Released March 15, 2005 Length 387:54 Release date 15 March 2005 Producer David Lemieux Genres Jam band, Folk rock | Recorded October 16 – 20, 1974 Artist Grateful Dead Movie The Grateful Dead Movie Label Grateful Dead Records | |
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The Grateful Dead Movie Soundtrack
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The Grateful Dead Movie Soundtrack is a five CD live album by the Grateful Dead. It was recorded October 16–20, 1974, and was released on March 15, 2005.
Contents
In 1974 the Grateful Dead were exhausted from touring, and it had proven too expensive and cumbersome to tour with the "Wall of Sound" sound system. In response, the group decided to stop touring for an indefinite period of time. In October they played five nights at the Winterland Ballroom in San Francisco, California. As they were the last concerts before the hiatus, the Grateful Dead wanted them to be properly recorded and documented by a film crew.
The results were a rather unsuccessful live album, Steal Your Face, and a film, The Grateful Dead Movie. The movie was released in theaters in 1977, and on videotape in 1981. In 2004 it was expanded to a double DVD with bonus cuts and documentaries. A few months later, a five CD album was released as The Grateful Dead Movie Soundtrack. The album included even more previously unreleased tracks, including a rare "Tomorrow Is Forever". The DVD contains one track not released on the soundtrack ("Sugaree" from October 18, which was previously released on Steal Your Face). Likewise, half of the selections are unique to this box set and not included in the DVD movie. Furthermore, despite being a rather comprehensive five-disc box set, it only captures about half of the nearly 60 different songs played across this five-night stand.
Disc one
- "U.S. Blues" (Robert Hunter, Jerry Garcia) – 5:13
- "One More Saturday Night" (Bob Weir) – 6:33
- "China Cat Sunflower" > (Hunter, Garcia) – 9:14
- "I Know You Rider" (traditional, arr. Grateful Dead) – 6:07
- "Eyes of the World" > (Hunter, Garcia) – 13:01
- "China Doll" (Hunter, Garcia) – 6:16
- "Playing in the Band" (Hunter, Mickey Hart, Weir) – 31:44
Disc two
- "Scarlet Begonias" (Hunter, Garcia) – 13:56
- "He's Gone" > (Hunter, Garcia) – 13:01
- "Jam" > (Grateful Dead) – 7:31
- "Weirdness" > (Grateful Dead) – 8:05
- "The Other One" > (Bill Kreutzman, Weir) – 7:34
- "Spanish Jam" > (Grateful Dead) – 1:48
- "Mind Left Body Jam" > (Grateful Dead) – 3:10
- "The Other One" > (Kreutzman, Weir) – 2:28
- "Stella Blue" (Hunter, Garcia) – 9:04
- "Casey Jones" (Hunter, Garcia) – 5:23
Disc three
- "Weather Report Suite" – 16:44
- "Prelude" (Weir)
- "Part I" (Eric Andersen, Weir)
- "Part II: Let It Grow" (John Barlow, Weir)
- "Jam" > (Grateful Dead) – 8:54
- "Dark Star" > (Hunter, Garcia, Hart, Kreutzman, Phil Lesh, Pigpen, Weir) – 24:10
- "Morning Dew" (Bonnie Dobson, Tim Rose) – 13:54
- "Not Fade Away" > (Buddy Holly, Norman Petty) – 8:34
- "Goin' Down the Road Feeling Bad" (trad., arr. Grateful Dead) – 7:33
Disc four
- "Uncle John's Band" (Hunter, Garcia) – 9:08
- "Big Railroad Blues" (Noah Lewis) – 5:02
- "Tomorrow Is Forever" (Dolly Parton, Porter Wagoner) – 6:26
- "Sugar Magnolia" (Hunter, Weir) – 5:26
- "He's Gone" > (Hunter, Garcia) – 13:49
- "Caution Jam" > (Grateful Dead) – 4:30
- "Drums" > (Kreutzman) – 1:23
- "Space" > (Grateful Dead) – 9:14
- "Truckin'" > (Hunter, Garcia, Lesh, Weir) – 9:48
- "Black Peter" (Hunter, Garcia) – 10:10
- "Sunshine Daydream" (Hunter, Weir) – 3:14
Disc five
- "Playing in the Band" > (Hunter, Hart, Weir) – 13:24
- "Drums" > (Hart, Kreutzman) – 4:09
- "Not Fade Away" > (Holly, Petty) – 14:44
- "Drums" > (Hart, Kreutzman) – 4:53
- "The Other One" > (Kreutzman, Weir) – 10:56
- "Wharf Rat" > (Hunter, Garcia) – 9:35
- "Playing in the Band" (Hunter, Hart, Weir) – 8:38
- "Johnny B. Goode" (Chuck Berry) – 3:55
- "Mississippi Half-Step Uptown Toodleloo" > (Hunter, Garcia) – 7:34
- "We Bid You Goodnight" (trad., arr. Grateful Dead) – 1:59