Ladies & Gentlemen: The Grateful Dead

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Ladies & Gentlemen: The Grateful Dead
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Artist: Grateful Dead
Edition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 2004-08-31
Music Label: Grateful Dead / Wea
Soundtracks:
Music CD 1
  1. Truckin'
  2. Bertha
  3. Next Time You See Me
  4. Beat It on Down the Line
  5. Bird Song
  6. Dark Hollow
  7. Second That Emotion
  8. Me & My Uncle
  9. Cumberland Blues
  10. Good Lovin'
  11. Drums
  12. Good Lovin'
Music CD 2
  1. Sugar Magnolia
  2. Loser
  3. Ain't It Crazy (The Rub)
  4. El Paso
  5. I'm a King Bee
  6. Ripple
  7. Me and Bobbie McGee
  8. Uncle John's Band
  9. Turn on Your Love Light
Music CD 3
  1. China Cat Sunflower
  2. I Know You Rider
  3. It Hurts Me Too
  4. Sing Me Back Home
  5. Hard to Handl
  6. Dark Star / Tom Constanten
  7. St. Stephen / Tom Constanten
  8. Not Fade Away / Tom Constanten
  9. Goin' Down the Road Feeling Bad / Tom Constanten
  10. Not Fade Away / Tom Constanten
Music CD 4
  1. Morning Dew
  2. New Minglewood Blues
  3. Wharf Rat
  4. Alligator
  5. Drums
  6. Jam
  7. Goin' Down the Road Feeling Bad
  8. Cold Rain and Snow
  9. Casey Jones
  10. In the Midnight Hour
  11. We Bid You Goodnight

Music reviews of Ladies & Gentlemen: The Grateful Dead

Music Review: A good place to begin and end a Grateful Dead collection.
Rating: 5 Stars

Whatever may be said about the checkered musical career of the Grateful Dead,
it must be understood that the original source of their snowballing phenomenal popularity
was based on the actual experiences of the people who attended their concerts,
and the hyperbolic "grassroots grapevine" word-of-mouth rumor mongering
that followed in the wake of those very real concert experiences.
The Grateful Dead released so many abominably merit less studio albums
that those who had never attended (certain) concerts
never understood the starry-eyed declamations of (certain) fans
about the band's (and Jerry Garcia's) illimitable and incomparable guitar genius.
But it was indeed VERY REAL (albeit inconsistent), especially on the concert stage.

Diehard fans who collected "bootleg Dead tapes" knew this all along,
and were consistently appalled at the willingness of the band
to release some of the worst of their concert material
(along with the pitiful studio albums)
to the public when it was known that they could,
and HAD, done SO MUCH BETTER.
The indifferent quality of the material they released
made it seem as if the band just didn't really want to be all that popular.

But "bootleg tape" collectors had their own manifest evidence
that the band were monumental virtuoso players
and original masters of (and indeed among the most important progenitors of)
genres such as "space music" and "acid jazz".
And to those bootleg tape collectors who "had the evidence",
the Grateful Dead's lackluster releases
were profoundly exasperating.
Because the band would have been very much more popular
than even they had finally become
after so many years of patience and hard work,
and they would have been so much sooner.
That is,
if the "right" material had been released within the "right" timeframe.
And they would have been popular for more of the "right" reasons:
not the
"Oh, the 'Good Old Grateful Dead'...they're still around?
Well, aren't they a cute and charming little anachronism."
reason.
They would have been WIDELY popular for the
"OH MY GOD I've never heard such important, genre-shattering, genre-forging,
unpretentious yet utterly magic guitar virtuosity of the ONE MIND!
Gee, I'm pretty sure I just experienced musical satori!"
reason
that real Grateful Dead cognoscenti
always believed they should have been popular for.

But here it is NOW.
If you've had the "Ted Dape" since 1971 you already know,
and will appreciate hearing the music anew in extremely high fidelity.
If you never really "got it",
but liked the Grateful Dead's music,
throw away all your old albums
and start over with this CD.
If you want to have one Grateful Dead CD (four really) in your collection
this is the one I recommend.

Here is the best version of Otis Redding's song "Hard to Handle" ever recorded
by any artist;
the DEFINITIVE version.

Here is an improvisational jam subsequent to "Alligator"
that illustrates Garcia's supreme guitar virtuosity
as well or better than any other recording.
It also showcases the band's easy comfort with long time signatures
and elliptical melody patterns that return to their sources unfailingly
despite the long, convoluted but perfectly lucid planetary (celestial) routes they transit.
In fact,
the "Alligator Jam" included in this CD set
may contain the most concrete evidence ever presented
for the existence of mental telepathy.
This is not "rock".
This is a rarified form of guitar jazz
as only the Grateful Dead were ever able to play it.
And as I fear no group of musicians will ever be able to play it again
in any of our lifetimes.

The band would have,
could have,
been so much more popular
and justly recognized for WHAT THEY REALLY DID
if this performance had been released in a timely manner.
Poignant and tragic.
LAPIDARY!
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Description of Ladies & Gentlemen: The Grateful Dead

Grateful Dead, Fillmore East: April 1971
This four-disc set documents the Dead's monumental five-night final run at New York's Fillmore East in April 1971. Coming from the same period as the live Skull and Roses album, it finds the band at its most sinewy--without second drummer Mickey Hart and without much in the way of Pigpen's keyboard work. What stands out here, beyond the intense, emotionally charged yet somewhat playful performances, is the strength and diversity of the repertoire. In addition to the plethora of newer originals, we hear a number of Pigpen's beloved blues shouters: "Next Time You See Me," "Ain't It Crazy," "I'm a King Bee," "Turn on Your Love Light," "It Hurts Me Too," "Hard to Handle," and "In the Midnight Hour." Also of note are readings of lesser-played material such as "Second That Emotion," "Ripple," "Sing Me Back Home," and "Alligator." All in all, it's a worthy celebration of one of the Dead's most legendary venues, as well as a prime slice of vintage Dead music. --Marc Greilsamer

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