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DUKE 03978, is the worldwide retail breakout from the GRATEFUL DEAD limitededition, dead.net exclusive boxed set, FRIEND OF THE DEVILS APRIL 1978. It will be available day and date as a 3CD set, 4LP set and digitally on all DSPs worldwide.34When the Grateful Dead arrived at Cameron Indoor Stadium for the sixth stop of the first leg of the Spring Tour of 1978, they were a welloiled machine. The expectation was there amongst concert goers that the Dead would deliver an exceptional show the consistency of excellence was in full force on this tour. And as great as the previous five shows had been, no one could have known that the Xfactor would appear in such force at Duke on April 12, 1978. Opening with a pair of classics, Jack Straw and Dire Wolf, it was clear from the first 10 minutes of the show that something special was happening. But what was to come couldn039t have been predicted no one could have seen what the next three hours would hold. As the Dead barreled through their first set with 34Beat It On Down The Line,34 and 34PeggyO,34 there was something magical happening on the campus in Durham, NC that night David Lemieux
