Deadhead ALERT: This weekend, all Wolfgang's Vault Grateful Dead Downloads are $5 or less

[Amerigo Vespucci]

This Weekend: Dead $5 Downloads and More
Published: June 25 2010 ByPeter Oberg

GRATEFUL DEAD DOWNLOAD SALE

Hey Deadheads, have you been waiting for that deal to come around before adding your favorite sets to your digital collection? Well, it’s your lucky weekend: from Friday through Sunday, all Dead mp3 downloads will be offered for $5 or less! That’s $5 off sets regularly priced at $10, $4 off the $9 sets, etc. And that means a double sale for WVIPs — you’ll receive your normal 30% discount on that lowered price, meaning all Dead downloads will cost you $3.50 or less!



http://www.wolfgangsvault.com/blog/index.php/2010/06/what-s-up-this-weekend/

[kentauros]

1. I'm not a fan of the Grateful Dead, but

there is a pretty good collection for free download on the Internet Archive:
http://www.archive.org/details/GratefulDead

:)

[Amerigo Vespucci]

2. Yep, the "tapers" spirit is kept alive

The band got a little upset a few years ago at people who were selling tapes for a profit, which is how "soundboard" recordings dropped out of the Internet Archive and how "Dick's Picks" and "The Grateful Dead Download Series" rose on the band's own Website.

I see their point...they were always more than generous to "tapers"...but like everything else in life, there's always the one or two bad apples who screw it up for everyone else.

:toast:

[Bennyboy]

3. Some great shows on the vault (Dead and otherwise)

But I Stream everything nowadays.

[Amerigo Vespucci]

4. Did you notice that the band just released this:

http://store.dead.net/1970s/road-trips-vol-3-no-3

Road Trips Vol. 3, No. 3 commemorates that magical and transformative spring of 1970 with one of the best-loved aural documents of that era: The Dead’s early and late shows at the Fillmore East on May 15, 1970, presented nearly in their entirety over this, the first-ever 3-CD set in the Road Trips series plus the accompanying bonus disc.

DISC 1
1. Don't Ease Me In
2. I Know You Rider
3. Ain't It Crazy (The Rub)
4. Long Black Limousine
5. New Speedway Boogie
6. Casey Jones
7. St. Stephen>
8. That's It For The Other One>
I. Cryptical Envelopment
II. Drums
III. The Other One
IV. Cryptical Envelopment
9. Cosmic Charlie
10. New Minglewood Blues

DISC 2
1. Deep Elm Blues
2. The Ballad Of Casey Jones
3. Silver Threads And Golden Needles
4. Black Peter
5. Friend Of The Devil
6. Uncle John's Band
7. She's Mine
8. Katie Mae
9. A Voice From On High
10. China Cat Sunflower>
11. I Know You Rider
12. Cumberland Blues
13. Hard To Handle
14. Morning Dew
15. Dire Wolf

DISC 3
1. Good Lovin'
2. Dark Star>
3. St. Stephen>
4. Not Fade Away>
5. Turn On Your Lovelight
6. Cold Jordan

BONUS DISC

Features more selections from the Fillmore East plus a blistering sequence from Meramec College in Kirkwood, Missouri.
1. Friend Of The Devil
2. Candyman
3. Cumberland Blues
4. Cold Jordan
5. Easy Wind
6. Attics Of My Life
7. Beat It On Down The Line
8. Next Time You See Me
9. New Speedway Boogie
10. St. Stephen
11. Not Fade Away
12. Turn On Your Lovelight

:toast:

[Bennyboy]

5. Nice, I have that show...

but it is not too clean. This will be exciting to hear it pristine...

[vi5]

6. I'm rediscovering their stuff...

Thanks to Grateful Dead Radio on Sirius, which we just got with our new van.

I was a teenaged punk rocker who still for the most part tends towards punk, indie rock, avant garde, etc. even as a 40 year old adult.

But I went through a 3-4 year period while I maintained all that other stuff but also got fairly immersed in the Dead culture and music to see what it was about. As such I came to appreciate a good deal of it (I'd say 80% or so). But it sort of faded from view, especially when I lost contact with my friends from college who were much more immersed in it than I was.

[Bennyboy]

7. Sometimes you get shown the light....

in the strangest of places

if you look at it right....