• Format:  8x 12" LP box
  
• Condition: New, in original packaging
• Label: really gone
  
• Year of publication: 2022

• Special features: audiophile 180g high quality press, limited handnumbered 1632 of 6000 copies
  

Deciding which Grateful Dead concert to reissue on vinyl is a bit like ordering from the menu at a three-star restaurant: no matter what you choose, it will not only be good, but also unique and memorable. With such an abundance of products, and to stay true to our vision of hitting a different year with each release, we decided to do what any sensible Dead Head would do: go big. Hence our 8-LP box set of Dick's Picks Vol. 33!

Fresh from a year-and-a-half touring break and back at full strength with two drummers, the Dead opened for The Who as part of Bill Graham's historic "Day on the Green" concerts in 1976.

This pick captures both dates in their entirety, offering one of the most monumental medleys (and that's saying something!) in the band's history, with a 60-minute, 10-song journey on the first day. The second day features two Garcia favorites, "Might as Well" and "The Wheel", which were new to the concert repertoire, as well as a particularly beautiful "Ramble on Rose" as further highlights.
Bill Graham had honored the Dead by selecting them to close out that year's series of "Day on the Green" concerts, and that - perhaps combined with the presence of impressive co-headliners The Who - resulted in some of the band's best performances of the period.

This "Betty Board" is one of the cleanest recordings in the entire series, and with a fresh mastering for vinyl by Jeffrey Norman at Mockingbird Mastering, a lacquer cut by Clint Holley and Dave Polster at Well Made Music, and a pressing on 180-gram black vinyl by our friends at Gotta Groove Records, this is - let's just say it - the best-sounding Dead vinyl release we've ever made. Seriously... the test pressings (reviewed by Jeffrey Norman, Dead archivist David Lemieux and Real Gone's Gordon Anderson) were simply fantastic, so present and crisp.

We have included a 4-page, full-color, LP-sized insert containing all of the extensive artwork found on the CD release. It's our biggest Grateful Dead album of all time... limited to 6000 hand-numbered copies!