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Back Beach
12-20-2012, 06:17 PM
Love em, hate em, like em, or leave em...post your GD related thoughts, pics, vids etc. right here.


Grateful Dead - Ripple - YouTube (http://youtu.be/lVdTQ3OPtGY)

Jackbass
12-20-2012, 07:13 PM
Always been a sucker melodramatic Jerry tunes
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ProfessorM
12-20-2012, 08:06 PM
like em, not luv em Seen them a few times but no dead head My favorite album and tune on that album

Unbroken Chain - Grateful Dead - YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cTwXBEa_Tuc)

Bronko
12-20-2012, 08:59 PM
Been in and out of them for years.
Help on the Way ~ Franklin's Tower (2 cam) Grateful Dead - 3-24-90 Knick Arena, Albany, NY (set1-02) - YouTube (http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=p9i4TFzshqY)
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Jackbass
12-21-2012, 03:18 AM
like em, not luv em Seen them a few times but no dead head My favorite album and tune on that album

Unbroken Chain - Grateful Dead - YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cTwXBEa_Tuc)

Great song I was at the spectrum in 95 when they first played this live. You could not hear the first verse and a half. Unreal
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Jackbass
12-21-2012, 03:19 PM
Saw this on FB

Jerry's thoughts on December 21st, 2012 as told to Rolling Stone in 1993:

"The date that holds significance for me is 2012. That's [writer and self-described expert in 'the ethnopharmacology of spiritual transformation'] Terence McKenna's alpha moment, which is where the universe undergoes its most extraordinary transformations.

He talks about these cycles, exponential cycles in which, in each epic, more happens than in all previous time. Like he talks about novelty, the insertion of novelty into the time track. His first example of novelty is, say, the appearance of life. So the universe goes along, brrrrmmmmm, then all of a sudden, life appears: bing! So that's something new.

Then the next novelty is, like, vertebrates. Then the next novelty might be language -- that sort of thing. They're transformations of a huge kind, gains in consciousness. So he's got us, like, in the last forty-year cycle now -- it's running down, we're definitely tightening up -- and during this period, more will happen than has happened in all previous time. This is going to peak in 2012. He's got a specific date for it, too -- maybe December some time, I don't remember. But that moment, at the last 135th of a second or something like that, something like forty of these transformations will happen."

afterhours
12-21-2012, 04:59 PM
i love the dead :). not so much the space/trippin' stuff. grew up listening to them and saw them and jgb around 15+ times. great lyrics. jerry was a trubodor- lead, banjo, mandolin, and pedal steel. bobby is a good rythym player and phil rules the 4 string!

tautog
12-23-2012, 11:51 AM
I can always find time out for a few tunes
Grateful Dead - Run Rudolph Run 12/7/71 - YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cn9v4KS7FMA)
Grateful Dead - Brokedown Palace - YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UyEvsH4_ySU)
Grateful Dead - Wharf Rat - YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=20dic8S3cWI)

Merry Xmas to All

Slingah
12-30-2012, 09:46 AM
not Dead but Dead related....
I saw The New Riders of the Purple Sage last night at the Narrows. I have always wanted to see them but just never have. I would say if anyone is a fan of the Dead they would surely enjoy these guys. 40 years later this offshoot of the Dead are still going strong, they played for over 3 hours. The Mrs was itching to leave after a couple but with the snow blowing outside I was plenty content listening to the fellas play all night long, which they did, and also I might ad very well to boot. Great show in the best venue around.

Slipknot
12-30-2012, 10:30 AM
That's cool Slingah, I had no idea they were still around

JohnnySaxatilis
12-30-2012, 10:43 AM
nice!

My buddy Henry White who lives on the cape here is a huge dead head. Also an amazing fisherman I've leared a lot from him. All he does is listens to the dead, he has thousands of shows downloaded and burned on cd's most of them soundboard quality that are very good. He went on a tear for like a year where everytime we went fishing he'd give me a couple choice shows. Needless to say I've been jammin ever since, still don't think I've listened to all of them! Every show is different

PRBuzz
12-30-2012, 11:19 AM
Sirius 23 nutin' but DEAD!

ProfessorM
12-30-2012, 11:23 AM
I knew you would like that place. Was that your first time there Matt? Got to like a place that is BYOB and food too. I hope to see a couple of shows there this winter.

Jackbass
12-30-2012, 11:28 AM
NRPS is a good time seen em a few times my self
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Jackbass
12-30-2012, 11:30 AM
nice!

My buddy Henry White who lives on the cape here is a huge dead head. Also an amazing fisherman I've leared a lot from him. All he does is listens to the dead, he has thousands of shows downloaded and burned on cd's most of them soundboard quality that are very good. He went on a tear for like a year where everytime we went fishing he'd give me a couple choice shows. Needless to say I've been jammin ever since, still don't think I've listened to all of them! Every show is different

He comes from a place where the kids they dance and shake their bones. I knew Gipps a little better but Henry was part of that crew
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JohnnySaxatilis
12-30-2012, 11:54 AM
He comes from a place where the kids they dance and shake their bones. I knew Gipps a little better but Henry was part of that crew
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Ya gipps told me he was the one who got henry into the dead! Both good dudes. I can never seem to drag them from that part of the cape though, the farthest west they travel is to B harbor lol!

Slingah
12-30-2012, 12:17 PM
I knew you would like that place. Was that your first time there Matt? Got to like a place that is BYOB and food too. I hope to see a couple of shows there this winter.

2nd time Paul...I went to the Narrows Festival there this past Summer.
Great sound, seating etc....I'm thinking of seeing Tab Benoit but have to play things by ear due to starting a new job next week and partial weekends will be involved. Lets keep on it and try to get together for a show.

afterhours
12-30-2012, 01:14 PM
nrps great band! one of my favs, saw them a few times back in the day :). loved it when jerry played pedal steel with them on the nrps album.
matt- did they play lonesome la cowboy? like slip i did'nt know they were still around. now i'm on a mission...

ProfessorM
12-30-2012, 01:36 PM
you guys should have seen this post from a while back. Lots of great shows there

http://www.striped-bass.com/Stripertalk/muzik/80054-narrows.html


Yeah Mat Tab is one I'd like to catch. Keep in touch

chrisjoe13
12-31-2012, 08:19 AM
Here's one for today. I remember listening to the live simulcast of this on WBCN..... 21 years ago! :eek:

Not Fade Away - Grateful Dead - 12-31-1991 Oakland Coliseum, Ca. set2-01 - YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S8hqgG0gqCA)

paradoxjim
12-31-2012, 11:43 AM
Sirius 23 nutin' but DEAD!

My radio is locked and loaded on the Grateful Dead channel. I pity my 13 y/o son getting the Dead drilled into him every time he's in my car!

Jackbass
12-31-2012, 04:00 PM
Grateful Dead & Etta James - Hard To Handle 12-31-1982 - YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1DChW7LtosY)

30 Years ago tonight. The Dead with T>O>P horns and Etta James on Vocals

Awesome

Pete_G
12-31-2012, 06:12 PM
Remember "So Far" ? Pretty hot little series of spliced together footage mostly from '85. No real weak spots other then the 80's video editing and effects. Love the on stage but not w/ audience parts. Super clean sound even processed to all hell on YouTube. The LaserDisc my parents had of this in the late 80's was awesome...

UJ>Playin>Lady>Space/Drums>Throwing>NFA

Grateful Dead - Uncle John's Band 1987 - YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dP657ivCzOM)

Grateful Dead - Playing In The Band 1987 - YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5fjZS6GqbwA)

grateful dead - lady with a fan - YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dlrvMfWSWzo)

Grateful Dead - Throwing Stones 1987 - YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WninWFtO0Gg)

Grateful Dead - Not Fade Away 1987 - YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NQ48foxPzVE)

sburnsey931
12-31-2012, 06:47 PM
I saw my first show in spring 1979 at the Billerica Forum it was there warm up for the Umass Amherst show the next day. My last show was Highgate Vermont ...I seen 5 nites in a row at Boston Garden twice.
It's been 15 years now and I still dance by myself....
Can anyone tell me what the yellow balloon at a show stands for?
My name is steve and I'm a wharf rat from gloucester...
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Jackbass
12-31-2012, 07:47 PM
I was at that show also at Highgate and many others. I only had Billerica on XLII
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ProfessorM
01-05-2013, 05:22 PM
Possible for anyone to shoot me a cd copy of Mars Hotel. I only got it on vinyl and have not listened to it in years and after this thread I want it.

chrisjoe13
01-06-2013, 08:23 AM
Possible for anyone to shoot me a cd copy of Mars Hotel. I only got it on vinyl and have not listened to it in years and after this thread I want it.

I'll send it, just need an address.

Jackbass
01-06-2013, 09:28 AM
I have it on cassette and Electronic no disc
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Nebe
01-06-2013, 09:46 AM
The Dead at foxboro in '90 was my first concert ever. Talk about a mind blower!!
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ProfessorM
01-06-2013, 01:37 PM
I'll send it, just need an address.

thanks, PM sent

Back Beach
01-06-2013, 01:44 PM
The Dead at foxboro in '90 was my first concert ever. Talk about a mind blower!!
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People passing out everywhere from the heat and stadium staff hosing down all the trippy hippies was classic.
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chrisjoe13
01-07-2013, 09:03 AM
The Dead at foxboro in '90 was my first concert ever. Talk about a mind blower!!
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Grateful Dead Live at Foxboro Stadium on 1990-07-14 : Free Download & Streaming : Internet Archive (http://archive.org/details/gd1990-07-14.AKG451.Currier.Keo.121511.Flac1644)

wader-dad
01-07-2013, 10:27 AM
Archive.org is the place to go to relive the concerts you went to and to get thousands of hours of concerts. The concerts off the Dead's Sound Board sound much better than some that Archive.org has off of cassette tapes.

I went to a dead concert in Buffalo in 1973 and recently listened to it and did not remember a whole lot- but was very cool to be listening to the concert I was at almost 40 years later walking in the woods through the snow.

I listen to Bertha when I am driving to fish and it gets me going - or Might As Well.

The Riders can't be the same without lead singer John Dawson who died a few years ago. He had been sick for a long time.

My kids think it is somewhat cool that I am a Dead fan. But they also believe that I must have been high at all the Dead Concerts- but I totally and vehemently deny any such thing.

RIJIMMY
01-07-2013, 01:09 PM
Grateful Dead & Etta James - Hard To Handle 12-31-1982 - YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1DChW7LtosY)

30 Years ago tonight. The Dead with T>O>P horns and Etta James on Vocals

Awesome

Jeez, I have seen Etta 5 times in concert and she has always been amazing, leave it to the dead to lower her performance to their mediocre level. God they're awful. Think Im BSing?
Check out Etta with a real band backing her up. This is a rhythm section.....

Etta James - Something's Got A Hold On Me - YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DFmHOCUKTfM)

zacs
01-07-2013, 01:12 PM
Great song I was at the spectrum in 95 when they first played this live. You could not hear the first verse and a half. Unreal
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i was there too!!!

chrisjoe13
01-08-2013, 09:01 AM
[QUOTE=RIJIMMY;978434]Jeez, I have seen Etta 5 times in concert and she has always been amazing, leave it to the dead to lower her performance to their mediocre level. God they're awful. Think Im BSing?
Check out Etta with a real band backing her up. This is a rhythm section.....

What you can't hear in that clip is Etta's high praise of the Dead. I trust her opinion more then yours. Constant complaining works better in the political forum, please leave it there.

(Imagine what this forum would be like if everyone complained about what they don't like?)

RIJIMMY
01-08-2013, 09:20 AM
waa waa, the original thread said love em or hate em lets hear it. Sorry, but I've spent a life time playing music, many different types. I have a pretty good ear, good music skills and an incredibly eclectic music collection. Believe it or not people payed good money to hear me and for me to teach them to play. Oops, do I sound pretentious? I guess I wouldnt to a dead fan, is there anything more pretentious than the dead? 20 minute meandering, say nothing solos. Garcia said he gives off art like people sweat! WTF, are you kidding me? the dead are a mediocre bar band, nothing more. lets see, the biggest hippie fest of all time? Woodstock. Biggest hippie band of all time? The greatful Dead. Which band bombed woodstock so bad they didnt even make the film? Enough said.
the etta james example is funny, while I was living in the bay area, Johnny Otis (you know who he is, right?) used to host a radio show live at a bar/restaurant. he often went off on tangents on music and politics. he was a great grouchy old man, I loved him. He went off on a 20 minute tirade on how awful the greatful dead are, how lousy garcia was as a guitarist, etc. Why do I bring this up? Johnny Otis is the guy who discovered Etta James. He is one of the leading pioneers of RnB. True story.
You like jam bands, give me the allmans, santana, Trucks band, MMW, etc. Music with soul and talent.
These chumps are hacks, Id be embarrased to play like this!

Grateful Dead - Good Lovin (edit) - YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1uifZmW_jkQ)

afterhours
01-08-2013, 06:41 PM
embarrased to play like JG? you must be great!...and a multi bazillionare to boot with your fanbase- "Believe it or not people payed good money to hear me and for me to teach them to play."

Back Beach
01-09-2013, 04:40 AM
Jimmy's right in stating they played poorly, but not all the time. I got into them real heavy when I was younger but began to lose interest towards the end as a higher number of shows I attended lacked the punch of their early stuff.

Its easy to find fault with some of their material although I feel the majority of their music, particularly pre 1990's stuff, is kick ass.

I've seen furthur a bunch of times in recent years and musically I feel they're as good or better than the dead during their peak years.
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Nebe
01-09-2013, 08:10 AM
Grateful Dead Live at Foxboro Stadium on 1990-07-14 : Free Download & Streaming : Internet Archive (http://archive.org/details/gd1990-07-14.AKG451.Currier.Keo.121511.Flac1644)

OHHH COOL!!!
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RIJIMMY
01-09-2013, 09:53 AM
embarrased to play like JG? you must be great!...and a multi bazillionare to boot with your fanbase- "Believe it or not people payed good money to hear me and for me to teach them to play."

Ahh, if only talent = money in the music industry!
I believe there are countless guitarist that play very differently than JG. So you think they're no good? I would never want to sound like him, ever. Garcia states his influences as early blues, jazz, country, etc. I have many of the same influences and yet I hear very little of the feeling, swing and harmonic complexities in his playing. His playing is dull IMHO. Music is an art, there is no better or best. But if you ask me if I think I am a more creative and technical guitar player than Jerry Garcia, yes, I do. But see, i dont think thats a big deal. I can post COUNTLESS youtube people who are much better. Here is one of my favs from the netherlands, this guy and I trade emails all the time. He is a relative nobody, but yes, he is a much more accomplished guitar player than JG. Big deal. That an $1.75 will buy you a coffee at Dunkin Donuts.


Donna Lee - YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eRSfMuERDnk)

Jackbass
01-09-2013, 10:23 AM
Slapping together an impromptu band for a SF New Years show is a little tough to gauge talent level and certainly not the norm. But opinions are what they are. All I can say is I have seen every type of musical performance the world has to offer. Nothing compares to being at a dead show when they were on top of it absolutely amazing and unless you went and experienced them live you really can't speak to the level of talent they had. To play over 100 shows a year and not repeat a set list is pretty incredible.

Garcia in particular was a member of many bands and played with many musicians in studio sessions etc.

It is its own genre and you are either going to be into it or hate it.

Much like new country music which makes me barf on my shoes.
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RIJIMMY
01-09-2013, 10:46 AM
It is its own genre and you are either going to be into it or hate it.

Much like new country music which makes me barf on my shoes.
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I sort of agree, its a genre, but not its own. My opinion, other bands of the same genre are much better. My nickname in college was "jerry" because I was the psychadelic burn out guitar player. All my friends were dead heads and I heard there live stuff over and over. I can tell you it doesnt resonate with me at all. I can sing along to tr#^&#^&#^&#^&#^&, bertha, ripple, etc and they are ok tunes. but nothing compared to tunes by Creedance for example. Then I'll hear "yeah but you never heard Terrapin Station" yawn, yes I have boring emotionless wank. Obvioulsy my opinion, but they are a mediocre bar band, jacks of all trades but masters of none, they are propelled by pompous hippies who believe their music is some new age phenonomon. People love to "belong" so they wear tie dies, have dancing bears on their cars, etc. You can walk into bars tonight all over this country and there will be better bands playing.
I love to piss off dead heads, been doing it most of my life. I always listen to the tunes you guys post and see if they finally sound ok to me, nah. Still empty wank.

Jackbass
01-09-2013, 11:04 AM
Doesn't piss me off in the least just one mans opinion
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Back Beach
01-09-2013, 01:16 PM
RI Jerry? :smokin:

Bill Graham once said the Dead weren't really music as much as they were an environment.
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Slipknot
01-09-2013, 01:26 PM
I love dancing bears

Slingah
01-09-2013, 09:32 PM
I sort of agree, its a genre, but not its own. My opinion, other bands of the same genre are much better. My nickname in college was "jerry" because I was the psychadelic burn out guitar player. All my friends were dead heads and I heard there live stuff over and over. I can tell you it doesnt resonate with me at all. I can sing along to tr#^&#^&#^&#^&#^&, bertha, ripple, etc and they are ok tunes. but nothing compared to tunes by Creedance for example. Then I'll hear "yeah but you never heard Terrapin Station" yawn, yes I have boring emotionless wank. Obvioulsy my opinion, but they are a mediocre bar band, jacks of all trades but masters of none, they are propelled by pompous hippies who believe their music is some new age phenonomon. People love to "belong" so they wear tie dies, have dancing bears on their cars, etc. You can walk into bars tonight all over this country and there will be better bands playing.
I love to piss off dead heads, been doing it most of my life. I always listen to the tunes you guys post and see if they finally sound ok to me, nah. Still empty wank.

great post....I love the honesty!
I use to hate the Dead, ...never got the long jams/solos. I do like some of the more structured songs now and the acoustic/country stuff...they do have some great songs

Back Beach
01-10-2013, 11:39 AM
Bob and Jerry sum things up pretty well here:


Bob Weir on the Grateful Dead and Jerry Garcia - New Online Course Rock History - YouTube (http://youtu.be/nxITefdiUn0)



Jerry Garcia Interview part 2 - YouTube (http://youtu.be/5af3P8gOOQo)

RIJIMMY
01-10-2013, 03:03 PM
i have to admit, I LOVE dirty hippie chicks, hairy armits, patchouly, bong breath and all. Living in San Francisco, my best friends lived in a commune type house a few blocks from haight. We used to party there all the time and man the stories I could tell. I guess weekends were like mini-dead shows without all the bad music. those were some good times.

Back Beach
01-10-2013, 04:52 PM
i have to admit, I LOVE dirty hippie chicks, hairy armits, patchouly, bong breath and all. Living in San Francisco, my best friends lived in a commune type house a few blocks from haight. We used to party there all the time and man the stories I could tell. I guess weekends were like mini-dead shows without all the bad music. those were some good times.

Closet deadhead if I've ever seen one. Admit it already.
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wader-dad
01-10-2013, 05:45 PM
Jimmy you say:

"Which band bombed Woodstock so bad they didnt even make the film? Enough said"

Jimmy not enough said on Woodstock as it is well known that when the Dead played Woodstock, their guitars were sending electric shocks into Weir and Garcia so bad they could hardly touch their instruments, their sound system went out for long periods and yes because of equipment issues their performance was a disaster.

Look obviously the Dead could not sing too well and technically I suppose Garcia was not a gymnast with a guitar like your Dutch friend above, but did Dylan play great guitar? did he have a good voice?

To me the golden years were from 1970 to 78 before they took their break and before Garcia's diabetic coma. In those years -There was a feeling you get from the music- The building riffs in Morning Dew, the uplifting feeling in Wharf Rat where you felt like you could get up and fly away.

Much of the Dead music is recorded at live concerts through little cassette decks and that makes the music and vocals sound lousy. Hardly any real studio albums. You listen toEurope 72 when there was some fixing up of the vocals and music and it was very good- comparable to CCR in my opinion.

But the most important thing I can say is that if I listen to the Dead on the way to a spot- I catch more fish and when I do catch a big fish if I sing Browned Eyed Women to myself the fish does not get off. "Drink down a bottle and your ready to Kill"

RIJIMMY
01-11-2013, 10:12 AM
Jimmy not enough said on Woodstock as it is well known that when the Dead played Woodstock, their guitars were sending electric shocks into Weir and Garcia so bad they could hardly touch their instruments, their sound system went out for long periods and yes because of equipment issues their performance was a disaster.

Just so I get this straight - when weir plugged into his amp and totally sperately when garcia plugged into his amp, they were both shocked? two entirely separate amps? So there were plugged into the same outlets? Huh? Maybe they are so cosmically connected they shared the electric vibe...man?
And they had issues with their sound system? Funny I thought the sound system was provided by the venue. They had their own? Weird. I guess the dead were uh, special, not like santana, sly and the family stone, hendrix, country joe........

zacs
01-11-2013, 10:33 AM
Do you like Phish, RIJ?

RIJIMMY
01-11-2013, 10:47 AM
Do you like Phish, RIJ?

I do, I dont own albums but I enjoy their music. Trey is a cool guitar player. Their songs are very imaginitive and bizarre. I get they're "dead-ish" but I dont think they sound the same at all.

wader-dad
01-11-2013, 11:58 AM
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"Just so I get this straight - when weir plugged into his amp and totally sperately when garcia plugged into his amp, they were both shocked?"

Look the Dead were wasted and bad at Woodstock but the shocks are a fact and part of Woodstock lore.


David N. Bromberg Interview with Jerry Garcia, 1/71
David: Why weren't the Grateful Dead in the Woodstock movie?

Jerry: Well, we played such a bad set at Woodstock. The weekend
was great, but our set was terrible. We were all pretty smashed,
and it was at night. Like we knew there were a half million people
out there, but we couldn't see one of them. There were about a
hundred people on stage with us, and everyone was scared that it
was gonna collapse. On top of that, it was raining or wet, so that
every time we touched our guitars, we'd get these electrical
shocks. Blue sparks were flying out of our guitars.

Three Days That Rocked the World (Sterling, 2009) also tells the tale of what went on from August 15-18th, 1969. Some of it is summarized as "three days of mud and electric shocks." Mickey is quoted as saying "It was the worst we ever played" and Bobby just remembers the "great blue spark about the size of a baseball" that lifted him off his feet.

The Grateful Dead came late on stage because Owsley Stanley (a.k.a. "Bear" - their soundman and electrical engineer) wanted to fix the electrical ground on stage. Also their heavy equipment had squashed the turnable stage. Further, the rain had flooded the stage and the band was in danger of electric shocks[1]. Songs got delayed because of long breaks between them.

Jackbass
01-11-2013, 12:32 PM
Jimmy not enough said on Woodstock as it is well known that when the Dead played Woodstock, their guitars were sending electric shocks into Weir and Garcia so bad they could hardly touch their instruments, their sound system went out for long periods and yes because of equipment issues their performance was a disaster.

Just so I get this straight - when weir plugged into his amp and totally sperately when garcia plugged into his amp, they were both shocked? two entirely separate amps? So there were plugged into the same outlets? Huh? Maybe they are so cosmically connected they shared the electric vibe...man?
And they had issues with their sound system? Funny I thought the sound system was provided by the venue. They had their own? Weird. I guess the dead were uh, special, not like santana, sly and the family stone, hendrix, country joe........

As a matter of fact if the electrical system was improperly grounded any electrical device on stage would send a shock to any individual touching anything metal particularly during a heavy rain due to a person covered in water standing in water would be a better path to ground than what was obviously available the GFCI outlet had not been invented at that point. It is fairly well documented that they had a difficult time keeping the stage upright during their set.
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Back Beach
01-11-2013, 02:56 PM
I do, I dont own albums but I enjoy their music. Trey is a cool guitar player. Their songs are very imaginitive and bizarre. I get they're "dead-ish" but I dont think they sound the same at all.

I started off my jam band run with the dead during the early 80's until about 1991, which is when I felt the GD really started to deteriorate.Jerry's health was not good and the playing suffered at times.

I listen almost exclusively to moe. and Phish now. Both bands play really well all the time it seems and I haven't caught either band on a bad night yet. Moe. is a bit more rocking and in your face than GD or Phish, but play insanely good live.

Still a deadhead at heart though...that's where it all began for me. Great Jerry tribute song by RA:

http://youtu.be/LwlW3XSgtzM

chrisjoe13
01-12-2013, 08:46 AM
Grateful Dead - Morning Dew - 05/08/77 Barton Hall - YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vsKOXDUh2Y0)

RIJIMMY
01-14-2013, 03:57 PM
I actually like this! assuming its garcia and not some guest, thats the most energy I have heard him play with. Not his usual meandering. the song has some build up whihch they usually lack. It would have been better if it was 5-6mins long. Not sure if you're familiar with the tune, but here is Jeff Becks version from 8 yrs earlier. Very creative song with some amazing playing. Probably my favorite song of his first album. Got to love the wah.

Jeff Beck - Morning Dew - YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_AsHvTZASFk)

RIJIMMY
01-14-2013, 04:03 PM
this is actually decent too, look slike it predates becks

(Walk Me Out in the) Morning Dew - Grateful Dead - YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LN0-gUohb9I)

Back Beach
01-14-2013, 04:41 PM
^ Jim and any others here who like/love/hate the Dead...do yourself a favor and see Furthur next time they're in your area if you like the above or any GD music...then get back to me. :uhuh:

I'm actually surprised at how many dead heads are missing out on Furthur...too many folks give the "It's not Jerry" excuse and cheat themselves out of perhaps the best played live GD music since the late 1970's. The setlists contain just about the entire history of GD on any given night and played at real high intensity and precision. Goooood stuff.

Back Beach
01-15-2013, 05:23 PM
Good cover by RATC:

Catherine Popper on bass: :love:

He's Gone (Live) - Ryan Adams & The Cardinals - YouTube (http://youtu.be/h59IUsWhL_o)

chrisjoe13
01-16-2013, 08:02 AM
Morning Dew: written by Canadian folk singer Bonnie Dobson in 1961.
She said it was an imagined conversation between the last two people following a nuclear war..

The version I posted is from what was probably the most widely collected bootleg.

chrisjoe13
01-19-2013, 09:54 AM
Pig!!

Grateful Dead, Pigpen, Easy Wind 7-1-70 Winnipeg Canada - YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oa9kWiiuV_s&list=PL_-_hax5QjIuv_uO6wvg3lTUXoutC9m_p&index=12)

Jackbass
06-19-2013, 06:17 AM
My Century 1267 ferrule wrap

http://i1063.photobucket.com/albums/t506/markpirani/null_zps8f2688ab.jpg
Posted from my iPhone/Mobile device

Tagger
06-19-2013, 04:10 PM
Standard must have dead .. Wave that flag...wave it wide & high :) - YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OcADUW78x8k)

Sugar Magnolia 2/9/73 Grateful Dead -- BEST VERSION - YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AWuQiGaIsso)

Grateful Dead - Tr#^&#^&#^&#^&#^&' 1980 [HD] - YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WcaDj5oyLa0)

Grateful Dead - Casey Jones Warfield Theater, SF 10-13-1980 - YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=96GzQYA5BYo)

Grateful Dead - Touch of Grey - YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wOaXTg3nAuY)

JohnnySaxatilis
06-19-2013, 07:08 PM
My Century 1267 ferrule wrap

http://i1063.photobucket.com/albums/t506/markpirani/null_zps8f2688ab.jpg
Posted from my iPhone/Mobile device

Sick. Looks better in person

paradoxjim
06-20-2013, 02:13 PM
Anyone else going to the movie on August 1st?

Slipknot
06-20-2013, 03:35 PM
what movie?

Slammer223
06-20-2013, 04:35 PM
Hmmmmm,August 1st is Jerry's birthday...