Grateful Dead (Skull & Roses/Expanded And Remastered) - Grateful Dead

Advantages: Classic live concert from The Dead 89
Disadvantages: Long improvs can be a bit scary

...I never got to see The Grateful Dead play live. I've read lots of books and I've listened to lots of albums and this, for me, is the closest I've ever come to feeling that I'm there. The Dead are a difficult band to get into. Their studio albums are all over the place, sometimes they can't even be bothered to go to the studio at all and set off on the road instead. They progressed from psychedelic to country to progressive to aor and finally wound up with a bit of everything. Then there are the live albums, probably over of a hundred of them by now. So where to start? Well, how about at the Meadowlands Arena in October 1989. This double CD captures the band at probably their most commercially successful. They had their only big hit in 1987 with 'Touch of Grey' (not on here!) and were playing arenas after that (in the sixties... Read review

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Advantages: Proof that they could get back to basics
Disadvantages: None

...like one of those traditional songs you'd heard ages before but couldn't remember when. If the mere mention of Grateful Dead makes you think 'self-indulgent hippiedom', this album will amaze you.... Read review

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Advantages: It's the Grateful Dead
Disadvantages: You won't listen to it that much

...of Grateful Dead (Skull and Roses), Europe 72 or Recokoning before Bear's Choice.... Read review

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