View from the Vault, Volume Two

View From The Vault, Volume Two
Live album by Grateful Dead
Released June, 2001
Recorded July 12, 1990 - June 14, 1991
Genre Country rock
Folk-rock
Psychedelic rock
Jam
Length 207:44
Label Grateful Dead Records
Grateful Dead chronology
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(2001)
Professional ratings
Review scores
Source Rating
Allmusic [1]
The Music Box [2]

View from the Vault, Volume Two (or View from the Vault II) is the second entry in the "View from the Vault" series by the Grateful Dead. It was released simultaneously as a three-disk CD and a one-disk DVD. This volume features the June 14, 1991 concert at Robert F. Kennedy Stadium in Washington, D.C., and bonus material from a show at the same venue on July 12, 1990. It is the only Grateful Dead video release featuring Vince Welnick and Bruce Hornsby.

The DVD contains one track that is not on the CD, "Box of Rain", recorded at the 1990 show. It also includes a music video, "Liberty", directed by Justin Kreutzmann, the son of Dead drummer Bill Kreutzmann. The set was certified Gold by the RIAA on February 27, 2003.[3]

Contents

Track listing

Disc one

  1. "Cold Rain & Snow" (trad., arr. Grateful Dead) – 7:00
  2. "Wang Dang Doodle" (Willie Dixon) – 6:39
  3. "Jack-a-Roe" (trad., arr. Grateful Dead) – 5:48
  4. "Big River" (Johnny Cash) – 5:43
  5. "Maggie's Farm" (Bob Dylan) – 7:44
  6. "Row Jimmy" (Robert Hunter, Jerry Garcia) – 11:04
  7. "Black-Throated Wind" (John Barlow, Bob Weir) – 7:19
  8. "Tennessee Jed" (Hunter, Garcia) – 7:49
  9. "The Music Never Stopped" (Barlow, Weir) – 8:55

Disc two

  1. "Help on the Way" (Hunter, Garcia) – 4:33
  2. "Slipknot!" (Grateful Dead) – 8:30
  3. "Franklin's Tower" (Hunter, Garcia, Bill Kreutzmann) – 12:27
  4. "Estimated Prophet" (Barlow, Weir) – 13:08
  5. "Dark Star" (Hunter, Garcia, Mickey Hart, Kreutzman, Phil Lesh, Ron McKernan, Weir) – 11:29
  6. "Drums" (Hart, Kreutzman) – 9:54
  7. "Space" (Garcia, Lesh, Weir) – 6:26

Disc three

  1. "Stella Blue" (Hunter, Garcia) – 13:10
  2. "Turn on Your Love Light" (Deadric Malone, Joseph Scott) – 9:13
  3. "It's All Over Now, Baby Blue" (Dylan) – 7:16
Bonus tracks from July 12, 1990:
  1. "Victim or the Crime" (Gerrit Graham, Weir) – 8:29
  2. "Foolish Heart" (Hunter, Garcia) – 10:10
  3. "Dark Star" (Hunter, Garcia, Hart, Kreutzman, Lesh, McKernan, Weir) – 24:58

Personnel

Notes

  1. ^ Allmusic review
  2. ^ The Music Box review
  3. ^ "RIAA Gold & Platinum database-View from the Vault". http://www.riaa.com/goldandplatinumdata.php?resultpage=1&table=SEARCH_RESULTS&action=&title=view&artist=grateful%20dead&format=&debutLP=&category=&sex=&releaseDate=&requestNo=&type=&level=&label=&company=&certificationDate=&awardDescription=&catalogNo=&aSex=&rec_id=&charField=&gold=&platinum=&multiPlat=&level2=&certDate=&album=&id=&after=&before=&startMonth=1&endMonth=1&startYear=1958&endYear=2009&sort=Artist&perPage=25. Retrieved February 28, 2009. 

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