Without a Net

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	John Cutler, Phil Lesh
The Grateful Dead chronology
Built to Last (1989) Without a Net (1990) One From the Vault (1991)

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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 of a drug overdose during this album's post-production. The album was certified Gold by the RIAA on November 27, 1990.^[2] Other releases of live performances from the same time period (including additional material from the same concerts) are Dozin' at the Knick, Postcards of the Hanging, Terrapin Station (Limited Edition), So Many Roads (1965–1995), Garcia Plays Dylan, Spring 1990, Formerly the Warlocks, Spring 1990 (The Other One) and Nightfall of Diamonds.

Track listing

Disc one

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

Disc two

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

Notes

Musical personnel

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

with

• Branford Marsalis – tenor saxophone and soprano saxophone on "Eyes of the World"

Recording dates

• "Feel Like A Stranger" recorded at Hampton Coliseum, Hampton, Virginia on October 9, 1989
• "Victim or the Crime" recorded at Brendan Byrne Arena, East Rutherford, NJ on October 15, 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" 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

Charts

Album—Billboard

References