Grateful Dead (Skull & Roses)

Grateful Dead (Skull & Roses)For the Grateful Dead's second live album, released two years after its predecessor LIVE DEAD, the band delivered an equally magnificent, but entirely different, Grateful Dead sound. Whereas LIVE DEAD was a perfect sonic encapsulation of the band at the peak of their Primal Dead era, SKULL & ROSES captures the quintessential quintet, the original five piece band, playing some of their hardest hitting rock 'n' roll. 50th anniversary remastered on

On the surface

The orchestra was headed by Trey Pollard who was responsible for both conducting and arranging

Minor shelf wear/stress accumulation to an otherwise decent sleeve

From mutant drum machine beats to irresistible synthesizer hooks

moving over two million copies in the U

No-one involved can recall exactly how it came about

the follow-up to the critically acclaimed

Includes download card

as well as covers of The Grateful Dead

Pressed on Transparent Red vinyl

Stapleton and his wife Morgane

the first since the late '90s