"In the land of the dark,
the ship of the sun is
drawn by the Grateful Dead"
NOTES :
DOUBLE DOSE OF
THE DEAD ...
On ONE CD !!!
The Grateful Dead
is the debut
studio album
by the American
rock band
The Grateful Dead
released by
on
March 17, 1967.
According to the biographies
of both bassist
Phil Lesh
and drummer
Bill Kreutzmann,
the band
released the album
as
San Francisco's Grateful Dead.
History
The album was
primarily recorded at
RCA's Studio A,
in Los Angeles,
in only four days.
The band had wanted to
record the tracks
in their hometown of
San Francisco,
but no recording studios
in the area had
modernized equipment
at the time.
The group picked
David Hassinger
to produce because he
had worked as an
engineer on
the Rolling Stones'
"(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction"
and
Jefferson Airplane's
Surrealistic Pillow album
on the latter of which
Jerry Garcia
had guested
and suggested
the album title
Due to demands by
the band's label,
Warner Brothers,
four of the tracks
were edited for length.
Phil Lesh
comments in his autobiography,
"to my ear,
the only track that sounds
at all like we did
at the time is
Viola Lee Blues. ...
None of us had
any experience
with performing for recording...
the whole process
felt a bit rushed."
Bill Kreutzmann,
in his autobiography,
says of the songs,
"their recorded versions
failed to capture the energy
that we had when
we performed them live. ...
We weren’t that good yet.
We were still learning
how to be a band."
Though the album
was considered
"a big deal in San Francisco",
it did not see
much airplay
on AM radio stations
outside of
the Bay Area.
The freeform
FM radio format
that favored bands
like the Dead
was still developing.
Warner Bros.
held an
album release party
on
March 20, 1967
at the Fugazi Hall
in North Beach.
The label's
A & R manager,
Joe Smith,
is noted for
saying he
"[is] proud that
Warner Bros.
is introducing
the Grateful Dead to the world."
Anthem of the Sun
is the second album
by American
rock band
The Grateful Dead,
released on
July 16, 1968,
by Warner Bros-Seven Arts.
The album was
assembled through
a collage-like
editing approach helmed
by members
Jerry Garcia
and
Phil Lesh
(along with soundman Dan Healy),
in which disparate studio
and live performance tapes
were blended together
to create new
hybrid recordings.
The band supplemented
their performances
with instruments
such as
prepared piano,
kazoo,
harpsichord,
timpani,
trumpet,
and güiro.
The result was an
experimental studio amalgam
that is neither a
pure studio album
nor a live album.
The band was joined by
Tom Constanten,
who contributed
avant-garde instrumental
and studio techniques
influenced by
composers
John Cage
and
Karlheinz Stockhausen
It is the first album
to feature
second drummer
Mickey Hart.
BONUS
Bonus
* Bonus Tracks On
2001/2003 Reissue
of
Anthem on The Sun
* Alligator (Edit) [*]
* Caution
(Do Not Stop On Tracks) (Edit) [*]
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