The Grateful Dead Three From The Vault (4LP)

Release Date: 01/15/2021
Format: 4 X LP
Label: Future Days Recordings
Release type: Quadruple Vinyl LP Pressing

• First time ever on vinyl
• Newly remastered by Joe Gastwirt
• Lacquers cut by Kevin Gray
• 4LPs pressed at RTI and housed in a gatefold Stoughton “tip-on” M-Pack jacket
• Remastered for vinyl, the original DAT tapes were captured at that format’s original rate of 16 bit / 44.1 kHz

Following on the heels of Light In The Attic’s vinyl LP release of One and Two From The Vault comes the final release in the trilogy of From The Vault releases by the Grateful Dead. These releases are distinguished from the more abundant Dick’s Picks series in that Dick’s Picks are “direct from the soundboard” recordings, while the From The Vault series were professionally recorded on multi-track tape and then mixed down (decades) later for release.

Recorded live at the Capitol Theatre (Port Chester, NY) in 1971, this is the worldwide vinyl debut release of this seminal show featuring the 5 piece line-up of Pigpen, Garcia, Weir, Lesh, and Kruetzmann (Mickey Hart had temporarily left the band at that point), freshly remastered in 2014 by Joe Gastwirt for your pleasure. 20 classic songs on 8 sides of wax, this show has previously only been available on CD; this is the first ever vinyl LP release!

The band played six shows over the course of seven nights at the Capitol Theatre in February of 1971, and this was the second of that run, recorded on the 19th. Their previous two studio albums had been their landmark recordings of Workingman’s Dead and American Beauty, and while songs from those albums were certainly featured, the Dead debuted seven brand new songs on this night–all of which went on to become Dead “standards” including “Playing in the Band,” “Greatest Story Ever Told,” and two absolute classics: “Bird Song” and “Deal.” Essential Dead.

1. Two Ditties: “The Merry-Go-Round Broke Down”, “Spring Song”
2. Truckin
3. Loser
4. Cumberland Blues
5. It Hurts Me Too
6. Bertha
7. Playing in the Band
8. Deal
9. Dark Hollow
10. Smokestack Lightning
11. China Cat Sunflower
12. I Know You Rider
13. Greatest Story Ever Told
14. Johnny B. Goode
15. Bird Song
16. Easy Wind
17. That’s It For The Other One: I “Cryptical Envelopment” II “Drums” III “The Other One”
18. Wharf Rat
19. Good Lovin’
20. Casey Jones