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two dozen full band shows beginning toward the end of Brent era. Never did Rat Dog or Other Ones or anything post Jerry except a Bonnaroo Phil and Phriends.
Do currently enjoy JRAD, DSO, and have seen the Dead with sexy Jerry a couple of times.
Doubt there are many of us left here, but the survey could probably use an option for those of us who probably enjoy the Grateful Dead "a little too much"
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two dozen full band shows beginning toward the end of Brent era. Never did Rat Dog or Other Ones or anything post Jerry except a Bonnaroo Phil and Phriends.
Do currently enjoy JRAD, DSO, and have seen the Dead with sexy Jerry a couple of times.
Doubt there are many of us left here, but the survey could probably use an option for those of us who probably enjoy the Grateful Dead "a little too much"
i never saw the Grateful Dead proper. i was 15 i think when Jerry passed so I wasn't into live music yet, and i saw myself as a little punk rocker at that age so i had no room for "hippie music". i of course love the Dead now but still haven't seen much. Saw Dead and Company a couple years ago, Bob Weir solo a couple years ago, Phil and Friends several years ago.
i was at roo 2003 2004 when The Dead played but skipped the set to get wasted for Ween late night. i regret that.
two dozen full band shows beginning toward the end of Brent era. Never did Rat Dog or Other Ones or anything post Jerry except a Bonnaroo Phil and Phriends.
Do currently enjoy JRAD, DSO, and have seen the Dead with sexy Jerry a couple of times.
Doubt there are many of us left here, but the survey could probably use an option for those of us who probably enjoy the Grateful Dead "a little too much" :P
i never saw the Grateful Dead proper. i was 15 i think when Jerry passed so I wasn't into live music yet, and i saw myself as a little punk rocker at that age so i had no room for "hippie music". i of course love the Dead now but still haven't seen much. Saw Dead and Company a couple years ago, Bob Weir solo a couple years ago, Phil and Friends several years ago.
i was at roo 2003 when The Dead played but skipped the set to get wasted for Ween late night. i regret that.
i never saw the Grateful Dead proper. i was 15 i think when Jerry passed so I wasn't into live music yet, and i saw myself as a little punk rocker at that age so i had no room for "hippie music". i of course love the Dead now but still haven't seen much. Saw Dead and Company a couple years ago, Bob Weir solo a couple years ago, Phil and Friends several years ago.
i was at roo 2003 when The Dead played but skipped the set to get wasted for Ween late night. i regret that.
You probably mean 04, they played Sunday in 03
you are correct, and i also skipped them in 2003 because i had school on Monday and had to leave roo sunday morning.
seeing Dead and Co the last few summers took me right back. the scene. The music. the spirit.
I didn't see much in '95, the year Jerry passed. A dark cloud was following tour. I feel quite lucky/blessed to have seen some of the magic i did. When Jerry died, I spun off into a Johnny Cash/outlaw country/bluegrass tilt, and was a bit estranged from the idea of the Dead going forward. Until I rejoined the feels, and remembered the Dead going forward has all it's ever really been about !!
I never saw the real thing. I did see a few shows of the other stuff (Ratdog, Phil, dead at rothbury) but Furthur was how i really got in to the Grateful Dead.
I had tickets to see the Dead in June of 93 with my college girlfriend. We broke up the night before and she got the tickets. That was their last show in Buffalo before Jerry died.
Was going to see them at Roo in 2004 but I passed out mid afternoon in some randos tent (I guess that I was the rando in that situation, LOL) and didn't wake up until Primus.
I have seen Phil & Friends, Ratdog, & Dead & Co. I also saved Bob Weir from having the cops called on him once, FWIW.
I also saved Bob Weir from having the cops called on him once, FWIW.
Story pls
I was just coming in to work at a full service hotel at around 6:30 when the overnight supervisor snagged me because there was a 'homeless person trying to get into a room'. He was just coming in from the previous night (bars close at 4 in Buffalo), he had lost his key and forgotten his pseudonym. And, obvs, he looks like he could be a vagrant. They were in the process of calling the police when I saw who it was and got him a key to his room.
Post by snowmanomura on Feb 17, 2021 16:42:13 GMT -5
the dead at bonnaroo is '04 was my first show. the only "grateful dead" show I saw was Santa Clara Fare Thee Well. I probably wouldn't miss a Dead and Co. show that is nearby, but I think JRAD is probably more interesting.
And instead of saying all of your goodbyes - let them know you realize that life goes fast - It's hard to make the good things last-you realize the sun doesn't go down - It's just an illusion caused by the world spinning round
My friend left Thom Yorke at ACL to see an Austin-based Dead cover band called Dead Eye who she's probably seen a hundred times at some bar. Massive L. Dead fans are psychotic.
Saw Dead and Co with her in the pit at Roo, which felt like an achievement for me personally in my Dead experience.
My friend left Thom Yorke at ACL to see an Austin-based Dead cover band called Dead Eye who she's probably seen a hundred times at some bar. Massive L. Dead fans are psychotic.
Saw Dead and Co with her in the pit at Roo, which felt like an achievement for me personally in my Dead experience.
The crowd for thom was so light at ACL I was like 10 feet from the stage with no issue
And instead of saying all of your goodbyes - let them know you realize that life goes fast - It's hard to make the good things last-you realize the sun doesn't go down - It's just an illusion caused by the world spinning round
Post by itrainmonkeys on Feb 17, 2021 18:07:30 GMT -5
Big fan but I don't think I really ever got that into their 80's/90's shows. I'm sure they're good but for some reason I haven't gotten very deep into them.
My friend in high school got me into a live in Germany album (as well as Hendrix and Pink Floyd) when we would hang at his house and smoke in his room.
Another friend would sometimes put on Terrapin Station when we'd be at his house but I think we were more focused on video games and junk for me to fully "get it" and pay attention to the songs.
From there I got really into Europe 72 release and started digging into the studio albums while in college (when I first got an Amazon account and would go to the local CD/record stores).
So it was weird that I was going from knowing live versions and go back to the studio albums but man.....going to American Beauty and Workingman's Dead followed up by discovering Aoxomoxa and Shakedown Street was a great time.
I also remember being in college at the computer lab rocking out to my newly purchased "Truckin' up to Buffalo" from the 80's and that was the one that did resonate with me. It revealed a few new songs to me, made me like some songs I wasn't familiar with and also introduced me to Brent Mydland who was a nice addition, I thought. I think the few covers (Like When I painte my masterpiece, which I didn't know was a Dylan song then) also hooked me. I fucking love that version of "Man Smart, Woman Smarter". When Brent comes in with his lines I just feel it. I don't know why.
Little boy sit on the corner and cry Big man come and he ask him why Says I can't do what the big boys do Man sat down and he cried too
(HOLY SHIT THE WHOLE SHOW IS ON YOUTUBE?!?!?!)
All that said, there's still a bunch of tunes and performances of theirs that I'm just not aware of. I've seen "The Dead" with Warren Haynes back when they'd play Jones Beach and I was just getting to concert going age. I've seen Furthur. But I still have yet to check off Dead & Co which I'd like to do because I am a Mayer fan.
My friend left Thom Yorke at ACL to see an Austin-based Dead cover band called Dead Eye who she's probably seen a hundred times at some bar. Massive L. Dead fans are psychotic.
Saw Dead and Co with her in the pit at Roo, which felt like an achievement for me personally in my Dead experience.
The crowd for thom was so light at ACL I was like 10 feet from the stage with no issue
I don't remember it being that light but I was right in front of the sound tent and it was perfect.
the dead at bonnaroo is '04 was my first show. the only "grateful dead" show I saw was Santa Clara Fare Thee Well. I probably wouldn't miss a Dead and Co. show that is nearby, but I think JRAD is probably more interesting.
I used to dislike the Dead but I definitely came around on them - too late, in fact, as it wasn't until after seeing Dead & Co at Roo that I decided to dive in. Tbh I think initially I was turned off by how aggressively white and thus unabashedly uncool they were. They were nasal-voiced old men singing little harmonies while noodling goofiness on their guitars. Big meh. And even though I'm def a fan at this point, I don't find their music to be emotionally dramatic (at least not on the surface) so it didn't immediately draw me in.
But after the Dead & Co performance at Roo and the constant playing of them by my then-new Deadhead girlfriend, I naturally started absorbing their music and things started to click. I started to appreciate how much they challenged the idea of what a song actually is, since the "same song" can sound so different between eras or even individual performances on the same tour. It's probably what I've come to appreciate the most about jam in general. Eventually I started listening more and more, and throwing on random performances on the weekends, and by last year I became "that guy" at work because of my tendency to throw the Grateful Dead SiriusXM station on on the radio at work. I've basically just come to own my own aggressively white unabashed uncoolness. It's been fun.
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I was joking above because obviously it's all way before my time, but Ron "Pigpen" Kiernan, a founding vocalist, harmonica player, and keyboardist, was heavily influenced by Black music and used to have the band cover Otis Redding and James Brown, blues, gospel and R&B type stuff. He was the guiding force of the early band. That was mostly before they had many of their own songs that they're now known for now. He died at the famous rock n roll age of 27 from complications due to alcoholism (impressively young to die from that), but had to leave the band earlier than that. I'm not an expert of their whole history by any means, but I spent some time researching their earlier stuff. He definitely brought some elements that made them "cooler" to me.
the dead at bonnaroo is '04 was my first show. the only "grateful dead" show I saw was Santa Clara Fare Thee Well. I probably wouldn't miss a Dead and Co. show that is nearby, but I think JRAD is probably more interesting.
Have you checked out Grateful Shred?
actually now that you mention it, I saw them at a free show in a PHX when a new venue was opening. They totally fell off my radar but the show was pretty fun.
Billy Strings is a badass picker many consider to be extended Dead family. These livestreams begin tonight(tonight and Sunday's streams are free) and are an homage to the 50 year anniversary of the Grateful Dead's "ESP Experiments" at the Capitol Theater. Ought to be more than a little entertaining.More below:
FANS and The Relix Channel on Twitch, along with Bell’s Brewery, have partnered with Billy Strings for ‘The Deja Vu Experiment,’ a six-night livestream event that will take place at Port Chester, N.Y.’s legendary Capitol Theatre. The streams will take place starting tonight, Feb. 18, and will continue on Feb. 19-21, 23 and 24. The dates were chosen to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the Grateful Dead’s February 1971 performances at the venue, which took place on the same exact dates.
At the shows in 1971, the Grateful Dead conducted ESP Experiments, which consisted of “prompting Deadheads in the audience to focus on imagery shown by the band and telepathically send the imagery to a test subject.” (Quote via the event’s description.) A virtual version of such an experiment will be conducted during ‘The Deja Vu Experiment.’
Tonight’s stream, as well as the final nights of the event (Feb. 18 and 24), will be streamed for free on The Relix Channel on Twitch. The remaining nights (Feb. 19-21, 23) are available for pay-per-view on FANS. A portion of the proceeds will go to The Rex Foundation and to Backline.
“The Grateful Dead’s 6-night run of shows at The Capitol Theatre in February 1971 were a singular event in the 95-year history of the theater,” said Capitol Theatre owner and Relix publisher Peter Shapiro. “In 1971 the theater hosted Pink Floyd, Janis Joplin, Eric Clapton and a who’s who of American rock and roll legends, but it was the Dead’s run of shows that Winter that came to define the theater’s legacy.”
“We have been thinking for a while about how best to mark the 50th Anniversary of those iconic shows,” Shapiro continued. “Obviously we can’t celebrate with us all together but the virtual livestream technology does feel fitting given that the original 1971 shows experimented with ESP and in an effort to expand human connections and the music experience. Inviting Billy to perform the same 6-dates (Feb 18-24) that the Dead played in 1971 was in our mind from the beginning, more than a year ago. He personifies the idea of taking genres of music like Bluegrass and Rock and Roll and pushing their boundaries into new areas, in a similar way that Jerry Garcia did 50 years ago. I am super excited for what is going to happen, it feels like a good moment to have a Deja Vu Experiment.”
To tune into tonight’s stream, head to twitch.tv/therelixchannel. For more information, head to thedejavuexperiment.com.
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Correction: Final night of the above mentioned run is TONIGHT, and it, like the opening night, is FREE. Apologies for the misinfo on Sunday's stream being a free one. I only watched the first night, but it was tremendous. Dead covers sprinkled in to the sets, and some ESP talk with Oteil Burbridge of Dead and Company. Tonight is sure to be molten hot. Get you some
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