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Richard Gehr | November 07, 2007

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Old wine in new bottles indeed. The Grateful Dead is discontinuing their long-running Dick's Picks series of warts-and-all complete-show releases in favor of a new archival series, Road Trips. Volume 1 will consist of musical gems from the band's fall 1979 East Coast tour, which introduced keyboardist Brent Mydland to the hordes, on two CDs (and, for a while, a limited-edition bonus disc). In addition to the usual beautifully designed packages containing an essay and hitherto unseen photographs, each release will spin off a Web site with enough articles and reviews from the tour to make Ken Burns proud. The band promises "killer versions of 'Dancing in the Street' > 'Franklin's Tower,' long exploratory jams on 'Playing in the Band' and 'Terrapin,' a rattle-your-brain 'Shakedown,' and lots more, all pulled from the master tapes in the vault and expertly mastered in HDCD for maximum power and clarity by Jeffrey Norman."

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