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View from the Vault, Volume Two

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Released
  
June, 2001

Label
  
Grateful Dead Records

Length
  
207:44

Initial release
  
June 2001

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Recorded
  
July 12, 1990 – June 14, 1991

View from the Vault, Volume Two (2001)
  
Nightfall of Diamonds (2001)

Genres
  
Folk rock, Psychedelic rock, Jam band

Similar
  
Infrared Sightings, Ticket to New Year's, Dead Ringers: The Maki, Grateful Dead: So Far, Anthem to Beauty

View from the Vault, Volume Two (or View from the Vault II) is the second entry in the "View from the Vault" series by the Grateful Dead. It was released simultaneously as a three-disk CD and a one-disk DVD. This volume features the June 14, 1991 concert at Robert F. Kennedy Stadium in Washington, D.C., and bonus material from a show at the same venue on July 12, 1990. It is the only Grateful Dead video release featuring Vince Welnick and Bruce Hornsby.

Contents

The DVD contains one track that is not on the CD, "Box of Rain", recorded at the 1990 show. It also includes a music video, "Liberty", directed by Justin Kreutzmann, the son of Dead drummer Bill Kreutzmann. The video uses audio from March 30, 1994, Atlanta, which was previously released on So Many Roads (1965–1995). The "Rubin and Cherise" on the DVD menu is from the show on June 9, 1991. The set was certified Gold by the RIAA on February 27, 2003.

Disc one

  1. "Cold Rain & Snow" (trad., arr. Grateful Dead) – 7:00
  2. "Wang Dang Doodle" (Willie Dixon) – 6:39
  3. "Jack-a-Roe" (trad., arr. Grateful Dead) – 5:48
  4. "Big River" (Johnny Cash) – 5:43
  5. "Maggie's Farm" (Bob Dylan) – 7:44
  6. "Row Jimmy" (Robert Hunter, Jerry Garcia) – 11:04
  7. "Black-Throated Wind" (John Barlow, Bob Weir) – 7:19
  8. "Tennessee Jed" (Hunter, Garcia) – 7:49
  9. "The Music Never Stopped" (Barlow, Weir) – 8:55

Disc two

  1. "Help on the Way" (Hunter, Garcia) – 4:33
  2. "Slipknot!" (Grateful Dead) – 8:30
  3. "Franklin's Tower" (Hunter, Garcia, Bill Kreutzmann) – 12:27
  4. "Estimated Prophet" (Barlow, Weir) – 13:08
  5. "Dark Star" (Hunter, Garcia, Mickey Hart, Kreutzman, Phil Lesh, Ron McKernan, Weir) – 11:29
  6. "Drums" (Hart, Kreutzman) – 9:54
  7. "Space" (Garcia, Lesh, Weir) – 6:26

Disc three

  1. "Stella Blue" (Hunter, Garcia) – 13:10
  2. "Turn on Your Love Light" (Deadric Malone, Joseph Scott) – 9:13
  3. "It's All Over Now, Baby Blue" (Dylan) – 7:16
Bonus tracks from July 12, 1990:
  1. "Victim or the Crime" (Gerrit Graham, Weir) – 8:29
  2. "Foolish Heart" (Hunter, Garcia) – 10:10
  3. "Dark Star" (Hunter, Garcia, Hart, Kreutzman, Lesh, McKernan, Weir) – 24:58

Personnel

  • Jerry Garcia – lead guitar, vocals
  • Bob Weir – rhythm guitar, vocals
  • Phil Lesh – bass guitar, vocals
  • Vince Welnick – keyboards, vocals
  • Mickey Hart – drums, percussion
  • Bill Kreutzman – drums, percussion
  • Bruce Hornsby – accordion, piano, synthesizer, vocals
  • Dan Healy – recording
  • Dick Latvala – tape archivist
  • David Lemieux – tape archivist
  • Eileen Law – archival research
  • Robert Minkin – design
  • Susana Millman – photography
  • Candace Brightman – Lighting

    • References

    View from the Vault, Volume Two Wikipedia
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