Track Listing
DISC 1: WAKE OF THE FLOOD:
1. Mississippi Half-Step Uptown Toodeloo
2. Let Me Sing Your Blues Away
3. Row Jimmy
4. Stella Blue
5. Here Comes Sunshine
6. Eyes of the World
7. Weather Report Suite: Prelude / Part I / Part II
8. Eyes of the World - (live)
9. Weather Report Suite: Prelude / Part I / Part II - ((Studio Acoustic Demo))
10. China Doll - (Studio Outtake)
DISC 2: GRATEFUL DEAD FROM THE MARS HOTEL:
1. U.S. Blues
2. China Doll
3. Unbroken Chain
4. Loose Lucy
5. Scarlet Begonias
6. Pride of Cucamonga
7. Money Money
8. Ship of Fools
9. Loose Lucy - (Studio Outtake)
10. Scarlet Begonias - (live)
11. Money Money - (live)
12. Wave That Flag - (live)
13. Let It Rock - (live)
14. Pride of Cookamonga - (Studio Acoustic Demo)
15. Unbroken Chain - (Studio Acoustic Demo)
DISC 3: BLUES FOR ALLAH:
1. Help on the Way/Slipknot!
2. Franklin's Tower
3. King Solomon's Marbles: Pt. I: Stronger Than Dirt / Pt. II: Milkin' The Turkey
4. Music Never Stopped, The
5. Crazy Fingers
6. Sage & Spirit
7. Blues For Allah: Sand Castles & Glass Camels / Unusual Occurences In The Desert
8. Groove #1 - (Instrumental Studio Outtake)
9. Groove #2 - (Instrumental Studio Outttake)
10. Distorto - (Instrumental Studio Outttake)
11. A to E Flat Jam - (Instrumental Studio Outttake)
12. Proto 18 Proper - (Instrumental Studio Outttake)
13. Hollywood Cantata - (Studio Outtake)
DISC 4: TERRAPIN STATION:
1. Estimated Prophet
2. Dancin' in the Streets
3. Passenger
4. Samson & Delilah
5. Sunrise
6. Terrapin Station Pt. I: Lady With A Fan / Terrapin Station / Terrapin / Terrapin Transit / At A Siding / Terrapin Flyer / Refrain
7. Peggy-O - (Instrumental Studio Outttake)
8. Ascent, The - (Instrumental Studio Outttake)
9. Catfish John - (Studio Outtake)
10. Equinox - (Studio Outtake)
11. Fire on the Mountain - (Studio Outtake)
12. Dancin' in the Streets - (live)
DISC 5: SHAKEDOWN STREET:
1. Good Lovin'
2. France
3. Shakedown Street
4. Serengetti
5. Fire on the Mountain
6. I Need a Miracle
7. From the Heart of Me
8. Stagger Lee
9. All New Minglewood Blues
10. If I Had the World to Give
11. Good Lovin' - (Studio Outtake, with Lowell George)
12. Ollin Arageed - (live)
13. Fire on the Mountain - (live)
14. Stagger Lee - (live)
15. All New Minglewood Blues - (live)
DISC 6: GO TO HEAVEN:
1. Alabama Getaway
2. Far From Me
3. Althea
4. Feel Like a Stranger
5. Lost Sailor
6. Saint of Circumstance
7. Antwerp's Placebo (The Plumber)
8. Easy to Love You
9. Don't Ease Me In
10. Peggy-O - (Studio Outtake)
11. What'll You Raise - (Studio Outtake)
12. Jack-a-Roe - (Studio Outtake)
13. Althea - (live)
14. Lost Sailor - (live)
15. Saint of Circumstance - (live)
DISC 7: RECKONING:
1. Dire Wolf
2. Race Is On, The
3. Oh Babe It Ain't No Lie
4. It Must Have Been the Roses
5. Dark Hollow
6. China Doll
7. Been All Around This World
8. Monkey and the Engineer
9. Jack-a-Roe
10. Deep Elem Blues
11. Cassidy
12. To Lay Me Down
13. Rosalie McFall
14. On the Road Again
15. Bird Song
16. Ripple
DISC 8: RECKONING: BONUS MATERIAL:
1. To Lay Me Down - (Studio Rehearsal)
2. Iko Iko
3. Heaven Help the Fool
4. El Paso
5. Sage & Spirit
6. Little Sadie
7. It Must Have Been the Roses - (Alternate Live Version)
8. Dark Hollow - (Alternate Live Version)
9. Jack-a-Roe - ((Alternate Live Version))
10. Cassidy - (Alternate Live Version)
11. China Doll - (Alternate Live Version)
12. Monkey and the Engineer - (Alternate Live Version)
13. Oh Babe It Ain't No Lie - (Alternate Live Version)
14. Ripple - (Alternate Live Version)
15. Tom Dooley - (Live 1978)
16. Deep Elem Blues - (Alternate Live Version 1978)
DISC 9: DEAD SET:
1. Samson and Delilah
2. Friend of the Devil
3. New Minglewood Blues
4. Deal
5. Candyman
6. Little Red Rooster
7. Loser
8. Passenger
9. Feel Like a Stranger
10. Franklin's Tower
11. Rhythm Devils
12. Space
13. Fire on the Mountain
14. Greatest Story Ever Told
15. Brokedown Palace
DISC 10: DEAD SET: BONUS MATERIAL:
1. Let It Grow
2. Sugaree
3. C.C.Rider
4. Row Jimmy
5. Lazy Lightnin'
6. Supplication
7. High Time
8. Jack Straw
9. Shakedown Street
10. Not Fade Away
DISC 11: IN THE DARK:
1. Touch of Grey
2. Hell in a Bucket
3. When Push Comes to Shove
4. West L.A. Fadeaway
5. Tons of Steel
6. Throwing Stones
7. Black Muddy River
8. My Brother Esau - (Single B-Side)
9. West L.A. Fadeaway - (Alternate Version 1984)
10. Black Muddy River - (Studio Rehearsal)
11. When Push Comes to Shove - (Studio Rehearsal)
12. Touch of Grey - (Studio Rehearsal)
13. Throwing Stones - (live)
DISC 12: BUILT TO LAST:
1. Foolish Heart
2. Just a Little Light
3. Built to Last
4. Blow Away
5. Victim of the Crime
6. We Can Run
7. Standing on the Moon
8. Picasso Moon
9. I Will Take You Home
10. Foolish Heart - (live)
11. Blow Away - (live)
12. California Earthquake (Whole Lotta Shakin' Goin' On) - (live)
| Details | | Contributing Artists: | Hamza El Din, Hamza El-Din, Lowell George | | Producer: | Betty Cantor-Jackson, Dan Healy, David Lemieux (Compilation), Gary Lyons, Grateful Dead, James Austin (Compilation), Jerry Garcia, John Culter, Keith Olsen, Lowell George | | Distributor: | WEA (Distributor) | | Recording Type: | Studio | | Recording Mode: | Stereo | | SPAR Code: | n/a |
Album Notes
BEYOND DESCRIPTION contains: WAKE OF THE FLOOD (1973)/ GRATEFUL DEAD FROM THE MARS HOTEL (1974)/BLUES FOR ALLAH (1975)/TERRAPIN STATION (1977)/SHAKEDOWN STREET (1978)/GO TO HEAVEN (1980)/RECKONING (1981)/DEAD SET (1981)/IN THE DARK (1987)/BUILT TO LAST (1989) as well as extensive bonus material associated with each original release.
Grateful Dead: Jerry Garcia, Bob Weir (vocals, guitar, acoustic guitar); Keith Godchaux, Brent Mydland (vocals, keyboards); Phil Lesh (vocals, bass guitar); Donna Godchaux (vocals); Mickey Hart, Bill Kreutzmann (drums, percussion).
Additional personnel: Hamza El Din (vocals, oud, tar); Lowell George, Sarah Fulcher (vocals); Doug Sahm (12-string guitar); John McFee (pedal steel guitar); Vassar Clements (violin); Steven Schuster (flute, reeds); Matthew Kelly (harmonica); Tom Scott (saxophone, lyricon); Martin Fierro (alto saxophone, tenor saxophone); Frank Morin (tenor saxophone); Joe Ellis, Bill Atwood (trumpet); Pat O'Hara (trombone); Ned Lagin (synthesizer); Benny Velarde (timbales); Jordan Amarantha (percussion); Paul Buckmaster, The Nubian Youth Choir, The English Choral, Martin Ford Orchestra.
Liner Note Authors: Dennis McNally; David Lemieux; Peter Coyote; Joel Selvin; David Fricke; David Gans; Rip Rense; Andrew Clarke; Gary Lambert; Steve Silberman; Blair Jackson; Tom Anderson.
Recording information: 1973 - 1989.
All tracks have been digitally mastered using HDCD technology.
In the first seven years of its existence, as chronicled on the GOLDEN ROAD box set, the Grateful Dead went from a garage R&B band to LSD-fueled experimentalists to acoustic country rockers. The stylistic expanses traversed during the subsequent phases of the group's lifetime were just as great. THE GOLDEN ROAD's companion piece, the dozen-disc box BEYOND DESCRIPTION, contains all of the Dead's post-Americana-period releases up to their final studio album, 1989's BUILT TO LAST. Each is buttressed with numerous outtakes, demos, live versions, etc. Most impressively, in the case of the back-to-basics acoustic live album RECKONING, there's an entire disc of bonus material.
Over the course of BEYOND DESCRIPTION, we witness changes on several levels; following organist/singer Pigpen's death, the arrival of keyboardist Keith Godchaux and his vocalist wife, Donna, helped edge the band beyond its blues/country roots toward such jazz-rock excursions as "Eyes of the World," while Bob Weir expanded his horizons as well with the ambitious contemporaneous piece "Weather Report Suite." By the mid-'70s, bold conceptual works were the group's stock in trade, from the prog-rock shadings of "Blues for Allah" to the side-long epic "Terrapin Station." After Keith's death, new arrival Brent Mydland at the turn of the decade helped revitalize the band with his more soulful approach, and the Dead moved back to the rich, rootsy sound it had embraced 10 years earlier. This approach eventually earned the band a whole new generation of fans via the 1987 hit "Touch of Grey." The whole journey is laid out here, and spiced with so many extras that even hardcore Deadheads will find themselves waylaid in wonderment.
Editorial Reviews
5 stars out of 5 - This box proves again that the Dead's career remains one of the most engrossing journeys in rock'n'roll.
Uncut
4 stars out of 5 - BEYOND DESCRIPTION presents the entire post-Warners run, and like its predecessor, is stacked with outtakes, rehearsals, live versions and demos...
Mojo
[T]here is a lot of great material here...
Dirty Linen
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