Animal Collective, who earlier this year released the magnificent Merriweather Post Pavilion, have become the first artists to ever receive approval from the Grateful Dead to sample the jam band’s catalog, Gorilla Vs. Bear reports. Animal Collective’s management company Leg Up confirmed that the band had the “first officially licensed Grateful Dead sample” for a song AC’s Avey Tare wrote called “What Would I Want Sky,” a track the band has performed recently in concert. As “GvB” points out, the song chopped-up and sampled a line from the Grateful Dead’s Mars Hotel cut “Unbroken Chain.”Animal Collective, who earlier this year released the magnificent Merriweather Post Pavilion, have become the first artists to ever receive approval from the Grateful Dead to sample the jam band’s catalog, Gorilla Vs. Bear reports. Animal Collective’s management company Leg Up confirmed that the band had the “first officially licensed Grateful Dead sample” for a song AC’s Avey Tare wrote called “What Would I Want Sky,” a track the band has performed recently in concert. As “GvB” points out, the song chopped-up and sampled a line from the Grateful Dead’s Mars Hotel cut “Unbroken Chain.”
Source Rollingstone
