View from the Vault, Volume Three explained

View from the Vault, Volume Three
Type:	Live album
Artist:	Grateful Dead
Cover:	Grateful Dead - View from the Vault, Volume 3.jpg
Released:	August 2002
Recorded:	June 16, 1990
Genre:	Jam Folk rock Psychedelic rock
Length:	202:46
Label:	Grateful Dead Records
Prev Year:	2002
Next Title:	Dick's Picks Volume 26
Next Year:	2002

View from the Vault, Volume Three (or View from the Vault III) is the third release in the "View from the Vault" series by the Grateful Dead. It was released simultaneously as a three disc album on CD and as a concert performance video on DVD. It contains the June 16, 1990 show at the Shoreline Amphitheatre in Mountain View, California.

The album also includes six songs from a show at the same venue on October 3, 1987. One of these is "My Brother Esau", the first appearance of this song on an album in CD format. The studio version had been the B-side of the "Touch of Grey" single in 1987, appeared on the cassette version of the In the Dark album, and was later released on the Beyond Description box set (it was then appended to the 2004 reissue of In the Dark). Another track from October 3, 1987 ("Maggie's Farm") had been released earlier in the year on Postcards of the Hanging.

Track listing

Disc one

June 16, 1990 – first set:

1. "Let the Good Times Roll" > (Sam Cooke) – 4:52
2. "Truckin'" > (Robert Hunter, Jerry Garcia, Phil Lesh, Bob Weir) – 10:06
3. "Touch of Grey" (Hunter, Garcia) – 7:30
4. "Mama Tried" > (Merle Haggard) – 2:35
5. "Big River" (Johnny Cash) – 5:52
6. "Friend of the Devil" (John Dawson, Hunter, Garcia) – 8:06
7. "Cassidy" (John Barlow, Weir) – 6:21
8. "Big Boss Man" (Luther Dixon, Al Smith) – 7:24
9. "One More Saturday Night" (Weir) – 5:23

Disc two

June 16, 1990 – second set:

1. "China Cat Sunflower" > (Hunter, Garcia) – 10:39
2. "I Know You Rider" (trad., arr. Grateful Dead) – 5:44
3. "We Can Run" (Barlow, Brent Mydland) – 5:50
4. "Estimated Prophet" > (Barlow, Weir) – 13:07
5. "Terrapin Station" > (Hunter, Garcia) – 15:20
6. "Jam" > (Grateful Dead) – 15:16
7. "Space" > (Grateful Dead) - 11:49

Disc three

June 16, 1990 – second set, continued:

1. "Drums" > (Mickey Hart, Bill Kreutzmann) – 4:12
2. "China Doll" > (Hunter, Garcia) – 6:45
3. "Sugar Magnolia" (Hunter, Weir) – 9:57

June 16, 1990 – encore:

4. "It's All Over Now, Baby Blue" (Bob Dylan) – 7:37

Bonus tracks from October 3, 1987:

5. "Hey Pocky Way" (Joseph Modeliste, Arthur Neville, Leo Nocentelli, George Porter) – 6:17
6. "New Minglewood Blues" (Noah Lewis) – 7:36
7. "Candyman" (Hunter, Garcia) – 7:51
8. "When I Paint My Masterpiece" (Dylan) – 4:39
9. "West L.A. Fadeaway" (Hunter, Garcia) – 7:34
10. "My Brother Esau" (Barlow, Weir) – 4:26

Notes

Personnel

Grateful Dead

• Jerry Garcia – lead guitar, vocals
• Bob Weir – rhythm guitar, vocals
• Phil Lesh – bass guitar, vocals
• Brent Mydland – Hammond organ, keyboards, vocals
• Mickey Hart – drums, percussion
• Bill Kreutzmann – drums, percussion

Production

• Len Dell'Amico - director, co-producer
• Dan Healy– recording
• Jeffrey Norman – mastering
• David Lemieux – tape archivist
• Cassidy Law – album coordination
• Eileen Law – archival research
• Robert Minkin – package design
• Ken Friedman – photography

See also

• View from the Vault, Volume One
• View from the Vault, Volume Two
• View from the Vault, Volume Four