The Best of the Grateful Dead Live

2018 greatest hits album by Grateful Dead

The Best of the Grateful Dead Live

Greatest hits album by

Grateful Dead

Released| March 23, 2018
Recorded| 1969–1995
Genre| Rock
Label| Rhino
Grateful Dead chronology
| Dave's Picks Volume 25
(2018)  | The Best of the Grateful Dead Live
(2018)  | Fillmore West 1969: February 27th
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The Best of the Grateful Dead Live is a greatest hits album by the rock band the Grateful Dead. It contains songs that were recorded live in concert and previously released on other Grateful Dead live albums. It was released on March 23, 2018.[1][2][3][4][5]

## Production

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According to producer David Lemieux, "We wanted to follow up the 2015 The Best of the Grateful Dead studio set with a live counterpart, and have focused our efforts on the band's primary live albums as well as some key tracks from archival concert releases."[1]

## Critical reception

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On AllMusic, Timothy Monger said, "Created as a counterpart to their 2015 two-disc Best of the Grateful Dead studio collection, The Best of the Grateful Dead Live includes highlights culled from the band's commercially released concert albums on the Warner Bros. and Arista labels as well as a handful of live selections from their own personal archives."[6]

In All About Jazz, Doug Collette wrote, "The Best of the Grateful Dead Live doesn't purport to be comprehensive, but it does offer the novice virtually all the necessary touch-points by which to become more intimately acquainted with the unit's entire body of work (the exception, omitted no doubt by time constraints: any example of Ron "Pigpen" McKernan's extended stage spotlights)."[7]

## Track listing

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Disc one

No. | Title  | Writer(s)  | Recorded  | Previously released  | Length
1\.  | "St. Stephen"  | Jerry Garcia, Phil Lesh, Robert Hunter | February 27, 1969
Fillmore West
San Francisco | Live/Dead | 6:37
2\.  | "Bertha"  | Garcia, Hunter  | April 27, 1971
Fillmore East
New York City | Grateful Dead | 5:42
3\.  | "Wharf Rat"  | Garcia, Hunter  | April 26, 1971
Fillmore East
New York City  | Grateful Dead | 8:32
4\.  | "Sugar Magnolia"  | Bob Weir, Hunter  | May 4, 1972
Olympia Theatre
Paris | Europe '72 | 7:10
5\.  | "Jack Straw"  | Weir, Hunter  | May 3, 1972
Olympia Theatre
Paris  | Europe '72 | 4:48
6\.  | "Truckin'"  | Garcia, Lesh, Weir, Hunter  | May 26, 1972
Lyceum Theatre
London | Europe '72 | 13:07
7\.  | "Morning Dew"  | Bonnie Dobson, Tim Rose | May 26, 1972
Lyceum Theatre
London  | Europe '72 | 11:28
8\.  | "Brown-Eyed Women"  | Garcia, Hunter  | April 14, 1972
Tivoli Concert Hall
Copenhagen | Europe '72 | 4:37
9\.  | "The Music Never Stopped"  | Weir, John Barlow | August 13, 1975
Great American Music Hall
San Francisco  | One from the Vault | 5:28
10\.  | "Estimated Prophet"  | Weir, Barlow  | May 8, 1977
Barton Hall
Ithaca, New York | Cornell 5/8/77 | 8:44
Disc two
No. | Title  | Writer(s)  | Recorded  | Previously released  | Length
1\.  | "Friend of the Devil"  | Garcia, John Dawson, Hunter  | October 27, 1980
Radio City Music Hall
New York City  | Dead Set | 7:32
2\.  | "Feel Like a Stranger"  | Weir, Barlow  | October 4, 1980
Warfield Theatre
San Francisco  | Dead Set | 5:46
3\.  | "Fire on the Mountain"  | Mickey Hart, Hunter  | October 31, 1980
Radio City Music Hall
New York City  | Dead Set | 6:47
4\.  | "Bird Song"  | Garcia, Hunter  | October 14, 1980
Warfield Theatre
San Francisco  | Reckoning | 7:38
5\.  | "Ripple"  | Garcia, Hunter  | October 4, 1980
Warfield Theatre
San Francisco  | Reckoning | 4:26
6\.  | "Eyes of the World"  | Garcia, Hunter  | March 29, 1990
Nassau Coliseum
Uniondale, New York | Without a Net | 16:13
7\.  | "Touch of Grey"  | Garcia, Hunter  | July 4, 1989
Rich Stadium
Orchard Park, New York | Truckin' Up to Buffalo | 6:30
8\.  | "Blow Away"  | Brent Mydland, Hunter  | July 7, 1989
John F. Kennedy Stadium
Philadelphia | Crimson White & Indigo | 12:19
9\.  | "So Many Roads"  | Garcia, Hunter  | July 9, 1995
Soldier Field
Chicago | So Many Roads | 9:35

## Personnel

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Grateful Dead

* Jerry Garcia – guitar, vocals
* Bob Weir – guitar, vocals
* Phil Lesh – bass, vocals
* Bill Kreutzmann – drums, percussion
* Mickey Hart – drums, percussion on "St. Stephen", "The Music Never Stopped", "Estimated Prophet", "Friend of the Devil", "Feel Like a Stranger", "Fire on the Mountain", "Bird Song", "Ripple", "Eyes of the World", "Touch of Grey", "Blow Away", "So Many Roads"
* Ron "Pigpen" McKernan – organ, harmonica, percussion, vocals on "St. Stephen", "Bertha", "Wharf Rat", "Sugar Magnolia", "Jack Straw", "Truckin'", "Morning Dew", "Brown-Eyed Women"
* Tom Constanten – keyboards on "St. Stephen"
* Keith Godchaux – keyboards on "Sugar Magnolia", "Jack Straw", "Truckin'", "Morning Dew", "Brown-Eyed Women", "The Music Never Stopped", "Estimated Prophet"
* Donna Jean Godchaux – vocals on "Sugar Magnolia", "Jack Straw", "Truckin'", "Morning Dew", "Brown-Eyed Women", "The Music Never Stopped", "Estimated Prophet"
* Brent Mydland – keyboards, vocals on "Friend of the Devil", "Feel Like a Stranger", "Fire on the Mountain", "Bird Song", "Ripple", "Eyes of the World", "Touch of Grey", "Blow Away"
* Vince Welnick – keyboards, vocals on "So Many Roads"

Additional musicians

* Merl Saunders – organ on "Bertha", "Wharf Rat"
* Branford Marsalis – saxophone on "Eyes of the World"

## Charts

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Chart (2018)  | Peak
position

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Hungarian Albums (MAHASZ)[8] | 37
US Billboard 200[9] | 167

## References

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1. ^ a b Sterling, Scott T. (January 23, 2018). "Grateful Dead Announce Greatest Hits Live Collection". Radio.com. Retrieved January 28, 2018.
2. ^ Hinson, B. (January 24, 2018). "New Grateful Dead Compilation Due in March, Focusing on Live Release Highlights". WENK-WTPR. Archived from the original on January 29, 2018. Retrieved February 2, 2018.
3. ^ "Announcing The Best of the Grateful Dead Live". Grateful Web. January 23, 2018. Retrieved January 28, 2018.
4. ^ "Best of the Grateful Dead Live CD". Dead.net. January 23, 2018. Retrieved January 28, 2018.
5. ^ "The Best Of The Grateful Dead Live ". Rhino.com. Retrieved January 28, 2018.
6. ^ Monger, Timothy. "The Best of the Grateful Dead Live". AllMusic. Retrieved September 16, 2018.
7. ^ Collette, Doug (April 27, 2018). "Grateful Dead: The Best of the Grateful Dead Live". All About Jazz. Retrieved September 16, 2018.
8. ^ "Album Top 40 slágerlista – 2018. 13. hét" (in Hungarian). MAHASZ. Retrieved April 6, 2018.
9. ^ "Grateful Dead Chart History (Billboard 200)". Billboard. Retrieved April 3, 2018.

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* Ladies and Gentlemen... the Grateful Dead
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* The Grateful Dead Movie Soundtrack
* Rare Cuts and Oddities 1966
* Truckin' Up to Buffalo
* Fillmore West 1969: The Complete Recordings
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* 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
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* 30 Trips Around the Sun: The Definitive Live Story 1965–1995
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* 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
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* Playing in the Band, Seattle, Washington, 5/21/74
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* In and Out of the Garden: Madison Square Garden '81, '82, '83
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* Here Comes Sunshine 1973
* RFK Stadium, Washington, D.C. 6/10/73
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* Duke '78

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* All the Years Combine: The DVD Collection
* Grateful Dead Records Collection
* The Story of the Grateful Dead

Videos|

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* So Far
* Dead Ringers: The Making of Touch of Grey
* Backstage Pass
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* Anthem to Beauty
* Sunshine Daydream
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