“GRATEFUL DEAD” GOLD label MONO WB 1689 self titled psych LP orig 1A/1A NICE

$

60

Artist:  THE GRATEFUL DEAD

Title:   “The Grateful Dead”

Label:   WARNER BROS ~ W 1689.  Monaural pressing on medium weight vinyl.  Labels are gold (1964-68) with black text.  

Year:  1967

Personnel:

Bob Weir

Pigpen

Bill the Drummer

Jerry (“Captain Trips”) Garcia

Phil Lesh.

Condition: 

DISC:  Vinyl is beautiful NM-, with full original gloss.  Has been played a small number of times and handled with care.  There are a couple slight hairline paper scuffs but no serious or audible marks or problems.  Plays beautifully with superb fidelity.  Labels are clean.  This hard-to-find LP is one that you will never need to upgrade.      

JACKET:   Jacket is nice VG+.   Front panel has some light ring wear, but otherwise is clean and bright.  Seams and spine are fully intact, have darkened slightly with age.  Reverse has some light ring wear and faint staining.  No writing or stickers.  Overall a very presentable jacket to accompany the beautiful disc.

Track Listing: 

Side One:

• The Golden Road (to Unlimited Devotion)
• Beat It on Down the Line
• Good Mornin’ Little School Girl
• Cold Rain and Snow
• Sittin’ on Top of the World
• Cream Puff War

Side Two:

• Morning Dew
• New, New Minglewood Blues
• Viola Lee Blues

Review:

“The Grateful Dead's eponymously titled debut long-player was issued in mid-March of 1967.  This gave rise to one immediate impediment -- the difficulty in attempting to encapsulate/recreate the Dead's often improvised musical magic onto a single LP.  Unfortunately, the sterile environs of the recording studio disregards the subtle and often not-so-subtle ebbs and zeniths that are so evident within a live experience.  So, while this studio recording ultimately fails in accurately exhibiting The Grateful Dead's tremendous range, it's a valiant attempt to corral the group's hydra-headed psychedelic jug-band music on vinyl.  Under the technical direction of Dave Hassinger -- who had produced the Rolling Stones as well as the Jefferson Airplane – the Dead recorded the album in Los Angeles during a Ritalin-fuelled "long weekend" in early 1967.  Rather than prepare all new material for the recording sessions, a vast majority of the disc is comprised of titles that the band had worked into their concurrent performance repertoire.  This accounts for the unusually high ratio (seven:two) of folk and blues standards to original compositions.  The entire group took credit for the slightly saccharine "Golden Road (To Unlimited Devotion)," while Jerry Garcia (guitar/vocals) is credited for the noir garage-flavored raver "Cream Puff War."  Interestingly, both tracks were featured as the respective A- and B-sides of the only 45 rpm single derived from this album.  The curious aggregate of cover tunes featured on the Dead's initial outing also demonstrates the band's wide-ranging musical roots and influences.  These include Pigpen's greasy harp-fuelled take on Sonny Boy Williamson's "Good Morning Little School Girl" and the minstrel one-man-band folk of Jessie "the Lone Cat" Fuller's "Beat It On Down the Line."  The apocalyptic Cold War folk anthem "Morning Dew" (aka "[Walk Me Out in The] Morning Dew") is likewise given a full-bodied electric workout as is the obscure jug-band stomper "Viola Lee Blues."  Fittingly, the Dead would continue to play well over half of these tracks in concert for the next 27 years.”

(courtesy Linday Planer, allmusic.com.)

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