Grateful Dead

The four albums gathered here were released by the band's own label, Grateful Dead Records: Wake of the Flood (1973), From the Mars Hotel (1974), Blues for Allah (1975) and the much-maligned live compilation, Steal Your Face (1976). The three studio albums, even if they suggest songs really different from what they have become later, are enjoyable. This is the album "live" that benefits most from the remastering, which it well deserved.

Rock's longest, strangest trip, the Grateful Dead were the psychedelic era's most beloved musical ambassadors as well as its most enduring survivors, spreading their message of peace, love, and mind expansion across the globe throughout the better part of three decades.

Radio Broadcast. Jerry Garcia & David Grisman - National Public Radio Studios, New York, 17th September 1993 / Jerry Garcia & John Kahn - Oregon State Penitentiary, Salem, Oregon, 5th May 1982 / New Riders of the Purple Sage with Jerry Garcia, Bob Weir & Mickey Hart - Harpur College, Binghampton, NY, 2nd May 1970, KPFA?FM Broadcast / Jerry Garcia, Bob Weir & John Kahn, Warfield Theater, San Francisco, CA, 12th December 1987 - KQED Broadcast / Grateful Dead, Perspective Show with Steve O'Shea Interview from KFRC Studio, San Francisco, CA, 8th November 1966 / Jerry Garcia, Bob Weir, John Dawson, David Nelson, KPPC?FM Pasadena, CA, 27th December 1970.

Grateful Dead Le trip le plus long et le plus étrange du rock, the Grateful Dead sont les ambassadeurs musicaux de l'ère psychédélique les plus adulés, ils en sont aussi les rescapés les plus résistants, à diffuser leur message de paix, d'amour et d'hallucination à travers le monde pendant les meilleures années de trois décennies. Objet d'adoration d'admirateurs les plus fervents et les plus célèbres de la musique populaire – les Deadheads, leur nombre et leur dévotion légendaire à part entière – c'est le groupe culte ultime, développant même leur " propre " univers. Pendant la meilleure partie de leur carrière qui reste bien en marge des sentiers battus, the Dead deviennent des superstars sous leurs propres conditions exclusivement.

Le trip le plus long et le plus étrange du rock, the Grateful Dead sont les ambassadeurs musicaux de l'ère psychédélique les plus adulés, ils en sont aussi les rescapés les plus résistants, à diffuser leur message de paix, d'amour et d'hallucination à travers le monde pendant les meilleures années de trois décennies. Objet d'adoration d'admirateurs les plus fervents et les plus célèbres de la musique populaire – les Deadheads, leur nombre et leur dévotion légendaire à part entière – c'est le groupe culte ultime, développant même leur " propre " univers. Pendant la meilleure partie de leur carrière qui reste bien en marge des sentiers battus, the Dead deviennent des superstars sous leurs propres conditions exclusivement.

Grateful Dead So much more than just the archetypal jam band, the Grateful Dead grew to become an artistic and cultural institution that existed entirely on their own terms. While the band initially came out of a psychedelic revolution in the Bay Area's musically and chemically exploratory mid-'60s, they quickly evolved from their acid rock beginnings, incorporating elements of Americana and Bakersfield country into gently majestic albums like 1970's American Beauty. Their live shows were completely separate from their studio output, based on freeform improvisation borrowed from jazz and made up of extended performances and set list variations that ensured no two shows were exactly like.

30 Trips Around The Sun: The Definitive Live Story features one unreleased live song from each year of the band's career plus one special re-released track from the band's earliest recordings, under the name The Emergency Crew. Every year from 1965 1995 is represented. Also featured is an essay by Dead aficionado Jesse Jarnow dissecting every track in the collection.

Rock's longest, strangest trip, the Grateful Dead were the psychedelic era's most beloved musical ambassadors as well as its most enduring survivors, spreading their message of peace, love, and mind expansion across the globe throughout the better part of three decades. The object of adoration for popular music's most fervent and celebrated fan following – the Deadheads, their numbers and devotion legendary in their own right – they were the ultimate cult band, creating a self-styled universe all their own; for the better part of their career orbiting well outside of the mainstream, the Dead became superstars solely on their own terms, tie-dyed pied pipers whose epic, free-form live shows were rites of passage for an extended family of listeners who knew no cultural boundaries. The roots of the Grateful Dead lie with singer/songwriter Jerry Garcia, a longtime bluegrass enthusiast who began playing the guitar at age 15.

“For the Grateful Dead's second live album, released two years after its predecessor LIVE/DEAD, the band delivered an equally magnificent, but entirely different, Grateful Dead sound.

The crown jewel of the Dead’s studio output! The album's original 10 tracks include many of the Dead's best-known, most-loved, and most popular songs both on record and in concert for the next 25 years.