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"Uncle John's Band" is a song by the Grateful Dead that first appeared in their concert setlists in late 1969. The band recorded it for their 1970 album Workingman's Dead . Written by guitarist Jerry Garcia and lyricist Robert Hunter , "Uncle John's Band" presents the Dead in an acoustic and musically concise mode, with close harmony singing.
Songs such as "Uncle John's Band", "High Time", and "Cumberland Blues" were brought to life with soaring harmonies and layered vocal textures that had not previously been a part of the band's sound. According to the 1992 Dead oral history, Aces Back to Back, in the summer of 1968, Stephen Stills vacationed at Mickey Hart's ranch in Novato.
A number of essays have been written analyzing and annotating this song. [3]The 1985 drama film Mask, with Cher and Eric Stoltz, features this song. [7]The song is played during the last scene of the television series Freaks and Geeks.
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.
The visuals combine scenes of the band playing the songs, other Dead related material, computer animation, and found footage that has been altered and edited in various ways. So Far was released on VHS and laserdisc in 1987, and on DVD in 2012 in the All the Years Combine compilation box set.
Road Trips Volume 3 Number 3 is a live album by the American rock band the Grateful Dead. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] Recorded on May 15, 1970, and released on June 14, 2010, it was the 11th of the "Road Trips" series of albums, and the first to contain three discs instead of two.
Dave's Picks Volume 6 is a three-CD live album by the rock band the Grateful Dead.It contains two complete concerts: one from December 20, 1969, at the Fillmore Auditorium in San Francisco and the second from February 2, 1970, at the Fox Theatre in St. Louis.
I'm inclined to agree that the "Performance history" section as it currently stands does not add much to the article. "P.S." According to Dead Base XI the Grateful Dead played "Uncle John's Band" in concert 332 times. — Mudwater 00:20, 14 November 2007 (UTC)