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| Artist: Grateful Dead
Label: Rhino / Wea
Category: Music
List Price: $11.98
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Rating:  50 reviews
Sales Rank: 6164
Format: Live, Original Recording Reissued, Original Recording Remastered
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0
Dimensions (in): 5.3 x 4.9 x 0.3
MPN: 74395
UPC: 081227439521
EAN: 0081227439521
ASIN: B00007LTIJ
Release Date: February 25, 2003
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| Tracks:
| • | Dark Star | | • | St. Stephen | | • | The Eleven | | • | Turn On Your Love Light | | • | Death Don't Have No Mercy | | • | Feedback | | • | And We Bid You Goodnight | | • | Bonus Track 1 | | • | Bonus Track 2 |
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Album Description
Expanded & remastered (HDCD) version of the band's 1969 tour de force spotlighting the band in all their onstage glory, features the single version of 'Dark Star' as a hidden bonus track. Digipak. Warner/Rhino. 2003.
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| Customer Reviews: Read 45 more reviews...
 Should be called 'The Best & Worst of the Grateful Dead.' November 23, 2008
Yeah, that title might throw some Deadheads off. But let's be honest - this 1969 double live album (the first for the Dead) is a tad bit overrated. Before we get into the negative, let's dive into the positive.
First things first, you probably came to this album seeking out Dark Star. All I have to say is good for you, becuase this is one of the trippiest, craziest jams I've ever heard. It really is the sound of late 60's psychedelic San Fransisco. I'd go so far as to say that this is what it sounds like when you trip on mushrooms. Yeah, they're a little out-of-tune throughout the song, but in a strange way, it kinda helps the song out. It's one of the few 23 minute songs I can listen to that never bores me. There's so much going on, it's incredible. I can listen to it 5 times in a row and still hear something new.
Also, St. Stephen into The Eleven into Turn On Your Lovelight is just breathtaking. St. Stephen has always been a favorite of mine, and this version kills the original. Much more fiery playing, great San-Fransiscian harmonies, and some killer solos by the one and only Jerry Garcia. The Eleven has to be one of the few jams done in 11/8. And it works! It's incredible how diverse the band was in their heyday.
A lot of people don't care for Lovelight. I like this one, it showcases their bluesy side a little better. And Pigpen has a cool dark soul voice that really pushes the song along. Another classic.
However, the last 3 tracks are where things go downhill. Death Don't Have No Mercy is agonizingly slow, with some really bad singing by Jerry. Such a shame, becuase he can be a good singer when he wants to be. And what's up with Feedback? Do we really need this? And We Bid You Goodnight is neat, but nothing essential. What happened? We were on a roll with the first four tracks!
So, that's my two cents on this album. 50 minutes of greatness, 25 minutes of agonizing filler (which you can skip, thank God) = An album more people should get into. Enjoy!
 Live/Dead/Is/Dead/Live April 3, 2008
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
You can play me any album that opens with a 23 minute 19 second live version of Dark Star. Live/Dead hits the spot; scratches that 40-year old itch; tells it like it was back when it really was. Makes you wish you could've been there or could go back again. Well, you can at least go visit for a while when you're listening to this album.
goood stuff April 2, 2008
just bought this to replace my 30 year old vinyl. only comment is that the sound quality for some of the vocals was noticably more like the dead were singing in a tunnel. odd!
One of there early Best February 22, 2008
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
I am a big fan of Psychedelic Music of the late 60s. So that being said you know where I am coming from. I am also not a country / folk fan. I'm a Rock & Roll Fan. So that being said I love the Dead from 1965 to 1969 and after that its hit and or miss.
I like some of there later songs and some of there live jams.
This is an Awesome !!! CD if you are into 60s Psych music.
I consider this the Deads best Album right with Aoxomoxoa then Anthem of the Sun then Live Dead in that order there best four Albums.
My reaction to Workingman's Dead and American Beauty (Both great Albums if you like that type of music) is this a Rock band? Where are the electric Guitars?
Sorry I love the Deads early Rock Music.
So many bands DID NOT do the "same thing only better" December 21, 2007
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
I'll keep this simple -- the Dead had their great performances and had their so-so performances. But this is one of the great ones.
It's madness to say that Cream or Country Joe and the Fish (or whoever) were better at this. The Dead were in the vanguard, period.
With regard to the Allman Brothers, the Allman Brothers and the Dead were obviously influenced by each other. The Allman Brothers were gods when it came to jams, but after Duane and Berry died, it couldn't be the same. It really wasn't until Greg broke through with "I'm No Angel" and the subsequent Columbia albums that he started to get his groove back with some outstanding new songs and players all the way to this day.
I urge anyone who thinks that the Allman Brothers were out front to pick up "Two From the Vault", recorded August 23-24, 1968 by the Grateful Dead. Listen to "The Eleven", and you will get a preview of what the Allman Brothers were doing two years later in 1970-1971 (often opening for the Dead) with "Mountain Jam" and "In Memory of Elizabeth Reed" at Fillmore East as well as on Dickey Betts' "Blue Sky" on Eat a Peach in 1972.
Duane and Jerry were on a very similar wavelength. But the Dead were formed first and were literally playing Allman Brothers music before there even was an "Allman Brothers." That's just historical fact, but I'm not saying that the Allman Brothers didn't do it better for that brief period of time when they were literally on fire with Duane out front. Live/Dead is belongs in the collection of every Allman Brothers fan and Fillmore East belongs in the collection of every Deadhead, and today's shallow, computer-created teenage bands could learn a hell of a lot from both.
Peace, rock on and don't forget the folk, country and blues/r&b roots of our music!
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