The Grateful Dead (Album)

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The Grateful Dead
Studio album by Grateful Dead

Publication
(s)

March 17, 1967

Label (s) Warner Bros. Records

Genre (s)

Folk rock , psychedelic rock

Title (number)

9 on LP, 15 on CD

running time

34:53 (LP), 79:10 (CD)

occupation

production

David Hassinger

chronology
Historic Dead (1966) The Grateful Dead Anthem of the Sun (1968)

The Grateful Dead is the debut album by the band of the same name Grateful Dead .

Emergence

The album was recorded within four days at a Radio Corporation of America studio in Los Angeles . The album was actually supposed to be recorded in their hometown of San Francisco , but there was no recording studio here that met the requirements. David Hassinger, who had worked as a sound engineer on (I Can't Get No) Satisfaction by The Rolling Stones and on Surrealistic Pillow by Jefferson Airplane , was won as producer .

Phil Lesh writes about the recordings in his autobiography that none of them had any idea what they were actually doing. The only song that sounded like it always did was Viola Lee Blues .

Although this was the first time Grateful Dead played for recording purposes and their songs sounded different than usual, they saw recording as a great opportunity. The album was also accepted in her hometown of San Francisco, but it was hardly played by radio stations outside of San Francisco. It was only after a few months that the album was recorded by the other radio stations. For promotional purposes, Warner Brother held a release party at Fugazi Hall in North Beach.

In 2001, a revised version of the nine songs and six additional songs by Rhino Records for the box set The Golden Road (1965-1973) was released , which were then released as a single CD in 2003.

In 1971 a similarly titled live album called Grateful Dead was released, which is often confused with this album.

The original LP was based on the record with a running time of 78, which was seldom on the market at that time.

On the cover, next to the title and the band name, you can read : " In the land of the dark, the ship of the sun is drawn by the Grateful Dead ".

successes

The album reached number 34 on the Billboard charts .

On November 11, 1971, the album reached gold status .

Trivia

The band used the pseudonym McGannahan Skyjellyfetti to identify songs that were jointly created in the band. The name was based on a character from Kenneth Patchen's work Memoirs of a Shy Pornographer .

Track list

1967 LP

Side one

  1. "The Golden Road" (Grateful Dead) - 2:13
  2. "Beat It on Down the Line" ( Jesse Fuller ) - 2:33
  3. "Good Morning Little School Girl" (Sonny Boy Williamson) - 5:45
  4. "Cold Rain and Snow" (Grateful Dead) - 2:31
  5. " Sitting on Top of the World " ( Little Walter ) - 2:07
  6. "Cream Puff War" ( Jerry García ) - 2:28

Side two

  1. "(Walk Me Out in the) Morning Dew" ( Bonnie Dobson , Tim Rose ) - 5:08
  2. "New, New Minglewood Blues" ( Noah Lewis ) - 2:37
  3. "Viola Lee Blues" (Noah Lewis) - 10:13

2003 CD

  1. "The Golden Road" (Grateful Dead) - 2:07
  2. "Beat It on Down the Line" (Jesse Fuller) - 2:27
  3. "Good Morning Little School Girl" (Sonny Boy Williamson) - 6:32
  4. "Cold Rain and Snow" (Grateful Dead) - 2:26
  5. "Sitting on Top of the World" (Little Walter) - 2:43
  6. "Cream Puff War" (Jerry Garcia) - 3:18
  7. "(Walk Me Out in the) Morning Dew" (Bonnie Dobson, Tim Rose) - 5:16
  8. "New, New Minglewood Blues" (Noah Lewis) - 2:40
  9. "Viola Lee Blues" (Noah Lewis) - 10:09
  10. "Alice D. Millionaire" (Grateful Dead) - 2:22
    • Dedicated to Owsley Bear , the Grateful Dead sound engineer who produced LSD in the 1960s and was arrested in a raid. In the newspapers he was referred to as the "LSD Millionaire"
  11. "Overseas Stomp (The Lindy)" (Jab Jones, Will Shade ) - 2:24
  12. "Tastebud" ( Ron McKernan ) - 4:18
  13. "Death Don't Have No Mercy" (instrumental version) ( Gary Davis ) - 5:20
  14. "Viola Lee Blues" (edited version) (Noah Lewis) - 3:00
  15. "Viola Lee Blues" (live at DANCE HALL - Rio Nido, March 9, 1967) (Noah Lewis) - 23:13

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