Flashback with the Grateful Dead

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{{Infobox album

| name = Flashback with the Grateful Dead

| type = Compilation

| artist = Grateful Dead

| cover = FlashbackWithTheGratefulDead.jpg

| alt = Red, blue, and white skull with lightening bolt design

| released = April 5, 2011

| recorded = 1969–1989

| venue =

| studio =

| genre = Rock

| length = 51:52

| label = Flashback

| producer =

| prev_title = Road Trips Volume 4 Number 2

| prev_year = 2011

| next_title = Road Trips Volume 4 Number 3

| next_year = 2011

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Flashback with the Grateful Dead is an album by the rock band the Grateful Dead. It contains ten songs, selected from eight of their studio albums that were originally released between 1969 and 1989. The compilation was released on CD on the Flashback label, a subsidiary of Rhino Records, on April 5, 2011.

Critical reception

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On Allmusic, Steve Leggett said, "This ten-song budget compilation can hardly begin to catch the whole ragged familial appeal of the Dead, but it does, given its brevity, provide snapshots of the band at different points in time, which makes it a pretty nice and low-priced purchase for the absolute novice fan. Deadheads will already have every song here ten times over and in countless versions."

Track listing

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| extra_column = Original album

| title1 = Truckin'

| writer1 = Jerry Garcia, Phil Lesh, Bob Weir, Robert Hunter

| extra1 = American Beauty (1970)

| length1 = 5:04

| title2 = China Cat Sunflower

| writer2 = Garcia, Hunter

| extra2 = Aoxomoxoa (1969)

| length2 = 3:41

| title3 = Unbroken Chain

| writer3 = Lesh, Robert Petersen

| extra3 = From the Mars Hotel (1974)

| length3 = 6:45

| title4 = U.S. Blues

| writer4 = Garcia, Hunter

| extra4 = From the Mars Hotel (1974)

| length4 = 4:40

| title5 = The Music Never Stopped

| writer5 = Weir, John Perry Barlow

| extra5 = Blues for Allah (1975)

| length5 = 4:36

| title6 = Shakedown Street

| writer6 = Garcia, Hunter

| extra6 = Shakedown Street (1978)

| length6 = 4:59

| title7 = Alabama Getaway

| writer7 = Garcia, Hunter

| extra7 = Go to Heaven (1980)

| length7 = 3:37

| title8 = Throwing Stones

| writer8 = Weir, Barlow

| extra8 = In the Dark (1987)

| length8 = 7:21

| title9 = Standing on the Moon

| writer9 = Garcia, Hunter

| extra9 = Built to Last (1989)

| length9 = 5:22

| title10 = Touch of Grey

| writer10 = Garcia, Hunter

| extra10 = In the Dark (1987)

| length10 = 5:47

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Personnel

Grateful Dead

  • Jerry Garcia – guitar, vocals
  • Bob Weir – guitar, vocals
  • Phil Lesh – bass, vocals
  • Bill Kreutzmann – drums
  • Mickey Hart – drums on "Truckin'", "China Cat Sunflower", "The Music Never Stopped", "Shakedown Street", "Alabama Getaway", "Throwing Stones", "Standing on the Moon", "Touch of Grey"
  • Ron "Pigpen" McKernan – keyboards, percussion on "Truckin'", "China Cat Sunflower"
  • Tom Constanten – keyboards on "China Cat Sunflower"
  • Keith Godchaux – keyboards on "Unbroken Chain", "U.S. Blues", "The Music Never Stopped", "Shakedown Street"
  • Donna Jean Godchaux – vocals on "Unbroken Chain", "U.S. Blues", "The Music Never Stopped", "Shakedown Street"
  • Brent Mydland – keyboards, vocals on "Alabama Getaway", "Throwing Stones", "Standing on the Moon", "Touch of Grey"

Additional musicians

References

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Leggett, Steve. [http://www.allmusic.com/album/flashback-with-the-grateful-dead-mw0002115854 Flashback with the Grateful Dead] at Allmusic. Retrieved July 2, 2013.

[http://www.deaddisc.com/disc/Flashback_With_The_GD.htm Flashback with the Grateful Dead] at the Grateful Dead Family Discography. Retrieved July 2, 2013.

[http://www.discogs.com/Grateful-Dead-Flashback-With-The-Grateful-Dead/release/4363210 Flashback with the Grateful Dead] at Discogs. Retrieved July 2, 2013.

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Category:Grateful Dead compilation albums

Category:2011 compilation albums