THE BEST OF THE GRATEFUL DEAD LIVE
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THE BEST OF THE GRATEFUL DEAD LIVE is the ultimate live collection, a two-disc set with recordings selected from the band's official live albums on Warner Bros. and Arista, plus a few tracks from their many archival live releases, beginning with "St. Stephen" - from the group's first official live album, 1969's Live/Dead - and ending with the poignant "So Many Roads," taken from the band's final concert at Chicago's Soldier Field in July of 1995
"We wanted to follow up the 2015 The Best Of The Grateful Dead studio set with a live counterpart, and have focused our efforts on the band's primary live albums as well as some key tracks from archival concert releases," says band archivist and producer David Lemieux. "Just as there was nothing like a Grateful Dead concert, there is also nothing like a live Grateful Dead recording; it's no secret that as good as the Dead's studio recordings were, they excelled in front of an audience, and this set provides an overview of just how great the Dead were live in concert."
THE BEST OF THE GRATEFUL DEAD LIVE features liner notes by Blair Jackson, and photos by Jay Blakesberg and Mary Ann Mayer. As always, it has been mastered to HDCD specs by David Glasser.
The music will be available through digital and streaming services as well. On the same date, Volume One of the collection will also be available on 180-gram vinyl as a 2-LP set, covering the first half of the album. Volume Two on vinyl will be released at a later date.
THE BEST OF THE GRATEFUL DEAD LIVE
Disc One
1. “St. Stephen” – Fillmore West (2/27/69) from Live/Dead (1969)
2. “Bertha” – Fillmore East (4/27/71) from Grateful Dead (Skull & Roses) (1971)
3. “Wharf Rat” – Fillmore East (4/26/71) from Grateful Dead (Skull & Roses) (1971)
4. “Sugar Magnolia” – Olympia Theatre (5/4/72) from Europe ’72 (1972)
5. “Jack Straw” – Olympia Theatre (5/3/72) from Europe ’72 (1972)
6. “Truckin’” – Lyceum Theatre (5/26/72) from Europe ’72 (1972)
7. “Morning Dew” – Lyceum Theatre (5/26/72) from Europe ’72 (1972)
8. “Brown Eyed Women” – Tivoli Concert Hall (4/14/72) from Europe ’72 (1972)
9. “The Music Never Stopped” – Great American Music Hall (8/13/75), One From The Vault (1991)
10. “Estimated Prophet” – Barton Hall (5/8/77) from Cornell 5/8/77 (2017)
Disc Two
1. “Friend Of The Devil” – Radio City Music Hall (10/27/80) from Dead Set (1981)
2. “Feel Like A Stranger” – Warfield Theatre (10/4/80) from Dead Set (1981)
3. “Fire On The Mountain” – Radio City Music Hall (10/31/80) from Dead Set (1981)
4. “Bird Song” – Warfield Theatre (10/14/80) from Reckoning (1981)
5. “Ripple” – Warfield Theatre (10/4/80) from Reckoning (1981)
6. “Eyes Of The World” – Nassau Coliseum (3/29/90) from Wake Up To Find Out (2014)
7. “Touch Of Grey” – Rich Stadium (7/4/89) from Truckin’ Up To Buffalo (2005)
8. “Blow Away” – JFK Stadium (7/7/89) from Crimson, White & Indigo (2010)
9. “So Many Roads” – Soldier Field (7/9/95) from So Many Roads (1999)
$19.98 for the two cd version. Still, can you say CASH GRAB?? I mean, who doesn't have these already 
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right on
right on
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Its all a cash grab at this
Its all a cash grab at this point
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http://www.dead.net/store
http://www.dead.net/store/music/new-releases/best-grateful-dead-live-cd
Kind of a weird release. Did anyone get the soundtrack to the Long Strange Trip movie? Those two back to back has me scratching my head a little, but I'm sure some of you completists will get it
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FREE from archives
FREE from archives
Good one here
did not play many shows in 75 but they did play Madison 2 times that year. Lil odd. Must have had a women waiting for one of them there???
Either way here is personal favorite show from this year
Enjoy
https://archive.org/details/gd73-10-25.sbd.vernon.14451.sbeok.shnf
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Check your dates.
Check your dates.
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typo
typo
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No spot taken but LOVE the
No spot taken but LOVE the package!
Big fan of the dancing skeletons.
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Its all a cash grab at this
Releasing recorded music is, always has been and always will be a cash grab.
Hey, it's a living.
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That isn't even close to the
That isn't even close to the best of the Grateful Dead live.
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what is?
what is?
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some good stuff there boyz n
some good stuff there boyz n girls
but they left off Not Fade Away from Roses- a real head jerker for me
Maybe they didn't or couldn't include covers.
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Isn't Morning Dew technically
Isn't Morning Dew technically a cover?
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yes you are right - missed
yes you are right - missed again
Thom - - thou shalt not harsh mellows
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There ain't a jam on that
There ain't one improvisational jam on that release.
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not quite Thom
not quite Thom
BUT - if they used the same tracks from Dead Set - there are definite edits.
They chopped the hell out of that album.
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Looks like the Eyes with
Looks like the Eyes with Branford is the longest track, 16 minutes...
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i need some heady live dead
i need some heady live dead
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i'm waiting Thom
i'm waiting Thom
Thom's picks
at least give me your top 5
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"not quite Thom"
"not quite Thom"
I'll give you Prophet and Stranger, but barely. Those are hardly definitive versions (even though I'm partial to those early versions of Prophet).
"i'm waiting Thom"
Unfortunately you will have a long wait. I'm not really into the whole "Best ever" thing as far as shows or song versions go. One of the beauties of this band was their ability to redefine what constituted a great version of a song over time and IMO there are way to many variables, both subjective and objective, to ever make make that sort of claim. But any "Best of...." live compilation would have to include a top notch Dark Star and Other One (probably from the early 70's), a Playin' ('72 or '73), a Scarlet->Fire (late 80's or 1990) and a Help->Slip->Franklin's (lots of choices, the nature of this combo changed with every time period it was played, but I'd probably go with '83/'84 or '89/'90).
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And you could throw in a good
And you could throw in a good Eyes from '73 or '74 as well.
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>> There ain't one
>> There ain't one improvisational jam on that release.
That Truckin>Dew goes pretty deep.
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thanks thom im always looking
thanks thom im always looking tor good stuff
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"That Truckin>Dew goes pretty
"That Truckin>Dew goes pretty deep."
Right you are, I actually missed that and/or assumed they had edited it for this release. That jam after Truckin'' was actually the first Dead music that really took me out there, we were all tripping one night back in 1975 at a friends house and put that cut on and I got totally caught up in the music to an extent that I never had before. (I had seen a few shows at this point but none while dosed). I remember having the feeling that I knew exactly where Garcia was going with every note, it was my first experience with the telepathic quality that these guys could produce and it locked me in forever to what they had to offer. I didn't experience that live until my 9th show (Winterland 3/18/77) but that was the night I learned that that space existed.
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I had that same experience
I had that same experience Thom but for me it was He's Gone off of '72. My ears grew 3 inches longer that night.
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The Gold Pan Saloon in
The Gold Pan Saloon in Breckenridge had Europe '72 on the CD Juke Box back in the day. I'd always drop the Truckin' > Dew in on $.25 Beer Night.
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Speaking of Europe '72, how
Speaking of Europe '72, how about Cumberland Blues? Big fan!!