This album man. This is my favorite Dead album, one of my favorite albums ever. They're just sublime here. If you haven't heard the gloriousness that is Dark Star into That's It For The Other One into Turn On Your Love Light on this album, then you haven't truly heard the Dead. This is the most essential Dead recording to listen to in my mind.
This came out last year and I absolutely loved it, it's become one of my favorite live Dead albums. If you catch a live dead album between like '70 and '78 that's really when they were at their best.
I think of all the live Dead albums, this is probably the best intro into the Dead. It's not as long as some of the other albums and it's still an excellent album. I've got it on vinyl and it's one of my favorites. _________________ Progressive Rock
This album man. This is my favorite Dead album, one of my favorite albums ever. They're just sublime here. If you haven't heard the gloriousness that is Dark Star into That's It For The Other One into Turn On Your Love Light on this album, then you haven't truly heard the Dead. This is the most essential Dead recording to listen to in my mind.
Yeah. that seems to be the general consensus among my friends who are into The Dead. About time I really checked it out especially since I love so many of the Dead's other live albums such as Live/Dead and of course One From the Vault among others. 😁
FischmanRockMonster, JazzMeister, Bluesboy,ClassicalMasterProfile Land of Enchantment
I started getting into the Grateful Dead last year. I listened on Youtube. I mean I thought Jerry Garcia must be pretty special to have an ice cream flavour named after him (Ben n Jerry's Cherry Garcia, one of their best flavours!)
So I checked out songs and albums. I bought these ones:
American Beauty
Workingman's Dead
Live/Dead
Anthem of the Sun
Aoxomoxoa
And some compilation (probably dodgy) that I've never seen anywhere else. Its short.
I thought they were excellent. I still do.
Then I looked into their catalogue and saw just how many albums are available. Sheez!
But I haven't dived in till now.
Usually I just play a shuffle of their songs on Amazon Music.
But I put on the Sunshine Daydream/Oregon 72 album on. The number one pick on Glynspa's top 100.
Its totally ace, even the mega-long jam numbers. Must have been great to see them in concert.
So I should start working my way through Glynspa's list.
Looks like I'm in for a lot of fun.
RoundTheBendI miss the comfort in being sadProfile Ground Control
No, I like Phish, and they put on a great show, but I'm pretty far away from the type of people that would label themselves as "Phish Heads". In a lot of ways, I like them more than the Dead.
One thing that The Dead should be lauded for is the improvisational nature of their music, and how much they took from jazz. They truly are some of the greatest musicians ever.
I think they are probably underrated in a lot of respects by music critics, but massively overrated by their cult-like fans. However, a website like this, which is album based, is not really applicable to The Dead or Phish, because the studio cuts of songs are only a quarter of what that song probably is live. I think that The Dead were a better studio band than most jam bands are, because they had some legitimate hits. Acually, so are Phish, which is probably one of the reasons they're so popular to. They can write an actual 4 to 5 minute song, and have it sound somewhat decent. I think a lot of jam bands lack that quality.
Great insight.
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oh wow - actually everyone had some great insight.
Thanks All!
And really cool digs into their discovery and the such. I'll have to check the lists given, etc.
It sounds like many of you do agree they are indeed a staple in music, so I am kind of shocked at how low they rate/rank. I mean I suppose like Bobby said just because something is great doesn't mean everyone loves it... idk just find that curious.
I think I'm less of an Americana fan (kinda) and more of a Phish fan... I heard they also moved in this direction and I heard it in some of the videos posted. Any specific albums I should check? I mean I really do dig that live Europe '72 disk and the American Beauty album, but I also don't like it as much as I like Phish's Farmhouse (on my top 100). I might be more in Bobby's camp where I appreciate the jazz qualities of their jam band - and their lyrics and quality overall is undoubtedly top notch, but somehow I get bored - like Terrapin Station... idk... I wanted to like that album but I just didn't (I only listened to it 5 times).
RoundTheBendI miss the comfort in being sadProfile Ground Control
Just watched the first episode of Long Strange Trip. So far I'm intrigued and learned a bunch.
In that first episode they talk about there beginnings as "The Warlocks" (or maybe they were the Dead by this point) and how Ken Kesey would invite them to play music at the crazy Acid Test Parties in the bay area, right?
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In that first episode they talk about there beginnings as "The Warlocks" (or maybe they were the Dead by this point) and how Ken Kesey would invite them to play music at the crazy Acid Test Parties in the bay area, right?
Yup and interestingly enough how the velvet underground had the same band name (The Warlocks).
Serendipitous naming from a dictionary came to Grateful Dead. There's this statement that Jerry had to experience his father's early death to truly live - and tied that together with LSD killing off the ego and killing off his need to be a perfectionist in being a blue grass banjo player... kind of all married together to create art that was living (their performances - instruments talking back and forth with each other... etc.)
Definition:
Grateful dead, in folktales of many cultures, the spirit of a deceased person who bestows benefits on the one responsible for his burial. In the prototypical story, the protagonist is a traveler who encounters the corpse of a debtor, to whom the honour of proper burial has been denied. After the traveler satisfies the debt, or, in some versions, pays for the burial, he goes on his way. In another version of the story, burial is prescribed for religious reasons but prohibited by civil authorities. It is this version that forms the theme of the apocryphal Book of Tobit in the Old Testament.
The hero is soon joined by another traveler (sometimes in the form of an animal, or, in the story of Tobit, an angel), who helps him in a dramatic way. In some stories the companion saves the hero’s life; in others he helps him gain a prize. In many versions, the companion offers to aid the hero, but only on condition that they divide the prize. Then, as the hero is about to comply, the companion reveals himself as the grateful spirit of the deceased whom the hero helped to bury.
Back in the 90's, a good friend of mine was obsessed by the Grateful Dead. I think he liked the association of virtuosity and coolness. Me and other "pop kids" were complaining a bit to him about the jam/jazz aspect. But eventually, we would all listen to American Beauty, and especially the song Box of Rain, which we listened continuously for a month or so.
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