GRATEFUL DEAD-WAKE OF THE FLOOD - COUNTERFEIT RECORD WARNING MAILED TO DEADHEADS

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GRATEFUL DEAD-WAKE OF THE FLOOD - COUNTERFEIT RECORD WARNING MAILED TO DEADHEADS.
Mailed by Grateful Dead Records to all DeadHeads registered in their Dead club.
There were several counterfeit versions of this album circulating along with the official release, these can be identified by a white 0598 on the spine instead of orange for the legitimate copies.
Tracklist
Mississippi Half-Step Uptown Toodeloo
Let Me Sing Your Blues Away
Row Jimmy
Stella Blue
Here Comes Sunshine
Eyes Of The World
Weather Report Suite
Prelude
Part I
Part II (Let It Grow)
Wake of the Flood is the sixth studio album by rock band the Grateful Dead. Released October 15, 1973, it was the first album on the band's own Grateful Dead Records label. Their first studio album in nearly three years, it was also the first without founding member Ron "Pigpen" McKernan, who had recently died. His absence and keyboardist Keith Godchaux's penchants for bebop and modal jazz (rather than McKernan's tendencies toward the blues and rhythm and blues) contributed to the band's musical evolution. Godchaux's wife, backing vocalist Donna Jean Godchaux, also joined the group and appears on the album.
Grateful Dead
Jerry Garcia – guitar, pedal steel guitar, vocals
Donna Jean Godchaux – vocals
Keith Godchaux – keyboards, vocals
Phil Lesh – bass guitar
Bill Kreutzmann – drums
Bob Weir – guitar, vocals
Some info about different pressings of this first release on Grateful Dead Records.
Wake Of The Flood - Grateful Dead (Grateful Dead GD 01) Released on November
15, 1973, possibly as early as October, 1973. The recording was mastered in
October of 1973. Some of the metal mothers have a date of October 7, 1973 on
them, and they were jacketed even earlier, on October 1, 1973. Betty Cantor
Jackson supervised the pressing of the record, and some records were pressed
in green vinyl and in speckled (green/black) vinyl. Early releases had a
sticker on the back shrink-wrap listing the additional artists playing on the
record. "Weather Report Suite, Part I" was co-written by Bob Weir and Eric
Andersen when Andersen was living in Mill Valley, CA. "Stella Blue" was
written by Hunter while the band was staying at the Chelsea Hotel in New York
City. Before "Here Comes Sunshine"'s second chorus, one can faintly hear
several band members talking. Doug Sahm (who died on November 18, 1999 in
Taos, NM) and his bandmates Martin Fierro and Joe Ellis also play on this
album. Most of the album was recorded at the Record Plant in Sausalito,
California, during August, 1973, roughly between when the Grateful Dead
returned from the tour that included the Watkins Glen concert and before they
left for the Fall, 1973 tour. Some of the recording sessions took place on
August 17, 1973.
Wake Of The Flood - Grateful Dead (Grateful Dead GD 01) The album was also
released on green vinyl, meant for distribution to the mailing list.
Wake Of The Flood - Grateful Dead (Grateful Dead GD 01) The album was also
released with a white promo label. On some promo copies, the words
"COMPLIMENTS OF" are embossed across the top of the front cover.
Wake Of The Flood - Grateful Dead (Grateful Dead GD 01) This album was widely
bootlegged. The bootleg version does not have the price on the spine (0598)
printed in color.
Wake Of The Flood - Grateful Dead (Grateful Dead GD 01) This version has the
song titles printed on the back cover.
Wake Of The Flood - Grateful Dead (Grateful Dead K49301 (GD 01)) A UK-released
record.
Wake Of The Flood - Grateful Dead (Grateful Dead GD 01) The album was released in Canada.
Wake Of The Flood - Grateful Dead (Grateful Dead GDLP 4.006435) A release from
West Germany (Line Music GmbH, P.O. Box 605220, D-2000, Hamburg 60, WG.)
released in 1989. The back cover lists credits.
Wake Of The Flood - Grateful Dead (Grateful Dead GDLP 4.006435) A release from
West Germany (Line Music GmbH, P.O. Box 605220, D-2000, Hamburg 60, WG.) The
album was also released on white vinyl in 1989. The back cover lists credits.