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Grayfolded is one of only three Grateful Dead albums that features the participation of every musician who was ever in the group, the others being the box sets So Many Roads (1965–1995) and 30 Trips Around the Sun (as well as the latter's 4-disc version).
It was a CD of GRAYFOLDED, an experimental Grateful Dead recording, difficult to find and much coveted. I suddenly felt dead — no, not dead, more otherworldly , a grateful kind of dead. I could feel life scurrying about, a plane overhead, the sea just beyond and unfolding notes of Dark Star drifting through the grid of my screen door.
Grayfolded by Grateful Dead, John Oswald released in 1995. Find album reviews, track lists, credits, awards and more at AllMusic.
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This essay will discuss what, in many ways, is the coolest Grateful Dead album: John Oswald's Grayfolded, John Oswald's Grayfolded,
Original recordings of the Grateful Dead in performance have been processed using Plunderphonic techniques. John Oswald's nearly invisible hand creates the ultimate Dark Star that is even more than the sum of its parts. Grayfolded is proudly pressed at Quality Record Pressing.
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Robert Hunter: "What the Dead do on 'Dark Star' is what the Dead are, that's what they do best. What defines the Dead is 'Dark Star'." Buy the vinyl issue of the Grateful Dead and John...
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Reissue with liner notes by musicologist Rob Bowman featuring interviews with Jerry Garcia, Phil Lesh, and Robert Hunter plus two "time maps" which chart the source concerts of Dark Star. Made by Universal M&L, UK (between 1999 and 2002), it's a repress of 1999 Grayfolded made by predecessor PMDC, UK with similar matrix.
