Massive Live Dead Box Coming in Fall

January 19, 2011 By Mike Duquette — No Comments

Do you love The Grateful Dead? I mean really love-with-capital-letters-bold-italicized-and-underlined LOVE The Grateful Dead? Well, there’s a massive box set coming your way to help you express that love.

In its newest issue, Rolling Stone reports a box is coming from Rhino that will chronicle The Dead’s European tour of 1972 in its entirety, all from original 16-track recordings. It’s going to be 60 discs of 22 shows, in their entirety, unedited and bursting at the seams with liner notes and other bonus material. (This tour has been previously anthologized on the overdubbed Warner Bros. triple album Europe ’72 (1972), the four-disc Arista box Steppin’ Out: England ’72 (2002) and Rhino’s Rockin’ the Rhein with The Grateful Dead (2004).)

Now, the set is available for pre-order through the band’s Web site. But there is sort of a catch. “This individually numbered boxed set will be limited to orders placed with a maximum of 7,200 boxes produced. As a special bonus, the first 3,000 orders will receive a personalized copy,” the site says. “Due to the huge manufacturing costs…we need to hit 3,000 sales before we even go into production.” So make plans for this $450 set soon if you’re a fan.

The box will be due in September. Order it here and hit the jump to see the gigs that will be captured in the set.

The Grateful Dead, Europe ’72: The Complete Recordings (Grateful Dead/Rhino, 2011)

April 7, 1972 – Wembley Empire Pool, Wembley
April 8, 1972 – Wembley Empire Pool, Wembley
April 11, 1972 – Newcastle City Hall, Newcastle
April 14, 1972 – Tivolis Koncertsal, Copenhagen
April 16, 1972 – Aarhus University, Aarhus
April 17, 1972 – Tivolis Koncertsal, Copenhagen
April 21, 1972 – Beat Club, Bremen
April 24, 1972 – Rheinhalle, Dusseldorf
April 26, 1972 – Jahrhundert Halle, Frankfurt
April 29, 1972 – Musikhalle, Hamburg
May 3, 1972 – Olympia Theatre, Paris
May 4, 1972 – Olympia Theatre, Paris
May 7, 1972 – Bickershaw Festival, Wigan
May 10, 1972 – Concertgebouw, Amsterdam
May 11, 1972 – Rotterdam Civic Hall, Rotterdam
May 13, 1972 – Lille Fairgrounds, Lille
May 16, 1972 – Theatre Hall, Luxembourg
May 18, 1972 – Kongressaal – Deutsches Museum, Munich
May 23, 1972 – Strand Lyceum, London
May 24, 1972 – Strand Lyceum, London
May 25, 1972 – Strand Lyceum, London
May 26, 1972 – Strand Lyceum, London

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Mike Duquette (Founder) was fascinated with catalog music ever since he was a teenager. A 2009 graduate of Seton Hall University with a B.A. in journalism, Mike paired his profession with his passion through The Second Disc, one of the first sites to focus on all reissue labels great and small. His passion for reissues turned into a career, having written at and worked for all three major catalogue music labels and contributing to Allmusic, Billboard, Discogs, City Pages and Ultimate Classic Rock. He's penned liner notes for Verve, Chess, Mondo and Soul Music Records.

Born and raised in New Jersey, Mike lives in Astoria, Queens with his wife, a cat named Ravioli, twin daughters and a large yet tasteful collection of music.