Grateful Dead will celebrate their 60th anniversary and is set to release a 60-CD collection, ‘Enjoying the Ride,’ featuring recordings from 25 years of live shows, spanning 1969 – 1994, with recordings from 20 different venues.

The collection includes 450 tracks, most of them previously unreleased, which translates into more than 60 hours of music. Of the 20 shows, 17 are presented in full, with the other three containing songs curated from multiple performances at San Francisco’s Fillmore West, New York’s Fillmore East and Boston Music Hall.

Grateful Dead is previewing the box set by sharing three previously unreleased live performances – “Scarlet Begonias,” “Touch of Grey” and “Fire on the Mountain” – recorded July 13, 1984 at the Greek Theatre in Berkeley, California. Check them out via digital outlets.

Dead archivist David Lemieux shares: “Going to see the Grateful Dead, following them from city to city, was likened to the modern equivalent of running away and joining the circus. These 20 venues are where the circus took us, and the show was something we never wanted to miss.”

Enjoying the Ride will be released May 30, limited to 6,000 individually numbered copies and available exclusively to pre-order on Dead.net.  The set comes in a custom keepsake box “inspired by the experience of traveling from city to city to see the Dead at legendary venues across America.”

In addition, Rhino is also set to release a smaller compilation, The Music Never Stopped, on May 30. The 3-CD or 6-LP set is described as a “shorter route through the band’s diamond anniversary celebration.” It is also available for preorder here.

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