A companion piece to the luminous Workingman's Dead, American Beauty is an even stronger document of the Grateful Dead's return to their musical roots. Sporting a more...
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The second of the Grateful Dead's low-fidelity archival series of live concerts on CD finds the group in Columbus, OH, on Halloween 1971, This was a relatively low-key time...
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Hundred Year Hall was the archival release of an abridged Frankfurt, Germany show from the Grateful Dead's famed Europe '72 tour. The set represents an interesting...
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The third volume of the Grateful Dead's mail-order-only series of un-enhanced live recordings takes us to Pembroke Pines, FL, on May 22, 1977, for a two-CD,...
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Though this is the third Grateful Dead album to be released since the death of bandleader Jerry Garcia and the group's subsequent decision to disband, it is the first one...
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The seventh volume in the Grateful Dead's no-frills Dick's Picks series of live albums is a three-and-a-half-hour, triple-CD distillation of three shows played at the...
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In contrast to recent Grateful Dead archival releases, this two-disc, two-hour-plus live album does not present a particular show or group of shows, but rather is a...
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Performing two hour-long sets as the opening act to Janis Joplin's New York debut as a solo star, the Grateful Dead turned in a characteristic performance for this period in...
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After five consecutive albums of 1970s material, Grateful Dead tape archivist Dick Latvala finally picked a performance from the 1980s, presenting an entire performance from...
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Drawing upon the same spring 1990 East Coast tour that produced Without a Net, Dozin' at the Knick mixes performances from three successive shows performed at Knickerbocker...
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This well-chosen compilation makes the best of the eight albums (five studio LPs and three live collections) the Grateful Dead released on Arista Records between 1977 and...
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It has been noted that Grateful Dead tape archivist Dick Latvala, the Dick of Dick's Picks, was especially fond of the '70s, so it's not surprising that the first volume in...
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Nominally speaking, the Grateful Dead were promoting their new album, Grateful Dead From the Mars Hotel, on their summer 1974 tour; in fact, the album was released on the...
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Warner Brothers combined the Grateful Dead's two early-'70s masterpieces, Workingman's Dead and American Beauty, on one cassette in the early '80s. The Dead were already...
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The Grateful Dead went into a state of latent activity in the fall of 1974 that lasted until the spring of the following year when the band reconvened at guitarist/vocalist...
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As the second long-player by the Grateful Dead, Anthem of the Sun (1968) pushed the limits of both the music as well as the medium. General dissatisfaction with their...
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The Grateful Dead's third studio effort was also the first that the band did without any Warner Bros. staff producers or engineers hampering their creative lifestyle and...
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This 1973 release was the very last collection that the Grateful Dead authorized during their tenure with Warner Bros. in the late '60s and early '70s. However, this live...
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The Grateful Dead mined two separate double-album sets from their 15th anniversary shows at the Warfield Theater in San Francisco and Radio City Music Hall in New York City....
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This recording of a Grateful Dead concert performed in Tampa, FL, on December 19, 1973, inaugurates a new series of archival releases that differs from the band's already...
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The Grateful Dead commemorated their first extended European tour with an extravagant triple-LP set appropriately enough titled Europe '72. This collection is fashioned in...
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The Grateful Dead made their reputation on the road with their live shows, and they have always struggled to capture that magic in the studio. From the Mars Hotel, while not...
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Time has somewhat mellowed the general disdain that critics and Deadheads alike leveled at Go to Heaven upon its release in May of 1980. Granted, none of these readings come...
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The Grateful Dead's second live release was an eponymously titled double LP whose cover bears the striking skull-and-roses visual motif that would become instantly...
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With this album, issued on the group's own merchandising label, the Grateful Dead began to address the needs of an audience that had long since taken to making their own...
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The Grateful Dead's last lineup returned intact for In the Dark, an album that ironically thrust the band back into the spotlight on the strength of the band's lone Top 40...
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Each Grateful Dead concert includes a long instrumental section, part of which is devoted to a drum solo and part to group improvisation, the parts dubbed "Drums" and...
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The Grateful Dead's fourth title was likewise their first extended concert recording. Spread over two LPs, Live/Dead (1969) finally was able to relay the intrinsic sonic...
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Skeletons From the Closet is an 11-song compilation, five of whose songs come from Workingman's Dead or American Beauty. It presents a sampling of the Grateful Dead's...
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Some Deadheads and enthusiasts have dismissed this two-disc live set as being foul-sounding and wholly unrepresentative of a typical Grateful Dead show circa 1974. These are...
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The Grateful Dead's eponymously titled debut long-player was issued in mid-March of 1967. This gave rise to one immediate impediment -- the difficulty in attempting to...
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As the title implies, this was the second complete show to be issued from the Grateful Dead's tape vaults. In contradiction of the "technical information" liner notes essay,...
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After satisfying their nine-title/dozen-disc deal with Warner Brothers, the Dead began their own record labels -- Grateful Dead Records (for group releases) and Round...
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What a Long Strange Trip It's Been is a two-disc compilation of the Grateful Dead's tenure at Warner Bros., 1967-1972. Well-chosen, it contains many of their best songs from...
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The Grateful Dead were already established as paragons of the free-form, improvisational San Francisco psychedelic sound when they abruptly shifted gears for the acoustic...
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Though there are some nice moments in the first set of this full-length concert, the first of the Grateful Dead's run of New Year's shows at the Oakland Auditorium Arena,...
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For the first entry in the Dick's Picks series from 1972, Grateful Dead tape archivist Dick Latvala has made a surprising but satisfying choice. Deadheads might have opted...
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The Grateful Dead's annual series of New Year's shows in San Francisco were always special occasions, especially to San Francisco Deadheads, of course. In 1977, the band,...
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Recorded at Madison Square Garden in New York City on September 16, 1990, the three-hour concert captured on this three-CD set marks a milestone for the band in that it is...
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Once again, Dick picks a great one. Harpur College, 5/02/70, is consistently ranked by Deadheads as one of the band's best shows ever, and it's easy to hear why on this...
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Conventional Deadhead wisdom has always maintained that whatever it was that generated that mercurial essence, that intangible Oneness gestalt, that heady mix of certifiable...
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By the late '90s, box sets increasingly addressed the desires of ardent fans; since the uninitiated were satisfied with smaller compilations, a box set consisting mostly or...
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"Dark Star" is a sort of loose, free-form jam that plays a pivotal role at Grateful Dead shows, and it's been anywhere between five and 55 minutes in length. Toronto-based...
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1971 was a good year to catch a live Grateful Dead show, and the Fillmore East was a good venue to catch them at. Ladies and Gentlemen...The Grateful Dead presents some four...
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This double-disc release highlights the Grateful Dead's final performance of a five show run at the Meadowlands Arena. Deadheads unanimously herald October 10, 1989 --...
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The primary impetus behind this ambitious 12-disc box set is to gather all nine of the Grateful Dead's Warner Brothers titles. However, the staggeringly high quotient of...
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Throughout their 30 year career, The Grateful Dead performed a lot of music by other artists, but few songbooks were given the attention of that of Bob Dylan. Though they...
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The Grateful Dead's third studio effort was also the first that the band did without any Warner Bros. staff producers or engineers hampering their creative lifestyle and...
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A companion piece to the luminous Workingman's Dead, American Beauty is an even stronger document of the Grateful Dead's return to their musical roots. Sporting a more...
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The Grateful Dead were already established as paragons of the free-form, improvisational San Francisco psychedelic sound when they abruptly shifted gears for the acoustic...
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The Grateful Dead's fourth title was likewise their first extended concert recording. Spread over two LPs, Live/Dead (1969) finally was able to relay the intrinsic sonic...
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As the second long-player by the Grateful Dead, Anthem of the Sun (1968) pushed the limits of both the music as well as the medium. General dissatisfaction with their...
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The Grateful Dead's second live release was an eponymously titled double LP whose cover bears the striking skull-and-roses visual motif that would become instantly...
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Before the Grateful Dead were signed by Warner Brothers, they woodshedded their style, playing live in a variety of capacities, such as the unofficial 'house band' at the...
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This 1973 release was the very last collection that the Grateful Dead authorized during their tenure with Warner Bros. in the late '60s and early '70s. However, this live...
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It only seems like there has been an endless stream of Grateful Dead compilations. In reality, there has only been a handful, and the most notable of those were released...
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Manfred Mann has stated that since Bob Dylan's versions of his own songs are so idiosyncratic, it is easy to approach his material from a fresh angle. Perhaps, but few bands...
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A companion piece to the luminous Workingman's Dead, American Beauty is an even stronger document of the Grateful Dead's return to their musical roots. Sporting a more...
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