Aces Back to Back: The History of the Grateful Dead (1965 - 2013) by Scott W. Allen

Author:Scott W. Allen [Allen, Scott W.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Outskirts Press, Inc.
Published: 2014-02-07T00:00:00+00:00

Nearly all of the Grateful Dead’s album covers and jackets contain images and sounds for the discerning Deadhead ear and eye to unearth. On the cover of their first album, this inscription from the ancient Egyptian Book of the Dead is cleverly encrypted in the artwork - “In the land of the dark, the ship of the sun is drawn by the Grateful Dead.” Original pressings of Anthem of the Sun had the words “The faster we go, the rounder we get” etched into the center of the vinyl. There are two different album covers for Anthem: the original has a purple cover while a reissue is white. The artwork for Aoxomoxoa features imagery taken from a concert poster designed by Rick Griffin for a January, 24-26 1969 bill at the Avalon featuring the Dead and the Sons of Champlin. On the back of Live/Dead, the word “ACID” is superimposed inside the word “DEAD.” Look closely at the passing cloud on Wake of the Flood; it’s disguised as a skull. When the Grateful Dead released From the Mars Hotel in 1974, album bootlegging was so prevalent that the band decided to have the word “AUTHENTIC” branded down the left side of the cover. If you hold the Mars Hotel cover upside down and in front of a mirror, Rick Griffin’s gibberish lettering now reads “Ugly Rumors.” The fiddler on the cover of Blues for Allah (drawn by artist Phillip Garris) has a tiny teardrop in the corner of its left eye. The lyrics to the song “Blues for Allah” were printed in Arabic inside the jacket of the Blues for Allah album issued in the Middle East. When the album jackets of the first printings of the double-LP What a Long Strange Trip It’s Been were opened, a pop-up chorus line of the White Lightning Man sprung up. There are seven sets of eyes on the cover of the 1987 album In the Dark. The seventh pair belong to a non-band member the Dead wanted to honor - Bill Graham. Additionally, all seven sets of eyes were accidently printed upside down on later issues of the LP. If you look deeply into the eyes of the clown pictured on the CDs from Without a Net, you’ll detect two purple and blue pastel lightning bolts.

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