3/19/2024 0 Comments Space grateful dead![]() ![]() At the time of the recordings, the group featured Brent Mydland. It offers a front-row seat to the Dead in the early 1980s, an overlooked and underestimated era of rebirth for the band. Numbered and limited to 12,500, this 17CD set celebrates the band’s rich history at “the world’s most famous arena,” introducing six previously unreleased shows recorded at MSG betwaeen 19. New York City was in its prime and damn if the Grateful Dead wasn't going to rise up to meet it! If you were there, we call on you to join us as we recapture that MSG magic and if you weren't, we invite you along on the epic journey that is IN AND OUT OF THE GARDEN: MADISON SQUARE GARDEN '81 '82 '83. Maybe you were among them - lightly buzzed on the way in, fully aglow on the way home. Some walked excitedly through the bright lights of Broadway and Times Square, meeting up with old friends on the way and picking up a few new ones too as they ascended The Garden's stairs. Some rolled up in those iconic New York yellows. They traveled North, South, and West on the 1, 2, and 3 subway lines, their numbers growing as they descended upon Penn Station. ![]() They got on the bus to the Port Authority, rode in on the Long Island Railroad and the New Jersey Transit line. ![]() “Welcome to the unique, enduring phenomenon of the Grateful Dead in New York City, a mutual devotion, forged in concert, that ran for nearly as long as the band itself-from June 1, 1967, a free show in Tompkins Square Park on the Lower East Side (ahead of the band’s official, local bow at the Cafe Au Go Go), to the Dead’s last Garden run, six nights in October 1994…the Dead’s affinity for New York City…was instant and arguably their most profound with any city aside from San Francisco.” - David Fricke Liners by award-winning music journalist David Fricke Newly restored and speed-corrected audio by Plangent Processes 2023 GRAMMY WINNER FOR THE BEST BOXED OR SPECIAL LIMITED EDITION PACKAGE ![]()
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