"(They) were one of those outrages, one of those scandals, that create a new life style or a new world view." The sound of the Dead "went down so many microphones and hooked through so many mixers and variable lags and blew up in so many amplifiers and roiled around in so many speakers and fed back down so many microphones, it came on like a chemical refinery. Music fans have always known that music and art go hand in hand, as album covers. Records, it is their second live double album and their seventh album overall. Witnessing their early incarnation in that counter cultural maelstrom writer Tom Wolfe described the original Acid Tests in all their inspired glory. Grateful Dead is an album by rock band the Grateful Dead. The Dead honed their act as house band for Ken Kesey’s Merry Pranksters. They incorporated country, folk and blues, recorded with Bob Dylan, Kingfish, Merl Saunders, Wynton and Branford Marsalis. I object to us being labelled purely a psychedelic band." Fair enough. When pushed Garcia said, “Labels are exploitative. The band’s legendary improvisations and the fact they probably played more live shows and for longer than anyone else only add to the enigma.
It resembles a scene straight out of a classic western. The sepia-toned photo features the band dressed as cowboys and lined up in the street like the magnificent seven. Released in 1970, Workingman's Dead displayed another of the Grateful Dead album covers created by Mouse and Kelley. Grateful Dead original band members Jerry Garcia, Bobby Weir, Micky Hart, Phil Lesh, Bill Kreutzmann and Brent Mydland have signed this album cover in black. Who Did the Album Covers for the Grateful Dead, Journey, and More Alton Kelley and Stanley Mouse were innovators of the most important art movement of the latter part of the twentieth century. There have been seventy odd retrospective/posthumous live releases since they called it a day at Soldier Field, Chicago (July 9, 1995) – Garcia died exactly a month later – yet their studio albums can be works of wonder, especially those from the early 70s. Grateful Dead Album Covers - Workingman's Dead. Given the Dead’s MO, one where live performances were the Holy Grail and studio recordings a means to an end, making sense of their vast catalogue is problematic.
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