The Grateful Dead

[mouthwater]

Where's all the Heads at? I did a search and could barely find any Dead threads. There seems to be little appreciation here.

What's your favorite "era?" Songs? Members? Shows? Got any good concert experiences? Do you collect shows? How many do you have? How'd you get into the Dead? Are you a fan of other jam (Phish, Umphrey's, moe., etc)? Bluegrass music? Does a good Dark Star "really hit the spot" when you're feeling down?

[Orchid_Suspiria]

I always found the Grateful Dead and most hippie music rather boring,I'm more into goth and punk sorry.The only things good to come out of the sixties were The Doors,The Velvet Underground,The Stones,and Iggy Pop.

[bman1]

Some of the ebst experince of swibs life of at shows. Swib hitch across half the country with nothing to swibs name and had places to stay drugs to use and food to eat. People were so friendy music great evry one willing to helop.

Now sigh real life real job swib has made life time friends in the jamband and rave scene. Swib loves that kind of anarchy complete freedome where everyone helps one another no fights and if they have some things their neighbor doesnt they share. People make the sene the music makes it tht muc h better Swib loved swibs young and dumb years

[Spare Chaynge]

I love gratefuldead i am very young to be a dead head. I only got to see the dead once swim went at bonnarro 04 to see them. They were amazing swim was jammin in a foot of mud and it was raining hard swim was on lsd mdma and shrooms. it was narly. I love phish, wsp, sci, galactic , allman brothers.

[yj965]

I to am a rather young Deadhead and it was the same way at bonnarro 06. It was Phil Lesh and Friends but its as close as we can get now. Every wednesday on a local radio sation, that I always have tuned in, they play from one to three hours of mostly live Dead shows. I started with my brothers albums Workingman's Dead, American Beauty and a lot fo Dick's Picks.

I am a big fan of jam bands. Phish is another of my all time favorite. I also go see The Allman Brothers Band every time they tour here. Theres to many good bands to list right now.

Bluegrass is also one of my favorite. I have had Bela Felck playing for a while now. I love to play my banjo and fiddle with my buddies around a fire.

[Pinkavvy]

Though the dead is ... well, dead. (remaining dead still plays some good shows, but the tour is no more as it was) ... swip is still a profesional lot kid at heart and attends tuns and tuns of other shows all year.

[Alicia]

Originally Posted by mouthwater

Where's all the Heads at? I did a search and could barely find any Dead threads. There seems to be little appreciation here.

What's your favorite "era?" Songs? Members? Shows? Got any good concert experiences? Do you collect shows? How many do you have? How'd you get into the Dead? Are you a fan of other jam (Phish, Umphrey's, moe., etc)? Bluegrass music? Does a good Dark Star "really hit the spot" when you're feeling down?

Grateful dead???

[Pinkavvy]

they're a band that was lead by the late jerry garcia, RIP. not just a band, but a cultural phenomenom that started the traveling psychodelia sub-culture that is the barter fair and festival circuit.

[Alicia]

Originally Posted by Pinkavvy

they're a band that was lead by the late jerry garcia, RIP. not just a band, but a cultural phenomenom that started the traveling psychodelia sub-culture that is the barter fair and festival circuit.

Wah.. Swia really needs to listen more. she seems to be never up to scratch on music. what are they sort of like, swia will probably order a cd cause shes a lil curious..

[mouthwater]

Originally Posted by Alicia

Wah.. Swia really needs to listen more. she seems to be never up to scratch on music. what are they sort of like, swia will probably order a cd cause shes a lil curious..

It's difficult to describe. A flurry of harmony, improvisation, love, sweat & tears, folk(ish) lyrics, some funky bass grooves, some keyboard hammering, some spacey guitars, all leading to a transcendental experience of being "unstuck" in space while listening to some jams that roll on and on and on.

If you know how to use torrents, I can show you were you can download some shows from (live shows are generally regarded as better than studio, because of the jam element that can be had at a good show). The Dead supports concert-taping and swapping as long as it's free. If you don't use torrents, there's a few websites you could stream (listen, but not download) shows at.

PM me if you are interested.

edit: I've been trying to finish a pictorial demonstrating where, and how, to download live shows from. Hopefully it'll get online soon in between my studying, inebriation, recreational reading, and my other shit that leaves me with little free time. I'll post a link when available.

[Orchid_Suspiria]

Originally Posted by Alicia

Wah.. Swia really needs to listen more. she seems to be never up to scratch on music. what are they sort of like, swia will probably order a cd cause shes a lil curious..

Hmm I might upset a few people here Alicia but you aren't missing much.They are a highly overrated band.They are abit like glorified folk music,pretty boring even if one is stoned on every substance you can think of.The hippies were a rather ridiculous lot,it was a glorious day when punk came around and took music out of its sheer boredom.

[Spare Chaynge]

Yah man i saw bela fleck in my home town durango colorado like a week ago it was sweet. yah man i have langerado tickets but ihave to sell them. im going to summer camp, wakarusa and maybe bonnarro again even though i caught the 06 show as well, what great weather right man????? bonarro sounds like its rockin this year with galactic wsp and sci

[bman1]

Originally Posted by Spare Chaynge

wakarusa

BOYCOTT THIS PLACE LOOK WHAT HAPPENED LAST YEAR!!!!

As for SCI looks like bonnaroo might be their last show. but they are not the same as 98-2001 swib agrees with bill

[mouthwater]

10KLF is the festival. Last year we had Phil, Trey, SCI, KWI, KW, Umphrey's, MMW, Railroad Earth, Big Wu, Everyone Orchestra, Trampled by Turtles, among others.

This year, so far Bobby, Trey, Umphrey's, moe., Gov't, KW, TDB, DTB, New Riders of the Purple Sage, and Trampled by Turtles have been announced.

I thought about going and catching Bobby's show last night but I'll be seeing him this summer. I've never caught Bela yet, it's a shame. I caught 3x consecutive YMSB shows over NYE, which was epic as fuck. I'm hoping STS9 is invited to 10K this year.

[nanobrain]

we are everywhere...

[Nature Boy]

SWIM's a new generation Grateful Dead fan. Sort of got into them by accident when a buddy lended him some CDs. They're possibly his favourite band now. They have some amazing albums: Live Dead, Anthem of the Sun, Workingman's, Terrapin etc. As far as improvisation goes, they were damn impressive.

As far as the whole bluegrass thing goes, SWIM likes it! In fact, he likes it a lot more than he initially expected. Old and in the Way is one of his favourite albums.

And does "Dark Star" hit the spot? Damn right it does.

SWIM needs to get more into jam bands actually. Currently he's getting into The Allman Brothers Band.

[mouthwater]

If you like bluegrass, check out the band Trampled by Turtles. It's probably time you start venturing into live show territory instead of studio releases. Get some of the Dick's Picks or Download Series albums, or if you use torrents and PM me, I can link you to some great sites that circulate live tapings.

[Pinkavvy]

As for jam bands go, the Dead defined the genra ... and helped organize a now HUGE sub culture of transiet phsychodelic dancers ....

swips favorite new jam bands are FLOWMOTION and Bid Island Shindig
flowmotion will get into like 45 minute improv rips at live shows that just drive you head wild, much like the new riders of the purple sage

[mouthwater]

I just listened to a few tracks from Flowmotion and Big Island Shindig. It's nice, I like!

I'm snagging a few shows from each of them right now. Some good fucking jammin' going on here this morning. I recently finally got listening to Sound Tribe Sector 9, after many recommended them to me. Many of the members have synthesizers next to them that they'll rip spacey jams on when they aren't playing their instruments. I imagine their live shows are epic.

[Pinkavvy]

Yeah swip was directly responsible for their cross over this year playing together at a few shows calling it the "BIG FLOW" ... actually booked them both for the first "BIG FLOW" at one of the shows swip helps organize.

[Pinkavvy]

SCI is an ever evolving and improving group in swip's opinion .. they actually swaped drummers with flowmotion last summer for a while ... and overall good peeps too. the smaller and more closenet west coast circuit shows are much better then bustaroo and more mainstream festival shows. // yes, here on the west coast the festival circuit is still very close to the vibe of the dead tour and rainbow gatherings all mixed together // In fact, on the west coast there are almost weekly BARTER FAIRS that are held in differant areas underground that is by word of mouth of family mostly that is the great atmousphere of a west coast festival without the draw of all the big bands and national ticket sales and advertising... and getting back on topic, you never seen a good jamband or especially SCI until you've seen them up close and personal where they are at some point playing for YOU .... in close crowds of just a few hundred or a thousand people these bands really shine and jam with you on a more personal level ... and they tend to do much longer improv jams and try new creative evolutions...

//swip gets off his pro west coast festival ciruit soapbox//

[yj965]

Seems like swim needs to move out west for a while. He has always wanted to be able to go to a lot more shows then he can now. He is always on JamBase.com and becomes sad to see all the great shows he is missing out on.

[Pinkavvy]

LoL orchid, did you ever go to a LIVE dead show? Have you ever been to a festival? Heard and experience the music and the trippy half hour imrpovs in the middle of already amazing songs? Truely talented musicians.

And "hippies were" implies that a past reference. Swip was at a show of over 45000 hippies LAST YEAR listening to some of the best music ever played for free and swip was GIVIN lsd and mushrooms and smoked pot all weekend with kind family. Were redlicolous, I think more like ARE amazing. Ya get that kind of turn up at a punk show? lol Oh yeah, there are punk stages as well as electonica domes at many to most of these festival too anymore.

[Orchid_Suspiria]

SWIM has been to punk shows where lots of free benzos and h turned up and to SWIM thats alot better than free pot and lsd

[Pinkavvy]

To each their own