Live/Dead

Live shows.

And Live Dead, 69, that's the big record that broke them.

They figured it out with American Beauty and Working Men's Dead, but Oxo Moxo and the records they were making in the late 60s, they're very patchy, to say the least.

And they were the best ones, really, at making records.

Dark Star, the deep water, the tune they used to cast all the way off into, the one Garcia pictured as a galaxy you could walk into from a dozen places.

That 23-minute version on Live Dead from 1969 is the one that turned a whole generation into heads.

Rolling Stone has it at number 10.

Playing in the band, the other great launch pad, the one they wrote off into the unknown for 20 minutes at a stretch.

There's no Russia.

Hey, the one from the Live Dead album, which is, let's see, that's two, what's that, 229, 69? 228.

No, 227.

Yeah, 227.