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Live At Ted Askey’s Pig Farm 1970

56 years ago the Grateful Dead made their first trip across the pond to play at the Hollywood Festival. The two-day outdoor event was packed with a variety of local and national talent, which included the likes of Traffic, Ginger Baker’s Airforce, Mungo Jerry, The Flaming Groovies, Tony Joe White, a very young Black Sabbath, and Jose Feliciano. The Dead performed a fine electric set despite the tiny stage, crowded press arena, and a PA and monitoring system that they weren't able to hear. No problem, the boys played full tilt for three hours straight to the delight of the Newcastle-under-Lyme freaks and adventurous locals.



TRACK LISTING

1. Casey Jones 
2. China Cat Sunflower 
3. I Know You Rider 
4. Hard To Handle 
5. Me & My Uncle
6. Cryptical Envelopment 
7. Drums
8. The Other One 
9. Cryptical Envelopment
10. Attics Of My Life 
11. Good Lovin' Drums
12 . Good Lovin’ 
13. Cold Rain & Snow 
14. Dark Star 
15. St Stephen 
16. Not Fade Away 
17. Turn On Your Lovelight

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Dick's Picks Vol. 5—Oakland Auditorium Arena 12/26/79 - 2026 Reissue

Taken from one of the Dead’s annual year-end runs of Bay Area concerts, 'Dick’s Picks Vol. 5' marked five straight volumes of ‘70s shows selected by archivist Dick Latvala to start the series, and as it was from one of the very last days of the decade, it was the perfect way for Dick to complete his own mini “tour” of the ‘70s. But Vol. 5 has a lot more going for it than just a convenient spot on the calendar; this is one of the rawest and most energetic Picks, a complete show anchored by a second set that is in essence one big medley that begins with 'Uncle John’s Band' and ends with it almost two hours later, with a supercharged 'The Other One' and the first appearance of 'Brokedown Palace' in two years among many high points in between. Set one is no slouch, either, with a great, Garcia-led rendition of 'Alabama Getaway' four months before it appeared on record and a passionate vocal by Bob Weir on 'Looks Like Rain' leading to a spirited, set-closing 'The Promised Land'. And throughout it all you’ll hear Brent Mydland serving notice in one of his early shows with the band that he is fully up to the task of replacing Keith Godchaux. For this LP reissue, we’ve given Dick’s Picks Vol. 5 the usual Real Gone spit ‘n’ polish, starting with a fresh mastering job by Jeffrey Norman. Here is Mr. Norman’s report: thanks to some technical advances, he was able to even out the bass and remove hundreds of clicks from Jerry Garcia’s guitar (thought to be caused by the metal pick that he was using at the time). Add to that lacquer cutting by the Well Made Music team of Clint Holley and Dave Polster and a 180-gram black vinyl pressing at our favorite plant, Gotta Groove Records, and you can rest assured that Dick’s Picks Vol. 5 is going to deliver the same superlative sonic experience as our other Real Gone Dick’s Picks vinyl reissues. Limited to 2000 hand-numbered 5-LP sets, complete with insert!

TRACK LISTING

1. Cold Rain and Snow
2. C.C. Rider
3. Dire Wolf
4. Me and My Uncle
5. Big River
6. Brown Eyed Woman
7. New Minglewood Blues
8. Friend of the Devil
9. Looks Like Rain
10. Alabama Getaway
11. Promised Land
12. Uncle John’s Band
13. Estimated Prophet
14. Jam 1
15. He’s Gone
16. The Other One
17. Drums
18. Jam 2
19. Not Fade Away
20. Brokedown Palace
21. Around and Around
22. Johnny B. Goode
23. Shakedown Street
24. Uncle John’s Band

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On A Back Porch , Vol 3 (RSD26 EDITION)

THIS IS A RECORD STORE DAY 2026 EXCLUSIVE LIMITED TO ONE PER PERSON.

Dogfish Head Brewery & Grateful Dead invite you for another round of good times On A Back Porch. Support indie record stores while enjoying easy-listening live Dead and easy-drinking beer. Limited Edition, 180-gram LP. Produced for release by David Lemieux.

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Boston Music Hall, Boston, MA 6/11/76 (RSD26 EDITION)

THIS IS A RECORD STORE DAY 2026 EXCLUSIVE LIMITED TO ONE PER PERSON.

This 5LP, 180-gram vinyl set is the second installment of a five-part series of breakouts from the sold-out, limited-edition June 1976 CD Boxed Set originally released in 2020. Newly remastered for vinyl by Jeffrey Norman, featuring Plangent Processes tape restoration and speed correction. Produced for release by Grateful Dead archivist and legacy manager, David Lemieux. Limited Edition of 7,600. The fifth show of the Grateful Dead's comeback tour in June 1976 finds the band firing on all cylinders as they settle back into life on the road. A setlist filled with older material (Candyman, Eyes Of The World, Tennessee Jed), new material (Might As Well, Lazy Lightning, Supplication, Samson and Delilah), and new arrangements of classics from the Dead's early days (St. Stephen, Dancing In The Street), this new iteration of the Grateful Dead featuring the return of Mickey Hart is one of the most powerful and precise versions of the band to date. With the Wall Of Sound retired, the Dead were playing the intimate confines of small theatres for the first time in years, and the perfection they achieved on this tour is on full display on June 11, 1976, in Boston. The magnificence of the vocal arrangements is one of the many new sonic highlights of the 1976 Grateful Dead, many Dead Heads saying the vocal harmonies never sounded as great as they did in June 1976. Songs like Looks Like Rain and The Music Never Stopped show off this renewed focus on the spectacular vocals the Dead were able to achieve. - David Lemieux.

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On The Back Porch Vol. 2 - Black Friday 2025 Edition

THIS IS A BLACK FRIDAY 2025 EXCLUSIVE AND WILL BE AVAILABLE INSTORE ON FRIDAY NOVEMBER 28th FROM 10AM ON A FIRST COME FIRST SERVED BASIS, LIMITED TO ONE PER PERSON.

IF THERE ARE ANY REMAINING COPIES THEY WILL BE MADE AVAILABLE ONLINE AT 8AM ON SATURDAY NOVEMBER 29th).

Dogfish Head Brewery and Grateful Dead invite you back for another round of good times 'On A Back Porch'. Support your indie record stores while enjoying easy listening live Dead, and easy drinking beer.

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The Warfield, San Francisco, CA Oct 4 & 6, 1980 - Black Friday 2025 Edition

THIS IS A BLACK FRIDAY 2025 EXCLUSIVE AND WILL BE AVAILABLE INSTORE ON FRIDAY NOVEMBER 28th FROM 10AM ON A FIRST COME FIRST SERVED BASIS, LIMITED TO ONE PER PERSON.

IF THERE ARE ANY REMAINING COPIES THEY WILL BE MADE AVAILABLE ONLINE AT 8AM ON SATURDAY NOVEMBER 29th).

Two acoustic sets from the Warfield shows in October 1980, celebrating the Grateful Dead's 15th Anniversary. A perfect blending of older cuts from Dead's extensive repertoire, these two sets include classics like 'Bird Song', 'Cassidy', 'Dire Wolf', and 'To Lay Me Down', amongst many others, with each set ending with 'Ripple'. Limited Edition, 2-LP, 180-Gram Vinyl with Stoughton tip-on jacket. 

TRACK LISTING

1. DEEP ELEM BLUES
2. THE RACE IS ON
3. IT MUST HAVE BEEN THE ROSES
4. MONKEY AND THE ENGINEER
5. ROSA LEE MCFALL
6. DARK HOLLOW]
7. TO LAY ME DOWN
8. OH BABE IT AIN'T NO LIE>
9. RIPPLE
10. DIRE WOLF
11. CASSIDY
12. JACK-A-ROE
13. MONKEY AND THE ENGINEER
14. I'VE BEEN ALL AROUND THIS WORLD
15. HEAVEN HELP THE FOOL
16. CHINA DOLL
17. ON THE ROAD AGAIN
18. BIRD SONG>
19. RIPPLE

Grateful Dead / John Oswald

Grayfolded - 2025 Reissue

In 1993 Canadian composer John Oswald was invited by Phil Lesh to transform historical recordings of the Dead into something new, along the lines of what they had attempted in their 'Anthem of the Sun' album.Oswald chose to focus on the 'Dead’s Dark Star', which, over the courseof a quarter century, they had expanded and transformed in myriad waysin live performances. Oswald was given access to the Vaults, whereover the course of a month, with the guidance of the Dead's resident archivist Dick Latvala, he collected 105 performances, which throughthe following year he formed, folded, fondled, and finessed into a kaleidoscopic unstuck-in-time documentary of the Grateful Dead in someof their most psychedelic, symphonic, and rocking excursions— asingular 110-minute fantasy performance.

Here it is, Deadheads, the ultimate 'Dark Star' is now on vinyl. Deluxe audiophile pressing cut in Toronto under the watchful ears of John Oswald. Elaborately printed packaging in a heavy duty triple gatefold jacket includes liner notes by musicologist Rob Bowman featuring interviews with Jerry Garcia, Phil Lesh, and Robert Hunter plus six"time maps" which chart the source concerts of Dark Star.Music performed by The Grateful Dead (c) Grateful Dead Productions Inc. & Ice Nine Publishing Inc. Taken from over 100 performances of 'Dark Star' recorded between 1968 and 1993. Built, layered and "folded"to produce one large, new re-composed 'Dark Star'.John Oswald is best known as the the creator of the music genre Plunderphonics, an appropriative form of recording studio creation which he began to develop in the late sixties. This has got him in trouble with, and also generated invitations from major record labels and musical icons. Meanwhile, in the í90ís he began, with several commissions from the Kronos Quartet, to compose scores for classical musicians and orchestras, the latest of which is an orchestral work,commissioned by the BBC, combining aspects of The Beatles, Gyˆrgy Ligeti, and Terry Riley. He also improvises on the saxophone in various settings, dances, and is a successful visual artist, best known for the chronophotic series Stillnessence

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Gratest Hits

Celebrate Grateful Dead's 60th Anniversary with a collection of the band's "Gratest" hits, available for the first time on 1LP and as a 1CD. 

TRACK LISTING

1. CASEY JONES
2. FRIEND OF THE DEVIL
3. BOX OF RAIN
4. SUGAR MAGNOLIA
5. TRUCKIN’
6. SCARLET BEGONIAS
7. FIRE ON THE MOUNTAIN
8. ESTIMATED PROPHET
9. TOUCH OF GREY

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The Music Never Stops

Consisting of at least one song from every show featured in the Grateful Dead's 60-CD boxed set, this compilation will take you on the ultimate, concise road trip with the Dead. Featuring music from such classic Dead venues as Winterland, Red Rocks, the Spectrum, the Frost, the Fillmore East, and so many more, this compilation demonstrates the majestic heights the Dead hit at their 20 most essential concert venues.

TRACK LISTING

1. THE MUSIC NEVER STOPPED Spectrum, Philadelphia, PA (5/13/78)
2. ALTHEA Hartford Civic Center, Hartford, CT (3/14/81)
3. PLAYING IN THE BAND Nassau Veterans Memorial Coliseum, Uniondale, NY (3/16/73)
4. HARD TO HANDLE Fillmore East, New York, NY (4/25/71)
5. WHARF RAT Madison Square Garden, New York City, NY (9/16/87)
6. DOIN' THAT RAG Fillmore West, San Francisco, CA (6/5/69)
7. MY BROTHER ESAU Frost Amphitheatre, Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA (8/20/83)
8. DEAL Shoreline Amphitheatre, Mountain View, CA (5/12/91)
9. SCARLET BEGONIAS Greek Theatre, University Of California, Berkeley, CA (7/13/84)
10. TOUCH OF GREY Greek Theatre, University Of California, Berkeley, CA (7/13/84)
11. FIRE ON THE MOUNTAIN Greek Theatre, University Of California, Berkeley, CA (7/13/84)
12. LAZY LIGHTNING> Alpine Valley Music Theatre, East Troy, WI (8/23/80)
13. SUPPLICATION Alpine Valley Music Theatre, East Troy, WI (8/23/80)
14.  ATTICS OF MY LIFE Boston Garden, Boston, MA (10/3/94)
15. ESTIMATED PROPHET Red Rocks Amphitheatre, Morrison, CO (8/12/79)
16. EYES OF THE WORLD Red Rocks Amphitheatre, Morrison, CO (8/12/79)
17. BROWN-EYED WOMEN Winterland, San Francisco, CA (3/20/77)
18. TRUCKIN'> Deer Creek Music Center, Noblesville, IN (7/15/89)
19. SMOKESTACK LIGHTNIN’Deer Creek Music Center, Noblesville, IN (7/15/89)
20. BIG BOY PETE Henry J. Kaiser Convention Center, Oakland, CA (11/21/85)
21. BIRD SONG Boston Music Hall, Boston, MA (9/15/72)
22. LET IT GROW Hampton Coliseum, Hampton, VA (5/1/81)
23. BLACK MUDDY RIVER Oakland Coliseum Arena, Oakland, CA (12/27/89)
24. DAYS BETWEEN Capital Centre, Landover MD (3/17/93)
25. NOT FADE AWAY> Capitol Theatre, Port Chester, NY (2/24/71)
26. GOIN' DOWN THE ROAD FEELING BAD> Capitol Theatre, Port Chester, NY (2/24/71)
27. NOT FADE AWAY Capitol Theatre, Port Chester, NY (2/24/71)

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History Of The Grateful Dead, Volume 1 (Bear's Choice - 50th Anniversary Remaster)

The original album, newly re-mastered by GRAMMY®Award-winningengineer, David Glasser, using Plangent Processes from the original analog 2-track tapes, recorded live by Owsley “Bear” Stanley. The Grateful Dead's first true archival album, Bear's Choice, was lovingly produced as a tribute to Pigpen shortly after he passed by none other that the Dead's original soundman and benefactor, Owsley Stanley, aka Bear. Drawing from live shows recorded three years earlier by Bear at the Fillmore East in New York City, Bear's Choice captures the Dead at an essential moment of their history, as they were about to record Workingman's Dead (and shortly thereafter, American Beauty), and were transitioning into becoming Americana pioneers, while never losing touch with their psychedelic improvisational roots. Three of the eight songs on the album are sung by Pigpen, with Side 1 being the definitive example of early Acoustic Dead, and Side 2 being electric blues and rock & roll, with Pigpen leading the charge on both tracks on the second side. This has been re-mastered by David Glasser using Plangent Processes from the original analog 2-track tapes recorded live by Bear and has never sounded better.

TRACK LISTING

Side One
1. Katie Mae
2. Dark Hallo
3. I’ve Been All Around This World
4. Wake Up Little Susie
5. Black Peter

Side Two
1. Smokestack Lighnin’
2. Hard To Handle

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Anthem Of The Sun

The band’s most experimental album, Anthem Of The Sun was an unprecedented mix of studio and live recordings stitched together to create a hybrid. More than fifty years later, it remains a pinnacle of psychedelic music. It also marked a departure for the band, as they began to channel their creativity into longer jams on songs like “Alligator” and “Caution (Do Not Stop On Tracks)” – two live staples of the Dead’s early days. During this period, the band included: Jerry Garcia, Bob Weir, Ron “Pigpen” McKernan, Phil Lesh, Mickey Hart, and Bill Kreutzmann. The LP features a remastered version of the 1971 mix, mastered by Grammy®-winning engineer David Glasser from the original analog master tapes.

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The Best Of The Grateful Dead Live Vol. 1: 1969-1977

The live albums the band released during its 30-year career are the primary source for the collection, including tracks like “Bertha” from Grateful Dead (Skull & Roses) (1971), “Fire On The Mountain” from Dead Set (1981), and “The Music Never Stopped” from One From the Vault (1991). A testament to its ongoing popularity, the revered double-album Europe ’72 (1972), is represented by no less than five tracks, including “Sugar Magnolia,” “Jack Straw” and a searing rendition of “Morning Dew.”

Other performances on the set were selected from the growing number of live releases that have emerged since the death of founding member Jerry Garcia in 1995. Some of those recordings include “Touch Of Grey” from Truckin’ Up To Buffalo (2005), a 1990 version of “Eyes Of The World” with saxophonist Branford Marsalis featured on Wake Up To Find Out (2014), and “Estimated Prophet,” which debuted earlier this year as part of Cornell 5/8/77, a recording of the Grateful Dead’s mythic show at Cornell University in 1977, thought by many to be the band’s greatest live performance.



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Nightfall Of Diamonds

The complete show from Meadowland Sports Arena, East Rutherford, New Jersey, recorded on October 16th 1989. This 2 CD set is a landmark concert, significant for containing the first "Dark Star" recording in about 6 years and it also contains the first live release of "Picasso Moon". Rare photographs, the latest live set to be released on Grateful Dead Records.


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