Live/Dead

Brand new sealed album from the Greatful Dead housed in a gatefold cover.

Live/Dead is the first official live album released by the San Rafael-based band Grateful Dead. Recorded over a series of concerts in early 1969 and released later the same year, it was the first live rock album to use 16-track recording.

At the time of its release, Robert Christgau wrote that side two of the double album "contains the finest rock improvisation ever recorded." A landmark live album, that captured the Grateful Dead's improvisations at their best, AllMusic would write that "Few recordings have ever represented the essence of an artist in performance as faithfully as Live/Dead". Drummer Bill Kreutzmann comments "It was our first live release and it remains one of our best-loved albums. Its appeal was that it took great 'you-had-to-be-there' live versions of songs like 'Dark Star' and 'The Eleven' and put them right in people’s living rooms."^[4] In 2003, the album was ranked number 244 on Rolling Stone magazine's list of the 500 greatest albums of all time.^[5]

In 2005 the tracks "Dark Star", "St. Stephen", "Death Don't Have No Mercy", "Feedback" and "We Bid You Goodnight" were released, in their original sequence and with a new mix, on the respective February 27, 1969 and March 2, 1969 discs of the Fillmore West 1969: The Complete Recordings box set (the first 1:34 of "Dark Star" can be found on the previous track, "Mountains of the Moon"). "Feedback" and "We Bid You Goodnight" were also released on the triple disc, highlights release Fillmore West 1969.