Yes!! A roots band. You nailed it. "A band beyond description". Americana, blues, folk, rock, bluegrass, jazz ... Etc. A big pot full of all the best ingredients, playing improvisational different every night for 30 years! GREATEST BAND EVER.
You’re right they are rootsie. Your right they are proggy. Your right they are rocky. And jazzy And country. And reggae. And folky. And R&B. And if you listened to that whole concert you would hear it all. Your smile and headshake at the end of Jerry’s solo …..I’ve done that 10000 times over 50 years of listening. They are on-call happiness for me and always will be. What a resource!
Robert Hunter was a great songwriter and was often referred to as the non-performing member of the band. A poet in his own right, he was known for his definitive translation of the Austrian poet Rainer Maria Wilke's poems into English. Dylan loved him and, in fact, Hunter wrote a song or two for Dylan which, if you think about it, is pretty amazing to have Dylan sing one of your songs. You are so right when you point out that it's the songwriting that separates the GD from just about all other bands.
I'm not a big Greatful Dead fan but I enjoyed this live performance and I agree with the folk/early rock/hippy music sound. I know they fit in very well with the Woodstock crowd back in the day with the love, peace and partaking in some local party favors 😉 must have been fun...lol...I would like to see more...🤗💕 thanks for the request Elisabeth 😊❤
Check out Bow Thayer if you love the craft of the song. Levon Helm the drummer for The Band plays drums on his album Spend it All. The song Wingless Angels is amazing and album also has Morphine ‘s sax player Dana Colley on it. Bow has released over 30 albums!
Robert Hunter wrote many of their songs. One of the best poets of the century. He was the great, great, great grandson of Robert Burns. (I think I have enough greats in there)
One of my buddies had BRNEYEWN as his license plate, good thing they allowed eight letters. I had to consult "The Complete Annotated Grateful Dead Lyrics" to be sure but the way it is spelled out there sums it up. The title was copywrited as "Brown Eyed Woman", but Robert Hunter, who wrote the song, intended it to be "Brown Eyed Women", the way Jerry Garcia really sings it. This is a classic case of a typographical error. Any way you spell it, it is still a great song.
They cover a lot of ground - very rootsy and totally Americana (listen to the albums Workingmans Dead and American Beauty) - but also have serious jazz, funky, blues, rock n roll, acid rock, psychedelia etc - worth gong down the rabbit hole.
The crazy thing about the dead rabbit hole is you can’t stop. Just when you think you can’t get anymore into them, you fall deeper down the hole. Thousands of hours and just can’t get enough
Some Grateful Dead Jazz. This is an audience video with soundboard recording of Help on the Way>Slipknot!>Franklin's Tower from 10-8-89 in Hampton, VA. I was at this show. ruclips.net/video/ZzlNWPVBcfk/видео.htmlsi=YiP852LiBVZODqBR
It's impossible for anyone to tell the full scope of musical identity possessed by individual members of the Dead. The improvisation that was a cornerstone of The Dead's early days, even though not as paramount, still found its way into developing new sounds the boys played in later years. You will find, as you listen, almost all original songs have multiple versions used in concert. We went to shows not knowing what we would hear from one night to the next, in what order, grouping, how those songs would be played, what specific songs, etc.
I've resubscribed now that you've finally started to pay attention to Grateful Dead. I left you a bunch of links after your first reviews, but you never seem to come back to read comments after you post reactions.
Yes!! A roots band. You nailed it. "A band beyond description". Americana, blues, folk, rock, bluegrass, jazz ... Etc. A big pot full of all the best ingredients, playing improvisational different every night for 30 years! GREATEST BAND EVER.
You’re right they are rootsie. Your right they are proggy. Your right they are rocky. And jazzy And country. And reggae. And folky. And R&B. And if you listened to that whole concert you would hear it all.
Your smile and headshake at the end of Jerry’s solo …..I’ve done that 10000 times over 50 years of listening. They are on-call happiness for me and always will be. What a resource!
The word you are looking for to describe the type of songwriting style, as you did with Jethro Tull- medieval, is "Americana".
Nice review!
Robert Hunter was a great songwriter and was often referred to as the non-performing member of the band. A poet in his own right, he was known for his definitive translation of the Austrian poet Rainer Maria Wilke's poems into English. Dylan loved him and, in fact, Hunter wrote a song or two for Dylan which, if you think about it, is pretty amazing to have Dylan sing one of your songs. You are so right when you point out that it's the songwriting that separates the GD from just about all other bands.
Tremendous song writing in the Grateful Dead.
Great example of the Grateful Dead “bounce”. They make you move.
Wow yeah I love the performance , i enjoyed it very much !! thank you Rory 👍👌🤗
Phil Lesh is cracking me up here! 😂
He's for sure trippin.😅 he's vibrating
He's having way too much fun.
check out Terrapin Station from the album of the same name. Yet another sound from the Grateful Dead.
Nooooo. It is horrible what they did to such a great song by adding the orchestral part at the end. Totally without the band's knowledge or consent.
I'm not a big Greatful Dead fan but I enjoyed this live performance and I agree with the folk/early rock/hippy music sound. I know they fit in very well with the Woodstock crowd back in the day with the love, peace and partaking in some local party favors 😉 must have been fun...lol...I would like to see more...🤗💕 thanks for the request Elisabeth 😊❤
The Grateful Dead didn't always play well but when they got in the pocket it was nothing short of magic.❤
Check out Bow Thayer if you love the craft of the song. Levon Helm the drummer for The Band plays drums on his album Spend it All. The song Wingless Angels is amazing and album also has Morphine ‘s sax player Dana Colley on it. Bow has released over 30 albums!
Robert Hunter wrote many of their songs. One of the best poets of the century. He was the great, great, great grandson of Robert Burns. (I think I have enough greats in there)
Another great Hunter/Garcia song - and a really nice version. They did it quite funky in the latter part of the 70s.
They actually were pretty progressive in the 60s, and some of their albums in the 70s were kind of progressive as well.
One of my buddies had BRNEYEWN as his license plate, good thing they allowed eight letters. I had to consult "The Complete Annotated Grateful Dead Lyrics" to be sure but the way it is spelled out there sums it up. The title was copywrited as "Brown Eyed Woman", but Robert Hunter, who wrote the song, intended it to be "Brown Eyed Women", the way Jerry Garcia really sings it. This is a classic case of a typographical error. Any way you spell it, it is still a great song.
Jerry Garcia (Grateful Dead) also does a great cover of "The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down"....(Jerry Garcia Band)
that was good. PLease do more. Its's worth checking out the early to mid eighties too
They cover a lot of ground - very rootsy and totally Americana (listen to the albums Workingmans Dead and American Beauty) - but also have serious jazz, funky, blues, rock n roll, acid rock, psychedelia etc - worth gong down the rabbit hole.
The crazy thing about the dead rabbit hole is you can’t stop. Just when you think you can’t get anymore into them, you fall deeper down the hole. Thousands of hours and just can’t get enough
The good old Grateful Dead the best American band in my opinion.
It's definitely a FACT the best American band ever haha ☮ (~);}
Some Grateful Dead Jazz. This is an audience video with soundboard recording of Help on the Way>Slipknot!>Franklin's Tower from 10-8-89 in Hampton, VA. I was at this show.
ruclips.net/video/ZzlNWPVBcfk/видео.htmlsi=YiP852LiBVZODqBR
It's impossible for anyone to tell the full scope of musical identity possessed by individual members of the Dead. The improvisation that was a cornerstone of The Dead's early days, even though not as paramount, still found its way into developing new sounds the boys played in later years. You will find, as you listen, almost all original songs have multiple versions used in concert. We went to shows not knowing what we would hear from one night to the next, in what order, grouping, how those songs would be played, what specific songs, etc.
This is actually one of the saddest and most tragic songs, if you listen to the lyrics.
I've resubscribed now that you've finally started to pay attention to Grateful Dead. I left you a bunch of links after your first reviews, but you never seem to come back to read comments after you post reactions.
You haven’t dropped very far down the rabbit hole yet. Try China/Rider from 7/17/89 for the next step down.
The Gratful Dead have a lot of different sounds.
What brought you to a Dead video?
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try this version of "The Other One" from 1985 (Portland, Maine) ruclips.net/video/ugijnIBcwp4/видео.htmlsi=yB3ykxCrkw58e_wa&t=6480
Rory Reacts listen to Frank Zappa ( Rat Tomago )