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Grateful Dead: Road Trips Vol. 1 No. 2
by Doug Collette
Grateful Dead Road Trips Vol. 1 No. 2 Grateful Dead/Rhino 2008
In conceiving Road Trips, the first archive series to emerge after the Grateful Dead initiated their business partnership with Rhino Records, the intent was to highlight significant phases of the band's performing career without impinging on previous reissues, in particular the highly esteemed Dick's Picks series. To that end, the basic premise of Road Trips is not complete concerts but rather ...
Continue ReadingGrateful Dead: Road Trips Vol. 1, No. 1, Fall '79
by Doug Collette
Grateful Dead Road Trips Vol. 1, No. 1, Fall '79 Grateful Dead Productions 2007
Road Trips is a new series of Grateful Dead archive releases only available through the band's merchandise web site. The first such project since the merchandising agreement with Rhino Records, though not directly affiliated with the label, it differs from most previous archival work in that instead of presenting complete shows--as on the now discontinued ... Continue ReadingUnbroken Chain: Revisiting The Grateful Dead at UMass
by Doug Collette
Unbroken Chain: The Grateful Dead in Music, Culture and Memory University of Massachusetts Amherst, MA November 16-18, 2007
Attending this three-day event might not have wholly transformed a skeptic's view of the Grateful Dead, their music and their culture, but it would have provided abundant insight into the reasons for the group's posthumous staying power. That understanding would have come as a slow-growing realization because Unbroken Chain so closely mirrored this influential ...
Continue ReadingGrateful Dead: Three From The Vault
by Doug Collette
A multi-track recording fully mastered and shelved for nigh on thirty years, Grateful Dead's Three From the Vault marks the beginning of a significant period in the San Francisco rock band's musical progression. Plus, it effectively picks up where the initial effort to archive the band left off over a quarter-century ago.
The recording marks two crucial junctures for the Grateful Dead. Taken from a weeklong run at the Capitol Theatre in Port Chester, New York in February 1971, this ...
Continue ReadingGrateful Dead: Live at The Cow Palace New Year's Eve 1976
by Doug Collette
With Live at the Cow Palace, Grateful Dead Productions' newly-formed alliance with Rhino is off to an auspicious start. The three-CD New Year's Eve 1976 is a stunning performance; its combination of improvisational restraint and sense of adventure embroiders a diverse selection of songs.
The Grateful Dead do take a couple of numbers to gain traction. Jerry Garcia graces Chuck Berry's “Promised Land with a couple of gaffes, while “Bertha is the sound of the septet just beginning to flex ...
Continue ReadingFillmore West 1969: The Complete Recordings
by Doug Collette
Grateful Dead The Complete Recordings Fillmore West 1969 Grateful Dead Prod 10-CD Rhino 3-CD 2005
When the Grateful Dead originally released their live album Europe 72, it was issued in a three-LP set on vinyl for dual reasons. One was to accommodate the breadth of one of their concerts, the other to fulfill their contractual obligations with Warner Bros in one fell swoop and allow the group to go independent ...
Continue ReadingJohnny Maddox: Ragtime Historian
by Elliott Simon
When the Grateful Dead sang a hundred verses in ragtime to “Ramble On Rose, it was no accident that the leader of their conjured-up band was Crazy Otto. Their reference was to ragtime pianist Johnny Maddox, whose Crazy Otto Rag released in 1955, sold over 2 million copies and in the process became the first million selling all piano recording in history. Maddox, who lives in Gallatin, TN, continues to travel twice yearly to the Diamond Belle Saloon in Durango ...
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