2LP SET Psychedelic Dead 69 JAMS
RARE LYRICS BOOKLET
W-7
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The Grateful Dead
LIVE DEAD
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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: M- in stylish hippie design, 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
A GREAT ADDITION TO ANYONE S COLLECTION