Grateful Dead / Here Comes Sunshine 1973 [Dead]
Grateful Dead
Title: Here Comes Sunshine 1973
Five complete, previously unreleased performances on 17 CDs
Des Moines, IA 05/13 - 4CD
Santa Barbara, CA 05/20
San Francisco, CA 05/26
Washington, D.C. 06/09
Washington, D.C. 06/10 - 4CD
Recorded by Kidd Candelario, Betty Cantor-Jackson, and Owsley Stanley
Newly restored and speed-corrected audio by Plangent Processes
Mastered by Jeffrey Norman Liners featuring notes from Canadian author,
Ray Robertson, The Owsley Stanley Foundation,
and Legacy Manager and Audio
Archivist, David Lemieux
Art and Design by GRAMMY Award-winning
Art Director, Masaki Koike
Custom-dyed Tenugui and an exclusive poster
featuring an illustration by Mary Ann Mayer
Runtime: 19時間45分 (5日分) / 13日と10日は 4CD でした。
今年の Box Set は、
1973 年 5 月から 6 月にかけて行われた Show の音源。
Dead Base で見ると連続している 5 公演でした。
ちなみに、Box Set が届くと大抵は、税関から
追徴課税があり今回は 1,500円(ぐらいだった)を取られますが、
面倒なので、毎回黙って支払っています。
また、4 日目のライナーノートが同封されておらず、
ムカつくことがありましたが、
もう文句を言う気力もないので、そのままです(笑)。
音質も今ひとつ良くないと感じています。
今年は、悩んだ挙句ポチしたけど、
もういいかな、来年は購入しないと思います。
↑ 送られてくる時に包装されている段ボールのデザイン。
Show の内容は、下記に Official の
原文をそのまま掲載しておきます。
今回の Art Director も、
昨年、 MSG の Box Set でグラミー賞を受賞した、
Masaki Koike さんという日本人が担当した模様です。
Limited Edition Individually Numbered To 10,000 Exclusively At dead.net
"There’s the simple fact that the band members were old enough and experienced enough by now to be virtuosos on their instruments (what other group—rock or jazz or any other kind of music—could boast a trio of spectacularly singular talents such as Garcia, Lesh, and Weir?) but were still young enough to want to play and play and play some more, the happy, itchy inclination of youth. As a few of the shows in the Here Comes Sunshine boxed set attest, it wasn’t unusual for a 1973 concert to exceed four hours. And within the shows themselves, there are nearly nightly examples of hour-long orgies of tune-linked songcraft and juicy jamming." - Ray Robertson, HERE COMES SUNSHINE 1973 Liners 8 years in and the Grateful Dead are a little bit of everything to everyone. They are putting up textures and tones of rock, of jazz, of country, with set-morphing vibes and long stretches of improvisations that are completely keyed into the sum of their parts. Keith Godchaux is here with his cascading notes. Donna Jean too. Both finding their footing and keeping things steady in the wake of Pigpen's unfillable gap. The spring of 1973 feels transformative for the Dead - no more so than the May and early June shows, complementary yet remarkably different, soon-to-be cornerstones of everyone's tape collections, and now, 50 years later, set to be part of the band's official canon. HERE COMES SUNSHINE 1973 is a limited-edition, 17CD boxed set with five previously unreleased, highly sought-after Dead shows, including: Iowa State Fairgrounds, Des Moines, IA (5/13/73), Campus Stadium, UCSB, Santa Barbara, CA (5/20/73), Kezar Stadium, San Francisco, CA (5/26/73), and Robert F. Kennedy Memorial Stadium, Washington, D.C. (6/9/73) and (6/10/73). During the spring, the band road-tested most of the songs they would record that summer for WAKE OF THE FLOOD – their first studio album in three years – including early live versions of “Mississippi Half-Step Toodeloo,” “Row Jimmy,” “Stella Blue,” “Eyes Of The World,” and, the set’s namesake, “Here Comes Sunshine.” Also tucked into the collection are songs destined for the Dead’s 1974 studio album, FROM THE MARS HOTEL – “China Doll,” “Loose Lucy,” and “Wave That Flag,” a precursor to “U.S. Blues.” The new repertoire slipped neatly into the fluid setlists alongside songs honed on the 1972 European tour (“Jack Straw,” “Tennessee Jed,” “Brown-Eyed Women”), Chuck Berry perennials (“Promised Land,” “Around And Around”), classic country (“Big River,” “The Race Is On”), and incredible jam sequences: “He’s Gone”> “Truckin’”> “The Other One”> “Eyes Of The World.” Due June 30th, the individually-numbered, limited-edition 17CD set features vibrant graphics and custom-designed folios by GRAMMY Award-winning Art Director Masaki Koike, a custom-dyed Tenugui and an exclusive poster featuring an illustration by Mary Ann Mayer, and liner notes by Canadian author Ray Robertson, The Owsley Stanley Foundation, and David Lemieux. And, of course, it features newly restored and speed-corrected audio by Plangent Processes, mastered by Jeffrey Norman.
