Grateful Dead - Dick's Picks Vol 33 - Oakland '76 super limited 8 LP set!

Grateful Dead
DIck's Picks 33
10/9 & 10/76 Oakland Coliseum Stadium in Oakland California 
Real Gone Music 1442

Fresh from a year-and-a-half touring hiatus, and back to full, two-drummer strength, the Dead opened for The Who as part of Bill Graham’s historic Day on the Green concerts in 1976. This 8-disc set—which is among the cleanest soundboard recordings in the entire series—captures both dates in their entirety, and features one of the most monumental medleys (and that’s sayin’ something!) in band history with a 60-minute, 10-song journey through “St. Stephen”/”Not Fade Away”/”St. Stephen”/”Help on the Way”/”Slipknot!”/”Drums”/”Samson and Delilah”/”Slipknot!”/”Franklin’s Tower”/”One More Saturday Night” on the first day. Day two offers excellent takes on two solo Garcia favorites, “Might as Well” and “The Wheel,” that were new to the concert repertoire and a particularly fine “Ramble on Rose.” Bill Graham had honored the Dead by selecting them to close the year’s stellar series of Day on the Green concerts, and that—perhaps coupled with the presence of formidable co-headliners The Who—sparked some of the band’s finest performances of the period. The set was mastered from the original soundboard tapes by Jeffrey Norman at Mockinbird Mastering. The Laquers were cut by Clint Holley & Dave Polster at Well Made Music, and pressed at Gotta Groove Records. This set has NEVER BEEN ON VINYL BEFORE THIS RELEASE. The 180g set includes a 4 page insert. It is limited and hand-numbered to 6000 copies worldwide. The Dead in 1976 were Jerry Garcia, Bob Weir, Donna Godchaux, Keith Godchaux, Mickey Hart, Bill Kreutzmann, and Phil Lesch.