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Summary: Classic Dead Collection
Comment: This is a great addition to any Dead collection. It has a great variety of classics and quite a few deep cuts. I think it was a great value and have been really enjoying it!
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Summary: Vintage Dead
Comment: This CD captures the Dead in their heyday. I still liked them a lot when they went through changes later on, but the early 70s were the best. Bob Weir had learned how to fit in between Jerry's lead and Phil's bottom end.
I can't seem to get enough of their excellent 'funkadelic' rendition of the Smokey Robinson song "I Second That Emotion", which I had never heard by the Dead before. There's a lot of other very good material spanning the range of the Dead's musical experimentation.
This CD is highly recommended by me for Deadheads and casual Dead fans as well. It's very tight at times, and not so tight at other times. Exactly what you expect from these musical innovators.
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Summary: Last Fillmore Shows
Comment: This Show has been on bootlegs for years but you will reconise this version of Bertha - yes it's the same recording used on Skull and Roses - so is Warf Rat - but why all these songs were not used is a shame - Trucking is outstanding and clocks in almost 12 minutes - Phil's bass playing is really out front and good - this is actually two shows taped for Skull and Roses planned outtakes etc...The Byrds played and were taped too on the same dates (not on this CD though) They opened the first show and the Dead opened the second for the Byrds etc..Hard to Handle is the same arrangement the Black Crows covered in the early 90's and has Pigpen singing on that one - These were the last shows by any group at the Fillmore a small theater in New York City run by Phil Graham - it was closed down because it was too small for the growing number of fans after the Woodstock concert movie came out in 1970 and the new Madison Square Garden build on top of the old Penn Station was now open for bigger concerts in late 1970 ( multiple bands played there too in concerts - The Dead played at the Woodstock Concert too in 1969 and were terrible - they were high on a unplanned acid trip and it rained most of the set - they lost their light show streen to high winds and Bobby got electricuted at his mic - Jerry was the only one that sounded good and Phil stopped playing on a lot of the songs and thier soundman Ramrod was thrown in a near by lake by irrate hippies who blamed him for the bad low level of sound etc.. - but this show is really outstanding a year and a half later - you won't be sorry to buy this last Fillmore Show - most of all the best bootlegs out there was recorded at this place - THe Who (1968 Sellout and 1969 Tommy material)- Hendrix (Band of Gypsys 1969 to 1970 New Years day - 3 shows) - The Byrds (1971) etc...The sound was excellent there because of the small 2000 seat Venue there - Can you Imagine seeing all these bands for 6 dallors a show back then in a 2000 seat theater - unblievable man - The Dead were Jamming this Night for sure - Jerry was Playing the Sunburst Stratocaster Hendrix gave him over a year before ( he played it from end of 1969 to 1971 till he started to play the bare wood Stratocaster with the Harley Davision logo on it till that was even replaced by the famous Ambelic Wolf guitar ( 1973 to 1979 )seen in the Greatdful Dead Movie - man you wish you could go back in time but this is the next best thing I guess - thank God for these recordings people - by the way the booleg CD version was 75 dallors of these shows back in 1991 so your getting a deal and more songs too - all the songs are good on this CD
- Driven that Train - High on Cocaine - Casey Jones you better Watch your Speed - Bump Bump - Trouble ahead Trouble Behind you know that notion just crossed my mind is that right?
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Summary: Filmore East 1971
Comment: St. Stephen, Not Fade Away, Going Down the Road Felling Bad, Not Fade Away. They hottest, crackling 20 minutes of Dead music ever recorded.
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Summary: masterpiece
Comment: This is pure blues jamming classic. A must for any Deadhead or not. Just when you think it's safe to stop stamping your foot on the floor, another awesome performance is delivered. All are great, but particular favourites have to be The Dead's interpretation of Redding's Hard to Handle, St. Stephen and Bertha. It's so good, it must be illegal...
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