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New Massive Grateful Dead Box Set Will Cost $450

Deadheads, prepare your wallets. Fans of the legendary band have been known to spend a lot for things connected to the group. Rolling Stone reports that a massive box set of more than 60 CDs dedicated to the band's legendary European tour in 1972 is going on sale. That summer the band played 22 concerts around Euope. The trip was first documented that year on a triple-LP set, Europe '72. The new set will include recordings mixed and mastered from the original 16-track tapes. The project is currently in production and is available by pre-order from the Dead's website for $450.

There will be a maximum of 7,200 boxes produced. As a special bonus, the first 3,000 orders will receive a personalized copy. The set will also include liner notes by Grateful Dead historians and attendees of the concerts as well as many never-before-seen photos; a coffee-table book and other memorabilia and ephemera from the tour. The website says that due to the manufacturing costs they need to hit 3,000 sales before production. If they don't reach 3,000 by April 1st, the boxed set won't be able to happen.

"We were hot and having a lot of fun," said guitarist Bob Weir to Rolling Stone about the tour. "We had a pretty plump repertoire by that time. So you're gonna go several nights before you hear a repeat. And if you hear one, it's going to be pretty different." Weir and bassist Phil Lesh, currently tour as Furthur and still draw a devoted following.

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John Lennon's Box of Vision

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A new music and art collection is being launched in commemoration of the 70th anniversary of John Lennon's birth. The John Lennon Box of Vision is a limited edition individually numbered collection available for pre-order at www.BoxOfVision.com for early October delivery.

The package is officially licensed by Yoko Ono Lennon and includes a 166-page hard bound book containing all of John Lennon's, and John Lennon and Yoko Ono's, LP artwork, restored in new LP-size art prints. This book is full of front covers, back covers, gatefolds and inserts arranged to create the feeling of holding and enjoying the entire LP collection in your lap. The "Catalography," is a brand new, full color discography of John's, and John and Yoko's, album catalog, with an exclusive essay and textual guide; newly restored reproductions of classic Lennon album advertisements; John's handwritten "sound" notes to Double Fantasy and Milk and Honey and more. The BoxOfVision CD storage system is built to store all of John Lennon's official CD releases and can hold up to 32 different CD albums, in an expandable and adaptable format to accommodate any fan's collection (CDs not included). The collection also has two art-adorned recordable DVDs, and two different art-adorned recordable CDs, intended for fans to record and store audiovisual and audio content they choose. Boxofvision has received permission from Yoko Ono to create these unique recordable discs using classic John, and John and Yoko, art elements.

The whole thing is housed in an "artist's canvas" oversized Box (measuring over 15 inches by 13 inches, and 4 inches deep), the set is wrapped in a stunning, silver-inked portrait of John Lennon, with a precise reproduction of John's original line drawing "Baby Grand" on the back. The limited edition set will number a total of 7500 numbered copies available worldwide. The retail list price is $124.99. Check out a video about the project after the jump.

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Win The Complete Miles Davis Columbia Album Collection

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For me, the music of Miles Davis always reminds me of my father. He was a jazz aficionado and particularly a fan of Miles Davis and his mixture of cool and fire and his incredible virtuoso skills on the trumpet. There will never be another Miles Davis and a new music collection spans the breadth of his impressive career. We have one copy of the Complete Miles Davis Columbia Album collection to give away. This collection contains 52 CD and double-CD albums including the previously unreleased full-length audio version of Isle Of Wight performance from 1970, a total of 70 CDs in all. The set adds a bonus DVD, Miles Davis Quintet: Wayne Shorter, Herbie Hancock, Ron Carter, Tony Williams / Live In Europe '67 which showcases two separate European concert performances filmed in Stockholm and Karlsruhe, Germany, October and November 1967, respectively. The DVD is the only video of this Miles Davis Quintet lineup ever to be officially commercially released.

To enhance your Miles Davis education the set comes with a 250-page book that includes a 11,000-word biographical essay by Frédéric Goaty, the director of the French Jazz Magazine and the co-author of the 1995 book Miles Davis. The Complete Miles Davis Columbia Album collection is for sale on Amazon, priced at $328.49. Want your Miles? We're giving away the complete boxed set, a Miles Davis T-shirt and a Miles Davis USB stick to one lucky reader. To have a chance to win, leave a comment below.
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