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Blues for Allah is the eighth studio album (twelfth album overall) by the Grateful Dead. It was released on September 1, 1975, and was the band's third album released through their own Grateful Dead Records label. The album was recorded between February and May of 1975 during an extended hiatus from touring.
In 1973, the Grateful Dead established their own record label, Grateful Dead Records.The band released four vinyl LPs on the label in the mid-1970s: Wake of the Flood in 1973, From the Mars Hotel in 1974, Blues for Allah in 1975, and a live double album, Steal Your Face, in 1976.
Bob Weir (born 1947) was a founding member of the Grateful Dead and began playing Ibanez guitars in the mid-1970s during the recording of Blues for Allah. He played a custom Ibanez 2681 until the mid-1980s, when he switched to Modulus Guitars.
In August 1975, the Dead had just finished recording the album Blues for Allah when they decided to perform it for a select audience in a live setting, a month before the LP was to be released. To promote the album, the band rented GAMH, and issued private invitations to radio industry people who were attending the Radio Programmers Forum, a ...
The albums included in the box set are Wake of the Flood (originally released in 1973), From the Mars Hotel (1974), Blues for Allah (1975), and Steal Your Face (a live double album recorded in 1974 and released in 1976).
Scholars identify it as Canaanite, likely representing a priest or king, with no connection to Allah. [2] [3] [4] The argument that Allah (God in Islam) originated as a moon god first arose in 1901 in the scholarship of archaeologist Hugo Winckler. He identified Allah with a pre-Islamic Arabian deity known as Lah or Hubal, which he called a ...
On Saturday, February 14, 2009, a tribute to Merl Saunders' life and musical career was held at the Great American Music Hall. [6] It featured actor/director Max Gail and Wavy Gravy as M.C.s, and many past musical collaborators including Grateful Dead guitarist Bob Weir, Tony Saunders, David Grisman, Michael Hinton, Melvin Seals, Michael Warren, Larry Vann, Tonedog, Misa Malone, and Bill Vitt ...
Included in the release is a single sheet of paper, printed on both sides and folded into thirds, yielding a six-page enclosure. The front cover is a replica of the disc's cover and the back cover shows a small, oval-shaped image of what looks like a Sconce (light fixture) or other small sculpture, engraved with Stanley in uppercase and presumably from the venue, against a background of clouds ...