Without a Net

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Without a Net
Live album by The Grateful Dead
Released	September, 1990
Recorded	October, 1989 - April, 1990
Genre	Rock
Length	131:56
Label	Arista
Producer(s)	John Cutler, Phil Lesh
Professional reviews
All Music Guide link
The Grateful Dead chronology
Dylan & The Dead (1990)	Without a Net (1990)	One From the Vault (1991)

Without a Net is a recording of the Grateful Dead performing live in concert. It was released in 1990. The album is dedicated to Clifton Hanger, a name keyboardist Brent Mydland used to sign in hotel guestbooks. Mydland died during this album's post-production on a drug overdose.

Contents 1 Track listing 1.1 Disc one 1.2 Disc two 2 Musical Personnel 3 Recording dates 4 Charts

[edit] Track listing

[edit] Disc one

1. "Feel Like a Stranger" (Barlow, Weir) – 7:32
2. "Mississippi Half-Step Uptown Toodleloo" (Hunter, Garcia) – 8:00
3. "Walkin' Blues" (Johnson, arr. Weir) – 5:44
4. "Althea" (Hunter, Garcia) – 6:55
5. "Cassidy" (Barlow, Weir) – 6:36
6. "Bird Song" (Hunter, Garcia) – 12:57
7. "Let It Grow" (Barlow, Weir) – 11:55

[edit] Disc two

1. "China Cat Sunflower/I Know You Rider" (Hunter, Garcia/trad., arr. Grateful Dead) – 10:24
2. "Looks Like Rain" (Barlow, Weir) – 8:04
3. "Eyes of the World" (Hunter, Garcia) – 16:14
4. "Victim or the Crime" (Graham, Weir) – 8:04
5. "Help on the Way/Slipknot!/Franklin's Tower" (Hunter, Garcia/Grateful Dead/Hunter, Garcia, Kreutzman) – 19:07
6. "One More Saturday Night" (Weir) – 4:51
7. "Dear Mr. Fantasy" (Capaldi, Winwood, Wood) – 5:44

[edit] Musical Personnel

• Jerry Garcia - guitar, vocals
• Bob Weir - guitar, vocals
• Brent Mydland - keyboards, vocals
• Phil Lesh - bass guitar
• Bill Kreutzmann - drums
• Mickey Hart - drums

with

• Branford Marsalis - saxophone on "Eyes of the World"

[edit] Recording dates

• "Feel Like A Stranger" recorded at Hampton Coliseum, Hampton, Virginia on October 9, 1989
• "Cassidy" recorded at The Spectrum, Philadelphia on October 19, 1989
• "Bird Song" recorded at Great Western Forum, Inglewood, California on December 9, 1989
• "Let It Grow" recorded at Capital Centre, Landover, Maryland on March 14, 1990
• "Walkin' Blues" and "Althea" recorded at Capital Centre on March 15, 1990
• "Mississippi Half-Step Uptown Toodleloo" and "Victim or the Crime" recorded at Copps Coliseum, Hamilton, Ontario on March 21, 1990
• "One More Saturday Night" recorded at Knickerbocker Arena, Albany, New York on March 24, 1990
• "Looks Like Rain" recorded at Nassau Coliseum, Uniondale, New York on March 28, 1990
• "Eyes of the World" recorded at Nassau Coliseum on March 29, 1990
• "Help on the Way/Slipknot!/Franklin's Tower" recorded at Nassau Coliseum on March 30, 1990
• "China Cat Sunflower/I Know You Rider" and "Dear Mr. Fantasy" recorded at The Omni, Atlanta on April 1, 1990

[edit] Charts

Album - Billboard

Year	Chart	Position
1990	The Billboard 200	43

The Grateful Dead
Jerry Garcia • Bob Weir • Vince Welnick • Phil Lesh • Bill Kreutzmann • Mickey Hart
Brent Mydland • Keith Godchaux • Donna Jean Godchaux • Ron "Pigpen" McKernan • Tom Constanten
Discography
Studio albums: The Grateful Dead | Anthem of the Sun | Aoxomoxoa | Workingman's Dead | American Beauty | Wake of the Flood | Grateful Dead from the Mars Hotel | Blues for Allah | Terrapin Station | Shakedown Street | Go to Heaven | In the Dark | Built to Last
Live albums: Live/Dead | Grateful Dead | Europe '72 | History of the Grateful Dead, Volume One (Bear's Choice) | Steal Your Face | Reckoning | Dead Set | Without a Net | One From the Vault | Infrared Roses | Two from the Vault | Hundred Year Hall | Dozin' at the Knick | Fallout from the Phil Zone | Live at the Fillmore East 2-11-69 | Ladies and Gentlemen ... The Grateful Dead | View From The Vault, Volume One | View From The Vault, Volume Two | Nightfall of Diamonds | Grateful Dead Documentary | Steppin' Out with the Grateful Dead: England '72 | View from the Vault, Volume Three | Go to Nassau | The Closing of Winterland | Rockin' the Rhein with the Grateful Dead | The Grateful Dead Movie Soundtrack | Rare Cuts and Oddities 1966 | Truckin' Up to Buffalo | Dicks Picks (36 Volumes) | Digital Download Series (12 Volumes)
Compilations/Box Sets: Skeletons from the Closet: The Best of Grateful Dead | What a Long Strange Trip It's Been | Dead Zone: The Grateful Dead CD Collection (1977-1987) | The Arista Years | Selections from the Arista Years | So Many Roads (1965-1995) | The Golden Road (1965-1973) | Postcards of the Hanging | Birth of the Dead | The Very Best of the Grateful Dead | Beyond Description (1973-1989) | The Complete Fillmore West 1969 | Fillmore West 1969 | Grayfolded | Live at the Cow Palace |
Lyricists
Robert Hunter • John Perry Barlow • Gerrit Graham • Bobby Petersen
Spin-off Bands
Jerry Garcia Band • Ratdog • Phil Lesh and Friends • Rhythm Devils • The Other Ones • The Dead • Bobby and the Midnights
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