We Leave The Castle: The Story of Anthem of The Sun｜Vinyl Monday
The bus came by and I got on, that’s when it all began…
Welcome (or welcome back) to Vinyl Monday! This is my series where I give the who/what/when/where/why and how I feel about classic albums in my collection. My thoughts on the Grateful Dead’s most ambitious (and chaotic) project, Anthem of The Sun (released 1968) Subscribe for more Vinyl Monday!
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Timestamps:
intro – 0:00
art/packaging/personnel – 1:09
the acid tests & san fransisco – 8:30
Anthem of The Sun – 11:38
track listing/release – 20:12
my thoughts – 24:35
thanks for watching! – 39:41
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@abigaildevoe
October 3, 2025 at 6:31 pm
i'm aware this episode's energy is very chaotic but idc it was so much fun to make. also GO READ MY POMPEII REVIEW! 😀
when did you get on the bus? comment below!
@CounterVortex
October 3, 2025 at 6:31 pm
And as for Aoxomoxoa… I go with OX-AH-MOX-AH
@CounterVortex
October 3, 2025 at 6:31 pm
Country Joe & the Fish were not a San Francisco band. They were a Berkeley band. That was an important distinction at the time. Read "The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test," if you haven't yet,
@maxhirsch7035
October 3, 2025 at 6:31 pm
Just realized that the vibe in much of "That's It for the Other One" as the piece "develops" is akin to the one in the playing on "Free Jazz," by the Ornette Coleman Double Quartet- basically musical chaos with certain degrees of coherence and control and abandon waxing and waning. Of course, Garcia (and likely other members of the Dead) were fans of Coleman's work, and he played on one of Coleman's later albums (with his Prime Time configuration).
@joelsislak8031
October 3, 2025 at 6:31 pm
Just listened to it Anthem few weeks ago, and I still can’t stand it. The Dead didn’t click with me till Workingman’s. Once Touch Of Grey came out the scene changed, and 16 year old girls stopped showering, stopped shaving their pits, started dowsing themselves in Patchouli Oil, and started showing up to say they were at a Dead show. Cowboy Neil was a left over old Beatnick. He was much older than most hippies. I grew up in the Bay Area.
@frederictorron9341
October 3, 2025 at 6:31 pm
Vraiment mes félicitations un travail assez exceptionnel j’ai eu énormément de plaisir à écouter
@fredheinze5393
October 3, 2025 at 6:31 pm
Thanks for this because I was already listening to Grateful Dead Music this evening
@LosHuxleys
October 3, 2025 at 6:31 pm
you're amazing, i love your videos
@bostrickland4970
October 3, 2025 at 6:31 pm
Looks like a Dmt experience album cover
@cousineerie9604
October 3, 2025 at 6:31 pm
Having four older brothers I grew up with this album and thought it was normal. It still takes me to places no other disc does. LSD is cool as long as you are not being bullied into taking it.
@saml302
October 3, 2025 at 6:31 pm
pretty girls talking about the Grateful Dead is literally my kink
@sugadelicsavagesoul8623
October 3, 2025 at 6:31 pm
Absolutely love it!!! Love this episode, love this album!! 👏🏽👏🏽🙌🏽💜💜💜 I love how you had the whole purple theme down to the kazoo even! 😂 But I really hope in time you change your mind about the first debut album, because I think it is one of their top best akin to the best garage psych -rock of the day. It is an absolute phenomenal debut imo, so I hope you change your opinion (like how you came around with Floyd's ANIMALS). But other than that, I'm digging how you have interest in all those early Dead albums! Keep 'em coming! 🤘🏽💜💥
@panelbeatermusic2128
October 3, 2025 at 6:31 pm
Comfort lick 🤫
@davidkruchkow5978
October 3, 2025 at 6:31 pm
This album, played in its entirety on WNEW FM in NY one afternoon while listening when I was about15 or 16 in my parent's basement, was my introduction to the Grateful Dead. In fact, the way the DJ introduced, I wasn't sure which was the album title and which was the band's name. I was hooked, and your review captured my feelings and filled in the blanks perfectly. Thank you, Abigail.
@williamfrost9910
October 3, 2025 at 6:31 pm
It's a masterpiece. One of my favorites!
@dlparker
October 3, 2025 at 6:31 pm
Got this album right around the time it was released during my transition period from athlete (track) to degenerate music junky. I was on the bus, and the following February I bought a lifetime pass – saw 'em live for the first time. I tried to copy every single note Jerry Garcia played. I was totally immersed in the Dead. Cranking the stereo up, playing Anthem of the Sun, laying flat on my back and feeling the bass move in waves along the floor.
@urnotl0r0s
October 3, 2025 at 6:31 pm
3:11 CT MENTIONED! one person at my school lives there!
@jollyjoker888
October 3, 2025 at 6:31 pm
I hate commercial hippies !!
@snarfusmaximus
October 3, 2025 at 6:31 pm
This is my favourite Dead album. 1968 is definitely my favourite year of theirs as the recorded gigs I heard from then are amazing, with Pigpen in top form before being sidelined by TC. This video has motivated me to upgrade my copy of this record. Discogs is a dangerous place.
@disintegrationnation9352
October 3, 2025 at 6:31 pm
I bought Anthem and Weasels Ripped My Flesh at the same time as a sophomore in high school. At first I wondered if I was being had, but after a few listens, I was evangelical. Later, the process would begin again with Trout.
@edwardgonczy3170
October 3, 2025 at 6:31 pm
Great review. But what do you mean by: "we all know there is no such thing as a perfect Grateful Dead album"? Of course there is. Everything up through "American Beauty". And you are aware that Phil's one great mistake (trying to honor a great musician who is no longer with us) and that was remixing Aoxomoxoa in 1971 and all subsequent releases were the remix. In order to get an original mix, one must find a green 7 Arts Label version. It's worth it. Really.
@coreyh2772
October 3, 2025 at 6:31 pm
Am I crazy or are the censor bleeps "Althea"?
@shemanic1
October 3, 2025 at 6:31 pm
Love this one Abi, including the chaos, it reflects the times. May I as a 74 year old hippy, complement you on your depth of knowledge understanding & matching dress code. The colours are my favourite.
@bryanmartin1239
October 3, 2025 at 6:31 pm
Excellent video! I currently don't own a copy of Anthem of the Sun 🌞, but I have heard it online and I think it sounds groovy and also has (imo) one of the grooviest L.P. covers of all time! I'm hoping that it might turn up at my local record store someday (fingers crossed) so that I can buy it and add it to my record collection. Btw, I think you're gorgeous!!
@buzzawuzza3743
October 3, 2025 at 6:31 pm
when yer right yer right
@MalikaiKitty
October 3, 2025 at 6:31 pm
Beep out that first F bomb with the intro chords to Althea?😅
@breakthroughvisuals
October 3, 2025 at 6:31 pm
Haven’t seen your channel before, but I loved this review! Anthem has been my favorite Dead album since, intrigued by the cover, I checked it out of my college dorm’s library. I saw the band many times in the early 80s, but of course, they didn’t sound like this. I once saw a documentary on the making of the album on PBS, but haven’t been able to find it since.
I once heard the side 2 version of “Alligator” over the sound system during the break at a Black Flag concert. I can’t be sure, but I may have been the only one there besides the band who recognized it.
@oldstudent2587
October 3, 2025 at 6:31 pm
Nice job!
@tonywilfong5409
October 3, 2025 at 6:31 pm
1983 first grateful dead album I bought the rest is 150 show history
@imnomoth
October 3, 2025 at 6:31 pm
I just recently found your channel via your review of american beauty and I'm really glad I did. You really get what made music special when it released and I love the way you talk about the music. You're probably my favorite music reviewer now, haha
@Invisbke
October 3, 2025 at 6:31 pm
You really have the talent for this. You are on.
@Johnnybravo76com
October 3, 2025 at 6:31 pm
Nothing like listening to a knowledgeable, beautiful, fellow deadhead 🌹😉😍
@AcidrainLysersaur
October 3, 2025 at 6:31 pm
Great review!! I'm super impressed and delighted by your debth, humor and clarity of thought. I could listen to you read the phone book and be well entertained. (The phone book was a 4" thick book with very thin pages containing nothing but people's names and phone numbers so that's what I now realize is an old timey compliment) Keep up the great work I look forward to checking out your other videos!
@mackdeen7021
October 3, 2025 at 6:31 pm
“St Stephen”!!!!!!
A heckler and requester from the 60’s. Nicely done !
@chrismcgovern1647
October 3, 2025 at 6:31 pm
Very curious about the piano-only mix of "Ditty Diego (War Chant)" you used as the background for describing the cover artwork
@markbrooks7157
October 3, 2025 at 6:31 pm
I performed 2 concerts with TC in Buffalo in 1974 when I was 19. I get a mention in his autobiography.
@NadirJones71
October 3, 2025 at 6:31 pm
Frankenfourtrack! Hahaha….great review.
@jstall20
October 3, 2025 at 6:31 pm
I tried. I couldn’t get past the kazoo
@UglyOckren
October 3, 2025 at 6:31 pm
Abby, YOU – better than anyone I've heard, read, or seen – were able to distill and interpret "Anthem" the BEST in the over 50 years that I've been listening to it! I am so in awe of your ability to adapt to, and understand esoteric gems such as this! (And SO many other Vinyl Monday artists!) I wholeheartedly agree that the 1968 -1970/71 Dead years were their best. Fun Fact = The instrumental jam segment of 'Alligator', with it's underlying melody borrowed from Donovan's "First There Is A Mountain…" was later borrowed by the Allman Bros., and formed the basis for Mountain Jam on their live Eat A Peach album. Thank you for everything you do here, and congrats on your new reviewing gig!
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