![]() ![]() Garcia said, "We were after a certain sequence to the music. So on Live/Dead they emphasized the longer jam pieces (most of which they'd been doing for a year), and mostly omitted the new Aoxomoxoa songs that were in their setlists. ![]() A live record seemed the easiest way to record cheaply and make some money back to pay for Aoxomoxoa, and they had a long suite of music that was just right, as well as being totally different from their studio experiments. But it seems releasing a live-album didn't occur to them until they noticed how in-debt they were to the Warners label, thanks to all that studio time. They had recorded some '68 shows to use in Anthem of the Sun as a sonic experiment, which then took them months to combine & mix with the studio tracks. The live experience rarely came out well in their releases, though - even though they put out so many live records through their career, I think their choices were often strange. ![]() We think of the Dead as being reluctant to record in the studio, feeling that they were much better live. ![]()
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