The Dead Thread
 

Love em, hate em, like em, or leave em...post your GD related thoughts, pics, vids etc. right here.


Grateful Dead - Ripple - YouTube

Always been a sucker melodramatic Jerry tunes
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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

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
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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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Jerry's Thoughts on 12/21/12
 

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."

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!

I can always find time out for a few tunes
Grateful Dead - Run Rudolph Run 12/7/71 - YouTube
Grateful Dead - Brokedown Palace - YouTube
Grateful Dead - Wharf Rat - YouTube

Merry Xmas to All

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.

That's cool Slingah, I had no idea they were still around

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

Sirius 23 nutin' but DEAD!

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.

NRPS is a good time seen em a few times my self
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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!

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.

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...

you guys should have seen this post from a while back. Lots of great shows there

http://www.striped-bass.com/Stripert...4-narrows.html


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

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

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!

Grateful Dead & Etta James - Hard To Handle 12-31-1982 - YouTube

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

Awesome

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

Grateful Dead - Playing In The Band 1987 - YouTube

grateful dead - lady with a fan - YouTube

Grateful Dead - Throwing Stones 1987 - YouTube

Grateful Dead - Not Fade Away 1987 - YouTube

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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I was at that show also at Highgate and many others. I only had Billerica on XLII
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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.

I have it on cassette and Electronic no disc
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The Dead at foxboro in '90 was my first concert ever. Talk about a mind blower!!
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thanks, PM sent

People passing out everywhere from the heat and stadium staff hosing down all the trippy hippies was classic.
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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.

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

i was there too!!!

[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?)

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

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."

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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OHHH COOL!!!
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