Grateful Dead - Workingman's Dead, it IS one of the best Analog to CD transfers

[Redo]

I found this website yesterday from a fellow head-fi'er:

http://www.digido.com/modules.php?na...howpage&pid=45



After reading the list, I grabbed my Workingman's Dead disc (which happened to be the very same exact one listed). Bob Katz doesn't lie, this may very well be one of the most pristine sounding pop/rock CD I own.


Search through that list and see if you have any of his hall of fame discs, pop them in and give a close listen. It should make you smile, especially if you have gotten frustrated with over-compression with recent CD's.

 

[Redo]

Damn, I wish all CD's could be mastered/transfered this well

 

[gratefulshrink]

Bumping thread for no other reason than because it's one of the best albums from the era....

 

[Gonz]

Nice link! I have a couple titles mentioned and concur 100%
I'll be looking into the others

 

[Redo]

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Originally Posted by gratefulshrink /img/forum/go_quote.gif Bumping thread for no other reason than because it's one of the best albums from the era....

I agree, I never listened to much Grateful Dead besides their Live album. But besides the beautiful warm analog sound of the CD, the music itself is fun and relaxing to listen to.


Definatly a worthy buy if you can find the CD released in the late 80's.

 

[F1GTR]

I'm a huge Dead fan, have every studio cd released along with many SE's and Dick's Picks, and I can't recommend enough the Limited Edition out of 10,000 "Complete Filmore West" recordings. They were mastered in HDCD and sound ridiculously good. Here's a brief description I found:

[size=x-small]"Live/Dead" was the first live 16 track album ever made. It is unquestionably one of the two or three greatest live rock albums ever made. And it is arguably the Dead's greatest album; certainly it is the defining document of the first great era of Dead performance. This package represents the critical part of the raw materials that were used to create it, every note the band played from February 27th to March 2nd, 1969. For the first time you can hear this material in context; listen as Garcia puts down his acoustic ("Mountains of the Moon") while Lesh and Weir start up the "Dark Star" you probably heard first. This is a special moment in the history of this band, and an incredible documentation of it. "Fillmore West 1969 - The Complete Recordings" is the most significant audio release yet to emerge from the Grateful Dead's vault.

Mixed from master 16 track analog tapes (the first live 16 track recording is music history) by the Grateful Dead's studio ace Jeffrey Norman, and mastered in glorious HDCD, the box set features 51 tracks, about 10 hours of peak-era Grateful Dead on 10 CDs. Additionally, the box set includes a 76 page book featuring almost 100 photos by Herbie Greene, Rosie McGee, Baron Wolman, Amalie R. Rothschild, Peter Simon, Michael Merritt and others, as well as an extensive new essay by Dennis McNally. Virtually everything possible has been done to give the music and the packaging the due that this four night run of shows deserves. And being what is widely considered to be the greatest four night run of shows in the Grateful Dead's history, nothing less would do.

"Fillmore West 1969-The Complete Recordings" is a LIMITED EDITION box set of 10,000 units. Each box set will be individually numbered out of 10,000, and there will be no second pressings or reprints. Once they're gone, they're gone for good.[/size]

 

[gratefulshrink]

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Originally Posted by F1GTR /img/forum/go_quote.gif I'm a huge Dead fan, have every studio cd released along with many SE's and Dick's Picks, and I can't recommend enough the Limited Edition out of 10,000 "Complete Filmore West" recordings.

I think I have the "abridged" version of that -- it was a set of three or 4 CDs, kind of like highlights.

 

[augustwest]

"Limited Edition out of 10,000 "Complete Filmore West" recordings"

So what does this set run price-wise?


- augustwest

 

[beerguy0]

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Originally Posted by Redo /img/forum/go_quote.gif I found this website yesterday from a fellow head-fi'er: http://www.digido.com/modules.php?na...howpage&pid=45 After reading the list, I grabbed my Workingman's Dead disc (which happened to be the very same exact one listed). Bob Katz doesn't lie, this may very well be one of the most pristine sounding pop/rock CD I own. Search through that list and see if you have any of his hall of fame discs, pop them in and give a close listen. It should make you smile, especially if you have gotten frustrated with over-compression with recent CD's.

I don't have the original CD of Workingman's Dead, but I recently bought the remastered HDCD version, (Rhino, R2 74396) and it is amazingly good. There is also an nearly an album's worth of extras, live and alternate takes. It would be interesting to compare the two versions.

I also have the original "Body and Soul", by Joe Jackson. I've owned this disc since 1988, and have always considered it among the best-sounding CD's ever made. The simple miking techniques are what makes it so great. I highly recommend this one.

Looking through the list, I see quite a few I already have, and also some good suggestions. I think a little CD shopping is in order...

 

[patgod]

Jeez, you guys make it really hard to not be totally inappropriate and self-serving when all you do is talk about Rhino products.

Here's the mentioned Dead titles off our site:
Workingman's Dead (Expanded & Remastered)

Fillmore West 1969

And to complete my shameless hawking, be sure to check out the new release we have coming out later this month:
Grateful Dead: Live At The Cow Palace, New Years Eve, 1976