Title: Grateful Dead – Fare Thee Well – July 3-5, 2015, Soldier Field, Chicago, IL
Release Date: 2015
Genre: Rock
Director: Justin Kreutzmann
Artist: Mickey Hart – drums, percussion; Bill Kreutzmann – drums, percussion; Phil Lesh – bass, vocals; Bob Weir – guitar, vocals; Trey Anastasio – guitar, vocals; Jeff Chimenti – keyboards, vocals; Bruce Hornsby – piano, vocals
Production/Label: Grateful Dead Productions/Rhino Entertainment
Duration: 01:11:43 + 02:01:12 + 01:32:23 + 02:07:43 + 01:24:14 + 02:24:22 + 02:25:37
Quality: Blu-ray
Container: BDMV
Video codec: AVC
Audio codec: AC-3, PCM
Video: MPEG-4 AVC ~24000 kbps / 1080i / 29,970 fps / 16:9 / High Profile 4.1
Audio#1: English Dolby TrueHD 5.1 / 96 kHz / ~3800 kbps / 16-bit (AC3 Embedded: 5.1 / 48 kHz / 640 kbps)
Audio#2: English LPCM 2.0 / 96 kHz / 4608 kbps / 24-bit
Audio#3 (Bonus BD): English LPCM 2.0 / 48 kHz / 2304 kbps / 24-bit
Size: 196 GB
I wanted to feel that feeling again. That feeling that you can only get at a Grateful Dead show. An outdoor, summer stadium Grateful Dead show. A sun-filled afternoon on the lot followed by the boys laying down beautiful melodies under the stars. So, about a year ago I started reaching out to the “Core 4” guys about getting the gang together to do it one more time, to mark the 50th Anniversary of the birth of the band that has impacted countless lives. It wasn’t easy, but as they say, nothing really good is easy. There were twists and there were turns, there were ups and there were downs along the road. It was not a straight path … but it was a path. We put on Grateful Dead shows. The vibe was there, the energy was there, the smiles were there, the music was there. I remain a bit surprised to this day how natural it all felt, at those final performances in Chicago. After all the build-up, after all the talk, when those first notes hit, everything fell into place. A lot of people put in a lot of hard work behind the scenes, in order to bring Fare Thee Well to life. But, equally important is the element that cannot be controlled, that you cannot even begin to anticipate but nonetheless hope to achieve. You need the thing that makes rainbows APPear when it’s not raining. I am writing this at 30,000 feet, on a flight to Las Vegas, off to see a show at Brooklyn Bowl. Tonight, it’s Modest Mouse. Totally different vibe, scene and music than that of our beloved Grateful Dead, but I am still searching for more of the same magic that the Soldier Field shows juiced me up with. I am addicted to it. No band has ever given it to us like the boys, but the music of the Dead also encourages each of us to keep searching for the sound. Here’s to this set helping all of us out on our journey, as we all seek out more of those magic moments because those are the ones that we live for.
12-CD/7-Blu-ray Complete Version :: Full audio and high-definition video from all three shows on CD and Blu-ray plus exclusive bonus Blu-ray of behind-the-scenes footage and three CDs of intermission music by Circles Around The Sun. Individually numbered, limited edition of 20,000.
Tracklist:
• BD1: July 3 First Set
“Box Of Rain”
“Jack Straw”
“Bertha”
“Passenger”
“The Wheel>”
“Crazy Fingers”
“The Music Never Stopped”
• BD2: July 3 Second Set
“Mason’s Children”
“Scarlet Begonias>”
“Fire On The Mountain>”
“Drums>”
“Space>”
“New Potato Caboose>”
“Playing In The Band>”
“Let It Grow>”
“Help On The Way>”
“Slipknot!>”
“Franklin’s Tower”
“Ripple”
• BD3: July 4 First Set
“Shakedown Street”
“Liberty”
“Standing On The Moon”
“Me And My Uncle”
“Tennessee Jed”
“Cumberland Blues”
“Little Red Rooster”
“Friend Of The Devil”
“Deal”
• BD4: July 4 Second Set
“Bird Song”
“The Golden Road (To Unlimited Devotion)>”
“Lost Sailor>”
“Saint Of Circumstance”
“West L.A. Fadeaway”
“Foolish Heart>”
“Drums>”
“Space>”
“Stella Blue>”
“One More Saturday Night”
“U.S. Blues”
• BD5: July 5 First Set
“China Cat Sunflower>”
“I Know You Rider”
“Estimated Prophet”
“Built To Last”
“Samson And Delilah”
“Mountains Of The Moon>”
“Throwing Stones”
• BD6: July 5 Second Set
“Truckin’”
“Cassidy”
“Althea”
“Terrapin Station>”
“Drums>”
“Space>”
“Unbroken Chain>”
“Days Between>”
“Not Fade Away”
“Touch Of Grey”
“Attics Of My Life”
• BD7: ‘Rainbows Are Real’ Bonus Video
“Rainbows Are Real”
“Circles Around The Sun”
“Playing In The Band”
“Ripple”
“Black Muddy River”