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  • Audio CD (23 Dec 1999)
  • Number of Discs: 1
  • Format: Live
  • Label: Warner
  • ASIN: B000002KB0
  • Other Editions: Audio CD  |  Audio Cassette  |  Vinyl
  • Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 41,931 in Music (See Bestsellers in Music)

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Improvisation had been the Grateful Dead's tie-dyed calling card since their beginnings as the house band for novelist Ken Kesey's mythic mid-1960s "acid tests". So after the fair-to-middling artistic results of their initial three studio-recorded albums, the band opted to release their first-ever concert collection--and irrevocably changed the course of their entire career. Propelled by the epic classic "Dark Star", as well as folk-tinged "Death Don't Have No Mercy" and the fusion-ish "The Eleven", Live Dead showcased the instinctual, probing interplay between Jerry Garcia, bassist Phil Lesh and the rest of the band, and finally captured the Dead's special magic for all to hear. --Billy Altman


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Among the finest of rock's live documents, LIVE DEAD is a snapshot of the Grateful Dead circa 1969, applying the free-jazz lessons of John Coltrane to their finely-tuned, manic, and flowing boogie. It was the first released piece of evidence that the live Dead were a wholly different, multi-headed animal than the one that recorded in the studio. LIVE DEAD was also the culmination of the group's evolution into what'snow considered the vintage San Francisco sound--having perfected it, the Grateful Dead would soon leave it for fresher musical pastures.
While each of LIVE DEAD's selections calls to mind a specific trick from up the band's sleeve, the opening four songs (later dubbed "the holy quartet" by Deadheads) best indicates the Dead's burning trajectory. "Dark Star" lays out a wide-open musical terrain, allowing the band to leap anywhere from its minimalist-riff launching pad and its two verses of T.S. Eliot-inspired psychedelic prose. Here, it is a dark-hued and majestic sea of ambience and intensity. "St. Stephen" explodes like a shiny metallic cloud-burst, Bob Weir's fervent vocals carrying it like a holy torch. "The Eleven", a thunderous fury of a composition based on "The Twelve Days Of Christmas" and played in 11/4 time, continues the rumbling. By the time Pigpen ends the continuous sermon with a raucous sci-fi-R&B take on Bobby "Blue" Bland's "Turn On Your Lovelight", the Dead have seemingly sailed every corner of their musical universe and crash-landed with aplomb.

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9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Unique: a must buy, 2 Aug 2000
By nick g black (London, England United Kingdom) - See all my reviews
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Way before the tie dyed shirts and the deadheads this band could play! Live Dead is a compelling case for the defense, and the epic Dark Star is its heart - an utterly compelling, ornate musical conversation by a band at the top of its form.. and at that time taken seriously by its peers.

This is music that cannot be easily categorised or imitated but for a brief shining moment the band redefined rock music, because it played as an ensemble, not as a series of soloists. It is still a rare quality for a rock band.

And Live Dead is without doubt the bands finest album.

My favourite track of all- and the most accessable to newcomers - is the dark melancholy blues "Death don't have no mercy". If you want to know what all the fuss about Garcia is about, listen to this performance.

Check out, too, the gorgeous Pigpen performance on a churning "Lovelight", the other more earthy side of the band. Pigpen was a blues man, with a gift for enticing a crowd.

Quite why this album has not achieved popular acclaim as a legend is hard to say. The Dead lost their iconic status many years ago, and time passed them largely by. But, at a time when West Coast rock music was the coolest thing on the planet, along came Live Dead. And nothing was quite the same again.

This is a must have in any CD collection.

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11 of 12 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Shal we go? You and I while we can..., 25 Oct 2002
By Gerry O'neill (Morrisville, NC United States) - See all my reviews
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I was motivated to write this review by the latest in the line of Grateful Dead Cds released under the Dick's Pick's imprint available only from Grateful Dead Records months prior to official release to the mainstream.

The latest release features a two disc collection of two shows in 1969, one of which highlights the upcoming release of Aoxomoxoa whilst the other is a blistering performance of the songs they had been playing late 67 through the Live Dead period.

Live Dead captures the psychedelic Dead at their peak. Whilst listening to this album in it's most recent incarnation - that of the remixed, remastered edition as part of the massive, sprawling Rhino Records box sewt one is reminded of the scene in 2001 where the astronaut remarks ' my god, it's full of stars'. Live Dead demonstrates the sheer beauty and awesome power of a band which boasts three lead players in Garcia, Lesh and Weir with an awesome vocalist and bluesman, Pigpen, all of whom play off each other in a sometimes bewildering machiavellian jam session but what results is a magical entity which is a greater being than the total of it's constituent parts. Listen to Lesh use the bass as a lead instrument, limited as he then was by the standard equipment he was then using. Listen to Garcia and those fluid racing solos with such a distinctive sound and tone. He may have lost that capacity in later years but often he plays like a man possessed transformed into Merlin the magician or the Pied Piper destined to take us into those uncharted musical waters from which we may never return.

This album has no redundant or extra parts. The songs, such as they are, are as tight and taut as the playing. You almost want to cry out for the music to continue for ever and ever.

And you know what? The psychedelics may have subsided and the world may have moved on but this album is immortal and transcendent. It does not date it does not tire. It still feeds your head (Sorry Kantners) it still stirs the soul.

Awesome!

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10 of 11 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars A seminal release!, 11 Dec 2000
By David Sandilands "DSNet" (Bristol, UK) - See all my reviews
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......In the States they just got so huge they became widely accepted as an institution. There was national mourning when Jerry passed away! That aside, this is indeed quintessential Dead, taking you places you couldn't even dream of; from the cold lonely edges of the universe in Dark Star to the very muscular Turn On Your Lovelight. If you like this then check out the recently released "Ladies and Gentlemen... the Grateful Dead!" - four CDs of fine performances from the Dead's five-night last stand at Bill Graham's Fillmore East in April 1971.
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