“The Dead didn’t play the Garden until 1979, almost the midpoint of their performing career. “As Jerry Garcia famously said, Madison Square Garden was ‘juiced.’ It had an energy unlike any other venue the Grateful Dead played, particularly of this size, owing to the symbiotic relationship between the Dead, the Dead Heads, and New York City itself, says Grateful Dead legacy manager and archivist David Lemieux.

MADISON SQUARE GARDEN, NEW YORK, NY (3/9/81) will be available as a 3-CD set and digitally.Ī previously unreleased performance of “Feel Like A Stranger” from the MaMSG show is available today on all digital download and streaming services. On the same day, the Mashow from the boxed set will be released separately at all regular retail outlets. IN AND OUT OF THE GARDEN features newly restored and speed-corrected audio by Plangent Processes, was mastered by Jeffrey Norman and produced for release by Grateful Dead archivist and legacy manager David Lemieux. The boxed set includes six unreleased concerts recorded at Madison Square Garden on: March 9 September 20 and October 11 and 12, 1983. Full audio will also be available in its entirety as a digital download exclusively at in Apple Lossless and FLAC 192/24. Production of the set is limited to 12,500 individually numbered copies and available exclusively from. The collection is available now for pre-order and will be released on September 23. IN AND OUT OF THE GARDEN: MADISON SQUARE GARDEN ’81, ’82, ’83 is a new, 17-CD boxed set that celebrates the band’s rich history at “the world’s most famous arena,” introducing six previously unreleased shows recorded at MSG between 19. We had to rise to the occasion every time.” At the band’s 2015 induction ceremony into Madison Square Garden’s Walk Of Fame, Bobby Weir said “This place was both horrifying and titillating with an audience that was discerning but ravenous. The venue’s fine acoustics combined with the fans’ unbridled energy consistently brought out the best in the Dead. Madison Square Garden, the world-famous New York City arena, was a home away from home for the Grateful Dead, a reliable sanctuary where the band would ultimately play 52 shows, a record at the time.

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