Grateful Dead - Skeletons From The Closet (Full Album) [Official]

Grateful Dead - Skeletons From The Closet (1974). Dip a toe into the best of the Grateful Dead with their very first compilation featuring 8 classic studio recordings and 2 unstoppable live jams - "Turn On Your Love Light" (1/26/69, Avalon Ballroom) and "One More Saturday Night" (5/26/72, Lyceum Theatre, London).
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Tracklist:
00:00 The Golden Road
02:13 Truckin'
07:12 Rosemary
09:07 Sugar Magnolia
12:24 St. Stephen
16:49 Uncle John's Band
21:31 Casey Jones
25:50 Mexican Blues
29:23 Turn On Your Love Light
36:00 One More Saturday Night
40:50 Friend of the Devil
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Will you come with me? Won't you come with me? There's no better place to take a long strange trip with the Grateful Dead than right here. We've got music from every single studio album and a bevy of live albums, to boot. There are celebrated live performances from the 70s and 80s and official videos with more skeletons than you can shake your bones at, an exclusive seaside series on what's to come from the band's rich catalog and details on meet-ups all across the promised land. If it's community you’re after, try your hand at our yearly DEAD COVERS PROJECT competition and connect with fellow Dead Heads around the world. Heck, keep your eyes peeled you might even catch a glimpse of Pigpen on keys, Jerry in a GROOVE, Bobby tellin' tales, Mickey talkin' space, Phil and friends, Bill on the beach, or anyone from our extended family.
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[@djangobrannen5928]

I’m 74 years old. I have loved this album for fifty years. When I listen to it, I can still smell jasmine incense, see lovely young women, with flowers in their unkempt hair, smelling of patchouli, smoking home-grown weed, drinking Boone’s Farm apple wine and dancing wildly in the moonlight. Get it while you can young ones. Don’t let a single day, or for that matter a single moment go to waste. Just a short time ago, I was where you are. It goes so quickly. I’m thankful for the lovely memories.

[@billorourke7152]

Amen brother I am in my mid 50's and you ain't lying ,life will slip away if you don't live it.

[@giorgio3245]

I'm 78 and you can't imagine how much I agree with you!👋🎸

[@habitatbranch556]

I'm 29 and I wish there was something left to get other than servitude of industry and hedonism. Gotta have a movement that succeeds at applying honest symbiotic values to lifestyles instead of fizzling out when the shadow of empire comes knocking. Nothing left where I am but waste sadly, although what counts as waste to me is different from most other people I guess.

[@BelievingInThePostiveWeDontSee]

​@@habitatbranch556Never give in brother I feel you but there's more of us left then you think

[@Hosebrain]

@@habitatbranch556 save, buy some land, find a good woman, and develop the values in your family that you want to see in the world.

[@SeanSedam]

The dead are such a great band their music gives me hope for another day…

[@billgonzales8978]

you and me im 76 lived in SF bayarea all my life seen them many times so much fun back then after the NAM. peace bro.

[@kad8915]

Just got gifted an original pressed version of this signed by Jerry

[@traceybriscuso4333]

Frame that one. 1. Nice. ✌

[@mariainglese31]

Very cool❤❤❤

[@facesk3158]

You suck! So jelly!

[@matthewbarker3001]

Score!!!

[@thefrenchgunsmith6488]

I got this album when I was 15… Still rocks today, deadhead never dies

[@markwilliams5606]

Just keep Rolling On 🌄🌴

[@thomaslance3932]

71yrs old and this album still sounds absolutely fresh.

[@odemu2074]

Ooooooooohhhhhhh yaaaa!

[@Twotontessie]

Rosemary!

[@user-pc3mj9bi5v]

Rosemary!

[@mattriley3550]

Took me back to 9th grade.

[@noahyorkmusic]

Same! I remember checking this album out at the public library in the small town I lived in it was the only Grateful Dead album they had and I was hooked

[@wharfrat74]

This and American Beauty were my 1st Dead albums. (Cassettes)

[@bowie8819]

Same!!! ♥️💀💙🌹🎩

[@gregorylesley9885]

Bear's Choice and Working Man's Dead were mine. But it's all good

[@wharfrat74]

@@gregorylesley9885 Working Man's was my 3rd. I got there pretty quickly.

[@user-pc3mj9bi5v]

Budapest is rising!

[@jameswilliam904]

This cassette started it all for me in 92/93

[@wettaloca2923]

I got the cassette in 97. I would play it over and over at the sandwich shop I worked at. It definitely annoyed the metal heads😂

[@joeyb7552]

Same years bro! Still doin it!

[@tannergibbs2599]

This CD is still my best garage sale find to this day

[@traceybriscuso4333]

I heard little Johns band in Kent Island once eating Blue Crabs, drinking garage watered down Miller Lite, damn 98 was Kool. Right?

[@christophersanders3252]

You were meant to have it, and that is a comforting thought.

[@dzawalick9804]

The vinyl.

[@stephenfisch615]

This was my first Grateful Dead album. It wound up being the one that I listened to the least, but it was a great introduction to songs that I would grow to love better in concert as time wore on.

[@56jsking]

Same here. Absolutely classic

[@kriskaiser2626]

Fantastic album! Everybody's dancing in a ring around the sun!

[@jaydrummer333]

Everyday!!

[@PrimitiveInTheExtreme]

What a wonder of songs, what a wonder of band. A piece of history 🌹💀🌹

[@sh230968]

This album was my first exposure to Grateful Dead. Fell in love with the quality of the music. Haven't looked back since.

[@thomasmazur6916]

One of their best

[@eddbenzye7725]

My favorite . . .

[@JamesCarollo1981]

This was my first Grateful Dead album back when I was 15 yr old.

[@user-pc3mj9bi5v]

"We can discover the wonders of nature"

[@deadmetal8692]

Wow, that takes me back....

[@Norm-ih2rq]

I used to think every song was great now they are each precious gems that never lose their sparkle

[@billgonzales8978]

saw em live

[@jasonbehringer743]

Thank you!

[@jeffraymond3294]

Great LP, I remember back in the 70’s when.....oops, just crapped myself, I’ll be back in a bit!

[@joeyb7552]

UJB got me , remember playing cards with buddies listening to this, ROCK on !

[@phillipareed2]

My 1st Dead album.

[@BrianForTheWin]

This one definitely helped get me on the bus back high school. Was like nothing I’d ever heard and the tunes only got longer and stranger (in all the best ways) from there!

[@jbrice2010]

I remember when I got on the bus, literally. I was DJing on my college radio station in Richmond, VA. I was familiar with the Grateful Dead and aware of their reputation. Someone called up and requested the Dead (this was 1981 so that meant the Grateful Dead proper back then) and before I could say, “Sure, man” they added, “and if you do play it I’ll give you two tickets on a bus going to the Capitol Centre in Landover, Maryland this weekend for the Grateful Dead show. So that was my first show. I don’t specifically remember exactly stepping on the bus, but I do still remember stepping off it in Landover, MD. There was this dude dancing through the parking lot with a big long multicolored scarf trailing out behind him. My first instinct was to follow him. It was a good instinct.

[@BrianForTheWin]

@@jbrice2010 What an awesome story! Do you remember what song you played for the caller on the radio or anything memorables from that fist show?

[@jbrice2010]

I think I played a set of three songs but that was over 40 years ago. I have no idea which ones I played, and of course my choices would probably be different today. As for the show, I have listened to it on ReListen. But what was most memorable are stories better left offline.😂

[@SPooKYChristopher]

Wake and bake album in circa-'83 .... If I was cranky or couldn't wake up even if you drove a hog through my house, somebody real or ghost or me would have to put on Golden road and everything would be totally freaking cool and I would hit the street after truckin.... This continued until I got out to BezerkelyCa3. Dead dead and more dead and if my head was about to explode from "a bit to much" some REALLY good acid, our go to song,... Actually , was Beatles ... Getting better all the time song. And if our instruments were at all recognizable, we play some yes until it turned back into a dark star. I hadn't thought about that for a long time now. Dead to the Core.

[@SPooKYChristopher]

@Joe O'Toole reminded me of this.

[@marybethunger624]

I have every album and 1st concert was Europe 72.

[@benher973]

Oh you can't imagine how envious of you we all are

[@_noctus_1342]

Omg, bought this album on vinyl two or three weeks ago!

[@seansedam5690]

Can’t beat a bargain good 👍 for you!

[@urukhaicoffee]

Cosmic, Timeless and it FN rocks!!!

[@KeyserSoze685]

The Golden Road....love that tune..."Hey, Hey....hey oh by the way.... come and party every day!!!!"Your mothers down in Memphis won't be back till the Fall"...😎✌😜

[@user-pc3mj9bi5v]

The dangerous dead heads.. they made me musically all my adult life..

[@diannamoher8235]

Love 💕🎸🎵🎶🎶🌹💀. I have the C. D. I play this constantly , had a very good vibe. Thanks for posting.

[@gerryg8207]

Have this album cover hanging on my wall signed by Bobby & Mikey Wish I could get all the autographs!! ⚡️💀🥀🎸👏 Days between 😔 RIP Captain Trips Miss ya Jer

[@OGAngelInBlack]

Oh my! Reminds me of the marathon we had when we first met! ‘Twas a great night… 7 hours with a guy who made me feel like he was my “spirit person “. Always will be grateful for that first night sharing our love of the Dead and for you reminding me how awesome Pearl Jam is. Also for the times that you told me that you had my back or “I got you”.

[@zabooka]

Awesome!

[@aaronjschaefer]

This and Bears Choice cassettes started it all for me...

[@JAYBODDY]

My introduction to the longest, strangest trip that I’m still on .

[@billgonzales8978]

me too i remember the Filmor and

[@pgo301]

G-Dead sures slows down time. Thank You !! :D

[@markwilliams5606]

Traveling from Detroit to Seattle. Rolling into Missoula Montana. Great Band. 74. Got back to Detroit from Daytona. Saw them in Ann Arbor. Greatful dead, Bob Dylan, Neil Young, Marshall Tucker and Bob Seger! 🌄🪴🌴👀

[@bcascadascrane9831]

What a great run! Congrats!

[@billgonzales8978]

U very luck to see such greats

[@JoseMedina-sv8uy]

Muchas Gracias por compartir.

[@SuperEbbandflow]

Niiiiiccccceeeee ✌️😎✌️

[@sirryorinins1332]

GREAT ALBUM / THANKS

[@tomasakesson5913]

I love this album ❤️ I'm a Deadhead

[@eric108]

One of my fav albums of all the times!

[@FODteam]

❤️❤️❤️

[@jaydrummer333]

Everyday!!!

[@brianbarton2106]

Ahh the good o'l days.

[@jonpope3537]

❤

[@feedmemelonsandlobsters3387]

I love to remember how I was listening to their ,,Aoxomoxoa´´ album on my very first acid trip. It was the first time I listened to the,,Grateful Dead´´ as well. Couldn´t have chosen a better album. It was such a cool, strange and funny experience. My friend told me to only take a half but I just took the whole one!!😅 But even though it was strong for the first trip I wished it would have been much stronger. I love psychedeliks so much. Can´t get enough from them!!🤗🌱🍄🌄🐏

[@LIZZIE-lizzie]

Remember EVery body getting thos album when it was released. By far not my first Dead album. Looking through record bins in 1972 and up, there were recordings of the Dead with PigPen here and there. TRUCKIN' !

[@naomiradtke7433]

Classics

[@bmcintyre1423]

Thanks for posting this. This was my first Dead album when I was 17. Had it on tape. List it somewhere in all the moves. Live to have it back.

[@Tre807]

I loveeee this album ❤ 💀

[@IEviking]

This was also my introduction album the dead set jumped on the bus in 98 with the other ones never looked back 💀🌹🍄🐢🎸🎤🎹💨

[@michaelchevalier9777]

My buddy unloaded this CD on me in, like, 99'? I was still really locked in on old punk rock -- Subhumans, Germs, early L.A. stuff -- but there were cracks in the foundation. To my horror, the Grateful Dead broke the dam wide open for me. Somehow, I liked the Dead -- and just came to love them more over the years. A couple years later, I saw a picture of Greg Ginn playing live with Black Flag in the late 70's, with shaggy hair and wearing a Stealie shirt. Maybe the most 'punk rock' thing I've seen to this day.

[@darrineckert9132]

Thanks for putting this up I have not heard it in years kinda like medicine

[@wealthyvagabonds1779]

Just wanted to be the 50th comment... But seriously, one of my 1st Dead tapes after the 2sided cassette American Beauty/Workingman's Dead

[@jasonhorne4533]

Happy Birthday to Capitan Trips

[@markscalise]

First GD album for me! The back cover (which hardly anyone sees these days) was really cool too.

[@quitepernicious6041]

Skimmed over a few comments before leaving my "trace": The French Gunsmith, Stephen Fisch, 230968, Primitive In The Extreme, dil Spundity... Yes to all, folks! Also came across the album (and the band) when I was 15! 63 in a few days and I still find this collection epic. No idea how many times I had tried to decipher "Rosemary" (before giving up): "On the wall of the garden, a legend did say, no one may come here, since no one may stay."

[@bcascadascrane9831]

HI I'm 67 and have out lived many deadheads at this point, it is great messaging to the world that these fine musicians gave us all.

[@Roses_R_redeR]

🥀🥀🥀🥀

[@gelubatir9794]

Grateful Dead - Skeletons From The Closet - From Wikipedia - - - Skeletons from the Closet: The Best of Grateful Dead is the first compilation album from rock band the Grateful Dead. It was originally released in February 1974. As with other such packages, the album was a way for Warner Bros. Records to capitalize on the Dead's back catalog, after the band had left the label. It was followed three years later by a second compilation, What a Long Strange Trip It's Been. - - The album title is a pun, referring both to the idiom and to the fact that these are Grateful Dead tracks from Warner Bros.' "closet" (and skeletons being iconography associated with the band). The artwork for the front and back covers of the album was created by John Van Hamersveld. With no input from the band, it only vaguely represents the imagery associated with the Grateful Dead, and is not in keeping with the tone of previous releases. The front cover shows a somewhat demonic, red-toned man (with flames reflected in his sunglasses), Botticelli's Venus holding a rose (presumably a reference to American Beauty, the album most-heavily represented), and a smoking skeleton spindling a prescient gold record on its extended middle finger. The stem of the rose touches the record, as a stylus. The back cover depicts three men seated around a diner table playing cards, with a globe trophy in the center. A book of matches bears the ecology symbol. Outside in the background, a flying saucer (from The Day the Earth Stood Still) hovers over a futuristic Dymaxion car whose designer, Buckminster Fuller, sits in the driver's seat. The structure in the distance depicts the Johnson Wax Administration Building, designed by Frank Lloyd Wright. The three men depict Marlon Brando from The Wild One, a portrayal of Jesus in academic dress, and Cesar Romero as The Cisco Kid. Skeletons from the Closet was certified as a Gold Album in 1980, thereafter becoming the best-selling release by the band. It remains so despite the abrupt mix of styles presented (due to the band's stylistic evolution while signed with Warner Bros.), and despite a paucity of live performances, for which the band was more highly regarded by fans and critics. The album was first released on CD in 1988. Track listing Side one No. Title Writer(s) Original Album Length 1. "The Golden Road (To Unlimited Devotion)" Jerry GarciaBill KreutzmannPhil LeshRon "Pigpen" McKernanBob Weir The Grateful Dead 2:07 2. "Truckin'" GarciaLeshWeirRobert Hunter American Beauty 5:09 3. "Rosemary" GarciaHunter Aoxomoxoa 1:58 4. "Sugar Magnolia" WeirHunter American Beauty 3:15 5. "St. Stephen" GarciaLeshHunter Aoxomoxoa 4:26 6. "Uncle John's Band" GarciaHunter Workingman's Dead 4:42 Side two No. Title Writer(s) Original Album Length 1. "Casey Jones" GarciaHunter Workingman's Dead 4:24 2. "Mexicali Blues" WeirJohn Perry Barlow Ace by Bob Weir 3:24 3. "Turn On Your Love Light" (live, January 26, 1969 at Avalon Ballroom) Deadric MaloneJoseph Scott The Big Ball compilation 6:30 4. "One More Saturday Night" (live, May 26, 1972 at Lyceum Theatre, London) Weir Europe '72 4:45 5. "Friend of the Devil" GarciaJohn DawsonHunter American Beauty 3:20 Personnel Grateful Dead Jerry Garcia - lead guitar, vocals; pedal steel guitar on "Sugar Magnolia" Bob Weir - rhythm guitar, vocals; lead vocals on "Truckin'", "Sugar Magnolia", "Mexicali Blues" Ron "Pigpen" McKernan - organ, harmonica, vocals; lead vocals and conga on "Turn On Your Love Light" Phil Lesh - bass guitar, vocals; backup vocals on "Mexicali Blues" Bill Kreutzmann - drums, percussion except "Rosemary" Mickey Hart - drums, percussion on "Truckin'", "Sugar Magnolia", "St. Stephen", "Uncle John's Band", "Casey Jones", "Turn On Your Love Light", "Friend of the Devil" Tom Constanten - keyboards on "Rosemary", "St. Stephen", "Turn On Your Love Light" Keith Godchaux - piano on "Mexicali Blues", "One More Saturday Night" Donna Jean Godchaux - backing vocals on "One More Saturday Night" Additional performers John "Marmaduke" Dawson, Debbie, Peter Grant, Mouse, David Nelson, Wendy on "Rosemary" and "St. Stephen" David Grisman - mandolin on "Friend of the Devil" Howard Wales - organ on "Truckin'" Snooky Flowers - horns on "Mexicali Blues" Luis Gasca - horns on "Mexicali Blues" The Space Rangers - horns on "Mexicali Blues"

[@champaignunderground]

🎶🌹☮️😌

[@apacheverdechildofgod]

😊😊😊#loveoverallwisdom = יֵשׁוּעַ =ruach ha-kodesh = Yaweh

[@budthebud9108]

Find a station that plays the Dead and break the knob off

[@paulstubbings645]

Who’s here? For the 5/4 timr?

[@mikeday9548]

A man can move a mountain with faith...knowledge?

[@snugglepusmcgee1252]

🤷‍♂️🕺🤸‍♂️✌

[@mikeday9548]

Who are the publican landlords of Valley Woods, they wish!

[@budthebud9108]

This album abosulety destroyed classic rock radio stations for me. First "real" music I ever heard

[@hopedanica4377]

I just read about a dozen comments. My memory is a little fuzzy. I am guessing this awesome peace must have been released during the Tower Records heyday. Have you seen that movie?

[@iamthegreatcornholio7836]

what was walton's favorite song? i.e. what song was in his his head when he was kicking ass on the hardwood?

[@roberthill799]

So on the back we have Brando as Johnny Straibler in “The Wild One”, The Cisco Kid (I think) and who? Jesus Christ graduating from college?

[@melbees1939]

Hey GWDonkey

[@melbees1939]

The GWDonkey lives?!

[@atticusprime937]

GDF 🙏🔥 NFA 💀💀💀🔥🔥🔥🌹🌹🌹🤡🤡🤡

[@jeffa4110]

When i got arrested and processed in the jail they thought my "steal your face" tattoo was a gang tat. Lmao boys! I am not violent! Ffs

[@bcascadascrane9831]

Greateful Dead were not gang they were a movement . I am praying for those who prosecute you. Worry not kid, you are kind.

[@Ouish71]

"Mexican Blues"?!?!? Come on. 🤦

[@joefilter2923]

I think by the song and performance selection, you can tell that the Dead did not want to become popular. This is not a good album!

[@tinkercrab11]

this was compiled by Warner Bros. from material on the albums released on the WB label to make some extra money after the grateful dead founded their own record label and left WB

[@joefilter2923]

It’s a terrible introduction to the music

[@sarcofaygo6218]

@@joefilter2923 nope it's a pretty solid overview of their early years

[@LiveLocalTexasMusic]

The Brooklyn Kid has this on vinyl, original release… @crosscanadianragweed

[@davidteissier5704]

❤️❤️❤️❤️