Live Dead (Remastered) by Grateful Dead

Every month, we handle over €4 billion in transactions, saving individuals and businesses 4 million Euros in bank transfer fees. Experience free international money transfers with us! Send Money!

the best. in my opinion this is the best grateful dead album with Dark Star Lovelight and St.Stephen

the popularity bars don,t reflect the truth. The DarkStar on Live Dead is a major statement,if your a real deadhead you know this,normally I don't write theses reviews because I know whats good and whats crappy,but every once in a while I feel the need to enlighten newbies or new deadheads to whats really hot,in our culture,be it shakedown street were we vendor out t-shirts or via cyberspace ,this is the c/d of the ages ,check out the live Dick's picks years 1968-74 76 has some very good stuff and a different unset setlist,1977 is good but I feel like alot of older heads its overrated!! 1978/79 can be sloppy 80-82 great years 1983-4 hit and miss years 1985 had some good playing,1986 Jerry was recovering some really inspired shows,1987 some very good shows and the scene was getting really big alot of tour kids and the scene was getting some rifraf 1988 a very spacey year and in my humble oppinion 1989 the last fully solid year,1990 was a good year,but when Brent O.D.Jerry got depressed along with how poorly built to last did in sales,he started doing drugs again and slowly things got worst 1991-1993 some goood stuff but some hit and miss 1994 there were some good shows some sloppy playing as well and saddly "1995"there may be some gems one here some there but I hate to say it it was really a year of jerry withering away nodding on his guitar looking in pain,but then Jerry having said that would suprise us with some glimmer and spourts of energy and great color and boom a pretty song out of no were,then saddly the scene turned ugly and not everything but gate crashing,violence,so there we were the origional deadheads pretty much keeping to our own tribe and it was sad but this is a music review so there you good see deadbase,befriend some deadhead on the road were not all bad be well Larry

live. top notch GD. love this album, it's so great. favorite track is st.stephen, it sounds amazing on this cd. i'd reccomend to anyone. dark star is famous on this album , so go ahead and give it a listen. :))

What the Fuss Was All About. I never followed the Dead when I was young. I would hear "Truckin'" on the radio (which I enjoyed), but I was never curious enough about them to buy an album. I recently picked up "Skeletons from the Closet" on CD, and I was intrigued by the edited version of "Love Light," so I finally took the plunge and bought "Live/Dead." I was pleased to find out that you don't need to be high to enjoy the music; "Dark Star" is an amazingly inventive bit of period jamming, and the rest of this set does a great job of showing why the Dead were such a dynamic live act. In fact, the only thing that keeps me from giving this album five stars is the quality of the recording, which borders on "bootleg" by modern standards. Definitely a sweet slice of the sixties!

All I Can Say. All I can say is that I had this on cassette, and played it so many times, the tape just wore out. That's it, plain and simple.

Amazing. It captures the amazing exploration of sounds that the Grateful Dead does, the eleven is one of the most astonishing pieces of music I have ever heard, the way that they experiment with sound and time. And the way that the whole band stays together even while switching from 4/4 time signature to 11/8! There are only some times in the whole album where the melody is exactly how the song was recorded originally. This is what separates a musical artist and a true musician. The only issue I have is the sound quality, at times it sounds like a bootleg and can be a little distracting.

Best of times / worst of times. This recording was transformative for me in 1969, as so many other commenters testify. After a while I began to notice how sloppy and careless much of the album is ("two drummers and still no sense of rhythm," as one notable musician put it), and I became embarrassed about having been such a deadhead. Still Dark Star remained in memory—burned into my soul, it seems; even the truly awful lyrics. Several years ago I replaced my old vinyl with the CD and began to listen to it again. The album's sloppiness is more painful than ever, but in Dark Star it all comes together--and drifts apart--in a pulsation that seems biological, biology on acid. It is the one early Dead song in which each member improves the mix, even shines, and the synergy is often as amazing as I first found it. The drummers even manage to stay out of the way. Within a few years the band started to become professional, and this searing spark was just a memory, and a recording.

A Wonderful Album of a Kind of Music that Inspired Generations and Will Not be Heard Again. I own over 300 Grateful Dead concerts in my computer, and though I have heard better Dark Stars (1970-09-19: soul-wrenching passion or 1984-07-14: pure blissful sweetness), this release is an excellent example of why we all love the Good Old Grateful Dead: Not only is the music beautiful in itself, (it is hard to find a more joyfully boisterous Eleven>Lovelight), but it is organic matter, it is Alive, it moves and changes while you are listening to it, it flows like a river of song, on and on, as long as you need it to. And not only that, but each of these songs was played after this date (1969-01-26) in a million different ways that you can explore and experience at your leisure (use google). The Grateful Dead...are just Magic.

What it really was all about. This is the actual genuine acid rock album of all time. What the boys were trying to do with this one was to catch lightning in the bottle, in this case what it really sounded like attending a Dead show live! Boundaries get broken, songs meld into one another, but done with an insistent drive from Garcias guitar, that didn't just get to the point, it slammed into it. Back before digital, this was the quintessential Grateful Dead vinyl experience. The best album they ever cut, a life altering experience for many, I've worn out three copies in my lifetime. Truly transcendent

Dark Star Crashes.... This album changed everything I thought about music. I have spent this entire year submersing myself into jam music like Grateful Dead and Phish, but this album was where I started. I sat down in my barn with a full pipe and put it on. I only got through Dark Star on my first listen because I was far too blown away. Jerry's intro made me re-think guitar soloing and it was then that I realized what the whole improvising jams live was about. People felt more emotions through these live shows than anything else in life. Live/Dead and Phish's A Live One will live in infamy as pinnacles of my personal music history.

The Quintessential Acid Rock Album. So much so, that if you covered the bottom 2/3 of the back of the album, the word " A C I D" appeared. More than some of their later works, this album captures the essence of the Dead; long, creative jams and a commitment to the Haight region of The City. Highly recommended; it's part of the soundtrack of the real 60's, not the pop culture that was promoted in later years.

Fantastic!. Quality par none! Pigpen still lives! In our hearts and minds..

Album is great. The album has 7 songs 3 are not on iTunes. That's four songs for 9.99. I'll just by the songs separately for 4.0o.

the eleven. bought the single song from this album for $1.25 but was dissapointed by the the poor sound quality and how the song just CUTS OFF at the end that some computer decides is over. I'm a big Dead fan but this is NG folks.

greatful for the shows. man i went to all the shows on this cd. this is a must have for any deadhead

Summer. This is one of my all time favorites..it really doesn't get much better than this at evoking the feeling of being right there in the thick of it. I love to fall asleep to Dark Star...there is nothing like a Grateful Dead show.

Transcendent. This album, in all its glorious 73 minutes and 15 seconds, goes beyond normal music. Enjoy.

Highly recommend it!. Not only this album is awesome to listen to, but every minute and second of it is great. If you love the Grateful Dead from the earlier years, this is one example that you will enjoy hearing from the music and the vocals that make this album interesting. Also, this album made number 244 on the list of Rolling Stone's 500 Greatest Albums of All Time. So, take your time to listen closely and make your judgement on this exciting album.

I'll never forget the moment.... oh gosh, I was a freshman living in the dorms at Humboldt State, deep in the redwoods of Northern California, back in the early 70s. My dormates, wishing to introduce me to what *real* music was like, sat me in a bean bag chair and played this album, to candlelight, in its entirety. It was a transformational experience, sort of like dividing my life from “before St Stephen” and “after St Stephen”. I started playing guitar myself that night, and I still play today. I finished the evening reading Vonnegut's Breakfast of Champions from cover to cover. Those were the days...

The one. If I had to have one Dead album, this would be it. This coming from a guy with hundreds of live shows and all the commercial stuff, minus a couple Dick's picks. I think this album pretty well IS the Grateful Dead experience.

Killer Dead.... First four trax...need I say more?

Changed my life.. While there are other live shows that I probably listen to more, or would pick over this, "Live Dead" was the album of the Dead that made me go, "Oh, now I get what this following is all about". I remember going to sleep to this album and waking up at that point in Dark Star when Jerry's solo just drops, or builds up, or whatever you want to call it. I would always wake up from that place in between sleep and awakeness. The Dark Star>St. Stephen>The Eleven are still the "measuring point" to how I rate all other versions of these songs. I just can't help it. There are probably better versions out there, recorded or not, but this was where it all started for me.

my favorite dead album. This would probably have to be my very favorite dead album. I have always liked live grateful dead albums better than studio, and this is one of the best live albums out there. "The Eleven" is my personal favorite track on this record, and it would also be pretty high on my list of favoite dead songs ever. "Dark Star" is an amazing peace of work, and "St. Stephen" is another great. Im not sure why i bother even listing all these songs, because there all great and thats all i have to say. Great album, buy it.

Jazz Rock ?. The term Jazz Rock was twenty years in the future and not even on their worst acid trip would they allow themselves to sink to such a dark place as that genre. . Jazz Rock was NEVER the rage in 1969. I was there for the record, get it straight.

Finally, no fading in and out!. For me, the very best part of this version of Live/Dead is the ability to hear it complete, one long continuous piece of transcendent music, without the fade ins and outs that denoted the album side breaks (I.e. between Star and Stephen). What a difference it makes! Do yourself a favor: put on a pair of your favorite, most comfortable headphones, lay down in a nice, quiet, solitary cosy spot, close your eyes, and press play. It's a journey, it really is; and don't be surprised if, when it's over and you open your eyes again, everything seems a little different than before - like when you've spent a week away from home and return. Way back when I was just a kid, this is the experience that taught me that there was so much more to music than could ever be written, rehearsed, planned out in advance and then reproduced - either on stage or in a studio. Music that lives. Even though it's certainly true that not every song the Dead played were of that nature, the ones that were were what made them what they truly were, that unlocked the potential for something that could live and breathe, be familiar and yet fully unique, for something that could rise above notes and beats and just be, and be beautiful. This album demonstrates exactly why there was no one else like the Dead for exploring that Place.

Peaking in '69. "Dark Star" is a brilliant jam, with Jerry Garcia's guitar sound at it's absolute peak. This may be the best Dead record to get if you only want one. Peace.

If you ever wondered. why a legion of tapers dedicated themselves to following them everywhere and taping every note.....this album is why. Frankly, there is no proper genre for this recording.

OMG!!!!!!!. This is the best grateful dead cd ever. i love live dead and they picked the perfect songs. Thank u so much for putting up this album.

Imagine you at your best. All the time. Picture yourself at your sharpest and most productive. Your most alert and focused. Your most lucid, creative and confident. At work. At play. In every area of your life. Add Mind Lab Pro® v4.0 to your daily routine and uncap your true potential. Buy Now!

The best. Kings of improvisation. Their beatific beauty shines from the start with the 23 minute epic, 'Dark Star'. They go from there to 'St. Stephen', a fantastic, fiery, hard rock song. 'The Eleven' is 10 minutes of pure improvisation, and an occasional vocal melody. Then there is a cover of 'Turn On Your Love Light', which is wonderfully passionate and inclusive, before the morbid 'Death Has No Mercy' which comes as a welcome respite after so much speed and excitement. The transition from each song is seamless so as to maintain the momentum, and the songs are compellingly sung. This is THE live album to rival ALL live albums.

Just discovered this.... Absolute masterpiece of an album, would reccomend to anyone discerning and appreciative of interesting music. Dark star is probably the most complex and unusual song, being a beast at 23 minutes long. Not sure about the track 'feedback', what that is trying to accomplish, otherwise brilliant.

I can't believe no one has reviewed this yet!. This is phenomenal. Distilled Dead. If you only ever buy one Grateful Dead album, then buy this. Wait 'til darkness has fully settled, take the phone off the hook, light a couple of candles and put this album on loud enough to fill the room. Then go on a trip with the Dead. Dark Star pulsates with primordial energy. It takes you away from reality to some swirling inter-stellar cloud in the far reaches of the galaxy, there to witness the birth of a new sun. Garcia, Lesh and Weir pluck at the fabric of existence causing the universe to resonate to their notes, which fall like a shower of diamonds. Bill and Mickey's drums are pumping energy through you as Pigpen and Tom Constanten swathe you in a mist of cool organ chords. I've seen people trip to this without even resorting to pharmaceuticals. And that's just the first track! Add to all this the fact that 80% of this is improvised and you can realize why people used to literally follow this band around America going to every single concert they could. This album is proof beyond all words that whether there really is a God or not, there is certainly something divine in the spirit of humanity.

out-of-tune bass spoils it for me. Although Live Dead was an excellent introduction for me, I never gave it a second listen, and started plundering the Vaults instead. There are in my opinion (I am, at best, a casual GD listener, far from a devoted fan) some much superior examples of Grateful Dead live. It's not that the playing is bad, it's just that Phil Lesh is horribly (and uncaracteristically) out-of-tune and it grates. I also find Dark Star slightly too long in this version. I much prefered the August 24 & 25 1968 shows released by Grateful Dead Records under the "Two from the Vault" moniker. It also has Dark Star - St Stephen - The Eleven, as well as "The Other One" and "New Potato Caboose" from Anthem Of The Sun, and has a better sound in my opinion. Not to mention a bass in tune.

Fond Memories. Loved to pop this one on the old turntable back in the eighties when at Uni and just drift off. Always annoying when you had to get up to flip or even replace the dsic - my kids just wouldnt get it... As another review puts it the record is sadly let down by the bass, it still has a special feel when the band effortlessly shifts between songs. Having sepent some time this summer in the US driving along listening to 'Grateful Dead Radio' - I still missed the feel of this album.

Grateful Dead Live...... The Dead hold a place in rock music which is very difficult to describe. They have to be the biggest band ever when it comes to folklore. To put this band into perspective, when Jerry Garcia died Wall Street closed for the day. They were at one time one of the USA's biggest companies. No other band has been recorded live so many times by fans. Just try googling Grateful Dead live gigs and you will see what I mean. Even sound checks were sometimes something to be marvelled at at the quality of the music (Jam) produced from the ether. They were descibed as each band member being the finger of a glove. Led Zeppelin were famous for gigs where everything clicked on the night to produce a mind boggling set. The Dead were exactly the same. Fans talk about certain gigs on certain dates with awe because if you were lucky enough to be there when it all clicked then you truly were blessed. the Dead would play for hours dividing the gig up into 2 or 3 "sets" over the course of the evening. They never strated off with a setlist, they left it to the vibes on the night. Records are kept as to when and where a song was last played live. Songs would pop up from years ago on one night and then disappear again for years before being played again. You either loved the Dead or just couldn't understand what "it" was about them that fascinated people. People describe the music played in Dead jams as seeing the music as colours in their head. Garcia could take the crowd on "Long strange trips" and bring them back again for the final verse. I've tried to explain a bit but its frankly impossible. If you want to understand more about this band then my advice is to get online and get into some of the Dead websites. Or try WWWGrateful Dead.co.

The original and the best. Culled from 4 nights at the Fillmore West between 27 Feb and 2 March 1969 (now available in a three disc box set and a ten disc collectors item), Live/Dead remains the tightest of the bunch - quite simply the finest live concert album of all time.

Magical. This is the greatest live album ever recorded, with Dark Star the greatest live song ever recorded, and The Eleven the second greatest live song ever recorded. Lovelight is great as well because of the performance of Pigpen, who seems to have the crowd in the palm of his hand. Dim the lights, lie back, and be transported to another world by the Grateful Dead at their free-flowing, improvisational, psychedelic best.

It doesn't get any better than this.. Dark Star - St Stephen - The Eleven. The trinity of Dead at their best. If you haven't heard this you are missing a treat. Rarely equalled and never bettered.