Grateful Dead Flac

Grateful Dead release this 5-song EP of live tracks, recorded at Hartford Civic Center, Hartford, CT, 3/14/1981, ahead of their upcoming compilation The Music Never Stopped!

UNIQUE 1970 BROACAST FROM CROSBY, GARCIA, WEIR AND LESH 1970 was an exciting time in the music world. David Crosby was riding high on the early success of Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young, with two wildly successful studio albums and a plethora of legendary performances at the likes of Woodstock and The Monterey Pop Festival under his belt. The Grateful Dead has just released arguably their two greatest albums, Workingman s Dead and American Beauty , and were fast gaining a reputation as the best live act around. Towards the end of the year these two creative forces combined for a one-off concert at The Matrix in San Francisco. Billed under the curious moniker David & The Dorks, it would mark the only time that a band featuring David Crosby, Jerry Garcia, Phil Lesh and Mickey Hart would take to the stage together, and thankfully this broadcast recording still exists, enabling fans, even today, to enjoy a unique musical event. Performing a wide variety of material including tracks from Crosby s then upcoming solo debut If Only I Could Remember My Name , plus further cuts from across his catalogue, including many songs not at the time released on record, plus an inspiring version of the Dead classic Bertha , and a couple of blues traditionals, this superb CD is testament to the quite staggering talent and creativity of these top drawer musical giants.

The previously unreleased, never-before-heard, Grateful Dead session tapes for Wake Of The Flood.
Recorded August 6 -17, 1973 at Record Plant, 2200 Bridgeway, Sausalito, CA. Available on all DSPs worldwide.

The May 1977: Get Shown The Light vinyl saga comes to a close with the New Haven 5/5/77 Opening Night Performance.
Featuring: “Sugaree,” “Scarlet > Fire,” “St. Stephen > Sugar Magnolia,” “Estimated Prophet,” And What Is Widely Considered One Of The Best Performances Of “Peggy-O.” 4-LP Set 180-Gram Vinyl Limited-Edition Mastered By Jeffrey Norman From The Original Analog Tapes , Produced For Release By David Lemieux.

The May 1977: Get Shown The Light vinyl saga comes to a close with the New Haven 5/5/77 Opening Night Performance.
Featuring: “Sugaree,” “Scarlet > Fire,” “St. Stephen > Sugar Magnolia,” “Estimated Prophet,” And What Is Widely Considered One Of The Best Performances Of “Peggy-O.” 4-LP Set 180-Gram Vinyl Limited-Edition Mastered By Jeffrey Norman From The Original Analog Tapes , Produced For Release By David Lemieux.

Grateful Dead, live from Northrop Auditorium, University of Minnesota, Minnesota, MN October 19th 1971.
Combining psychedelia with their chilled style, as heard on 1970's Workingman's Dead and American Beauty, 1971 saw the Dead at their greatest live, performing a huge number of fine sets with extraordinary length. This live concert, from the University of Minnesota's Northrop Auditorium on October 19th that year - broadcast on KQRS-FM radio - was no exception and saw them rip through material from the length of their career up to that point, much of which had not featured on studio albums. Presented here in its entirety, accompanied with background notes and archival imagery.

If you're a died-in-the-tie-dye fan, you've probably already heard a tape of this show and will be pleased to know that here it sounds amazing; the entire three hour performance is included, mixed and mastered off of original 16-track live master recordings. If you're not already a Deadhead, Live at the Cow Palace: New Years Eve 1976 is an excellent encapsulation of mid '70s Dead. Recorded in-between 1975's invigorating Blues for Allah and 1977's dreadfully myopic Terrapin Station, it's eminently preferable to the live album Steal Yr Face, and goes a long way towards showing that the critically-maligned Godchaux era had a lot going for it. A few of the songs lumber a bit, but there's a real funkiness and versatility to this segment of the band's career that they never really had at any other time. Several stages of the band's career converge, such that the elastically funky version of the late '70s Dead, the almost jazz-fusion Dead of the early '70s, and the soft cowboy folk sound of 1970 of are all here. It's lovely. –Mike McGonigal

Grateful Dead release this 3-song EP of live tracks, recorded at Greek Theatre, Berkeley, CA, 7/13/1984, ahead of their upcoming compilation The Music Never Stopped!

If you're a died-in-the-tie-dye fan, you've probably already heard a tape of this show and will be pleased to know that here it sounds amazing; the entire three hour performance is included, mixed and mastered off of original 16-track live master recordings. If you're not already a Deadhead, Live at the Cow Palace: New Years Eve 1976 is an excellent encapsulation of mid '70s Dead. Recorded in-between 1975's invigorating Blues for Allah and 1977's dreadfully myopic Terrapin Station, it's eminently preferable to the live album Steal Yr Face, and goes a long way towards showing that the critically-maligned Godchaux era had a lot going for it. A few of the songs lumber a bit, but there's a real funkiness and versatility to this segment of the band's career that they never really had at any other time. Several stages of the band's career converge, such that the elastically funky version of the late '70s Dead, the almost jazz-fusion Dead of the early '70s, and the soft cowboy folk sound of 1970 of are all here. It's lovely. –Mike McGonigal

From the Mars Hotel is the seventh studio album (eleventh overall) by rock band the Grateful Dead. It was mainly recorded in April 1974, and released on June 27, 1974. It was the second album by the band on their own Grateful Dead Records label. From the Mars Hotel came less than one year after their previous album, Wake of the Flood, and was the last before the band's then-indefinite hiatus from live touring which began in October 1974. It was voted number 556 in the third edition of Colin Larkin's All Time Top 1000 Albums (2000).