The
Grateful Dead:
Live Dead
CD129 - Warner Bros. 1969
The Grateful Dead: Live Dead
1 DARK STAR
2 ST. STEPHEN
3 THE ELEVEN
4 TURN ON YOUR LOVE LIGHT
5 DEATH DON'T HAVE NO MERCY
6 FEEDBACK
7 AND WE BID YOU GOODNIGHT
| Blair Jackson's review: | ***** |
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The Dead's first live album, culled from two early '69 shows, is the greatest psychedelic record ever made, in my opinion. The sequence of "Dark Star" > "St. Stephen" > "The Eleven" > "Lovelight" hits so many peaks and visits so many interesting spaces that I still hear new things in it three decades after I first bought it. "Death Don't Have No Mercy" is one of Garcia's finest blues performances. The CD packs all four sides of the original double-album onto a single CD. A must!