should i give the grateful dead a chance?

just want to say that the instrumental sections on 'sugaree' on dicks picks vol 3 are so very wonderful

although i read a recent jesse jarnow bit that suggested the jams always drove towards some big crescendo when mickey hart rejoined which i can kinda see. oh well

yeah, 76-77 is when they started doing 10+-minute sugarees I think -- i love those.
i have some weird concept of doing a cover of "heroin" in the style of "sugaree". not sure why.

btw the summer of dead rolls on -- tarfumes just contributed an excellent guest post: http://doomandgloomfromthetomb.tumblr.com/tagged/summer-of-dead
i'm listening to some 1985 show as we speak, there are like laser synth sounds on shakedown street.

we just moved to a new neighborhood and met some major deadheads who live up the street, they painted a whole dead scene with bears and terrapins and the europe 72 boot on their side fence. they live next to railroad tracks so of course put up a large "terrapin station" sign on their garage. i've had a steal your face sticker on my car for a while and when i introduced our selves the dude was like "oh cool we've been wanting to meet you" lol

#mellowslow

and here's the grateful dead covering robyn hitchcock in 1988

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XWaJUpB6-Us

haha, yeah that is so random. it's almost pretty good ...

OK, that's some names-out-of-a-hat shit. Digging it (and the band seems to know the song...somewhat!)

wish somebody had taped their cover of "wading through a ventilator"

Weir couldda done a maybe good "Kingdom of Love"...

everyone around me loves the dead. i've been trying for years to get into this band, mostly because of all they have to offer to their fans in terms of live recordings/rarities... i got Workingman's Dead last year, and just recently American Beauty, Aoxomoxoa, and Anthem of the Sun... I know I have to listen to Europe '72, and other shows - but are there any other studio albums worth checking out first? AB and Aoxomoxoa are my favorites so far, this band is such a slow burn for me...like I just put AB on, and I'm starting to really love it...

garcia self-titled

also ace

Blues for Allah
This is a no brainer

Garcia by Jerry Garcia seconded. Probably my favorite dead-related studio album.
Among proper Dead albums, I also have a big soft spot for Wake of the Flood, too.

yah get Wake The Flood

Live Dead

oh wait u said studio

The debut is a fun Garage Rock album.

...and, y'know, actually better than a lot of 'Legendary Garage Albums'.

Yeah it's pretty solid.

Blues For Allah is very different from AB & Aoxomoxoa, and for me it runs out of gas, but man the studio Franklin's/Help was SUCH a treat the first time I heard it. Like I remember where I was the first time I heard it (in a cab heading to the Newark airport, with headphones on) and the feeling of how it sounded...it's got its ups and downs and is not the equal of the ones you already have, but I'd go with that

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/0/00/Grateful_Dead_-_From_the_Mars_Hotel.jpg

listened to From the Mars Hotel for the first time tonight. as usual i like about every other song and there are some downright stinkers ("Money Money"). "China Doll" "Unbroken Chain" and "Ship of Fools" are all atmospheric and slightly trippy, but "U.S. Blues" is the most rockin' uptempo thing on here. they are best when they aren't complicating things too much and just doing a southern rock groove.

"U.S. Blues" is a fun song. makes me think of the Turtles a little. and it has Gerry Garcia saying he's going to steal your wife.

Jerry

Unbroken Chain is so relaxed

Except for that high pitched tone that pans across the stereo landscape

That can be relaxing under certain conditions.

I wonder if people with poor hearing notice it all; also what effect does any does it have on animals?

this article suggests that weird sound might represent "the song of the saw-whet owl" -- http://artsites.ucsc.edu/GDead/agdl/chain.html

Here's a variety of saw-whet owl sounds. Nothing that sounds like tinkling, sadly. In my experience, the "annotated grateful dead" site has some very random and sometimes incorrect annotations in it. I don't know what Dodd's criteria for inclusion are or how carefully he vets entries.

https://www.allaboutbirds.org/guide/Northern_Saw-whet_Owl/sounds

haha, yeah. but it's usually a pretty entertaining site.

Yeah, it's got some entertainment value. I used to read it frequently before he put out the book. Was disappointed when the book came out and it was just a printed version of the website.

Anyway, Unbroken Chain rules.

i dunno. it's got some really cool parts. one spot even sounds like drum n bass or stereolab for a second. but the basic song is kind of unimpressive. too math rock, too noodly. the high synth is eh, i wayyyyy prefer Hawkwind for that kind of thing.

i kinda like this
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DzcOtukqoo8

"Loose Lucy" is some southern fried glam. T-Rex via The Allman Brothers.

Never liked that one. Too loose

Govt Mule/Allman Bros/Phil & Friends' Warren Hayes has also played with the Dead, and this summer he did some of their songs in concerts w symphony orchestras. He comments on several faves here, where we also get videos of GD versions (live & studio):
http://www.rollingstone.com/music/lists/warren-haynes-on-5-grateful-dead-classics-w442312/blues-for-allah-w442318

Take it to the warren Hayes thread

why, when the performances are all Dead

Because warren Hayes is a tool?

he's not that bad, he can definitely shred.

Almanac/calendar's out now:

http://www.dead.net/almanac/img/grateful-dead-2017-calendar-almanac-1200x1200.jpg?a

Whole thing's here, I think, though haven't read it all:

http://www.dead.net/almanac/?cmpid=dn/2016November17/GratefulDeadAlm-main-image-1&eml=2016November17/3805321/6131962&etsubid=33554028

Cool interview with Lesh: short but sweet, intriguing bits and dig his fave memory of Garcia (also a fairly recent flashback):
http://www.rollingstone.com/music/features/the-last-word-phil-lesh-on-jerry-garcia-memories-sci-fi-w434812

Aw,that's a sweet memory to share.

the remaster of live/dead doesn't sound so good does it

This is great:

"My favorite memory was Lew Welch's line in one of his poems. He was describing looking in the mirror in the morning: "I don't know who you are, but I'm going to shave you anyway."

live/dead always sounded kind of muddy to me