Without a Net
Live album by The Grateful Dead
Released	September, 1990
Recorded	October, 1989 - April, 1990
Genre	Rock
Length	131:56
Label	Arista
Producer	John Cutler, Phil Lesh
The Grateful Dead chronology
Built to Last (1989) Without a Net (1990) One From the Vault (1991)

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Without a Net is a recording of the Grateful Dead performing live in concert. It was released in 1990. The album is dedicated to Clifton Hanger, a name keyboardist Brent Mydland used to sign in hotel guestbooks. Mydland died during this album's post-production of a drug overdose. The album was certified Gold by the RIAA on November 27, 1990.^[2]

  Track listing

  Disc one

1. "Feel Like a Stranger" (Barlow, Weir) – 7:32
2. "Mississippi Half-Step Uptown Toodleloo" (Hunter, Garcia) – 8:00
3. "Walkin' Blues" (Johnson, arr. Weir) – 5:44
4. "Althea" (Hunter, Garcia) – 6:55
5. "Cassidy" (Barlow, Weir) – 6:36
6. "Bird Song" (Hunter, Garcia) – 12:57
7. "Let It Grow" (Barlow, Weir) – 11:55

  Disc two

1. "China Cat Sunflower / I Know You Rider" (Hunter, Garcia/trad., arr. Grateful Dead) – 10:24
2. "Looks Like Rain" (Barlow, Weir) – 8:04
3. "Eyes of the World" (Hunter, Garcia) – 16:14
4. "Victim or the Crime" (Graham, Weir) – 8:04
5. "Help on the Way/Slipknot!/Franklin's Tower" (Hunter, Garcia/Grateful Dead/Hunter, Garcia, Kreutzman) – 19:07
6. "One More Saturday Night" (Weir) – 4:51
7. "Dear Mr. Fantasy" (Capaldi, Winwood, Wood) – 5:44

  Musical Personnel

• Jerry Garcia - guitar, vocals
• Bob Weir - guitar, vocals
• Brent Mydland - keyboards, vocals
• Phil Lesh - bass guitar
• Bill Kreutzmann - drums
• Mickey Hart - drums

with

• Branford Marsalis - saxophone on "Eyes of the World"

  Recording dates

• "Feel Like A Stranger" recorded at Hampton Coliseum, Hampton, Virginia on October 9, 1989
• "Victim or the Crime" recorded at Brendan Byrne Arena, East Rutherford, NJ on October 15, 1989
• "Cassidy" recorded at The Spectrum, Philadelphia on October 19, 1989
• "Bird Song" recorded at Great Western Forum, Inglewood, California on December 9, 1989
• "Let It Grow" recorded at Capital Centre, Landover, Maryland on March 14, 1990
• "Walkin' Blues" and "Althea" recorded at Capital Centre on March 15, 1990
• "Mississippi Half-Step Uptown Toodleloo" recorded at Copps Coliseum, Hamilton, Ontario on March 21, 1990
• "One More Saturday Night" recorded at Knickerbocker Arena, Albany, New York on March 24, 1990
• "Looks Like Rain" recorded at Nassau Coliseum, Uniondale, New York on March 28, 1990
• "Eyes of the World" recorded at Nassau Coliseum on March 29, 1990
• "Help on the Way/Slipknot!/Franklin's Tower" recorded at Nassau Coliseum on March 30, 1990
• "China Cat Sunflower/I Know You Rider" and "Dear Mr. Fantasy" recorded at The Omni, Atlanta on April 1, 1990

  Charts

Album - Billboard

  References