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What's your favorite Grateful Dead song?

TrailerTrailer Posts: 1,431
edited June 2007 in Other Music
As we all know, the Grateful Dead have many great songs in their catalog. You can just list the name of the song, but I'm more interested in knowing what live versions of the song really stand out as true masterpieces.

For example:
Here Comes Sunshine- 5/26/73
Goin' Down the Road Feelin' Bad- 4/29/71
Bird Song- 8/27/72
China Cat-> Rider- 6/26/74
Scarlet-> Fire- 5/8/77
Eyes of the World- 10/19/74
Hard to Handle- 8/6/71
Whoa, chill bro... you know you can't raise your voice like that when the lion's here.
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  • TrailerTrailer Posts: 1,431
    I'm aware that some of these songs are cover songs... that's okay to list as long as the Dead played it at one time or another.

    p.s. that Hard to Handle from Fallout from the Philzone is HOT!!!
    Whoa, chill bro... you know you can't raise your voice like that when the lion's here.
  • normnorm Posts: 31,146
    i'm not a huge dead fan but i do love them......my fav is ripple....:D:D
  • pjoasisrulepjoasisrule Posts: 3,412
    Touch of Grey..........go ahead and bash away but I am just not a fan of the band
    Alpine Valley 2000
    Summerfest 2006

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  • TrailerTrailer Posts: 1,431
    cutback wrote:
    i'm not a huge dead fan but i do love them......my fav is ripple....:D:D

    Ripple is a great song!! Check out the many great versions from 9/25/80 to 10/31/80. They played an acoustic set in every show between those dates and closed the set with Ripple each time. You can see a live version of the 10/30/80 Ripple on the DVD Dead Ahead.
    Whoa, chill bro... you know you can't raise your voice like that when the lion's here.
  • mxaaronmxaaron Posts: 92
    If you plant ice, you're gonna harvest wind...
    Roll away, roll away the dew
  • TrailerTrailer Posts: 1,431
    You can see a live version of the 10/30/80 Ripple on the DVD Dead Ahead.[/quote]

    or right here...

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lVdTQ3OPtGY
    Whoa, chill bro... you know you can't raise your voice like that when the lion's here.
  • merkinballmerkinball Posts: 2,262
    I don't have specific dates, but some the of the songs that jammed together are my favorites:

    Scarlet Begonias --> Fire on the Mountain
    China Cat Sunflower --> I Know You Rider
    Help On The Way --> Slipknot! --> Franklin's Tower
    Dear Mr. Fantasy --> Hey Jude

    Other standout live tracks? Smokestack Lightning w/ Pigpen, Alabama Getaway, U.S. Blues, Iko Iko, Wharf Rat, Black Muddy River, Don't Ease Me In.
    "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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  • The VacantThe Vacant Posts: 271
    Never really got into live Dead stuff, but studio wise I dig these tunes:

    Help on The Way -> Slipknot! -> Franklin's Tower
    St. Stephen
    Friend of The Devil
    Alabama Getaway
    Touch of Grey
    Fire On The Mountain
    China Cat Sunflower
    Morning Dew
  • brain of cbrain of c Posts: 5,213
    because i got high
    d'oh!!!!!!

    http://www.myspace.com/brain_of_c
  • patrickredeyespatrickredeyes Posts: 8,834
    Ripple
    One more saturday nite
    Eyes of the world
    Morning Dew
    Uncle John's Band




    Just to name a few that I like. Of course many more. :)
  • TheHotRockTheHotRock Posts: 71
    its all about franklin's tower
    8/23/00, 8/24/00, 8/25/00, 11/14/02(letterman), 4/30/03, 6/6/03, 7/6/03, 7/8/03, 7/9/03, 7/12/03, 7/14/03, 9/28/04, 9/29/04, 10/1/04, 3/18/05, 9/2/05, 9/4/05, 9/15/05, 9/16/05, 9/30/05, 10/1/05, 5/5/06, 5/12/06, 5/13/06, 5/22/06, 5/24/06, 5/25/06, 5/27/06, 5/28/06, 5/30/06, 6/1/06, 6/3/06, 7/6/06
  • hendrix78hendrix78 Posts: 507
    Dark Star and St. Stephen off of Live Dead

    songs that I love but can't think of a particular version:
    Franklin's Tower
    Friend of the Devil (one of the first songs I learned on guitar)
    Morning Dew - I know it's a cover but I think their version is the best
  • josevolutionjosevolution Posts: 29,249
    EYES OF THE WORLD
    SCARLET BAGONIAS

    i have also some boots CORNELL 77 awsome show
    dick's picks 18 .....
    jesus greets me looks just like me ....
  • Get_RightGet_Right Posts: 12,845
    where to begin, mostly a fan of the brent and tiger era early to mid eighties:
    fall 83 tour is great
    as is 88, speciffically the berkley run


    GD favs:
    women are smarter
    mexicali>my and my uncle
    big river
    peggy o
    scarlet>fire
    thats it for the other one
    wharf rat
    mississipi half step
    brown eyed women
    sugaree

    JGB favs:
    run for the roses
    mission in the rain
    harder they come
    tangled up in blue
    midnight moonlight
    gommorrah
    dont let go
  • CServantCServant Posts: 1,182
    I'm a very casual Dead fan, by no means a "DeadHead," but I've always liked "Shakedown Street" and "Hell In A Bucket." I also saw them cover "This Could Be the Last Time" in Vega$ in the mid 90's, one of my favorite covers I've heard them do.

    Never a BIG Fan of "Space." I guess I was too sober or something???
    "Never argue with stupid people, they will drag you down to their level and then beat you with experience." Mark Twain
  • embraceembrace Posts: 849
    GRATE summer music!

    my faves- Box of Rain and Eyes of the World and Terrapin Station...though the list could go on and on...
    got a car...got some gas...oh let's get out of here-get out of here fast...
    I hope you get this message but your not home...I will be there in just a minute or so...
    I want to go but I want to go with you.

    Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry and narrow-mindedness and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all one's lifetime. -MT

    I've had enough, said enough, felt enough. I'm fine, still in it.
  • oktacomaoktacoma Posts: 335
    For me, Scarlet -> Fire from Cornell on 5/8/77 is easily the best song/track/performance from any band EVER!! Of course, Scarlet Begonias is my favorite Dead song of all time so I'm a bit biased.

    Another phenomenal and touching performance is So Many Roads from Jerry's last show.
  • SathogwaSathogwa Posts: 227
    I don't know if it's my favorite, but Morning Dew from the Fillmore April 1971 is simply amazing and transcendent.
    Sleep on horseback
    Far moon in a continuing dream
    Steam of roasting tea

    --Basho
  • deadmosquitodeadmosquito Posts: 729
    box of rain
  • ManimalManimal Posts: 152
    I've recently gotten into The Dead. Bought Workingman's Dead and American Beauty (one solid album). Anyways I'd like to get some awesome Dead bootlegs, but have no idea which shows to get. Any suggestions? I'd be looking for higher quality recording, lots of country and jamming.
    Would love to do a trade if interested.
    Thanks
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  • lukin420lukin420 Posts: 80
    MY FAV DEAD TUNES (NO ORDER)

    He's Gone
    China Cat Sunflower > I know you Rider
    Mississippi Half Step
    Dire Wolf
    High Time
    Brokedown Palace
    Tennesse Jed
    Ramble on Rose
    Jack Straw
    Don't Ease Me In

    just to name a few classics
  • lukin420lukin420 Posts: 80
    Manimal wrote:
    I've recently gotten into The Dead. Bought Workingman's Dead and American Beauty (one solid album). Anyways I'd like to get some awesome Dead bootlegs, but have no idea which shows to get. Any suggestions? I'd be looking for higher quality recording, lots of country and jamming.
    Would love to do a trade if interested.
    Thanks



    They have a Whole Collection of Bootlegs called DICK'S PICK'S there is like 50 or so released
    some of the recordings are not the greatest quality
  • patrickredeyespatrickredeyes Posts: 8,834
    CServant wrote:
    I'm a very casual Dead fan, by no means a "DeadHead," but I've always liked "Shakedown Street" and "Hell In A Bucket." I also saw them cover "This Could Be the Last Time" in Vega$ in the mid 90's, one of my favorite covers I've heard them do.

    Never a BIG Fan of "Space." I guess I was too sober or something???




    Yes your a deadhead. It's ok to admit it. :D
  • CServantCServant Posts: 1,182
    patrickredeyes wrote:
    Yes your a deadhead. It's ok to admit it. :D

    Awe, you got me.
    "Never argue with stupid people, they will drag you down to their level and then beat you with experience." Mark Twain
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