Vintage Dead
| Vintage Dead | ||||
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| Live album by Grateful Dead | ||||
| Released | October 1970 | |||
| Recorded | Late 1966 | |||
| Venue | Avalon Ballroom in San Francisco, California | |||
| Genre | Psychedelic rock, blues rock | |||
| Length | 39:50 | |||
| Label | Sunflower | |||
| Producer | Robert Cohen | |||
| Grateful Dead chronology | ||||
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| Professional ratings | |
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| Review scores | |
| Source | Rating |
| Allmusic |   [1] |
| Robert Christgau | B−[2] |
Vintage Dead is a live album by the rock group the Grateful Dead. It was recorded at the Avalon Ballroom in San Francisco, California, in late 1966 (thought to be 9/16/66), and released in October 1970.[3][4][5]
Vintage Dead was produced without the approval or cooperation of the Grateful Dead.[1] However, it is a legal recording, not a bootleg.[6] An upstart label called "Together Records" assembled live recordings of various Bay Area bands for a planned anthology. When the imprint collapsed, MGM paid the remaining debt and assumed the tapes, releasing two albums of Grateful Dead material on their Sunflower Records subsidiary.[7] The first, Vintage Dead, reached number 127 on the Billboard 200.[8] Produced as a vinyl LP and long out of print, it has not been released as a Compact Disc.
Vintage Dead was then followed by Historic Dead, another Sunflower Records album recorded at the Avalon in 1966.
Track listing
- Side one
- "I Know You Rider" (traditional) – 4:25[lower-alpha 1]
- "It Hurts Me Too" (Elmore James) – 4:17
- "It's All Over Now, Baby Blue" (Bob Dylan) – 4:50
- "Dancing in the Street" (Marvin Gaye, Ivy Jo Hunter, and William "Mickey" Stevenson) – 7:55
- Side two
- "In the Midnight Hour" (Steve Cropper and Wilson Pickett) – 18:23
Notes
- ↑ Later released on So Many Roads (1965–1995)
Personnel
- Grateful Dead
- Jerry Garcia – lead guitar, vocals
- Bill Kreutzmann – drums
- Phil Lesh – bass guitar, vocals
- Ron "Pigpen" McKernan – organ, harmonica, vocals
- Bob Weir – rhythm guitar, vocals
- Technical personnel
- Robert Cohen – production and engineering
- Richard Delvy – editing and remixing
- Kelley/Mouse Studios – poster design
- John Pierce and Mokelvey – front cover and design
References
- 1 2 Ruhlmann, William. Vintage Dead at Allmusic
- ↑ Christgau, Robert. Grateful Dead album reviews at robertchristgau.com
- ↑ Trager, Oliver (1997). The American Book of the Dead. Fireside. p. 385. ISBN 0-684-81402-1. Retrieved September 5, 2010.
- ↑ Vintage Dead at the Grateful Dead Family Discography
- ↑ Slabicky, Ihor W. The Compleat Grateful Dead Discography
- ↑ Callahan, Mike, et al. Sunflower Album Discography at Both Sides Now Publications
- ↑ Ben Fong-Torres; Rolling Stone magazine; October 28, 1971
- ↑ Grateful Dead Billboard albums at Allmusic
