Live at Roseland is a 2001 live album by the band RatDog

Ratdog

RatDog , is an American rock band. The group began as a side project for Grateful Dead rhythm guitarist Bob Weir and bassist Rob Wasserman. After the Grateful Dead disbanded in December 1995, following the death of Jerry Garcia on August 9, 1995, RatDog became Bob Weir's primary band...

, featuring former Grateful Dead

Grateful Dead

The Grateful Dead was an American rock band formed in 1965 in the San Francisco Bay Area. The band was known for its unique and eclectic style, which fused elements of rock, folk, bluegrass, blues, reggae, country, improvisational jazz, psychedelia, and space rock, and for live performances of long...

 rhythm guitarist 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...

. In contrast to studio album Evening Moods, this release contains mostly songs from the Grateful Dead song book. It was recorded at Roseland Theater in Portland, Oregon

Portland, Oregon

Portland is a city located in the Pacific Northwest, near the confluence of the Willamette and Columbia rivers in the U.S. state of Oregon. As of the 2010 Census, it had a population of 583,776, making it the 29th most populous city in the United States...

 on April 25 (Disc 1) and April 26 (Disc 2) in 2001.

The song "Ashes and Glass" contains an instrumental excerpt of Grateful Dead's well-known jam classic "Dark Star

Dark Star (song)

"Dark Star" is a song released as a single by the Grateful Dead. It was written by lyricist Robert Hunter and composed by lead guitarist Jerry Garcia; however, compositional credit is sometimes extended to include Phil Lesh, Bill Kreutzmann, Mickey Hart, the late Ron "Pigpen" McKernan, and Bob Weir...

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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) – 10:25
2. "New Minglewood Blues" (trad., arr. Weir) – 8:55
3. "Loser" (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...
   
   ) – 9:43
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) – 5:22
5. "Corrina" (Hunter, Weir) – 10:09
6. "Bird Song" (Hunter, Garcia) – 12:08
7. "Ashes and Glass" (André Pessis, Weir, Jeff Chimenti
   Jeff Chimenti
   Jeff Chimenti is an American keyboardist, best known for his ongoing work with RatDog. He is also a member of the post-Grateful Dead bands The Dead and Furthur....
   
   , Dave Ellis, Mark Karan, Jay Lane
   Jay Lane
   Jay Lane is an American drummer from the San Francisco Bay Area. He is currently a member of Primus, as well as Bob Weir's RatDog, Scaring the Children with Weir and Rob Wasserman, and the hip hop/jazz fusion group Alphabet Soup. In 2002, Lane was named "drummer of the year" by the California...
   
   , Mike McGinn, Rob Wasserman
   Rob Wasserman
   Rob Wasserman is an American bass player, who has played with a wide variety of musicians including David Grisman, Lou Reed, Bob Weir, Jerry Garcia, Bruce Cockburn, Van Morrison, Rickie Lee Jones, Brian Wilson, Elvis Costello, Mark Morris, Aaron Neville, Chris Whitley, Studs Terkel, Pete Seeger,...
   
   ) – 14:13

Disc two

1. "Estimated Prophet" (Barlow, Weir) – 14:20
2. "Bass/Drums" (Wasserman, Lane) – 6:13
3. "Mission in the Rain" (Hunter, Garcia) – 8:21
4. "Even So" (Gerrit Graham
   Gerrit Graham
   Gerrit Graham is an American actor and songwriter. He's appeared in such films as Used Cars, TerrorVision, National Lampoon's Class Reunion, and Greetings, where he worked with Brian DePalma for the first time...
   
   , Weir, Chimenti, Ellis, Karan, Matthew Kelly
   Matthew Kelly (musician)
   Matthew Kelly, also known as Matt Kelly, is an American musician, singer, and songwriter. He plays guitar and harmonica. Kelly is best known for being the leader of the rock band Kingfish, and for his association with Bob Weir and the Grateful Dead....
   
   , Lane, McGinn, Wasserman) – 8:52
5. "Tennessee Jed" (Hunter, Garcia) – 8:44
6. "The Other One" (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...
   
   , Weir) – 8:57
7. "Bird Song" (Hunter, Garcia) – 8:45
8. "Turn on Your Lovelight" (Deadric Malone, Joseph Scott) – 10:56

RatDog

• Kenny Brooks – saxophone
  Saxophone
  The saxophone is a conical-bore transposing musical instrument that is a member of the woodwind family. Saxophones are usually made of brass and played with a single-reed mouthpiece similar to that of the clarinet. The saxophone was invented by the Belgian instrument maker Adolphe Sax in 1846...
  
  
• Jeff Chimenti – background vocals
  Backing vocalist
  A backing vocalist or backing singer is a singer who provides vocal harmony with the lead vocalist or other backing vocalists...
  
  , 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...
  
  
• Mark Karan – background vocals, 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...
  
  
• Jay Lane – background vocals, 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 ....
  
  
• Rob Wasserman – double bass
  Double bass
  The double bass, also called the string bass, upright bass, standup bass or contrabass, is the largest and lowest-pitched bowed string instrument in the modern symphony orchestra, with strings usually tuned to E1, A1, D2 and G2...
  
  
• Bob Weir – guitar
  Guitar
  The guitar is a plucked string instrument, usually played with fingers or a pick. The guitar consists of a body with a rigid neck to which the strings, generally six in number, are attached. Guitars are traditionally constructed of various woods and strung with animal gut or, more recently, with...
  
  , vocals
  Singing
  Singing is the act of producing musical sounds with the voice, and augments regular speech by the use of both tonality and rhythm. One who sings is called a singer or vocalist. Singers perform music known as songs that can be sung either with or without accompaniment by musical instruments...
  
  

Production

• FOH engineer, recording & mixing – Michael McGinn
• Assistant recording engineer – Jose Neves
• Assistant mix engineer – Mike Frietas
• Mastering engineer – Kris Ziakis
• Monitor engineer – Chris Charucki
• Cover art & layout design – Gary Houston, Kevin Hutton
• Photography – Susana Millman, Stephen Dorian Miner
• Album coordination – Cassidy Law