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At Chess' studio in Chicago in January 1956, Howlin' Wolf recorded "Smokestack Lightning". [1] The song takes the form of "a propulsive, one-chord vamp, nominally in E major but with the flatted blue notes that make it sound like E minor", and lyrically it is "a pastiche of ancient blues lines and train references, timeless and evocative". [1]
"Smokestack Lightning" features no chord changes and instead uses a single implied tonic, but "Last of the Steam-Powered Trains" uses a progression. [26] The musicologist Matthew Gelbart describes "Trains" as having a twenty-four-bar structure that is "proportionally correct" in comparison to a standard twelve-bar blues.
The Grateful Dead’s "Dancing Bears" first appeared on the back cover of Bear's Choice. A large complement of iconography is associated with the Grateful Dead. Along with the "Skull & Roses" and dancing terrapins , perhaps the most ubiquitous are the "Lightning Skull/Steal" , and the "Dancing Bears", which notably made their first appearance ...
Shrine Exposition Hall, Los Angeles, CA 11/10/1967 is a live album by the rock band the Grateful Dead. A three-disc vinyl LP, it contains the complete concert recorded on November 10, 1967 at the Shrine Exposition Hall in Los Angeles, California. It was released by Rhino Records in January 2016, in a limited edition of 6,700 copies.
Duke '78 is a live album by the rock band the Grateful Dead.It contains the complete concert recorded at Cameron Indoor Stadium, on the campus of Duke University in Durham, North Carolina, on April 12, 1978.
Dave's Picks Volume 22 is a live album by the rock band the Grateful Dead.It contains the complete concert recorded at the Felt Forum in New York City on December 7, 1971. . It also includes the second set and the encore recorded at the same venue the previous ni
RFK Stadium, Washington, D.C. 6/10/73 is a live album by the rock band the Grateful Dead. It contains the complete concert recorded at Robert F. Kennedy Stadium in Washington, D.C., on June 10, 1973. It was released as a four-disc CD on June 30, 2023, and as an eight-disc LP on July 28, 2023. [1] [2] [3] [4]
The album's version of "St. Stephen" appears on the 1977 Grateful Dead compilation What a Long Strange Trip It's Been, but fades out during the final verse. Live/Dead was expanded with hidden bonus tracks as part of the 2001 box set The Golden Road (1965–1973), and has a longer intro on "Dark Star". This version was released separately in 2003.