GRATEFUL DEAD (SKULL & ROSES) will also be released on June 25 as a double-LP set ($44.98) that features the newly remastered version of the original album pressed on 180-gram black vinyl. The music will also be available in both standard and high-resolution 192/24 audio at digital download and streaming services. The set also includes a bonus disc with 10 previously unreleased live tracks that were recorded on Jat the Fillmore West, which was the band’s final performance at the historic San Francisco venue. It includes the album’s original’s 11 tracks, which have been remastered from the stereo analog master tapes by Grammy® Award winning engineer David Glasser using Plangent Process Speed Correction. GRATEFUL DEAD (SKULL & ROSES): EXPANDED EDITION will be available as a two-CD set on June 25 for $24.98. Grateful Dead celebrates its 50 th anniversary this year with a newly remastered and expanded version of the original. Known to many fans as “Skull & Roses” (a reference to the cover art by Alton Kelley and Stanley Mouse) the original double-LP included songs recorded in March and April 1971 in New York and, the band’s hometown, San Francisco.
LOS ANGELES – Grateful Dead earned the band’s first-ever gold record in 1971 with its self-titled live album. Previously Unreleased Live Version Of “The Other One”Īvailable Today On All Streaming Services Standouts include the 17-minute Pigpen spectacular Good Lovin’, an achingly beautiful take on Merle Haggard’s Sing Me Back Home, and a spell-binding version of The Other One that rivals the one captured on the original Side 2.Two-CD Set Available June 25 Features A Newly Remastered Version Of The 1971 Live Album Expanded With More Than An Hour Of Unreleased MusicĪ Remastered Version Of The Original Double-LP Will Be Available The Same Day On Black Vinyl With A Limited Edition, Black & White Propeller Vinyl It’s also been expanded with more than an hour of previously unreleased live recordings from the much-requested Jperformance at the Fillmore West, the band’s final performance at the historic San Francisco venue. In celebration of the 50th anniversary, this reissue features the album’s original 11 tracks, newly remastered from the stereo analog master tapes by Grammy-winning engineer David Glasser using Plangent Process Speed Correction. Not only did Skull & Roses serve up supremely fine tunes, it was also the one that scored the Dead their very first gold record, introduced the world to the iconic skeleton babe Bertha, and asked the questions - Who are you? Where are you? How are you? - that gave birth to the first official generation of Dead Heads. Skull & Roses sounds as fresh today as it was upon its spectacularly well-received release in 1971. This is one of the most deeply rich and satisfying tracks preserved on an official Grateful Dead album, up there with Live/Dead‘s Dark Star and Europe ’72‘s Morning Dew. Of course, the Dead were never defined by one specific sound - and amongst the aforementioned genres and styles the band brought to this album, they also delved deeply into their psychedelic, primal playbook with an entire side dedicated to their 1968 masterpiece The Other One. Goode, Not Fade Away), showing off their authentic Bakersfield bona fides ( Me & My Uncle, Mama Tried, Me & Bobby McGee), and some originals that would be important parts of the Dead’s live repertoire for the next 24 years ( Bertha, Playing In The Band, Wharf Rat). Whereas Live/Dead was a perfect sonic encapsulation of the band at the peak of their Primal Dead era, the self-titled album better known as Skull & Roses captures the quintessential quintet, the original five piece band, playing some of their hardest hitting rock ’n’ roll ( Johnny B. T HE EDITED PRESS RELEASE: “For the Grateful Dead’s second live album, released two years after its predecessor Live/Dead, the band delivered an equally magnificent, but entirely different, Grateful Dead sound. Of course, if you don’t have 500 Dead bootlegs, maybe you don’t belong in the first group after all. And if it happens to be in the first group, this expanded edition of their essential 1971 double-live album gem belongs in your playlist, next to your other 500-plus bootlegs. There are two kinds of people in the world: Those who can’t get enough live Grateful Dead, and those who can’t understand the first group.
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