Jerry Garcia's guitar / Grateful Dead

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  • merkinball
    merkinball Posts: 2,262
    loveontwolegs wrote:
    Jerry shaped my heart, and my bare feet, and I am forever in love with this band.

    Love it! Jerry shaped my Birkenstocks too!
    "You're no help," he told the lime. This was unfair. It was only a lime; there was nothing special about it at all. It was doing the best it could.

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  • Get_Right
    Get_Right Posts: 14,130
    Dang Dang wrote:
    I love to see the Deadheads on here pop out of the woodwork.

    There is something deep within the grooves of PJ that reminds me of the Dead.
    In many many ways, EV and PJ replaced the musical void left by the end of the GD.

    A pistol shot at 5 o'clock
    The bells of heaven ring
    "Tell me what you done it for"
    "No I won't tell you a thing

    "Yesterday I begged you
    before I hit the ground -
    all I leave behind me
    is only what I found

    "If you can abide it
    let the hurdy-gurdy play -
    Stranger ones have come by here
    before they flew away

    "I will not condemn you
    nor yet would I deny"
    "I would ask the same of you
    but failing will not die

    "Take up your china doll
    it's only fractured -
    and just a little nervous
    from the fall"

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2oy_zZBM ... ure=fvwrel
  • merkinball
    merkinball Posts: 2,262
    I'd recommend picking up Mickey Hart's Mystery Box album if you haven't heard it. Some great tracks on it, especially this one with lyrics by Robert Hunter. The tribute to Garcia in the last verse gives me chills every time.

    Down the Road (Mickey Harts Mystery Box)
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZALHT0_JkRU

    Down the road to Union Station running through the fog
    I thought I saw Joe Hill last night grinning like a dog
    "I understand they did you in for everyone to see"
    He smiled - shook his head - "that's a lie," said he
    "I been on a mountain top observing from a cloud
    Been in the hearts of workers milling with the crowd
    My tears are shed for freedom and equality of means
    My blood and perspiration oil the gears of your machine"

    Down the road to Massachusetts driving through the night
    I thought I saw Jack Kennedy hitchhiking by a light
    I hit the brakes - backed up slow, and Kennedy got in
    I said, "It's nice to see you lookin' back in shape again
    Correct me if I'm wrong but I believe they gunned you down"
    He just shook his head and looked off sadly with a frown
    Said, "bullets are like waves, they only rearrange the sand
    History turns upon the tides and not the deeds of man"

    Driving down to Fiddler's Green to hear a tune or two
    I thought I saw John Lennon there, looking kind of blue
    I sat down beside him, said "I thought you bought the store"
    He said "I heard that rumour, what can I do you for?"
    "Have you written anything I might have never heard?"
    He picked up his guitar and strummed a minor third
    All I can recall of what he sang, for what it's worth
    "Long as songs of mine are sung I'm with you on this earth"

    From the corner of my eye I saw the sun explode
    I didn't look directly 'cause it would have burned my soul
    When the smoke and thunder cleared enough to look around
    I heard a sweet guitar lick, an old familiar sound
    I heard a laugh I recognised come rolling from the earth
    Saw it rise into the skies like lightning giving birth
    It sounded like Garcia but I couldn't see the face
    Just the beard and the glass and a smile on empty space
    "You're no help," he told the lime. This was unfair. It was only a lime; there was nothing special about it at all. It was doing the best it could.

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  • Get_Right
    Get_Right Posts: 14,130
    never forget the way this song lit up the arena
    even in the later years

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U99KKaiSuYk

    a bit rough, but it captures the feeling in the arena
  • josevolution
    josevolution Posts: 31,656
    Get_Right wrote:
    Dang Dang wrote:
    I love to see the Deadheads on here pop out of the woodwork.

    There is something deep within the grooves of PJ that reminds me of the Dead.
    In many many ways, EV and PJ replaced the musical void left by the end of the GD.

    A pistol shot at 5 o'clock
    The bells of heaven ring
    "Tell me what you done it for"
    "No I won't tell you a thing

    "Yesterday I begged you
    before I hit the ground -
    all I leave behind me
    is only what I found

    "If you can abide it
    let the hurdy-gurdy play -
    Stranger ones have come by here
    before they flew away

    "I will not condemn you
    nor yet would I deny"
    "I would ask the same of you
    but failing will not die

    "Take up your china doll
    it's only fractured -
    and just a little nervous
    from the fall"

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2oy_zZBM ... ure=fvwrel

    Yo Bro i 2nd this i started to listen to GD IN 76 and saw them a whole bunch of times they were the only band that i Actually followed up & down the eastern sea board and now it's been all PJ SINCE 92 ...
    jesus greets me looks just like me ....
  • Get_Right
    Get_Right Posts: 14,130
    josevolution wrote:

    Yo Bro i 2nd this i started to listen to GD IN 76 and saw them a whole bunch of times they were the only band that i Actually followed up & down the eastern sea board and now it's been all PJ SINCE 92 ...
    only bands worth traveling more than 50 miles to see (and maybe wilco) ;)

    have fun at PJ20
    I will be there in spirit
    I think there are pieces of my brain in that place from 84 and 89 :mrgreen:
  • rollings
    rollings unknown Posts: 7,127
    Get_Right wrote:
    Dang Dang wrote:
    I love to see the Deadheads on here pop out of the woodwork.

    There is something deep within the grooves of PJ that reminds me of the Dead.
    In many many ways, EV and PJ replaced the musical void left by the end of the GD.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2oy_zZBM ... ure=fvwrel


    Me too.


    "...just a little nervous from the fall.."
  • chadwick
    chadwick up my ass Posts: 21,157
    http://youtu.be/SBNFG-NZW5o
    rain

    been listening to this all afternoon on repeat
    for poetry through the ceiling. ISBN: 1 4241 8840 7

    "Hear me, my chiefs!
    I am tired; my heart is
    sick and sad. From where
    the sun stands I will fight
    no more forever."
    Chief Joseph - Nez Perce
  • Get_Right
    Get_Right Posts: 14,130
    chadwick wrote:
    http://youtu.be/SBNFG-NZW5o
    rain

    been listening to this all afternoon on repeat


    Just cant watch 95'......too painful

    But I could watch this all day--goonie birds-dylan-petty-dead-fourth of july-good times :!:

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WS2roM0l ... re=related
  • helplessdancer
    helplessdancer Posts: 5,293
    Get_Right wrote:

    Just cant watch 95'......too painful

    But I could watch this all day--goonie birds-dylan-petty-dead-fourth of july-good times :!:

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WS2roM0l ... re=related

    an event i'll never ever forget
    the dead opening for dylan with tom petty and the heartbreakers as dylan's back up band 8-)


    not all of 1995 was painful ;)

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JKhM-Ed8R8k
    crank this one

    and
    of
    course
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KgLogJIZPwA
  • merkinball
    merkinball Posts: 2,262
    Just noticed that spotify has most of the Dicks Picks available, as well as the download series.

    Just fired up DP #12 (Providence 6/26/74 and Boston 6/28/74).

    First track:

    Look for awhile at the China Cat Sunflower
    proud-walking jingle in the midnight sun
    Copper-dome Bodhi drip a silver kimono
    like a crazy-quilt stargown
    through a dream night wind

    Krazy Kat peeking through a lace bandana
    like a one-eyed Cheshire
    like a diamond-eye Jack
    A leaf of all colors plays
    a golden string fiddle
    to a double-e waterfall over my back

    Comic book colors on a violin river
    crying Leonardo words
    from out a silk trombone
    I rang a silent bell
    beneath a shower of pearls
    in the eagle wing palace
    of the Queen Chinee
    "You're no help," he told the lime. This was unfair. It was only a lime; there was nothing special about it at all. It was doing the best it could.

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  • chadwick
    chadwick up my ass Posts: 21,157
    question for you good people who may know something. did the dead and neil young ever record any music together, did they ever jam together? i'm curious about this and believe it would sound fantastic.

    thanks in advance.
    for poetry through the ceiling. ISBN: 1 4241 8840 7

    "Hear me, my chiefs!
    I am tired; my heart is
    sick and sad. From where
    the sun stands I will fight
    no more forever."
    Chief Joseph - Nez Perce
  • merkinball
    merkinball Posts: 2,262
    chadwick wrote:
    question for you good people who may know something. did the dead and neil young ever record any music together, did they ever jam together? i'm curious about this and believe it would sound fantastic.

    thanks in advance.

    This was the only time I'm aware of:

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QqrGn-ytdzg

    Bill Graham memorial concert

    Edited to add: Jerry also plays pedal steel on Teach Your Children (CSNY/Deja Vu)
    "You're no help," he told the lime. This was unfair. It was only a lime; there was nothing special about it at all. It was doing the best it could.

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  • merkinball
    merkinball Posts: 2,262
    Gotta love the Lefsetz Letter -

    http://lefsetz.com/wordpress/index.php/ ... ead-thing/

    Please don’t dominate the rap Jack
    If you’ve got nothing new to say

    Either those lyrics are burned into your DNA or you’re clueless, there’s no middle ground. If I play you "New Speedway Boogie" you won’t say RIGHT, I remember hearing that on the radio… Either the closing track on side one of "Workingman’s Dead" is more memorable than anything you learned in college, which is probably where you heard it first, or you’re clueless.

    And those clueless are a bigger tribe than those in the know, but those in the know are linked by this music, and their number is HUGE!

    After the breakthrough of "Workingman’s Dead" and "American Beauty", Jerry Garcia cut a solo album. It was not a sales juggernaut, but it penetrated the brains of everybody in higher education in those days, the early seventies. And what’s staggering, it’s got legs. They laugh and say no one will be playing the hits of the nineties and early aughts at weddings in the future, but "Sugaree" is as relevant, as much a part of the culture as it was back in ‘72, even though Jerry’s been dead for a decade and a half.

    Sure, you heard "Sugaree" a bit on FM radio. I’d argue you heard "Deal" more. But you really didn’t hear much of either. These tracks lived on record and live, where the Grateful Dead played them over and over again, never exactly the same. Just like you look different from year to year, Dead staples evolved, changed, they were not calcified, they were alive.

    To the point when Jackie Greene lit into "Sugaree" on Saturday night at Club Nokia, it was like your best friend walking through the front door, like hearing a hit of yore, that you know every note of.

    In Mr. Greene’s hands, "Sugaree" lived again. It was the same, yet a little bit different. And in classic Dead fashion, when the vocalizing ended the noodling began, the improvisation, the jamming that gets a bad name but is so riveting when you experience it live.

    And this goes on for a while, until Jackie has changed the riff. Yes, could it be, NEW SPEEDWAY BOOGIE?

    This was the best song written about Altamont. It’s my favorite on "Workingman’s Dead", I thought I was the only person who noticed the change Saturday night. But soon everybody in attendance gave a whoop! And when Jackie reached the chorus, he stopped singing, and the assembled multitude yelled out MOUNTAIN!

    Yup, "Spent a little time on the MOUNTAIN, spent a little time on the hill, Things went down we don’t understand, but I think in time we will."

    What we understand now is everybody but Neil Young sold out, ran for the bucks. Reagan legitimized greed and the acts went for it and the business has never been the same since. All we’ve got is endless complaints that you just can’t get rich.

    But somehow the Dead figured it out.

    Sure, they ended up signing to Arista and having a hit with "Touch Of Grey", Jerry Garcia even designed ties, but if anything, those mainstream efforts detracted from the band’s image and its success. You see long after the Dead’s run in the mainstream’s consciousness, to the degree that was even achieved, the band went on the road and played to an ever-increasing audience, to the point where it was a problem, everybody who showed up without a ticket and wanted to hang on, from city to city.

    Imagine that today. A band that’s too successful. YEAR AFTER YEAR!

    And they’d work in some new songs. Eventually recording took a back seat, unless you’re speaking of the tapes traded amongst the faithful. To truly get the Dead you had to go, and so many did.

    And people say the band was successful because they gave it away for free. That was an element, but the real reason the Dead lived on was the music itself, fans liked it, lived for it, never burned out on it.

    You might think the history of music can be quantified. That you can go back into the charts and see what was happening. But that’s untrue. After all the hit bands have faded, gotten plastic surgery and are eking out a living in dives, if that, the Grateful Dead are still monstrous.

    It was the music. And Jerry’s image as one of the people who cared about the people.

    A hit is not a song on the radio.

    It’s something everybody knows.

    And more people know "Sugaree" and "New Speedway Boogie" than so much of the dreck that reached mass consciousness once. That tripe has faded away. The Grateful Dead gems live on.
    "You're no help," he told the lime. This was unfair. It was only a lime; there was nothing special about it at all. It was doing the best it could.

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  • merkinball
    merkinball Posts: 2,262
    The Not Fade Away --> Goin Down the Road Feeling Bad --> Not Fade Away on the new Europe 72 (volume 2) release is fantastic, especially the 2nd half of NFA.
    "You're no help," he told the lime. This was unfair. It was only a lime; there was nothing special about it at all. It was doing the best it could.

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  • chadwick
    chadwick up my ass Posts: 21,157
    http://youtu.be/xivQkRx0S0A
    "help on the way/slipknot"
    love this little jam
    this song kicks ass as well..."west L.A. fade away"
    for poetry through the ceiling. ISBN: 1 4241 8840 7

    "Hear me, my chiefs!
    I am tired; my heart is
    sick and sad. From where
    the sun stands I will fight
    no more forever."
    Chief Joseph - Nez Perce
  • merkinball
    merkinball Posts: 2,262
    chadwick wrote:
    http://youtu.be/xivQkRx0S0A
    "help on the way/slipknot"
    love this little jam
    this song kicks ass as well..."west L.A. fade away"

    One of my favorite memories includes a Help --> Slipknot!--> Franklins that kicked off the 2nd set.

    12/08/89
    Great Western Forum - Inglewood, CA

    Set 1:
    Let The Good Times Roll
    Feel Like A Stranger
    Stagger Lee
    Beat It On Down The Line
    Ramble On Rose
    Cassidy
    Blow Away

    Set 2:
    Help On The Way
    Slipknot!
    Franklin's Tower
    Looks Like Rain
    He's Gone
    Drums
    I Will Take You Home
    The Other One
    Wharf Rat
    Throwin' Stones
    Not Fade Away

    Encore:
    U.S. Blues


    Also, Los Lobos do a killer cover of West L.A. Fadeaway on Tin Can Trust.
    "You're no help," he told the lime. This was unfair. It was only a lime; there was nothing special about it at all. It was doing the best it could.

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  • rollings
    rollings unknown Posts: 7,127
    edited October 2011
    "Deadhead" (a poem by me)

    3-D as sound
    if you let it
    between your fingers
    if you wore it pouring
    lifting and sweeping
    dance and rain
    swimming solid as gas
    it shook back
    purple and pink were
    liquid blue that you
    wore on your hips
    the back of your head
    to the front of your eyes
    played you like chimes
    now is part of you
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  • rollings
    rollings unknown Posts: 7,127
    edited November 2011
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  • merkinball
    merkinball Posts: 2,262
    I was listening to Bob Weir's Kingfish album yesterday, and it occured to me that he's not really trying to look like Garcia w/ the beard. He's trying to turn into the cover of Kingfish.



    images?q=tbn:ANd9GcTIwGhcr7SHEBjqe-z_A4DxKKseMFrriKA3JCvJcDQneEhYL02-lQ

    In other news, Mickey Hart is out touring w/ his band. I've seen him on a number of tours (3 Different Planet Drum tours, and w/ Particle). Great chance to see him in a small venue. Looking forward to the Belly Up show in San Diego. One of my favorite venues.

    http://mickeyhart.net/shows
    "You're no help," he told the lime. This was unfair. It was only a lime; there was nothing special about it at all. It was doing the best it could.

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