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"The Cornell Show" (5/8/77) finally gets "officially" released on new Grateful Dead 11-CD set
The Grateful Dead stretch out early cover tune "Morning Dew" into a 14-minute psychedelic epic in this blissful preview of the band's upcoming box set Get Shown the Light. The 11-disc package, available May 5th via Rhino, documents perhaps the most legendary of all Dead concerts: May 8th, 1977, at Cornell University's Barton Hall, a stop on their Terrapin Station tour.
http://www.rollingstone.com/music/premieres/hear-grateful-deads-morning-dew-from-iconic-cornell-show-w467114
David Lemieux, Grateful Dead archivist and Light producer, calls this "Morning Dew" take "quite possibly one of the Grateful Dead's best-ever live performances," with the septet line-up – Jerry Garcia, Donna Jean Godchaux, Keith Godchaux, Mickey Hart, Bill Kreutzmann, Phil Lesh and Bob Weir – "singularly focused on achieving the cathartic, frenzied release of the climax of this song."
The near-mythical, frequently bootlegged Cornell show will be available in its debut commercial form, alongside three other previously unreleased full-show live recordings from the same trek: Veterans' Memorial Coliseum in New Haven, Connecticut (May 5th, 1977); Boston Garden in Boston, Massachusetts (May 7th, 1977); and Buffalo Memorial Auditorium in Buffalo, New York (May 9th, 1977). The recording source for the shows is the iconic Betty Boards, the soundboard tapes created by the Dead's live recording engineer Betty Cantor-Jackson.
"Since the moment that the board tape of Cornell began circulating in the late 1980s, its legend was instantly created," Lemieux told Rolling Stone in a statement. "Although plenty of Grateful Dead shows have been called their 'best ever,' in the case of Cornell this statement is rarely contested. It's long been a dream of everyone in the Grateful Dead organization to release the definitive version of Cornell, drawn from the master tapes, and we're as thrilled as the fans are that this show is finally being released."
http://www.rollingstone.com/music/premieres/hear-grateful-deads-morning-dew-from-iconic-cornell-show-w467114
David Lemieux, Grateful Dead archivist and Light producer, calls this "Morning Dew" take "quite possibly one of the Grateful Dead's best-ever live performances," with the septet line-up – Jerry Garcia, Donna Jean Godchaux, Keith Godchaux, Mickey Hart, Bill Kreutzmann, Phil Lesh and Bob Weir – "singularly focused on achieving the cathartic, frenzied release of the climax of this song."
The near-mythical, frequently bootlegged Cornell show will be available in its debut commercial form, alongside three other previously unreleased full-show live recordings from the same trek: Veterans' Memorial Coliseum in New Haven, Connecticut (May 5th, 1977); Boston Garden in Boston, Massachusetts (May 7th, 1977); and Buffalo Memorial Auditorium in Buffalo, New York (May 9th, 1977). The recording source for the shows is the iconic Betty Boards, the soundboard tapes created by the Dead's live recording engineer Betty Cantor-Jackson.
"Since the moment that the board tape of Cornell began circulating in the late 1980s, its legend was instantly created," Lemieux told Rolling Stone in a statement. "Although plenty of Grateful Dead shows have been called their 'best ever,' in the case of Cornell this statement is rarely contested. It's long been a dream of everyone in the Grateful Dead organization to release the definitive version of Cornell, drawn from the master tapes, and we're as thrilled as the fans are that this show is finally being released."