GRATEFUL DEAD s/t V Rare Orig 1967 UK LP 1st Gold Label Mono press Psych
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Grateful Dead
1st
Very Rare original UK LP released on Warner Brothers Records in 1967. 1st UK Mono pressing on the Gold label, the sleeve is laminated on the front with flipbacks on the rear.
Matrix No's
Side One - W1689A-1
Side Two - W1689B-1
The Grateful Dead's eponymously titled debut long-player was issued in mid-March of 1967. This gave rise to one immediate impediment -- the difficulty in attempting to encapsulate/recreate the Dead's often improvised musical magic onto a single LP. Unfortunately, the sterile environs of the recording studio disregards the subtle and often not-so-subtle ebbs and zeniths that are so evident within a live experience. So, while this studio recording ultimately fails in accurately exhibiting The Grateful Dead's tremendous range, it's a valiant attempt to corral the group's hydra-headed psychedelic jug-band music on vinyl. Under the technical direction of Dave Hassinger -- who had produced the Rolling Stones as well as the Jefferson Airplane -- the Dead recorded the album in Los Angeles during a Ritalin-fuelled "long weekend" in early 1967. Rather than prepare all new material for the recording sessions, a vast majority of the disc is comprised of titles that the band had worked into their concurrent performance repertoire. This accounts for the unusually high ratio (seven:two) of folk and blues standards to original compositions. The entire group took credit for the slightly saccharine "Golden Road (To Unlimited Devotion)," while Jerry Garcia (guitar/vocals) is credited for the noir garage-flavored raver "Cream Puff War." Interestingly, both tracks were featured as the respective A- and B-sides of the only 45 rpm single derived from this album. The curious aggregate of cover tunes featured on the Dead's initial outing also demonstrates the band's wide-ranging musical roots and influences. These include Pigpen's greasy harp-fuelled take on Sonny Boy Williamson's "Good Morning Little School Girl" and the minstrel one-man-band folk of Jessie "the Lone Cat" Fuller's "Beat It On Down the Line." The apocalyptic Cold War folk anthem "Morning Dew" (aka "[Walk Me Out in The] Morning Dew") is likewise given a full-bodied electric workout as is the obscure jug-band stomper "Viola Lee Blues."
TRACKS ARE :-
Side One
1. The Golden Road (To Unlimited Devotion)
2. Beat It On Down The Line
3. Good Mornin' Little School Girl
4. Cold Rain And Snow
5. Sittin' On Top Of The World
6. Cream Puff War
Side Two
1. Morning Dew
2. New, New Minglewood Blues
3. Viola Lee Blues
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Released on Warner Brothers Records in 1967
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Catalogue Number W 1689
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Record is in G condition (due to a nasty mark on the 1st track that will sound and my jump, the rest of the record is in very good condition with just a few very light marks)
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Sleeve is in Vg condition (due to a little damage to the front at the bottom, See pictures)
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