about ten years ago about how Springsteen fans were able to bootleg a soundboard-quality audio feed by accessing a special transmission designed for the hearing-impaired at certain venues. I'm not sure if that was ever "solved" or not. Springsteen is one of those guys who did a complete 180 on his attitude towards concert taping, but it does seem that a significant percentage of his hardcore fans prefer concert boots to anything he releases officially.


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PostPosted: Tue May 07, 2013 1:49 pm 
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Brainiac McGee wrote:
Geff R. wrote:
That's still the attitude in the trading community (though many of them don't get that the law disagrees): alot of folks feel it's perfectly LEGAL to give any music away (especially live recordings) as long as no money is exchanged.

I don't personally have a moral issue with that (even though it does harm me as a retailer), but the bloggers interpretation of the law is pretty far off base.

Analog tape trading is essentially legal, thanks partly to the The Audio Home Recording Act of 1992, but in the case of the Grateful Dead, also because they allowed it to happen for years. If they wanted to, of course, they could issue a takedown notice to any number of sites; Archive.org currently lists 4,527 streaming soundboard shows and 4,664 audience tapes. Being that the Dead have played nowhere near 9,200 shows (that works out to a show every night for twenty-five straight years) it seems clear that the tape traders have won.--at least as far as the Dead are concerned.

The Smashing Pumpkins had an "open-source" concert taping policy for a while, but I'm not sure if they still do--I think that to a certain extent venues are starting to crack down on taping because, as that thread about "annoying concert behavioirs" mentioned, it is annoying to be at a concert and seated right behind some guy who spends most of the show holding a video camera oer his head.


Actually, the Dead used to allow SB downloads on Archive. They now only allow SB streaming & audience downloads.

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Somehow the op didn't really hit me until I got an email from Rhino just now. This should be really good.

BTW, release date is said to be 6/11/13. $140 (Ouch!!) or $99 Flac (Ouch!!)

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PostPosted: Thu May 16, 2013 9:26 am 
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Not thrilled with the price, but I ordered it.

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PostPosted: Thu May 16, 2013 4:27 pm 
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will be ordering mine soon,,,


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Charles wrote:
Not thrilled with the price, but I ordered it.

$10/disc even without the packaging is reasonable. I would almost prefer to pay same or slightly less for CDs that fit nicely on my shelf. Ala Winterland 73 or Fillmore 77. This box looks like it will be a little larger than those.


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PostPosted: Tue Jun 11, 2013 8:18 pm 
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Just got an e-mail that it shipped.

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PostPosted: Wed Jun 12, 2013 6:56 am 
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I'm a fan of Grateful Dead but this is getting crazy. How does anyone have time to play all these CDs?
I brought the Dead Fillmore 1969 box and that took ages to get through. Box set mania indeed !
I must admit the sound quality of these sets is amazing.


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Just received my ship order. In the past I usually have it at my door the same day :) ....

To Ranasakawa - It can be daunting, but I happen to be one who listens, listens, listens to the Dead, and as I do a lot of driving on top of at home work, I manage it pretty well (along with all the other items), but while I may not fit into your statement, I certainly can be empathetic to it - I think if there were other artists that I really like that did this type of saturation I would be overwhelmed.


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I have heard from a decent source that they are thinking of releasing the early Winterland 1974 shows for its next box set (2014): 2/22/74, 2/23/74 & 2/24/74. Hope it comes true.

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NoURider wrote:
Just received my ship order. In the past I usually have it at my door the same day :) ....

To Ranasakawa - It can be daunting, but I happen to be one who listens, listens, listens to the Dead, and as I do a lot of driving on top of at home work, I manage it pretty well (along with all the other items), but while I may not fit into your statement, I certainly can be empathetic to it - I think if there were other artists that I really like that did this type of saturation I would be overwhelmed.


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I got an email about it today. $100 for 16/44 flac is pushing it price wise.

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Man, it was sitting at my door today! I have not taken the shrink wrap off it, but it is a very cool looking box (but it will not fit nicely in a collection per se...however I use all the unique box set packages as decor - a pot-smoking Bohemian's tchotchkes if you will...come get me NSA).


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I brough it down to work....going to listen to 1 show a day. It's the easiest way for me to make sure no discs are bad, and I get through the whole thing quickly.

5/11/77 is very good, but not a total barnburner. Wharf Rat and the long spacey introduction is a big highlight. Really good Sugaree to.

I hate the packaging.....time to buy more jewel cases.

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I really like this one.

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