''Download Series Volume 5'' is a live album by the rock band the Grateful Dead. It includes the complete concert recorded on March 27, 1988, at the

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in Hampton, Virginia. It was released as a digital download on September 6, 2005. Except for the first two songs being from an "Ultra-Matrix" soundboard/audience tape hybrid, the concert is from the soundboard master. The album was mastered in

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by Jeffrey Norman. The show included one of only eight times the Grateful Dead played

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Ballad of a Thin Man "Ballad of a Thin Man" is a song written and recorded by Bob Dylan, and released in 1965 on his sixth album, ''Highway 61 Revisited''. Recording Dylan recorded "Ballad of a Thin Man" in Studio A of Columbia Records in New York City, located at 799 ...

". The show also features the only time the band performed

Miles Davis Miles Dewey Davis III (May 26, 1926September 28, 1991) was an American trumpeter, bandleader, and composer. He is among the most influential and acclaimed figures in the history of jazz and 20th-century music. Davis adopted a variety of musi ...

' " So What".

Track listing

Disc one :''First set:'' #"

Iko Iko "Iko Iko" () is a much-covered New Orleans song that tells of a parade collision between two tribes of Mardi Gras Indians and the traditional confrontation. The song, under the original title "Jock-A-Mo", was written and released in 1953 as a sin ...

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James "Sugar Boy" Crawford James "Sugar Boy" Crawford, Jr. (October 12, 1934 – September 15, 2012) was an American R&B musician based in New Orleans. He was the author of "Jock-A-Mo" (1954), which was later rerecorded as "Iko Iko" by the Dixie Cups, and became a ...

, Barbara Anne Hawkins, Rosa Lee Hawkins, Joan Marie Johnson) - 5:06 #"

Little Red Rooster "Little Red Rooster" (or "The Red Rooster" as it was first titled) is a blues standard credited to arranger and songwriter Willie Dixon. The song was first recorded in 1961 by American blues musician Howlin' Wolf in the Chicago blues style. His ...

" ( Willie Dixon) - 8:32 #"Stagger Lee" ( Jerry Garcia, Robert Hunter) - 5:33 #"

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) - 7:04 #"Cumberland Blues" > (Garcia, Phil Lesh, Hunter) - 5:02 #" Me and My Uncle" > ( John Phillips) - 3:10 #"To Lay Me Down" > (Garcia, Hunter) - 8:03 #"Let It Grow" ( Bob Weir,

John Perry Barlow John Perry Barlow (October 3, 1947February 7, 2018) was an American poet, essayist, cattle rancher, and cyberlibertarian political activist who had been associated with both the Democratic and Republican parties. He was also a lyricist for th ...

) - 11:35 Disc two :''Second set:'' #"Space" > (Garcia, Lesh, Weir) - 2:19 #" So What" > (

) - 0:57 #" Sugar Magnolia" > (Weir, Hunter) - 5:13 #"Scarlet Begonias" > (Garcia, Hunter) - 10:55 #" Fire on the Mountain" ( Mickey Hart, Hunter) - 10:40 #"Estimated Prophet" > (Weir, Barlow) - 10:29 #"Eyes Of The World" > (Garcia, Hunter) - 8:31 #"Rhythm Devils" > (Hart,

Bill Kreutzmann William Kreutzmann Jr. ( ; born May 7, 1946) is an American drummer and founding member of the rock band Grateful Dead. He played with the band for its entire thirty-year career, usually alongside fellow drummer Mickey Hart, and has continued to ...

) - 7:28 Disc three #"Space" > (Garcia, Lesh, Weir) - 7:30 #"Goin' Down the Road Feeling Bad" > (traditional, arranged by Grateful Dead) - 5:52 #"I Need a Miracle" > (Weir, Barlow) - 3:20 #"

Dear Mr. Fantasy "Dear Mr. Fantasy" is a rock song by Traffic from their 1967 album, ''Mr. Fantasy''. Jim Capaldi contributed the lyrics, while Steve Winwood and Chris Wood composed the music. In a song review for AllMusic, Lindsay Planer commented: Dave ...

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Jim Capaldi Nicola James Capaldi (2 August 1944 – 28 January 2005) was an English singer-songwriter and drummer. His musical career spanned more than four decades. He co-founded the progressive rock band Traffic in 1967 with Steve Winwood with whom he co ...

, Steve Winwood, Chris Wood) - 4:53 #"Sunshine Daydream" (Weir, Hunter) - 4:10 :''Encore:'' #

"U.S. Blues" (Garcia, Hunter) - 5:43

Personnel

Grateful Dead * Jerry Garcia – lead guitar, vocals *

Brent Mydland Brent Mydland (October 21, 1952 – July 26, 1990) was an American keyboardist and singer. He was a member of the rock band The Grateful Dead from 1979 to 1990, a longer tenure than any other keyboardist in the band. Growing up in Concord ...

– keyboards, vocals * Mickey Hart – drums *

– drums * Phil Lesh – electric bass * Bob Weir – rhythm guitar, vocals Production *Dan Healy – recording *Jeffrey Norman – mastering

References

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