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''Download Series Volume 4'' is a live album by the rock band the
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. It was released as a digital download on August 2, 2005 and is a three disc set featuring virtually all of the June 18, 1976 show from the Capitol Theatre in
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. "Tennessee Jed" was omitted because the master tape was plagued with technical problems that could not be fixed in mastering. As a supplement to this omission, the third disc contains highlights from concerts later in June 1976 in
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and
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. June 1976 was the beginning on a near non-stop touring circuit by the Dead that would last until the band dissolved in 1995 after
Jerry Garcia Jerome John Garcia (August 1, 1942 – August 9, 1995) was an American musician best known for being the principal songwriter, lead guitarist, and a vocalist with the rock band Grateful Dead, which he co-founded and which came to prominence ...
's death. Also,
Mickey Hart Mickey Hart (born Michael Steven Hartman, September 11, 1943) is an American percussionist. He is best known as one of the two drummers of the rock band Grateful Dead. He was a member of the Grateful Dead from September 1967 until February 19 ...
had just recently returned as the second drummer to the band after a five-year hiatus. In the middle of June, the band played three nights at the Capitol Theatre. New songs for 1976 included "The Music Never Stopped", "Crazy Fingers", "Samson and Delilah", and "The Wheel". The show also featured one of only five Grateful Dead performances of Garcia's song "Mission In The Rain". ''Volume 4'' was mastered in
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by Jeffrey Norman.


Critical reception

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, "Nearly all of the Passaic show is here, running 20 tracks over the equivalent of two discs, while the excerpts from the Philadelphia show run nine tracks, all containing songs unplayed in Jersey. This includes a rather epic "Playing in the Band" – 23 minutes that lead into "Drums" and "The Wheel" before returning for a three-minute reprise of "Playing". Such bravura jams are largely absent on the low-energy Passaic show...
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is generally a lazy stroll through a fairly familiar set list; pleasant, but not especially memorable."


Track listing

Disc one :''First set:'' #"The Music Never Stopped" ( John Barlow,
Bob Weir Robert Hall Weir ( ; né Parber, born October 16, 1947) is an American musician and songwriter best known as a founding member of the Grateful Dead. After the group disbanded in 1995, Weir performed with The Other Ones, later known as The Dead ...
) - 5:54 #"Sugaree" ( Robert Hunter,
Jerry Garcia Jerome John Garcia (August 1, 1942 – August 9, 1995) was an American musician best known for being the principal songwriter, lead guitarist, and a vocalist with the rock band Grateful Dead, which he co-founded and which came to prominence ...
) - 11:02 #"Mama Tried" (
Merle Haggard Merle Ronald Haggard (April 6, 1937 – April 6, 2016) was an American country music singer, songwriter, guitarist, and fiddler. Haggard was born in Oildale, California, toward the end of the Great Depression. His childhood was troubled af ...
) - 3:06 #"Crazy Fingers" (Hunter, Garcia) - 13:07 #"Big River" (
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) - 6:22 #"Brown-Eyed Women" (Hunter, Garcia) - 4:49 #"Looks Like Rain" (Barlow, Weir) - 7:57 #"Row Jimmy" (Hunter, Garcia) - 10:28 #"Cassidy" (Barlow, Weir) - 4:45 #"Mission In the Rain" (Hunter, Garcia) - 7:44 #"Promised Land" (
Chuck Berry Charles Edward Anderson Berry (October 18, 1926 – March 18, 2017) was an American singer, songwriter and guitarist who pioneered rock and roll. Nicknamed the " Father of Rock and Roll", he refined and developed rhythm and blues into th ...
) - 4:18 Disc two :''Second set:'' #"Samson and Delilah" (trad., arr. Grateful Dead) - 6:44 #"St. Stephen" > (Hunter, Garcia,
Phil Lesh Philip Chapman Lesh (born March 15, 1940) is an American musician and a founding member of the Grateful Dead, with whom he played bass guitar throughout their 30-year career. After the band's disbanding in 1995, Lesh continued the tradition of ...
) - 4:39 #"Not Fade Away" > (
Buddy Holly Charles Hardin Holley (September 7, 1936 – February 3, 1959), known as Buddy Holly, was an American singer and songwriter who was a central and pioneering figure of mid-1950s rock and roll. He was born to a musical family in Lubbock, Texas ...
,
Norman Petty Norman Petty (May 25, 1927 – August 15, 1984) was an American musician, record producer, publisher, radio station owner, and considered to be one of the founding fathers of early rock & roll. Biography Petty was born in the small town of Clo ...
) - 11:16 #"St. Stephen" > (Hunter, Garcia, Lesh) - 1:02 #"Eyes of the World" > (Hunter, Garcia) - 12:31 #"Drums" > (
Mickey Hart Mickey Hart (born Michael Steven Hartman, September 11, 1943) is an American percussionist. He is best known as one of the two drummers of the rock band Grateful Dead. He was a member of the Grateful Dead from September 1967 until February 19 ...
,
Bill Kreutzmann William Kreutzmann Jr. ( ; born May 7, 1946) is an American drummer and founding member of the rock band Grateful Dead. He played with the band for its entire thirty-year career, usually alongside fellow drummer Mickey Hart, and has continued ...
) - 2:16 #"The Wheel" > (Hunter, Garcia) - 4:42 #"Sugar Magnolia" (Hunter, Weir) - 11:42 :''Encore:'' #
  • "U.S. Blues" (Hunter, Garcia) - 5:50 Disc three :''Bonus tracks:'' # "Scarlet Begonias" ''(6/21/76 Tower Theatre, Philadelphia, PA)'' - 10:59 # "Lazy Lightnin' " > ''(6/21/76 Tower Theatre, Philadelphia, PA)'' - 2:48 # "Supplication" ''(6/21/76 Tower Theatre, Philadelphia, PA)'' - 5:18 # "Candyman" ''(6/21/76 Tower Theatre, Philadelphia, PA)'' - 7:03 # "Playing In the Band" > ''(6/22/76 Tower Theatre, Philadelphia, PA)'' - 23:25 # "Drums" > ''(6/22/76 Tower Theatre, Philadelphia, PA)'' - 2:30 # "The Wheel" > ''(6/22/76 Tower Theatre, Philadelphia, PA)'' - 4:59 # "Playing In the Band" ''(6/22/76 Tower Theatre, Philadelphia, PA)'' - 3:21 # "High Time" ''(6/28/76
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    , Chicago, IL)'' - 9:27


    Personnel

    Grateful Dead *
    Jerry Garcia Jerome John Garcia (August 1, 1942 – August 9, 1995) was an American musician best known for being the principal songwriter, lead guitarist, and a vocalist with the rock band Grateful Dead, which he co-founded and which came to prominence ...
    – lead guitar, vocals *
    Donna Jean Godchaux Donna Jean Thatcher Godchaux-MacKay (born August 22, 1947) is an American singer who was a member of the Grateful Dead from 1972 until 1979. Biography Donna Jean Thatcher was born in Florence, Alabama. Prior to 1970, she had worked as a ses ...
    – vocals *
    Keith Godchaux Keith Richard Godchaux (July 19, 1948 – July 23, 1980) was a pianist best known for his tenure in the rock group the Grateful Dead from 1971 to 1979. Biography Godchaux was born in Seattle, Washington, and grew up in Concord, California ...
    – Piano *
    Mickey Hart Mickey Hart (born Michael Steven Hartman, September 11, 1943) is an American percussionist. He is best known as one of the two drummers of the rock band Grateful Dead. He was a member of the Grateful Dead from September 1967 until February 19 ...
    – drums *
    Bill Kreutzmann William Kreutzmann Jr. ( ; born May 7, 1946) is an American drummer and founding member of the rock band Grateful Dead. He played with the band for its entire thirty-year career, usually alongside fellow drummer Mickey Hart, and has continued ...
    – drums *
    Phil Lesh Philip Chapman Lesh (born March 15, 1940) is an American musician and a founding member of the Grateful Dead, with whom he played bass guitar throughout their 30-year career. After the band's disbanding in 1995, Lesh continued the tradition of ...
    – electric bass *
    Bob Weir Robert Hall Weir ( ; né Parber, born October 16, 1947) is an American musician and songwriter best known as a founding member of the Grateful Dead. After the group disbanded in 1995, Weir performed with The Other Ones, later known as The Dead ...
    – rhythm guitar, vocals Production *
    Betty Cantor-Jackson Betty Cantor-Jackson (born 1948) is an American audio engineer and producer. She is best known for her work recording live concerts for the Grateful Dead from the late 1960s to the early 1980s, including the '' Cornell 5/8/77'' album. She is noted ...
    – recording * Jeffrey Norman – mastering


    See also

    *''
    Dave's Picks Volume 28 ''Dave's Picks Volume 28'' is a three-CD live album by the rock band the Grateful Dead. It contains the complete concert recorded on June 17, 1976, at Capitol Theatre, in Passaic, New Jersey and two bonus tracks from June 23, 1976 and June 28, 1 ...
    '' - Features the full show from the night before on June 17, 1976 at the Capitol Theater.


    References

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