Grateful Dead Records

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In 1973, the Grateful Dead established their own record label, Grateful Dead Records. The band released four vinyl LPs on the label in the mid-1970s: Wake of the Flood in 1973, From the Mars Hotel in 1974, Blues for Allah in 1975, and a live double album, Steal Your Face, in 1976. Album distribution was negotiated and contracted by the band's label through United Artists Records. A second label, Round Records, was used to release solo albums by members of the band.^[1]^[2]

Initially, the band established their own label ostensibly to exercise more control over artistic content and other choices in and out of the studio. In a letter mailed to fans, they announced their plans to establish their own label, going so far as to comment that one of their fantasies included distributing their albums via ice cream trucks outside concert venues during their concerts, and, beginning with Wake of the Flood, hoped to grasp control of all aspects of recording and distribution of their own records.^{[citation needed]} In addition, they hoped that the fans would act "as part of our eyes, ears and feet on the ground to keep the scene straight locally".^{[citation needed]} However, Grateful Dead Records resulted in a traditional business venture along the same routine as was usual.^{[citation needed]} After a few years, the added stress of handling business matters took its toll, and the bandmates opted out of operating the label and signed with Arista Records in 1977.^{[citation needed]} Grateful Dead Records was revived in the 1990s and 2000s for CD reissues of the band's non-major-label and "authorized bootleg" live concert releases such as the Dick's Picks series.^{[citation needed]}

References

^ "Grateful Dead Records", DeadDisc
^ "Round Records", DeadDisc

External links

Grateful Dead Books

Grateful Dead

Studio albums

Live albums

Contemporary

Live/Dead
Vintage Dead
Historic Dead
Grateful Dead
Europe '72
History of the Grateful Dead, Volume One (Bear's Choice)
Steal Your Face
Reckoning
Dead Set
Dylan & the Dead
Without a Net

Retrospective

1990s	One from the Vault Infrared Roses Two from the Vault Grayfolded Hundred Year Hall Dozin' at the Knick Fallout from the Phil Zone Terrapin Station (Limited Edition) Live at the Fillmore East 2-11-69 So Many Roads (1965–1995)
2000s	Ladies and Gentlemen... the Grateful Dead Nightfall of Diamonds Postcards of the Hanging Steppin' Out with the Grateful Dead: England '72 Go to Nassau Birth of the Dead The Closing of Winterland Rockin' the Rhein with the Grateful Dead The Grateful Dead Movie Soundtrack Rare Cuts and Oddities 1966 Truckin' Up to Buffalo Fillmore West 1969: The Complete Recordings Fillmore West 1969 Live at the Cow Palace Three from the Vault Winterland 1973: The Complete Recordings Rocking the Cradle: Egypt 1978 To Terrapin: Hartford '77 Winterland June 1977: The Complete Recordings
2010s	Crimson White & Indigo Formerly the Warlocks Europe '72: The Complete Recordings Europe '72 Volume 2 Dark Star Spring 1990 Spring 1990: So Glad You Made It Winterland: May 30th 1971 May 1977 Sunshine Daydream Family Dog at the Great Highway, San Francisco, CA 4/18/70 Live at Hampton Coliseum Spring 1990 (The Other One) Wake Up to Find Out Houston, Texas 11-18-1972 30 Trips Around the Sun: The Definitive Live Story 1965–1995 30 Trips Around the Sun Shrine Exposition Hall, Los Angeles, CA 11/10/1967 Capitol Theatre, Passaic, NJ, 4/25/77 July 1978: The Complete Recordings Red Rocks: 7/8/78 July 29 1966, P.N.E. Garden Aud., Vancouver Canada May 1977: Get Shown the Light Cornell 5/8/77 Robert F. Kennedy Stadium, Washington, D.C., July 12 & 13, 1989 Fillmore West 1969: February 27th Pacific Northwest '73–'74: The Complete Recordings Pacific Northwest '73–'74: Believe It If You Need It Portland Memorial Coliseum, Portland, OR, 5/19/74 Playing in the Band, Seattle, Washington, 5/21/74 The Warfield, San Francisco, California, October 9 & 10, 1980 Fillmore West 1969: February 28th Giants Stadium 1987, 1989, 1991 Saint of Circumstance Ready or Not
2020s	June 1976 Fox Theatre, St. Louis, MO 12-10-71 Listen to the River: St. Louis '71 '72 '73 Lyceum '72: The Complete Recordings Lyceum Theatre, London, England 5/26/72 In and Out of the Garden: Madison Square Garden '81, '82, '83 Madison Square Garden, New York, NY 3/9/81 Here Comes Sunshine 1973 RFK Stadium, Washington, D.C. 6/10/73 Friend of the Devils: April 1978 Duke '78
View from the Vault	1 2 3 4
Dick's Picks	1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36
Road Trips	Vol 1 No 1 Vol 1 No 2 Vol 1 No 3 Vol 1 No 4 Vol 2 No 1 Vol 2 No 2 Vol 2 No 3 Vol 2 No 4 Vol 3 No 1 Vol 3 No 2 Vol 3 No 3 Vol 3 No 4 Vol 4 No 1 Vol 4 No 2 Vol 4 No 3 Vol 4 No 4 Vol 4 No 5
Dave's Picks	1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52
Download Series	1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Family Dog at the Great Highway 9 10 11 12 Spectrum 11/5/79 Spectrum 11/6/79

Compilations

Box sets

Videos

The Grateful Dead Movie
Dead Ahead
So Far
Dead Ringers: The Making of Touch of Grey
Backstage Pass
Infrared Sightings
Ticket to New Year's
Downhill from Here
Anthem to Beauty
Sunshine Daydream
Long Strange Trip

Side projects and
spin-off bands

See also

References

External links