Grateful Dead – Reckoning
(Arista Records 1981 DARTY9)
Matrix No’s: A1/B1/C1/D1- UK Pressing
Sleeve in Excellent condition
– some rubbing/ringwear – original hype sticker on front
Double Vinyl in Nr MINT condition
(there are a few very light surface marks visible on the vinyl when held up to the light but they don’t affect the sound quality)
The Grateful Dead was an American rock band formed in 1965 in Palo Alto, California. The band is known for its eclectic style, which fused elements of rock, folk, country, jazz, bluegrass, blues, gospel, and psychedelic rock; for live performances of lengthy instrumental jams; and for its devoted fan base, known as “Deadheads”. “Their music”, writes Lenny Kaye, “touches on ground that most other groups don’t even know exists.” These various influences were distilled into a diverse and psychedelic whole that made the Grateful Dead “the pioneering Godfathers of the jam band world”. The band was ranked 57th by Rolling Stone magazine in its The Greatest Artists of All Time issue. The band was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1994 and a recording of their May 8, 1977 performance at Cornell University’s Barton Hall was added to the National Recording Registry of the Library of Congress in 2012. The Grateful Dead has sold more than 35 million albums worldwide.
The Grateful Dead was founded in the San Francisco Bay Area amid the rise of the counterculture of the 1960s.[12][13][14] The founding members were Jerry Garcia (lead guitar, vocals), Bob Weir (rhythm guitar, vocals), Ron “Pigpen” McKernan (keyboards, harmonica, vocals), Phil Lesh (bass, vocals), and Bill Kreutzmann (drums). Members of the Grateful Dead had played together in various San Francisco bands, including Mother McCree’s Uptown Jug Champions and the Warlocks. Lesh was the last member to join the Warlocks before they became the Grateful Dead; he replaced Dana Morgan Jr., who had played bass for a few gigs. Drummer Mickey Hart and non-performing lyricist Robert Hunter joined in 1967. With the exception of McKernan, who died in 1973, and Hart, who took time off from 1971 to 1974, the core of the band stayed together for its entire 30-year history. The other official members of the band are Tom Constanten (keyboards; 1968–1970), John Perry Barlow (nonperforming lyricist; 1971–1995), Keith Godchaux (keyboards; 1971–1979), Donna Godchaux (vocals; 1972–1979), Brent Mydland (keyboards, vocals; 1979–1990), and Vince Welnick (keyboards, vocals; 1990–1995). Bruce Hornsby (accordion, piano, vocals) was a touring member from 1990 to 1992, as well as a guest with the band on occasion before and after the tours.
After the death of Garcia in 1995, former members of the band, along with other musicians, toured as the Other Ones in 1998, 2000, and 2002, and the Dead in 2003, 2004, and 2009. In 2015, the four surviving core members marked the band’s 50th anniversary in a series of concerts that were billed as their last performances together. There have also been several spin-offs featuring one or more core members, such as Dead & Company, Furthur, the Rhythm Devils, Phil Lesh and Friends, RatDog, and Billy & the Kids.
Reckoning is a 1981 live double album by the Grateful Dead. It consists of acoustic material recorded live in September and October 1980. Some of the tracks are shortened versions of the live performances.
The material recorded in 1980 was originally intended for release on one double LP set, but the format of the music subsequently steered the Grateful Dead towards the release of two double albums, Reckoning and Dead Set. Grateful Dead guitarist Jerry Garcia commented that the band “ended with so much good material that it was a struggle. The idea of just one acoustic and one electric record was sort of pathetic, since our electric tunes are seldom less than eight minutes long. And that meant our fat electric album would have two songs on a side. It was kind of silly.”
Track listing
Original release
| No. | Title | Writer(s) | Recording date and venue | Length |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1. | “Dire Wolf” |
|
10/11/80 Warfield Theatre | 3:20 |
| 2. | “The Race Is On” | Don Rollins | 10/13/80 Warfield Theatre | 2:58 |
| 3. | “Oh Babe, It Ain’t No Lie” | Elizabeth Cotten | 09/30/80 Warfield Theatre | 6:28 |
| 4. | “It Must Have Been the Roses” | Hunter | 10/26/80 Radio City Music Hall | 6:56 |
| 5. | “Dark Hollow” | Bill Browning | 10/07/80 Warfield Theatre | 3:49 |
| 6. | “China Doll” |
|
10/14/80 Warfield Theatre | 5:22 |
| 7. | “Been All Around This World” | Trad. arr. Grateful Dead | 10/14/80 Warfield Theatre | 4:31 |
| 8. | “Monkey and the Engineer” | Jesse Fuller | 10/27/80 Radio City Music Hall | 2:37 |
| 9. | “Jack-A-Roe” | Trad. arr. Grateful Dead | 10/10/80 Warfield Theatre | 4:05 |
| 10. | “Deep Elem Blues” | Trad. arr. Grateful Dead | 10/11/80 Warfield Theatre | 4:51 |
| 11. | “Cassidy” |
|
10/14/80 Warfield Theatre | 4:38 |
| 12. | “To Lay Me Down” |
|
10/25/80 Radio City Music Hall | 8:59 |
| 13. | “Rosalie McFall” | Charlie Monroe | 09/26/80 Warfield Theatre | 2:54 |
| 14. | “On the Road Again” | Trad. arr. Grateful Dead | 10/30/80 Radio City Music Hall | 3:15 |
| 15. | “Bird Song” |
|
10/14/80 Warfield Theatre | 7:34 |
| 16. | “Ripple” |
|
09/26/80 Warfield Theatre | 4:38 |
Personnel
- Jerry Garcia – guitar, vocals
- Bob Weir – guitar, vocals
- Phil Lesh – bass guitar
- Brent Mydland – piano, harpsichord, vocals (except 1978 tracks)
- Bill Kreutzmann – drums
- Mickey Hart – drums
Production
- Produced by Dan Healy, Betty Cantor-Jackson, Jerry Garcia
- Mixing: Dan Healy
- Recording: Betty Cantor-Jackson
- Engineering: Don Pearson, John Cutler, Dennis Leonard
- Cover illustration: Rick Griffin
- Photography: John Werner
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