Any Grateful Dead fans around here?

yeah, there are some here. i first saw the dead back in 1972, and ended up spending a good part of the 70's following them around. i still go to bobby and phil shows when they come around. at times they were one of the best live bands i ever saw, but they were also one of the worst as well.

i'd suggest going here:

http://www.archive.org/details/GratefulDead

you can download and stream live shows, look to stream ones that were recorded off the soundboard if possible. otherwise listen to the audience recordings. these shows are a good place to start:

2/14/68 at carousel ballroom

4/5/69 at avalon ballroom

5/15/70 at winterland

4/29/71 at fillmore east

4/2/73 at boston garden

4/27/77 at capitol theater

5/8/77 at barton hall

12/29/77 at winterland

9/16/78 at giza eqypt

the quality of live shows begins to fall off after 82 or so, still good at times, but the drugs and alcohol show through a lot more.

I would start with a good live album, because they were always better live than in the studio. There are millions to choose from, but an easy place to start would be these two:

One From the Vault (recorded in 1975)

Two From the Vault (recorded 1969)

Their two mostly-acoustic folk rock albums of 1970 were their best, most consistent studio albums, so I'd get those next:

American Beauty (1970)

Workingman's Dead (1970)

Some other good regular-release albums include (in rough order of preference):

Grateful Dead (aka Skull and Roses) (1971, live)

Reckoning (1981, live acoustic)

Wake of the Flood (1973)

Europe '72 (1972, live)

Terrapin Station (1977)

In the Dark (1987)

Favorite songs: Box of Rain, Wharf Rat, Morning Dew, Cosmic Charlie, Dark Star, Candyman, That's It for the Other One, Viola Lee Blues, Here Comes Sunshine, Friend of the Devil, I Need a Miracle, Althea, Stella Blue, etc...

MQ:

Los Lobos - West LA Fadeaway

Suzanne Vega - China Doll/Cassidy

Cowboy Junkies - To Lay Me Down

Lyle Lovett - Friend of the Devil

MQ2: Aoxomoxoa

BQ: Old ones? Jefferson Airplane, Love, 13th Floor Elevators, Blue Cheer, It's a Beautiful Day, Santana, Moby Grape, Hot Tuna, The United States of America, Donovan, Pearls Before Swine, early Pink Floyd, Hawkwind, Big Brother & the Holding Co., Jimi Hendrix Experience, etc.

Two great albums to get you started are "Workingman's Dead" and "American Beauty"

Other random tracks that I like are:

Going Down the Road Feeling Bad/Not Fade Away (live)

Cold Rain and Snow

Mexicali Blues

Bertha (live)

Jack Straw

Franklin's Tower

Jack-a-roe (live acoustic version)

MQ: Tie between Jane's Addiction cover of "Ripple" and Indago Girls cover of "Uncle John's Band"

MQ2: American Beauty

BQ: Iron Butterfly, Jimi Hendrix Experience, Jefferson Airplane, Amboy Dukes, The Byrds, The Lemon Pipers, Max Frost and the Troopers, The Strawberry Alarmclock, Bubble Puppy, New Riders of the Purple Sage, Moby Grape, The Seeds, The Chambers Brothers, Sopwith Camel

Hey now. We're out here and hear ya! Some albums I enjoy:

Studio: American Beauty & Workingman's Dead

Live: Europe '72 / Dozin at the Knick / D*ck's Picks #4 (30 minutes of Pigpen doing Lovelight *sigh*) / Steppin Out '72 ('72 tour in England) / What a Long Strange Trip It's Been (contains live & studio songs)

Songs: Scarlet Begonias / Looks Like Rain (ah, Bobby *sigh) / Songbird / Eyes of the World / Victim or the Crime / Franklin's Tower / Dark Star / Estimated Prophet / Wharf Rat / U.S. Blues / Mr. Charlie / Cumberland Blues and many more...

MQ: I have a cd called Deadicated. All GD songs done by Los Lobos, Midnight Oil, Suzanne Vega, Dwight Yokum, Janes Addiction, etc. It's different but I like it. There is also a tribute band called Dark Star Orchestra. They are VERY good ;) Some other bands like the Dead that you may want to check out are Widespread Panic / Moe / Phish & String Cheese Incident.

MQ2: From the Mars Hotel / Blues for Allah

BQ: Jefferson Airplane / Amboy Dukes / Electric Prunes / Traffic / Procol Harum / Iron Butterfly...

(((Bad))) hi hon. I'm here. Sugaree can also give some good choices but a see a few more people that have given some good stuff as well.

*edit: enjoy you snooze Lord Frieza and thanks for the kind words :)

Where's sugaree?

Listen Sheep-boy I am not that familiar but I like this tune, reminds me of Sponge Bob ~

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=671AgW9xSiA

As for album try the Skeletons from the Closet: The Best of Grateful Dead compilation album ~

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XacvydVrhuI&feature...

Will edit later when I after a short snooze :D

*** never mind Stella, Seed and Rodney took care of it, ima going back to sleep zzzZZZZZ

So many memories and so little space. Let's see...right now it's the time we were at the Hollywood Bowl in '74 and they were playing Black Throated Wind. I was standing there and all of a sudden someone passes me Bean dip and so I pass it. A moment later, another thing of dip... then another...then another...then another!?!?! To this day, everytime I hear that song, I think of bean dip. BTW, I'm listening to a show from 1991 and Black Throated Wind just finished!

Shakedown Street

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8lCMUkqpI7o

Box of Rain

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V4SqDx1vi4c

St Stephen

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xa8ImA_wSKI

MQ - Morning Dew - Billy Corgan

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nqtuDwLe-f0

I'm glad you are getting a few answers to your question, because I did not with mine, and now I know why I don't ask that many, think I'll just keep to answerning them. And if there is anyone that can get you hooked on the Dead, it will be sugaree.

I had to be high most times to listen to the Dead back in the day, but of course I had to do that with a lot of bands back then.

1.Grateful Dead - Friend of The Devil http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XacvydVrhuI

2.Grateful Dead - Till the Morning Comes http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_F74P39b0Q4&feature...

3.Grateful Dead - Box of Rain http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V4SqDx1vi4c&feature...

4.Grateful Dead- Me and My Uncle http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-cCZFUj8IlM&feature...

5.Grateful Dead - Cosmic Charlie http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aDZs7cKGzDU&feature...

MQ: really can't think of one now.

MQ2: Aoxomoxoa

BQ:

west coast pop art experimental band - our drummer always plays in the nude http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-syYbRyYUwY&list=PL...

The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band - 02 - Suppose They Give A War And No One Comes http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zhM7rl6KvoA&feature...

The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band - 08 - A Child's Guide To Good & Evil http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aiWmfRt6w8M&feature...

The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band - 09 - Ritual 2 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L9jrC2444pA&feature...

The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band - 10 - A Child Of A Few Hours Is Burning To Death http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NO1j1-WmoWU&feature...

take care

dave

Alabama Getaway FTW

Hell yeah XD

Where's Stella? She should be here?

MQ: Can't say I know any

MQ2: Terrapin Station

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/3/3...

(((Stella))) Yep, I just knew you'd show up ;) Hope you have a great day