Vintage Dead

Vintage Dead is a live album by the rock group the Grateful Dead. It was recorded at the Avalon Ballroom in San Francisco, California in the autumn of 1966, and released in October 1970.^[3][4][5]

Vintage Dead was produced without the approval or cooperation of the Grateful Dead.^[1] However, it is a legal recording, not a bootleg.^[6] It was released on the Sunflower Records label, a subsidiary of MGM Records, and reached number 127 on the Billboard 200.^[7] Produced as a vinyl LP and long out of print, it has not been released as a CD.

Vintage Dead was followed by another Sunflower Records album recorded at the Avalon in 1966, Historic Dead.

Track listing

Side one

1. "I Know You Rider" (traditional) – 4:25
2. "It Hurts Me Too" (Elmore James) – 4:17
3. "It's All Over Now, Baby Blue" (Bob Dylan) – 4:50
4. "Dancing in the Street" (William "Mickey" Stevenson, Marvin Gaye, Ivy Jo Hunter) – 7:55

Side two

1. "In the Midnight Hour" (Steve Cropper, Wilson Pickett) – 18:23

Personnel

Grateful Dead

• Jerry Garcia – lead guitar, vocals
• Bob Weir – rhythm guitar, vocals
• Ron "Pigpen" McKernan – organ, harmonica, vocals
• Phil Lesh – bass, vocals
• Bill Kreutzmann – drums

Production

• Produced and engineered by Robert Cohen
• Edited and remixed by Richard Delvy
• Front cover and design by John Pierce and Mokelvey
• Poster design by Kelley/Mouse Studios

References