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Grateful Dead (Skull & Roses) [Live] {Bonus Tracks}

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Whereas the Grateful Dead’s first official live album, 1969’s Live/Dead, explored the band’s early interest in jazz-infused psychedelia, Skull & Roses exposes its down-home roots. More than half the album is comprised of covers of classic country, blues, and early rock ’n’ roll songs. In 1971, to hold up Merle Haggard and Buddy Holly as your heroes was still a bold position, but the Dead’s love for Americana was so pure and unaffected that even the naysayers were drawn in by sweet, shuffling renditions of “Mama Tried” and “Not Fade Away.” The Garcia/Hunter original “Bertha” and covers of “Johnny B. Goode” and “Big Railroad Blues” (originally done by Cannon’s Jug Stompers) reasserted the band’s love for old-fashioned rollicking rock, in spite of their growing reputation as the preeminent purveyors of space music. The album’s pinnacle is the first appearance of the classic “Wharf Rat,” a hallucinatory lament that captures the anger, sorrow, and grace of all the long lost blues records beloved by this band.

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Their best live album

Although the cover art might feel a bit cliche, the music inside is anything but. This is a great look at classic Dead. Jerry always said that this was the album that he was the most satisfied with, and that the entire band could look back on with no regrets. Solid Dead staples throughout; "Bertha" kicks the album off to an energetic start, carried on my Merle Haggard's "Mama Tried" and so many Dead classics -- "Playing in the Band," "Me & My Uncle," and "Not Fade Away / Goin' Down the Road Feeling Bad" -- sound their best here. The bonus tracks are great, and really the whole album is worth it -- great recording of "The Other One."

Best dead album

In my opinion this is the best dead album(though american beauty is very close). Bertha, mama tried, Playing in the band, THe other one, me and my uncle, the whole cd is filled with great country blues rock. This cd I think is the last great grateful dead album. The dead albums after this aren't quite as good except for live in europe 72. Pigpen This is one of pigpens last albums too. My fav. part of this cd is The other one 9:30 thru 10:00 jerry starts singing and it is amazing!

Classic

This is a classic Dead show with great vocals and some of the best sound quality of any life Dead albums. Almost every song is a highlight, although some of the country covers later in the album can sometimes seem slightly redundant. "Bertha," "Wharf Rat," and an epic version of "The Other One" are some of the Grateful Dead's finest moments. Much of the non-original material finely displays the band's instrumental and vocal skills as well, namely Merle Haggard's "Mama Tried" and especially a high-energy medely of Buddy Holly's "Not Fade Away" and the traditional "Goin' Down The Road Feeling Bad." This album is the best representation I can find of what the Grateful Dead stood for in their music. From down-to-earth country to the furthest reaches of psychedelic exploration, the Grateful Dead did it all and this album beautifully represents that.

Biography

Formed: 1965 in San Francisco, CA

Genre: Rock

Years Active: '60s, '70s, '80s, '90s

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...
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