Two from the Vault


Two from the Vault is a three-CD live album by the rock band the Grateful Dead. It was recorded at the Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles, California on August 24, 1968. The event was left unreleased for nearly 25 years, before being mixed down from the original multi-track reels and released on Grateful Dead Records in 1992.

Recording

The concert was recorded on a then-state-of-the-art, one-inch 8-track tape machine that was supplied by the band's record label, Warner Bros. The record company also insisted on supplying engineers who turned out to be unfamiliar with the close miking technique involved in recording rock music. Consequently, each of the eight tracks contained significant leakage from all of the other instruments in the band, resulting in severe phase cancellation problems.
Almost twenty-four years later, Don Pearson and producer Dan Healy solved this problem by employing a B&K 2032 Fast Fourier transform digital spectrum analyzer to measure the delay in time between the different microphones, using the track of bassist Phil Lesh as the time centerpiece. The delay times were fed into a TC1280 stereo digital delay, which, along with careful mixing, resulted in a nearly perfect stereo image.

Releases

An expanded edition of the album, with a third CD, was released in 2007 featuring the three songs previously released as bonus tracks on the 2003 reissue of Anthem of the Sun.
Two from the Vault was released by Light in the Attic Records as a four-disc vinyl LP on December 9, 2014.

Track listing

Disc one
  1. "Good Morning, Little Schoolgirl" – 15:59
  2. "Dark Star" > – 11:20
  3. "St. Stephen" > – 4:40
  4. "The Eleven" > – 14:27
  5. "Death Don't Have No Mercy" – 8:23
Disc two
  1. "That's It for the Other One" > – 15:40
  2. "New Potato Caboose" > – 14:16
  3. "Turn On Your Lovelight" – 17:13
  4. " Morning Dew" – 7:13
Disc three
  2. "Alligator" > – 18:43
  3. "Caution " > – 11:30
  4. "Feedback" – 4:01

    Personnel

Grateful Dead

Album - Billboard