Great reaction! Good source material too. Whoever recommended that version of Sugaree, keep following their suggestions. The Grateful Dead has given me a lifetime of joy. I have been listening to them since 1970 when I bought my first album of theirs.
You have tapped a very deep vein of musical gold. Over 2,000 Dead shows were recorded, each with their own flavor. My peak experience at a Dead show was the song Eyes of the World at an outdoor show in Kansas City. It was a warm summer evening and a sweet breeze blew from behind the stage. Somehow it was more than music, it was a conduit to a slice of eternity.
The Grateful Dead are the prototype of today’s jam band. They inspired all the great jambands you have heard of. Ripple is my favorite song. It is the song I have asked my wife and children to play at my funeral. So simple, so kind, so true.
Tough to pick a favorite Grateful Dead song. Probably Morning Dew, but technically, that's a cover. Scarlet Begonias > Fire on the Mountain (Scarlet>Fire) is another favorite. Dark Star, The Other One, Black Peter... Too many to name just one.
"Eyes of the World", is my fave Dead song. It's jazzy, jammy, with great lyrics. There are so many great versions. A shorter one is on "Dick's Picks Volume 12". Dick's Picks are full shows from the archive. This version is from 1974.
You can learn to swim by having your favorite uncle throw you in the pool and yell swim boy swim! …or you can go to the shallow end yourself, dabble your feet and get comfy with the water then try floating a bit and when you start to get how swimming works you work your way to the deep end and the pool opens up and welcomes you and your free to swim anywhere at anytime. A beautiful way to learn. Contrary to most dead heads this dead head says the studio versions are the shallow end, then you gradually work your way into dead universe, the live stuff, the real stuff, the happy scary comforting unknown territory that somehow feels like you’ve always been there. I hope you continue the journey. Although not for all, for those who can experience it purely in the moment it can change lives. My favorite dead tune is not a tune at all, it’s that moment when they are transitioning from one song to the next but are not in either song, but in spontaneous unknown territory. For me that moment is life blood and cures all ills. Even if just for a few minutes. Pure bliss.
"Touch of Grey" is my cancer anthem. That chorus, "I will be all right. I will survive" goes straight to my heart and makes my cry. I listen to it every when I get my cancer infusion. It renews my spirit.
For Grateful Dead "Album", I recomend their Live albums since they were the best live. There are thousands of live Dead videos floating out there, but not all are classic performances. The Dead had some great Studio albums too ("American Beauty" and "Working Mans Dead"). Their best Live Album was "Europe 72", a triple record. Your next Dead reaction should be the amazing "China Cat Sunflower /I Know You Rider" from that album. Other classics from that album - "Suger Magnolia", "Tennessee Jed", and "Morning Dew".
Yes! Judging by your grin, I think you might be one of us! That’s awesome. Welcome Home, Brother. :) It’s hard to pick a favorite song. Morning Dew from Cornell ‘77 is amazing. Lady With a Fan/Terrapin Station is a masterpiece. Wharf Rat still makes me cry. The first time they played it live was 2/18/71, sandwiched by Dark Star, and there is a section referred to a ‘the beautiful jam.’ It’s amazing. Favorite song miiiiight be Eyes of the World. It’s pure poetry. Robert Hunter is one of the best lyricists in rock history. A good place to start is the Europe ‘72 live double album. That was the gateway to the Dead for half the people at my small high school. Cornell ‘77 is considered by many to be the GOAT. I am 48 so was around for the 90’s hippie revival. Yeah, it was a great time, lol! Lots of acid and dancing and mushrooms and joy. Saw the Dead many times and was fortunate enough to be there and tour during Phish’s best, most face-melting years.
This was some CHOICE stuff here. Now you have heard The Dead. I’m going to stump for Terrapin Station every single time though because I just know you would appreciate it. That bus was iconic. Labeled “Further” instead any particular destination it was led by the author of One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, Ken Kesey and his Merry Pranksters. They drove across the country with a seemingly endless supply of LSD laced koolaid, freaking out America and actually meeting up with Timothy Leary at the famous Millbrook retreat. The Dead had a weird relationship with the Hells Angels back then. Both experiences were entertainingly written about in the ‘best book on the hippies’ by Tom Wolfe who was actually on that bus with them to get the story. Well worth the read!
Glad to see the younger generation GET it. That is where you are lucky as a newbie, they were the most documented band in history. The Grateful Dead is a LIVE experience!
I'm with you my friend. The entire Skull and Roses album is great music, and so diverse. From rock to country to folk and some other genres only they could do.
The Dead were more than a band, they were a vibe and a lifestyle. Deadheads are worldwide! Please check out "Ripple" with the official GD video, also "Cosmic Charlie", and "China Cat Sunflower/I Know You Rider."
For me, the masterpiece is "Eyes of the World". Why? Jerry's guitar is like blowing bubbles on a hot summer Saturday afternoon in the park. It's like a layered oil painting of sound with musical notes and swirling colors. I can't explain it better than that.
Hey brother Lee! Don't know if you'll see this but, fun fact: Steely Dan's song Kid Charlemagne is loosely based on the exploits of Owsley Stanley, the so-called "King of LSD", who was also the Grateful Dead's sound engineer. He was known affectionately by the band as 'Bear', and is represented to this day by the 'Dancing Bear' iconography associated with the band. There is a reason the band's logo is a skull with a lightning bolt in it, as well as why their music is happy jam music. He-he! 😃 The history of this band is rich and deep.
i saw the dead 78 times i have lived through zeppelin shows my young friend try DOWNHILL FROM HERE ALPINE VALLEY 1989 -IT IS LEGENDARY YOU WILL NEVER BE THE SAME
Just about anything off their album Europe '72 is worth your time. It's the best combination of live and studio -- they went back and overdubbed quality vocals onto their live performances before releasing the album, but you'd never know. Great jams, terrific songwriting (most of them new ones at that time, having not appeared on any previous album).
May 77 is the Dead at their absolute peak of excellence. They were just on another level. 5/22/77 is my favorite show. But literally every show on that run is fire. You'll find out that most deadheads are way more into live recordings than studio. They never really were a studio band. Ive listened to probably more than 500 shows. Cant wait for dead n co at the sphere in Vegas this summer.
I couldn't POSSIBLY tell you what my "favorite Grateful Dead song" is, as after 50 years of listening to live Dead, they are SO MUCH MORE than their "songs". I think in terms of "greatest live years"......1969 - 1972 - 1977 - 1987 come to mind. 😃 You can't go wrong with "Playin' In The Band" - 1972.
I saw the dead with Bob Dylan on July 4 1986, it was the best concert I’ve ever seen, tickets were generally admission. Everyone got along, you couldn’t do that now. Great music then and still great now.
May 1977 is one of their peaks. 77 and 71/72 are my favorite years. People talk about years for jam bands the same way they talk about albums for other bands.
Personal picks: Studio - Box of Rain (American Beauty); Live - Help On the Way/Slipknot/Franklin's Tower (One from the Vault or 6/19/76 Capital Theater, both available on RUclips)
Congrats on dipping into this type of sound. Music that takes its time to roll out, shift, play and weave thru the changes is a different kind of aesthetic from most forms of tunes, ~~~ I love both the upbeat stuff (China Cat Sunflower, Franklin's Tower, The Music Never Stopped) and the downbeat stuff (Wharf Rat, Black Peter, Loser) but that just scratches the surface. It's another broad, deep catalog, another rabbit hole to spend time with and dig.
Got to see them live at Winterland in 1977 while I was In the Navy stationed in California they loved to play at Winterland and considered at their home they played their entire set and then jammed all night long nearly to daylight everyone in the audience was tripping including the band well especially the band
Jerry Garcia is doing all the singing other than in choruses here. This is a pretty hot Sugaree - this song really peaked on this tour, with its longest and hottest iterations really being played out in May of '77. 1977 is probably my favourite year for the band, but they were untouchable from 1968 to 1978 or 79, and then things went downhill pretty fast in the 1980s, as Jerry destroyed his health and his talent with unchecked addictions. But if you stay in the zone you're gonna find lots of beautiful stuff.
You should check out the deads video performance on playboy after dark, they played Mountains of the Moon and St Stephen and did both wonderfully, the dead’s sound engineer Owsley Stanley dosed the coffee pot with acid so everybody was tripping by St Stephen, pretty sure they even got Hefner too
Being a Dead Head myself. It's great to see a younger generation getting into the Dead. My Favorite is Standing on the moon. Alpine 89 show. West L.A. Fade away is another good one. They stand out to me on personal levels. Have a Grateful day ☮️❤️
I named my favorites, Eyes and Box of Rain, but I am very glad to see you mention "Standing on the Moon", which is a tragically underrated late career masterpiece of songwriting and in my top ten.
I'm not really a deadhead but still a big fan. I was only 11 in '67 but was definitely a junior hippie, tho I prefer flowerchild. I'm 68 now and still haven't grown out of it! My fave would have to be "Uncle John's Band". Can't really say why, it just is. Dude, I like to say it is what it is, but it becomes what you make it. Peace ✌️
Here's a couple of later ones with videos, good performances too - first is a Sugaree, the second Althea: ruclips.net/video/QnllzS3pqN8/видео.html ruclips.net/video/kEiRFEtIvtw/видео.html
I would say China Cat Sunflower. It is one of the earliest memories I have is hearing them play that live when I was 5 or 6 with my parents. I recommend the version on their Live in Europe 72 album.
This might be an unpopular comment, but I found it beneficial to listen to studio Dead songs early on in my journey (just to get to know the songs, the beautiful poetic lyrics). Then branch out to the live stuff which is where the magic really happens. Great albums to start with are American Beauty, Workingman’s Dead, Wake of the Flood and Mars Hotel.
Personal favorite Dead song is UNBROKEN CHAIN written by bass player Phil Leah with an epic solo by Jerry and just a beautiful song. Never found a goid live recording but the studio version is a powerhouse.
@@thesecretjewishspacelaser9959the only live recording of it I've seen was done by an amateur video audience member and the sound is terrible with the audience overtaking the band's sound and being really muddy. The studio recording is exquisite.
I was at the Philly Spectrum the 1st time they ever played Chain. Different people started to recognize the intro at different parts but once is was obvious to all the crowd went nuts
@@seanjockel43 ikr? I saw them play Box of Rain for the first time in 11 years and the audience went hysterical and so loud that we couldn't hear the song we were celebrating, but still a big celebration.
Terrapin Station is my favorite as it’s all of side B on the vinyl tracks. It’s just keeps you in the groove and just the different section breaks in the song are fantastic
Grateful Dead were the founding group of the "Jam Band" movement. Phish, Widespread Panic, moe., The Radiators, and anyone else you care to name, all were heavily influenced by The Dead. "Sugaree" was the third song played at my first GD concert, and put me right on the bus, for life. 9/6/80 Lewiston, Maine if you want to check it out. Some say the best "Sugaree" ever, I would tend to agree. Favorite Dead song: "Sugaree", "U.S. Blues", Sugar Magnolia/Sunshine Daydream", "Help On The Way>Slipknot>Franklin's Tower", "Scarlet Begonias>Fire On The Mountain", "Deal", "Morning Dew", "The Other One", "Terrapin Station"... .
Hey Hartlor, I think we've "met" before on some other reactor channels, like maybe Perk's Recap, or good ol' Tour Head. Or some where else. How're doing? Lewiston was the start of 15 years of more fun than humans should be allowed to have. Glad you were there too. Peace.@@Hartlor_Tayley
My favorite Dead tune is "Scarlet Begonias" because it paints a picture of a harmonious world where everyone is full of love. One of my college girlfriends wore scarlet begonias in her curly hair.
oooohh.... that's the stuff. so sweet it hurts. makes me cry. jerry. all of them. like an organism morphing around responding to each other and the environment. i'm so happy for you that you've found it. peggy-o, wharf rat, row jimmy, althea, they love each other, scarlet/fire (that's scarlet begonias going into fire on the mountain, a common sequence), china/rider (china cat sunflower into cc ryder), must have been the roses, cassidy, birdsong (about janis joplin), franklin's tower... on and on... again, lucky you, that discovering it all is in your future!
@@glenndespres5317 haha. kinda. i saw "only" 25 shows (of their over 2,000!) in the 80s. some people saw a hundred or more. i'd go to 2-3 shows at a venue, hang out btwn shows and sleep in my car. after a show ended, in the parking lot or camping area people would trade tapes from that show or various other shows... hacky-sack was a thing. showers, not so much. haha. i still listen to grateful dead and/or jerry every day. there is SO MUCH out there.
fun fact about phil the bassest. he was a classically trained musician who played trumpet. jerry recruited him to play bass for the band before phil really played bass. he asked Jerry for a lesson and the story goes jerry said when you play an open note, mean it! phil drops huge open notes during some songs, we call them phil bombs. phil talked about it in his book. there is a audio version where he reads it so its basically him telling you stories of his life
You can't have a favourite, but Franklin's Tower is always great. The studio recording was very reggae influenced, but it was a great dance song live, often funky, different in every year they played it. A real great jam song, but very simple.
That was the Merry Prankster's bus (Furthur), the day-glo colored bus. The Prankster's were "associated" with Ken Kesey, the writer of One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest. The character right after Garcia was Neal Cassady, who was a central character in many novels by Jack Kerouac, poems by Allen Ginsburg, and of course songs by the Grateful Dead, who were friends with him. Oh, and the Pranksters put on LSD parties, sometimes called Acid Tests, and the house band was a little known band called the Grateful Dead.
Thanx!!! Great reaction! Compare the studio version of sugared and you’ll understand the touch of grey studio video. It’s all about the live shows! Different every night! Favourite song, naaa then I’d need a least favourite too! Each show the two drummers jam a while alone middle of the second set. Thanx again!
There's a video of China Cat Sunflower/I Know You Rider that's really good. It's worth a dive into reading up on The Dead as their story is amazing..I'd like to add that I think Bob Weir is one of the top three rythym guitarist ever and that Jerry's percussive guitar style is brilliant.
Favorite studio song is Ripple for it's unbelievable lyrics. Favorite trippy jam, That's It For The Other One (otherwise known as The Other One ruclips.net/video/Y38U5xQU7gs/видео.html) is a great live version that literally takes off into another universe. You'll love it!
Sugar Magnolia is my absolute favorite song by The Dead. I think one of the best versions of it is from the Grateful Dead Movie. Magnolia was the first song I heard by them, my brother had American Beauty and played it for me. I've been a fan ever since. I think you'd like Franklin's Tower as well.
If you can get it by the copyright police, there's a 1989 Not Fade Away that is a great peek into that era of the band - a fantastic interplay that shows why folks showed up night after night after night....
Everyone’s got their favorite era and song. I think they peaked live in this 1977 tour. There is a famously great show from this tour recorded at Cornell University in May 1977. Check out the second set opener of Scarlet Begonias-Fire on the Mountain from that one. Another famous show among dead heads the next year recorded outdoors in the mountains at Red Rocks in Colorado on 7/8/78. Check out the Estimated Prophet-Other One second set jam from that one. There’s so many, but these two shows shine. Enjoy✌️
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A Grateful Dead song a day keeps the bad mood away, greetings to all Deadheads from Berlin☮🎸🎹🥁
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Love watching the show from the Rockpalast in '81. Hi def video and audio.ruclips.net/video/2Lf8CFnJNO0/видео.htmlsi=9kEb3RR3Vqv6JrhN
They're not just 'a' hippie jam band, they're THE hippie jam band. They invented and perfected it.
THIS. They are the OGs of this art form.
Before the mosh pit The Dead had the wiggle pit.
Thanks. Came here to say this.
Get on the bus!
@@wallypalmer6404 FURTHUR!
Trippy jam band, too. Too many great songs for me to pick a favorite. Whatever, however, they chose to play a song was good with me.
Great reaction! Good source material too. Whoever recommended that version of Sugaree, keep following their suggestions. The Grateful Dead has given me a lifetime of joy. I have been listening to them since 1970 when I bought my first album of theirs.
The bus was the Merry Pransters; the Dead started out as the house band at their Acid Tests.
You have tapped a very deep vein of musical gold. Over 2,000 Dead shows were recorded, each with their own flavor. My peak experience at a Dead show was the song Eyes of the World at an outdoor show in Kansas City. It was a warm summer evening and a sweet breeze blew from behind the stage. Somehow it was more than music, it was a conduit to a slice of eternity.
The Dead were never a 3 1/2 minute Radio friendly band, that's why People didn't like the Touch of grey as a introduction. This is the Dead.
‘It’s like hope and happiness in music, you can feel it radiating from it’. - beautifully put!
This is one of my favorite songs ever.
Estimated Prophet , Shakedown Street , Terrapin Station , Dark Star, China Cat Flower and so many more..
The Grateful Dead are the prototype of today’s jam band. They inspired all the great jambands you have heard of.
Ripple is my favorite song. It is the song I have asked my wife and children to play at my funeral. So simple, so kind, so true.
“Terrapin Station” and “The Other One” are two personal favorites
You wanna see hippies jamming to the Dead? There’s a concert video from Veneta Oregon in 1972. It’s a legendary concert and the video is fun.
Sunshine Daydream it’s called. Lots of clips of it on RUclips but I recommend you watch the whole video start to finish
Eyes of the world! Soooo good
Tough to pick a favorite Grateful Dead song. Probably Morning Dew, but technically, that's a cover. Scarlet Begonias > Fire on the Mountain (Scarlet>Fire) is another favorite. Dark Star, The Other One, Black Peter... Too many to name just one.
Some of the transition pieces like the MLB Jam or Spanish Jams were favs of mine.
If I had to.pick just one Dead song to listen to for the rest of my life, it would have to be Morning Dew from Europe '72
"Eyes of the World", is my fave Dead song. It's jazzy, jammy, with great lyrics. There are so many great versions. A shorter one is on "Dick's Picks Volume 12". Dick's Picks are full shows from the archive. This version is from 1974.
The video of Eyes of the World from Winterland 74 is pretty great and easy to find on RUclips.
You can learn to swim by having your favorite uncle throw you in the pool and yell swim boy swim! …or you can go to the shallow end yourself, dabble your feet and get comfy with the water then try floating a bit and when you start to get how swimming works you work your way to the deep end and the pool opens up and welcomes you and your free to swim anywhere at anytime. A beautiful way to learn. Contrary to most dead heads this dead head says the studio versions are the shallow end, then you gradually work your way into dead universe, the live stuff, the real stuff, the happy scary comforting unknown territory that somehow feels like you’ve always been there. I hope you continue the journey. Although not for all, for those who can experience it purely in the moment it can change lives. My favorite dead tune is not a tune at all, it’s that moment when they are transitioning from one song to the next but are not in either song, but in spontaneous unknown territory. For me that moment is life blood and cures all ills. Even if just for a few minutes. Pure bliss.
Back in the day the studios were fillers till the next show you could attend.
Well said and well sung my man (: ! :)
"Touch of Grey" is my cancer anthem. That chorus, "I will be all right. I will survive" goes straight to my heart and makes my cry. I listen to it every when I get my cancer infusion. It renews my spirit.
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great video of the Dead and jazz great Branford Marsalis jamming on "Eyes of the World"
For Grateful Dead "Album", I recomend their Live albums since they were the best live. There are thousands of live Dead videos floating out there, but not all are classic performances. The Dead had some great Studio albums too ("American Beauty" and "Working Mans Dead"). Their best Live Album was "Europe 72", a triple record. Your next Dead reaction should be the amazing "China Cat Sunflower /I Know You Rider" from that album. Other classics from that album - "Suger Magnolia", "Tennessee Jed", and "Morning Dew".
Yes! Judging by your grin, I think you might be one of us! That’s awesome.
Welcome Home, Brother.
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It’s hard to pick a favorite song.
Morning Dew from Cornell ‘77 is amazing.
Lady With a Fan/Terrapin Station is a masterpiece.
Wharf Rat still makes me cry. The first time they played it live was 2/18/71, sandwiched by Dark Star, and there is a section referred to a ‘the beautiful jam.’ It’s amazing.
Favorite song miiiiight be Eyes of the World. It’s pure poetry. Robert Hunter is one of the best lyricists in rock history.
A good place to start is the Europe ‘72 live double album. That was the gateway to the Dead for half the people at my small high school. Cornell ‘77 is considered by many to be the GOAT.
I am 48 so was around for the 90’s hippie revival. Yeah, it was a great time, lol! Lots of acid and dancing and mushrooms and joy. Saw the Dead many times and was fortunate enough to be there and tour during Phish’s best, most face-melting years.
Oh sorry, dude! I put my comment in the wrong spot. Didn’t mean for it to be a reply.
Great post, by the way. :)
and Cumberland Blues ;)
This was some CHOICE stuff here. Now you have heard The Dead.
I’m going to stump for Terrapin Station every single time though because I just know you would appreciate it.
That bus was iconic. Labeled “Further” instead any particular destination it was led by the author of One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, Ken Kesey and his Merry Pranksters. They drove across the country with a seemingly endless supply of LSD laced koolaid, freaking out America and actually meeting up with Timothy Leary at the famous Millbrook retreat.
The Dead had a weird relationship with the Hells Angels back then. Both experiences were entertainingly written about in the ‘best book on the hippies’ by Tom Wolfe who was actually on that bus with them to get the story. Well worth the read!
Glad to see the younger generation GET it. That is where you are lucky as a newbie, they were the most documented band in history. The Grateful Dead is a LIVE experience!
Love you said at the end after the song. Thank you for saying all that.
This is from May 5th, 1977 at Veteran's Memorial Coliseum, New Haven CT.
Saw that.
John Mayer included this version when he curated a set for the Dead channel on Sirius too. Epic version!
Love that you’re catching on to and grooving to the counterpoint between the instruments, and the sweetness of the singing.
Goin Down The Road Feeling Bad/Not Fade Away is my fav. Not Fade Away is a Buddy Holly song. Great Lyrics, spirit and music.
I'm with you my friend. The entire Skull and Roses album is great music, and so diverse. From rock to country to folk and some other genres only they could do.
Every Grateful Dead song is my favorite!
The Dead were more than a band, they were a vibe and a lifestyle. Deadheads are worldwide! Please check out "Ripple" with the official GD video, also "Cosmic Charlie", and "China Cat Sunflower/I Know You Rider."
As Bill Graham famously said, "they are not the best at what they do, they are the only ones who do what they do!"
For me, the masterpiece is "Eyes of the World". Why? Jerry's guitar is like blowing bubbles on a hot summer Saturday afternoon in the park. It's like a layered oil painting of sound with musical notes and swirling colors. I can't explain it better than that.
Yes, "Eye of the World" and "Box of Rain"
That whole 1977 spring tour was stellar.
Hey brother Lee!
Don't know if you'll see this but, fun fact: Steely Dan's song Kid Charlemagne is loosely based on the exploits of Owsley Stanley, the so-called "King of LSD", who was also the Grateful Dead's sound engineer. He was known affectionately by the band as 'Bear', and is represented to this day by the 'Dancing Bear' iconography associated with the band.
There is a reason the band's logo is a skull with a lightning bolt in it, as well as why their music is happy jam music. He-he! 😃
The history of this band is rich and deep.
i saw the dead 78 times i have lived through zeppelin shows my young friend try DOWNHILL FROM HERE ALPINE VALLEY 1989 -IT IS LEGENDARY YOU WILL NEVER BE THE SAME
Yes…..The Deal will melt your face
The Dead in concert, the Dead Live. Top jam band
My favorite Grateful Dead song?
The last one I listened to.
You can make a living here reacting to the Dead. You are on the rim of the largest deepest musical rabbit hole there is. Deadhesds will find you
Never play the same song the same way twice. Every song played live is always different.
Just about anything off their album Europe '72 is worth your time. It's the best combination of live and studio -- they went back and overdubbed quality vocals onto their live performances before releasing the album, but you'd never know. Great jams, terrific songwriting (most of them new ones at that time, having not appeared on any previous album).
May 77 is the Dead at their absolute peak of excellence. They were just on another level. 5/22/77 is my favorite show. But literally every show on that run is fire. You'll find out that most deadheads are way more into live recordings than studio. They never really were a studio band. Ive listened to probably more than 500 shows. Cant wait for dead n co at the sphere in Vegas this summer.
Best band ever..🌺💀😎
I couldn't POSSIBLY tell you what my "favorite Grateful Dead song" is, as after 50 years of listening to live Dead, they are SO MUCH MORE than their "songs". I think in terms of "greatest live years"......1969 - 1972 - 1977 - 1987 come to mind. 😃
You can't go wrong with "Playin' In The Band" - 1972.
Garcia was so imaginative. almost endless and the the boys surfed w him. he never just did a solo, he played in the band.
Bob’s rhythm guitar laid out such a beautiful canvas for Jerry to paint on.
I have to say "Box of Rain" if I have to pick a favorite right now.Great reaction as always!!!!!🐢 🕊🍌🍻☕🚂
I finally found this (3 months later) just the same, here's my thumbs up. Thanks L33
I saw the dead with Bob Dylan on July 4 1986, it was the best concert I’ve ever seen, tickets were generally admission. Everyone got along, you couldn’t do that now. Great music then and still great now.
times are a changin'. I saw Bob w the Dead too. huge concert. everyone got along right.
May 1977 is one of their peaks. 77 and 71/72 are my favorite years. People talk about years for jam bands the same way they talk about albums for other bands.
I have too many favs to pick a definitive one but Eyes Of The World is always a fun live jam. Winterland ‘74 is a good one with footage
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My favorite Dead song? Which day of the year is it? Which year ya talkin' 'bout? It sounds like you are ready to get on the bus. Welcome aboard!!!!
Personal picks: Studio - Box of Rain (American Beauty); Live - Help On the Way/Slipknot/Franklin's Tower (One from the Vault or 6/19/76 Capital Theater, both available on RUclips)
Definitely you need to hit Ripple.that for me is a quintessential dead song.
Congrats on dipping into this type of sound. Music that takes its time to roll out, shift, play and weave thru the changes is a different kind of aesthetic from most forms of tunes, ~~~
I love both the upbeat stuff (China Cat Sunflower, Franklin's Tower, The Music Never Stopped) and the downbeat stuff (Wharf Rat, Black Peter, Loser) but that just scratches the surface. It's another broad, deep catalog, another rabbit hole to spend time with and dig.
You're reaction was so well said.
You get it. ✌️
I saw them at Red Rocks in 1979. Great fun, and I actually remember it fairly well.
Got to see them live at Winterland in 1977 while I was In the Navy stationed in California they loved to play at Winterland and considered at their home they played their entire set and then jammed all night long nearly to daylight everyone in the audience was tripping including the band well especially the band
Jerry Garcia is doing all the singing other than in choruses here. This is a pretty hot Sugaree - this song really peaked on this tour, with its longest and hottest iterations really being played out in May of '77. 1977 is probably my favourite year for the band, but they were untouchable from 1968 to 1978 or 79, and then things went downhill pretty fast in the 1980s, as Jerry destroyed his health and his talent with unchecked addictions. But if you stay in the zone you're gonna find lots of beautiful stuff.
You should check out the deads video performance on playboy after dark, they played Mountains of the Moon and St Stephen and did both wonderfully, the dead’s sound engineer Owsley Stanley dosed the coffee pot with acid so everybody was tripping by St Stephen, pretty sure they even got Hefner too
Being a Dead Head myself. It's great to see a younger generation getting into the Dead. My Favorite is Standing on the moon. Alpine 89 show. West L.A. Fade away is another good one. They stand out to me on personal levels. Have a Grateful day ☮️❤️
I named my favorites, Eyes and Box of Rain, but I am very glad to see you mention "Standing on the Moon", which is a tragically underrated late career masterpiece of songwriting and in my top ten.
Try a live version of Stella Blue.
All these heads are right on. But imagine a live performance where all the songs flood over you!
Can’t wait until you do a “Dark Star”!
I'm not really a deadhead but still a big fan. I was only 11 in '67 but was definitely a junior hippie, tho I prefer flowerchild. I'm 68 now and still haven't grown out of it! My fave would have to be "Uncle John's Band". Can't really say why, it just is. Dude, I like to say it is what it is, but it becomes what you make it. Peace ✌️
First song I ever heard by the Dead, on “underground radio” in the early 70’s. Bear’s Choice was the album I listened to constantly for a long time…..
That's a great Sugaree. Haven't heard this one before. I have a few favourites where Jerry's solos are just extraordinary, but this one is great.
This is a Garcia/Hunter song, so Jerry is singing. Bob and Phil are on backing vocals - and possiblly Donna at this time.
Here's a couple of later ones with videos, good performances too - first is a Sugaree, the second Althea:
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Easy Wind, because that means Pigpen is singing. ❤ and I really love the blues.
I would say China Cat Sunflower. It is one of the earliest memories I have is hearing them play that live when I was 5 or 6 with my parents. I recommend the version on their Live in Europe 72 album.
Welcome on the bus….🚌
Always room for one more ☮️
This might be an unpopular comment, but I found it beneficial to listen to studio Dead songs early on in my journey (just to get to know the songs, the beautiful poetic lyrics). Then branch out to the live stuff which is where the magic really happens. Great albums to start with are American Beauty, Workingman’s Dead, Wake of the Flood and Mars Hotel.
Personal favorite Dead song is UNBROKEN CHAIN written by bass player Phil Leah with an epic solo by Jerry and just a beautiful song. Never found a goid live recording but the studio version is a powerhouse.
Unbroken Chain was played only a few (10 I think) times all during the Dead’s final tour in 1995.
@@thesecretjewishspacelaser9959the only live recording of it I've seen was done by an amateur video audience member and the sound is terrible with the audience overtaking the band's sound and being really muddy. The studio recording is exquisite.
I was at the Philly Spectrum the 1st time they ever played Chain. Different people started to recognize the intro at different parts but once is was obvious to all the crowd went nuts
@@seanjockel43 ikr? I saw them play Box of Rain for the first time in 11 years and the audience went hysterical and so loud that we couldn't hear the song we were celebrating, but still a big celebration.
@robertjewell9727 the biggest crowd reactoo. I saw was the first time ST Stephen was played at MSG. I jumped out of my seat
Help>Slip>Franklin 8/13/75 is FIRE.
My favorite Dead tune is "Truckin'" because I dream of it one day being our National Anthem
Grateful Dead were amazing.... try "St. Stephen", "Cosmic Charlie", "Mountains of the Moon", "Dire Wolf', "Scarlet Begonias", "Box of Rain"
Highly recommend checking out tracks from three nights later at Barton Hall, and catching The Grateful Dead Movie, filmed around this time.
Terrapin Station is my favorite as it’s all of side B on the vinyl tracks. It’s just keeps you in the groove and just the different section breaks in the song are fantastic
Grateful Dead were the founding group of the "Jam Band" movement. Phish, Widespread Panic, moe., The Radiators, and anyone else you care to name, all were heavily influenced by The Dead. "Sugaree" was the third song played at my first GD concert, and put me right on the bus, for life. 9/6/80 Lewiston, Maine if you want to check it out. Some say the best "Sugaree" ever, I would tend to agree. Favorite Dead song: "Sugaree", "U.S. Blues", Sugar Magnolia/Sunshine Daydream", "Help On The Way>Slipknot>Franklin's Tower", "Scarlet Begonias>Fire On The Mountain", "Deal", "Morning Dew", "The Other One", "Terrapin Station"... .
Hey Hartlor, I think we've "met" before on some other reactor channels, like maybe Perk's Recap, or good ol' Tour Head. Or some where else. How're doing? Lewiston was the start of 15 years of more fun than humans should be allowed to have. Glad you were there too. Peace.@@Hartlor_Tayley
Best sugaree 5/28/77 Hartford CT out of bertha good lovin
"Box of Rain" and "Eyes of the World"
My favorite Dead tune is "Scarlet Begonias" because it paints a picture of a harmonious world where everyone is full of love. One of my college girlfriends wore scarlet begonias in her curly hair.
Whenever I want to just sit and chill, I put on Ripple, and if I wanna feel happy, I play Pride of Cucamonga.
oooohh.... that's the stuff. so sweet it hurts. makes me cry. jerry. all of them. like an organism morphing around responding to each other and the environment. i'm so happy for you that you've found it.
peggy-o, wharf rat, row jimmy, althea, they love each other, scarlet/fire (that's scarlet begonias going into fire on the mountain, a common sequence), china/rider (china cat sunflower into cc ryder), must have been the roses, cassidy, birdsong (about janis joplin), franklin's tower... on and on...
again, lucky you, that discovering it all is in your future!
Sounds like you were there and all in. Very sweet. Loved your words and the song list says it all.
@@glenndespres5317 haha. kinda. i saw "only" 25 shows (of their over 2,000!) in the 80s. some people saw a hundred or more. i'd go to 2-3 shows at a venue, hang out btwn shows and sleep in my car. after a show ended, in the parking lot or camping area people would trade tapes from that show or various other shows... hacky-sack was a thing. showers, not so much. haha. i still listen to grateful dead and/or jerry every day. there is SO MUCH out there.
Welcome to the family. Great bass. Lesh philling
Eyes of the World is my fave.
China>Rider transition from 73-74 is as good as music gets. It personifies the Peanuts gang happy dance!
Veneta Oregon 1972. The video of that concert is pure Grateful Dead at their finest. Check it out.
subbed on this one! So awesome to watch you get tuned into it! Life changing band for me.
I keep getting unsubscribed? So I keep subscribing. Keep it up. 63 years old. Had a great time going to concerts. Time fly’s so enjoy why you can.👍
fun fact about phil the bassest. he was a classically trained musician who played trumpet. jerry recruited him to play bass for the band before phil really played bass. he asked Jerry for a lesson and the story goes jerry said when you play an open note, mean it! phil drops huge open notes during some songs, we call them phil bombs. phil talked about it in his book. there is a audio version where he reads it so its basically him telling you stories of his life
Ripple, Estimated Prophet, Stella Blue, Dark Star, High Time, Box of Rain, Eyes of the World... Strongly recommend The Grateful Dead Movie!
Brown Eyed Women,
Cold Rain and Snow,
Uncle John's Band,
Ripple, Jack Straw,
Franklin's Tower,
Eyes of the World.....and, I almost forgot...
Sugaree 😊
You can't have a favourite, but Franklin's Tower is always great. The studio recording was very reggae influenced, but it was a great dance song live, often funky, different in every year they played it. A real great jam song, but very simple.
That was the Merry Prankster's bus (Furthur), the day-glo colored bus. The Prankster's were "associated" with Ken Kesey, the writer of One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest. The character right after Garcia was Neal Cassady, who was a central character in many novels by Jack Kerouac, poems by Allen Ginsburg, and of course songs by the Grateful Dead, who were friends with him. Oh, and the Pranksters put on LSD parties, sometimes called Acid Tests, and the house band was a little known band called the Grateful Dead.
Thanx!!! Great reaction! Compare the studio version of sugared and you’ll understand the touch of grey studio video.
It’s all about the live shows! Different every night!
Favourite song, naaa then I’d need a least favourite too!
Each show the two drummers jam a while alone middle of the second set. Thanx again!
Favorite dead song, China cat sunflower. Feel like that song does the best translates the psychedelic experience through music
Start from the beginning. Viola Lee Blues off the 1st album.
There's a video of China Cat Sunflower/I Know You Rider that's really good. It's worth a dive into reading up on The Dead as their story is amazing..I'd like to add that I think Bob Weir is one of the top three rythym guitarist ever and that Jerry's percussive guitar style is brilliant.
Favorite studio song is Ripple for it's unbelievable lyrics. Favorite trippy jam, That's It For The Other One (otherwise known as The Other One ruclips.net/video/Y38U5xQU7gs/видео.html) is a great live version that literally takes off into another universe. You'll love it!
Tedechi Trucks Band covers this often. Love hearing Susan bust it out. She and Derek are both blues beasts.
Sugar Magnolia is my absolute favorite song by The Dead. I think one of the best versions of it is from the Grateful Dead Movie. Magnolia was the first song I heard by them, my brother had American Beauty and played it for me. I've been a fan ever since. I think you'd like Franklin's Tower as well.
I was a DEADHEAD till the day Jerry left us,I was lost musically till 2017 then I discovered BAND-MAID now everything is hunky dory PO!!!!!
My favorite dead songs are althea and terrapin station. Both sing just get such an emotional response from me. Jerry playing can bring me to tears
If you can get it by the copyright police, there's a 1989 Not Fade Away that is a great peek into that era of the band - a fantastic interplay that shows why folks showed up night after night after night....
Everyone’s got their favorite era and song. I think they peaked live in this 1977 tour. There is a famously great show from this tour recorded at Cornell University in May 1977. Check out the second set opener of Scarlet Begonias-Fire on the Mountain from that one. Another famous show among dead heads the next year recorded outdoors in the mountains at Red Rocks in Colorado on 7/8/78. Check out the Estimated Prophet-Other One second set jam from that one. There’s so many, but these two shows shine. Enjoy✌️