The Grateful Dead have announced details of their forthcoming box sets documenting the band’s final concerts at Soldier’s Field in Chicago on July 3, 4 and 5.
To whet your appetites, we’re delighted to bring you “Truckin’“, from the July 5 show.
The Fare Thee Well: Celebrating 50 Years of Grateful Dead sets will be available on November 20 through Rhino on a number of formats.
A 3-CD/2 Blu-ray, 3/CD-DVD, 2 Blu-Ray or 2-DVD sets will be released in shops and digitally which includes full audio from the band’s final show on July 5.
A 2 CD/digital Best Of edition will feature highlights from all three shows. You can order it by clicking here.
Meanwhile, a 12-CD/Blu-ray set and a 12-CD-DVD set will be available exclusively on Dead.net the official Grateful Dead website, and will be limited to 20,000 individually numbered copies per sets.
FARE THEE WELL – Dead.net Exclusive Complete Versions
12-CD/7-Blu-ray Complete Version – Full audio and high-definition video from all three shows on CD and Blu-ray plus exclusive bonus Blu-ray of behind-the-scenes footage and three CDs of intermission music by Circles Around The Sun. Individually numbered, limited edition of 20,000.
12-CD/7-DVD Complete Version – Full audio and video from all three shows on CD and DVD plus exclusive bonus DVD of behind-the-scenes footage and three CDs of intermission music by Circles Around The Sun. Individually numbered, limited edition of 20,000.
FARE THEE WELL – Retail Versions
3-CD/2-Blu-ray Version – Full audio and high-definition video from final show (July 5) on CD and Blu-ray.
3-CD/2-DVD Version – Full audio and video from final show (July 5) on CD and DVD.
2-Blu-ray Version – Full high-definition video from final show (July 5) on Blu-ray.
2-DVD Version – Full video from final show (July 5) on DVD.
2-CD “Best Of” Version – Audio highlights from all three shows.
Digital Download – Audio and video from the final show (July 5) will be available as well as audio from the “Best Of” version.
Tracklisting for Fare Thee Well: Celebrating 50 Years of Grateful Dead Dead.Net edition:
July 3rd, 2015
Disc One
1. “Box of Rain”
2. “Jack Straw”
3. “Bertha”
4. “Passenger”
5. “The Wheel”
6. “Crazy Fingers”
7. “The Music Never Stopped”
Disc Two
1. “Mason’s Children”
2. “Scarlet Begonias”
3. “Fire On The Mountain”
4. “Drums”
5. “Space”
Disc Three
1. “New Potato Caboose”
2. “Playing In The Band”
3. “Jam”
4. “Let It Grow”
5. “Help On The Way”
6. “Slipknot!”
7. “Franklin’s Tower”
8. “Ripple”
Disc Four
Intermission Music by Circles Around The Sun
1. “Space Wheel”
2. “Mountains Of The Moon”
3. “Praying For The Band”
4. “Tripple”
5. “Deal Breaker”
6. “Deadometer”
7. “Borrow From A Friend”
8. “Grimes Surf Story”
July 4th, 2015
Disc Five
1. “Shakedown Street”
2. “Liberty”
3. “Standing On The Moon”
4. “Me And My Uncle”
5. “Tennessee Jed”
6. “Cumberland Blues”
7. “Little Red Rooster”
8. “Friend Of The Devil”
9. “Deal”
Disc Six
1. “Bird Song”
2. “The Golden Road (To Unlimited Devotion)”
3. “Lost Sailor”
4. “Saint Of Circumstance”
5. “West Of L.A. Fadeaway”
Disc Seven
1. “Foolish Heart”
2. “Drums”
3. “Space”
4. “Stella Blue”
5. “One More Saturday Night”
6. “U.S. Blues”
Disc Eight
Intermission Music by Circle Around The Sun
1. “Hallucinate A Solution”
2. “Ginger Says”
3. “Saturday’s Children”
4. “Eartha”
5. “Split Pea Shell”
July 5th, 2015
Disc Nine
1. “China Cat Sunflower”
2. “I Know You Rider”
3. “Estimated Prophet”
4. “Built To Last”
5. “Samson and Delilah”
6. “Mountains On The Moon”
7. “Throwing Stones”
Disc Ten
1. “Truckin'”
2. “Cassidy”
3. “Althea”
4. “Terrapin Station”
5. “Drums”
Disc Eleven
1. “Space”
2. “Unbroken Chain”
3. “Days Between”
4. “Not Fade Away”
5. “Touch Of Grey”
6. “Attics Of My Life”
Disc Twelve
Intermission Music by Circles Around The Sun
1. “Gilbert’s Groove”
2. “Farewell Franklins”
3. “Hat And Cane”
4. “Never Too Late”
5. “Scarlotta’s Magnolias”
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