The Grateful Dead The Warner Brothers Studio Albums 180g Vinyl LP 5 Disc Box Set

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Deluxe 180g 5LP Box Set Mastered From Original Analog Masters by Chris Bellman at Bernie Grundman Mastering Studios and Pressed at RTI!

Between 1967 and 1970, the Grateful Dead recorded five studio albums for Warner Bros. Records that formed the psychedelic canon on which the band’s live legend was built.

Celebrate the 40th Anniversary of Workingman’s Dead and American Beauty with THE WARNER BROS. STUDIO ALBUMS, a five-LP boxed set. The collection contains The Grateful Dead (1967), Workingman’s Dead, and American Beauty (1970), plus the original mixes for Anthem Of The Sun (1968) and Aoxomoxoa (1969), available on vinyl for the first time in nearly 40 years. 

The original mixes for Anthem of the Sun and Aoxomoxoa — featured here for the first time since they were released — went out of circulation in 1972 and 1971 respectively. Garcia and Lesh revisited Aoxomoxoa two years after its release in an effort to cut through the dense mix, which was a result of the band’s extensive experimenting in the studio with one of the first 16-track recorders. The overhaul changed the album’s sound significantly, including the end of “Doin’ That Rag,” which originally closed with an a cappella vocal coda that was later removed.

The set also offers detailed replicas of the original albums housed in a hard-shell case that protects and stores the music with the accompanying 12" x 12" book including unpublished photos and new liner notes by Blair Jackson. To ensure the highest degree of quality, the albums were pressed on 180-gram vinyl at RTI using lacquers cut from the original analog masters by Chris Bellman at Bernie Grundman Mastering.

Features:

• 5LP Box Set

• Premium 180g vinyl pressing

• All original replica packaging featuring heavy board tip-on jackets

• Pressed at RTI

• Lacquers cut from original analog masters

• Mastered by Chris Bellman at Bernie Grundman Mastering

• Includes a new 16-page 12" x 12" booklet with previously unpublished photos of the band

• Includes new linear notes by Blair Jackson

• Package measures 12 3/4" x 12 3/4" x 1 1/4"

Selections:

LP1 - Greatful Dead (1967):

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

LP2 - Anthem Of The Sun (1968):

Side One:

1. That's It For The Other One

a. Cryptical Envelopement

b. Quadlibet For Tenderfeel

c. The Faster We Go The Rounder We Get

2. New Potatoe Caboose

3. Born Cross-Eyed

Side Two:

1. Alligator

2. Caution (Do Not Stop On Tracks)

LP3 - Aoxomoxoa (1969):

Side I:

1. St. Stephen

2. Dupree's Diamond Blues

3. Rosemary

4. Doin' That Rag

5. Mountains of the Moon

Side II:

1. China Cat Sunflower

2. What's Become of the Baby

3. Cosmic Charlie

LP4 - Workingman's Dead (1970):

Side One:

1. Uncle John's Band

2. High Time

3. Dire Wolf

4. New Speedway Boogie

Side Two:

1. Cumberland Blues

2. Black Peter

3. Easy Wind

4. Casey Jones

LP5 - American Beauty (1970):

Side One:

1. Box Of Rain

2. Friend Of The Devil

3. Sugar Magnolia

4. Operator

5. Candyman

Side Two:

1. Ripple

2. Brokedown Palace

3. Till The Morning Comes

4. Attics Of My Life

5. Truckin'