Description
Grateful Dead – What A Long Strange Trip It’s Been: The Best Of The Grateful Dead
Label: Warner Bros. Records – 2W 3091
Format: 2 × Vinyl, LP, Compilation, Goldisc Pressing / Gatefold
Country: USA, Released: 1977
Artwork By – Rick Griffin
Sides 1/4 and 2/3 on separate vinyl
The track durations on cover are different from label
Engineering and Mix Down by Bob & Betty unless otherwise noted
From cover: Honorable mention
Hal Kant, The Phantom Finger Cult & Taper Bob
This double LP is in very good condition. Frontcover has a red labelsticker
See photo’s. They are of the actual object.
Reviews:
nr. 1 his second anthology is considerably more successful than the first, though I would still argue that the Dead’s material doesn’t really lend itself to this sort of treatment. This is a ragged collection of live and studio tracks, nicely put together in a handsome package. Collectors might want it for the inclusion of the rare, single versions of DARK STAR and BORN CROSS-EYED. Again, though, I wouldn’t recommend it. Buying LIVE/DEAD and WORKINGMAN’S DEAD will tell you more about the band’s Warner Br. period than this ever could. * * BLAIR JACKSON
nr. 2 In this uncommonly loving compilation, Deadhead Paul Wexler does what he can to eliminate the fecklessly smug and the recklessly experimental. It coheres as well as DeaD albums usually do, and offers two nice singles, which is nice. But ME & MY UNCLE, which hardly counts, is the only cover, a questionable decision. Plus – here’s the real catch- four (out of eight) songs from WORKINGMAN’S DEAD, which coheres a good deal better. rating: B ROBERT CRISTGAU, ROCK ALBUMS OF THE 70’S, 1982
