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Title: Grateful Dead – Shakedown Street
Year/Genre/Sub-Genre/City: 1978, Psych rock, Jam Rock, San Francisco, CA
Condition: VG plays well with some light surface noise
Cultural Facts:
Band Drama: Made during internal strain and money pressure; the band’s business machine was growing faster than the “commune band” myth could hold it together.
Studio Lore: Lowell George (Little Feat) was brought in to tighten the sessions, but the relationship got tense—his perfectionism clashed with Dead looseness.
Media Narrative: “Shakedown Street” became literal: the parking-lot economy exploded into a floating marketplace, turning the Dead into a traveling micro-society.