The Best of the Grateful Dead Live is a compilation album by the rock band the Grateful Dead. It contains songs that were recorded live in concert and previously released on other Grateful Dead albums. It was released on March 23, 2018.[1][2][3][4][5]

Production

According to producer David Lemieux, "We wanted to follow up the 2015 The Best of the Grateful Dead studio set with a live counterpart, and have focused our efforts on the band's primary live albums as well as some key tracks from archival concert releases."[1]

Critical reception

On AllMusic, Timothy Monger said, "Created as a counterpart to their 2015 two-disc Best of the Grateful Dead studio collection, The Best of the Grateful Dead Live includes highlights culled from the band's commercially released concert albums on the Warner Bros. and Arista labels as well as a handful of live selections from their own personal archives."[6]

In All About Jazz, Doug Collette wrote, "The Best of the Grateful Dead Live doesn't purport to be comprehensive, but it does offer the novice virtually all the necessary touch-points by which to become more intimately acquainted with the unit's entire body of work (the exception, omitted no doubt by time constraints: any example of Ron "Pigpen" McKernan's extended stage spotlights)."[7]

Track listing

Disc one
No.TitleWriter(s)RecordedPreviously releasedLength
1."St. Stephen"Jerry Garcia, Phil Lesh, Robert HunterFebruary 27, 1969
Fillmore West
San Francisco		Live/Dead6:37
2."Bertha"Garcia, HunterApril 27, 1971
Fillmore East
New York City		Grateful Dead5:42
3."Wharf Rat"Garcia, HunterApril 26, 1971
Fillmore East
New York City		Grateful Dead8:32
4."Sugar Magnolia"Bob Weir, HunterMay 4, 1972
Olympia Theatre
Paris		Europe '727:10
5."Jack Straw"Weir, HunterMay 3, 1972
Olympia Theatre
Paris		Europe '724:48
6."Truckin'"Garcia, Lesh, Weir, HunterMay 26, 1972
Lyceum Theatre
London		Europe '7213:07
7."Morning Dew"Bonnie Dobson, Tim RoseMay 26, 1972
Lyceum Theatre
London		Europe '7211:28
8."Brown-Eyed Women"Garcia, HunterApril 14, 1972
Tivoli Concert Hall
Copenhagen		Europe '724:37
9."The Music Never Stopped"Weir, John BarlowAugust 13, 1975
Great American Music Hall
San Francisco		One from the Vault5:28
10."Estimated Prophet"Weir, BarlowMay 8, 1977
Barton Hall
Ithaca, New York		Cornell 5/8/778:44
Disc two
No.TitleWriter(s)RecordedPreviously releasedLength
1."Friend of the Devil"Garcia, John Dawson, HunterOctober 27, 1980
Radio City Music Hall
New York City		Dead Set7:32
2."Feel Like a Stranger"Weir, BarlowOctober 4, 1980
Warfield Theatre
San Francisco		Dead Set5:46
3."Fire on the Mountain"Mickey Hart, HunterOctober 31, 1980
Radio City Music Hall
New York City		Dead Set6:47
4."Bird Song"Garcia, HunterOctober 14, 1980
Warfield Theatre
San Francisco		Reckoning7:38
5."Ripple"Garcia, HunterOctober 4, 1980
Warfield Theatre
San Francisco		Reckoning4:26
6."Eyes of the World"Garcia, HunterMarch 29, 1990
Nassau Coliseum
Uniondale, New York		Without a Net16:13
7."Touch of Grey"Garcia, HunterJuly 4, 1989
Rich Stadium
Orchard Park, New York		Truckin' Up to Buffalo6:30
8."Blow Away"Brent Mydland, HunterJuly 7, 1989
John F. Kennedy Stadium
Philadelphia		Crimson White & Indigo12:19
9."So Many Roads"Garcia, HunterJuly 9, 1995
Soldier Field
Chicago		So Many Roads9:35

Personnel

Grateful Dead

  • Jerry Garcia – guitar, vocals
  • Bob Weir – guitar, vocals
  • Phil Lesh – bass, vocals
  • Bill Kreutzmann – drums, percussion
  • Mickey Hart – drums, percussion on "St. Stephen", "The Music Never Stopped", "Estimated Prophet", "Friend of the Devil", "Feel Like a Stranger", "Fire on the Mountain", "Bird Song", "Ripple", "Eyes of the World", "Touch of Grey", "Blow Away", "So Many Roads"
  • Ron "Pigpen" McKernan – organ, harmonica, percussion, vocals on "St. Stephen", "Bertha", "Wharf Rat", "Sugar Magnolia", "Jack Straw", "Truckin'", "Morning Dew", "Brown-Eyed Women"
  • Tom Constanten – keyboards on "St. Stephen"
  • Keith Godchaux – keyboards on "Sugar Magnolia", "Jack Straw", "Truckin'", "Morning Dew", "Brown-Eyed Women", "The Music Never Stopped", "Estimated Prophet"
  • Donna Jean Godchaux – vocals on "Sugar Magnolia", "Jack Straw", "Truckin'", "Morning Dew", "Brown-Eyed Women", "The Music Never Stopped", "Estimated Prophet"
  • Brent Mydland – keyboards, vocals on "Friend of the Devil", "Feel Like a Stranger", "Fire on the Mountain", "Bird Song", "Ripple", "Eyes of the World", "Touch of Grey", "Blow Away"
  • Vince Welnick – keyboards, vocals on "So Many Roads"

Additional musicians

Charts

Chart (2018)Peak
position
Hungarian Albums (MAHASZ)[8]37
US Billboard 200[9]167

References

  1. ^ a b Sterling, Scott T. (January 23, 2018). "Grateful Dead Announce Greatest Hits Live Collection". Radio.com. Retrieved January 28, 2018.
  2. ^ Hinson, B. (January 24, 2018). "New Grateful Dead Compilation Due in March, Focusing on Live Release Highlights". WENK-WTPR. Archived from the original on January 29, 2018. Retrieved February 2, 2018.
  3. ^ "Announcing The Best of the Grateful Dead Live". Grateful Web. January 23, 2018. Retrieved January 28, 2018.
  4. ^ "Best of the Grateful Dead Live CD". Dead.net. January 23, 2018. Retrieved January 28, 2018.
  5. ^ "The Best Of The Grateful Dead Live ". Rhino.com. Retrieved January 28, 2018.
  6. ^ Monger, Timothy. "The Best of the Grateful Dead Live". AllMusic. Retrieved September 16, 2018.
  7. ^ Collette, Doug (April 27, 2018). "Grateful Dead: The Best of the Grateful Dead Live". All About Jazz. Retrieved September 16, 2018.
  8. ^ "Album Top 40 slágerlista – 2018. 13. hét" (in Hungarian). MAHASZ. Retrieved April 6, 2018.
  9. ^ "Grateful Dead Chart History (Billboard 200)". Billboard. Retrieved April 3, 2018.
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