LOS ANGELES, CA – OCTOBER 18: (L-R) Singer Bob Weir, founding member of The Grateful Dead, performs onstage with drummer Jay Lane and Don Was of The Wolf Bros at Ace Hotel on October 18, 2018 in Los Angeles, California. (Photo by Scott Dudelson/Getty Images)

 

The Grateful Dead will release the new 17-disc box set, Here Comes Sunshine, on June 30th. The massive collection spotlights five previously unreleased concerts, including: Iowa State Fairgrounds, Des Moines, IA (5/13/73); Campus Stadium, UCSB, Santa Barbara, CA (5/20/73); Kezar Stadium, San Francisco, CA (5/26/73); and Robert F. Kennedy Memorial Stadium, Washington, D.C. (6/9&10/73).

Here Comes Sunshine is limited to 10,000 individually numbered copies and is available exclusively from Dead.net for $189.98. The complete audio will also be available as a digital download exclusively at Dead.net in Apple Lossless ($99.98) and FLAC 192/24 ($124.98).

Grateful Dead’s archivist and legacy manager, David Lemieux said in the album’s announcement, “Even with hundreds of tapes at my fingertips, I returned to these 1973 shows frequently. That old saying, ‘I listened to that show so often, I wore the tape out?’ It was created because of shows like this.”

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