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| Fillmore East: April 1971 | 
 enlarge | Artist: Grateful Dead
Label: Grateful Dead / Wea
Category: Music
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Avg. Customer Rating:  29 reviews
Sales Rank: 8886
Format: Live
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 4
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.5
Dimensions (in): 5.4 x 5 x 0.9
MPN: 78942
UPC: 081227894221
EAN: 0081227894221
ASIN: B0002VETHC
Release Date: August 31, 2004
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Condition: All products brand new and factory sealed.
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| Tracks:
Disc 1
| • | Truckin' - Grateful Dead, Garcia, Jerry | | • | Bertha - Grateful Dead, Garcia, Jerry | | • | Next Time You See Me - Grateful Dead, Forest, Earl | | • | Beat It on Down the Line - Grateful Dead, Fuller, Jesse | | • | Bird Song - Grateful Dead, Garcia, Jerry | | • | Dark Hollow - Grateful Dead, Browning, Bill | | • | Second That Emotion - Grateful Dead, Robinson, Smokey | | • | Me & My Uncle - Grateful Dead, Phillips, John [1] | | • | Cumberland Blues - Grateful Dead, Garcia, Jerry | | • | Good Lovin' - Grateful Dead, Clark, Rudy | | • | Drums - Grateful Dead, Kreutzmann, Bill | | • | Good Lovin' - Grateful Dead, Clark, Rudy |
Disc 2
| • | Sugar Magnolia - Grateful Dead, Hunter, Robert | | • | Loser - Grateful Dead, Garcia, Jerry | | • | Ain't It Crazy (The Rub) - Grateful Dead, Hopkins, Lightnin' | | • | El Paso - Grateful Dead, Robbins, Marty | | • | I'm a King Bee - Grateful Dead, Moore, James [Blues | | • | Ripple - Grateful Dead, Garcia, Jerry | | • | Me and Bobbie McGee - Grateful Dead, Foster, Fred | | • | Uncle John's Band - Grateful Dead, Garcia, Jerry | | • | Turn on Your Love Light - Grateful Dead, Malone, Deadric |
Disc 3
| • | China Cat Sunflower - Grateful Dead, Garcia, Jerry | | • | I Know You Rider - Grateful Dead, Traditional | | • | It Hurts Me Too - Grateful Dead, James, Elmore | | • | Sing Me Back Home - Grateful Dead, Haggard, Merle | | • | Hard to Handle - Grateful Dead, Isbell, Alvertis | | • | Dark Star - Grateful Dead, Garcia, Jerry | | • | St. Stephen - Grateful Dead, Garcia, Jerry | | • | Not Fade Away - Grateful Dead, Holly, Buddy | | • | Goin' Down the Road Feeling Bad - Grateful Dead, Traditional | | • | Not Fade Away - Grateful Dead, Holly, Buddy |
Disc 4
| • | Morning Dew - Grateful Dead, Dobson, Bonnie | | • | New Minglewood Blues - Grateful Dead, Traditional | | • | Wharf Rat - Grateful Dead, Garcia, Jerry | | • | Alligator - Grateful Dead, Hunter, Robert | | • | Drums - Grateful Dead, Kreutzmann, Bill | | • | Jam - Grateful Dead, Grateful Dead | | • | Goin' Down the Road Feeling Bad - Grateful Dead, Traditional | | • | Cold Rain and Snow - Grateful Dead, Traditional | | • | Casey Jones - Grateful Dead, Garcia, Jerry | | • | In the Midnight Hour - Grateful Dead, Cropper, Steve | | • | We Bid You Goodnight - Grateful Dead, Traditional |
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Quien es mas macho? August 6, 2005
29 out of 40 found this review helpful
I always liked the '71 edition of the Dead because it was the most macho. Stripped down to a lean and mean five piece unit-no second drummer, no real keyboardist-they played with aggression and a basic rhythmic drive they kinda lost in later years. I'm not saying the other versions of the band didn't necessarily rock, they just rocked differently: loose and trippy in the `60s, sophisticated and refined in the later `70s. In '71 they rocked like a bar band. In a good way. Although still in a Dead way. It's not like they turned into the Ramones or something.
As the other reviewers have noted, there's lots of good stuff here. Personally, I got it for disc 3. I used to have a tape of the Dark Star-St. Stephen-etc. jam and always regretted that somewhere near North Berkeley I let it slip away. My favorite version of St. Stephen ever, kind of bluesy.
I should note, in the interest of disclosing my biases, that '71 is when the Dead and I part company. I certainly appreciate their increasingly impressive musicianship is subsequent years, but I find the stylistic drift of the band post-71 leaves me cold. I just can't stand that cutesy-poo stuff (Tennessee Jed), the corn-pone wannabe cowboy stuff (Brown Eyed Women, Jack Straw-"cuz we done shared all of mine"-puh-leeze!) and the schmaltz (It Must Have Been the Roses, Looks Like Rain, Stella Blue). Not to mention the loathsome Donna.
Ton of Great Music July 14, 2006
8 out of 8 found this review helpful
This is kind of a companion piece to the "Skull & Roses" live album recorded during this same time frame and beloved by fans. It's culled from a 5-night run at the Fillmore East, a closing run actually. The fidelity is great - clear and strong and crisp. The band were a stripped-down 5-piece, down to one drummer and only Pigpen on keyboards. They would alternate between styles all night and between Garcia, Weir, and Pigpen taking lead vocals. They had a large songbook and could go in one of many directions at any point in time.
There's lots of hard-rocking Dead here, and lots of Pigpen fronting blues-edged material. There's lots of Garcia and Weir here too. Lots of country-inflected stuff, lots of psychedelic tinged jamming, lots of rock and roll. There's just boatloads of stuff. There are many great moments, starting with the opening version of "Truckin'" that boogies slow and strong and proves Bill Kreutzman a superb drummer. 1971 was a fine vintage and this is a caseload of the stuff.
A good place to begin and end a Grateful Dead collection. March 14, 2006
6 out of 10 found this review helpful
Whatever may be said about the checkered musical career of the Grateful Dead,
it must be understood that the original source of their snowballing phenomenal popularity
was based on the actual experiences of the people who attended their concerts,
and the hyperbolic "grassroots grapevine" word-of-mouth rumor mongering
that followed in the wake of those very real concert experiences.
The Grateful Dead released so many abominably merit less studio albums
that those who had never attended (certain) concerts
never understood the starry-eyed declamations of (certain) fans
about the band's (and Jerry Garcia's) illimitable and incomparable guitar genius.
But it was indeed VERY REAL (albeit inconsistent), especially on the concert stage.
Diehard fans who collected "bootleg Dead tapes" knew this all along,
and were consistently appalled at the willingness of the band
to release some of the worst of their concert material
(along with the pitiful studio albums)
to the public when it was known that they could,
and HAD, done SO MUCH BETTER.
The indifferent quality of the material they released
made it seem as if the band just didn't really want to be all that popular.
But "bootleg tape" collectors had their own manifest evidence
that the band were monumental virtuoso players
and original masters of (and indeed among the most important progenitors of)
genres such as "space music" and "acid jazz".
And to those bootleg tape collectors who "had the evidence",
the Grateful Dead's lackluster releases
were profoundly exasperating.
Because the band would have been very much more popular
than even they had finally become
after so many years of patience and hard work,
and they would have been so much sooner.
That is,
if the "right" material had been released within the "right" timeframe.
And they would have been popular for more of the "right" reasons:
not the
"Oh, the 'Good Old Grateful Dead'...they're still around?
Well, aren't they a cute and charming little anachronism."
reason.
They would have been WIDELY popular for the
"OH MY GOD I've never heard such important, genre-shattering, genre-forging,
unpretentious yet utterly magic guitar virtuosity of the ONE MIND!
Gee, I'm pretty sure I just experienced musical satori!"
reason
that real Grateful Dead cognoscenti
always believed they should have been popular for.
But here it is NOW.
If you've had the "Ted Dape" since 1971 you already know,
and will appreciate hearing the music anew in extremely high fidelity.
If you never really "got it",
but liked the Grateful Dead's music,
throw away all your old albums
and start over with this CD.
If you want to have one Grateful Dead CD (four really) in your collection
this is the one I recommend.
Here is the best version of Otis Redding's song "Hard to Handle" ever recorded
by any artist;
the DEFINITIVE version.
Here is an improvisational jam subsequent to "Alligator"
that illustrates Garcia's supreme guitar virtuosity
as well or better than any other recording.
It also showcases the band's easy comfort with long time signatures
and elliptical melody patterns that return to their sources unfailingly
despite the long, convoluted but perfectly lucid planetary (celestial) routes they transit.
In fact,
the "Alligator Jam" included in this CD set
may contain the most concrete evidence ever presented
for the existence of mental telepathy.
This is not "rock".
This is a rarified form of guitar jazz
as only the Grateful Dead were ever able to play it.
And as I fear no group of musicians will ever be able to play it again
in any of our lifetimes.
The band would have,
could have,
been so much more popular
and justly recognized for WHAT THEY REALLY DID
if this performance had been released in a timely manner.
Poignant and tragic.
LAPIDARY!
 Transitional Dead May 10, 2007
6 out of 6 found this review helpful
I've always seen the `71 Dead as a band changing its sound, or making it more diverse (EVEN more diverse). The dual drum attack was gone with Mickey Hart, Tom Constanten keyboard work was gone too, and new numbers were being added to the band's repertoire. Thus, the Dead's sound was changing. Bob Weir was gaining more well-diserved prominence on stage, usually performing cowboy-like songs (El Paso, Me & Me Uncle), and the sound of the group in general was tighter, less free-form-jam-rock. Anyway, that year featured some expanded "Other Ones" and "Dark Stars" too. So, as you can see, it is not easy to describe what was exactly going on, for it was band with a really continiously-evolving sound. To these ears of mine, it is a year of transition, the immediately preeceding step to the extremely beautiful `72 tour when the sound got richer (EVEN richer).
Anyhow, amongst this confusing commentary, there is surely a certainty: it is a very nice set (recommended most of all for people who have already got into the Dead world). The sound quality is simply great and clear, Pigpen was (as the liner notes rightly say) in his last healthy tour (the "Lovelight" included here is one of the best ever released); Jerry Garcia was playing beautifuly as always; Bob Weir was, as I said before, really growing, Phil Lesh kept on being an outstanding driving force; Kreutzmann was playing better than ever and we even get some nice keyboard touches from special guest T.C.
Who cares 'bout reviews anyway? Let there be songs to fill the air.
The Dead before they died December 2, 2004
5 out of 5 found this review helpful
Want to jam to The Dead, but not with the out of tune and out of time stumbles that plague many of the Dick's Picks selections? Want to hear Jerry on fire, before the H days? Wanna hear Pigpen belt out his best, raunchy and raw blues ever recorded. Buy this album. Despite the absence of Mickey Hart on this set, the band is amazingly tight, cohesive and enthusiastic. Personally, this album beats most other live Dead CDs, except maybe One and Two From the Vault sets. This 4 CD set has it all. "Bird Song" in its infancy, Pigpen growling out "Good Lovin" (possibly best track on all 4 CDs), "King Bee", "Hard to Handle", "Alligator", and of course "In the Midnight Hour"....if you're a Pig fan, you gotta buy this album. One of the highlights is track number 6 on CD 4, simply titled "Jam", and it does. Nine minutes of what the Dead do best, and there are no hiccups here. Jerry's best vocals appear on "Sing Me...", the old prison blues tune. There are no drags here, no reason to advance to the next track. Set some time aside (about 4hr) and listen to it in its entirety. Forget the slow and plodding Dick's Picks, this album simply is a must have.
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