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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 […]Archive
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 […]Archive
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 […]Archive
September 6, 2015 by Simon Sweetman