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| Artist: Grateful Dead
Label: Rhino / Wea
Category: Music
List Price: $11.98
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Rating:  49 reviews
Sales Rank: 25885
Format: Live, Original Recording Reissued, Original Recording Remastered
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0
Dimensions (in): 5.3 x 4.9 x 0.3
MPN: 74395
UPC: 081227439521
EAN: 0081227439521
ASIN: B00007LTIJ
Release Date: February 25, 2003
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| Tracks:
| • | Dark Star | | • | St. Stephen | | • | The Eleven | | • | Turn On Your Love Light | | • | Death Don't Have No Mercy | | • | Feedback | | • | And We Bid You Goodnight | | • | Bonus Track 1 | | • | Bonus Track 2 |
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Album Description
Expanded & remastered (HDCD) version of the band's 1969 tour de force spotlighting the band in all their onstage glory, features the single version of 'Dark Star' as a hidden bonus track. Digipak. Warner/Rhino. 2003.
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| Customer Reviews:
 Live/Dead/Is/Dead/Live April 3, 2008
C. Thompson (Europe)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
You can play me any album that opens with a 23 minute 19 second live version of Dark Star. Live/Dead hits the spot; scratches that 40-year old itch; tells it like it was back when it really was. Makes you wish you could've been there or could go back again. Well, you can at least go visit for a while when you're listening to this album.
goood stuff April 2, 2008
Douglas C. Shepard (Mansfield, MA)
just bought this to replace my 30 year old vinyl. only comment is that the sound quality for some of the vocals was noticably more like the dead were singing in a tunnel. odd!
One of there early Best February 22, 2008
Mark A. Blom (Puyallup, WA United States)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
I am a big fan of Psychedelic Music of the late 60s. So that being said you know where I am coming from. I am also not a country / folk fan. I'm a Rock & Roll Fan. So that being said I love the Dead from 1965 to 1969 and after that its hit and or miss.
I like some of there later songs and some of there live jams.
This is an Awesome !!! CD if you are into 60s Psych music.
I consider this the Deads best Album right with Aoxomoxoa then Anthem of the Sun then Live Dead in that order there best four Albums.
My reaction to Workingman's Dead and American Beauty (Both great Albums if you like that type of music) is this a Rock band? Where are the electric Guitars?
Sorry I love the Deads early Rock Music.
So many bands DID NOT do the "same thing only better" December 21, 2007
PositiveVibration (South Florida)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
I'll keep this simple -- the Dead had their great performances and had their so-so performances. But this is one of the great ones.
It's madness to say that Cream or Country Joe and the Fish (or whoever) were better at this. The Dead were in the vanguard, period.
With regard to the Allman Brothers, the Allman Brothers and the Dead were obviously influenced by each other. The Allman Brothers were gods when it came to jams, but after Duane and Berry died, it couldn't be the same. It really wasn't until Greg broke through with "I'm No Angel" and the subsequent Columbia albums that he started to get his groove back with some outstanding new songs and players all the way to this day.
I urge anyone who thinks that the Allman Brothers were out front to pick up "Two From the Vault", recorded August 23-24, 1968 by the Grateful Dead. Listen to "The Eleven", and you will get a preview of what the Allman Brothers were doing two years later in 1970-1971 (often opening for the Dead) with "Mountain Jam" and "In Memory of Elizabeth Reed" at Fillmore East as well as on Dickey Betts' "Blue Sky" on Eat a Peach in 1972.
Duane and Jerry were on a very similar wavelength. But the Dead were formed first and were literally playing Allman Brothers music before there even was an "Allman Brothers." That's just historical fact, but I'm not saying that the Allman Brothers didn't do it better for that brief period of time when they were literally on fire with Duane out front. Live/Dead is belongs in the collection of every Allman Brothers fan and Fillmore East belongs in the collection of every Deadhead, and today's shallow, computer-created teenage bands could learn a hell of a lot from both.
Peace, rock on and don't forget the folk, country and blues/r&b roots of our music!
Quintessential Dead for the Ages August 30, 2007
Bookworm Plus (Redondo Beach, CA United States)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Many years ago during the early 70's, I was introduced to the Grateful Dead and as the years went on I bought most of their albums and attended around 25 (not that many in the world of Deadheads) concerts. Although my interest has periodically waxed and waned through the decades, I consider myself to be a Deadhead for life. My interest went on another upswing when I got an Ipod as a gift and started loading some of my music onto it. Of course I included some Grateful Dead songs leading me to happily see that their music ages well and sounds better than ever. I could have said the same thing throughout the eighties and nineties. They truly are a band for the ages and not an embarrassment from my late adolescence. The best part of my latest reunion with their music is rediscovering the "Live Dead" album. This album does not neatly fit any specific definition. One can call it acid rock, but with is a heavy element of jazz, blues, and even what is now called new age. The music on Live Dead is powerful and throbbing, but at the same time it is mellow with a mystical, playful, and sentimental sense that transports the listener to another world. It starts with "Dark Star" which has a mysterious and probing air. Dark Star is the least accessible piece, but brings the most reward to those who take the time to study it. "Saint Stephen" follows and is like a gently revving engine that tells a whimsical and enchanting fairytale. Next is "The Eleven." It showcases the Dead at full blast in an accelerating and exuberant session that leaves the listener breathless. The remainder of the collection does not seem to be up at the same level, but perhaps I simply need to give it another chance to produce a similar enchantment. "Live Dead" is quintessential Grateful Dead for one to cherish for life.
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