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The album contains only one song, "Playing in the Band". At 46 minutes in length, it is the longest continuous Grateful Dead song ever recorded. [1] [2] [3] This recording was previously released earlier in 2018 as part of the albums Pacific Northwest '73–'74: The Complete Recordings and Pacific Northwest '73–'74: Believe It If You Need It. [4]
The song first emerged in embryonic form on the self-titled 1971 live album Grateful Dead. It then appeared in a more polished form on Ace, Bob Weir's first solo album (which included every Grateful Dead member except Ron "Pigpen" McKernan). It has since become one of the best-known Grateful Dead numbers and a standard part of their repertoire.
"Terrapin Part 1" is a song suite by the Grateful Dead.Released on their 1977 album Terrapin Station, it takes up the album's entire second side.The piece, split up into seven distinct movements, is the band's longest studio recording at sixteen minutes and twenty-three seconds long.
The paired songs were soon nicknamed "Scarlet Fire". [1] The sequence typically timed from 20 to 25 minutes. The November 1, 1979, performance at Nassau Coliseum, Uniondale, New York, likely the longest, clocks in over 34 minutes. "Fire on the Mountain" was performed in concert by the Grateful Dead 253 times between 1977 and 1995. [3]
"Dark Star" is a song released as a single by the Grateful Dead on Warner Bros. Records in 1968. It was written by lyricist Robert Hunter and composed by lead guitarist Jerry Garcia; [2] however, compositional credit is sometimes extended to include Phil Lesh, Bill Kreutzmann, Mickey Hart, Ron "Pigpen" McKernan, and Bob Weir.
Even by the band's standards, this is a long Dead show: a first set of over an hour and forty minutes; a two-hour second set; and an hour-long encore. Joining the Grateful Dead onstage for that third set of music were Dickey Betts and Butch Trucks from the Allman Brothers Band.
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One of the few Grateful Dead songs to have lyrics written by Weir, "The Faster We Go, the Rounder We Get" became one of the Dead's most-played songs (being performed a known 586 times [2]) and most popular vehicles for improvisation, with some performances reaching 30+ minutes in length.