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''The Grateful Dead Movie Soundtrack'' is a five-CD live album by the rock band the Grateful Dead. It was recorded on October 16–20, 1974, and was released on March 15, 2005. The album was remixed from the original
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concert soundboard tapes. In 1974 the Grateful Dead were exhausted from touring, and it had proven too expensive and cumbersome to tour with the "
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" sound system. In response, the group decided to stop touring for an indefinite period of time. In October they played five nights at the
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in
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,
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. 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 ''Steal Your Face'' is a live double album by the Grateful Dead, released in June 1976. The album was recorded October 1720, 1974, at San Francisco's Winterland Ballroom, during a "farewell run" that preceded a then-indefinite hiatus. It was the ...
'', 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 ("
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" from October 18, which was previously released on ''
Steal Your Face ''Steal Your Face'' is a live double album by the Grateful Dead, released in June 1976. The album was recorded October 1720, 1974, at San Francisco's Winterland Ballroom, during a "farewell run" that preceded a then-indefinite hiatus. It was the ...
''). 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 #"U.S. Blues" ( Robert Hunter, Jerry Garcia) – 5:13 #" One More Saturday Night" ( Bob Weir) – 6:33 #"
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" > (Hunter, Garcia) – 9:14 #"I Know You Rider" (traditional, arr. Grateful Dead) – 6:07 #"Eyes of the World" > (Hunter, Garcia) – 13:01 #"China Doll" (Hunter, Garcia) – 6:16 #"
Playing in the Band "Playing in the Band" is a Grateful Dead song. The lyrics were written by Robert Hunter and rhythm guitarist Bob Weir composed the music, with some assistance from percussionist Mickey Hart. The song first emerged in embryonic form on the s ...
" (Hunter, Mickey Hart, Weir) – 31:44 ''Notes:'' *"U.S. Blues" is an edited version with the fourth verse excised'' *"Eyes of the World" is an edited version previously released in full on '' So Many Roads (1965–1995)'' Disc two #" Scarlet Begonias" (Hunter, Garcia) – 13:56 #"He's Gone" > (Hunter, Garcia) – 13:01 #"Jam" > (Grateful Dead) – 7:31 #"Weirdness" > (Grateful Dead) – 8:05 #"The Other One" > (
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, Weir) – 7:34 #"Spanish Jam" > (Grateful Dead) – 1:48 #"Mind Left Body Jam" > (Grateful Dead) – 3:10 #"The Other One" > (Kreutzmann, Weir) – 2:28 #"Stella Blue" (Hunter, Garcia) – 9:04 #"Casey Jones" (Hunter, Garcia) – 5:23 ''Notes:'' :"Casey Jones" is an edited version previously released in full on ''
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'' Disc three #"Weather Report Suite" – 16:44 :::"Prelude" (Weir) :::"Part I" (
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, Weir) :::"Part II: Let It Grow" ( John Barlow, Weir) #
  • "Jam" > (Grateful Dead) – 8:54 #" Dark Star" > (Hunter, Garcia, Hart, Kreutzmann, Phil Lesh,
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    ) – 13:54 #" Not Fade Away" > ( Buddy Holly,
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    ) – 8:34 #"Goin' Down The Road Feeling Bad" (trad., arr. Grateful Dead) – 7:33 ''Notes:'' :"Goin' Down the Road Feeling Bad" is an edited version with the first solo removed and
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    dialogue added from the film Disc four #"
    Uncle John's Band "Uncle John's Band" is a song by the Grateful Dead that first appeared in their concert setlists in late 1969. The band recorded it for their 1970 album '' Workingman's Dead''. Written by guitarist Jerry Garcia and lyricist Robert Hunter, "U ...
    " (Hunter, Garcia) – 9:08 #"Big Railroad Blues" (
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    ) – 5:02 #"Tomorrow Is Forever" (
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    ) – 6:26 #" Sugar Magnolia" (Hunter, Weir) – 5:26 #"He's Gone" > (Hunter, Garcia) – 13:49 #"Caution Jam" > (Grateful Dead) – 4:30 #"Drums" > (Kreutzmann) – 1:23 #"Space" > (Grateful Dead) – 9:14 #"
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    " > (Hunter, Garcia, Lesh, Weir) – 9:48 #"Black Peter" > (Hunter, Garcia) – 10:10 #"Sunshine Daydream" (Hunter, Weir) – 3:14 ''Notes:'' :"Sugar Magnolia" is an edited version, without its "Sunshine Daydream" coda (though the coda from another date appears as the last track of the disc) Disc five #"Playing in the Band" > (Hunter, Hart, Weir) – 13:24 #"Drums" > (Hart, Kreutzmann) – 4:09 #"Not Fade Away" > (Holly, Petty) – 14:44 #"Drums" > (Hart, Kreutzmann) – 4:53 #"The Other One" > (Kreutzmann, Weir) – 10:56 #"Wharf Rat" > (Hunter, Garcia) – 9:35 #"Playing in the Band" (Hunter, Hart, Weir) – 8:38 #" Johnny B. Goode" (
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    ) – 3:55 #"Mississippi Half-Step Uptown Toodeloo" > (Hunter, Garcia) – 7:34 #"And We Bid You Goodnight" (trad., arr. Grateful Dead) – 1:59 ''Notes:'' :"Johnny B. Goode" is an edited version with part of the first solo, and all of the second, excised


    Recording dates

    *October 16, 1974 – Disc 1 track 7 ("Scarlet Begonias" from this date was released as a bonus track on the reissue of '' From the Mars Hotel'') *October 17, 1974 – Disc 1 tracks 3-4, Disc 2 tracks 2-10, Disc 4 track 4 ("Weather Report Suite" from this date was released on the bonus disc for '' Beyond Description'') *October 18, 1974 – Disc 1 track 1, Disc 3 *October 19, 1974 – Disc 1 tracks 2 & 5-6, Disc 2 track 1, Disc 4 tracks 1-3 & 5-11 *October 20, 1974 – Disc 5


    Personnel

    Grateful Dead * Jerry Garcia
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    * Bob Weirrhythm guitar, vocals * Phil Lesh
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    , vocals *
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    – vocals *
    Keith Godchaux Keith Richard Godchaux (July 19, 1948 – July 23, 1980) was a pianist best known for his tenure in the rock group the Grateful Dead from 1971 to 1979. Biography Godchaux was born in Seattle, Washington, and grew up in Concord, California ...
    keyboards,
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    drums * Mickey Hart – drums (Disc 5) * Ned Laginelectric piano (Disc 3 tracks 2-4; Disc 5) Production * David Lemieuxproducer *Jeffrey Norman – producer *Bill Wolf – audio engineer *Jeffrey Norman –
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    *Eileen Law – archival research *Gary Gutierrez – cover art *Bruce Polonsky – photography *Dave Patrick – photography *Robert Minkin – package design and production


    References

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