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  • merkinball
    merkinball Posts: 2,262
    DriftingByTheStorm wrote:
    Beyond that, i'd also suggest sticking to early Dead ... pre '72 to get your feet warmed to them ... after around '72 (or see the Europe '72 disc) ... they had this obnoxious wench of a wife of their keyboardist singing ... and she ruins just about everything her voice touched ...

    Yeah, but when Keith died and Donna left, they picked up Brent Mydland, who I thought added a lot to their sound. Most of the mid late 80's live output is good. Studio wise, it was pretty scary (Go To Heaven anyone?)
    "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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  • patrickredeyes
    patrickredeyes Posts: 8,834
    merkinball wrote:
    Yeah, but when Keith died and Donna left, they picked up Brent Mydland, who I thought added a lot to their sound. Most of the mid late 80's live output is good. Studio wise, it was pretty scary (Go To Heaven anyone?)



    The album cover to ''Go To Heaven'' is a good one. :D

    Brent's voice was perfect with the dead's songs. It's still sad about Vince taking his own life last yr.
  • patrickredeyes
    patrickredeyes Posts: 8,834
    DriftingByTheStorm wrote:
    Uh,

    I'd have to give the thread starter a nod and say American Beauty IS the place to start ... and i would pick Hundred Year Hall as a first live release. ;)

    Beyond that, i'd also suggest sticking to early Dead ... pre '72 to get your feet warmed to them ... after around '72 (or see the Europe '72 disc) ... they had this obnoxious wench of a wife of their keyboardist singing ... and she ruins just about everything her voice touched ...


    Wow your the first person I've heard that didn't like Donna. I love the boots and tapes with her singing.



    ''Fallout from the Phil Zone'' is a great double disk of some of Phil's fav songs. Good stuff :D
  • culot4
    culot4 Posts: 775
    DriftingByTheStorm wrote:

    ... they had this obnoxious wench of a wife of their keyboardist singing ... and she ruins just about everything her voice touched ...

    That is just nonsense.

    I'm real close to getting hooked up with Sirius now that the Dead have their own station.
    Once in a while you can get shown the light, in the strangest of places if you look at it right.
  • patrickredeyes
    patrickredeyes Posts: 8,834
    http://youtube.com/watch?v=7vIlRY7277E


    Pigpen was the best.
  • moeaholic
    moeaholic Posts: 535
    personally, i'd stay away from studio albums and get live ones only. but if you're dead set on a studio album, you can't go wrong with american beauty.
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  • tara
    tara Posts: 293
    pirlo21 wrote:
    Just bought 'The Very Best of Grateful Dead' on Saturday.
    Can't believe it's taken me so long!!
    Great stuff. If I invest in a studio album, is 'American Beauty' the place to start?


    alright, you've probably bought something by now, but i really needed to throw in my 2 cents on this one, american beauty is a good album, but it's way too clean, and the songs are all like 3 minutes long, it was made for the radio, and is completly not representative of the dead. go with dick's picks or stuff from the vault, or if you feel like dancing go for fallout from the phil zone, or the 2/11/69 shows from the fillmore, or pretty much anything that's not studio, i just downloaded europe '72 the other day, it's pretty fuckin awsome, although i was a bit disapointed to learn that they overdubbed some vocals and stuff afterwards
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  • jdub3001
    jdub3001 Posts: 194
    patrickredeyes wrote:
    Wow your the first person I've heard that didn't like Donna. I love the boots and tapes with her singing.
    Really? I don't mind her singing, but I'm not a huge fan of hers. A lot of my friends that are deadheads can't stand her though. I have one buddy that will actually leave parties if someone plays a show with Donna singing....

    But to the OP - I think American Beauty is their best studio recording, hands down.
  • merkinball
    merkinball Posts: 2,262
    patrickredeyes wrote:
    Wow your the first person I've heard that didn't like Donna. I love the boots and tapes with her singing.

    Count me in as #2. Not a big fan of Donnas work with the dead. Too much off key wailing over the music.

    And on a side note, I'd be happy to never hear another boot with a cover of Dancin' in the Streets on it.
    "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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  • tara
    tara Posts: 293
    merkinball wrote:
    Count me in as #2. Not a big fan of Donnas work with the dead. Too much off key wailing over the music.


    arg, same, she bothers me so much, what was the band thinking
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  • merkinball
    merkinball Posts: 2,262
    tara wrote:
    arg, same, she bothers me so much, what was the band thinking

    Let me guess.... "Hey, after 3 hits of Owsleys finest, she doesn't sound too bad!"
    "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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  • patrickredeyes
    patrickredeyes Posts: 8,834
    I'm amazed with the no love Donna is getting in this thread. Hearing her and Bob singing ''Going Down The Road Feeling Bad'', I love that song. One of just a few songs IMO Donna made great.
  • davidtrios
    davidtrios Posts: 9,732
    Why did the Deadhead say after he got off drugs?
    Damn, this music sucks.

    ;)
  • weddingparade
    weddingparade Posts: 1,179
    What a long strange trip it's been. Still missing Jerry...
    New shows to be announced soon for their 50th anniversary
    Soldier Field July 3, 4 5. Trey is on board as one of the rotating guitar players
    Rumors are Phish might open the shows...how crazy would that be?
  • weekapaug19
    weekapaug19 Posts: 2,293
    Soldier field with trey and Hornsby announced. I wish I could make that.
  • jjflash
    jjflash Posts: 5,031
    weekapaug19 wrote: »
    Soldier field with trey and Hornsby announced. I wish I could make that.
    +1 =P~ . I missed the boat the first time around w/ Grateful Dead and would love to experience these shows. Ain't gonna happen tho as the 4th is always family time for us.
  • 63schoefflin
    63schoefflin Posts: 2,581
    Would be pretty awesome to see.... Hopefully things line up and I can make the trip. I'd love to be able to see them once.
    '08- Camden 1-2   '09- Chicago 2; Spectrum 1-4
    '10- MSG 1-2   '11- PJ20
    '12- MIA; DeLuna '13- Wrigley; Pitt; Brooklyn 1-2; Philly 1-2; Baltimore; Seattle
    '14- Denver   '16- Philly 1-2; MSG 2
    '17- Pilgrimage Music Fest (Eddie)
    '18- Fenway
  • weddingparade
    weddingparade Posts: 1,179
    for me personally,
    there is no way i can miss this. that is a for sure.
    if i did miss it i would regret it for as long as i live.
    see ya there!!
  • LongRoad1802
    LongRoad1802 Posts: 107
    Europe 72
  • weddingparade
    weddingparade Posts: 1,179
    LongRoad1802 wrote: »
    Europe 72
    spring 1990
    for so many reasons...

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