Studio and Contemporary Live Albums
Unconventionally, the Grateful Dead made the release of live albums a common occurrence throughout their career. Because many were recently recorded and included previously unreleased original material, they often filled the role of traditional studio albums. An integral part of the contemporaneous evolution of the band, such live albums are included in this section.
| Year | Title | Album details | Peak chart positions | Certifications | ||||||||||||||||||
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| 1967 | The Grateful Dead |
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37 | — | US: Gold | |||||||||||||||||
| 1968 | Anthem of the Sun |
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87 | — | ||||||||||||||||||
| 1969 | Aoxomoxoa |
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73 | — | US: Gold | |||||||||||||||||
| Live/Dead |
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64 | — | US: Gold | ||||||||||||||||||
| 1970 | Workingman's Dead |
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27 | — | US: Platinum: | |||||||||||||||||
| American Beauty |
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30 | — |
US: 2×Platinum |
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| 1971 | Grateful Dead (also known as Skull and Roses) |
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25 | — | ||||||||||||||||||
| 1972 | Europe '72 |
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20 | — | US: 2×Platinum | |||||||||||||||||
| 1973 | History of the Grateful Dead, Volume One (Bear's Choice) |
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60 | — | ||||||||||||||||||
| Wake of the Flood |
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18 | — | |||||||||||||||||||
| 1974 | From the Mars Hotel |
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17 | — | ||||||||||||||||||
| 1975 | Blues for Allah |
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12 | — | ||||||||||||||||||
| 1976 | Steal Your Face |
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56 | — | ||||||||||||||||||
| 1977 | Terrapin Station |
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28 | — | US: Gold | |||||||||||||||||
| 1978 | Shakedown Street |
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41 | — | US: Gold | |||||||||||||||||
| 1980 | Go to Heaven |
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23 | — | ||||||||||||||||||
| 1981 | Reckoning |
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43 | — | ||||||||||||||||||
| Dead Set |
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29 | — | |||||||||||||||||||
| 1987 | In the Dark |
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6 | — | US: 2×Platinum | |||||||||||||||||
| 1989 | Dylan & the Dead |
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37 | — | US: Gold | |||||||||||||||||
| Built to Last |
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27 | — | US: Gold | ||||||||||||||||||
| 1990 | Without a Net |
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29 | — | US: Gold | |||||||||||||||||
| "—" denotes release that did not chart. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
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Famous quotes containing the words studio, contemporary and/or live:
“The studio has become the crucible where human genius at the apogee of its development brings back to question not only that which is, but creates anew a fantastic and conventional nature which our weak minds, impotent to harmonize it with existing things, adopt by preference, because the miserable work is our own.”
—Eugène Delacroix (1798–1863)
“Americans have internalized the value that mothers of young children should be mothers first and foremost, and not paid workers. The result is that a substantial amount of confusion, ambivalence, guilt, and anxiety is experienced by working mothers. Our cultural expectations of mother and realities of female participation in the labor force are directly contradictory.”
—Ruth E. Zambrana, U.S. researcher, M. Hurst, and R.L. Hite. “The Working Mother in Contemporary Perspectives: A Review of Literature,” Pediatrics (December 1979)
“Lions, wolves, and vultures don’t live together in herds, droves or flocks. Of all animals of prey, man is the only sociable one. Every one of us preys upon his neighbour, and yet we herd together.”
—John Gay (1685–1732)