Grateful Dead Celebrate 60th Anniversary With Massive Live Box

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Grateful Dead (Photo © Bob Minkin Photography; used with permission)

Grateful Dead are celebrating their 60th anniversary with Enjoying The Ride, a sweeping 60-CD boxed set, coming May 30, 2025, that maps an epic cross-country road trip with stops at storied venues. Spanning 25 years of legendary live performances, the collection spotlights defining shows from 1969 to 1994 at 20 venues that consistently inspired the band to new heights—Winterland, Frost Amphitheatre, Madison Square Garden, and Hampton Coliseum, among them. Whether playing the intimate confines of Fillmore West or beneath the open skies at Red Rocks, the Grateful Dead never played the same show twice.

With the exception of a few tracks from earlier releases, virtually all of the music on Enjoying The Ride is previously unreleased, spanning more than 450 tracks and over 60 hours of music. Of the 20 shows in the collection, 17 are presented in full, with some featuring additional material from the same venue. The remaining three—Fillmore West, Fillmore East, and Boston Music Hall—are curated from multiple performances at each venue, capturing key moments on those legendary stages.

Grateful Dead at Red Rocks Amphitheater, Morrison, CO, August 12, 1979 (Photo © James R. Anderson; used with permission)

Enjoying The Ride will be available exclusively from Dead.net and limited to 6,000 individually numbered copies.

For those seeking a far more concise itinerary, a significantly abridged version, The Music Never Stopped, takes a shorter journey through the music that shaped the Grateful Dead’s live legacy. It also arrives on May 30, via Rhino, on 3-CDs [pre-order in the U.S. here and in the U.K. here] or 6-LPs [in the U.S. here and U.K. here]. See the concerts and track listing below.

Unreleased versions of “Scarlet Begonias,” “Touch of Grey,” and “Fire On the Mountain,” recorded live at the Greek Theatre on July 13, 1984, were made available on March 12, the day of the announcement.

Dead archivist and legacy manager David Lemieux says narrowing the list to 20 venues wasn’t easy, but the final selection represents places where the band always brought their A-game—destinations that drew Dead Heads from far and wide, all hoping to witness something transcendent.

The collection is housed in a custom keepsake box inspired by the experience of traveling from city to city to see the Dead at legendary venues across America. Inside, a beautifully detailed tour guide features liner notes by Jesse Jarnow (author and co-host of the Good Ol’ Grateful Deadcast) and a producer’s note from Lemieux, an essay by the Owsley Stanley Foundation, and more. The set is richly illustrated with photos, including many taken at the shows featured in the collection.

These performances were originally recorded by Owsley “Bear” Stanley, Betty Cantor-Jackson, Kidd Candelario, Dan Healy, and John Cutler. David Glasser and Jeffrey Norman restored and mastered the performances, with select ones using Plangent Processes tape restoration and speed correction for optimal sound quality.

Enjoying The Ride reflects the band’s evolution across multiple eras. The performances featured here include contributions from Jerry Garcia, Ron “Pigpen” McKernan, Bob Weir, Bill Kreutzmann, Phil Lesh, Mickey Hart, Keith Godchaux, Donna Jean Godchaux, Brent Mydland, Tom Constanten, and Vince Welnick.

Grateful Dead Enjoying The Ride Concerts
Avalon Ballroom, San Francisco, CA (4/5/69) – Cassette
Fillmore West, San Francisco, CA (6/5/69)
Fillmore West, San Francisco, CA (6/7/69)
Fillmore West, San Francisco, CA (6/8/69)
Capitol Theatre, Port Chester, NY (2/24/71)
Capitol Theatre, Port Chester, NY (2/20/71)
Fillmore East, New York, NY (4/25/71)
Fillmore East, New York, NY (4/27/71)
Boston Music Hall, Boston, MA (9/15/72)
Boston Music Hall, Boston, MA (9/16/72)
Nassau Veterans Memorial Coliseum, Uniondale, NY (3/16/73)
Winterland, San Francisco, CA (3/20/77)
Philadelphia Spectrum, Philadelphia, PA (5/13/78)
Red Rocks Amphitheatre, Morrison, CO (8/12/79)
Alpine Valley Music Theatre, East Troy, WI (8/23/80)
Alpine Valley Music Theatre, East Troy, WI (7/11/81)
Hartford Civic Center, Hartford, CT (3/14/81)
Hampton Coliseum, Hampton, VA (5/1/81)
Frost Amphitheatre, Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA (8/20/83)
Greek Theatre, University of California, Berkeley, CA (7/13/84)
Henry J. Kaiser Convention Center, Oakland, CA (11/21/85)
Henry J. Kaiser Convention Center, Oakland, CA (11/22/85)
Madison Square Garden, New York City, NY (9/16/87)
Deer Creek Music Center, Noblesville, IN (7/15/89)
Oakland Coliseum Arena, Oakland, CA (12/27/89)
Shoreline Amphitheatre, Mountain View, CA (5/12/91)
Capital Centre, Landover MD (3/17/93)
Capital Centre, Landover MD (9/15/82)
Boston Garden, Boston, MA (10/3/94)

Grateful Dead The Music Never Stopped 6-LP Track Listing

LP One
Side One
“The Music Never Stopped” – Spectrum, Philadelphia, PA (5/13/78)
“Althea” – Hartford Civic Center, Hartford, CT (3/14/81)
Side Two
“Playing In The Band” – Nassau Veterans Memorial Coliseum, Uniondale, NY (3/16/73)

LP Two
Side One
“Hard To Handle” – Fillmore East, New York, NY (4/25/71)
“Wharf Rat” – Madison Square Garden, New York City, NY (9/16/87)
Side Two
“Doin’ That Rag” – Fillmore West, San Francisco, CA (6/5/69)
“My Brother Esau” – Frost Amphitheatre, Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA (8/20/83)
“Deal” – Shoreline Amphitheatre, Mountain View, CA (5/12/91)

LP Three
Side One
“Scarlet Begonias” – Greek Theatre, University of California, Berkeley, CA (7/13/84)
“Touch Of Grey” – Greek Theatre, University of California, Berkeley, CA (7/13/84)
Side Two
“Fire On The Mountain” – Greek Theatre, University of California, Berkeley, CA (7/13/84)
“Lazy Lightning”> – Alpine Valley Music Theatre, East Troy, WI (8/23/80)
“Supplication” – Alpine Valley Music Theatre, East Troy, WI (8/23/80)

LP Four
Side One
“Attics Of My Life” – Boston Garden, Boston, MA (10/3/94)
“Estimated Prophet” – Red Rocks Amphitheatre, Morrison, CO (8/12/79)
Side Two
“Eyes Of The World” – Red Rocks Amphitheatre, Morrison, CO (8/12/79)
“Brown-Eyed Women” – Winterland, San Francisco, CA (3/20/77)

LP Five
Side One
“Truckin’”> – Deer Creek Music Center, Noblesville, IN (7/15/89)
“Smokestack Lightnin’” – Deer Creek Music Center, Noblesville, IN (7/15/89)
“Big Boy Pete” – Henry J. Kaiser Convention Center, Oakland, CA (11/21/85)
Side Two
“Bird Song” – Boston Music Hall, Boston, MA (9/15/72)
“Let It Grow” – Hampton Coliseum, Hampton, VA (5/1/81)

LP Six
Side One
“Black Muddy River” – Oakland Coliseum Arena, Oakland, CA (12/27/89)
“Days Between” – Capital Centre, Landover MD (3/17/93)
Side Two
“Not Fade Away”> – Capitol Theatre, Port Chester, NY (2/24/71)
“Goin’ Down The Road Feeling Bad”> – Capitol Theatre, Port Chester, NY (2/24/71)
“Not Fade Away” – Capitol Theatre, Port Chester, NY (2/24/71)