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Anthem of the Sun

~ Grateful Dead
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  • Audio CD (31 Aug 1992)
  • Number of Discs: 1
  • Label: Warner
  • ASIN: B000002KAN
  • Other Editions: Audio Cassette  |  Vinyl  |  MP3 Download
  • Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
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On 1968's ANTHEM OF THE SUN, the Grateful Dead stopped being just another band on the San Francisco scene and began initiating their own myth. Outgrowing the white-boy blues jamming of their debut and of their many SF contemporaries, the Dead graduated to an advanced, more lysergically influenced style--not just singing about Alice's adventures in that other world down the hole, but participating in them. Adventurous and grand, ANTHEM OF THE SUN was the first result of the muse that author Ken Kesey's infamous Acid Tests brought out in Grateful Dead music.
The abstract chaos and freeform beauty that the Dead provided as the house band at the Acid Tests grew into a modernist polyrhythmic roar. The material now took on extended forms, and ANTHEM OF THE SUN was split between essentially two sections: the post-Hendrix electric clamor of "That's It For The Other One", and Pigpen's "Alligator", a hard-rocking, bluesy boogie powered by Garcia's liquid-grunge tone and the drummers' undeniable thrust--which segues into "Caution (Do Not Stop On The Tracks)"--a rollng bit of double-time chaos, over which Pigpen speed-raps Neal Casady-like improv tales.

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5.0 out of 5 stars You'll be grateful when you're dead..., 11 Oct 2001
Anthem of the Sun, the Dead's second album, is a severely under-rated psychedelic delight, which should classify as one of the most innovative albums ever released, as it mixes live takes of the band with studio recorded material to re-create the real sound of rolling thunder that they were always aiming for. The songs flow seamlessly into one another and contain all manner of trippy effects and percussion alongside some of the most acid drenched guitar soloing to ever reach your third eye. The psychedelic opus, That's It For The Other One, is like 4 songs in one and from its final waves New Potato Caboose emerges beautifully, Alligator has the most amusing use of kazoo on record, and Caution Do Not Stop on Tracks fades in and out like the dissolution of some visionary experience; indeed the whole album is shot through with amazing beauty and graceful playing. Although Live Dead is often regarded as their best album, this one is an ambitious attempt to combine the studio trickery of Aoxomoxoa with the their legendary live sound, and it works a treat.
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5.0 out of 5 stars A pioneering masterpiece, 24 July 2007
By Laurence Upton (Wilts, UK) - See all my reviews
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Anthem Of The Sun is still probably the best album to buy first by the Grateful Dead, as it holds the key to so many aspects of this most rich and diverse of groups. Grateful Dead records fall most basically into two camps: those recorded in the studio and those recorded on stage in front of an audience.

It is on their live performances that their reputation rests, and more albums of live recordings by the Dead have been released than probably by any other band in history. The first of these, Live/Dead, from 1970, remains a high watermark in the history of live albums and for those wishing particularly to explore that side of the band is still the best point of entry.

Anthem Of The Sun was the second album by the Grateful Dead, and was as innovative and ambitious as their excellent debut album, The Grateful Dead, had been conventional. Although essentially an 8-track studio album, the endlessly creative Dead were trying to find a way to translate their live sound onto record, and to this end were multi-tracking onto tape all the live concerts the band were playing during the six month period they were recording and mixing the album.

For the studio engineers tasked with pushing the envelope it was an exasperating process and having begun in Los Angeles CA, three dissatisfied studios and four months later they finished up on the East Coast, at a fourth studio, Olmstead Sound in New York NY, with their own live soundman, Dan Healy. Having laid down the basic skeleton of drum tracks (using both Bill Kreutzmann and new recruit Mickey Hart) for the album's five tracks, the band then overlaid a complex collage of fragments derived from live concerts and any amount of studio performances and overdubs, additionally utilising the electronics and John Cage-style prepared piano of Tom Constanten, who was yet to join the band, and the experiments of the Grateful Dead themselves.

When they had finished in the studio in December 1967, a further period of some months of live mixing followed, drawing from 16 recorded concerts, some as recent as 31 March 1968. It is believed that a significant proportion of the live segments on the completed master is from the Carousel Ballroom (soon to become Fillmore West), San Francisco CA on 14 February 1968. Some of the other live recordings from the Kings Beach Bowl, Lake Tahoe CA between 22-24 February 1968 can be found on Dick's Picks 22.

The result of this marathon enterprise was a magnificent psychedelic tour de force of sonic majesty, which was matched by its jubilance, celebration and passion, and synthesizing the studio Dead and the live Dead into an organic whole. No album had ever been prepared in this way before, and in hindsight the technique can be seen as a kind of prototype "plunderphonics", paving the way many years later for remix pioneers like John Oswald, who was subsequently to brilliantly tackle the Dead's masterpiece Dark Star.

The original vinyl album suffered from rather murky mastering which buried some of the most brilliant aural effects, and a remixed version overseen by Jerry Garcia in 1971 superceded it. It is this second version that was used for this CD transfer.

Before buying this, though, check out the 2003 re-masstered and expanded edition of the album, in HDCD "Rhinophonic Authentic Sound".
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