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▓█▀▄▄ Artist : Grateful Dead ▄▄▀█▓
▐▓▌▐█▌ Album : Pacific Northwest '73-'74: Believe It If You Need ▐█▌▓▌
▐▀▄██ Label : Grateful Dead Records / Rhino Records ██▄▀▌
▄███▌ Genre : Rock ▐███▄
▀███▌ Source : CD ▐███▀
▐▄▀██ Street Date : 2018-09-07 ██▀▄▌
▐▓▌▐█▌ Quality : 848 kbps / 44.1kHz / 2 channels ▐█▌▐▓▌
▓█▄▀▀ Encoder : FLAC 1.3.1 ▀▀▄█▓
▓███ Size : 1501.75 MB ███▓
▀ ▀█▌ Time : 234:16min ▐█▀ ▀
▓▄███ Url : http://tinyurl.com/yapve6bw ███▄▓
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██▌ Disc 1/3 ▐██
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██▌ 1. China Cat Sunflower (Live At Portland Memorial Coliseum, 8:37 ▐██
██▌ Portland, OR 5/19/74) ▐██
██▌ 2. I Know You Rider (Live At Portland Memorial Coliseum, 5:30 ▐██
██▌ Portland, OR 5/19/74) ▐██
██▌ 3. Bird Song (Live At P.N.E. Coliseum, Vancouver, B.C. 6/22/73) 14:21 ▐██
██▌ 4. Box Of Rain (Live At Portland Memorial Coliseum, Portland, OR 5:18 ▐██
██▌ 6/24/73) ▐██
██▌ 5. Brown-Eyed Women (Live At Hec Edmundson Pavillion, University 5:02 ▐██
██▌ Of Washington, Seattle, WA 5/21/74) ▐██
██▌ 6. TruckinÆ (Live At Portland Memorial Coliseum, Portland, OR 10:43 ▐██
██▌ 5/19/74) ▐██
██▌ 7. Jam (Live At Portland Memorial Coliseum, Portland, OR 9:57 ▐██
██▌ 5/19/74) ▐██
██▌ 8. Not Fade Away (Live At Portland Memorial Coliseum, Portland, 6:55 ▐██
██▌ OR 5/19/74) ▐██
██▌ 9. GoinÆ Down The Road Feeling Bad (Live At Portland Memorial 7:01 ▐██
██▌ Coliseum, Portland, OR 5/19/74) ▐██
██▌ 10. One More Saturday Night (Live At Portland Memorial Coliseum, 4:50 ▐██
██▌ Portland, OR 5/19/74) ▐██
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██▌ 1. Here Comes Sunshine (Live At P.N.E. Coliseum, Vancouver, B.C. 12:10 ▐██
██▌ 6/22/73) ▐██
██▌ 2. Eyes Of The World (Live At P.N.E. Coliseum, Vancouver, B.C. 13:23 ▐██
██▌ 5/17/74) ▐██
██▌ 3. China Doll (Live At Hec Edmundson Pavillion, University Of 5:33 ▐██
██▌ Washington, Seattle, WA 5/21/74) ▐██
██▌ 4. Playing In The Band (Live At Hec Edmundson Pavillion, 46:31 ▐██
██▌ University Of Washington, Seattle, WA 5/21/74) ▐██
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██▌ 1. Sugaree (Live At P.N.E. Coliseum, Vancouver, B.C. 5/17/74) 7:37 ▐██
██▌ 2. HeÆs Gone (Live At P.N.E. Coliseum, Vancouver, B.C. 6/22/73) 11:30 ▐██
██▌ 3. TruckinÆ (Live At P.N.E. Coliseum, Vancouver, B.C. 6/22/73) 26:06 ▐██
██▌ 4. The Other One (Live At P.N.E. Coliseum, Vancouver, B.C. 15:21 ▐██
██▌ 6/22/73) ▐██
██▌ 5. Wharf Rat (Live At P.N.E. Coliseum, Vancouver, B.C. 6/22/73) 7:58 ▐██
██▌ 6. Sugar Magnolia (Live At P.N.E. Coliseum, Vancouver, B.C. 9:53 ▐██
██▌ 6/22/73) ▐██
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████ Culled from several shows taking place in the Pacific Northwest ████
████ on summer tours of 1973 and 1974, Believe It if You Need It ████
████ zeroes in on the Grateful Dead in a particularly playful and ████
████ comfortable phase, with the Deadhead-populated region and the ████
████ Dead's first taste of financial success giving their playing in ████
████ this time a more carefree fluidity. Certainly by 1973, they had ████
████ come a long way from their hand-to-mouth beginnings, establishing ████
████ their own label, touring with an over-the-top sound system, and ████
████ showing up to larger crowds every year. Even hassles from the law ████
████ and tragedy in the form of founding member Ron "Pigpen" ████
████ McKernan's death in the spring of 1973 existed in parallel with ████
████ what would be some of the most fruitful times of the band's ████
████ career, creatively and financially. The dichotomy between breezy ████
████ comfort and weariness can be traced in moments of this massive ████
████ collection. Looseness and abandon can be heard in the ████
████ improvisations that fill out the collection, in particular the ████
████ sloppy and shifting jamming on "Truckin'" (from Portland Memorial ████
████ Coliseum, 5/19/74), which alternates between choogling boogie, ████
████ jazz noodling, and greasy rhythm-heavy funk for almost 20 ████
████ minutes. This same fearless exploration is present on selections ████
████ from other concerts around the same time. "Eyes of the World" ████
████ from a Vancouver date takes on a life of its own, reaching into ████
████ territory both triumphant and mournful but never letting up its ████
████ electric push. "Playing in the Band" from a 5/21/74 performance ████
████ at the University of Washington in Seattle is nothing short of ████
████ epic, even for the Dead. This straightforward rocker was ████
████ traditionally the launching point for the Dead to blast off into ████
████ unknown territory, but on this date they enter a 40-minute ████
████ improvisation that leaves no stone unturned, taking turns of ████
████ catharsis, reflection, listlessness, and glee before Donna ████
████ Godchaux's yowling vocals re-introduce the original theme. The ████
████ presentation of Believe It if You Need It is interesting, drawing ████
████ material from concerts held over a year apart in a similar locale ████
████ known for its love of the Grateful Dead. While in theory the ████
████ concept could illuminate connections between the band's creative ████
████ energy and the Pacific Northwest, the set has some glaring ████
████ inconsistencies that take away from the overall experience. Songs ████
████ are cherry-picked from five different shows and presented in a ████
████ non-chronological order, with recording and mix quality differing ████
████ between shows. While some moments transcend (one of the more ████
████ beautiful readings of "Bird Song" and a seemingly spontaneous ████
████ breakdown into barbershop harmonies at the end of "He's Gone"), ████
████ some performances are too comfortable. Garcia forgets the lyrics ████
████ here and there, self-satisfied jams linger too long, and a ████
████ bumbling, absent take on "Box of Rain" (Portland, 6/24/73) is the ████
████ definition of phoned-in. Even with the odd presentation and ████
████ occasional performance issues, this set captures the Dead in what ████
████ would be a short-lived period of playful release, grappling with ████
████ both sadness and success through some of their most free and ████
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