The Grateful Dead - Dick's Picks Vol. 36 - The Spectrum, Philadelphia PA 9/ 21/ 72

Release Date: 03/12/2021

Having Reissued all of the Grateful Dead’s Dick’s Picks Series on CD, Real Gone Music Is Now Cherry-Picking Key Volumes to Put Out on Vinyl for the First Time Ever

• The Grateful Dead’s September 21, 1972 Concert at The Spectrum in Philadelphia Has Long Been Deemed One of the Greatest, If Not the Greatest, Performance by the Band Ever

• The Show Was So Good That It Was Strongly Considered by Original Dead Archivist Dick Latvala to Lead Of the Dick’s Picks Series of Live Dead Recordings, and It Is the One That Ended It with Dick’s Picks Vol. 36

• Every Member of the Band Plays at an Inspired Level, Especially Bob Weir, Whose Of-Time Guitar Fills and Unusual Chord Voicings Perfectly Complement Jerry Garcia’s Soaring, Lyrical Leads

• Also Features Titanic Versions of “He’s Gone,” “The Other One,” and “Wharf Rat” Taken from a 9/3/72 Show At Folsom Field in Boulder, CO

• 7-LP Set Pressed in 180-Gram Vinyl at Furnace Record Pressing

• Originally Recorded by Owsley “Bear” Stanley in Astonishing Clarity and Immediacy

• Remastered from the Original Tapes by Jefrey Norman at Mockingbird Mastering

• Lacquer Cutting by Jef Powell, Who Got His Start at Memphis’ Ardent Studios and Has Worked with Everybody from Bob Dylan to Gregg Allman to Irma Thomas

• Vacuum-Quiet Test Pressings Approved by Jefrey Norman, Dead Archivist David Lemieux, and Real Gone’s Own Gordon Anderson

• Each Record Nestled in a Polyvinyl Inner Sleeve Inside a Hardshell Two-Piece Box

• LP-Sized 4-Page Insert Features Bear’s Original Liner Notes and New Notes from Bear’s Son Starfinder Stanley That Lend Additional Context to the Recording, Which Comes Courtesy of the Owsley Stanley Foundation

• LIMITED TO 2000 HAND-NUMBERED COPIES

LABEL: Real Gone Music
UPC: 848064011385