Beyond Description (1973-1989)

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Beyond Description (1973-1989)
Compilation album by Grateful Dead
Released	October, 2004
Recorded	August 7, 1973 - October 20, 1989
Genre	Country rock, Folk-rock, Rock
Label	Rhino Records
Producer(s)	James Austin, David Lemieux
Grateful Dead chronology
Dick's Picks Volume 32 (2004)	Beyond Description (1973-1989) (2004)	Dick's Picks Volume 33 (2004)

Beyond Description is the second twelve-CD boxed set retrospect of the Grateful Dead's studio and live albums. It covers their time with Grateful Dead and Arista Records from 1973 to 1989.

This compilation includes expanded and remastered versions of all the albums during the brief period with their own label (except for Steal Your Face), and during their time on contract with Arista Records (except for the last two live albums). Also included are numerous studio outtakes and live tracks. The albums included are Wake of the Flood, From the Mars Hotel, Blues for Allah, Terrapin Station, Shakedown Street, Go to Heaven, In the Dark and Built to Last as well as the two live albums Reckoning and Dead Set, both expanded to a 2 CD set.

Contents 1 Track listing 1.1 Disc One 1.2 Disc Two 1.3 Disc Three 1.4 Disc Four 1.5 Disc Five 1.6 Disc Six 1.7 Disc Seven 1.8 Disc Eight 1.9 Disc Nine 1.10 Disc Ten 1.11 Disc Eleven 1.12 Disc Twelve 2 Personnel 2.1 Grateful Dead 2.2 Additional performers 2.3 Production

[edit] Track listing

[edit] Disc One

• Wake of the Flood

1. "Mississippi Half-Step Uptown Toodleloo" (Robert Hunter, Jerry Garcia) – 5:43
2. "Let Me Sing Your Blues Away" (Hunter, Keith Godchaux) – 3:19
3. "Row Jimmy" (Hunter, Garcia) – 7:15
4. "Stella Blue" (Hunter, Garcia) – 6:27
5. "Here Comes Sunshine" (Hunter, Garcia) – 4:40
6. "Eyes of the World" (Hunter, Garcia) – 5:21
7. "Weather Report Suite"
   • "Prelude" (Bob Weir) – 1:22
   • "Part I" (Eric Andersen, Weir) – 4:14
   • "Part II: Let It Grow" (John Barlow, Weir) – 7:08
8. "Eyes of the World" (live) (Hunter, Garcia) – 17:02
9. "Weather Report Suite" (studio acoustic demo)
   • "Prelude" (Weir) – 2:16
   • "Part I" (Andersen, Weir) – 3:18
   • "Part II: Let It Grow" (Barlow, Weir) – 7:02
10. "China Doll" (studio outtake) (Hunter, Garcia) – 4:02

[edit] Disc Two

• From the Mars Hotel

1. "U.S. Blues" (Hunter, Garcia) – 4:42
2. "China Doll" (Hunter, Garcia) – 4:11
3. "Unbroken Chain" (Bobby Petersen, Phil Lesh) – 6:47
4. "Loose Lucy" (Hunter, Garcia) – 3:22
5. "Scarlet Begonias" (Hunter, Garcia) – 4:19
6. "Pride of Cucamonga" (Petersen, Lesh) – 4:18
7. "Money Money" (Barlow, Weir) – 4:23
8. "Ship of Fools" (Hunter, Garcia) – 5:28
9. "Loose Lucy" (studio outtake) (Hunter, Garcia) – 4:41
10. "Scarlet Begonias" (live) (Hunter, Garcia) – 9:09
11. "Money Money" (live) (Barlow, Weir) – 4:20
12. "Wave That Flag" (live) (Hunter, Garcia) – 5:34
13. "Let It Rock" (live) (Chuck Berry) – 3:19
14. "Pride of Cucamonga" (studio acoustic demo) (Petersen, Lesh) – 4:24
15. "Unbroken Chain" (studio acoustic demo) (Petersen, Lesh) – 6:21

[edit] Disc Three

• Blues for Allah

1. "Help on the Way" / "Slipknot!" (Hunter, Grateful Dead) – 7:20
2. "Franklin's Tower" (Hunter, Garcia, Bill Kreutzman) – 4:37
3. "King Solomon's Marbles" (Mickey Hart, Kreutzman, Lesh) – 5:13
4. "The Music Never Stopped" (Barlow, Weir) – 4:35
5. "Crazy Fingers" (Hunter, Garcia) – 6:41
6. "Sage & Spirit" (Weir) – 3:07
7. "Blues for Allah" / "Sand Castles & Glass Camels" / "Unusual Occurrences in the Desert" (Hunter, Grateful Dead) – 12:33
8. "Groove #1" (instrumental studio outtake) (Grateful Dead) – 5:42
9. "Groove #2" (instrumental studio outtake) (Grateful Dead) – 7:32
10. "Distorto" (instrumental studio outtake) (Garcia) – 8:10
11. "A to E Flat Jam" (instrumental studio outtake) (Grateful Dead) – 4:35
12. "Photo 18 Proper" (instrumental studio outtake) (Grateful Dead) – 4:16
13. "Hollywood Cantata" (early version of "The Music Never Stopped", studio outtake) (Hunter, Weir) – 4:14

[edit] Disc Four

• Terrapin Station

1. "Estimated Prophet" (Barlow, Weir) – 5:37
2. "Dancing in the Streets" (Marvin Gaye, Ivy Joe Hunter, William Stevenson) – 3:17
3. "Passenger" (Peter Monk, Lesh) – 2:48
4. "Samson and Delilah" (traditional, arr. Weir) – 3:39
5. "Sunrise" (Donna Godchaux) – 4:04
6. "Terrapin Station Part I"
   • "Lady with a Fan" (Hunter, Garcia) – 4:38
   • "Terrapin Station" (Hunter, Garcia) – 1:55
   • "Terrapin" (Garcia) – 2:14
   • "Terrapin Transit" (Hart, Kreutzman) – 1:17
   • "At a Siding" (Hunter, Hart) – 1:01
   • "Terrapin Flyer" (Hart, Kreutzman) – 2:55
   • "Refrain" (Garcia) – 2:19
7. "Peggy-O" (instrumental studio outtake) (trad., arr. Grateful Dead) – 4:42
8. "The Ascent" (instrumental studio outtake) (Grateful Dead) – 1:58
9. "Catfish John" (studio outtake) (Bob McDill, Allen Reynolds) – 4:40
10. "Equinox" (studio outtake) (Lesh) – 5:14
11. "Fire on the Mountain" (studio outtake) (Hunter, Hart) – 6:25
12. "Dancing in the Streets" (live) (Gaye, I. Hunter, Stevenson) – 16:17

[edit] Disc Five

• Shakedown Street

1. "Good Lovin'" (Artie Resnick, Rudy Clark) – 4:51
2. "France" (Hunter, Hart, Weir) – 4:03
3. "Shakedown Street" (Hunter, Garcia) – 4:59
4. "Serengetti" (Hart, Kreutzman) – 1:59
5. "Fire on the Mountain" (Hunter, Hart) – 3:46
6. "I Need a Miracle" (Barlow, Weir) – 3:36
7. "From the Heart of Me" (D. Godchaux) – 3:23
8. "Stagger Lee" (Hunter, Garcia) – 3:25
9. "New Minglewood Blues" (trad., arr. Weir) – 4:14
10. "If I Had the World to Give" (Hunter, Garcia) – 4:50
11. "Good Lovin'" (studio outtake featuring Lowell George) (Resnick, Clark) – 4:54
12. "Ollin Arageed" (live) (Hamza El Din) – 6:30
13. "Fire on the Mountain" (live) (Hunter, Hart) – 13:41
14. "Stagger Lee" (live) (Hunter, Garcia) – 6:36
15. "New Minglewood Blues" (live) (trad., arr. Weir) – 4:34

[edit] Disc Six

• Go to Heaven

1. "Alabama Getaway" (Hunter, Garcia) – 3:36
2. "Far From Me" (Brent Mydland) – 3:41
3. "Althea" (Hunter, Garcia) – 6:54
4. "Feel Like a Stranger" (Barlow, Weir) – 5:10
5. "Lost Sailor" (Barlow, Weir) – 5:54
6. "Saint of Circumstance" (Barlow, Weir) – 5:39
7. "Antwerp's Placebo (The Plumber)" (Hart, Kreutzman) – 0:40
8. "Easy to Love You" (Barlow, Mydland) – 3:41
9. "Don't Ease Me In" (trad., arr. Grateful Dead) – 3:16
10. "Peggy-O" (studio outtake) (trad., arr. Grateful Dead) – 5:49
11. "What'll You Raise" (studio outtake) (Hunter) – 4:08
12. "Jack-A-Roe" (studio outtake) (trad., arr. Grateful Dead) – 4:51
13. "Althea" (live) (Hunter, Garcia) – 8:17
14. "Lost Sailor" (live) (Barlow, Weir) – 6:42
15. "Saint of Circumstance" (live) (Barlow, Weir) – 6:35

[edit] Disc Seven

• Reckoning Disc 1

1. "Dire Wolf" (Hunter, Garcia) – 3:20
2. "The Race is On" (Don Rollins) – 2:58
3. "Oh Babe, It Ain't No Lie" (Elizabeth Cotton) – 6:28
4. "It Must Have Been the Roses" (Hunter) – 6:56
5. "Dark Hollow" (Bill Browning) – 3:49
6. "China Doll" (Hunter, Garcia) – 5:22
7. "I've Been All Around This World" (trad., arr. Grateful Dead) – 4:31
8. "Monkey and the Engineer" (Jesse Fuller) – 2:37
9. "Jack-A-Roe" (trad., arr. Grateful Dead) – 4:05
10. "Deep Elem Blues" (trad., arr. Grateful Dead) – 4:51
11. "Cassidy" (Barlow, Weir) – 4:38
12. "To Lay Me Down" (Hunter, Garcia) – 8:59
13. "Rosa Lee McFall" (Charlie Monroe) – 2:54
14. "On the Road Again" (trad., arr. Grateful Dead) – 3:15
15. "Bird Song" (Hunter, Garcia) – 7:34
16. "Ripple" (Hunter, Garcia) – 4:38

[edit] Disc Eight

• Reckoning Disc 2

1. "To Lay Me Down" (studio rehearsal) (Hunter, Garcia) – 9:12
2. "Iko Iko" (trad., Sugarboy Crawford) – 4:23
3. "Heaven Help the Fool" (Weir) – 6:18
4. "El Paso" (Marty Robbins) – 4:41
5. "Sage & Spirit" (Weir) – 3:14
6. "Little Sadie" (trad., arr. Grateful Dead) – 2:45
7. "It Must Have Been the Roses" (alternate live version) (Hunter) – 7:01
8. "Dark Hollow" (alternate live version) (Browning) – 4:30
9. "Jack-A-Roe" (alternate live version) (trad., arr. Grateful Dead) – 5:08
10. "Cassidy" (alternate live version) (Barlow, Weir) – 5:06
11. "China Doll" (alternate live version) (Hunter, Garcia) – 5:52
12. "Monkey and the Engineer" (alternate live version) (Fuller) – 2:37
13. "Oh Babe, It Ain't No Lie" (alternate live version) (Cotton) – 7:13
14. "Ripple" (alternate live version) (Hunter, Garcia) – 4:37
15. "Tom Dooley" (live, 1978) (trad., arr. Grateful Dead) – 3:33
16. "Deep Elem Blues" (live, 1978) (trad., arr. Grateful Dead) – 3:42

[edit] Disc Nine

• Dead Set Disc 1

1. "Samson and Delilah" (trad., arr. Weir) – 5:02
2. "Friend of the Devil" (John Dawson, Hunter, Garcia) – 7:28
3. "New Minglewood Blues" (trad., arr. Weir) – 4:41
4. "Deal" (Hunter, Garcia) – 4:36
5. "Candyman" (Hunter, Garcia) – 7:15
6. "Little Red Rooster" (Willie Dixon) – 4:31
7. "Loser" (Hunter, Garcia) – 5:45
8. "Passenger" (Monk, Lesh) – 3:21
9. "Feel Like a Stranger" (Barlow, Weir) – 5:41
10. "Franklin's Tower" (Hunter, Garcia, Kreutzman) – 5:22
11. "Rhythm Devils" (Hart, Kreutzman) – 4:02
12. "Space" (Grateful Dead) – 2:29
13. "Fire on the Mountain" (Hunter, Hart) – 6:30
14. "Greatest Story Ever Told" (Hunter, Hart, Weir) – 4:04
15. "Brokedown Palace" (Hunter, Garcia) – 5:42

[edit] Disc Ten

• Dead Set Disc 2

1. "Let It Grow" (Barlow, Weir) – 9:38
2. "Sugaree" (Hunter, Garcia) – 9:51
3. "C.C. Rider" (trad., arr. Weir) – 7:17
4. "Row Jimmy" (Hunter, Garcia) – 10:14
5. "Lazy Lightnin'" (Barlow, Weir) – 2:53
6. "Supplication" (Barlow, Weir) – 5:50
7. "High Time" (Hunter, Garcia) – 8:40
8. "Jack Straw" (Hunter, Weir) – 6:17
9. "Shakedown Street" (Hunter, Garcia) – 10:42
10. "Not Fade Away" (Buddy Holly, Norman Petty) – 4:50

[edit] Disc Eleven

• In the Dark

1. "Touch of Grey" (Hunter, Garcia) – 5:47
2. "Hell in a Bucket" (Barlow, Mydland, Weir) – 5:35
3. "When Push Comes to Shove" (Hunter, Garcia) – 4:05
4. "West L.A. Fadeaway" (Hunter, Garcia) – 6:39
5. "Tons of Steel" (Mydland) – 5:15
6. "Throwing Stones" (Barlow, Weir) – 7:18
7. "Black Muddy River" (Hunter, Garcia) – 5:58
8. "My Brother Esau" (single b-side) (Barlow, Weir) – 4:17
9. "West L.A. Fadeaway" (alternate version) (Hunter, Garcia) – 7:08
10. "Black Muddy River" (studio rehearsal) (Hunter, Garcia) – 5:38
11. "When Push Comes to shove" (studio rehearsal) (Hunter, Garcia) – 4:21
12. "Touch of Grey" (studio rehearsal) (Hunter, Garcia) – 5:44
13. "Throwing Stones" (live) (Barlow, Weir) – 9:36

[edit] Disc Twelve

• Built to Last

1. "Foolish Heart" (Hunter, Garcia) – 5:11
2. "Just a Little Light" (Barlow, Mydland) – 4:43
3. "Built to Last" (Hunter, Garcia) – 5:04
4. "Blow Away" (Barlow, Mydland) – 6:11
5. "Victim or the Crime" (Gerrit Graham, Weir) – 7:35
6. "We Can Run" (Barlow, Mydland) – 5:32
7. "Standing on the Moon" (Hunter, Garcia) – 5:20
8. "Picasso Moon" (Barlow, Bob Bralove, Weir) – 6:42
9. "I Will Take You Home" (Barlow, Mydland) – 3:45
10. "Foolish Heart" (live) (Hunter, Garcia) – 11:31
11. "Blow Away" (live) (Barlow, Weir) – 12:02
12. "California Earthquake (Whole Lotta Shakin' Goin' On)" (live) (Rodney Crowell) – 5:59

[edit] Personnel

[edit] Grateful Dead

• Jerry Garcia – guitar, vocals
• Bob Weir – guitar, vocals
• Phil Lesh – electric bass, vocals
• Donna Godchaux – vocals on discs 1-5
• Keith Godchaux – keyboards, piano, vocals on discs 1-5
• Brent Mydland – keyboards, Hammond organ, vocals on discs 6-12
• Mickey Hart – drums, percussion
• Bill Kreutzman – drums, percussion

[edit] Additional performers

• for a comprehensive listing, see individual album pages

[edit] Production

• Producers – James Austin, David Lemieux
• Executive producer – Cameron Sears
• Associate producers – Jimmy Edwards, Robin Hurley, Hale Milgrim, Scott Pascucci
• Archival research – Eileen Law
• Mastering – Joe Gastwirt
• Additional mixing – Tom Flye
• Mixing assistant – Robert Gatley
• Discographical annotation – Reggie Collines
• Reissue art direction – Hugh Brown, Steve Vance
• Design – Steve Vance

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Members Jerry Garcia • Bob Weir • Phil Lesh • Bill Kreutzmann • Mickey Hart • Ron "Pigpen" McKernan Brent Mydland • Keith Godchaux • Donna Godchaux • Vince Welnick • Tom Constanten Spin-off bands Jerry Garcia Band • Ratdog • Phil Lesh and Friends • Rhythm Devils • The Other Ones • The Dead Related articles Grateful Dead songs Eric Andersen • John Perry Barlow • Dark Star Orchestra • Deadhead • Bob Dylan • Bill Graham • Gerrit Graham • The Grateful Dead Movie • Grateful Dead Records • Rick Griffin • David Grisman • Bruce Hornsby • Robert Hunter • Jazz Is Dead • Jerry Garcia Acoustic Band • Alton Kelly • Steve Kimock • Ned Lagin • Dick Latvala • Legion of Mary • Branford Marsalis • Stanley Mouse • New Riders of the Purple Sage • Old and in the Way • Reconstruction • Merl Saunders • Owsley Stanley • Sunshine Daydream • Howard Wales • Wall of Sound • Wharf Rats Discography Studio albums The Grateful Dead | Anthem of the Sun | Aoxomoxoa | Workingman's Dead | American Beauty | Wake of the Flood | Grateful Dead from the Mars Hotel | Blues for Allah | Terrapin Station | Shakedown Street | Go to Heaven | In the Dark | Built to Last Live albums Live/Dead | Grateful Dead | Europe '72 | History of the Grateful Dead, Volume One (Bear's Choice) | Steal Your Face | Reckoning | Dead Set | Without a Net | One From the Vault | Infrared Roses | Two from the Vault | Grayfolded | Hundred Year Hall | Dozin' at the Knick | Fallout from the Phil Zone | Terrapin Station (Limited Edition) | Live at the Fillmore East 2-11-69 | Ladies and Gentlemen ... The Grateful Dead | View From The Vault, Volume One | View From The Vault, Volume Two | Nightfall of Diamonds | Postcards of the Hanging | Steppin' Out with the Grateful Dead: England '72 | View from the Vault, Volume Three | Go to Nassau | Birth of the Dead | View from the Vault, Volume Four | The Closing of Winterland | Rockin' the Rhein with the Grateful Dead | The Grateful Dead Movie Soundtrack | Rare Cuts and Oddities 1966 | Truckin' Up to Buffalo | Fillmore West 1969 | Live at the Cow Palace | Dicks Picks (36 Volumes) | Digital Download Series (12 Volumes) Compilations and box sets Skeletons from the Closet: The Best of Grateful Dead | What a Long Strange Trip It's Been | Dead Zone: The Grateful Dead CD Collection (1977-1987) | The Arista Years | Selections from the Arista Years | So Many Roads (1965-1995) | So Many Roads (1965-1995) Sampler | The Golden Road (1965-1973) | The Very Best of the Grateful Dead | Beyond Description (1973-1989) | The Complete Fillmore West 1969
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