Vintage Dead

Vintage Dead
A poster for a Grateful Dead concert on a psychedelic orange background with an open bottle
Live album by Grateful Dead
Released October 1970 (1970-10)
Recorded Late 1966
Genre Psychedelic rock, blues rock
Length 39:50
Label Sunflower
Producer Robert Cohen
Grateful Dead chronology
Workingman's Dead
(1970)
Vintage
Dead

(1970)
American Beauty
(1970)
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
Allmusic[1]
Robert ChristgauB−[2]

Vintage Dead is a live album by the rock group the Grateful Dead. It was recorded at the Avalon Ballroom in San Francisco, California, in late 1966 (thought to be 9/16/66), and released in October 1970.[3][4][5]

Vintage Dead was produced without the approval or cooperation of the Grateful Dead.[1] However, it is a legal recording, not a bootleg.[6] An upstart label called "Together Records" assembled live recordings of various Bay Area bands for a planned anthology. When the imprint collapsed, MGM paid the remaining debt and assumed the tapes, releasing two albums of Grateful Dead material on their Sunflower Records subsidiary.[7] The first, Vintage Dead, reached number 127 on the Billboard 200.[8] Produced as a vinyl LP and long out of print, it has not been released as a Compact Disc.

Vintage Dead was then followed by Historic Dead, another Sunflower Records album recorded at the Avalon in 1966.

Track listing

Side one
  1. "I Know You Rider" (traditional) – 4:25[lower-alpha 1]
  2. "It Hurts Me Too" (Elmore James) – 4:17
  3. "It's All Over Now, Baby Blue" (Bob Dylan) – 4:50
  4. "Dancing in the Street" (Marvin Gaye, Ivy Jo Hunter, and William "Mickey" Stevenson) – 7:55
Side two
  1. "In the Midnight Hour" (Steve Cropper and Wilson Pickett) – 18:23

Notes

Personnel

Grateful Dead
Technical personnel

References

  1. 1 2 Ruhlmann, William. Vintage Dead at Allmusic
  2. Christgau, Robert. Grateful Dead album reviews at robertchristgau.com
  3. Trager, Oliver (1997). The American Book of the Dead. Fireside. p. 385. ISBN 0-684-81402-1. Retrieved September 5, 2010.
  4. Vintage Dead at the Grateful Dead Family Discography
  5. Slabicky, Ihor W. The Compleat Grateful Dead Discography
  6. Callahan, Mike, et al. Sunflower Album Discography at Both Sides Now Publications
  7. Ben Fong-Torres; Rolling Stone magazine; October 28, 1971
  8. Grateful Dead Billboard albums at Allmusic
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