Vinyl Me Please Anthology

Dead C said:
I do like how they posted that Live Dead photograph with Pigpen in the car, Tom Constanten holding a giant stick, and Mickey with an acoutsitc guitar. That should confuse some people.


If you look at the list of names of the guests they brought in to comment on the Dead, you can see their target audience. Members of the Decemberists, Dirty Projectors, Animal Collective. VMP has their demographic.
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I'm confused about the demographic tho and who this box set is for. It's not for people getting into the Dead for the first time because it's too expensive but it doesn't have enough exclusive content for Dead Heads to drop $450. Do Dead Heads love the bands in the liner notes?
 
Either own or have routinely passed on these except for Without a Net. I was real worried I'd spend the evening talking myself into this.

Still, for that much money, I'd recommend collecting a few live shows/comps for roughly the same price:
  • Live Dead
  • Europe 72 (and Vol. 2 if you can find it for a good price)
  • Cornell
  • Dead Set/Reckoning combo
  • Wake Up to Find Out (Nassau 3/29/90 w/ Branford Marsalis).
You might spend close to $450 with flippers, but you'll get more LPs and a much better snapshot of the Dead throughout the years. (And IMO the best Eyes of the World with Branford Marsalis.)
 
I get why they chose the albums they did too, but they definitely could have chosen either Workingman’s Dead or American Beauty and included something from pre Live Dead. Also, Blues for Allah is a stronger album than Wake of the Flood, and Reckoning is just an all acoustic live compilation from fall 1980 shows which is good but they could have done a full show too or mixed recordings from that and Dead Set. Maybe they should have included In the Dark too.
 
But, now that I have bought into the set, I do agree with the coloring complaints. I like Europe 72, Wake of the Flood and Terrapin. I think they match the artwork pretty well. But the others are mostly horrendous choices. Maybe they'll look better in person
 
gsurber said:
Either own or have routinely passed on these except for Without a Net. I was real worried I'd spend the evening talking myself into this.

Still, for that much money, I'd recommend collecting a few live shows/comps for roughly the same price:
  • Live Dead
  • Europe 72 (and Vol. 2 if you can find it for a good price)
  • Cornell
  • Dead Set/Reckoning combo
  • Wake Up to Find Out (Nassau 3/29/90 w/ Branford Marsalis).
You might spend close to $450 with flippers, but you'll get more LPs and a much better snapshot of the Dead throughout the years. (And IMO the best Eyes of the World with Branford Marsalis.)
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If I was VMP, I would have done first album, Live/Dead, American Beauty, Skull/Roses, Mars Hotel, Warfield 1980, In the Dark, and then because I hate my customers Ready or Not
 
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