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Originally posted by pace40:

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Hit me With some example. I do wonder if it’s lack of exposure or at least to the right stuff.

try this

Well, that was … oh, would you look at the time.

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Originally posted by ffips:
Yesteryear's Dave Mathews Band?

Eughhh! Another band I just don’t get. May as well get the rest of my “don’t get them” list: Jimmy Buffett, Pearl Jam, phish.

The extended live versions of all these go a lot deeper.

Excellent question Mark123!

The Dead are an unread chapter in my musical edut. Must have two dozen albums in my library just waiting for me but have never found he right time.

Guess it’s right you had to live the experience to make it significant in your life
Personally, i’m most oriented to brit rock but i recognize the Dead as icons of an era.

Hope this thread motivates me enough to start listening to them.

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The extended live versions of all these go a lot deeper.

I liked 1, 2 and 4. The singing is a little rough around the edges. It’s kind of a garage band vibe.

I think Henry Rollins did a cover of Franklin’s Tower.

Like I said, so much out there and a lot of it is live jam tracks...really long.

Yeah, Garcia wasn't known for his voice lol.

They did a nice cover of I Know You Rider

Never done illegal drugs, don’t even drink and I enjoy listening to the Dead.
Standing on the Moon and Casey Jones are my favorites.
I find myself listening to it when I just want to have some music on to have music on.
I like their live stuff but enjoy their studio stuff just as much.
I wish their SiriusXM station would play more studio stuff.

Casey Jones is a pretty good song. I don’t like anything else I’ve heard from them.

I'm not a deadhead but I did buy their first album back in the mid 60s with Kroger bagboy money. Saw them in a Louisville small college gym (Bellarmine) in 1968 and walked out after about 30 minutes to go to Z-bar and get drunk.

Check out these clips from 1989, Brent Mydland on organ and Jerry Garcia have an unspoken connection and their joy in playing together is plain to see. The last clip is from 1990 and Brent is 20 days from dying from a heroin overdose. What a change.

After Brent dies Jerry gets deeper in addiction and lasts a couple more years. Bob Wier was a fitness nut and he is still playing today with Tedeschi Trucks and others. Just part of rock n roll.

Watch the Jerry/Brent connection @ 2 minutes




Look how dope sick Brent is and how much he declines in a year - dead was never the same after his od

My biological father was their attorney. helped them out of a drug charge in the mid sixties. He had to write them a contract so they could get paid...so he could get paid. Got him into entertainment law.
He had some interesting stories.

OZ

Really interesting thread. I was never a fan, but…I still call American Beauty one of my 10 favorite albums of all time. Had no desire to make an effort to see them live, I’ve never cared for jam bands, and that’s their concert MO. I worked with two guys back in the 90s that were hard core Deadheads. I remember that one of them had seen the Dead 78 times. I’ve come to understand that’s a relatively low number among serious Deadheads.

As I dived deeper into guitar playing, I’ve come to realize that Jerry Garcia was a great, great guitar player, and the rest of the band were all really good too. Phil Lesh plays the bass like it’s a lead instrument. I’m not going to individually praise each band member, but they were/are good.

I still don’t listen to them often, but if you’re working on guitar (particularly) in major keys; Garcia is a good guitar player to listen to.

<---- Yeah, you could say I'm a fan.

TMats pretty much summed it up for me. I've never been to a Grateful Dead show, but I got into the music because a roommate in college was a devout Deadhead.

I'm a bass player and I've always been amazed by Phil Lesh's approach to the instrument. And to my ears, all the band members were excellent improvisational players.

I feel the Dead's best years were the 1970's. They were really on top of their game during those years. (See Pace's post above.)

I understand the Dead is not for everyone. You either get it, or you don't. There's nothing wrong with that.

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I don't know how to explain it. Any band that covers Marty Robbins and Merle Haggard can't be that bad.

This ^^^ plus some of their other covers: “Good Lovin”, “Promised Land”.

Quite a few years ago, my brother gave me a Dead tribute cd called “Deadicated” with lots of well known acts covering Grateful Dead songs. A really good compilation. Before that if it wasn’t a Dead tune that made hit radio, I really did not care or follow them. On Sirius, if it’s a cover or one of the songs I like (Box of Rain is a fav), I listen, otherwise the prolonged jams of multiple songs or a concert recording from Bangor Me. in 1979 doesn’t really generate enthusiasm.

Me either. I don’t get the popularity of them at all.

Circa 1965 myself.

It is surely a culture thing.

It sure as hell isn’t the music.

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What a long strange trip its been...

I love em on a warm summer night. But I rarely listen to them short of that. Cassidy is my fav, or one of my top three at least.

Couldn't find a good cut on YT, but there is at least one with strong acoustic on Spotify.

Here's a pretty good cover of it.


I think this is the version on Spotify.

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Originally posted by two-two-niner-romeo:
I've never been to a Grateful Dead show

You and 5000 of your closest friends dancing lost, in the music, struggling for a glimpse of the stage through the smoke-filled windowpane.

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Originally posted by pace40:
You and 5000 of your closest friends dancing lost, in the music, struggling for a glimpse of the stage through the smoke-filled windowpane.

Is this desirable?

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Originally posted by pace40:

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Originally posted by two-two-niner-romeo:
I've never been to a Grateful Dead show

You and 5000 of your closest friends dancing lost, in the music, struggling for a glimpse of the stage through the smoke-filled windowpane.

Is this desirable?

I don't remember.