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The Grateful Dead

Anthem of the Sun is a still, to my ears at least, a groundbreaking album. With no gaps between tracks, electronic sounds mix with layer upon layer of sections from various live concerts and studio sessions. It was a huge task for the Dead to take on and the length it time it took tried the patience of Warner Bros. The initial release unfortunately suffered from a somewhat murky sound and Jerry took it upon himself to review the production and released a much crisper sounding version a couple of years later.

Jerry Garcia - lead guitar, acoustic guitar, kazoo, vibraslap, vocals
Phil Lesh - bass, trumpet, harpsichord, guiro kazoo, piano, timpani, vocals
Pigpen (Ron McKernan) - organ, celesta claves, vocals
Bob Weir - rhythm guitar, 12-string guitar, acoustic guitar, kazoo, vocals
Tom Constanten - prepared piano, piano, electronic tape
Mickey Hart, Bill Kreutzmann - drums, orchestra bells, gong, chimes, crotales, prepared piano, finger cymbals

It was remastered again in 2003 in HDCD for the boxed set "The Golden Road" with an expanded tracklisting, later also released as a seperate CD:

Tracks

That's It For The Other One
1. Cryptical Envelopment (Garcia)
2. Quadlibet For Tender Feet (Weir)
3. The Faster We Go, The Rounder We Get (Grateful Dead)
4. We Leave The Castle (Grateful Dead)
New Potato Caboose (Lesh/Petersen)
Born Cross-Eyed (Weir)
Alligator (Lesh/McKernan/Hunter)
Caution (Do Not Stop On Tracks) (McKernan)

Bonus tracks on 2003 expanded CD release;

Alligator (Lesh/McKernan/Hunter)
Caution (McKernan)
Feedback (Grateful Dead)

Hidden track

Born Cross-Eyed (Single version) (Weir)

It was reported in Scott Freeman's book Midnight Riders: The Story of the Allman Brothers Band that Duane first played "Mountain Jam" one night while sitting in with the Grateful Dead (p. 123). The melodic strains of Donovan's "There Is a Mountain" can clearly be heard right at the 09:00 minute mark on the Anthem of the Sun version of "Alligator".

For a flavour of what these psychedelic pioneers could do, here's some fine live tracks , 3 from the Dead's classic era, the wonderful Bird Song from 12/Nov/1988 and 2 from Jerry's own band.