LONG RARE LIMITED EDITION FROM 48 YEARS AGO!

 ORIGINAL 1971 ACID ROCK CLASSIC ~ REMIXED BY THE DEAD

STILL FACTORY SEALED ~ PERFECT!

Never opened FOR 48 YEARS!

Always been hard to find, 48 YEARS AGO LIMITED EDITION PRODUCED & REMIXED BY THE GRATEFUL DEAD!
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HIGH DEFINITION ("HD) REMIX OF ENTIRE ALBUM, COMPLETELY DIFFERENT TO THE '67 Original!

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The legendary Grateful Dead's Anthem of the Sun album finds the storied acid-heads in the studio delivering a performance that meshes into a live-styled jamming performance. The carefully crafted tracks flowing smoothly together with the end product being one of the finest albums to come out of San Francisco in '67. A personal statement of the rock aesthetic on a level with the Jefferson Airplane's "After Bathing at Baxters Lp."

The first side of Anthem of the Sun is a masterpiece of rock, "That's It for the Other One" and "New Potatoes Caboose" being particularly noteworthy. The main theme of "Other One" is an eminently memorable quasi-rural melody that starts right off with the tasteful guitar of Garcia that dominates the record; a second movement starts the confusion between live and studio (nice stereo production work here), fading into a restatement of the main theme; then there is some beautiful musique concrete leading into "Caboose." Already there is evident carefully arranged vocal work, a departure from the Dead's previous release. The end of "Caboose" is a driving guitar solo by Garcia that builds into structured frenzy thanks to Lesh's bass, the drums of Hart and Kreutzmann, and especially Garcia's masterful playing. Garcia is that rarity among rock guitarists, a thoughtful phraser who logically constructs his solos in a manner not unlike a capable jazz musician. Together Lesh, Weir and Garcia (along with McKernan's fat globs of organ) produce a complex, tight sound that stands with the best hard rock around.

Kazoos open "Alligator," which is that kind of song, hardly dead serious. But it includes another fine Gacia solo; Lesh shows here as elsewhere that he is a fine bass player, while Hart and Kreutzmann work together to form one of the most powerful (and inventive) percussion units in rock. With "Caution (Do Not Stop on Tracks)" we are confronted with the album's most curious track, which ranges from a white-imitation blues riff vamp-until-ready to 60-cycle hum and microphone feedback. So much else is right about this album. The mixture of electronic and serious music achieved by Edgar Varese on "Deserts" stands as one of the most impressive achievements in this area; on their own terms the Dead have achieved a comparable blend of electronic and electric music. For this reason alone Anthem of the Sun is an extraordinary event. It's was over a year since the first Dead album in '67. It was worth the wait.

• Side one
•     "That's It for the Other One" – 7:46:
•         "Cryptical Envelopment"
•         "Quadlibet for Tenderfeet"
•         "The Faster We Go, The Rounder We Get"
•         "We Leave the Castle"
•     "New Potato Caboose" – 8:18
•     "Born Cross-Eyed" (Weir) – 2:04

• Side two
•     "Alligator" – 15:17
•     "Caution (Do Not Stop on Tracks)" – 5:32

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