Gland album!

With his wallet extremely sexual (penile would be tempted to say), his triumphant psychedelia, stretched to seven members which seems finally stabilized line-up (but is not in fact), Aoxomoxoa is the third album of a Grateful Dead in constant progression, the first artistic triumph, failing business (he will have until 1997 to reach the gold record), its discograhie too.
The Dead began aeuvrer some years earlier, beast blues band vaguely psychedelic rock. Carried by the momentum of the Summer of Love and consumption increasingly irrational psychotropic substances "fashionable" (ask to see Timothy Leary what he thinks!) The group has since been constantly refine its approach, to push the blues from its origins as a mere artifice of their technicolor cocktail. Already on Anthem of the Sun, the previous installment of the training, all the elements are in place, but it is here, on this album under palindromic totally unpronounceable, everything really takes shape, the sound "acid- trip "the Grateful Dead studio reached its creative and trippy fullness. This is evident from a St. Stephen who, starting gently, gradually takes off to a dazzling final freedom and grace. The suite did not belie that phone original warning with in absolute must, the faux-blues and very folky Dupree's Diamond Blues, dancing psychedelic rocker China Cat Sunflower, acoustic and graceful finely Mountains of the Moon or the super-Trippe Cosmic Charlie. Really, time and money invested, a fortune at the time the group having long dwelt in the sessions due to the acquisition of a recent 16-track recording console it took to tame, which took time.
Magic reissues, bonuses are numerous (a constant in remasters the Dead) and, even!, Here lasts longer than the album and, because of their content "baeufante" and enjoyable, we did not complain. Because there is something to cheer when listening to a series of jam sessions, three in total for 36 minutes, where the group, released from any contingency "chansonesque" indulges in long and rich development usually rather reserved in their epic concerts. Add it to a beautiful live version of a public flagship titles of the album, Cosmic Charlie, offered an appreciative audience even before the release of the album, and you will understand that the feast is complete and this edition O how recommended.
The Grateful Dead will be other great deeds, Workingman's Dead is one and not the least, but never the unique charm of this Aoxomoxoa will be achieved. Legendary? This is the word, and binding to the collection of any rock historian who respects, too.

1. St. Stephen 4:26
2. Dupree's Diamond Blues 3:32
3. Rosemary 1:58
4. Doin 'That Rag 4:41
5. Mountains of the Moon 4:02
6. China Cat Sunflower 3:40
7. What's Become of the Baby 8:12
8. Cosmic Charlie 5:29
Bonus
9. Clementine Jam 10:46
10. Nobody's Spoonful Jam 10:04
11. The Eleven Jam 3:00 p.m.
12. Cosmic Charlie 6:47
Tracks 9-11 recorded live in the studio at Pacific Recording Studio, San Mateo, California, on August 13, 1968
Track 12 recorded live at Avalon Ballroom, San Francisco, California, on January 25, 1969

Tom Constanten - keyboards
Jerry Garcia - guitar, vocals
Mickey Hart - drums, percussion
Bill Kreutzmann - drums, percussion
Phil Lesh - bass guitar, vocals
Ron "Pigpen" McKernan - keyboards, percussion
Bob Weir - guitar, vocals
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John "Marmaduke" Dawson
Debbie
Peter Grant
Mouse
David Nelson
Wendy