Without a Net

Infobox Album | Name = Without a Net
Type = Live album
Artist = The Grateful Dead


Released = September, 1990
Recorded = October, 1989 - April, 1990
Genre = Rock
Length = 131:56
Label = Arista
Producer = John Cutler, Phil Lesh
Reviews =
* Allmusic Rating|4|5 [http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:7zaqoauabijm link]
Last album = "Dylan & The Dead"
(1990)
This album = "Without a Net"
(1990)
Next album = "One From the Vault"
(1991)

"Without a Net" is a recording of the Grateful Dead performing live in concert. It was released in 1990. The album is dedicated to Clifton Hanger, a name keyboardist Brent Mydland used to sign in hotel guestbooks. Mydland died during this album's post-production of a drug overdose.

Track listing

Disc one

#"Feel Like a Stranger" (Barlow, Weir) – 7:32
#"Mississippi Half-Step Uptown Toodleloo" (Hunter, Garcia) – 8:00
#"Walkin' Blues" (Johnson, arr. Weir) – 5:44
#"Althea" (Hunter, Garcia) – 6:55
#"Cassidy" (Barlow, Weir) – 6:36
#"Bird Song" (Hunter, Garcia) – 12:57
#"Let It Grow" (Barlow, Weir) – 11:55

Disc two

#"China Cat Sunflower / I Know You Rider" (Hunter, Garcia/trad., arr. Grateful Dead) – 10:24
#"Looks Like Rain" (Barlow, Weir) – 8:04
#"Eyes of the World" (Hunter, Garcia) – 16:14
#"Victim or the Crime" (Graham, Weir) – 8:04
#"Help on the Way/Slipknot!/Franklin's Tower" (Hunter, Garcia/Grateful Dead/Hunter, Garcia, Kreutzman) – 19:07
#"One More Saturday Night" (Weir) – 4:51
#"Dear Mr. Fantasy" (Capaldi, Winwood, Wood) – 5:44

Musical Personnel

*Jerry Garcia - guitar, vocals
*Bob Weir - guitar, vocals
*Brent Mydland - keyboards, vocals
*Phil Lesh - bass guitar
*Bill Kreutzmann - drums
*Mickey Hart - drums

with

*Branford Marsalis - saxophone on "Eyes of the World"

Recording dates

*"Feel Like A Stranger" recorded at Hampton Coliseum, Hampton, Virginia on October 9, 1989
*"Cassidy" recorded at The Spectrum, Philadelphia on October 19, 1989
*"Bird Song" recorded at Great Western Forum, Inglewood, California on December 9, 1989
*"Let It Grow" recorded at Capital Centre, Landover, Maryland on March 14, 1990
*"Walkin' Blues" and "Althea" recorded at Capital Centre on March 15, 1990
*"Mississippi Half-Step Uptown Toodleloo" and "Victim or the Crime" recorded at Copps Coliseum, Hamilton, Ontario on March 21, 1990
*"One More Saturday Night" recorded at Knickerbocker Arena, Albany, New York on March 24, 1990
*"Looks Like Rain" recorded at Nassau Coliseum, Uniondale, New York on March 28, 1990
*"Eyes of the World" recorded at Nassau Coliseum on March 29, 1990
*"Help on the Way/Slipknot!/Franklin's Tower" recorded at Nassau Coliseum on March 30, 1990
*"China Cat Sunflower/I Know You Rider" and "Dear Mr. Fantasy" recorded at The Omni, Atlanta on April 1, 1990

Charts

Album - Billboard