''One from the Vault'' is a
live album by the
Grateful Dead, recorded on August 13, 1975 at the
Great American Music Hall
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in
San Francisco, California
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, and released April 15, 1991 on
Grateful Dead Records, the personal
record label
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of the band. The concert was broadcast on FM radio, widely traded by fans on cassettes, and sold in
bootleg
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LP versions under the titles ''Urubouros Deedni Mublasaron'' and ''Make Believe Ballroom''. But it was not until the Grateful Dead released it on their
eponym
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ous record label, Grateful Dead Records, that high quality versions of the songs appeared. It was the first complete concert recording released commercially by the band. The concert also marked the first time that the then recently released album ''
Blues for Allah
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'' was performed live in its entirety, albeit with a few other songs thrown in.
Track listing
;Disc one
:''First set:''
#Introduction by
Bill Graham > – 0:46
#"Help on the Way" / "Slipknot!" > (
Jerry Garcia,
Robert Hunter) – 7:52
#"Franklin's Tower" (Garcia,
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 to ...
, Hunter) – 6:58
#"The Music Never Stopped" (Weir,
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) – 5:29
#"It Must Have Been the Roses" (Hunter) – 5:05
#"Eyes of the World" / "Drums" > (Garcia, Hunter) – 14:32
#"King Solomon's Marbles" (Lesh) – 6:36
:''Second set:''
#
"Around and Around
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" (Chuck Berry
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) – 5:59
;Disc two
:''Second set, continued:''
#"Sugaree
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" (Garcia, Hunter) – 7:56
#" Big River" ( Johnny Cash) – 4:50
#"Crazy Fingers" / "Drums" > (Garcia, Hunter) – 13:08
#"The Other One" > (Weir, Kreutzmann) – 5:33
#"Sage and Spirit" > (Weir) – 3:24
#"Goin' Down the Road Feeling Bad" (traditional, arranged by Grateful Dead) – 7:13
#"U.S. Blues" (Garcia, Hunter) – 5:29
#"Blues for Allah" (Garcia, Hunter) – 21:01
Personnel
* Jerry Garcia – guitar
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, vocals
* Bob Weir – guitar, 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 ...
– keyboards
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* Musi ...
, 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.
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– vocals
* Phil Lesh – bass guitar
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, vocals
*Bill Kreutzmann
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– drums and percussion
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* Mickey Hart – percussion and crickets
Charts
See also
* Backstage Pass
References
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Grateful Dead live albums
1991 live albums
Albums produced by Dan Healy (soundman)
Grateful Dead Records live albums
Albums recorded at the Great American Music Hall