Grateful Dead - Transmission Impossible - The Benefit Shows (3 CD, 2018/FLAC-HD)

Renowned for having regularly performed concerts that ran in excess of three hours, when the occasion demanded such -such as at all-star benefit gigs - Grateful Dead could still bring the house down when playing sets lasting between an hour and ninety minutes. This triple disc sets features three such occasions from the Dead's glorious catalogue of live broadcast recordings, which prove the above without exception. 


Disc One is an early show for the band from November 19th 1966, recorded at Bill Graham s Fillmore, with the gig benefitting the venue itself, which was losing money at the time.

Disc Two features the groups set at the Cambodian Refugee Benefit on January 13th 1980, held at the Oakland Coliseum Arena, and again organised by Bill Graham, in support of those who d had to flee their homes following the 1979 invasion of Cambodia by Vietnam.

Disc Three which, somewhat ironically, features the Grateful Dead s appearance at the Bill Graham Tribute Concert held in Golden Gate Park, organised in the wake of the great man s tragic death, following a helicopter crash on October 25th 1991.



 

 

Disc 1:

01. Introduction/Cold Rain And Snow
02. High Heeled Sneakers
03. Pain In My Heart
04. Beat It On Down The Line
05. Cream Puff War
06. The Same Thing
07. He Was A Friend Of Mine
08. Dancing In The Street
09. Smokestack Lightning
10. I'm A King Bee
11. In The Midnight Hour

Disc 2:

01. Franklin's Tower
02. New Minglewood Blues
03. Tennessee Jed
04. Looks Like Rain
05. Don't Ease Me In
06. Playing In The Band
07. Drum Solo
08. Jam
09. Not Fade Away
10. Sugar Magnolia (Featuring Carlos Santana)

Disc 3:

01. Tuning, Comments & Introduction
02. Hell In A Bucket
03. China Cat Sunflower
04. I Know You Rider
05. Wang Dang Doodle (with John Popper)
06. Proud Mary (with John Fogerty)
07. Truckin'
08. The Other One
09. Wharf Rat
10. Sunshine Daydream
11. Forever Young (with Neil Young)
12. Touch Of Grey