Download Series Volume 4 is a live album by the rock band the
Grateful Dead. It was released as a
digital download on August 2, 2005 and is a three disc set featuring virtually all of the June 18, 1976 show from the
Capitol Theatre in
Passaic, New Jersey.[1] "Tennessee Jed" was omitted because the master tape was plagued with technical problems that could not be fixed in mastering. As a supplement to this omission, the third disc contains highlights from concerts later in June 1976 in
Philadelphia and
Chicago.
June 1976 was the beginning on a near non-stop touring circuit by the Dead that would last until the band dissolved in 1995 after
Jerry Garcia's death. Also,
Mickey Hart had just recently returned as the second drummer to the band after a five-year hiatus. In the middle of June, the band played three nights at the Capitol Theatre.
New songs for 1976 included "The Music Never Stopped", "Crazy Fingers", "Samson and Delilah", and "The Wheel". The show also featured one of only five Grateful Dead performances of Garcia's song "Mission In The Rain".
Stephen Thomas Erlewine wrote on
AllMusic, "Nearly all of the Passaic show is here, running 20 tracks over the equivalent of two discs, while the excerpts from the Philadelphia show run nine tracks, all containing songs unplayed in Jersey. This includes a rather epic "Playing in the Band" – 23 minutes that lead into "Drums" and "The Wheel" before returning for a three-minute reprise of "Playing". Such bravura jams are largely absent on the low-energy Passaic show... [which] is generally a lazy stroll through a fairly familiar set list; pleasant, but not especially memorable."[2]