The Grateful Dead - Best Of The Grateful Dead Live: 1969-1977 - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

Three CD set. Narrowing down The Grateful Dead's touring career and live performances to 60 CDs, 20 venues, and more than 450 songs is hard enough. Narrowing THAT down for 3CD and 6LP sets is a monumental undertaking, but with so much great music to select from, it's one of the most enjoyable compilations we've ever assembled. This nearly four hour collection contains one song (or two, or three...) from every show in the Dead's new road tripping boxed set, ENJOYING THE RIDE, which brings together music from 20 (21...) of the most essential venues in Grateful Dead and Dead Head history. This compilation is crafted with songs spanning the 25 years in the boxed set, 1969-1994. Drawn from such iconic venues as Red Rocks, Frost Amphitheatre, Greek Theatre, Fillmores East and West, Madison Square Garden, Alpine Valley, and many more, THE MUSIC NEVER STOPPED features such classics as InchTruckin',Inch InchEyes Of The World,Inch InchScarlet Begonias,Inch the title track, and plenty of under the radar tracks like InchBig Boy Pete,Inch InchMy Brother Esau,Inch and InchDoin' That Rag.Inch This is a career-defining live collection filled with some of the greatest tracks performed at their greatest venues. - David Lemieux Album Tracks 1. The Music Never Stopped (Live at Philadelphia Spectrum, Philadelphia, Pa, 5/13/1978) 2. Althea (Live at Hartford Civic Center, Hartford, CT, 3/14/1981) 3. Playing in the Band (Live at Nassau Veterans Memorial Coliseum, Uniondale, NY 3/16/1973) 4. Hard to Handle (Live at Fillmore East, New York, NY, 4/25/1971) 5. Wharf Rat (Live at Madison Square Garden, New York City, NY, 9/16/1987) 6. Doin' That Rag (Live at Fillmore West, San Francisco, Ca, 6/5/1969) 7. My Brother Esau (Live at Frost Amphitheatre, Stanford University, Palo Alto, Ca, 8/20/1983) 8. Deal (Live at Shoreline Amphitheatre, Mountain View, Ca, 5/12/1991) 1. Scarlet

Sublime, Stripped-Down 1970 Americana Classic Steeped in Country, Blues, and Folk You've Never Heard This Roots-Based Marvel Sound Better Mastered from the Original Master Tapes and Given Extra-Wide Grooves on 45RPM LP Ranked #264 on Rolling Stone's List of the 500 Greatest Albums of All Time Airy Harmonies, Simple Structures, Concise Arrangements, and Burnished Tones Anchor Songs Bookend to 1970's American Beauty, Also Available on 180g 45RPM 2 LP from Mobile Fidelity Workingman's Dead defies the erroneous belief that the Grateful Dead never attained brilliance in the recording studio. Forever prized for natural sonics, Workingman's Dead attains audiophile reference status courtesy of this first-ever 45RPM version. As flawless as any rustic album ever releases, the 1970 set now brims with soaring harmonies, organic execution, intertwined textures and uncomplicated structures that furnish the songs a transcendence associated with timeless American music. Colorful, relatable characters seemingly torn from working-class histories and old-time fables inhabit the narratives. Mastered from the original master tapes and pressed on 180g LPs at RTI, Mobile Fidelity's numbered limited edition of this period-defining recording renders the stripped-down fare with immense detail, rich airiness, and reach-out-and touch-it realism. Longtime Deadheads and newcomers alike will hear significantly more information, experience wider and deeper soundstages, and become swept away by incredible tonal and vocal balances - traits made possible by the 's wider grooves. Instrumental melds and refined accents, such as guest David Nelson's nimble fills on InchCumberland Blues,Inch are part of a larger whole that gives the impression you are witness to the world's coziest campfire session. Frontier tales and refined performances further this feeling. The first Grateful Dead album to eschew cos