Category: Grateful Dead

More From The Vault :: The Grateful Dead in 1975

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Just about 50 years ago, the Grateful Dead took the stage at the Great American Musical Hall, a newly opened 500-capacity club in downtown San Francisco. The ensuing show, captured on a sparkling 16-track recording, was eventually released in 1991 as One From The Vault. As its title suggests, the double-disc set was the Dead’s first dip back into their live archives, kicking off a cavalcade of concert tapes that continues to this day.

Nineteen-seventy-five is one of the stranger years in the Grateful Dead’s long, strange trip. The band played only three other shows in addition to the GAMH gig, all hometown affairs, all fairly different from one another, all very much worth your time. Now at Aquarium Drunkard, a brief listening guide follows …

Dead Notes :: The Re-Up, Vol. 1-15

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Back by popular demand: for the first time since 2018, we’ve just re-upped the entirety of the music featured in our Dead Notes column, as penned by D Norsen from 2013-18. Get ’em while they’re hot. The two PDF zines included.

For heads, by heads.

Ned Lagin :: The Aquarium Drunkard Interview

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Experimental composer Ned Lagin began composing Seastones during his time at MIT, building off of his love of free jazz and his studies of Renaissance music. But it took firmer shape through jams and recording sessions with various members of the Dead (Garcia, Mickey Hart, Phil Lesh) and other Bay Area luminaries like David Crosby and Jefferson Airplane’s Grace Slick. Originally issued by Jerry Garcia’s Round Records, it’s being reissued by Important Records. Lagin joined us to discuss the triumph and heartbreak of this pioneering electronic work.