Vintage Dead
A poster for a Grateful Dead concert on a psychedelic orange background with an open bottle
Live album by
Grateful Dead
ReleasedOctober 1970 (1970-10)
RecordedLate 1966
VenueAvalon Ballroom in San Francisco, California
Genre
Length39:50
LabelSunflower
ProducerRobert Cohen
Grateful Dead chronology
Workingman's Dead
(1970) 		Vintage Dead
(1970) 		American Beauty
(1970)
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
Allmusic[1]
Christgau's Record GuideB−[2]

Vintage Dead is a live album by the rock group the Grateful Dead. It was recorded at the Avalon Ballroom in San Francisco, California, in late 1966 (thought to be September 16, 1966), and released in October 1970.[3][4][5]

Vintage Dead was produced without the approval or cooperation of the Grateful Dead.[1] However, it is a legal recording, not a bootleg.[6] A label called Together Records assembled live recordings of various Bay Area bands for a planned anthology. When the imprint collapsed, MGM paid the remaining debt and assumed the tapes, releasing two albums of Grateful Dead material on their Sunflower Records subsidiary.[7] The first, Vintage Dead, reached number 127 on the Billboard 200.[8] Produced as a vinyl LP and long out of print, it has not been released as a Compact Disc.

Vintage Dead was then followed by Historic Dead, another Sunflower Records album recorded at the Avalon in 1966 and released under similar circumstances.

Track listing

Side one
  1. "I Know You Rider" (traditional) – 4:25 [a]
  2. "It Hurts Me Too" (Elmore James) – 4:17
  3. "It's All Over Now, Baby Blue" (Bob Dylan) – 4:50
  4. "Dancing in the Street" (Marvin Gaye, Ivy Jo Hunter, and William "Mickey" Stevenson) – 7:55
Side two
  1. "In the Midnight Hour" (Steve Cropper and Wilson Pickett) – 18:23

Notes

  1. ^ Later released on So Many Roads (1965–1995)

Personnel

Grateful Dead
Technical personnel

References

  1. ^ a b Ruhlman, William. "Vintage Dead". AllMusic. Retrieved September 26, 2018.
  2. ^ Christgau, Robert (1981). "Consumer Guide '70s: G". Christgau's Record Guide: Rock Albums of the Seventies. Ticknor & Fields. ISBN 089919026X. Retrieved February 24, 2019 – via robertchristgau.com.
  3. ^ Trager, Oliver (1997). The American Book of the Dead. Fireside. p. 385. ISBN 0-684-81402-1. Retrieved September 5, 2010.
  4. ^ Vintage Dead at the Grateful Dead Family Discography
  5. ^ Slabicky, Ihor W. The Compleat Grateful Dead Discography
  6. ^ Callahan, Mike, et al. Sunflower Album Discography at Both Sides Now Publications
  7. ^ Ben Fong-Torres; Rolling Stone magazine; October 28, 1971
  8. ^ Grateful Dead Billboard albums at Allmusic
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