Kosmik Radiation Radio - August 5, 2011 Playlist

Grateful Dead Audience Tape Special II
Recorded by the fans for the fans

Jerry Garcia would have been 69 on August 1st
Thanks to all the tapers and archivists who made it all possible! Click here for the archive of audience recordings

CLASSIC ALBUM OF THE WEEK
The Grateful Dead "Grateful Dead" (AKA "Skull & Roses") 1971 (USA)

This year we're doing the second annual Dead AUD REC special, featuring non-commercial audience tapes of The Grateful Dead in concert. Therefore this week's classic album is their second double live LP, which is self-titled because the record label wouldn't go for their original suggestion of calling the album Skullfuck (though most fans usually refer to this record by the nickname Skull & Roses due to its iconic cover art). At this point in the group's history their second drummer (Mickey Hart) and keyboardist (Tom Constanten) had quit, so the group was reduced to the original core quintet of Jerry, Phil, Bobby, Billy and Pigpen. To make up for fewer musicians, they focused on more rhythmic jamming -- basically, the 1971 version is the most ROCKIN' lineup of The Dead. Though it was released after the now-classic studio albums Workingman's Dead and American Beauty, Skull & Roses was actually the band's first truly big-selling "gold record" and marks the beginning of their ascent from interesting psychedelic cult band to a countercultural phenomenon. This album also includes the debut of three classic tunes for which the band never released official studio recordings: Garcia's "Bertha" and "Wharf Rat", and an embryonic version of Weir's "Playing In The Band" which eventually evolved into a 30-minute anthem to rival their immortal epic "Dark Star".
Since there isn't very much video footage of The Dead from their glory years of the 1960's and early 1970's (and I put those up last year), here's a version of "Playing In The Band" from 1987 and "Let It Grow" from 1989, during the era when they finally achieved "mainstream success" with an actual American Top Ten hit single! Here's Jerry & Bobby on Letterman talking about their newfound fame.

Artist	Songs (all recorded live)	Album / Source	Graphic	Country
The Grateful Dead	Playing In The Band (Manhattan Center - Apr 6, 1971, with studio overdubbed organ by Merl Saunders)	Grateful Dead (Skull & Roses) CLASSIC ALBUM OF THE WEEK		USA
The Grateful Dead	The Other One (Fillmore East NYC - Apr 28, 1971)	Grateful Dead (Skull & Roses) CLASSIC ALBUM OF THE WEEK		USA

The Grateful Dead	Hard To Handle (Otis Redding) Turn On Your Love Light (Bobby Bland)	August 6, 1971 Hollywood Palladium Audience recording by Rob Bertrando Click here to stream or download this entire show! (commercial recording of "HTH" available on Fallout From The Phil Zone, and "TOYLL" is on Dick's Picks Volume 35)		USA

The Grateful Dead	Eyes Of The World Playing In The Band --> Scarlet Begonias --> Playing In The Band (reprise)	August 6, 1974 Roosevelt Stadium (Jersey City, NJ) Audience recording by Neil Merin Click here to stream or download this entire show! (commercial recordings of these songs available on Dick's Picks Volume 31)		USA

The Grateful Dead	Weather Report Suite: Prelude -> Weather Report Suite: Part 1 -> Part 2: Let It Grow -> Wharf Rat -> U.S. Blues	August 4, 1974 Philadelphia Civic Convention Hall Auditorium Audience recording by Jerry Moore Click here to stream or download this entire show! (commercial recordings of these songs available on Dick's Picks Volume 31)		USA

The Grateful Dead	Truckin'	July 21, 1974 Hollywood Bowl Audience recording by Rob Bertrando Click here to stream or download this entire show! (no commercial recordings from this show have been made available to date)		USA