{"product_id":"grateful-dead-skull-roses","title":"SKULL \u0026 ROSES","description":"Contains an untitled hidden track which follows \"I'm A Hog For You.\"\nGrateful Dead: Jerry Garcia, Bob Weir (vocals, guitar); Phil Lesh (vocals, bass instrument); Ron \"Pigpen\" McKernan (harmonica, organ, background vocals); Bill Kreutzmann (drums).\nAdditional personnel: Merl Saunders (organ).\nOne 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.\nThis 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":"Grateful Dead","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44562931155177,"sku":"6RWWQP-P4AV-00","price":18.98,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0654\/3523\/8633\/files\/Grateful-Dead-SKULL-ROSES_wOrja_26b51ad8-439b-4b79-9614-0495eee9ae55.jpg?v=1759117670","url":"https:\/\/www.vibinvinyl.com\/products\/grateful-dead-skull-roses","provider":"Vibin' Vinyl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}