Released May 1992 Length 109:11 Release date May 1992 Label Grateful Dead/Rhino | Recorded August 23 – 24, 1968 Artist Grateful Dead Producer Dan Healy | |
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Two from the Vault
(1992) Dick's Picks Volume 1
(1993) Genres Rock music, Psychedelic rock, Jam band, Acid rock Similar Grateful Dead albums, Jam band albums, Other albums | ||
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Two from the Vault is a two-CD live album by the rock band the Grateful Dead. It was recorded at the Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles, California on August 24, 1968. The event was left unreleased for nearly 25 years, before being mixed down from the original multi-track reels and released on Grateful Dead Records in 1992.
Contents
Recording
The concert was recorded on a then-state-of-the-art, one-inch 8-track tape machine that was supplied by the band's record label, Warner Bros. The record company also insisted on supplying engineers who turned out to be unfamiliar with the close miking technique involved in recording rock music. Consequently, each of the eight tracks contained significant leakage from all of the other instruments in the band, resulting in severe phase cancellation problems.
Almost twenty-four years later, Don Pearson and producer Dan Healy solved this problem by employing a B&K 2032 Fast Fourier transform (FFT) digital spectrum analyzer to measure the delay in time between the different microphones, using the track of bassist Phil Lesh as the time centerpiece. The delay times were fed into a TC1280 stereo digital delay, which, along with careful mixing, resulted in a nearly perfect stereo image.
Releases
An expanded edition of the album, with a third CD, was released in 2007 featuring the three songs (from August 23, 1968) previously released as bonus tracks on the 2003 reissue of Anthem of the Sun .
Two from the Vault was released by Light in the Attic Records as a four-disc vinyl LP on December 9, 2014.
Track listing
Disc one
- "Good Morning, Little Schoolgirl" (Sonny Boy Williamson) – 15:59
- "Dark Star" (Hunter, Garcia, Hart, Kreutzman, Lesh, McKernan, Weir) – 11:20
- "Saint Stephen" (Hunter, Garcia, Lesh) – 4:40
- "The Eleven" (Hunter, Lesh) – 14:27
- "Death Don't Have No Mercy" (Reverend Gary Davis) – 8:23
Disc two
- "That's It for the Other One: Cryptical Envelopment/Quodlibet for Tenderfeet/The Faster We Go The Rounder We Get" (Garcia/Kreutzman, Weir) – 15:40
- "New Potato Caboose" (Petersen, Lesh) – 14:16
- "Turn On Your Lovelight" (Joseph Scott, Deadric Malone) – 17:13
- "(Walk Me Out in the) Morning Dew" (Bonnie Dobson, Tim Rose) – 7:13
Disc three (2007 expanded edition)
- "Alligator" (McKernan, Lesh, Hunter) – 18:43
- "Caution (Do Not Stop on Tracks)" (McKernan, Grateful Dead) – 11:30
- "Feedback" (Grateful Dead) – 4:01
Grateful Dead
Production
Charts
Album - Billboard
Songs
1Good Morning Little Schoolgirl [Live at Shrine Auritorium - August 23-24 - 1968]15:59
2Dark Star [Live at Shrine Auritorium - August 23-24 - 1968]11:21
3Saint Stephen [Live at Shrine Auritorium - August 23-24 - 1968]4:40