NewsGrateful Dead / Anthem of the Sun 2CD deluxe edition + vinyl picture disc
The Grateful Dead‘s second album, 1968’s Anthem of the Sun, will be reissued as a 50th anniversary two-CD deluxe edition in July.
The double-disc set actually includes two mixes the original album; a newly remastered version of the original 1968 mix and the more well known 1971 mix (also remastered). These two versions are bedfellows on CD 1 and the remastering was undertaken by David Glasser, from the original analog master tapes.
The bonus CD features a previously unreleased complete live show recorded on 22 October 1967 at Winterland in San Francisco. This audio has been newly remastered by Jeffrey Norman, and this is the first known recording of the Grateful Dead with Mickey Hart, who joined the band in September 1967.
“This is one the most thrilling albums the Grateful Dead ever produced, mixing portions of live recordings from the first six months of Mickey’s tenure with the band, along with studio experimentations that would hint at where the Dead would go when they started recording to 16-track tape the following year,” says archivist and producer David Lemieux. “The 1971 remix, produced in order to make the album more accessible to the newer fans who were brought on board with Workingman’s Dead and American Beauty, has been the most commonly heard version for the past 45+ years. However, having this side-by-side with the original 1968 mix demonstrates countless differences, with the original mix being more primal, psychedelic, and experimental. Add to this the first extant live recording featuring Mickey as a member of the Grateful Dead, and you have a very special release in every way.”
Anthem of the Sun will also be released as a limited edition (10,000 copies) vinyl picture disc (which features the remastered 1971 mix). Both this and the two-CD deluxe will be issued on 18 July 2018.
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ANTHEM OF THE SUN: 50th ANNIVERSARY 2CD DELUXE EDITION
Disc One:
Original 1968 Mix
1. That’s It For The Other One
I. “Cryptical Envelopment”
II. “Quadlibet For Tender Feet”
III. “The Faster We Go, The Rounder We Get”
IV. “We Leave The Castle”
2. New Potato Caboose
3. Born Cross-Eyed
4. Alligator
5.Caution (Do Not Stop On Tracks)
1971 Remix
6. That’s It For The Other One
I. Cryptical Envelopment
II. Quadlibet For Tender Feet
III. The Faster We Go, The Rounder We Get
IV. We Leave The Castle
7. New Potato Caboose
8. Born Cross-Eyed
9. Alligator
10.Caution (Do Not Stop On Tracks)
Disc Two: Winterland, San Francisco, CA 10/22/67
1. Morning Dew
2. New Potato Caboose
3. It Hurts Me Too
4. Cold Rain And Snow
5. Turn On Your Love Light
6. Beat It On Down The Line
7. That’s It For The Other One
I. “Cryptical Envelopment”
II. “The Other One”
III. “Cryptical Envelopment”
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By Paul Sinclair
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