Ladies and Gentlemen... the Grateful Dead

Infobox Album |
Name = Ladies and Gentlemen... the Grateful Dead
Type = Live album
Artist = Grateful Dead


Released = October, 2000
Recorded = April 25, 1971 - April 29, 1971
Genre = Country rock, folk rock, psychedelic rock, jam
Length = 296:44
Label = Grateful Dead Records / Arista Records
Producer = David Lemieux
Last album = "Dick's Picks Volume 19"
(2000)
This album = "Ladies and Gentlemen... the Grateful Dead"
(2000)
Next album = "Dick's Picks Volume 20"
(2001)

"Ladies and Gentlemen... the Grateful Dead" is a 4 CD live box set by the Grateful Dead of recordings of the April, 1971 shows at the Fillmore East in New York. The eponymous live album "Grateful Dead" was recorded at these shows as well.

Track listing

Disc one

#"Truckin'" (Robert Hunter, Jerry Garcia, Phil Lesh, Bob Weir) – 10:13
#"Bertha" (Hunter, Garcia) – 6:27
#"Next Time You See Me" (Frank Forest, William G. Harvey) – 4:23
#"Beat It on Down The Line" (Jesse Fuller) – 3:35
#"Bird Song" (Hunter, Garcia) – 9:18
#"Dark Hollow" (Bill Browning) – 3:31
#"I Second That Emotion" (Al Cleveland, William Robinson) – 5:22
#"Me and My Uncle" (John Phillips) – 3:39
#"Cumberland Blues" (Hunter, Garcia, Lesh) – 5:19
#"Good Lovin'/Drums/Good Lovin'" (Rudy Clark, Arthur Resnick/Bill Kreutzmann) – 23:08

Disc two

#"Sugar Magnolia (Hunter, Weir) – 5:48
#"Loser" (Hunter, Garcia) – 6:58
#"Ain't It Crazy (The Rub)" (Lightnin' Hopkins) – 5:36
#"El Paso" (Marty Robbins) – 5:34
#"I'm a King Bee" (Slim Harpo) – 8:27
#"Ripple" (Hunter, Garcia) – 5:15
#"Me and Bobby McGee" (Fred Foster, Kris Kristofferson) – 6:16
#"Uncle John's Band" (Hunter, Garcia) – 6:06
#"Turn On Your Love Light" (Deadric Malone, Joseph Scott) – 22:18

Disc three

#"China Cat Sunflower" (Hunter, Garcia) – 4:52
#"I Know You Rider" (trad., arr. Grateful Dead) – 6:07
#"It Hurts Me Too" (Elmore James, Marshall Sehorn) – 6:46
#"Sing Me Back Home" (Merle Haggard) – 10:03
#"Hard to Handle" (Alvertis Isbell, Allen Jones, Otis Redding) – 9:24
#"Dark Star" (Hunter, Garcia, Mickey Hart, Kreutzman, Lesh, Ron McKernan, Weir) – 13:55
#"Saint Stephen" (Hunter, Garcia, Lesh) – 6:06
#"Not Fade Away" (Buddy Holly, Norman Petty) – 3:31
#"Goin' down the Road Feeling Bad" (trad., arr. Grateful Dead) – 6:27
#"Not Fade Away" (Holly, Petty) – 3:30

Disc four

#"Morning Dew" (Bonnie Dobson, Tim Rose) – 10:29
#"New Minglewood Blues" (trad., arr. Weir) – 4:23
#"Wharf Rat" (Hunter, Garcia) – 9:19
#"Alligator" (Hunter, McKernan, Lesh) – 4:04
#"Drums" (Kreutzman) – 4:11
#"Jam" (Grateful Dead) – 9:32
#"Goin' down the Road Feeling Bad" (trad., arr. Grateful Dead) – 4:55
#"Cold Rain & Snow" (trad., arr. Grateful Dead) – 5:47
#"Casey Jones" (Hunter, Garcia) – 6:25
#"In the Midnight Hour" (Steve Cropper, Wilson Pickett) – 9:49
#"We Bid You Goodnight" (trad., arr. Grateful Dead) – 3:55

Personnel

*Jerry Garcia - lead guitar, vocals
*Bob Weir - rhythm guitar, vocals
*Phil Lesh - bass guitar, vocals
*Ron "Pigpen" McKernan - harmonica, organ, percussion, vocals
*Bill Kreutzman - drums
*Tom Constanten - organ (disc 3, tracks 6-10)

Production

*David Lemieux - Compilation producer, tape archivist
*Bob Matthews - Engineer
*Betty Cantor-Jackson - Engineer
*Rudson Shurtliff - Assistant engineer
*Dick Latvala - Tape archivist

Recording dates

*April 25, 1971 - Disc 1, tracks 3-4, 7 & 10, Disc 2, track 1, Disc 3, tracks 1-2 & 4
*April 27, 1971 - Disc 2, tracks 8-9, Disc 4, track 9
*April 28, 1971 - Disc 1, tracks 5 & 8-9, disc 2, tracks 2-5 & 7, Disc 3, tracks 6-10, Disc 4, track 3
*April 29, 1971 - Disc 1, tracks 1-2 & 6, Disc 2, track 6, Disc 3, tracks 3 & 5, Disc 4, tracks 1-2, 4-8 & 10-11