For those who didn't get a chance to make the trip to Chicago's Soldier Field or the Bay Area's Levi Stadium, the Grateful Dead will now bring all of the music from their wildly accomplished 50th anniversary Fare Thee Well tour gigs to living room television sets worldwide this fall. It's just been announced that Fare Thee Well: Celebrating 50 Years of Grateful Dead box sets will hit stores on Nov. 20, available across an array of formats including digital downloads.
The double disc "best of" collection compiles the highlights of each Dead gig into a comprehensive box set, assembling "every single note heard" during the band's three-night stint over Fourth of July weekend in Chicago. The retail variety of Fare Thee Well is currently available for preorder but only boasts full video and audio from the July 5 concert.
A limited and numbered box set is being sold on the band's official site, Dead.net, including a 12-CD/7-Blu-ray or 12-CD/7-DVD collection, both limited to just 20,000 copies, UltimateClassicRock notes. The exclusive set also contains behind-the-scenes extras like backstage footage and further insight into the "parking lot scene" as well at the astronomical demand for tickets. The Fare Thee Well release trails just after the Dead's 80-disc box that collected live performances spanning the group's 50-year career, making it the second live release from the Dead in 2015.
Three quarters of the band's surviving "core four," Bob Weir, Mickey Hart and Bill Kreutzmann (sans Phil Lesh), have reassembled with singer-songwriter John Mayer, Ratdog keyboardist Jeff Chimenti and the Allman Brothers Band's Oteil Burbridge as Dead & Company, ready to hit the touring circuit starting Oct. 29 at Albany's Times Union Center.
"[John Mayer] was answering back, and it was fun, and more fun than I was really going to be happy about just walking away from," Weir explained to Rolling Stone of his decision to keep truckin' on with Mayer.
Disc One: 7/3/15
01. Box of Rain
02. Jack Straw
03. Bertha
04. Passenger
05. The Wheel
06. Crazy Fingers
07. The Music Never Stopped
Disc Two: 7/3/15
01. Mason's Children
02. Scarlet Begonias
03. Fire on the Mountain
04. Drums
05. Space
Disc Three: 7/3/15
01. New Potato Caboose
02. Playing in the Band
03. Jam
04. Let It Grow
05. Help on the Way
06. Slipknot!
07. Franklin's Tower
08. Ripple
Disc Four: 7/3/15
Intermission Music by Circles Around the Sun
01. Space Wheel
02. Mountains of the Moon
03. Praying for the Band
04. Tripple
05. Deal Breaker
06. Deadometer
07. Borrow from a Friend
08. Grimes Surf Story
Disc Five: 7/4/15
01. Shakedown Street
02. Liberty
03. Standing on the Moon
04. Me and My Uncle
05. Tennessee Jed
06. Cumberland Blues
07. Little Red Rooster
08. Friend of the Devil
09. Deal
Disc Six: 7/4/15
01. Bird Song
02. The Golden Road (To Unlimited Devotion)
03. Lost Sailor
04. Saint of Circumstance
05. West L.A. Fadeaway
Disc Seven: 7/14/15
01. Foolish Heart
02. Drums
03. Space
04. Stella Blue
05. One More Saturday Night
06. U.S. Blues
Disc Eight: 7/4/15
Intermission Music by Circles Around the Sun
01. Hallucinate a Solution
02. Ginger Says
03. Saturday's Children
04. Eartha
05. Split Pea Shell
Disc Nine: 7/5/15
01. China Cat Sunflower
02. I Know You Rider
03. Estimated Prophet
04. Built to Last
05. Samson and Delilah
06. Mountains of the Moon
07. "Throwing Stones
Disc 10: 7/5/15
01. Truckin'
02. Cassidy
03. Althea
04. Terrapin Station
05. Drums
Disc 11: 7/5/15
01. Space
02. Unbroken Chain
03. Days Between
04. Not Fade Away
05. Touch of Grey
06. Attics of My Life
Disc 12: 7/5/15
Intermission Music by Circles Around the Sun
01. Gilbert's Groove
02. Farewell Franklins
03. Hat and Cane
04. Never Too Late
05. Scarlotta's Magnolias
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