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The album was remastered and expanded for the 2001 box set The Golden Road. However, the version from this album was later used as a B-side on the re-release of the " Truckin'" single. Goode" (a split single with Elvin Bishop) was actually the version from the album Fillmore: The Last Days. More tracks from the same source concerts were later released on Ladies and Gentlemen. A longer, full opening is used on CD/digital copies. Opening track "Bertha" fades in on the original version of the album, in semblance of entering the performance space. The graphic became one of the images most associated with the band. Though the album has been known by the sobriquet "Skull & Roses", the original vertical gatefold cover unfolds to reveal the entire skeleton. The album's cover art, composed by Alton Kelly and Stanley Mouse, is based on an illustration by Edmund Joseph Sullivan for an old edition of the Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam. The closing segue of " Not Fade Away" into "Goin' Down The Road Feeling Bad" also received airplay and became a fan favorite. "Playing in the Band" received a good amount of airplay, and became one of the Dead's most played songs in concert (a studio version was released the following year on rhythm guitarist Bob Weir's solo album Ace). This made the organ playing of Saunders more prominent than that of Pigpen, whose contributions tend to be buried in the mix. For the three new original compositions ("Bertha", " Playing in the Band", and "Wharf Rat"), the band invited Jerry Garcia associate Merl Saunders to overdub organ parts. Unlike Live/Dead, the album contained several lead and background vocal overdubs. It was the group's first album to be certified gold by the RIAA and remained their best seller until surpassed by Skeletons from the Closet. Although published without a title, it is generally known by the names Skull and Roses (due to its iconic cover art) and Skull Fuck (the name the band originally wanted to give to the album, which was rejected by the record company). Records, it is their second live double album and their seventh album overall. Grateful Dead is an album by rock band the Grateful Dead. Grateful Dead with Betty Cantor and Bob Matthews