The Grateful Dead - The Grateful Dead Movie Soundtrack

Although touted as the audio companion to the significantly expanded Grateful Dead Movie 2004 DVD, this package ably stands on its own as one of the best anthologies of the era. The band is captured just prior to its short-lived touring sabbatical from October 1974 through April 1976. In fact, the five shows at Winterland Arena on The Grateful Dead Movie Soundtrack (2004) -- not to mention the film itself -- are drawn from the final run of gigs prior to that hiatus. Scholarly Deadheads may recall the thoroughly dismissible Steal Your Face (1976) had likewise been compiled from the same concerts, with the rambunctious reading of "Casey Jones" being featured on both. Read More