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The Grateful Dead was an accomplished concert act by the time the band recorded this debut album, which committed some (but not all) of that improvisational magic to wax. Drawing from various aspects of live shows, the work consists primarily of blues or folk covers and only two original tun...
Grateful Dead ROCK · 1967 The reputation that the Dead would eventually acquire as mellow roots-rockers is nowhere in sight on their 1967 debut album. They emerged as a frenetic, visceral garage band, with early tunes from their jug-band days like "Beat It On Down the Line" getting ...
Because the Dead were best known as a live act, and because they indeed often did their best work onstage, their breakthrough 1969 concert record remains their greatest and most representative album. Everything the Dead stood for -- from R&B covers to in-concert explorations to improvised so...
The Dead's debut album was mostly a compromise between the group and its record company, which trimmed many of the longer songs to more suitable lengths. There are a handful of good covers here ('Good Morning, Little School Girl,' 'Morning Dew'), as well as the freaked-out original '...
“That’s It for the Other One,” a 1968 Grateful Dead song dedicated to the bus that was used by Kesey’s Merry Pranksters. The Other Ones produced their debut studio album,The Strange Remain(1999), and toured regularly. In 2003 the band dubbed itselfthe Dead (dropping “Grateful” ...
The Dead's debut album was mostly a compromise between the group and its record company, which trimmed many of the longer songs to more suitable lengths. There are a handful of good covers here ('Good Morning, Little School Girl,' 'Morning Dew'), as well as the freaked-out original '...
The Dead's debut album was mostly a compromise between the group and its record company, which trimmed many of the longer songs to more suitable lengths. There are a handful of good covers here ('Good Morning, Little School Girl,' 'Morning Dew'), as well as the freaked-out original '...
(To Unlimited Devotion)” from the Dead’s1967 debut albumand “Fire On The Mountain” from 1978’sShakedown Street,both of which enjoyed favor in the Dead’s live repertoire during different eras, younger fans today can only imagine what it was like to hear them with fresh ears for the ...
straightforward opening to a major slab of psychedelia. “The Other One’s” weirdness gets going at about 1:30, in the “Quadlibet” section, when the band’s twin drummers lead the band into a brief but heavy jam. (The album was percussionist Mickey Hart’s debut with the Dead.) ...