Grateful Dead - Grateful Dead (Skull & Roses)50th anniversary. Originally released in 1971, the eponymous Grateful Dead unofficially known as Skull and Roses after the iconic cover art was essentially a live set with studio tinkering. The Dead at this point were at the height of their creative powers and it's from this point on that their legacy grew to mammoth proportions. This remaster transports the listener back to the Deads residency at The Fillmore East, New York and, as with the first

‘In A Poem Unlimited’ features disco employed as a protest vernacular (‘Mad As Hell’)

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their follow up has been repeatedly regarded as one of their best and captures Pere Ubu in one of their earliest incarnations

After the band’s major label debut two years earlier

3LP - Triple 180 Gram vinyl contained in a slim box

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The ride continued with Fridmann

A Film by David Byrne: The Complete Soundtrack

then the snare-beat breaks and drives us forward and up and up until we fly silent through the black-star night

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