''View from the Vault, Volume Two'' (or ''View from the Vault II'') is the second entry in the "

View from the Vault ''View from the Vault'' is a four-part series of live DVDs and companion soundtracks by the Grateful Dead. The audio is taken from the soundboard and the video from the video screens at the concerts. Each volume was released simultaneously as an a ...

" series by the

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. It was released simultaneously as a three-disk CD and a one-disk DVD. This volume features the June 14, 1991 concert at Robert F. Kennedy Stadium in

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, and bonus material from a show at the same venue on July 12, 1990. It is the only Grateful Dead video release featuring Vince Welnick and Bruce Hornsby. The DVD contains one track that is not on the CD, "

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", recorded at the 1990 show. It also includes a music video, "Liberty", directed by Justin Kreutzmann, the son of Dead drummer Bill Kreutzmann. The video uses audio from March 30, 1994, Atlanta, which was previously released on ''

So Many Roads (1965–1995) ''So Many Roads (1965–1995)'' is a five- disc box set by the Grateful Dead. Primarily consisting of concert recordings from different periods of the band's history, it also contains several songs recorded in the studio. All but one of the ...

''. The "Rubin and Cherise" on the DVD menu is from the show on June 9, 1991. The set was

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Gold by the

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on February 27, 2003.

Track listing

Disc one ''First set:'' #"Cold Rain & Snow" (trad., arr. Grateful Dead) – 7:00 #"

Wang Dang Doodle "Wang Dang Doodle" is a blues song written by Willie Dixon. Music critic Mike Rowe calls it a party song in an urban style with its massive, rolling, exciting beat. It was first recorded by Howlin' Wolf in 1960 and released by Chess Records i ...

" (

Willie Dixon William James Dixon (July 1, 1915January 29, 1992) was an American blues musician, vocalist, songwriter, arranger and record producer. He was proficient in playing both the upright bass and the guitar, and sang with a distinctive voice, but he ...

) – 6:39 #"Jack-a-Roe" (trad., arr. Grateful Dead) – 5:48 #" Big River" (

Johnny Cash John R. Cash (born J. R. Cash; February 26, 1932 – September 12, 2003) was an American country singer-songwriter. Much of Cash's music contained themes of sorrow, moral tribulation, and redemption, especially in the later stages of his ca ...

) – 5:43 → #" Maggie's Farm" (

Bob Dylan Bob Dylan (legally Robert Dylan, born Robert Allen Zimmerman, May 24, 1941) is an American singer-songwriter. Often regarded as one of the greatest songwriters of all time, Dylan has been a major figure in popular culture during a career sp ...

) – 7:44 #"Row Jimmy" ( 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 ...

) – 11:04 #"Black-Throated Wind" ( 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 ...

) – 7:19 #"Tennessee Jed" (Hunter, Garcia) – 7:49 #"The Music Never Stopped" (Barlow, Weir) – 8:55 Disc two ''Second set:'' #"Help On the Way" (Hunter, Garcia) – 4:33 → #"Slipknot!" (Garcia, Keith Godchaux, Bill Kreutzmann,

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 ...

, Weir) – 8:30 → #"Franklin's Tower" (Hunter, Garcia, Kreutzmann) – 12:27 #"Estimated Prophet" (Barlow, Weir) – 13:08 → # " Dark Star" (Hunter, Garcia,

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 ...

, Kreutzmann, Lesh, Ron McKernan, Weir) – 11:29 → #"Drums" (Hart, Kreutzmann) – 9:54 → #"Space" (Garcia, Lesh, Weir) – 6:26 → Disc three ''Second set, continued:'' #"Stella Blue" (Hunter, Garcia) – 13:10 → #" Turn on Your Love Light" ( Deadric Malone, Joseph Scott) – 9:13 ''Encore:'' #

" It's All Over Now, Baby Blue" (Dylan) – 7:16 ''July 12, 1990 – second set:'' #

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, Weir) – 8:29 → #"Foolish Heart" (Hunter, Garcia) – 10:10 → #"Dark Star" (Hunter, Garcia, Hart, Kreutzmann, Lesh, McKernan, Weir) – 24:58

Personnel

*Jerry Garcia –

lead guitar Lead guitar (also known as solo guitar) is a musical part for a guitar in which the guitarist plays melody lines, instrumental fill passages, guitar solos, and occasionally, some riffs and chords within a song structure. The lead is the featur ...

vocals Singing is the act of creating musical sounds with the voice. A person who sings is called a singer, artist or vocalist (in jazz and/or popular music). Singers perform music (arias, recitatives, songs, etc.) that can be sung with or without ...

*Bob Weir –

rhythm guitar In music performances, rhythm guitar is a technique and role that performs a combination of two functions: to provide all or part of the rhythmic pulse in conjunction with other instruments from the rhythm section (e.g., drum kit, bass guitar ...

, vocals *Phil Lesh –

bass guitar The bass guitar, electric bass or simply bass (), is the lowest-pitched member of the string family. It is a plucked string instrument similar in appearance and construction to an electric or an acoustic guitar, but with a longer neck and ...

, vocals *Vince Welnick –

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, vocals *Mickey Hart –

drums A drum kit (also called a drum set, trap set, or simply drums) is a collection of drums, cymbals, and other Percussion instrument, auxiliary percussion instruments set up to be played by one person. The player (drummer) typically holds a pair o ...

percussion A percussion instrument is a musical instrument that is sounded by being struck or scraped by a beater including attached or enclosed beaters or rattles struck, scraped or rubbed by hand or struck against another similar instrument. Exc ...

*Bill Kreutzmann – drums, percussion *Bruce Hornsby –

accordion Accordions (from 19th-century German ''Akkordeon'', from ''Akkord''—"musical chord, concord of sounds") are a family of box-shaped musical instruments of the bellows-driven free-reed aerophone type (producing sound as air flows past a reed ...

piano The piano is a stringed keyboard instrument in which the strings are struck by wooden hammers that are coated with a softer material (modern hammers are covered with dense wool felt; some early pianos used leather). It is played using a keyboa ...

synthesizer A synthesizer (also spelled synthesiser) is an electronic musical instrument that generates audio signals. Synthesizers typically create sounds by generating waveforms through methods including subtractive synthesis, additive synthesis and ...

, vocals *Brent Mydland -

, vocals (July 12, 1990 bonus footage) *Len Dell'Amico - co-producer, director *Dan Healy – recording *

Dick Latvala Dick Latvala (26 July 1943 – 6 August 1999) was an American tape archivist for the Grateful Dead. He started the CD series ''Dick's Picks'', a series that selects live music from Grateful Dead concerts. The first volume of ''Dick's Picks'' w ...

– tape archivist *David Lemieux – tape archivist *Eileen Law – archival research *Robert Minkin – design *Susana Millman – photography * Candace Brightman – Lighting

Notes

References

Levy, Eric. "Interview from the Vault: A Conversation with David Lemieux", ''The Music Box'', March 2002, Volume 9, #3
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