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GRATEFUL DEAD THE SAME-TITLED DOUBLE ALBUM, ALSO KNOWN AS GRATEFUL DEAD 71 OR: SKULL AND ROSES ALBUM - ORIGINAL 1971 WARNER BROTHERS CANADA STEREO DOUBLE ALBUM 2-LP SET WS-1935
ORIGINAL CANADIAN PRESSING
STILL SEALED GUARANTEED ORIGINAL FIRST PRESSING
BELIEVED TO BE PRESSED ON THE ORIGINAL GOLD WARNER BROTHERS STEREO LABEL WITH RED AND BLACK PRINT CANADIAN LABELS LAG ONE GENERATION OF THE PRESSINGS BEHIND THE AMERICAN
THE THICKNESS OF THE VINYL, THE APPEARANCE AND THE CONSTRUCTION OF THE COVER, LABEL S LOGO AND OTHER PERIPHERAL ELEMENTS OF THE COVER, ARE ALL PERFECTLY CONSISTENT WITH THE ORIGINAL, FIRST PRESSING OF THIS TITLE.
TWO BREATHE AIR HOLES NOTED ON THE SHRINK WRAP
THIS IS THE ORIGINAL, AUTHENTIC, FIRST CANADIAN PRESSING THIS IS NOT A REISSUE, AN IMPORT, OR A COUNTERFEIT PRESSING.
THICK CARDBOARD, GATEFOLD COVER, AMERICAN STYLE
VERY THICK, VERY HEAVY VINYL PRESSING
PLEASE SEE THE IMAGE OF THE COVER, LABEL OR BOTH, SHOWN BELOW
Note: this is a REAL image of the ACTUAL item you are bidding on. This is NOT a recycled image from our previous auction. What you see is what you ll get. GUARANTEED
The Grateful Dead s second live release was an eponymously titled double LP whose cover bears the striking skull-and-roses visual motif that would become instantly recognizable and an indelibly linked trademark of the band. As opposed to their debut concert recording, Live/Dead 1969 , this hour and ten minutes concentrates on newer material, which consisted of shorter self-contained originals and covers. Coming off of the quantum-leap success of the studio country-rock efforts Workingman s Dead 1969 and American Beauty, Grateful Dead offers up a pair of new Jerry Garcia/Robert Hunter compositions -- Bertha and Wharf Rat -- both of which garnered a permanent place within the band s live catalog. However, The Other One -- joined in progress just as Billy Kreutzmann fires up a blazing percussion solo -- sprawls as the album s centerpiece. The Dead also begin incorporating several traditional folk, blues, and RB cover tunes, such as Merle Haggard s Mama Tried, Kris Kristofferson s Me Bobby McGee, as well as a few that had been in their songbook for several years, including John Phillips Me My Uncle and Big Boss Man, a blues standard popularized by Jimmy Reed. Their formidable improvisational chops have begun to take on new facets of lean intricacy as Mickey Hart percussion and Tom Constanten keyboards were no longer in the band. Additionally, the arrival of Keith Godchaux organ and his wife, Donna Godchaux vocals , had yet to occur. As such, the Grateful Dead spent the spring and summer of 1971 in their original five-piece configuration -- which is when these recordings were documented.
EXCERPT FROM AN ONLINE REVIEW BY LINDSAY PLANER, ALL MUSIC GUIDE /ALLMUSIC.COM/
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CONDITION:
THE RECORDS
IMPORTANT NOTE: unless otherwise noted, ALL records are graded visually, and NOT play-graded we grade records under the strong, diffuse room light or discrete sunlight
a THE ALBUM IS STILL FACTORY SEALED AND IS BELIEVED TO BE PERFECTLY MINT. Please note: sealed items are assumed to be mint and are sold as-is, as we have no way of inspecting them.
b The records are apparently pressed on a beautiful, thick, inflexible vinyl, which was usually used for the first or very early pressings. Usually, the sound on such thick vinyl pressings is full-bodied, vivid, and even dramatic. Do not expect to obtain such a majestic analog sound from a digital recording
c The album MAY OR MAY NOT come with its original Skull Roses sticker we are not sure if the Canadian pressings ever came with one
d The records are believed to come in their original stock inner sleeves.
e Of course, this is a full-bodied ANALOG recording, and not an inferior, digital recording
THE COVER
COVER IS NEAR MINT, STILL SEALED AND COVERED IN ITS ORIGINAL SHRINK WRAP
The following flaws or imperfections are noted on the cover:
- Cover has a small, neat, circular cutout hole in one of the corners
- Cover has a light wrinkle crease in one of the corners. nothing significant
- Cover shows JUST A HINT of yellowing on both sides, apparently from aging.
NO OTHER VISIBLE FLAWS OR IMPERFECTIONS ON THE COVER
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