For the Grateful Dead’s second live album, released two years after its predecessor LIVE/DEAD, the band delivered an equally magnificent, but entirely different, Grateful Dead sound. Whereas LIVE/DEAD was a perfect sonic encapsulation of the band at the peak of their Primal Dead era, SKULL & ROSES captures the quintessential quintet, the original five piece band, playing some of their hardest hitting rock ‘n’ roll (‘Johnny B. Goode,’ ‘Not Fade Away’), showing off their authentic Bakersfield bona fides (‘Me & My Uncle’) Not only did SKULL & ROSES serve up supremely fine tunes, it was also the one that scored the Grateful Dead their very first Gold record, introduced the world to the iconic skeleton babe Bertha, and asked the questions – Who are you? Where are you? How are you? – giving birth to the first official generation of Dead Heads.
01. BERTHA
02. MAMA TRIED
03. BIG RAILROAD BLUES
04. PLAYING IN THE BAND
05. THE OTHER ONE DISC #2
01. ME & MY UNCLE
02. BIG BOSS MAN
03. ME & BOBBY MCGEE
04. JOHNNY B.GOODE
05. WHARF RAT
06. NOT FADE AWAY/GOIN’ DOWN THE ROAD FEELING BAD
