{"id":30038,"date":"2024-07-31T18:02:28","date_gmt":"2024-07-31T18:02:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/new-grateful-dead-box-set-to-feature-previously-unreleased-concerts-from-1978\/"},"modified":"2024-07-31T18:02:28","modified_gmt":"2024-07-31T18:02:28","slug":"new-grateful-dead-box-set-to-feature-previously-unreleased-concerts-from-1978","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/new-grateful-dead-box-set-to-feature-previously-unreleased-concerts-from-1978\/","title":{"rendered":"New Grateful Dead box set to feature previously unreleased concerts from 1978"},"content":{"rendered":"
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A new box set dedicated to the Grateful Dead<\/strong>‘s 1978 spring tour is coming this fall.\u00a0The 19-CD <\/span>Friend of the Devils: April 1978<\/span><\/em> will be made up of eight previously unreleased complete shows from April 1978.<\/span><\/p>\n

Those concerts include three Florida shows\u00a0\u2014 April 6 at Curtis Hixon Convention Hall in Tampa, April 7 at Sportatorium in Pembroke Pines and April 8 at Veterans Memorial Coliseum in Jacksonville. There are also two shows, April 10 and 11, at Fox Theatre in Atlanta, plus April 12 at Cameron Indoor Stadium at Duke University in Durham, North Carolina, April 14 at Cassell Coliseum in Blacksburg, Virginia, and April 16 at Huntington Civic Center in Huntington, West Virginia.<\/p>\n

The set will be released Sept. 20 exclusively at Dead.net and will be limited to 10,000 individually numbered copies. Plus, the Duke University show will released digitally and as a three-CD\u00a0or four-LP\u00a0set.<\/span><\/p>\n

Fans are getting a preview of that Duke show with\u00a0a live recording of \u201c<\/span>U.S. Blues<\/strong><\/span><\/a>,” which has just been released to <\/span>digital services<\/strong><\/span><\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n

Both <\/span>Friend of the Devils: April 1978<\/strong><\/span><\/em><\/a> and<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/em>Duke\u00a0’78<\/strong><\/span><\/em><\/a>\u00a0<\/span><\/em>are available for preorder now.<\/span><\/p>\n

And\u00a0folks can learn even more about these shows on the <\/span>Good Ol\u2019 Grateful Deadcast<\/span><\/em>, which will celebrate its 10th season on Aug. 29. The\u00a0show will be dedicated to exploring the eight shows featured in the box set, as well as this\u00a0period of\u00a0Dead history.<\/span><\/p>\n