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July 13, 2020 by Simon Sweetman

The Vinyl Countdown # 95

The Grateful Dead, Workingman’s Dead (1970) I am a Grateful Dead fan but I don’t own much of their stuff on vinyl; maybe it’s just too much of an undertaking – there’s too much so I never really wanted to get started. But I’ve always wanted this and one day I must get American Beauty […]
Posted in Blog, The Vinyl Countdown · Tagged 1970, 50th Anniversary, American Beauty, Easy Wind, Grateful Dead, LP, Record, The Grateful Dead, The Vinyl Countdown, The Vinyl Countdown # 95, Vinyl, Workingman's Dead ·

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March 26, 2020 by Simon Sweetman

Shit That’s Good! Crap Albums I Love # 23 – The Grateful Dead, “Shakedown Street”

The Grateful Dead, Shakedown Street, 1978 Maybe every single album by The Grateful Dead could be on this list – they really did make some fucking stinkers eh? But I kinda love most of the ones that people say are shit. Though I can’t say I’ve heard every Grateful Dead album, I haven’t even heard […]
Posted in Blog, Miscellany · Tagged “Shakedown Street”, 1978, A Long Strange Trip, America, Crap Albums, Crap Albums I Love, Grateful Dead, Shit That's Good, Shit That's Good - Crap Albums I Love, Shit That’s Good! Crap Albums I Love # 23, Shit That’s Good! Crap Albums I Love # 23 – The Grateful Dead, Stinson Beach, The Dead, The Grateful Dead, You can support Off The Tracks via PressPatron ·

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March 10, 2020 by Simon Sweetman

R.I.P. Keith Olsen

Reports are coming in just now that record producer and sound engineer Keith Olsen has died. There’s a chance that you have several records he had a hand in as part of your record collection. Put another way, there’s almost no chance his fingerprints aren’t all over the albums you know and love. He’s perhaps […]
Posted in Blog, Miscellany · Tagged Bad Company, Buckingham/Nicks, Classic Rock, Eddie Money, Emerson Lake & Palmer, Eulogy, Europe, Fleetwood Mac, Jethro Tull, Journey, Keith Olsen, Kim Carnes, Lou Gramm, Loverboy, ou can support Off The Tracks via PressPatron, Ozzy Osbourne, Pat Benatar, Producer, R.I.P., R.I.P. Keith Olsen, Radio, Rick Springfield, Santana, Sound Engineer, The Grateful Dead, The Scorpions, Whitesnake ·

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September 24, 2019 by Simon Sweetman

R.I.P. Robert Hunter

Robert Hunter has died – sad news.  He was 78. He occupied an interesting space. He was the primary lyricist for the Grateful Dead and was a silent member but also the heart and soul of the band. Hunter met Jerry Garcia, pre-Dead, when the two were in a bluegrass group. Hunter would go on […]
Posted in Blog, Miscellany · Tagged Artist, Bob Dylan, Eulogy, Grateful Dead, HUNTER, Jerry Garcia, Lyricist, Poet, R.I.P., R.I.P. Robert Hunter, songbook, Songwriter, The Grateful Dead, Together Through Life, Writer ·

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June 15, 2018 by Simon Sweetman

Sweetman Podcast: Episode 120 – Sam Cutler

Welcome to episode 120 of Sweetman Podcast with support from our sponsors – T Leaf T, Yeastie Boys and Le Petite Chocolat. Sam Cutler was tour manager for The Rolling Stones during their infamous 1969 tour of America, he went on to work for The Grateful Dead. You can see him in a small handful of documentaries focussed on that era […]
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December 22, 2016 by Simon Sweetman

Live Without A Net: Best or Worst – It’s My Favourite Live Album by The Dead

I was thinking, the other day, about The Grateful Dead, specifically the band’s live album from 1990, Without A Net. It might not be a classic, it might in fact be awful – but it’s one of my favourites…it’s one of my favourite live albums, one of my favourite Grateful Dead collections – and for […]
Posted in Blog, Miscellany · Tagged 1989, 1990, Bob Weir, Bootleg, Branford Marsalis, Deadheads, double-album, Jam, Jerry Garcia, Live, Live Without A Net, Live Without A Net: Best or Worst - It's My Favourite Live Album by The Dead, The Grateful Dead, Without A Net ·

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October 22, 2016 by Simon Sweetman

Bob Weir: Blue Mountain

Bob Weir Blue Mountain SMG Here the former Grateful Dead co-frontman sits up with a set of cowboy tunes, campfire songs – and even if his big production cost was the time taken to grow that beard it was time/money well spent – for this is Weir’s best set of songs since way back to […]
Posted in Blog, Reviews · Tagged Album Review, American Beauty, Blue Mountain, Bob Weir, Cowboy Songs, Kingfish, The Grateful Dead, Workingman's Dead ·

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September 1, 2016 by Simon Sweetman

V/A: Day of the Dead

Various Artists: Day of the Dead 4AD Though not as flat-out god-awful as the staggeringly bad Paul McCartney tribute album last year this multi-disc Grateful Dead tribute album is nearly as point-missingly bad and deserves extra points off for its blatant “cool” factor. At least The Art of McCartney wasn’t trying to be cool, it […]
Posted in Blog, Reviews · Tagged 4AD, Album Review, Compilation, Day of the Dead, Grateful Dead, The Grateful Dead, Tribute, V/A, Various Artists ·

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September 6, 2015 by Simon Sweetman

The Grateful Dead: The Best of The Grateful Dead

The Grateful Dead The Best of The Grateful Dead Grateful Dead/Rhino It’s Grateful Dead 50th Anniversary Season if you didn’t already know. It’s also 20 years since Jerry Garcia, spiritual centre of the band, left this world to spiral on elsewhere, down some other tie-dyed highway. The band has played its last ever shows under […]
Posted in Blog, Reviews · Tagged 2015, 50th Anniversary, American Beauty, Best Of, Compilation, Double, Jerry Garcia, St. Stephen, Terrapin Station, The Best of The Grateful Dead, The Grateful Dead, Touch of Grey, Workingman's Dead ·

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