Grateful Dead - Grateful Dead (Skull & Roses) (Yellow Vinyl) (2LP)
Rhino Start Your Ear Off Right 2025 Exclusive
Double LP on Limited Edition Translucent Yellow Vinyl
"For the Grateful Dead's second live album, released two years after its predecessor Live/Dead, the band delivered an equally magnificent, but entirely different, Grateful Dead sound. Whereas Live/Dead was a perfect sonic encapsulation of the band at the peak of their Primal Dead era, Skull & Roses captures the quintessential quintet, the original five piece band, playing some of their hardest hitting rock 'n' roll ('Johnny B. Goode,' 'Not Fade Away'), showing off their authentic Bakersfield bona fides ('Me & My Uncle,' 'Mama Tried,' 'Me & Bobby McGee'), and some originals that would be important parts of the Dead's live repertoire for the next 24 years ('Bertha,' 'Playing in the Band,' 'Wharf Rat'). Of course, the Dead were never defined by one specific 'sound' and amongst the aforementioned genres and styles the band brought to this album, they also delved deeply into their psychedelic, primal playbook with an entire side dedicated to their 1968 masterpiece 'The Other One.' This is one of the most deeply rich and satisfying tracks preserved on an official Grateful Dead album, up there with Live/Dead's 'Dark Star' and Europe '72's 'Morning Dew.' Skull & Roses sounds as fresh today as the first time I heard it in 1985, and as fresh as it was upon its spectacularly well-received release in 1971." - David Lemieux
Features
Rhino Start Your Ear Off Right 2025
Limited Edition
Translucent Yellow Vinyl
Double LP
50th Anniversary Remaster (2021)
Recorded Live Entirely in New York & San Francisco
Definitive Versions of "Bertha" & "Wharf Rat" Never Recorded in Studio
Produced for Release by David Lemieux
Gatefold Jacket
Track Listing:
Side A:
1) The Other One (Live at The Fillmore East, New York, NY, April 28, 1971)
Side B:
1) Bertha (Live at The Fillmore East, New York, NY, April 27, 1971)
2) Mama Tried (Live at The Fillmore East, New York, NY, April 26, 1971)
3) Big Railroad Blues (Live at The Fillmore East, New York, NY, April 5, 1971)
4) Playing in the Band (Live at The Fillmore East, New York, NY, April 6, 1971)
Side C:
1) Me & My Uncle (Live at The Fillmore East, New York, NY, April 29, 1971)
2) Big Boss Man (Live at The Fillmore East, New York, NY, April 26, 1971)
3) Me & Bobby McGee (Live at The Fillmore East, New York, NY, April 27, 1971)
4) Johnny B. Goode (Live at The Fillmore East, New York, NY, March 24, 1971)
Side D:
1) Wharf Rat (Live at The Fillmore East, New York, NY, April 26, 1971)
2) Not Fade Away / Goin' Down the Road Feeling Bad (Live at The Fillmore East, New York, NY, April 5, 1971)
Format: LP Vinyl
Label: GDP
Catalog No: RCV1- 727201
Barcode: 0081227812973
Genre: Rock
No of Discs: 2
Release Date: 1/17/2025
UPC: 081227812973