Press Release :
Well, we can't all be lugging around 10-CD sets.
In an effort to provide the very best of the already-legendary and sold out Fillmore West 1969 Box Set in a convenient form (and with all the fine pictures and notes of the big box), Rhino and Grateful Dead Productions are proud to introduce this 3-CD "best-of" selection. The package will not generally include the material that was later selected for Live/Dead since that's already available. Instead, the triple CD package will give you the hits: a 55 minute "Alligator > Caution" jam that is simply cosmic, the complete "We Bid You Goodnight" (the one on Live/Dead was cut!), and the deservedly famous Friday night "Dark Star > St. Stephen > The Eleven > Death Don't Have No Mercy" that could easily have been the album. What a weekend!
All orders taken before December 31, 2005 will receive an exclusive bonus CD containing previously unreleased Grateful Dead performances recorded at the Carousel Ballroom and Fillmore West between 1968-1970, including a just-unearthed 30 minute version of "Caution" from June, 1968, and a "He Was A Friend Of Mine > China Cat Sunflower > New Potato Caboose" jam from June, 1969, amongst other great material.