Pop History Vol. 23: The Grateful Dead
Grateful Dead
Initial release : 1972

Polydor 2 LP - STEREO - 2679 003

Semi-legal (?) compilation release of live material from 1966 originally released on the semi-legal LPs Vintage Dead and Historic Dead.

LP 1
    01 Good Morning Little Schoolgirl (Williamson)
    02 Lindy (Traditional arr. Grateful Dead)
    03 Stealin'* (Cannon/Traditional)
    04 The Same Thing* (Dixon) 

LP 2
    05 I Know You Rider (Traditional arr. Grateful Dead)
    06 It Hurts Me Too (James)
    07 It's All Over Now, Baby Blue (Dylan)
    08 Dancin' In The Streets (Stevenson/Gaye/Hunter)
    09 In The Midnight Hour (Cropper/Pickett) 

Musicians
    Jerry Garcia - guitar, vocals
    Bill Kreutzmann - drums
    Phil Lesh - bass
    Pigpen (Ron McKernan) - keyboards, harmonica, vocals
    Bob Weir - guitar, vocals 

Producer - Robert Cohen, Peter Abram* 

Related releases
LP 1 was originally released as
Historic Dead, Grateful Dead, 1971, Sunflower SNF-5004
Thought to have been recorded in September 1966 at the Avalon Ballroom, San Francisco and November 1966 at The Matrix, San Francisco  

LP 2 was originally released as
Vintage Dead, Grateful Dead, 1970, Sunflower SUN-5001
Thought to have been recorded on September 16 and 17, 1966 at the Avalon Ballroom, San Francisco 

A kind of dropout removed in "In The Midnight Hour"

Ripping info:
Turntable: Linn LP12
Tonearm: SME III
Cartridge: Benz ACE H2
Preamp: Rotel RC 1082
Recording: Zoom H4 [24/96]
Editing: WaveLab 5.0 (manual declicking, fade in/out)
 