High Definition Digital Download

192/24: 24 Bit. 
Sourced from the original Sony F1 tapes. Mastered at 192k

 

WHAT'S INSIDE:

Seven Previously Unreleased Shows:

• Greek Theatre, University of California, Berkeley, CA (6/14/85)
• Greek Theatre, University of California, Berkeley, CA (6/15/85)
• Greek Theatre, University of California, Berkeley, CA (6/16/85)
• Saratoga Performing Arts Center, Saratoga Springs, NY (6/27/85)
• Hershey Park Stadium, Hershey, PA (6/28/85)
• Merriweather Post Pavilion, Columbia, MD (6/30/85)
• Merriweather Post Pavilion, Columbia, MD (7/1/85)

Recorded By Dan Healy
Mastered By Grammy® Award-Winning Engineer David Glasser At Airshow Mastering

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Just Like Grandma Moses
Just Like Auld Lang Syne
Play The Change, However Strange
And Get It Right This Time!

It's Been A Hard Haul
20 As The Crow Flies,
When Your Back's To The Wall
Got To Play It As It Lies

Let There Be Music, Dance, And The Beating of The Drum
Drop Whatever You're Doing And Come On The Run
Twenty Years Later The Groove Is Just Starting To Click
It's All Variations On Some Impossible Lick

- Excerpt From The 20th Anniversary Rag By Robert Hunter

Come on the run with us as we revisit the Grateful Dead's groove starting to click again during their high-octane "Twenty Years So Far" anniversary tour. SUMMER MAGIC 1985 is comprised of seven previously unreleased concerts - all three official 20th anniversary shows at the Greek (6/14-6/16/85); Saratoga Performing Arts Center (6/27/85); Hershey Park Stadium (6/28/85); Merriweather (6/30/85) and (7/1/85) - that find the band recapturing their unique spiritual fusion of communal energy, musical improvisation, and psychedelic style. This untamable synergy shines through countless somewhat-rare and stellar moments (such as “Midnight Hour,” “Dupree’s Diamond Blues,” a first-set “Crazy Fingers,” “Supplication” jam, the “Crypticals,” “Down In The Bottom”>“I Ain’t Superstitious,” and “Keep On Growing) and through not one, not two, but THREE double encores. 'Twas a hot summer, indeed!

Arriving September 18th, SUMMER MAGIC 1985 was recorded by Dan Healy and has been mastered by Grammy® Award-Winning Engineer David Glasser at Airshow Mastering.