{"product_id":"grateful-dead-skull-roses-expanded-edition","title":"Grateful Dead (Skull \u0026 Roses) [Expanded Edition]","description":"One of the things that made the Dead such a unique live act was the sheer variety of their influences. The vastness of the musical terrain they covered is well demonstrated on 1971's GRATEFUL DEAD, nicknamed \"Skull \u0026amp; Roses\" because of its cover art. It captures the band's live sound at a time when their marathon, acid-inspired concerts were swiftly becoming the stuff of legend and earning them legions of new fans.\u003cbr\u003eThis set conveys the typical arc of a Dead show. The band could be economical and straightforward, with brisk, stripped-down numbers like the lilting \"Bertha,\" the straight-forward country of \"Me and My Uncle\" and Merle Haggard's \"Mama Tried,\" and the country-folk of \"Me and Bobby McGee.\" They could just as easily go into lugubrious album-side-filling improvisations like \"The Other One,\" and pump out loose-limbed, groovy versions of '50s rockers like Buddy Holly's \"Not Fade Away\" and Chuck Berry's \"Johnny B. Goode.\" The set concludes with the laid-back, joyous jam of the traditional \"Goin' Down the Road Feelin Bad.\" Conspicuous in his absence is singer\/keyboardist Ron \"Pigpen\" McKernan, whose alcoholism was beginning to take its toll.","brand":"MovieMars","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45372191965471,"sku":"603497843725","price":14.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0679\/7833\/0399\/files\/539a0f4b5a62ffb0b92163b25b95f222_ee699258-61a3-4393-88b7-386c388d0004.jpg?v=1781122611","url":"https:\/\/www.moviemars.com\/products\/grateful-dead-skull-roses-expanded-edition","provider":"MovieMars","version":"1.0","type":"link"}