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New Grateful Dead Box Set Highlights 1978 Spring Tour Where They ‘Deliver Every Single Moment’


Celebrate the Grateful Dead's momentous 1978 spring tour with the box set 'Friends of the Devil.'

The deluxe edition includes 19 CDs, a book with liner notes by Steve Silverman, and photos by James Anderson, Bob Minkin, and others. “These eight shows tell the story of a band that was engaged, inspired, and focused on bringing their A-game every single night,” Dead archivist David Lemieux said in a statement. “[It] began with Billy thrashing on his kit and using his elbow to change its pitch, making it sound like a talking drum,” Silberman writes in the liner notes.

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