Grateful Dead Download Series Volume 1 is the first in a series of digital downloads released by The Grateful Dead Productions. It was released on May 3rd, 2005. The release features the complete show from April 30, 1977 which was the second of a five night run at New York City

New York City

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's Palladium

Palladium

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. In addition, in order to fill out the third disc, bonus material is included from the previous night at the same location.

The release was mastered in HDCD from original 2-track soundboard tapes by Jeffrey Norman.
Like others in the Download Series the music is available for download as 128Kbit or 256Kbit MP3s or lossless FLAC-files, all without any
copy-protection.

Disc one

1. "The Music Never Stopped" (John Perry Barlow
   John Perry Barlow
   John Perry Barlow is an American poet and essayist, a retired Wyoming cattle rancher, and a cyberlibertarian political activist who has been associated with both the Democratic and Republican parties. He is also a former lyricist for the Grateful Dead and a founding member of the Electronic...
   
   , Bob Weir
   Bob Weir
   Bob Weir is an American singer, songwriter, and guitarist, most recognized as a founding member of the Grateful Dead. After the Grateful Dead disbanded in 1995, Weir performed with The Other Ones, later known as The Dead, together with other former members of the Grateful Dead...
   
   ) - 7:05
2. "Bertha" (Robert Hunter
   Robert Hunter (lyricist)
   Robert C. Hunter is an American lyricist, singer-songwriter, translator, and poet, best known for his association with Jerry Garcia and the Grateful Dead.-Biography:He was born Robert Burns in San Luis Obispo, California...
   
   , Jerry Garcia
   Jerry Garcia
   Jerome John "Jerry" Garcia was an American musician best known for his lead guitar work, singing and songwriting with the band the Grateful Dead...
   
   ) - 6:19
3. "It's All Over Now" (Bobby Womack
   Bobby Womack
   Robert Dwayne "Bobby" Womack is an American singer-songwriter and musician. An active recording artist since the early 1960s where he started his career as the lead singer of his family musical group The Valentinos and as Sam Cooke's backing guitarist, Womack's career has spanned more than 40...
   
   ) - 8:04
4. "Deal" (Hunter, Garcia) - 6:11
5. "Mama Tried" (Merle Haggard
   Merle Haggard
   Merle Ronald Haggard is an American country music singer, guitarist, fiddler, instrumentalist, and songwriter. Along with Buck Owens, Haggard and his band The Strangers helped create the Bakersfield sound, which is characterized by the unique twang of Fender Telecaster guitars, vocal harmonies,...
   
   ) - 2:38
6. "Me and My Uncle" (John Phillips
   John Phillips (musician)
   John Edmund Andrew Phillips , was an American singer, guitarist, songwriter and promoter . Known as Papa John, Phillips was a member and leader of the singing group The Mamas & the Papas...
   
   ) - 3:04
7. "Peggy-O" (trad., arr. Grateful Dead) - 7:46
8. "Looks Like Rain" (Barlow, Weir) - 9:39
9. "Mississippi Half Step Uptown Toodeloo" (Hunter, Garcia) - 10:06
10. "Promised Land" (Chuck Berry
    Chuck Berry
    Charles Edward Anderson "Chuck" Berry is an American guitarist, singer, and songwriter, and one of the pioneers of rock and roll music. With songs such as "Maybellene" , "Roll Over Beethoven" , "Rock and Roll Music" and "Johnny B...
    
    ) - 4:53

Disc two

1. "Scarlet Begonias" (Hunter, Garcia) - 9:05
2. "Fire On The Mountain" (Hunter, Mickey Hart
   Mickey Hart
   Mickey Hart is an American percussionist and musicologist. He is best known as one of the two drummers of the rock band the Grateful Dead. He was a member of the Grateful Dead from September 1967 to February 1971, and from October 1974 to August 1995...
   
   ) - 11:27
3. "Good Lovin'" (Rudy Clark
   Rudy Clark
   Rudy Clark is an American songwriter about whom little biographical information seems to be known. Supposedly a former mail carrier hailing from New York City, he was most active from the early 1960s through the early 1970s...
   
   , Artie Resnick) - 5:47
4. "Friend Of The Devil" (John Dawson
   John Dawson (musician)
   John Collins Dawson IV, nicknamed "Marmaduke" , was an American musician, singer, and songwriter. He was best known as the leader and co-founder of the country rock band the New Riders of the Purple Sage.-Musical career:...
   
   , Hunter, Garcia) - 8:42
5. "Estimated Prophet" (Barlow, Weir) - 9:01

Disc three

1. "St. Stephen" (Hunter, Garcia, Phil Lesh
   Phil Lesh
   Phillip Chapman Lesh is a musician and a founding member of the Grateful Dead, with whom he played bass guitar throughout their 30-year career....
   
   ) - 4:34
2. "Not Fade Away" (Buddy Holly
   Buddy Holly
   Charles Hardin Holley , known professionally as Buddy Holly, was an American singer-songwriter and a pioneer of rock and roll...
   
   , Norman Petty
   Norman Petty
   Norman Petty was an American musician, songwriter, and pioneer record producer who helped shape modern popular music, including pop and rock....
   
   ) - 14:57
3. "Stella Blue" (Hunter, Garcia) - 9:09
4. "St. Stephen" (Hunter, Garcia, Lesh) - 0:49
5. "One More Saturday Night" (Weir) - 5:33
6. Encore:"Lady with a Fan/Terrapin Station" (Hunter, Garcia) - 10:20
7. "Sugaree" (Hunter, Garcia) - 14:18
8. "Scarlet Begonias" (Hunter, Garcia) - 9:45
9. "Goin' Down The Road Feelin' Bad" (trad., arr. Grateful Dead) - 10:17

7 - 9 are bonus tracks from 4/29/77

Personnel

Grateful Dead:

• Jerry Garcia - lead guitar
  Lead guitar
  Lead guitar is a guitar part which plays melody lines, instrumental fill passages, guitar solos, and occasionally, some riffs within a song structure...
  
  , vocals
• Donna Jean Godchaux - vocals
• Keith Godchaux
  Keith Godchaux
  Keith Richard Godchaux was a musician best known for his tenure in the rock group the Grateful Dead.-Biography:Keith Godchaux was born in Seattle, Washington and grew up in Concord, California...
  
   - keyboards
  Keyboard instrument
  A keyboard instrument is a musical instrument which is played using a musical keyboard. The most common of these is the piano. Other widely used keyboard instruments include organs of various types as well as other mechanical, electromechanical and electronic instruments...
  
  
• Mickey Hart - drums
  Drum kit
  A drum kit is a collection of drums, cymbals and often other percussion instruments, such as cowbells, wood blocks, triangles, chimes, or tambourines, arranged for convenient playing by a single person ....
  
  
• Bill Kreutzmann
  Bill Kreutzmann
  Bill Kreutzmann is an American drummer who played with the rock band the Grateful Dead for their entire thirty-year career...
  
   - drums
• Phil Lesh - electric bass
  Bass guitar
  The bass guitar is a stringed instrument played primarily with the fingers or thumb , or by using a pick....
  
  
• Bob Weir - rhythm guitar
  Rhythm guitar
  Rhythm guitar is a technique and rôle that performs a combination of two functions: to provide all or part of the rhythmic pulse in conjunction with singers or other instruments; and to provide all or part of the harmony, ie. the chords, where a chord is a group of notes played together...
  
  , vocals

Production:

• Recording - Betty Cantor-Jackson
• Mastering - Jeffrey Norman