Release Date: 05 May 2023
Format: LP Vinyl
Label: Warner
£27.99
Grateful Dead History Of The Grateful Dead, Volume One (Bear's Choice ∙ 50th Anniversary Remaster)
Overview:
The original album, newly re-mastered by GRAMMY®Award-winning engineer, David Glasser, using Plangent Processes from the original analog 2-track tapes, recorded live by Owsley “Bear” Stanley.
The Grateful Dead's first true archival album, Bear's Choice, was lovingly produced as a tribute to Pigpen shortly after he passed by none other that the Dead's original soundman and benefactor, Owsley Stanley, aka Bear. Drawing from live shows recorded three years earlier by Bear at the Fillmore East in New York City, Bear's Choice captures the Dead at an essential moment of their history, as they were about to record Workingman's Dead (and shortly thereafter, American Beauty), and were transitioning into becoming Americana pioneers, while never losing touch with their psychedelic improvisational roots.
Three of the eight songs on the album are sung by Pigpen, with Side 1 being the definitive example of early Acoustic Dead, and Side 2 being electric blues and rock & roll, with Pigpen leading the charge on both tracks on the second side. This has been re-mastered by David Glasser using Plangent Processes from the original analog 2-track tapes recorded live by Bear and has never sounded better.
Featured Tracks:
Side: 1
1 Katie Mae (Live at the Fillmore East, San Francisco, CA 2/13/70)
2 Dark Hollow (Live at the Fillmore East, San Francisco, CA 2/14/70)
3 I've Been All Around This World (Live at the Fillmore East, San Francisco, CA 2/14/70)
4 Wake Up Little Susie (Live at the Fillmore East, San Francisco, CA 2/13/70)
5 Black Peter (Live at the Fillmore East, San Francisco, CA 2/13/70)
Side: 2
1 Smokestack Lightnin' (Live at the Fillmore East, San Francisco, CA 2/13/70)
2 Hard to Handle (Live at the Fillmore East, San Francisco, CA 2/14/70)
Release Date: 18 October 2024
Format: LP Vinyl
Label: Rhino Records
£24.99
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Format: Box Set Vinyl
Label: Rhino
£89.99
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Format: LP Vinyl
Label: Warner
£27.99
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Format: LP Vinyl
Label: Warner
£27.99
