''Beyond Description (1973–1989)'' is the second twelve- CD

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retrospective of the

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's studio and live albums. A companion to '' The Golden Road (1965–1973)'' box set, it covers their time on the Grateful Dead Records and

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labels, from 1973 to 1989. The set contains expanded and remastered versions of all the albums during the brief period with their own label (except '' Steal Your Face''), and during their time on Arista (except '' Without a Net'' and later box set '' So Many Roads''). Included are numerous previously unreleased studio outtakes and live tracks. The ten albums in the set are '' Wake of the Flood'', '' From the Mars Hotel'', '' Blues for Allah'', '' Terrapin Station'', ''

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'', '' Go to Heaven'', '' In the Dark'', ''

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'', and the two live albums ''

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'' and ''

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'' (both expanded to two-CD sets). Pre-ordered copies included a bonus disc with five live tracks and a studio rehearsal. The albums, with the bonus tracks, were given individual release in 2006. Previous box set ''

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'', released in 1987, contains six of the same albums.

Track listing

''See individual album pages for more information''

Disc One: ''Wake of the Flood''

* '' Wake of the Flood''

Disc Two: ''From the Mars Hotel''

* '' From the Mars Hotel''

Disc Three: ''Blues for Allah''

* '' Blues for Allah''

Disc Four: ''Terrapin Station''

* '' Terrapin Station''

Disc Five: ''Shakedown Street''

* ''

Disc Six: ''Go to Heaven''

* '' Go to Heaven''

Disc Seven: ''Reckoning'', disc 1

* ''

'' Disc 1 * All tracks live at Warfield Theatre, San Francisco, CA (September 25, 1980October 14, 1980) & Radio City Music Hall, New York City, NY (October 22, 1980October 31, 1980)

Disc Eight: ''Reckoning'', disc 2

* ''

'' Disc 2

Disc Nine: ''Dead Set'', disc 1

* ''

'' Disc 1 * All tracks live at Warfield Theatre, San Francisco, CA (September 25, 1980October 14, 1980) & Radio City Music Hall, New York City, NY (October 22, 1980October 31, 1980)

Disc Ten: ''Dead Set'', disc 2

* ''

'' Disc 2

Disc Eleven: ''In the Dark''

* '' In the Dark''

Disc Twelve: ''Built to Last''

* ''

Bonus Disc

Notes

Personnel

Grateful Dead

* Jerry Garcia –

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vocals Singing is the art of creating music with the voice. It is the oldest form of musical expression, and the human voice can be considered the first musical instrument. The definition of singing varies across sources. Some sources define sing ...

* Bob Weir –

, vocals * Phil Lesh –

electric bass The bass guitar (), also known as the electric bass guitar, electric bass, or simply the bass, is the lowest-pitched member of the guitar family. It is similar in appearance and construction to an electric but with a longer neck and scale leng ...

, vocals * Donna Godchaux – vocals on discs 1-5 * Keith Godchaux – keyboards,

piano A piano is a keyboard instrument that produces sound when its keys are depressed, activating an Action (music), action mechanism where hammers strike String (music), strings. Modern pianos have a row of 88 black and white keys, tuned to a c ...

, vocals on discs 1-5 * Brent Mydland – keyboards,

Hammond organ The Hammond organ is an electric organ invented by Laurens Hammond and John M. Hanert, first manufactured in 1935. Multiple models have been produced, most of which use sliding #Drawbars, drawbars to vary sounds. Until 1975, sound was created ...

, vocals on discs 6-12 * Mickey Hart –

drums The drum is a member of the percussion instrument, percussion group of musical instruments. In the Hornbostel–Sachs classification system, it is a membranophones, membranophone. Drums consist of at least one Acoustic membrane, membrane, c ...

percussion A percussion instrument is a musical instrument that is sounded by being struck or scraped by a percussion mallet, beater including attached or enclosed beaters or Rattle (percussion beater), rattles struck, scraped or rubbed by hand or ...

(except for discs 1 & 2) * Bill Kreutzmann – drums, percussion

Additional performers

* for a comprehensive listing, see individual album pages

Production

*James Austin, David Lemieux – producers *Cameron Sears – executive producer *Jimmy Edwards – associate producer *Robin Hurley – associate producer *Hale Milgrim – associate producer *Scott Pascucci – associate producer *Eileen Law – archival research *Joe Gastwirt – mastering *Tom Flye – additional mixing *Robert Gatley – mixing assistant *Reggie Collines – discography annotation *Hugh Brown – reissue art direction *Steve Vance – design, reissue art direction

References

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