should i give the grateful dead a chance?

I have spent a lot more time with the official live stuff up to Dead Set over the last few years

I'm not ready/worthy for Dick's Picks yet

Oh, sleeve, you just need to hear this one show from . . . .

Also, I recommend relisten.net for your non-official live show needs as they have everything chronologically, usually with multiple versions (it's a helpful UI for what's in archive.org.

A friend of mine listened to every Spring 77 show in order last year.

recently learned of this women’s note-for-note piano arrangement of “eyes of the world” from the louisville 77 show

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=voLdRQ-19dc

i've never bought a Dead cover CD but i would totally buy a CD of her doing that. so pretty.

good morning, the sun is out and I am playing American Beauty for the first time in forever

Yeah, Holly Bowling is great! One thing to cover a Dead (or Phish) song, another entirely to nail specific live versions like she does.

still playing the studio LPs, I am up to Mars Hotel

this was fascinating, are there really only three studio tracks they never played live?

https://faroutmagazine.co.uk/the-grateful-dead-songs-never-performed-live/

Bear Owsley’s biography from a few years back is a breeze to go through. That man lived 10 lives before he turned 30.

Just here to add a third boost for Holly Bowling.

Sad that Ghost Light have broken up; her departure in December 2022 seemed to be the tipping point.

Despite being a fan of Bowling, Ghost Light never clicked for me.

still playing the studio LPs, I am up to Mars Hotel

this was fascinating, are there really only three studio tracks they never played live?

https://faroutmagazine.co.uk/the-grateful-dead-songs-never-performed-live/

― I painted my teeth (sleeve), Sunday, 25 February 2024 22:13

Funnily enough, I'm listening to Mars Hotel right now. I bought it a few years back and forgot about it. It's not bad.

Wake of the Flood and Blues for Allah are the best (post-1970) 70s studio albums.

turns out my Blues For Allah is trashed, like VG- :(

Sorry to hear that. Side 1 is great. Side 2 is pretty good too.

As a kid the cover scared the shit out of me

Morning listening https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aI384OjjF1c

Not as pyrotechnic or psychedelic as some versions, but I dig this

@albertmiller3082
3 years ago
The pace of this Dark Star accelerates & decelerates perceptibly AND imperceptibly. Very unique musical expression captured for eternity here.

jerry sounds so pretty.

I found the case for DP2 on a shelf I don't look at much . Looked in it later and no disc. bummer.
Need to find the editions I do have though.

the only single-disc DP.

that's my second fave DS

so in terms of studio albums, I've done american beauty, workingman dead and terrapin station. any thoughts as to what I should tackle next

Blues For Allah is very good.

Bob Weir’s Ace is actually a GD album that is cut from the same cloth as Workingman’s Dead and American Beauty, and it’s really good. It was recently remixed and a lot of people don’t like the new version as much.

❤️❤️❤️❤️

Besides Ace (which lives up to its title), the other companion solo albums, Garcia and Mickey Hart's Rolling Thunder, are worth checking out. The former is a widely acknowledged classic, and the latter is weird in the best way.

I may be alone in this, but I think the debut is a fun Garage Rock record. In fact, I'd rep for all of the '60s albums.

I never realized until I got copies, but so many GD live classics come from Ace/Garcia.

my question is do we feel like the grateful dead and jefferson airplane ever hung out

Absolutely. Have you heard the first David Crosby solo album? Members of both bands on there, along with Neil Young, Joni Mitchell, and others.

yeah they all played together in the Planet Earth Rock & Roll Orchestra!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Planet_Earth_Rock_and_Roll_Orchestra

well not "all" but a bunch

stop

Jerry played steel guitar on the Volunteers album too, and was credited as "Spiritual Advisor" in the Surrealistic Pillow liners (an album he named BTW).

wahhhhhhhhhhhhhhht. wow I'm dumb. thank you for this. JP was my absolute favorite band growing up

love volunteers

JA rather

I recently finished the "Got A Revolution" JA bio, recommended

👍 finally I was just looking into the Crosby scene for the first time in ages the other night, must be something in the air clearly

*funnily

my question is do we feel like the grateful dead and jefferson airplane ever hung out

― Swen

this thread keeps reminding me of shit from my curated dark star playlist that i lost in the crash, some sweet fillmore side project jams with jack casady on bass

i love lesh a lot but jerry and jack together is a beautiful thing as well

(to be clear i didn't lose the files themselves, what i lost was the _curation_ haha)

loving it

Kantner's Blows against the Empire has some prime post-airplane jefferson/dead weirdness too.

Where has this studio version of PITB been all my life lmfao

they probably lived together at the Fulton at house, yeah?

should I have (re)bought Sunfighter today for $6 y/n

I sampled those perro adjacent albums and didn’t take much away

pay no more than 1.99 for sunfighter, punx

yeah, I was gonna say, that's a dollar bin staple of Silk Degrees proportions