Beyond Description (1973–1989)
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Template:Music ratings Beyond Description (1973–1989) is the second twelve-CD box set retrospective of the Grateful Dead's studio and live albums. A companion to The Golden Road (1965–1973) box set, it covers their time on the Grateful Dead Records and Arista Records labels, from 1973 to 1989.
The set contains expanded and remastered versions of all the albums during the brief period with their own label (except Steal Your Face), and during their time on Arista (except Without a Net and later box set So Many Roads). Included are numerous previously unreleased studio outtakes and live tracks. The ten albums in the set are Wake of the Flood, From the Mars Hotel, Blues for Allah, Terrapin Station, Shakedown Street, Go to Heaven, In the Dark, Built to Last, and the two live albums Reckoning and Dead Set (both expanded to two-CD sets).
Pre-ordered copies included a bonus disc with five live tracks and a studio rehearsal. The albums, with the bonus tracks, were given individual release in 2006. Previous box set Dead Zone, released in 1987, contains six of the same albums.
Track listing
See individual album pages for more information
Disc One: Wake of the Flood
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Disc Two: From the Mars Hotel
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Disc Three: Blues for Allah
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Disc Four: Terrapin Station
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Disc Five: Shakedown Street
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Disc Six: Go to Heaven
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Disc Seven: Reckoning, disc 1
- Reckoning Disc 1
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- All tracks live at Warfield Theatre, San Francisco, CA (September 25, 1980Template:SndOctober 14, 1980) & Radio City Music Hall, New York City, NY (October 22, 1980Template:SndOctober 31, 1980)
Disc Eight: Reckoning, disc 2
- Reckoning Disc 2
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Disc Nine: Dead Set, disc 1
- Dead Set Disc 1
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- All tracks live at Warfield Theatre, San Francisco, CA (September 25, 1980Template:SndOctober 14, 1980) & Radio City Music Hall, New York City, NY (October 22, 1980Template:SndOctober 31, 1980)
Disc Ten: Dead Set, disc 2
- Dead Set Disc 2
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Disc Eleven: In the Dark
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Disc Twelve: Built to Last
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Bonus Disc
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Personnel
Grateful Dead
- Jerry Garcia – guitar, vocals
- Bob Weir – guitar, vocals
- Phil Lesh – electric bass, vocals
- Donna Godchaux – vocals on discs 1-5
- Keith Godchaux – keyboards, piano, vocals on discs 1-5
- Brent Mydland – keyboards, Hammond organ, vocals on discs 6-12
- Mickey Hart – drums, percussion (except for discs 1 & 2)
- Bill Kreutzmann – drums, percussion
Additional performers
- for a comprehensive listing, see individual album pages
Production
- James Austin, David Lemieux – producers
- Cameron Sears – executive producer
- Jimmy Edwards – associate producer
- Robin Hurley – associate producer
- Hale Milgrim – associate producer
- Scott Pascucci – associate producer
- Eileen Law – archival research
- Joe Gastwirt – mastering
- Tom Flye – additional mixing
- Robert Gatley – mixing assistant
- Reggie Collines – discography annotation
- Hugh Brown – reissue art direction
- Steve Vance – design, reissue art direction
References
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