The Grateful Dead Movie Soundtrack


The Grateful Dead Movie Soundtrack is a five CD live album by the Grateful Dead. It was recorded October 16–20, 1974, and was released on March 15, 2005. Unlike Dick's Picks, Road Trips, Dave's Picks, and certain other of the band's archival series of live album releases, which are simply two-track stereo recordings made from the soundboard during the concert, the shows on the album were recorded on a 16-track multitrack recorder and were mixed down to stereo just prior to the album's 2005 release.
In 1974 the Grateful Dead were exhausted from touring, and it had proven too expensive and cumbersome to tour with the "Wall of Sound" sound system. In response, the group decided to stop touring for an indefinite period of time. In October they played five nights at the Winterland Ballroom in San Francisco, California. As they were the last concerts before the hiatus, the Grateful Dead wanted them to be properly recorded and documented by a film crew.
The results were a rather unsuccessful live album, Steal Your Face, and a film, The Grateful Dead Movie. The movie was released in theaters in 1977, and on videotape in 1981. In 2004 it was expanded to a double DVD with bonus cuts and documentaries. A few months later, a five CD album was released as The Grateful Dead Movie Soundtrack. The album included even more previously unreleased tracks, including a rare "Tomorrow Is Forever". The DVD contains one track not released on the soundtrack. Likewise, half of the selections are unique to this box set and not included in the DVD movie. Furthermore, despite being a rather comprehensive five-disc box set, it only captures about half of the nearly 60 different songs played across this five-night stand.

Track listing

Disc one

  1. "U.S. Blues" – 5:13
  2. "One More Saturday Night" – 6:33
  3. "China Cat Sunflower" > – 9:14
  4. "I Know You Rider" – 6:07
  5. "Eyes of the World" > – 13:01
  6. "China Doll" – 6:16
  7. "Playing in the Band" – 31:44
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Disc two

  1. "Scarlet Begonias" – 13:56
  2. "He's Gone" > – 13:01
  3. "Jam" > – 7:31
  4. "Weirdness" > – 8:05
  5. "The Other One" > – 7:34
  6. "Spanish Jam" > – 1:48
  7. "Mind Left Body Jam" > – 3:10
  8. "The Other One" > – 2:28
  9. "Stella Blue" – 9:04
  10. "Casey Jones" – 5:23
Notes:

Disc three

  1. "Weather Report Suite" – 16:44
  3. "Jam" > – 8:54
  4. "Dark Star" > – 24:10
  5. "Morning Dew" – 13:54
  6. "Not Fade Away" > – 8:34
  7. "Goin' Down The Road Feeling Bad" – 7:33
Notes:

Disc four

  1. "Uncle John's Band" – 9:08
  2. "Big Railroad Blues" – 5:02
  3. "Tomorrow Is Forever" – 6:26
  4. "Sugar Magnolia" – 5:26
  5. "He's Gone" > – 13:49
  6. "Caution Jam" > – 4:30
  7. "Drums" > – 1:23
  8. "Space" > – 9:14
  9. "Truckin' " > – 9:48
  10. "Black Peter" > – 10:10
  11. "Sunshine Daydream" – 3:14
Notes:

Disc five

  1. "Playing in the Band" > – 13:24
  2. "Drums" > – 4:09
  3. "Not Fade Away" > – 14:44
  4. "Drums" > – 4:53
  5. "The Other One" > – 10:56
  6. "Wharf Rat" > – 9:35
  7. "Playing in the Band" – 8:38
  8. "Johnny B. Goode" – 3:55
  9. "Mississippi Half-Step Uptown Toodeloo" > – 7:34
  10. "And We Bid You Goodnight" – 1:59
Notes:

Recording dates

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