Audio CD review:
Grateful Dead - Two from the Vault

Grateful Dead - Two from the Vault

Band: Grateful Dead Title: Two from the Vault Rating: Release Date: 31 August, 2004 Media: Audio CD Tracks: 1: Good Morning Little Schoolgirl 2: Dark Star 3: Saint Stephen 4: Eleven 5: Death Don't Have No Mercy 6: That's It for the Other One: Cryptical Envolvement/Quadlibet for ... 7: New Potato Caboose 8: Turn on Your Love Light 9: (Walk Me Out in The) Morning Dew

Customer Reviews Buy it for disc two Evrything else is avalable in much better versions elsewhere. Get this for That's It For The Other One->New Potato Caboose. . The Best From The Best You will wish you had a time machine to get you to the actual show. This is one of my absolute favorite CDs EVER. The Dark Star > St. Stephen > The Eleven is orgasmic. Pigpen's "Lovelight" and "School Girl" make you want to listen again and again. There is a comment posted on this feedback that their music from '68 is raw - and it is - raw talent, energy, passion, and charisma. The crowd "noise" in the background is also raw - they are having a great time. You can tell that it was one helluva show! The music never stops. An excellent show from the primal Dead Thanks to modern technology the Dead were able resurrect this excellent show from oblivion. Two From the Vault is psychedelic primal Dead at their jamming best circa 1968. Due to microphone placement there were phase cancellation problems with the original tapes making them useless for release. Thanks to Dan Healy the phasing problems were eliminated using computer analysis and time correction. Hurray! A great show was saved. And a great show it is, replete with marvelous and telepathic playing by all members. From the Pigpen sung songs Good Morning Little Schoolgirl and Turn On Your Lovelight to the rolling thunder of the Other One and New Potato Caboose, it's all good. Morning Dew and Death Don't Have No Mercy being the lone ballads are especially emotional. Jerry's voice and playing are strong and everybody else rolls along with raucous abandon, Phil Lesh especially. I've become a big fan of '68 to '70's era Dead because they play with a fire and psychedelic thunder that they largely toned down as they became better and more refined players. While I love the jazzy introspection and much of the more country material the Dead started playing after 1970, there's just something about the raw energy the Dead generated in earlier years with their original lineup of Jerry Garcia, Phil Lesh, Ron "Pigpen" McKernan, Bill Kreutzmann, Mickey Hart (he joined in 1967) and Bob Weir. This is the Grateful Dead at their raw psychedelic best and a really good example of how they sounded in 1968. They're not quite as good players as they became by 1970, but what they lack in harmonic sophistication they more than make up for in energy and passion. . You can see a complete list of all Grateful Dead discography, or go back to the Grateful Dead tabs