Without a Net is a recording of the Grateful Dead performing live in concert. It was released in 1990. The album is dedicated to Clifton Hanger, a name keyboardist Brent Mydland used to sign in hotel guestbooks. Mydland died of a drug overdose during this album's post-production. The album was certified Gold by the RIAA on November 27, 1990. Other releases of live performances from the same time period (including additional material from the same concerts) are Dozin' at the Knick, Postcards of the Hanging, Terrapin Station (Limited Edition), So Many Roads (1965-1995), Garcia Plays Dylan, Spring 1990, Formerly the Warlocks, and Nightfall of Diamonds.
Famous quotes containing the words without a and/or net:
“You are not satisfied unless form is so strictly divorced from content that you can comprehend the one without almost without bothering to read the other.”
—Samuel Beckett (1906–1989)
“Afraid lest he be caught up in a net of words, tripped up, bewildered and so defeated—thrown aside—a man hesitates to write down his innermost convictions.”
—William Carlos Williams (1883–1963)