Grateful Dead

This album is my least favorite live Grateful Dead album, however this reissue sounds excellent. The sound is far superior to the original 1976 release, and more than a few steps above the 1989 Compact Disc 1st edition issue. I agree that the Mississippi from 10/19/74 is a good performance, especially the sound on this on reissued LP. Why I don't like Steal Your Face is because of the song sequence, it is not very compelling to me, not even after 42 years. It just doesn't stand up to Live/Dead, Skullfuck & Europe '72. I bought the original LP not long after my 6/22/76 and 6/24/76 shows at the Tower Theater in Upper Darby, near Philadelphia, Pa. Yes, I have all three versions: the original 1976 album, the 1989 CD, and this 2017 remastered LP.

....Steal Your Face has no flow. (I read between the lines). Glad you like it. I tolerate it. It's right up there with What A Long Strange Trip It's Been. With the plethora of realeases over the last 16 years, they both collect quite a bit of dust, even though the music is clean. ....the again, good luck guessing a JRAD setlist. Ghaa!

...the albums song selections were mostly picked by Phil and the others were picked by Garcia... :)Since the official release, there has been complaints and praises for the LP... I for one dig it, I love this LP ! At the time of production, quadraphonic technology appeared ascendant. In anticipation, the album was mixed for the QS standard – one of several competing vinyl matrix formats. Rather than a dedicated stereo mix, during mastering the quadraphonic mix was folded down to two channels. Lesh explained that he and Bear decided to mix "the whole thing in 'quad' ... Band chronicler Blair Jackson explained why Lesh's method for song choice didn't mesh with Deadhead expectation: "[It] had none of the natural flow of a Grateful Dead concert. It was as if someone had thrown all the songs into a hat and then pulled them out randomly, which is not the way the Grateful Dead operated at all. Their sets, while definitely eclectic, were built piece by piece according to what songs felt right to play at the moment. Garcia's choices would affect Weir's choices and vice versa. Steal Your Face consisted mainly of short songs that were usually played in the lighter first set, and it was devoid of any extended improvisation. Considering the material that was available from that five-night run, the song selection was mystifying to say the least."[13] Garcia saw the album as a specific statement from the same era as the movie, noting "[Phil] picked out what he liked for his own reasons. If anyone wants to have some concept of what Phil likes, that's a good album. ... We don't interfere with each other on that level."[13]

....but it was just my imagine Asian.

Unless you are a compulsive completist.. I wouldn't bother. It's ok..

cool album lots of great performances , already mentioned in thread Half-Step. Ship of Fools , Stella Blue, It Must have Been the Roses , Black Throated Wind , US BLues , El Paso , heck both albums are very nice. Might have to hit the eject button on disc 3 Dave's Picks 27 and take Steal Your Face for a spin / bake route to the library before this Chelsea x Arsenal game Space Throwing Stones GDTRFB Black Peter Sugar Magnolia ~ "Takes the wheel when I'm seeing double pays my ticket when I speed" It's All Over Now, Baby Blue 7.15.89 ~ "Won't you come and see me Queen Jane" https://archive.org/details/gd1989-07-15.sbd.miller.97307.sbeok.flac16/…

All the talk about SYF, went to listen to some and I don't have!!! When I went to Amazon and they want about 50 bucks for a copy! Why? Mixed reviews at best. Thoughts?

SYF is a guilty pleasure for me. I'm fully aware of how bad the recording is, yet I can't turn away. Sort of like "Monkey Bone" when it's on TV. Can't. Turn. Away.

You know of course that kenny Rogers had a brother, Leyland Rogers who owned the International Artists record label in Texas, home of the 13 Floor Elevators, Red Crayola, Golden Dawn, Bupple Puppy et al.Since the Elevators and Rocky Eriksson played the SF ballrooms, is it idle to speculate that mr K Rogers might indeed have been aware of Bear and his products?

....why?