Revisiting the 1991 Grateful Dead tribute album “Deadicated,” a classic of the form.
” was initially released by Arista Records on April 23, 1991, no one could have predicted, in a little more than four years, the band’s iconic guitarist Jerry Garcia would be gone. But as this August 9 marks 25 years since the man known as Captain Trips took his final journey, the groundbreaking album is also coming up on a major anniversary next year.
Proceeds from the album amounted to more than $1 million, according to former Arista executive Roy Lott, who’s credited with A&R on the album but was in essence its executive producer, and went to the Rainforest Action Network and Cultural Survival, the latter dedicated to defending the rights of indigenous peoples.
Lott, Arista’s point-man for the group, agreed in light of a succession of violent incidents at venues hosting the band and many thousands of tailgaters. “We wanted to change the media conversation around the Dead to the work rather than the violence and mayhem at the shows.” The album’s 15 tracks concentrate heavily on the Dead’s two most song-crafted collections, 1970’s “Workingman’s Dead” — itself recently reissued as a 50th deluxe edition by Rhino — and “American Beauty.” Ten songs are Garcia/Hunter tunes, with two Bob Weir/John Perry Barlow numbers , and one apiece from Weir/Hunter , Garcia, John Dawson and Hunter and Garcia, Weir, Phil Lesh and Hunter .
“Deadicated” was a labor of love for Sall, who produced five of the songs, penned the liner notes with Lott and even designed the iconic rose-in-skeleton-hand album cover. Although “Deadicated” is currently out of print and unavailable on the major streaming services, the complete album can still be heard on YouTube, and some of the individual songs have found their way onto participating artists’ own releases. Original versions of the disc are selling for close to $50 on Amazon, where the three-decade-old album is still charting, most recently, at British Punk , Bakersfield and Power Pop .
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