Second LP from the Dead, assembled together by Garcia and Lesh out of a mixture of live and studio recordings to make a new hybrid. Very much a psychedelic and experimental record, as the cover and song titles would suggest.

My copy is the Vinyl Me, Please reissue from 2023, which was manufactured for Rhino. It includes on the gatefold the letter Joe Smith, the VP at Warner Bros, sent to Danny Rifkin calling the recording of Anthem of the Sun “the most unreasonable project with which we have ever involved ourselves” and noting the Grateful Dead “has many problems” and “never will be truly important.” It’s also a version of the “original” mix rather than the more well known 1972 mix. Sounds great.