The Grateful Dead Thread

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  1. gaspasser

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    Calling all SBAF hippies...
    This thread is dedicated to the Grateful Dead!
    Post your favorite Dead shows, albums, song cycles, whatever goes.
     
  2. gaspasser

    gaspasser Flatulence Maestro

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    I got inspired after @jowls posted a status update about the Cornell 5/8/77 show just released on the 40th anniversary. I started listening to it and then @Wilson recommended Morning Dew at the end of the show. Great music and amazingly recorded! Paging @shabta @Merrick
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  3. jowls

    jowls Never shitposts (please) - Friend

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    I can't get enough of Grateful Dead at the moment. They are a relatively new discovery for me. I always knew they were significant but had serious misconceptions as to what they were actually about.

    There is a ridiculous amount of 'free domain' live material out there and it's kind of intimidating to know where to start. GD themselves have some commercially released recordings available on their website http://www.dead.net, some of which have been transferred with the Plangent Process and sound amazing.

    It's definitely a 'rabbit hole' I would recommend diving headlong into, if you haven't already.
     
  4. Thad E Ginathom

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    My over-and-over for the past... Hmmm, don't ask... months! has been a subset of Dick's Picks 5



    Absolutely my favourite version of Friend of the Devil

    \/ :sail:\/
     
  5. gaspasser

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    Spotify and Tidal have a huge number of live shows and every studio album.
    Truly is a wonderful rabbit hole to get lost in!

    I really dig this live show that was the coming out party for Blues for Allah

    Edit: added YT link

     
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  6. Case

    Case Anxious Head (Formerly Wilson)

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    I'll start with this great Dylan cover

     
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    This is what started me on my Dead journey about 5 years ago. It's been a truly wonderful journey.

     
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    For those who are dipping their toes into the Dead's ouvre and like what they hear I would strongly recommend picking up a copy of the Complete Annotated Grateful dead Lyrics.
     
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    Case Anxious Head (Formerly Wilson)

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    All the years combine
    They melt into a dream
    A broken angel sings
    From a guitar
    In the end there's just a song
    Comes crying like the night (wind)
    Through all the broken dreams
    And vanished years

    Stella Blue
    When all the cards are down
    There's nothing left to see
    There's just the pavement left
    And broken dreams
    In the end there's still that song
    Comes crying like the wind
    Down every lonely street
    That's ever been

    Stella Blue
    I've stayed in every blue-light cheap hotel
    Can't win for trying
    Dust off those rusty strings just
    One more time
    Gonna make em shine

    It all rolls into one
    And nothing comes for free
    There's nothing you can hold
    For very long
    And when you hear that song
    Come crying like the wind
    It seems like all this life
    Was just a dream
    Stella Blue

     
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    gaspasser Flatulence Maestro

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    In terms of reading about the Dead, I am almost done with This Is All A Dream We Dreamed: An Oral History of The Grateful Dead

    I listen to the audio version during my commute to work, it is excellent and always leaves me wanting to listen to music from the period being covered in the book.


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  11. Thad E Ginathom

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    I wonder what got me started, c.1972. I suspect that it was Anthem of the Sun.



    I do remember that Aoxa Moxoa soon became my firm favourite. It was not actually in the house's combined record collection, and I relied on a regular visitor bringing it round (remember the days we used to go visiting with an LP or two tucked under our arm? And one had to wait to hear a favourite song?) Eventually, my best mate* and I shared the cost and bought it. Mountains of the Moon was my bedtime song for a long time.



    Online: Annotated Lyrics. Curiosity value, a lot of wild guesses, all mixed with some interesting facts. Yes, I've spent a few hours on that site... but don't sweat it about the lyrics: there is some beautiful poetry, and some stuff that is just crazy nonsense (Intransitive nightfall of diamonds is one of my favourite Dead nonsenses). It does not have to make sense.

    There's a song on Anthem of the Sun that one can only make out when tripping. Or, ahem, so a friend told me. I have no idea what I (ahem, he) thought the words are, but I don't think they seemed anything like the actual lyrics, now so easily available on the net.

    These were early in-the-studio albums, and the studio guys got really pissed off with them for spending drug-crazed hours finding out what every knob and effect did, and using it if they could. In later days, the Dead were not so proud of their results. Jerry commented, somewhat apologetically, "We mixed them for the trips." Yes, Jerry, and you did a damned good job.thank you very much. No apologies needed!
    :pirate07:
    But the extraordinary musical beauty of American Beauty and Working Man's Dead were quite a departure from the psychadelic hotchpotch of the two albums above





    Wonderful stuff, up to and including Mars Hotel. After that, their studio albums turned weird and not to my taste.


    *Still is my best mate, too, of nearly fifty years! :)
     
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    From perhaps the best dead tour of all time: Europe '72

     
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  13. GoodEnoughGear

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    I feel fortunate to have actually seen them live, albeit in the last decade when Jerry was struggling.

    "Such a long, long time to be gone, and short time to be there". - Box of Rain.
     
  14. Skyline

    Skyline Double-blindly done with this hobby

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    @Gaspasser, c'mon man! This looks way too much like The Deals Thread and I keep clicking on it by mistake.

    Get a haircut, you hippies!!! *shakes fist*

    :p
     
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    Old man down, way down down, down by the docks of the city.
    Blind and dirty, asked me for a dime, a dime for a cup of coffee.
    I got no dime but I got some time to hear his story.
    My name is August West, and I love my Pearly Baker best more than my wine.
    More than my wine - more than my maker, though he's no friend of mine.

    Everyone said, I'd come to no good, I knew I would Pearly, believe them.
    Half of my life, I spent doin' time for some other Porker's crime,
    The other half found me stumbling 'round drunk on Burgundy wine.

    But I'll get back on my feet again someday,
    The good Lord willin', if He says I may.
    I know that the life i'm livin's no good,
    I'll get a new start, live the life I should.
    I'll get up and fly away, I'll get up and fly away, fly away.

    Pearly's been true, true to me, true to my dyin' day he said,
    I said to him, I said to him, "I'm sure she's been."
    I said to him, "I'm sure she's been tru to you."

    Got up and wandered, wandered downtown, nowhere to go but just hang around.
    I've got a girl, named Bonnie Lee, I know that girl's been true to me.
    I know she's been, I'm sure she's been true to me.

     
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    gaspasser Flatulence Maestro

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    I changed the title to help you out. You should hang out and enjoy the tunes.
     
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    Skyline Double-blindly done with this hobby

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    I've never been able to get into them, sadly. Though I did see Bob Weir do a decent solo show a few summers back. :pirate07:

    That's about all I've got to contribute here, I'm afraid.
     
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    Well, some people don't, although they do (even in just the four albums I mention above) cover quite a range from weirdo psychedelic noise to acoustic country ballads. Ought to be something in there for everyone.

    But... no obligation. Each to his own :D
     
  19. Skyline

    Skyline Double-blindly done with this hobby

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    Oh, sure. For a band like this, I think finding the right entry point is key and it can grow from there. I haven't, admittedly, invested the time to figure out where that might be for me.

    I do the hippie thing fine with my Hendrix, Joplin, Dylan obsessions (plus many more). I can dig a blacklight poster, lava lamp, and incense burner with the best of them.

    The Dead just haven't quite managed to wriggle their way in.
     
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    Kattefjaes Mostly Harmless

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    I need to remember that I can just listen to stuff on Tidal more often than I do- the sub is paid so I can peek down rabbit holes, after all!
     

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