Two from the Vault

Infobox Album
Name = Two from the Vault
Type = live album
Artist = Grateful Dead


Released = May 1992
Recorded = August 24, 1968
Genre = Psychedelic rock, jam, acid rock
Length = 109:11
Label = Grateful Dead GDCD40162
Producer = Dan Healy
Reviews =
* Allmusic Rating|4|5 [http://allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:6xzyxddbjola link]
Last album = "Infrared Roses"
(1991)
This album = "Two from the Vault"
(1992)
Next album = "Dick's Picks Volume 1"
(1993)

"Two from the Vault" is a double live album by the Grateful Dead. Recorded live at the Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles, California on August 23 and August 24, 1968, the event was left unreleased for nearly 25 years, before being remastered and released on Grateful Dead Records in 1992.

The concerts were recorded on a then-state-of-the-art, one-inch 8-track tape machine that was supplied by the band's record label, Warner Bros. The record company also insisted on supplying engineers who turned out to be unfamiliar with the close miking technique involved in recording rock music. Consequently, each of the eight tracks contained significant leakage from all of the other instruments in the band, resulting in severe phase cancellation problems.

Almost twenty-four years later, Don Pearson and producer Dan Healy solved this problem by employing a B&K 2032 Fast Fourier transform (FFT) digital spectrum analyzer to measure the delay in time between the different microphones, using the track of bassist Phil Lesh as the time centerpiece. The delay times were fed into a TC1280 stereo digital delay, which, along with careful mixing, resulted in a nearly perfect stereo image.

Track listing

Disc one

# "Good Morning, Little Schoolgirl" (Williamson) – 15:59
# "Dark Star" (Hunter, Garcia, Hart, Kreutzman, Lesh, McKernan, Weir) – 11:20
# "St. Stephen" (Hunter, Garcia, Lesh) – 4:40
#*"Includes "William Tell Bridge"
# "The Eleven" (Hunter, Lesh) – 14:27
# "Death Don't Have No Mercy" (Davis) – 8:23

Disc two

# "That's It for the Other One: Cryptical Envolvement/The Other One" (Garcia/Kreutzman, Weir) – 15:40
# "New Potato Caboose" (Petersen, Lesh) – 14:16
# "Turn on Your Lovelight" (Malone, Scott) – 17:13
# "(Walk Me Out in the) Morning Dew" (Dobson, Rose) – 7:13

Musical personnel

* Jerry Garcia - guitar, vocals
* Bob Weir - guitar, vocals
* Ron "Pigpen" McKernan - organ, harmonica, vocals
* Phil Lesh - bass guitar, vocals
* Bill Kreutzmann - drums
* Mickey Hart - percussion

External links

* [http://home.frognet.net/~scott/twovault.html] Liner notes and technical information