On June 25, Deadheads will get their hands on the new, 50th anniversary edition of the Grateful Dead’s second live LP Skull & Roses, including 60+ minutes of unreleased audio from the band’s July 2, 1971 performance at the Fillmore West.
Explains GD legacy manager/archivist David Lemieux, “Skull & Roses captures the quintessential quintet, the original five piece band, playing some of their hardest hitting rock ‘n’ roll (‘Johnny B. Goode,’ ‘Not Fade Away’), showing off their authentic Bakersfield bona fides (‘Me & My Uncle,’ ‘Mama Tried,’ ‘Me & Bobby McGee’), and some originals that would be important parts of the Dead’s live repertoire for the next 24 years (‘Bertha,’ ‘Playing In The Band,’ ‘Wharf Rat’). Of course, the Dead were never defined by one specific ‘sound’ and amongst the aforementioned genres and styles the band brought to this album, they also delved deeply into their psychedelic, primal playbook with an entire side dedicated to their 1968 masterpiece ‘The Other One.’.. Skull & Roses sounds as fresh today as the first time I heard it in 1985, and as fresh as it was upon its spectacularly well-received release in 1971.”
To celebrate, Grateful Dead HQ has shared “The Other One” from the previously-mentioned Summer ’71 rarity at San Francisco’s Fillmore West.
Listen to the 7/2/71 “The Other One” and watch Lemieux’s ‘Seaside Chat’ about the release below:
11 Comments comments associated with this post
EPT
March 28, 2021 at 2:51 amNobody has anything nice to say about it? Did anyone listen to the track mentioned in the article?
Dave the Slave
March 24, 2021 at 6:52 pmEven at their worst they are still way better than Phish.
Dufus
March 25, 2021 at 2:49 amHa-ha! My sentiments exactly.
albert michael dicicco
March 24, 2021 at 6:14 pmDo we now what additional tracts have been added to this release?
Sideshow Bob
March 24, 2021 at 3:39 pmMy least favorite of their live albums. & that includes some Worthy competitors (Steal Your Face, Dead Set). Decades ago I read an interview w/whoever mixed it & they talked about all the “sonic anomalies” & how the organ overdubs are a fraction of an octave off pitch. Coupled with the Amateurish-ness of many of the song versions since they’d just started playing them has always made this album Cringeworthy to listen to. Far rather grab that 4 disc “Closing of the Fillmore East” set which has FAR better versions & sounds FAR better sonically. It is also chock full of Choice jams unlike SkullF&^k.
user123
March 24, 2021 at 4:29 pmI think it pairs fairly well with Live Dead as a nice look at that era. Of course we’re spoiled with easy access to damn near every show they every played, but I think it holds up well…and I kinda like the early versions of some of these Dead classics
Hells Angel n
March 26, 2021 at 5:07 pmI love seeing the crusty armchair critics. Like bro, nobody gives a he’s gone rats ass what you think pal. If Bill Graham, pigpen, or Jerry were still here they would pop you in the mouth and take your four bucks in change leave you with your rings if your lucky for disrespecting Skull and Roses. Get back to yer Billy Strings ya Jerbroni.
Noob Kanceler
March 26, 2021 at 8:08 pmCringeworthy? Haha Ok. You don’t like it because someone said the organ was a fraction of an octave off-pitch. You don’t even know what that means. No one does because it’s nonsense. You’re Kanceled noob
EarCandy
March 28, 2021 at 5:11 pmFraction of an octave??????
Timothy Decker
March 29, 2021 at 6:42 amI’m glad that I dont have your ears or whatever is between them.
Moose
June 24, 2021 at 6:37 pmBob – You are a sideshow and cringeworthy!
I first got turned onto the Dead in 1980 through some live tapes from the Fillmore East in NYC from their late April 1971 run, …just weeks after the recordings that make up Skull and Roses which were from earlier in April 71 at the Manhattan Center in NYC.