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When the ride begins in '65 at a pizza parlor in the South Bay under another moniker, who would have imagined? When "Who Are You? Where Are You? How Are You?" became "Won't you come with me?" and, ultimately, "Where does the time go?," who would have thought? 60 years on, we're celebrating the Grateful Dead's Diamond Era. Here we go back to the beginning, to the original "Follow," and uncover the wonders of getting on the bus all over again.

ENJOYING THE RIDE is a sweeping 60-CD collection that maps an epic cross-country road trip along the “Heady Highway” with stops at storied venues where the music, the moment, and the magic of the Dead reliably converged. Spanning 25 years of legendary live performances, this expansive compendium spotlights defining shows from 1969 to 1994 at 20 venues that consistently inspired the band to new heights.

With the exception of a few tracks from earlier releases, virtually all of the music on ENJOYING THE RIDE is previously unreleased, with more than 450 tracks and over 60 hours of music. Of the 20 shows in the collection, 17 are presented in full, with some featuring additional material from the same venue. The remaining three — Fillmore West, Fillmore East, and Boston Music Hall — are curated from multiple performances at each venue, capturing key moments on those legendary stages.

These performances were originally recorded by Owsley “Bear” Stanley, Betty Cantor-Jackson, Kidd Candelario, Dan Healy, and John Cutler. David Glasser and Jeffrey Norman restored and mastered the performances, with select ones using Plangent Processes tape restoration and speed correction for optimal sound quality.

It's all housed in a custom keepsake box inspired by the experience of traveling from city to city to see the Dead at legendary venues across America. Inside, a beautifully detailed tour guide features liner notes by Jesse Jarnow (author and co-host of the Good Ol’ Grateful Deadcast) and a producer’s note from Lemieux, an essay by the Owsley Stanley Foundation, and more. The set is richly illustrated with photos, including many taken at the shows featured in the collection.

Due May 30th, this one is limited to 6,000 individually numbered copies and exclusive to Dead.net. We invite you to take this not-so-little piece of the road home.

Full details - including show list > [store.dead.net]

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"Scarlet Begonias," "Touch Of Grey," and "Fire On The Mountain," recorded live at the Greek Theatre on July 13, 1984

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How is it possible they keep having huge box sets of unreleased material?! As a fan, it genuinely feels like everything has come out. Or at least if it hadn't at this point there was a reason. Good for them.

That is beyond. Wow.

I have to wonder why the Stones can't give us something like this.

Even Pink Floyd has given us something similar.

I am shocked at some of the missed opportunities my favorite band has missed.

I guess they just don't want us to have it all.

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I have to wonder why the Stones can't give us something like this.

Even Pink Floyd has given us something similar.

I am shocked at some of the missed opportunities my favorite band has missed.

I guess they just don't want us to have it all.

When it’s over, who knows? The Stones, after all, are still a functioning, semi-active outfit.

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I have to wonder why the Stones can't give us something like this.

Even Pink Floyd has given us something similar.

I am shocked at some of the missed opportunities my favorite band has missed.

I guess they just don't want us to have it all.

Since 2011 Stones gave us around 20 full live archive shows, most of them on DVD (including Stripped box), and some deluxe reissues with outtakes and live recordings. They just didn't pack them in one, overly expensive boxset.

All of this material exists. What may be available are first gen copies off the reels while this is using masters. I remember when the Betty Boards were discovered in a storage locker. I lent out gear to get them copied before they were returned to the band's archives. Subsequent transfers were done better and thus sound better but to say this is unreleased material is just marketing to line the pockets of a few individuals. The shows that recordings do not exist truly do not exist such as some of the acid test shows from 65/66.

Why the Stones have not done this is surprising because the Stones are the goats of monetizing their material.

There're also smaller 3CD and 6LP sets 'The Music Never Stopped' from the mammoth 60 CD box set:


30-May-2025 - [SuperDeluxeEdition.com] .

I am aware of these releases however most of them are from the Vegas years and not so much from the Brian/ Taylor years.

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I have to wonder why the Stones can't give us something like this.

Even Pink Floyd has given us something similar.

I am shocked at some of the missed opportunities my favorite band has missed.

I guess they just don't want us to have it all.

Since 2011 Stones gave us around 20 full live archive shows, most of them on DVD (including Stripped box), and some deluxe reissues with outtakes and live recordings. They just didn't pack them in one, overly expensive boxset.[/quote]

You wouldnt fork-out for a 60 CD Stones set .....



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You wouldnt fork-out for a 60 CD Stones set .....

nope. would download a ripped set of the cds but really have zero use for physical media.

Its cool that after this, almost all of that legendary Capitol Theatre stand in 71 will be released:

February 18 - American Beauty 50th Anniversary box set in 2020
February 19 - Three From The Vault in 2007
February 20 - on this new box set
February 21 - Workingman's Dead 50th Anniversary box set in 2020
February 23 - only one that will now be unreleased
February 24 - on this new box set

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You wouldnt fork-out for a 60 CD Stones set .....

nope. would download a ripped set of the cds but really have zero use for physical media.

when someone says this it always makes me feel sad for some reason

i know irrational on my part

for what it's worth i'd be in the same boat if the stones released this sort of thing not because of a lack of interest in physical media but because of a lack of money

i assume something like this from them would be like $500 plus

Just gimmie a new Stones studio album ... thats all me want



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You wouldnt fork-out for a 60 CD Stones set .....

nope. would download a ripped set of the cds but really have zero use for physical media.

when someone says this it always makes me feel sad for some reason

i know irrational on my part

for what it's worth i'd be in the same boat if the stones released this sort of thing not because of a lack of interest in physical media but because of a lack of money

i assume something like this from them would be like $500 plus

I don't want the media, don't need the "artwork" and likely will only listen to bits and pieces. My music budget goes to tickets, travel and gear. I am trying to consolidate and simplify life and will have no room for stuff like that.

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You wouldnt fork-out for a 60 CD Stones set .....

nope. would download a ripped set of the cds but really have zero use for physical media.

when someone says this it always makes me feel sad for some reason

i know irrational on my part

for what it's worth i'd be in the same boat if the stones released this sort of thing not because of a lack of interest in physical media but because of a lack of money

i assume something like this from them would be like $500 plus

I don't want the media, don't need the "artwork" and likely will only listen to bits and pieces. My music budget goes to tickets, travel and gear. I am trying to consolidate and simplify life and will have no room for stuff like that.

i understand

as i said irrational on my part

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You wouldnt fork-out for a 60 CD Stones set .....

nope. would download a ripped set of the cds but really have zero use for physical media.

when someone says this it always makes me feel sad for some reason

i know irrational on my part

for what it's worth i'd be in the same boat if the stones released this sort of thing not because of a lack of interest in physical media but because of a lack of money

i assume something like this from them would be like $500 plus

I don't want the media, don't need the "artwork" and likely will only listen to bits and pieces. My music budget goes to tickets, travel and gear. I am trying to consolidate and simplify life and will have no room for stuff like that.

I would not buy this, although $10 a CD sounds OK. I am sure this will eventually sell out. It seems to be a nice, well-curated box. I do not spend money on concerts -- just insane what a concert ticket costs nowadays. Unreasonable for a 90-minute joyride. No concerts for me, thank you.

I do not buy Stones box sets either. Overpriced and I do not need another 'remaster' of the same album I know so well. The unreleased stuff, I listen to them once and that is all really. Maybe twice.

Tom Petty fought for lowering album prices and failed. Everything has become so expensive.

I still buy CDs but only when prices drop. I wait a couple of years.

I do not know how you guys are able to afford concert tickets.

And to add, what the Stones have put out in recent years does not even come close to what other bands, artists have released (Bob, The Who, The Kinks, The Beatles, Pink Floyd, Elvis and the list goes on and on). You can say that they have released 20 or so live albums as part of the vault series but still that is nothing compared to what we get from other people, especially when it comes to unreleased studio material. And their box sets are rip-offs, fancy looking things with not much content.

I am not sure what the Stones is waiting for... Demand is less and less as years go by.

Concert tickets do not have to be expensive. Stones tickets are as are many well known older bands. I have been to 4 shows in last two weeks for less than $200. All four of the shows were a lot of fun. Got more enjoyment out of that than spending $200 on most anything else.

I'd buy a 60 CD stones box if it had all the live shows from 69- 73 tours.

And I would enjoy all 60 discs!

A mega set of Stones live material would likely be much more redundant than a Dead set. Think of all the versions of Gimme Shelter and Brown Sugar and JJF and Satisfaction we’d get from nearly every show.

There are loads of us who would love a trove of unreleased live material, especially from the 60s and 70s, but I think a big massive set of dozens of shows would be hard to market to anyone not like, well, most of us on this thread.

There’s like a few sort of holy grail shows people keep mentioning they’d like released. I’m on board with that, whether it’s in a single set or sold separately… but 50 discs, or even 20… I do not see that happening at all.

another idea is just set up a website and let people pay to have access to these recordings digitally or buy digital versions of these shows one by one

but for the love of god don't let them rot in the vaults forever where no one can enjoy them



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I would disagree. All you have to do is look how many follow the live shows on here when we are basically getting the same set list for over a decade.


A mega set of Stones live material would likely be much more redundant than a Dead set. Think of all the versions of Gimme Shelter and Brown Sugar and JJF and Satisfaction we’d get from nearly every show.

There are loads of us who would love a trove of unreleased live material, especially from the 60s and 70s, but I think a big massive set of dozens of shows would be hard to market to anyone not like, well, most of us on this thread.

There’s like a few sort of holy grail shows people keep mentioning they’d like released. I’m on board with that, whether it’s in a single set or sold separately… but 50 discs, or even 20… I do not see that happening at all.[/quote]

All due respect george, but your posts are often hard to follow - half quotes, replying above the original post...

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another idea is just set up a website and let people pay to have access to these recordings digitally or buy digital versions of these shows one by one

but for the love of god don't let them rot in the vaults forever where no one can enjoy them

Neil does this with his NYArchives along with presale tix and other stuff.

A little off topic, but I leave in just over a week to to see the Dead and Company play the Sphere in Vegas.

Never a huge Dead fan, but when I was living in Canada, I became great friends with a dead head and he told me about travelling around north America in a van following the band. It left an impression on me, and I thought that when I returned to Europe, I was gonna buy a VW and drive over Europe following the Stones. And did just that.

Now it's time to complete the circle.

\m/

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I have to wonder why the Stones can't give us something like this.

Even Pink Floyd has given us something similar.

I am shocked at some of the missed opportunities my favorite band has missed.

I guess they just don't want us to have it all.

Since 2011 Stones gave us around 20 full live archive shows, most of them on DVD (including Stripped box), and some deluxe reissues with outtakes and live recordings. They just didn't pack them in one, overly expensive boxset.

The problem (for me) is that Stones releases are always linked to a video and this greatly limits the tours from which the releases come.

They should release records like El Mocambo more often, just audio, that way we would have recordings from the early 70s available.

This is what I envy about artists like the Grateful Dead or Bruce Springsteen; I don't envy their number of releases so much: Three or four a year would be enough.

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A little off topic, but I leave in just over a week to to see the Dead and Company play the Sphere in Vegas.

Never a huge Dead fan, but when I was living in Canada, I became great friends with a dead head and he told me about travelling around north America in a van following the band. It left an impression on me, and I thought that when I returned to Europe, I was gonna buy a VW and drive over Europe following the Stones. And did just that.

Now it's time to complete the circle.

\m/

Hey there Monkeytonkdude, I caught one of the Dead & Co gigs at Sphere last year. My mind was officially blown, the Dead's trippy music is a perfect fit with the technology of the Sphere. Wear your finest tie-dye and enjoy the long strange trip......

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I have to wonder why the Stones can't give us something like this.

because the Stones play(ed) more or less the same stuff in more or less the same way all the time…

GD, Inc. isn't stupid. They've studied the actuary tables for their market and realized that they have to cash in, sooner rather than later.

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GD, Inc. isn't stupid. They've studied the actuary tables for their market and realized that they have to cash in, sooner rather than later.

They looked at their actuarial tables. The D&C crowd is largely made up with people who have only seen Jerry Garcia via video.