Grateful Dead – Grateful Dead (Limited Edition Double-LP on Translucent Yellow Vinyl)

Grateful Dead earned the band’s first-ever gold record in 1971 with its self-titled live album. Known to many fans as Skull & Roses (a reference to the cover art by Alton Kelley and Stanley Mouse) the double album included songs recorded in March and April 1971 in New York, and, the band’s hometown, San Francisco. Pressed on translucent yellow vinyl, this limited edition release features the 50th anniversary remaster of the original live album.

For the Grateful Dead’s second live album, released two years after its predecessor Live/Dead, the band delivered an equally magnificent, but entirely different, Grateful Dead sound. Whereas Live/Dead was a perfect sonic encapsulation of the band at the peak of their Primal Dead era, Skull & Roses captures the Grateful Dead playing some of their hardest hitting rock ’n’ roll (Johnny B. Goode, Not Fade Away), showing off their authentic Bakersfield bona fides (Me and My Uncle, Mama Tried, Me and Bobby McGee), and some originals that would be important parts of the Dead’s live repertoire for the next twenty-four years (Bertha, Playing in the Band, Wharf Rat).

Track Listing

Side One

1. Bertha (5:27) *
2. Mama Tried (2:42) **
3. Big Railroad Blues (3:34) ***
4. Playing in the Band (4:39) ****

Side Two

1. The Other One (includes drum solo) (18:05) *****

Side Three

1. Me and My Uncle (3:06) ******
2. Big Boss Man (5:12) **
3. Me and Bobby McGee (5:43) *
4. Johnny B. Goode (3:42) *******

Side Four

1. Wharf Rat (8:31) **
2. Not Fade Away / Goin’ Down the Road Feeling Bad (9:14) ***

* 27 April 1971, Fillmore East, New York

** 26 April 1971, Fillmore East, New York

*** 5 April 1971, Hammerstein Ballroom, New York

**** 6 April 1971, Hammerstein Ballroom, New York

***** 28 April 1971, Fillmore East, New York

****** 29 April 1971, Fillmore East, New York

******* 24 March 1971, Winterland Ballroom, San Francisco

Format: Vinyl / 12” Album (Coloured Vinyl)

No of Discs: 2

Label: Warner Records

Catalogue No: RCV1727201

Barcode: 081227812973

Release Date: 17 Jan 2025