Steal Your Face [Live]

Grateful Dead | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (October 24, 1995)
• Original Release Date: 1976
• Number of Discs: 2
• Format: Live
• Label: Arista
• ASIN: B000002VJR
• Also Available in: Audio Cassette
• Average Customer Review: 3.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (12 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #37,395 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Promised Land

2. Cold Rain and Snow

3. Around and Around

4. Stella Blue

5. Mississippi Half-Step Uptown Toodleloo

6. Ship of Fools

7. Beat It on Down the Line

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

11 of 14 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars poor, November 30, 2000

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nick g black (London, England United Kingdom) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Steal Your Face (Audio CD)

It's amazing how history gets quickly forgotten. At the time of its release this album created a stink - even the band disowned it as a poor record of their "closing week" in Winterland, 1974, when it seemed as if the Dead was heading for retirement.

It does not stand up well at all. No thrill, passion, excitement, and a bizarre choice of material given the wealth of good performances from the same run of shows. Lacklustre sums it up. If you have seen the Grateful Dead movie, this is from the same era. And traditionally it rates as the poorest ever official release by the Dead.

Not a fitting memnorial. You have, thankfully, a whole host of better material to choose from. Same era? Look at Dicks Picks , the Boston 1974 show. Avoid this.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Steal Your Money, August 27, 1998

By A Customer

This review is from: Steal Your Face (Audio CD)

The sound, considering it was from the wall of sound era, is poor. The song selection is weak. Basically it doesn't stand up well compared to the other releases from the same time period- Dicks Picks 1, 7 and the soon to be released 13.

4 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Not for everyone, but still Dead stuff, October 20, 2003

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"bobsay" (Musashino, Tokyo Japan) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Steal Your Face (Audio CD)

The reviews so far seem to be split regarding song choice, sound quality, and performance. I think the song choice is pretty good, in the sense that some of the selections are hard to find on other live albums; not exactly "greatest hit" material, as some other reviewers have said, but interesting. Regarding sound quality, it's not exactly the best recording that I've ever heard, but was nevertheless acceptable for me. But I'm not all that picky in the sound quality department anyways. Performancewise, they do sound a little tired, but heck, they're still the Dead at their prime!