The Grateful Dead (album)
The Grateful Dead album in studio | |
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Artista | Grateful Dead |
Pubblicazione | 17 marzo 1967 |
Durata | 34:53 (LP originale), 79:10 (riedizione in CD) |
Dischi | 1 |
Tracce | 9 (LP originale), 15 (riedizione in CD) |
Genere | Blues rock Rock psichedelico |
Etichetta | Warner Bros. Records |
Certificazioni | |
Dischi d'oro | 1 |
Grateful Dead - cronologia | |
Album precedente — Album successivo (1968) |
Recensione | Giudizio |
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AllMusic | [1] |
Piero Scaruffi | [2] |
The Grateful Dead è il primo album dei Grateful Dead, pubblicato nel 1967 per la Warner Bros.
Descrizione
Registrato in soli 3 giorni, l'album si caratterizza per un sound grezzo, ancora legato agli stilemi del garage rock e del blues, e incapace di riproporre la tipica potenza dal vivo del gruppo.
Sono soltanto tre le canzoni scritte dalla band, il resto sono brani di altri artisti riarrangiati: il disco ripropone i brani suonati dal gruppo nei concerti, seppur entro le logiche limitazioni delle facciate del disco, non a caso nell'edizione originale i brani vennero tagliati per rientrare nella durata standard dei long playing e solo con la riedizione in compact disc si è potuta avere una versione integrale.
Di tutte le tracce proposte, soltanto Viola Lee Blues, con i suoi 10 minuti, riesce a rendere, almeno in parte, l'idea delle loro esibizioni dal vivo e del loro carattere lisergico. Interessante notare come il disco riporti Garcia come "Captain Trip", in memoria degli storici Acid Test. L'enigmatica scritta che compare sulla copertina dell'album riporta la scritta, criptata, dal libro dei morti egizio: "In the Land of the dark, the ship of the sun is drawn by the grateful dead".
Tracce
Versione originale su LP (1967)
Lato A
- The Golden Road (To Unlimited Devotion) – 2:13 (Grateful Dead)
- Beat It on Down the Line – 2:33 (Fuller)
- Good Morning Little School Girl – 5:45 (Williamson)
- Cold Rain and Snow – 2:31 (Grateful Dead)
- Sitting on Top of the World – 2:07 (Jacobs, Carter)
- Cream Puff War – 2:28 (Garcia)
Lato B
- (Walk Me Out in the) Morning Dew – 5:08 (Dobson, Rose)
- New, New Minglewood Blues – 2:37 (Lewis)
- Viola Lee Blues – 10:13 (Lewis)
Riedizione su CD (2003)
- The Golden Road (To Unlimited Devotion) – 2:07 (Grateful Dead)
- Beat It on Down the Line – 2:27 (Fuller)
- Good Morning Little School Girl – 6:32 (Williamson)
- Cold Rain and Snow – 2:26 (Grateful Dead)
- Sitting on Top of the World – 2:43 (Jacobs, Carter)
- Cream Puff War – 3:18 (Garcia)
- (Walk Me Out in the) Morning Dew – 5:16 (Dobson, Rose)
- New, New Minglewood Blues – 2:40 (Lewis)
- Viola Lee Blues – 10:09 (Lewis)
- Alice D. Millionaire – 2:22 (Grateful Dead)
- Overseas Stomp (The Lindy) – 2:24 (Jones, Shade)
- Tastebud – 4:18 (McKernan)
- Death Don't Have No Mercy (versione strumentale) – 5:20 (Gary Davis)
- Viola Lee Blues (edit version) – 3:00 (Lewis)
- Viola Lee Blues (live al Dance Hall di Rio Nido (California) 09/03/1967) – 23:13 (Lewis)
Formazione
- Jerry Garcia - chitarra, voce
- Bob Weir - chitarra, voce
- Ron "Pigpen" McKernan - tastiere, armonica, voce
- Phil Lesh - basso, voce
- Bill Kreutzmann - batteria
Note
- ^ Lindsay Planer, Grateful Dead, su AllMusic. URL consultato il 25 settembre 2018.
- ^ Piero Scaruffi, The History of Rock Music. Grateful Dead, su scaruffi.com. URL consultato il 5 novembre 2020.
Collegamenti esterni
- (EN) The Grateful Dead, su Discogs, Zink Media.
- (EN) The Grateful Dead, su MusicBrainz, MetaBrainz Foundation.
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John Perry Barlow · Tom Constanten · Jerry Garcia · Donna Jean Godchaux · Keith Godchaux · Mickey Hart · Robert Hunter · Bill Kreutzmann · Phil Lesh · Ron "Pigpen" McKernan · Brent Mydland · Bob Weir · Vince Welnick | |
Album in studio | The Grateful Dead · Anthem of the Sun · Aoxomoxoa · Workingman's Dead · American Beauty · Wake of the Flood · From the Mars Hotel · Blues for Allah · Terrapin Station · Shakedown Street · Go to Heaven · In the Dark · Built to Last |
Album dal vivo | Live/Dead · Vintage Dead · Historic Dead · Grateful Dead · Europe '72 · History of the Grateful Dead, Volume One (Bear's Choice) · Steal Your Face · Reckoning · Dead Set · Dylan & the Dead · Without a Net · One from the Vault · Infrared Roses · Two from the Vault · Grayfolded · Hundred Year Hall · Dozin' at the Knick · Fallout from the Phil Zone · Terrapin Station (Limited Edition) · Live at the Fillmore East 2-11-69 · Ladies and Gentlemen... the Grateful Dead · Nightfall of Diamonds · Postcards of the Hanging · Steppin' Out with the Grateful Dead: England '72 · Go to Nassau · Birth of the Dead · The Closing of Winterland · Rockin' the Rhein with the Grateful Dead · The Grateful Dead Movie Soundtrack · Rare Cuts and Oddities 1966 · Truckin' Up to Buffalo · Fillmore West 1969: The Complete Recordings · Fillmore West 1969 · Live at the Cow Palace · Three from the Vault · Winterland 1973: The Complete Recordings · Rocking the Cradle: Egypt 1978 · To Terrapin: Hartford '77 · Winterland June 1977: The Complete Recordings · Crimson White & Indigo · Formerly the Warlocks · Europe '72: The Complete Recordings · Europe '72 Volume 2 · Dark Star · Spring 1990 · Spring 1990: So Glad You Made It · Winterland: May 30th 1971 · May 1977 · Sunshine Daydream · Family Dog at the Great Highway, San Francisco, CA 4/18/70 · Live at Hampton Coliseum · Spring 1990 (The Other One) · Wake Up to Find Out · Houston, Texas 11-18-1972 · 30 Trips Around the Sun: The Definitive Live Story 1965–1995 · 30 Trips Around the Sun · Shrine Exposition Hall, Los Angeles, CA 11/10/1967 · Capitol Theatre, Passaic, NJ, 4/25/77 · July 1978: The Complete Recordings · Red Rocks: 7/8/78 · July 29 1966, P.N.E. Garden Aud., Vancouver Canada · May 1977: Get Shown the Light · Cornell 5/8/77 · Robert F. Kennedy Stadium, Washington, D.C., July 12 & 13, 1989 · Fillmore West 1969: February 27th · Pacific Northwest '73–'74: The Complete Recordings · Pacific Northwest '73–'74: Believe It If You Need It · Playing in the Band, Seattle, Washington, 5/21/74 · The Warfield, San Francisco, California, October 9 & 10, 1980 · Giants Stadium 1987, 1989, 1991 · Saint of Circumstance · Ready or Not · June 1976 · View from the Vault Vol. 1, 2, 3, 4 · Dick's Picks Vol. 1-36 · Road Trips Vol. 1-5 · Dave's Picks Vol. 1-36 · Digital Download Series 1-12 · Family Dog at the Great Highway · Spectrum 11/5/79 · Spectrum 11/6/79 |
Raccolte | Skeletons from the Closet: The Best of Grateful Dead · What a Long Strange Trip It's Been · The Arista Years · Selections from the Arista Years · Birth of the Dead · The Very Best of Grateful Dead · Flashback with the Grateful Dead · The Best of the Grateful Dead · Long Strange Trip · The Best of the Grateful Dead Live · Sage & Spirit |
Singoli | Don't Ease Me In/Stealin' · The Golden Road (To Unlimited Devotion)/Cream Puff War · Viola Lee Blues Part 1/Viola Lee Blues Part 2 · Dark Star/Born Cross-Eyed · Dupree's Diamond Blues/Cosmic Charlie · China Cat Sunflower/St. Stephen · Uncle John's Band/New Speedway Boogie · Truckin'/Ripple · One More Saturday Night/Bertha · Sugar Magnolia/Mr. Charlie · Let Me Sing Your Blues Away/Here Comes Sunshine · Eyes of the World/Weather Report Suite, Pt. 1 · U.S. Blues/Loose Lucy · The Music Never Stopped/Help on the Way · Franklin's Tower · Dancin' in the Streets/Terrapin Station · Good Lovin'/Stagger Lee · Shakedown Street/France · Alabama Getaway/Far from Me · Don't Ease Me In · Touch of Grey/My Brother Esau · Hell in a Bucket/West L.A. Fadeaway · Throwing Stones/When Push Comes to Shove · Foolish Heart/We Can Run · Just a Little Light · Iko Iko · Morning Dew |
Filmografia | The Grateful Dead Movie · Dead Ahead · So Far · Dead Ringers: The Making of Touch of Grey · Backstage Pass · Infrared Sightings · Ticket to New Year's · Downhill from Here · Anthem to Beauty · Sunshine Daydream · Long Strange Trip |
Box set | Dead Zone: The Grateful Dead CD Collection (1977–1987) · So Many Roads (1965–1995) · The Golden Road (1965–1973) · Beyond Description (1973–1989) · The Warner Bros. Studio Albums · All the Years Combine: The DVD Collection · The Story of the Grateful Dead |
Collaboratori | Eric Andersen · Bob Bralove · Betty Cantor-Jackson · Bob Dylan · Bill Graham · Gerrit Graham · Rick Griffin · David Grisman · Lenny Hart · Dan Healy · Bruce Hornsby · Alton Kelley · Steve Kimock · Ned Lagin · Dick Latvala · David Lemieux · Branford Marsalis · Stanley Mouse · Ronald Leon Rakow · Merl Saunders · Rock Scully · Bob Seidemann · Laurence Shurtliff · Owsley Stanley · Howard Wales |
Voci correlate | Mother McCree's Uptown Jug Champions · New Riders of the Purple Sage · Psichedelia · Rock psichedelico · Acid rock · Folk rock · Ken Kesey · Haight-Ashbury · Deadhead |
Discografia dei Grateful Dead |