Grateful Dead Steal Your Face (50th Anniversary Remaster)

Newly Remastered 1976 Double Live Album Arriving June 26 Captures Wall of Sound's Last Stand During The Band's Pre-Hiatus Farewell Shows

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Remastered Performance Of "Black-Throated Wind" Available Digitally Today

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LOS ANGELES - In October 1974, the Grateful Dead walked off the stage at Winterland and into an indefinite touring hiatus, exhausted by the logistical and financial strains of touring with the groundbreaking Wall of Sound. A newly remastered version of Steal Your Face, the 1976 double-live album taken from that historic five-show "farewell" run, arrives on June 26, the album's 50th anniversary.

Steal Your Face (50th Anniversary Remaster) will be released as a 2LP set highlighting the band's official Pantone colors, Grateful Red and Stealie Blue. The exclusive "Off Your Head" custom variant from Dead.net splits the colors half-and-half with a touch of black splatter on both discs. The center labels include the iconic "Steal Your Face" logo's facial features gradually fading away across all four sides. This version also includes an 11x11 sticker sheet loaded with SYF logos.

The album will also be available for streaming and digital download. This anniversary edition was newly mastered by GRAMMY® Award-winning engineer David Glasser at Airshow Mastering, sourced from the Plangent Processes restored and speed-corrected tapes. Lacquers were cut by Chris Bellman at Bernie Grundman Mastering. Pre-Order Here.

Following the 1974 Winterland run, Jerry Garcia spent the next three years immersed in editing The Grateful Dead Movie(1977), while Phil Lesh and Owsley "Bear" Stanleybegan mining the 16-track tapes for a live album. The songs they chose balanced road-tested rockers ("U.S. Blues" and "Promised Land"), with standout songs from band member solo albums ("Sugaree" and "Black-Throated Wind") and choice covers ("Big River" and "El Paso"). In perfect Dead synchrony, their "farewell" live album arrived in June 1976, the same month the band officially returned to the road, ending the 20-month touring hiatus.

The newly remastered performance of "Black-Throated Wind" is available digitally today. Listen Now.

"A staple of the live repertoire 1972-1974, thankfully returning in 1990, Black-Throated Wind is widely considered one of Bob Weir's finest compositions. Never recorded on a Grateful Dead studio album (it appeared on Bobby's Ace album in 1972), this is the definitive Grateful Dead recording of this gem." - David Lemieux (Grateful Dead legacy Manager and Audio Archivist)

Steal Your Face marked the end of an ambitious period in the band's history, which at the time featured Garcia, Lesh, Bob Weir, Bill Kreutzmann, Keith Godchaux, and Donna Jean Godchaux. The live album became the last album released on the band's independent label, Grateful Dead Records, andcaptured the fabled Wall of Sound'sfinal shows.

Though it only toured from March to October 1974, the Wall of Sound revolutionized live audio as essentially the first large-scale "line array" in modern concert history. Designed by Stanley and a team of visionary engineers, the system provided a level of clarity and scale previously unheard in a live setting. While it set a new gold standard for audio, the logistical strain of transporting the 75-ton modular structure (which required four semi-trailers and 21 crew members to haul and set up) proved ultimately unsustainable for a touring band.