W7 "live Dead" '69 + Booklet ● The Grateful Dead ● Hippie Psych Garcia Acid Jams

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                  + RARE LYRICS BOOKLET
                          "W-7"

                                               
                          
                           The Grateful Dead
                              LIVE DEAD        
        
  
                                                    
                  USA - ("W-7" - olive green)  Warner Brothers - 2WS 1838
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the Hippies "Summer Of Love"  ... 50th year anniversary listings ...
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FINAL COLLECTION COPY ... really HARD to find THIS clean!!!
Includes the hard to find lyrics foldout booklet that was only in early pressings... and BOTH printed "W-7" Warner Brothers inner sleeves!
RARE ....BEAUTIFULLY MINTY CLEAN 1969 FIRST PRINT on the rare "W-7" label....
The 1969 GRATEFUL DEAD comes ALIVE !
Taking in complex improvisations, blues, feedback and Pigpen howling and snarling through 'Turn On Your Love Light,' it was a revelation. It's still the most thrilling, compelling document of this most magisterial of bands...
Among the finest of rock's live documents, LIVE DEAD is a snapshot of the Grateful Dead circa 1969, applying the free-jazz lessons of John Coltrane to their finely-tuned, manic, and flowing boogie. It was the first released piece of evidence that the live Dead were a wholly different, multi-headed animal than the one that recorded in the studio. LIVE DEAD was also the culmination of the group's evolution into what's now considered the vintage San Francisco sound--having perfected it, the Grateful Dead would soon leave it for fresher musical pastures.

While each of LIVE DEAD's selections calls to mind a specific trick from up the band's sleeve, the opening four songs (later dubbed "the holy quartet" by Deadheads) best indicates the Dead's burning trajectory. "Dark Star" lays out a wide-open musical terrain, allowing the band to leap anywhere from its minimalist-riff launching pad and its two verses of T.S. Eliot-inspired psychedelic prose. Here, it is a dark-hued and majestic sea of ambience and intensity. "St. Stephen" explodes like a shiny metallic cloud-burst, Bob Weir's fervent vocals carrying it like a holy torch. "The Eleven," a thunderous fury of a composition based on "The Twelve Days Of Christmas" and played in 11/4 time, continues the rumbling. By the time Pigpen ends the continuous sermon with a raucous sci-fi-R&B take on Bobby "Blue" Bland's "Turn On Your Lovelight," the Dead have seemingly sailed every corner of their musical universe and crash-landed with aplomb



Dark Star



St. Stephen



The Eleven



Turn On Your Lovelight



Death Don't Have No Mercy



Feedback



And We Bid You Goodnight









 
THE COVER: fragile gatefold is still very stiff and clean, rated: near M- in stylish laminated design, the Grateful Dead logo off to the side on front cover is unique to this pressing only -- really nice for this highly wear prone cover ...stiff, clean and colorful with no seam splits, and no writing, no bends...~ rare collection keeper level!
The vinyl: both records are on all 4 sides, rated: M-  TOP CLEAN - expect playback to be clear and smoooth all the way   ... the 4 "W-7" W.B. labels are clean


               

                                          

LIVE DEAD ~ 1969
      
A GREAT ADDITION TO ANYONE'S COLLECTION !







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