Grateful Dead - Anthem of the Sun
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Artist: Grateful DeadBrand: GRATEFUL DEAD
Edition: Music CD
Format: Original recording reissued, Original recording remastered
CD Release Date: 2003-02-25
Music Label: Rhino / Wea
Soundtracks:
- That's It For The Other One I. Cryptical Envelopment II. The Faster We Go, The Rounder We Get III.Quadlibet For Tender Feet IV. We Leave The Castle
- New Potato Caboose
- Born Cross-Eyed
- Alligator
- Caution (Do Not Step On Tracks)
- Alligator (Live)
- Alligator
- Caution (Do Not Step On Tracks) (Live)
- Feedback (Live)
Music reviews of Anthem of the Sun
Music Review: How Do You Categorize the Grateful Dead?
Rating: 5 Stars
There is little doubt in my mind that this record represents for many San Franciscans the Grateful Dead in all their psychedelic glory. Its an excellent example of impressionistic aural painting using both live and studio created components to layer a thick canvas of sound that so closely represents reality if "viewed" from afar, but when you drill down, is comprised of bits of noise, guitar, voice and electric instruments that seem like they are incomprehensible. Relax, enjoy, and let yourself go. They were so good at this live .. and they probably got closer to capturing that experience here than on any other record or bootleg you'll ever hear. If you're a fan, buy it. Its a must.
However, reading some of the comments by those who are not so thrilled by this record, I see that they may not have the common experience that this record speaks volumes of. It seems that many people point at other records recorded in the same time period by our heros and others as "better". I'm not so sure. While I would be the first to say that both Workingman's Dead and American Beauty are also high quality work, I feel like they are simply other sides of the Grateful Dead. Yes, there were times when I thought they were one of the best country rock or country blues bands. Jerry Garcia had roots in jugband, country, folk, banjo, Appalachian, and so many more styles of music. And Mr. Pen brought the funk, and down and out blues. But are the 3-5 minute format am radio style tunes "better" than this masterpiece of psycedelphia? Sorry, but I'm not convinced.
This is the band as I remember them on many a night in the Carousel Ballroom, the Family Dog, the ex-slot car track at Ocean Beach. Fantastic! And the references here of the Acid Test era, Neal Cassidy, the unbridled joy of dancing wildly to polyrhytmic Alligators in the swamps of the south only drives home how eclectic the Grateful Dead was coming out of the electric jug band sound they invented.
So how do you categorize them? I remember Bob Weir saying once if not many times "Talk among yourselves while we get tuned .. you know you have many selves, don't you?" The GD had many selves. AOXOMOXOA selves, Do Not Stop on Tracks selves, Love Lights selves, Live Dead (both kinds) selves, and on and on selves. Its true, they never managed to capture on a single record the experience in total, but here they capture a solid stripe of the experience. If this is the only Grateful Dead recording you own, I'm afraid you've got a long way to go to filling out what they had to offer, but none the less, this is CORE material. I highly reccomend it.
Description of Anthem of the Sun
Expanded & remastered (HDCD) version of the band's 1968 album, plus a wild 34-minute version of the 'Alligator'/'Caution'/'Feedback' suite recorded live at Los Angeles' Shrine Auditorium in 1968. Digipak. Warner/Rhino. 2003.General CDs
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