Grateful Dead Thread.

LloydXmas · July 2011

Didn't see a thread about the band so I thought I would start one. Sirius had a show on from 9/2/78 on today.
Great fuckin set.

Ive never seen them live but the mid to late 70s are my favorite era to listen to.

http://www.archive.org/details/gd78-09- ... sbeok.shnf

Jack Straw, Friend Of The Devil, Minglewood Blues, Dire Wolf, Looks Like Rain, Stagger Lee, I Need A Miracle, Peggy-O, Lazy Lightning-> Supplication Good Lovin', Scarlet Begonias-> Fire On The Mountain-> Estimated Prophet-> Eyes Of The World-> Drums-> Sugar Magnolia, E: One More Saturday Night

Discuss

Newch91 · July 2011

Grateful Dead rock. Love "Box of Rain".

Did they sell out that show at Giants Stadium?

rollings · July 2011

They never ever did not sell out.

Except for when they played the desert in Egypt (there was some pointy seats still available)

1978 Jack Straw

Was Donna singing in key or off?

Horos · July 2011

Will be playing Grateful Dead all day today at work honoring the start of the Oregon Country Fair!

Get_Right · July 2011

viewtopic.php?f=9&t=138957&hilit=+dead

I am a child of the brent era. Love me some late 70s early 80s JGB as well.

merkinball · July 2011

Get_Right wrote:

http://community.pearljam.com/viewtopic.php?f=9&t=138957&hilit=+dead

I am a child of the brent era. Love me some late 70s early 80s JGB as well.

I'm with you. Have a hard time getting into the Donna shows, especially if they include a Dancin' in the Streets. Brent had such great harmonies with Jerry, both vocally and instrumentally.

Get_Right · July 2011

merkinball wrote:

Get_Right wrote:

http://community.pearljam.com/viewtopic.php?f=9&t=138957&hilit=+dead

I am a child of the brent era. Love me some late 70s early 80s JGB as well.

I'm with you. Have a hard time getting into the Donna shows, especially if they include a Dancin' in the Streets. Brent had such great harmonies with Jerry, both vocally and instrumentally.

some donna is ok
but I cant take the sudden wails in the middle of otherwise great jams
the closing of winterland DVD is a nice donna performance

merkinball · July 2011

Get_Right wrote:

merkinball wrote:

Get_Right wrote:

http://community.pearljam.com/viewtopic.php?f=9&t=138957&hilit=+dead

I am a child of the brent era. Love me some late 70s early 80s JGB as well.

I'm with you. Have a hard time getting into the Donna shows, especially if they include a Dancin' in the Streets. Brent had such great harmonies with Jerry, both vocally and instrumentally.

some donna is ok
but I cant take the sudden wails in the middle of otherwise great jams
the closing of winterland DVD is a nice donna performance

Point taken. Just got through Good Lovin' on the orignal posters link, and I did notice how well she fit in on that. Moving onto the Scarlet --> Fire portion of the set and turning up the speakers. Love this combo of songs.

Cob · July 2011

LOVE 76-78 and 79-83, but I think some of my favorite is 1989-1991, even after Brent died, some of those shows are just AWESOME, even though a lot of Deaheads just brush it off because they think nothing was as good as the 70's.

merkinball · July 2011

BabaBooey1979 wrote:

Didn't see a thread about the band so I thought I would start one. Sirius had a show on from 9/2/78 on today.
Great fuckin set.

Ive never seen them live but the mid to late 70s are my favorite era to listen to.

http://www.archive.org/details/gd78-09- ... sbeok.shnf

Jack Straw, Friend Of The Devil, Minglewood Blues, Dire Wolf, Looks Like Rain, Stagger Lee, I Need A Miracle, Peggy-O, Lazy Lightning-> Supplication Good Lovin', Scarlet Begonias-> Fire On The Mountain-> Estimated Prophet-> Eyes Of The World-> Drums-> Sugar Magnolia, E: One More Saturday Night

Discuss

That second set is fantastic.

unlost dogs · July 2011

Ripple.

*sigh*

LloydXmas · July 2011

unlost dogs wrote:

Ripple.

*sigh*

There's a street called ripple lane near my house. I've been eyeing that thing for years.

xavier mcdaniel · July 2011

"Touch of Grey" gets played a lot on radio. Occasionally radio also will play "US Blues", which is among my favorite Grateful Dead songs along with "Mexicali Blues and St. Stephen's".

PKTrekGirl · July 2011

I like The Dead. I think that when i was younger, I didn't appreciate them as much as I should have (thought they were 'too mellow'

)...but over the past year, I've starting re-acquainting myself with their music - went out and purchased about 4 - 5 of their CDs, and have been watching some of the footage on YouTube.

I am thinking of buying a few more albums - which ones are the best ones? I already have:
The Grateful Dead
Workingman's Dead
American Beauty
Live/Dead
Europe 72

I'm pretty broke, so I can't go crazy and buy a bunch. I'd like to buy maybe 2 more in the near future.

Horos · July 2011

In The Dark - Even though it's commercialized it's got some tasty jams on there.
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Get_Right · July 2011

PKTrekGirl wrote:

I like The Dead. I think that when i was younger, I didn't appreciate them as much as I should have (thought they were 'too mellow' )...but over the past year, I've starting re-acquainting myself with their music - went out and purchased about 4 - 5 of their CDs, and have been watching some of the footage on YouTube.

I am thinking of buying a few more albums - which ones are the best ones? I already have:
The Grateful Dead
Workingman's Dead
American Beauty
Live/Dead
Europe 72

I'm pretty broke, so I can't go crazy and buy a bunch. I'd like to buy maybe 2 more in the near future.

I wouldn't waste my money on too many studio records.
Maybe Mars hotel, shakedown street, wake of the flood or terrapin station
and I did spring for the all good things jerry solo box set of studio records
The live stuff is what you want
Dead set and reckoning (1980 compilations), one from the vault, skull and roses
Most of the dicks picks
and any of the "pure jerry" series for the jerry garcia band-warner theater 78, keene college 80, SF 1977

tons of grate music:
http://store.dead.net/store/music

PKTrekGirl · July 2011

Yes, I agree about the live stuff vs studio stuff.

In fact, given the company I'm in, I'll tell you that, in a way, live PJ is what sort of gave me the idea to loop back around and re-discover The Dead (or really, discover them, since my main previous exposure to them was In The Dark via MTV of the 80's

).

I don't think that it was until PJ and the bootleg collection that I ever really understood the idea that, for some bands, the studio albums were really just the 'coming attractions'. I've seen many bands live/heard them on live recordings, and I think that before PJ, the only band I was really impressed with live was Bruce Springsteen. With the vast majority of bands, it's nice to see them live for the excitement of the show, etc...and some of them are reasonably good. But very few are so good live that you await the live albums/bootlegs with the same (or more) anticipation that you do the studio albums, so that you can fall in love with the songs a second time as you discover what can be done with them live.

Of course, I'd heard all the stories about Dead concerts and the Deadheads, etc. But I think it was the PJ bootlegs that finally connected the dots for me and made me curious: perhaps The Dead were another band that is in that rare category of bands whose studio albums are only the beginning?

Of course, I have to buy some studio albums to acquaint myself with the music, and all, which is sort of the reason I asked the question. The Dead have a huge catalog...and I want to get enough of the studio stuff to appreciate the songs even more, live. Get that 'two 'fer' experience you get with PJ.

But yeah...I know that the real gold is in the live stuff.

Get_Right · July 2011

PKTrekGirl wrote:

Yes, I agree about the live stuff vs studio stuff.

In fact, given the company I'm in, I'll tell you that, in a way, live PJ is what sort of gave me the idea to loop back around and re-discover The Dead (or really, discover them, since my main previous exposure to them was In The Dark via MTV of the 80's ).

I don't think that it was until PJ and the bootleg collection that I ever really understood the idea that, for some bands, the studio albums were really just the 'coming attractions'. I've seen many bands live/heard them on live recordings, and I think that before PJ, the only band I was really impressed with live was Bruce Springsteen. With the vast majority of bands, it's nice to see them live for the excitement of the show, etc...and some of them are reasonably good. But very few are so good live that you await the live albums/bootlegs with the same (or more) anticipation that you do the studio albums, so that you can fall in love with the songs a second time as you discover what can be done with them live.

Of course, I'd heard all the stories about Dead concerts and the Deadheads, etc. But I think it was the PJ bootlegs that finally connected the dots for me and made me curious: perhaps The Dead were another band that is in that rare category of bands whose studio albums are only the beginning?

Of course, I have to buy some studio albums to acquaint myself with the music, and all, which is sort of the reason I asked the question. The Dead have a huge catalog...and I want to get enough of the studio stuff to appreciate the songs even more, live. Get that 'two 'fer' experience you get with PJ. But yeah...I know that the real gold is in the live stuff.

Grate post. The big difference between PJ and the Dead in that sense is that PJ has made some great records. The chasm between the quality of studio records and the quality of shows is MUCH larger when you are talking Dead. Highly recommend the Jerry Garcia band stuff as well-anything from 74-84.

And there are a couple of other bands IMHO that bring it live like PJ, Bruce and the Dead.
Wilco and MMJ-and both happen to make good studio material as well.

LloydXmas · July 2011

The closing of winterland is a great album.

http://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B00011CYK ... 39-6484153

I have a bunch of dicks picks that are great too. I'll post them later.

tripview94 · July 2011

1978 was a unique year and sound for the dead,
vastly different from those classic 77 shows and also different from 79
i have many bootlegs from that year..all on tape though
a lot of low output boards floating around
Red Rocks 7/8/78--one that stands out

Arthur Digby Sellers · July 2011

The Grateful Dead made great studio albums, it just wasn't always their strong suit. There really aren't albums better then American Beauty.

I am more partial to the years 1973-1974 and 1977. There is definitely good shows in other years, but there aren't any bad shows from the years I stated. Cornell '77 is a great one to check out and the next night in Buffalo I like even better. You can stream these shows on archive.org if you want. I think you can download the audience recordings there, but not the soundboards any more. You used to be able to and it was a wonderful thing while it lasted. I think you can still download SBDs on http://bt.etree.org/?searchss=&cat=8 . You have to know how to download bit torrents, but it aint hard. You can get lots of other bands on etree too including some Pearl Jam ( http://bt.etree.org/?searchss=&cat=137 ). I have so much Grateful Dead it's not even funny.

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