Grateful Dead - Summer 76: The Complete Broadcasts {12CD BOX} (2018)

WBCN, Boston Music Hall,Boston, MA, 12 June
CD 1
01. Samson and Delilah
02. Row Jimmy
03. The Music Never Stopped
04. Brown-Eyed Women
05. Big River
06. Mission in the Rain > Looks Like Rain
07. Friend of the Devil
08. Lazy Lightnin' > Supplication
09. High Time

CD 2
01. The Wheel > Cassidy
02. Tennesse Jed
03. Let It Grow > Drums > Let It Grow >
04. Wharf Rat >
05. Comes a Time
06. Dancin' in the Streets >
07. Around and Around
08. Sugar Magnolia >
09. U.S. Blues

WNEW Capitol Theatre, Passaic, NJ, 19th June
CD 3
01. Help on the Way ->
02. Slipknot! ->
03. Franklin's Tower
04. Music Never Stopped
05. Brown Eyed Women
06. Cassidy
07. They Love Each Other
08. Looks Like Rain
09. Tennessee Jed

CD 4
01. Playin' in the Band
02. Might as Well
03. Samson and Delilah
04. High Time
05. Let it Grow -> dDrums > Let it Grow
06. Dancin' in the Streets

CD 5
01. Cosmic Charlie
02. Around and Around
03. Goin' Down the Road Feelin' Bad
04. One More Saturday Night

WMMR – Tower Theatre, Upper Darby, PA 24th June 76
CD 6
01. Cold Rain And Snow
02. Big River
03. Friend Of The Devil
04. Cassidy
05. It Must Have Been The Roses
06. Lazy Lightning
07. Tennessee Jed
08. Looks Like Rain
09. Scarlet Begonias

CD 7
01. Promised Land
02. Help On The Way >
03. Slipknot >
04. Franklin's Tower
05. Samson & Delilah
06. Wharf Rat >
07. Jam
08. Dancin' In The Street >
09. Sugar Magnolia

WXRT-FM, Auditorium Theater, Chicago, Illinois,29th June
CD 8
01. Tennessee Jed
02. Cassidy
03. Peggy-O
04. Mama Tried
05. Mission in the Rain
06. Looks Like Rain
07. Brown Eyed Woman
08. Lazy Lightnin'
09. Supplication
10. Row Jimmy
11. The Music Never Stopped
12. Might As Well

CD 9
01. Samson & Delilah
02. Candyman
03. Playin' in the Band > Drums > Playin' in the Band
04. St. Stephen
05. Not Fade Away
06. St. Stephen
07. One More Saturday Night

KSAN - Orpheum Theater,San Francisco, 18th July
CD 10
01. Mississippi Half-Step Uptown Toodeloo
02. Cassidy
03. Row Jimmy
04. Mama Tried
05. Scarlet Begonias
06. Looks Like Rain
07. Tennessee Jed
08. New Minglewood Blues
09. Loser

CD 11
01. The Music Never Stopped
02. Might As Well
03. Samson And Delilah
04. Candyman
05. Lazy Lightnin' >
06. Supplication >
07. Let It Grow >
08. Drums >
09. Let It Grow >
10. Wharf Rat

CD 12
01. The Other One >
02. Saint Stephen >
03. Not Fade Away >
04. Saint Stephen >
05. The Wheel >
06. The Other One >
07. Stella Blue
08. Sugar Magnolia

5 Show, 12CD Limited Edition/1000 only. The ’76 sound in all its glory, bridging the gap between the early post-hiatus shows and the tightly spun symphonies of ’77. Five shows across twelve cd s remastered from the original broadcasts. Also includes booklet with essay.

The Grateful Dead managed to make one shrewd and long-lasting move in 1976. Everyone knew that the Dead had a loyal audience, but truthfully, even the Dead didn’t know how that would translate into ticket sales. How big a place could they really play, and how many cities would it be profitable to tour through? The band bypassed all that. In the booming rock market of 1976, playing a 12,000-capacity basketball arena and only selling 9,000 tickets would have been seen as a failure of sorts, and the Dead couldn’t afford that in their comeback attempt.

So the Dead took a relatively unprecedented step. They took their four biggest East Coast markets, chose some 2000-seat theaters, and sold the tickets only by mail order. Up until this time, there had been only one rock concert mail-order-only effort that I know of, the Bob Dylan/Band tour in early 1974. Despite the clunkiness of mail order at the time, the hype surrounding mail order had allowed national promoter Bill Graham to emphasize how the Dylan/Band tour was an Event, not just another band on the road. The Dead shrewdly took the same tack, surely inspired by Graham, but executed by New Jersey promoter John Scher. The unique twist was that the band only offered tickets to fans currently on the Deadheads mailing list. They signed on with their most loyal promoters in each city, and made sure that there was an FM broadcast in each region. The band were replaying their 1971 strategy with Grateful Dead (“Skull And Roses”), and providing a “virtual” free concert in all those markets. No other major band would do that in 1976, or ever again.

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