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is a live album
by American
rock band
The Grateful Dead
It contains
the complete concert
recorded at the
PNE Garden Auditorium
in Vancouver, British Columbia,
on
July 29, 1966.
It also includes
four
BONUS
songs
recorded at the
same venue
on the
following day.
It was produced
as a two-disc vinyl LP
in a limited edition
of 6,600 copies.
It was released on
April 22, 2017,
in conjunction with
Record Store Day.
The July 29, 1966
concert
was the band's
first performance
outside the
United States.
Production
In an interview,
Grateful dead archivist
David Lemieux
said that he had wanted
to release this concert
as an album,
but it was too short
for the
Dave's Picks series.
He said that since
the concert was an early one,
from before the time
of CDs,
that made it seem
like a good choice
for an LP.
He added,
"As a vinyl release
it works extremely well
where you get
three or four songs
per side
and they're all
really short songs
anywhere from three
to five minutes."
Critical Reception
Jeff Tamarkin,
writing in
Relix,
said,
"As for the jams,
the Grateful Dead
were still so raw
and unformed
in the summer of '66
part garage/punk,
part tough blues band,
a bit of
folk-rock
and experimental zeal
all filtered through
a Prankster
informed lysergic mischievousness
but the elements are
all in place.
And they're quite
often on fire here...
but hints of the
tenderness they would
later cultivate
in their original ballads
also turn up....
They're still primarily
a cover band
at this stage
their own tunes
are not even close
to what they'd
soon start turning out
when
Robert Hunter
became involved
but there's no denying
the inherent originality
and enormity of what
they've got going on."
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