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Grateful Dead’s 60th Anniversary to Be Commemorated With 60-CD Boxed Set of Live Shows
A 60-CD boxed set of Grateful Dead shows will be released for the band's 60th anniversary. A basic set with abridged highlights will also come out.
According to archivist David Lemieux, as quoted in Rolling Stone, “only” about 400 concerts by the band have been released up to this point, which leaves at least 1,200 shows that the archivally savvy Dead put on tape but still have in the vault still up for consideration someday. Given all the Dead live albums that have come out prior to now, you may wonder how these 20 shows were chosen, and it’s because they represent what are considered signature venues for the band in its long history, from Red Rocks in Colorado (pictured above) to Fillmores West and East. Bill Kreutzmann has retired and is no longer part of the offshoot group’s shows; another member who did not sign on with Dead & Company, Phil Lesh, died earlier this year.
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