Grateful Dead’s 60th Anniversary to Be Commemorated With 60-CD Boxed Set of Live Shows
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variety.comChris Willman Senior Music Writer and Chief Music Critic With the Grateful Dead turning 60 this year, you may be able guess how many CDs are included in a forthcoming epic boxed set of live shows from the band’s heyday.
There’s a clue in the 50-disc package that came out for the band’s 50th birthday 10 years ago. Indeed, “Enjoying the Ride” will include, yes, a whopping 60 CDs.
Other relevant stats, some of them also including a six and a zero: Those 60 discs represent 20 shows from the 1969-1994 period, most of them complete.
There are about 60 hours of music and 450 tracks in all. The set will be limited to 6,000 individually numbered packages, available only through the band’s webstore, Dead.net.
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