Dylan & Grateful Dead - Dylan & The Dead Columbia OC-45056 NM/NM Jerry Garcia

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Label/Catalog Number:       Columbia  Records  OC-45056

Condition: 
       Media:    NM  No obvious flaws. Labels in perfect shape. (see photos)     
      Sleeve:     NM  There is no shelf wear, no seam splits, no stains. Like just brought home from
                                 the record shop. Original inner sleeve with great picture.  (see photos)
      Matrix:      Side 1: PAL-45056-1A       DMM       GI         KDISC KP (etched)  
                        Side 2: PBL-45056-1D       DMM       G (arrow pointing down)        KDISC KP  (etched)

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Tracklist
A1     Slow Train                           4:57
A2     I Want You                          4:04
A3     Gotta Serve Somebody     5:51
A4     Queen Jane Approximately     6:38
B1     Joey                                          9:23
B2     All Along The Watchtower        6:24
B3     Knockin' On Heaven's Door     6:51

Companies, etc.
    Manufactured By – Columbia Records
    Manufactured For – CBS Records Inc.
    Phonographic Copyright (p) – CBS Records Inc.
    Copyright (c) – Grateful Dead Productions, Inc.
    Pressed By – Columbia Records Pressing Plant, Carrollton, GA
    Mixed At – Club Front
    Mastered At – K Disc Mastering

Credits
    Artwork [Cover Art] – Rick Griffin (2)
    Coordinator [Album Coordination], Tour Manager – Jon McIntire
    Crew [Trucking] – Mike Fisher
    Engineer – Guy Charbonneau, John Cutler
    Engineer [Additional] – Billy Rothschild, Chris Wiskes, David Roberts (4), Gary Hedden, Peter Miller
    Layout – Allen Weinberg
    Legal [Legal Counsel] – Hal Kant
    Lighting [Lighting Designer] – Candace Brightman
    Mastered By – KP
    Mastered By [Digital] – Joe Gastwirt
    Performer – Bill Kreutzmann, Bob Dylan, Bob Weir, Brent Mydland, Jerry Garcia, Mickey Hart, Phil Lesh
    Photography By – Herb Greene
    Producer – Jerry Garcia, John Cutler
    Producer [Concert Sound] – Dan Healy
    Promotion [Publicity] – Dennis McNally
    Tour Manager [Assistant] – Cameron Sears
    Written-By – B. Dylan*, J. Levy* (tracks: B1)

Notes
Recorded Live July 1987.
Mixed At Club Front, San Rafael, California November 1988.

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Album Review
Bob Dylan wasn't exactly at the peak of his career when he released Dylan & the Dead, a collaborative live album with the Grateful Dead, on Feb. 6, 1989. In fact, he was pretty close to the bottom of his popularity, influence and creativity. And another live album -- his third in 10 years -- certainly didn't help matters.

In 1986, coming off a string of mostly terrible albums (Shot of Love, Empire Burlesque, Knocked Out Loaded), Dylan played stadiums across the U.S. with Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers and the Grateful Dead. The following year, Dylan and the Dead did it again. Most of the set lists consisted of the singer-songwriter playing his classics while the veteran jam band provided backing muscle.

Because of both artists' reputations for experimenting onstage -- with song choices, arrangements and running orders -- every night turned out to be a distinct performance. Sometimes audiences got Dylan classics like "Mr. Tambourine Man" and "It's All Over Now, Baby Blue"; other times they got lesser songs like "Heart of Mine" and "Man of Peace."

For the July 1987 shows collected on Dylan & the Dead (which was released almost two years after the tour), producers Jerry Garcia and John Cutler mostly stuck to songs familiar to people who buy stop-gap live albums like this. "I Want You," "All Along the Watchtower," "Knockin' on Heaven's Door" and "Slow Train" (which netted some rock-radio airplay) are among the LP's seven cuts.

But the record, like many of the shows Dylan and the Dead played together, was a major snoozer. Even though the Grateful Dead were more popular than ever in 1987, scoring a Top 10 album with In the Dark and a Top 10 single with "Touch of Grey" (which they played during some tour stops with Dylan), they were basically pushed to backing-band status on Dylan & the Dead, leaving most songs to be steered by the ravaged-voice and often aimless Dylan.

The album was savaged by critics but sold well enough, all things considered, reaching No. 37 -- a better showing than Dylan's previous two studio records, Knocked Out Loaded and Down in the Groove, and the 1985 concert LP Real Live. Dylan would return eight months later with Oh Mercy, his best album in years. Slowly and surely he'd work his way up to his creative renaissance, starting with 1997's Time Out of Mind, that continues to this day.    -By Michael Gallucci (date unknown) at ultimateclassicrock.com

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