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During the mid-1970s, the Grateful Dead saga was unfolding like a Greek classic. The Sisyphean Wall Of Sound had nearly broken the band. From it spawned a Medusa head of countless side projects, all deliciously fruitful but woefully not the same as the whole. The chorus lay in wait, pondering the reemergence of their heroes, and wondering if "THE LAST ONE" had really been it…

The final 2018 installment of the Grateful Dead’s Dave’s Picks live archival series will feature the band’s show at the Capitol Theatre in Passaic, New Jersey on June 17, 1976. The 3-CD set is limited to 18,000 individually numbered copies mastered to HDCD specs by Jeffrey Norman.

Dave’s Picks Volume 29 is sourced from master reels taped by the great Betty Cantor-Jackson. The Grateful Dead opened the concert with the newly composed “Terrapin Station,” which would soon take up the entire second side of its namesake LP released later in July. In addition, the band fit the debut of the instant classic “Estimated Prophet” into their first show of 1977. Other highlights include a pretty “They Love Each Other,” impressive “Help On The Way” > “Slipknot!” > “Franklin’s Tower” and standout sequence of “Eyes Of The World” > “Dancin’ In The Streets.” Plus, Dave’s Picks Volume 29 will contain everything in the archives from the next night’s show in Santa Barbara, which is the tail end of the second “Terrapin Station” as well as “Morning Dew,” “Sugar Magnolia” and “Johnny B. Goode.”

The next installment of the Grateful Dead’s Dave’s Picks series of live archival releases is the first to pull from the band’s mid ’80s period. Dave’s Picks Volume 27 features the Grateful Dead’s September 2, 1983 performance at the Boise State University Pavilion in Boise, Idaho and is due on July 27.

The Grateful Dead went into a state of latent activity in the fall of 1974 that lasted until the spring of the following year when the band reconvened at guitarist/vocalist Bob Weir's Ace Studios to record Blues for Allah. The disc was likewise the third to be issued on their own Grateful Dead Records label. When the LP hit shelves in September of 1975, the Dead were still not back on the road – although they had played a few gigs throughout San Francisco…

April 26, 1983 was the Dead's second night of a two-show stand at The Spectrum. The sextet - which at the time featured guitarists Bob Weir and Jerry Garcia, bassist Phil Lesh, keyboardist Brent Mydland and drummers Mickey Hart and Bill Kreutzmann - opened with Shakedown Street. Surprisingly, this will be the first version of Shakedown Street issued as part of a Dave's Picks release.

30 Trips Around the Sun is an 80-CD live album, packaged as a box set, by the rock band the Grateful Dead. Announced for the celebration of their 50th anniversary, it consists of 30 complete, previously unreleased concerts—73 hours of music—with one show per year from 1966 through 1995. The box set is individually numbered and limited to 6,500 copies. It was released on October 7, 2015.