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The Grateful Dead went the Beatles one better. Sure, the Fabs had Apple, but the lucrative distribution rights belonged to EMI.The Dead kept the distribution rights "in the family" for this, their first record on their brand new label.It gained a certain notoriety because it seemed that there were no good clean pressings. I still have three vinyl copies of this and none of them ever sounded too good. Oh the production values of the recordings are above reproach, but I t... MORE
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One of those albums you hold close, the kind you listen to on a winter's day just so you can smile, just so you can hear Jerry sing "Nailed a retread to my feet, and prayed for better weather" or "That's the way it's been in town, ever since they tore the jukebox down. Two bit piece don't buy no more, not so much as it done before." I don't bother to try and learn or memorize a lot of lyrics, hell I'm lucky if I can sing along with a song I've heard fifty times, but thos... MORE
