Live at Keystone

Live at Keystone
Posed photo of Merl Saunders and Jerry Garcia by Annie Leibovitz
Live album by
Merl Saunders, Jerry Garcia, John Kahn, Bill Vitt
Released1973
RecordedJuly 10–11, 1973
GenreRock
LabelFantasy
ProducerMerl Saunders, Jerry Garcia, John Kahn, Bill Vitt
Merl Saunders and Jerry Garcia chronology
Live at Keystone
(1973)
Keystone Encores
(1988)
Merl Saunders chronology
Fire Up
(1973)
Live at Keystone
(1973)
Merl Saunders
(1974)
Jerry Garcia chronology
Garcia
(1972)
Live at Keystone
(1973)
Compliments
(1974)

Live at Keystone is an album by Merl Saunders, Jerry Garcia, John Kahn, and Bill Vitt. It was recorded live at the Keystone in Berkeley, California on July 10 and 11, 1973, and released later that year as a two-disc vinyl LP.[1][2] It was re-released in 1988, with additional tracks, as two separate CDs, called Live at Keystone Volume I and Live at Keystone Volume II.[3][4][5][6]

From February 1971 to July 1975, Merl Saunders and Jerry Garcia often played live shows together when the Grateful Dead were not on tour. For many of those concerts, their band had the lineup featured on this album – Saunders on keyboards, Garcia on guitar and vocals, John Kahn on bass, and Bill Vitt on drums.[7] One track of Live at Keystone, "Positively 4th Street", also includes David Grisman on mandolin.

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