Grateful Dead - The Warner Brothers Studio Albums - 1967 - 1970 - 24/96 & 16/44.1 - 180g 5LP Box Set - 2010

Posted By : Mister Cee | Date : 24 Nov 2010 14:13:00 | Comments : 41 |

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Lacquers Cut from the Original Analog Masters and Pressed on 180g Vinyl at RTI

Features the Original Mixes for Anthem of the Sun and Aoxomoxoa for the First Time in Nearly 40 Years

Limited Edition Hard-Shell Box Contains 12" x 12" Book with New, Insightful Liner Notes

Commemorates 40th Anniversary of Song-Based, Era-Defining Roots Landmarks Workingman's Dead and American Beauty

At last. One of the most sorely neglected catalogs in music history has finally received the sonic upgrade it's long deserved, and the results are as heavenly as Jerry Garcia's mellifluous guitar tones. The analog refurbishment involves two of the most beloved rustic classics ever made, a high-flying debut, and a pair of experimental mind-benders.
Between 1967 and 1970, the Grateful Dead recorded five studio albums for Warner Bros. Records that formed the psychedelic and folk-rock canon on which the band’s live legend was built. The albums spotlighted the early core lineup of Garcia, Ron “Pigpen” McKernan, Bob Weir, Phil Lesh, Bill Kreutzmann, and Mickey Hart. Grateful Dead and Rhino are celebrating the 40th Anniversary of the soulful roots masterpieces Workingman’s Dead and American Beauty with The Warner Bros. Studio Albums, a five-LP boxed set that also contains The Grateful Dead (1967) plus the original mixes for the adventurous Anthem Of The Sun (1968) and Aoxomoxoa (1969), available on vinyl for the first time in nearly 40 years.

Meticulously produced, the attractive set offers detailed replicas of the original albums housed in a hard-shell case that protects and stores the music with an accompanying 12" x 12" book including unpublished photos and new liner notes by band expert Blair Jackson. To ensure the highest degree of quality, the albums were pressed on 180-gram vinyl at RTI using lacquers cut from the original analog masters by Chris Bellman at Bernie Grundman Mastering.

Always sticklers for sonic quality, these pressings match the band's exacting standards by presenting the Dead's unique miasma of rock, psychedelia, folk, country, jug-band, jazz, bluegrass, and blues music on a tremendous soundstage replete with previously unheard transparency, dynamics, warmth, balance, presence, and tonality. The amounts of newfound detail and information are positively mind-blowing (the stripped-back Workingman's Dead and American Beauty now radiate with acoustic woodiness, defined body, harmonic truth, and you-are-there realism), as are the full-scale restorations of Anthem of the Sun and Aoxomoxoa.

The original mixes for Anthem of the Sun and Aoxomoxoa, featured here for the first time since they were released, went out of circulation in 1972 and 1971 respectively. Garcia and Lesh revisited Aoxomoxoa two years after its release in an effort to cut through the dense mix, a result of the band’s extensive experimenting in the studio with one of the first 16-track recorders. The overhaul changed the album’s sound significantly, including the end of “Doin’ That Rag,” which originally closed with an a cappella vocal coda that was later removed. Longtime fans and newbies alike will relish what they hear.

Don't pass up on this incredible set. Music lovers will be talking about this one for a long time. Discover why those in the know realize that the Dead's talents weren't just limited to the stage and why their early studio recording are closet audiophile classics.

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Grateful Dead - The Warner Brothers Studio Albums Contents

The Grateful Dead - 1967

FLAC | 24/96 & 16/44.1 | Stereo | 729 MB & 211 MB - 5% recovery

Side One
1. The Golden Road (To Unlimited Devotion)
2. Beat It On Down The Line
3. Good Morning Little School Girl
4. Cold Rain And Snow
5. Sitting On Top Of The World
6. Cream Puff War
Side Two
1. Morning Dew
2. New, New Minglewood Blues
3. Viola Lee Blues

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Anthem Of The Sun - 1968

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Side One
1. That’s It For The Other One
I. Cryptical Envelopment
II. Quadlibet For Tender Feet
III. The Faster We Go, The Rounder We Get
IV. We Leave The Castle
2. New Potato Caboose
3. Born Cross-Eyed”
Side Two
1. Alligator
2. Caution (Do Not Stop On Tracks)

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Aoxomoxoa - 1969

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Side One
1. St. Stephen
2. Dupree’s Diamond Blues
3. Rosemary
4. Doin’ That Rag
5. Mountains Of The Moon
Side Two
1. China Cat Sunflower
2. What’s Become Of The Baby
3. Cosmic Charlie

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Workingman’s Dead - 1970

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Side One
1. Uncle John's Band
2. High Time
3. Dire Wolf
4. New Speedway Boogie
Side Two
1. Cumberland Blues
2. Black Peter
3. Easy Wind
4. Casey Jones

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American Beauty - 1970

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Side One
1. Box Of Rain
2. Friend Of The Devil
3. Sugar Magnolia
4. Operator
5. Candyman
Side Two
1. Ripple
2. Brokedown Palace
3. Till The Morning Comes
4. Attics Of My Life
5. Truckin’

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16 page booklet art
Here's the scans of the 16 page booklet, and the front of the box, reduced to CD booklet size :)
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No mirror links please, thanks.

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Posted By: kanas Date: 24 Nov 2010 14:45:36

Thanks man.i love this Group

Posted By: bh80231 Date: 24 Nov 2010 15:02:57

What a huge post, thanks so much!

Posted By: yerbas07 Date: 24 Nov 2010 15:15:20

Muchas gracias.

Posted By: muziclover Date: 24 Nov 2010 15:21:29

This post can be filed under EPIC.... Thanks... great contribution!!!

Posted By: aksman Date: 24 Nov 2010 15:21:53

This is an incredible sounding box... Chris Bellman at Grundman Mastering did an outstanding job on these records.
Grab them as long as they are available! Great job Mister Cee, it saves me some time (had it on my list for ripping too!)

Posted By: Mister Cee Date: 24 Nov 2010 15:31:51

"Chris Bellman at Grundman Mastering did an outstanding job on these records."
Yes, he certainly did :D

Posted By: Dr. Robert Date: 24 Nov 2010 15:40:05

Glad to see this here. I already downloaded your rips from the other place. The sound is outstanding as are the rips.

Posted By: StirBlues Date: 24 Nov 2010 15:46:42

I've always wanted to hear the original Anthem of the Sun mix, thank you for your god-like kindness. I'm glad you are back , you're rips are amazing :)

Posted By: kwork Date: 24 Nov 2010 16:07:14

Ah, yes! Thank you very much! It'll be interesting to compare these with other vinyl rips to see how these new pressings compare.

Posted By: kwork Date: 24 Nov 2010 16:14:51

If I'm not mistaken, the original Anthem of the Sun mix is the one that has been available on cd all these years? Correct me if I'm wrong. It's the Aoxomoxoa original mix that hasn't been available in any media for a long time. I'm hoping to find out for sure.

Posted By: Mister Cee Date: 24 Nov 2010 16:39:04

That's correct kwork :)
"Anthem Of The Sun was remixed and reissued by Warner Brothers in 1971/1972. Subsequent LP releases and some early CD releases use the remixed version of the album."
But the current CDs have the original mix.
The mix on Aoxomoxoa here is the one that hasn't been available for years.
"Remixed and reissued in a slightly altered sleeve by Warner Brothers in 1972. Released on CD in 1987 by Warner Brothers 2-1790
All CD releases have been of the remixed version"

Posted By: kwork Date: 24 Nov 2010 17:23:13

Thank you, Mister See, for confirming that. I appreciate it.

Posted By: MusicLoverMan Date: 24 Nov 2010 17:45:46

Thanks a lot!

Posted By: spencexxx Date: 24 Nov 2010 18:21:34

I'd rather listen to paint dry (yeah, you read it right) than the Dead, but I wanted to comment and thank you for the work. If it were a band I like, this would be epic, and I"m sure the fans appreciate it!

Posted By: Kel bazar Date: 24 Nov 2010 18:35:02

Thanks a lot Mister Cee !!!

Posted By: BasculeNo1 Date: 24 Nov 2010 19:23:10

Cheers Mister Cee, much appreciated!

Posted By: Barionas Date: 24 Nov 2010 19:28:19

Thanks a lot. Great as usual.

Posted By: Miltiades Date: 24 Nov 2010 19:55:45

Fantastic post - thank You very much!

Posted By: beebyte Date: 24 Nov 2010 20:41:55

Very Very Nice! Thanks for all the hard work here...much appreciated.

Posted By: Mister Cee Date: 24 Nov 2010 21:40:16

@ spencexxx, actually up until only a few years ago I used to think much the same ;)
I'd heard tapes from friends and even borrowed a few LPs, but they didn't really do anything for me, this would be some 25- 30 years ago.
But then I downloaded some Phil Lesh and Friends recordings from bt.etree.org, mainly because Warren Haynes was on them, and realised that some of these Dead tunes aren't so bad at all ;)

Posted By: buggly Date: 24 Nov 2010 23:40:13

Thanks, Mister Cee! The whole 'Dead' thing passed me by too but, thanks to your generosity, I'm actually liking them! Funny how one gravitates to a particular artist or style when growing up and then can go back and find a whole other world that was sitting there all the time! :) Thanks again.

Posted By: Dr. Robert Date: 25 Nov 2010 00:59:40

@ spencexxx - Try American Beauty first. That is the Dead LP that may have the broadest appeal.

Posted By: Laserman59 Date: 25 Nov 2010 02:48:20

Thank you Mister Cee for your great quality work. :-)

Posted By: kwork Date: 25 Nov 2010 03:00:26

I have to agree with Dr. Robert. American Beauty is a great starting point with the Grateful Dead. It's where I started. In order, with these five albums, I'd listen to the following:

American Beauty (their most accessible album, not heavy on the jam band emphasis, great songwriting)

Workingman's Dead (almost as accessible, and still classic, great songwriting and one obvious jam, Easy Wind)

Aoxomoxoa (more jams, some psychedelia, and some otherworldly beauty, check Marianne and Mountains of the Moon)
Anthem of the Sun (brilliant, yet psychedelic and weird, keep at the bottom of the list if weird is not your thing)

The Grateful Dead (their first album, more straightforward blues influenced rock, some good early jams though it's my least favorite of the five available here)

Posted By: SuperFuzz Date: 25 Nov 2010 12:50:42

A lot of work went into this share... thanks !

Posted By: Nick Cave Date: 26 Nov 2010 21:36:02

Uhhhhh Fantastico post Mister Cee, Muchisimas Gracias y Saludos desde Argentina !!

Posted By: ManWhoCan Date: 27 Nov 2010 01:13:52

Wonderfull!!
Thank you very much.

Posted By: namrats417 Date: 27 Nov 2010 02:13:44

Great! Thanks so much for the spirit of sharing!

@buggly - that's one of the biggest perks of being "old" - we grew up in the time of the greatest and most prolific bands; there was no way we could assimilate it all as teenagers before the workaday world swallowed us up - now we get a chance to relax and catch up on all the dynamite stuff that got past us then.
(especially thanks again to all who love it enough to still have it, research the remasters and most of all share it!)

Posted By: Jake36 Date: 27 Nov 2010 09:30:05

Thanks very much for the work you put in to this share (a labor of love, I'm sure). When these were originally released I was not a Dead fan at all, despite my roommate playing their LP's all the time. However, I am much more open to their material today. I do like 'American Beauty' and 'Workingman's Dead', so I'm looking forward to hearing these other early LP's. Cheers!

Posted By: lplover Date: 29 Nov 2010 18:39:24

You've done a really "Great" job. Thank You very much, Mister Cee. I'm gonna enjoy these wonderful rips in between the next weeks.
lplover

Posted By: karamuru Date: 31 Dec 2010 16:45:11

Thanks very much! How Can I burn into a DVD-R the 24/96 versions? One more time thanks.

Posted By: Mister Cee Date: 31 Dec 2010 21:58:46

@ karamuru , try Lplex
More alternatives here - http://24bit.turtleside.com/

Posted By: karamuru Date: 02 Jan 2011 11:25:09

Lplex work well, the free tool to make DVD-Audio is very good. Thanks Mister Cee.

Posted By: CingJohn Date: 15 Apr 2011 00:49:23

Very,very good rip - Thank you sir.

Posted By: JoJoPurdie Date: 02 Sep 2011 21:30:58

The best possible way to get into this band, awesome, big thx :)

Posted By: ProgWizard Date: 23 Sep 2011 12:31:09

Huuuu, this is huge. Don't know to much about GD, now, due to you I have the chance to learn more about them and I thanks for it. I'll take the advice of Doc and begin with "American Beauty".

Posted By: tmtomh Date: 24 Oct 2011 05:02:17

Mister Cee rules! Thanks so much for these terrific rips.

Posted By: BigBangPeng Date: 02 Dec 2011 22:43:02

Once again, Mister Cee:

Thank you very much for this fantastic post!
I appreciate your exquisite work.
Vielen Dank!

Cheers from Berlin:-)

PS:
Many thanks for RS links too!

Posted By: JS5366 Date: 08 Jan 2012 21:33:29

Mister Cee,

Having first heard "Friend of the Devil" approximately 30 years ago, I can honestly say I've never heard it sound better. The quality of your transfers is fantastic. Thank you so much for sharing this collection with all of us.

Regards,
JS

Posted By: kelhard Date: 26 Feb 2012 07:07:01

OMG Thank you for the share. I've been wanting these for a long time. Everything sounds so fresh. Anthem sounds totally different to my ears (even though the current CD uses the same mix, not necessarily the same master tape) and has more detail. Aoxomoxoa sounds fantastic in its long lost original mix. Everything about this upload rocks.

THANK YOU.

Posted By: perlerorneq69 Date: 22 Apr 2012 20:54:19

I'm SHOCKED these are still available!!
Downloading NOW!!
Thank you, :) p

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