re: 40 year anniversary of the famed Grateful Dead 5/8/77 Cornell show

quote:

---

That’s a hole where our tapes in the Vault went May 1, May 3, May 4, May 11…so, we were missing May 5th, 7th, 8th 9th. Another good example, tape traders from back in the day, we all had these incredible tapes from April of ’78, April 6th and 7th and 11thand 12th and 14th, 15th, 16th. We never had any of those in any format. And then April 18th, starting in Pittsburgh, we have every show for the rest of that tour for April and May of ‘78. We were always missing that first chunk of the first leg of the spring tour of ’78, April 6th to April 16th we were always missing. So, those came back.

Likewise, a lot of the January ‘78…it’s a pretty darn impressive collection of music. It was not only some big hole in the collection but it was holes that included some of the best music. It wasn’t just missing shows, it was missing depth shows. Think of the summer of ’76 — and there’s some pretty good shows in the Vault — but there’s also some pretty good shows missing from the Vault that have now been returned. It’s things like that.

We certainly filled some holes that were glaring. It’s very similar to what happened when we got the Houseboat Tapes where the whole summer of ‘71 was missing and, all of a sudden, virtually overnight they all returned. And that’s July through August of ‘71. Lots of other stuff returned as well. The Berkeley Community Theater ‘72 stuff, some spring tour ‘73, some alternate copies that sound phenomenal, December ‘71. Quite a bit of cool stuff came back.

---