The Grateful Dead:
Anthem of the Sun

CD137 - Warner Bros. 1968

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The Grateful Dead: Anthem of the Sun

1 THAT'S IT FOR THE OTHER ONE
  I. CRYPTICAL ENVELOPMENT
  II. QUADLIBET FOR TENDER FEET
  III. THE FASTER WE GO, THE ROUNDER WE GET
  IV. WE LEAVE THE CASTLE
2 NEW POTATO CABOOSE
3 BORN CROSS-EYED
4 ALLIGATOR
5 CAUTION (DO NOT STOP ON TRACKS)

Bonus Material
6 ALLIGATOR (Live)
7 CAUTION (DO NOT STOP ON TRACKS) (Live)
8 FEEDBACK (Live)

A wild, ambitious, hallucinatory mixture of live and studio tracks. Some of the editing and layering of tracks is a bit messy, and it sounds dated today, but the playing is fiery all the way through. There are better versions of "That's It for the Other One" and "New Potato Caboose" on Two for the Vault, but the "Alligator" > "Caution" jam has yet to be topped on CD. Thirty years later, I'm still puzzled by Weir's odd "Born Cross-Eyed," but "New Potato Caboose" remains one of my favorite Dead tunes, and one I'd love to see Bob or Phil (who co-wrote it with Bobby Petersen) revive someday.