In The Dark Grateful Dead SKU: MFSL1369 Barcode: 821797136914 50.00 £50.00 Genre: Rock And Pop Label: Mobile Fidelity Released Date: 3rd July 2012 Buying Format: 180g 1LP Out of stock Back Order Add to your Wishlist Description Product Info Numbered, Limited Edition! Half-Speed Mastered from the Original Master Tapes: Jerry Garcia and Bob Weir’s Dynamic Magnified, Bluesy Riffs Properly Textured! The Dead Will Survive: 1987 Album Gave Band New Lease on Life, Best Studio Effort in More Than a Decade In the Dark Contains “Touch of Grey”: Dead’s Only Top 40 Hit Entire Album Boasts Continuity, Flow, and Cheer of a Memorable Live Show: After More Than a Decade, Group Finally Tallied Another Studio Masterwork Part of Mobile Fidelity’s Amazing Grateful Dead Reissue Series: Live/Dead (MFSL 2-365), Skull and Roses (MFSL 2-367), From the Mars Hotel (MFSL 1-368), and Wake of the Flood (MFSL 1-366) also available on 180g LP! In the Dark will forever be known as the Grateful Dead record that propelled the iconic band into the mainstream conscious more than two decades after its career began. Thanks to undeniable hooks, sing-a-long refrains, and shrug-it-off sentiments on the survivalist anthem “Touch of Grey,” the Dead was exposed to new generations of listeners and, in the process, became celebrity figures that packed football stadiums with fans. But In the Dark remains significant for many other, more important reasons—Jerry Garcia’s stunning recovery from a coma, Garcia and Bob Weir’s compelling dynamic, and an impeccable batch of tunes. It also stands bar-none as the sextet’s finest output since 1975. Half-speed mastered from the original master tapes and part of the label’s unprecedented Grateful Dead reissue series, Mobile Fidelity’s numbered limited edition 180g LP of In the Dark presents the Dead’s long-overdue breakthrough in attention-grabbing fidelity. Even in an era in which the most revered artists succumbed to the day’s prevailing sound (namely, slick textures and artificial keyboard-heavy production that evoked the feel of Saran-Wrap) the band remained obstinate in its allegiance to revealing fidelity. As it happened, the Dead recorded most of the record live onstage at Marin Civic Auditorium using the then-newly introduced Dolby SR—a technology that permitted astounding instrumental separation, even when playing live. The group’s inimitable blend now sounds better, more immediate, and natural than ever. Everything including the clip-clop of cowbells, Mickey Hart and Billy Kreutzmann’s rhythm-devil grooves, Phil Lesh’s supple bass lines, Garcia’s sweetened timbre, and Brent Mydland’s pastel-shaded keyboard melodies converges into a delightfully balanced, animate entity. The music possesses tube-like warmth and glow, and the band’s renewed vigor and, particularly, Garcia’s mellifluous guitar tones and rippling passages, come across with irresistible immediacy, heft, and vitality. Several effects—the revving of a motorcycle engine, which moves with precise imaging across an extremely wide soundstage and various synthesizer interjections among them—highlight lyrical turns and add winking humor. In the Dark is a late-’80s anomaly: A great and great-sounding rock album that isn’t the least bit dated. While there’s no single secret behind the record’s success and its position as the greatest studio achievement of the Dead’s last two decades, In the Dark boils down to the essential ingredients of great songwriting and the kind of loose, spirited, frolicking chemistry that the sextet so often demonstrated onstage. Weir and Garcia engage in a friendly competition of gamesmanship. The rhythm guitarist’s cleverly cynical “Hell In a Bucket” is one of the toughest, nastiest songs in the Dead’s catalog; “Throwing Stones,” his image-laden treaty on greed, politics, responsibility, and the environment, benefits from a complex arrangement sent up with marching bridges and spidery guitar work. For his part, Garcia’s haunting slow blues “West L.A. Fadeaway” makes room for Weir’s skillful slide-guitar fills while the poignant, merciful reflection “Black Muddy River”—dressed in gospel gowns and Biblical allusions—completes the circle the Dead began back in the late 1960s when the group ended its marathon shows with the traditional spiritual “And We Bid You Good Night.” The white-bearded legend clearly has fun throughout, and, obviously energized by a second chance on life, pours his soul into the music. Mydland’s performance and presence aren’t to be overlooked. Equipped with the vocal harmony potential of a choir of angels, his poignant backing singing on “Black Muddy River” aches with beauty. Similarly evocative, his lead on the hobo country-blues “Tons of Steel” evokes equal parts move-on sympathy and regrettable loss. It can be strongly argued that his piano lines and right-hand fills throughout constitute the most valuable the Dead ever received on a record. Chalk them up to an integral part of an album on which every star aligned, good fortune prevailed, and the Dead finally achieved the widespread recognition it had long been overdue. The prototypical portrait of final-era Grateful Dead, In the Dark belongs in every record collection. Features: • Numbered, Limited Edition • Half-Speed Production and Mastering by Mobile Fidelity Sound Lab • Specially Plated and Pressed on 180 grams of High Definition Vinyl • Special Static Free – Dust Free Inner Sleeve • Heavy Duty Protective Packaging • Mastered from the Original Master Tapes Artist Grateful Dead Genre Rock And Pop Label Mobile Fidelity Buying Options 180g 1LP Format 180g , 1LP Condition New Country United States of America Track Listings 1. Touch of Grey 2. Hell in a Bucket 3. When Push Comes to Shove 4. West L.A. Fadeaway 5. Tons of Steel 6. Throwing Stones 7. 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