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Grateful Dead (Skull & Roses) (Remaster) (CD)

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Grateful Dead Artist Snapshot:

The Grateful Dead were right there at the birth of the 1960s West Coast psychedelic scene, but they handily incorporated simple folk, blues, and country sounds into their swirling, jam-oriented style. With an endless touring schedule and a huge following of devoted fans, the group fueled hippie visions well into the '90s and sparked the jam-band movement that would eventually fill the void left by the dearly departed Grateful Dead after the passing of guitarist Jerry Garcia. Since Garcia's passing, surviving members of the band have participated in various musical projects, including a reunion tour in 2003 under the shortened name of "the Dead."

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DISC 1 for Grateful Dead (Skull & Roses) (Remaster) (CD) Album By Grateful Dead (Artist)
1   Bertha
2   Mama Tried
3   Big Railroad Blues
4   Playing In The Band
5   Other One, The
6   Me & My Uncle
7   Big Boss Man
8   Me & Bobby McGee
9   Johnny B. Goode
10   Wharf Rat
11   Not Fade Away / Goin' Down The Road Feelin' Bad
12   Oh, Boy! - (bonus track)
13   I'm A Hog For You - (bonus track)
14   (untitled) - (hidden track)
 

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Review

Rolling Stone (11/11/71, pp.55-56) - "...a mixture of pleasant good-time music and solid solos, brought up and made even more attractive by the Dead's uniquely rich and magestic sound..." -Lenny Kaye
Q (7/93, p.107) - 3 Stars - Good - "...It's on originals like Garcia's haunting, melancholic 'Wharf Rat' and Bob Weir's tricky 'Playing In The Band' that they're at their best and Bill Kreutzmann's bomping drums are things of joy as ever..."

Title Note

Contains an untitled hidden track which follows "I'm A Hog For You."

Grateful Dead: Jerry Garcia, Bob Weir (vocals, guitar); Phil Lesh (vocals, bass instrument); Ron "Pigpen" McKernan (harmonica, organ, background vocals); Bill Kreutzmann (drums).

Additional personnel: Merl Saunders (organ).

Recording information: Fillmore East, New York, New York (03/24/1971 - 04/29/1971); Manhattan Center, New York, New York (04/05/1971 - 04/06/1971).

One of the things that made the Dead such a unique live act was the sheer variety of their influences. The vastness of the musical terrain they covered is well demonstrated on 1971's GRATEFUL DEAD, nicknamed "Skull & Roses" because of its cover art. It captures the band's live sound at a time when their marathon, acid-inspired concerts were swiftly becoming the stuff of legend and earning them legions of new fans.

This set conveys the typical arc of a Dead show. The band could be economical and straightforward, with brisk, stripped-down numbers like the lilting "Bertha," the straight-forward country of "Me and My Uncle" and Merle Haggard's "Mama Tried," and the country-folk of "Me and Bobby McGee." They could just as easily go into lugubrious album-side-filling improvisations like "The Other One," and pump out loose-limbed, groovy versions of '50s rockers like Buddy Holly's "Not Fade Away" and Chuck Berry's "Johnny B. Goode." The set concludes with the laid-back, joyous jam of the traditional "Goin' Down the Road Feelin Bad." Conspicuous in his absence is singer/keyboardist Ron "Pigpen" McKernan, whose alcoholism was beginning to take its toll.

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