I've never listened to The Grateful Dead before. Never thought they'd be my thing but this is fantastic. Opened up a whole new journey to discover more.
Steve Evans You will literally find EVERYTHING in the Dead's vast catalog! So many live shows available now too! You want bluegrassy? "Friend of the Devil" and "Cumberland Blues", want a good old Cowboy song or two? "El Paso" and "Mexicali Blues", want high energy rock? "One More Satruday Night" "Sugar Magnolia" and "Jack Straw", fun folksy yarns? "Tennessee Jed" and "Brown Eyed Women" Want down and dirty blues? "Easy Wind" and "Little Red Rooster" want those spacey jams they're known for? "Dark Star" "Wharf Rat" "Morning Dew" and "The Other One", want traditionals? "Peggy O", want sheer beauty? "Crazy Fingers" and "Bird Song" and on and on.............As they said: "What a Long Strange Trip It's Been!" I climbed on the bus in late 68 and never looked to get off! I listen EVERY day!
Bob Weir’s shining moment in the sun. His China Cat intro riff is sublime, and then he absolutely tears it up during his transition solo! (Not that everyone else isn’t fully on point too!) 🎸💥
'I Know You Rider' is a bluegrass song. Jerry Garcia was a Bluegrass and old folk music dude when he formed Mother McCree's Uptown Jugband, which was the forerunner to The Warlocks, who changed their name to The Grateful Dead when they found out there was another band with that name.
Bluegrass is close. Rider’s been an Americana staple since the 1930s. this is such a fantastic version. I’m glad it made an “official” recording double album - or now I guess I should say 73-CD boxed set of the tour!
Bought this album the year it came out with Christmas money my grandmother sent me. I still have it and remember I bought it at Venture for $5.77. Wonderful set. Jim
Glad you're getting around to some Live Grateful Dead! Europe '72 is a great place to start. Enjoyed your other GD reactions. I hope this truly has catapulted up the pecking order, 18-24 months would be too long to wait! 😉
There is a beauty to Grateful Dead songs in that they tap such a deep musical vein sometimes and even though it may be the 1st time hearing one of their songs it's so familiar that you swear that you have heard it before... their roots go way deep. Enjoyed seeing your enjoyment. 💀🌹💀🌹💀🌹💀
Great to see you diving in a little deeper into the dead… You are on the right track. Stick with the live stuff from here on out. Anything Dick’s picks or Dave’s picks… you are spot on in not being able to put your finger on what this reminds you of… The Grateful Dead are the masters at giving you little pieces of every genre of music from classical to progressive, and everything in between and beyond. It’s the soundtrack of humanity wrapped into one band. There’s nothing like it.
Now I’am 70 years old Grateful Dead’s music is in my soul, saw them live the first time they came to Europe in 1970 at the Hollywood Music Festival near Newcastle Under Lyme, they played the same day as Black Sabbath. Always liked them, now we can listen to hundreds of live concerts they did from 1965 to 1995 on Archives, absolutely priceless 🎉🎉. One of my most loved song of there’s is Viola Lee Blues, it’s on there first album, some of the live versions are for me incredible, especially my favourite period when they were more psychedelic around 1966 to 1970 give them a listen and have your mind blown 🤯🎉
you have me beat by six years but hell yeah, what a catalog. I’m kind of addicted to first-time Dead reaction videos especially, of course, good live versions.
I believe I saw a rare clip of a very young Ozzy hanging out backstage with the Dead. Ozzy's a metal hippie you know: War Pigs, Crazy Train ("Learn how to love and forget how to hate")
I was in Vegas at the Silver Bowl. Just after Jerry belted out the second "I wish I was a headlight...", at exactly the same time as that deep guitar downstroke bomb, a lightning bolt flashes behind the stage. The crowd erupted as he casually sings "I'd shine my light through the cool Colorado rain". People were bowing down in reverence after that with big shocked eyes and huge smiles, looking around at all their brothers and sisters "I know you rider..."
I did the Fall 1990 Grateful Dead European tour. Met The Bear (Owlsley) on the train going from Copenhagen Denmark to Amersfoort Holland. He was a genius. Wanted equipment that didn't exist sohe built it. Didn't trust some of the product going around so he made it. By the 55 gallon drum. Watch the 1974 Dead concert movie. He built noise cancelling system to stop feedback.
The "Big Three" of live albums for me would have to be: (in no particular order) Allman Brothers "Live at Fillmore East", Grateful Dead's "Europe 72", and Little Feat's "Waiting for Columbus"!!
@@tommathews3964 Solid choices. I would round out my top 5 with Frampton Comes Alive ( mostly for sentimental reasons) and (tied) Rush’s All The World’s A Stage and Exit Stage Left.
There are some truly evocative moments on this album. The jam which begins around 11:15 in this video gives me a soaring sensation every time I hear it. There are a few lines in "Jack Straw" that spark similarly expansive thoughts, though it's not quite as upbeat as this track.
Same page, both songs. That final solo in _I Know You Rider_ is a transcendent cacophony and one of the most effective climaxes that I think of. And each prechorus in _Jack Straw_ , where Jerry does those dancing low-string leads, are similarly chill-inducing.
hey Jim, so good to see you discovering this music- and on vinyl no less!!! Check out the entire (two) albums. Chock full of brilliant stuff. You'll be a deadhead by the time you finish!
If you can get the recordings of The Big Steve Hour and react ...holy shit. He's the most famous roadie, SNL in the 70s did skits about him that were inside jokes, we had no clue but the family did. Big Steve talking about the Europe 72 tour is so epic. The poor math on the LSD conversion left them seriously spun, the whole team...miscalculated Big time, mega doses in France lol. So many incredible stories.
I taught a college music history class many years ago and would share this performance as a great example of “polyphony”. This piece deserves multiple listens and is always a marvel - you can pick any one of the instruments to concentrate upon and enjoy its melodic artistry. Wonderful also to hear Bob Weir contributing a chordal solo!
Interesting tidbit: Jerry was playing a modified Strat given to him by Graham Nash on this. It sold for $420,000 a few years ago. Arguably Jerry’s best tone according to a lot of Deadheads. Although he switched to custom guitars a year after this in 1973 for good.
For that year, they were the best rock band in the world, and this album is one of the best of all time. I believe the vocal harmonizing was inspired by Crosby. Stills and Nash,
That Spring 77 stuff is hard to beat! I highly recommend a show I was lucky enough to make: Tuscaloosa AL 5/17/77! One of the most unique "Jack A Roe" I've ever heard! Cool little "shuffle" to it. My friends and I did a "decompression" in the lot after the show and made the only logical decision........head for Atlanta for the 18/19 shows at The Fox! If memory serves, we pooled our resources and came up with $19. 🤣 th-cam.com/video/X3EyXSVBpvw/w-d-xo.html
@@benhinds2971 no. The first Branford was 3/29/90 at the Nassau Coliseum. 7/4/89 from Buffalo is just an amazing show during July of 89. It may be the only month that can rival May of 77.
Thank you, Jim. Welcome to the enlightenment! Once you’re in you’re in and this (as well as the entire Dead/Garcia/Hunter/Weir/Lesh/McKernan/Mydland/Kreutzmann/Hart/Godchaux catalogue) is the soundtrack for a great life’s journey-the Dead are the ultimate American band yet absolutely for all humanity-Europe ‘72 is a great entry point. Great post!
I was a high school senior when this album was released, and I’ve been a Deadhead ever since. Do a deep deep dive, it’ll be well worth the time. You can’t listen to Jerry & the boys jam without smiling & dancing!✌️❤️🎶
Right on. CSN helped teach the Dead how to harmonize vocals in late 60s early 70s. In exchange Jerry played pedal steel guitar on CSN Teach your Children track.
@@Jeff-yc2js the first time Jerry played it was on Crosby’s ‘Laughing’. He offered to do it again but Crosby told him it was perfect…and it absolutely was.
@@JimNewstead people keep saying that the Dead couldn’t do it in the studio. Absolutely b*llocks! American Beauty and Workingman’s Dead are every bit as good as Deja Vu or whatever 🤔
Their first album is one of my favorite albums but live it has to be the Fillmore West '69 bootlegs especially Volume 4.. You can just visualize a laid back sunny afternoon listening to the Grateful Dead hitting their zone in sync. Great improvisers.
Jim, I’d like to add. You mention energy, and that’s a key element to the GD. Look for it in the upcoming listens. You also mention groove. Its energy and groove combined that is the compelling part to me. A playfulness with themselves, the music, and the audience. Lastly you mention the bass. Jerry and Phil play duel lead lines, and Bobby (rhythm guitar) holds down middle, if you will. Its very much an improvised performance nightly. Try and remember these aspects when your listening to the band next time. It will help your understanding and appreciation of whats going on. Cheers from New Orleans. Happy Mardi Gras!
Nothing to make you happy like listening to some really good live grateful dead. A little warning, they weren't the most consistent of bands, particularly in later years - health and drug use having some effect on their consistency - but they were always capable of creating some real magic, all throughout their career. I'm still a deadhead 40 years on from my first taste, listening to Anthem of the Sun on vinyl.
That album has some great stuff on it, but a couple of songs and parts aren't as good as the rest - at least for my taste. The version of Morning Dew is still the best one I've every heard - though there are a lot of other great ones. On the middle record, there are some great songs like Brown Eyed Women, Ramble on Rose, Tennessee Jed , He's Gone, and Mr. Charlie that never appeared on studio albums, but were perennial dead favourites, so the album contains the canonical versions of those songs.
The extended jam was kinda the Grateful Dead's thing and is certainly 90% of their good stuff. The studio albums tend to be disappointing if you're first exposed to the better live albums. (I exclude Terrapin Station - the track - from this criticism)
Believe it or not it's a lot better through a giant stack of Peavy's , surrounded by the smell of patchouli, medium grade mexican brown and hippies, sublime. On "Europe" it's almost as if they had been called out to go as hard and tight as they could, and they delivered a stunning masterpiece. May I recommend the excellent American Beauty and Workingman's Dead please? Along with Europe they are among my favorite Dead, not that my opinion means a thing. Cheers.
The only songs I know by them are both worth a listen; "Ripple" and "Terrapin Station". Similar to Terrapin Station is "Cellophane Symphony" by Tommy James & the Shondells, made in '69, and is an extended symphonic TJ & S. Also recommend their "Crystal Blue Persuasion", if you've not yet done it. Today's offering reminded me a bit of Loggins & Messina, whose "Be Free" live in '76 is worth a listen. New country. Very much like Jean-Luc Ponty.
I am old enough..... a little less than dirt.... Glad you're eyes are opening. You're gonna be surprised. Some hits, some duds... but never give up to search for the sound. Back in the day... When we went to all the bands' shows. There was a saying. Dead's the best, F the rest. Well not f the rest but when the Dead played well, there was nothing as good. From Clapton to Tina Turner, The Dead was the best. And... only the Dead did this, every show was different. And they fought to keep ticket prices down too! 😎
Good old Grateful Dead. I only have a compilation best of album but I must have this one too I hear. I assume you heard the farewell concert of The Band: The last Walz. Same era and so good. With a lot of guest musicians we all know.
Morning Dew is a dialogue between the last man and woman left alive following an apocalyptic catastrophe. Dobson (the writer of the song) stated that the inspiration for "Morning Dew" was the film On the Beach, which is about the survivors of a nuclear holocaust.
Technically for harmonizing I don't think they can touch CSN, but, as much as I love CSN, there is something much more... I don't have the words for it, but the Dead's early harmonies are so distinct, so... familiar? I loved it when Phil sang more harmonies. They draw me in every time.
A great example of Jerry hitting an octave phrase on the low strings while Bob plays counterpoint. My favorite other examples of this style are th-cam.com/video/qIfUd1Xgg18/w-d-xo.htmlsi=7rdxTDJc_ExLm-2J and th-cam.com/video/o7lrU0pN_T4/w-d-xo.htmlsi=I1eGRc_Qw_dc7nxr.
Trust me on this 1American Beauty 2Workingmans Dead 3Grateful Dead(1971) 4Wake of the flood. Other than those, leave the studio albums for much later. The Dead is a live band.
They played for a crowd of about 2,000 or less here, that’s mostly why the crowd is so quiet. This was their big European tour where they tried to bring the larger European crowd on board-who were mostly unaware/uninterested in the Dead.
This is the greatest Rhythm Guitar Jazz solo of all time. Probably the first times I heard this I thought the main Grooves were Jerry. But this entire Jam is all Bobby and god damn is it good. I mean there is nothing like it. One of my Fav bands is The Who because of Townshend guitar. Pinball Wizard. Bobby is like the opposite type of guitarist. I always got a similar goofy vibe from both bands especially because of Tommy. I mean your kidding me Daltrey played a Deaf, Dumb and Blind main character like what? Bobby also has the best sarcastic banter. It is like to be a Great Rhythm Guitarist you got have a sense of Sarcasm. An inherent Satire which brings an inherent depth to your music. A heaviness.
The best period of the band (with one drummer)....the free-jam period between these 2 songs IS the high point of the Dead ever, IMO....just epic! At the 7:15 mark they have already transitioned to Rider...Their vocal harmonies at this time rivaled Crosby Stills & Nash.....Jerry is spot on and unstoppable, Phil Lesh is at his unconventional upper-register best!
I've never listened to The Grateful Dead before. Never thought they'd be my thing but this is fantastic. Opened up a whole new journey to discover more.
Never a bad time to get on the bus! Much like wizards, deadheads arrive precisely when they're meant to (~);}
Steve Evans You will literally find EVERYTHING in the Dead's vast catalog! So many live shows available now too! You want bluegrassy? "Friend of the Devil" and "Cumberland Blues", want a good old Cowboy song or two? "El Paso" and "Mexicali Blues", want high energy rock? "One More Satruday Night" "Sugar Magnolia" and "Jack Straw", fun folksy yarns? "Tennessee Jed" and "Brown Eyed Women" Want down and dirty blues? "Easy Wind" and "Little Red Rooster" want those spacey jams they're known for? "Dark Star" "Wharf Rat" "Morning Dew" and "The Other One", want traditionals? "Peggy O", want sheer beauty? "Crazy Fingers" and "Bird Song" and on and on.............As they said: "What a Long Strange Trip It's Been!" I climbed on the bus in late 68 and never looked to get off! I listen EVERY day!
Yup. They take bits of just about every style of music and throw it into a blender so it all comes out just sounding like The Grateful Dead.
It's a journey down a rabbit hole that you're going to enjoy !
We’re everywhere. Welcome, friend.
Bob Weir’s shining moment in the sun. His China Cat intro riff is sublime, and then he absolutely tears it up during his transition solo! (Not that everyone else isn’t fully on point too!) 🎸💥
“They aren’t just the best at what they do, they’re the only ones who do what they do.”
but they are the best too.
lose the word 'just' and you've got it just like uncle B said it in 1980
Daddy gonna give you what you want And gonna give you what you need.
'I Know You Rider' is a bluegrass song. Jerry Garcia was a Bluegrass and old folk music dude when he formed Mother McCree's Uptown Jugband, which was the forerunner to The Warlocks, who changed their name to The Grateful Dead when they found out there was another band with that name.
Bluegrass is close. Rider’s been an Americana staple since the 1930s. this is such a fantastic version. I’m glad it made an “official” recording double album - or now I guess I should say 73-CD boxed set of the tour!
Forty years ago I listened to this jam and had to run out and buy a guitar.
Bought this album the year it came out with Christmas money my grandmother sent me. I still have it and remember I bought it at Venture for $5.77. Wonderful set. Jim
Glad you're getting around to some Live Grateful Dead! Europe '72 is a great place to start. Enjoyed your other GD reactions. I hope this truly has catapulted up the pecking order, 18-24 months would be too long to wait! 😉
I’ll leave it a few weeks, but yes, I want to get to this record 👍🏼
And then there's Morning Dew from this tour...London.
Screws with your melodic heart strings, don't it😅😂❤
Grateful Dead is the greatest American band of alltime.
There is a beauty to Grateful Dead songs in that they tap such a deep musical vein sometimes and even though it may be the 1st time hearing one of their songs it's so familiar that you swear that you have heard it before... their roots go way deep. Enjoyed seeing your enjoyment. 💀🌹💀🌹💀🌹💀
Your face!!! Pure happiness. That’s what GD Means. ❤
Great to see you diving in a little deeper into the dead… You are on the right track. Stick with the live stuff from here on out. Anything Dick’s picks or Dave’s picks… you are spot on in not being able to put your finger on what this reminds you of… The Grateful Dead are the masters at giving you little pieces of every genre of music from classical to progressive, and everything in between and beyond. It’s the soundtrack of humanity wrapped into one band. There’s nothing like it.
See this live and go nuts! Happiest I have ever been! GD, D&C forever🎉🎉❤❤❤❤❤
Phil
I found your channel because yt knows I really really like the Grateful Dead. I'm glad you heard in them everything I did and still do.
Now I’am 70 years old Grateful Dead’s music is in my soul, saw them live the first time they came to Europe in 1970 at the Hollywood Music Festival near Newcastle Under Lyme, they played the same day as Black Sabbath. Always liked them, now we can listen to hundreds of live concerts they did from 1965 to 1995 on Archives, absolutely priceless 🎉🎉. One of my most loved song of there’s is Viola Lee Blues, it’s on there first album, some of the live versions are for me incredible, especially my favourite period when they were more psychedelic around 1966 to 1970 give them a listen and have your mind blown 🤯🎉
you have me beat by six years but hell yeah, what a catalog. I’m kind of addicted to first-time Dead reaction videos especially, of course, good live versions.
I believe I saw a rare clip of a very young Ozzy hanging out backstage with the Dead. Ozzy's a metal hippie you know: War Pigs, Crazy Train ("Learn how to love and forget how to hate")
It fills me with joy when I see someone who feels it 👍
I’m laughing and wagging my tail like a puppy the whole time.
"Wake up to find out that you are the eyes of the world"
They are, indeed, a band beyond description … Thanks
I remember being in Colorado at Red Rocks while it was raining, and they were singing the line, "I'll shine my light through cool Colorado Rain".
I was in Vegas at the Silver Bowl. Just after Jerry belted out the second "I wish I was a headlight...", at exactly the same time as that deep guitar downstroke bomb, a lightning bolt flashes behind the stage. The crowd erupted as he casually sings "I'd shine my light through the cool Colorado rain". People were bowing down in reverence after that with big shocked eyes and huge smiles, looking around at all their brothers and sisters "I know you rider..."
the music all collides w one another perfectly.
Research Bear Owsley and his LSD inspired sound engineering. This is why their live stuff sounded so amazing at the time.
I did the Fall 1990 Grateful Dead European tour. Met The Bear (Owlsley) on the train going from Copenhagen Denmark to Amersfoort Holland. He was a genius. Wanted equipment that didn't exist sohe built it. Didn't trust some of the product going around so he made it. By the 55 gallon drum. Watch the 1974 Dead concert movie. He built noise cancelling system to stop feedback.
Might I suggest another great live album, Little Feat “Waiting For Columbus”. Great grooves.
The "Big Three" of live albums for me would have to be: (in no particular order) Allman Brothers "Live at Fillmore East", Grateful Dead's "Europe 72", and Little Feat's "Waiting for Columbus"!!
@@tommathews3964 Solid choices. I would round out my top 5 with Frampton Comes Alive ( mostly for sentimental reasons) and (tied) Rush’s All The World’s A Stage and Exit Stage Left.
I’m in step with both of you on all of your superb choices. Still, being a child of the late 70’s / early 80’s I must add KISS Alive
There are some truly evocative moments on this album. The jam which begins around 11:15 in this video gives me a soaring sensation every time I hear it. There are a few lines in "Jack Straw" that spark similarly expansive thoughts, though it's not quite as upbeat as this track.
Same page, both songs. That final solo in _I Know You Rider_ is a transcendent cacophony and one of the most effective climaxes that I think of. And each prechorus in _Jack Straw_ , where Jerry does those dancing low-string leads, are similarly chill-inducing.
I listen to all kinds of music. It just happens to be one band that does it.
Brilliant comment! Stealing it! Thanks!
hey Jim, so good to see you discovering this music- and on vinyl no less!!! Check out the entire (two) albums. Chock full of brilliant stuff. You'll be a deadhead by the time you finish!
If you can get the recordings of The Big Steve Hour and react ...holy shit.
He's the most famous roadie, SNL in the 70s did skits about him that were inside jokes, we had no clue but the family did.
Big Steve talking about the Europe 72 tour is so epic.
The poor math on the LSD conversion left them seriously spun, the whole team...miscalculated Big time, mega doses in France lol.
So many incredible stories.
@@robertkramer41 I was the roadie for SNL and bought a Sanka for Don Pardo. Once got briefly stuck in an elevator with Gilda.
I taught a college music history class many years ago and would share this performance as a great example of “polyphony”. This piece deserves multiple listens and is always a marvel - you can pick any one of the instruments to concentrate upon and enjoy its melodic artistry. Wonderful also to hear Bob Weir contributing a chordal solo!
It brings to mind so much..
Interesting tidbit: Jerry was playing a modified Strat given to him by Graham Nash on this. It sold for $420,000 a few years ago. Arguably Jerry’s best tone according to a lot of Deadheads. Although he switched to custom guitars a year after this in 1973 for good.
Another great album.. first got that when I was 10 or so. one of my favorite Grateful Dead Albums.. Europe 72 and the Skull and Roses album .
For that year, they were the best rock band in the world, and this album is one of the best of all time. I believe the vocal harmonizing was inspired by Crosby. Stills and Nash,
You have only scratched the surface. Now check out 5/8/77 and 7/4/89. Both are spectacular and will leave you equally breathless.
That Spring 77 stuff is hard to beat! I highly recommend a show I was lucky enough to make: Tuscaloosa AL 5/17/77! One of the most unique "Jack A Roe" I've ever heard! Cool little "shuffle" to it. My friends and I did a "decompression" in the lot after the show and made the only logical decision........head for Atlanta for the 18/19 shows at The Fox! If memory serves, we pooled our resources and came up with $19. 🤣 th-cam.com/video/X3EyXSVBpvw/w-d-xo.html
Is that 89 with Branford?
Yes on that Jack a Roe!
@@benhinds2971 no. The first Branford was 3/29/90 at the Nassau Coliseum. 7/4/89 from Buffalo is just an amazing show during July of 89. It may be the only month that can rival May of 77.
Thank you, Jim. Welcome to the enlightenment! Once you’re in you’re in and this (as well as the entire Dead/Garcia/Hunter/Weir/Lesh/McKernan/Mydland/Kreutzmann/Hart/Godchaux catalogue) is the soundtrack for a great life’s journey-the Dead are the ultimate American band yet absolutely for all humanity-Europe ‘72 is a great entry point. Great post!
No other band I saw during my concert going years ever sounded like this!!
I love watching you hear what I've loved listening to for 50 years now. Welcome friend.
Proper grooves !! Got that one good Sir !
Morning dew off this record is the most beautiful thing I’ve ever heard
I love it. You never heard this but instinctually go right into one of the traditional deadhead dances I refer to as ,"Grabbing the Colors"
😂😂😂
Bob’s part in China Cat Sunflower is the best rhythm playing I’ve ever heard
Some Stones when it was Mick and Keith 😊
Do you realise the dead had Mick and Keith
I was a high school senior when this album was released, and I’ve been a Deadhead ever since. Do a deep deep dive, it’ll be well worth the time. You can’t listen to Jerry & the boys jam without smiling & dancing!✌️❤️🎶
Harmonies might be Hollies. Iconic cut. Glad you played and enjoyed.
I'm watching this for like the 4th time... your reaction is great! You are a deadhead now.... deal with it. lol.
They aren't the best at what the do, they are the only ones who do what they do
I got this album when I was a freshman in highschool it changed my life.
You picked a great one to start with.
Comic book colors on a violin river crying Leonardo's words from out a silk trombone ✌️🍄
They recorded the entire tour and have released every show in one big box set 10+ year ago
The greatest band ever and Europe ‘72 is my favorite album of all time! Also listen to Live Dead, Skull & Roses, Workingman’s Dead and Mars Hotel.
And all the Dick’s Picks, and…
American Beauty too 🌹
Juuuuust saying you said you’d come back to this! Live/Dead is also a wild live album
Theres an old saying among us heads. “I love all kinds of music. It just so happens its all the same band”
They're not the best at what they do. They're the only ones that do what they do.
If you’re looking for the best feel good music ever played, the Grateful Dead is it!
wow wow Jim, I love the new intro ! and I love your idea of paying for your reaction !
Thanks... I'm trying to balance the paid vs normal...
They sing like CSN with the grit left in.
That might be it Mr Capewell!
Right on. CSN helped teach the Dead how to harmonize vocals in late 60s early 70s. In exchange Jerry played pedal steel guitar on CSN Teach your Children track.
@@Jeff-yc2js the first time Jerry played it was on Crosby’s ‘Laughing’. He offered to do it again but Crosby told him it was perfect…and it absolutely was.
@@JimNewstead people keep saying that the Dead couldn’t do it in the studio. Absolutely b*llocks! American Beauty and Workingman’s Dead are every bit as good as Deja Vu or whatever 🤔
@@Jeff-yc2js Jerry arranged Teach Your Children too.
Fun reaction! Very fun band to dive into.
I was listening to this last night 😂
Their first album is one of my favorite albums but live it has to be the Fillmore West '69 bootlegs especially Volume 4.. You can just visualize a laid back sunny afternoon listening to the Grateful Dead hitting their zone in sync. Great improvisers.
Glad your diggin' the Dead.:))))
Jim, I’d like to add. You mention energy, and that’s a key element to the GD. Look for it in the upcoming listens. You also mention groove. Its energy and groove combined that is the compelling part to me. A playfulness with themselves, the music, and the audience. Lastly you mention the bass. Jerry and Phil play duel lead lines, and Bobby (rhythm guitar) holds down middle, if you will. Its very much an improvised performance nightly. Try and remember these aspects when your listening to the band next time. It will help your understanding and appreciation of whats going on.
Cheers from New Orleans. Happy Mardi Gras!
❤❤❤
Nothing to make you happy like listening to some really good live grateful dead. A little warning, they weren't the most consistent of bands, particularly in later years - health and drug use having some effect on their consistency - but they were always capable of creating some real magic, all throughout their career.
I'm still a deadhead 40 years on from my first taste, listening to Anthem of the Sun on vinyl.
That album has some great stuff on it, but a couple of songs and parts aren't as good as the rest - at least for my taste.
The version of Morning Dew is still the best one I've every heard - though there are a lot of other great ones. On the middle record, there are some great songs like Brown Eyed Women, Ramble on Rose, Tennessee Jed , He's Gone, and Mr. Charlie that never appeared on studio albums, but were perennial dead favourites, so the album contains the canonical versions of those songs.
Just don't comment over the Solos
U missed the hottest part transitioning from C.C. to Rider.
But I do enjoy your GD reactions.(~);}
So...did you ever listen to the rest of Europe '72? If not, you need to. It's really the best example of what this band is.
Were you maybe thinking of Gerry Rafferty’s song Right Down The Line? I can hear a slight similarity there
The extended jam was kinda the Grateful Dead's thing and is certainly 90% of their good stuff. The studio albums tend to be disappointing if you're first exposed to the better live albums. (I exclude Terrapin Station - the track - from this criticism)
Live is the way to go!
There is no way “American Beauty” is a disappointment. The studio albums are different, not worse.
I'd add Box of Rain to that short list
Believe it or not it's a lot better through a giant stack of Peavy's , surrounded by the smell of patchouli, medium grade mexican brown and hippies, sublime. On "Europe" it's almost as if they had been called out to go as hard and tight as they could, and they delivered a stunning masterpiece. May I recommend the excellent American Beauty and Workingman's Dead please? Along with Europe they are among my favorite Dead, not that my opinion means a thing. Cheers.
04-26-1972 !!
Hundred Year Hall, Frankfurt Germany. Its the best show from the Europe 72 tour; its not part of the Europe "72 album
Is it available?
The only songs I know by them are both worth a listen; "Ripple" and "Terrapin Station". Similar to Terrapin Station is "Cellophane Symphony" by Tommy James & the Shondells, made in '69, and is an extended symphonic TJ & S. Also recommend their "Crystal Blue Persuasion", if you've not yet done it. Today's offering reminded me a bit of Loggins & Messina, whose "Be Free" live in '76 is worth a listen. New country. Very much like Jean-Luc Ponty.
I listened to Terrapin Station a while ago on the channel. 'twas good!
@@JimNewstead I thought you had.
I have to say, this music is better than my previous Glass Tiger songs
There's no better or worse, just different!
Hope you see thias to answer your question. I think it was CSNY the vocals sounded like to you because that's who they learned from.
Ahhhhh! Thanks 🙏 👍🏼
Do the whole album!
The boys at the height of their powers.
JERRY GARCIA LIVES
I am old enough..... a little less than dirt.... Glad you're eyes are opening. You're gonna be surprised. Some hits, some duds... but never give up to search for the sound. Back in the day... When we went to all the bands' shows. There was a saying. Dead's the best, F the rest. Well not f the rest but when the Dead played well, there was nothing as good. From Clapton to Tina Turner, The Dead was the best. And... only the Dead did this, every show was different. And they fought to keep ticket prices down too! 😎
Start with this album. This album was mixed later in the studio. Full disclosure.
Head since 83… 😎💀🌺
I believe Hunter said that at least part of China Cat Sunflower was an homage to Dame Edith Sitwell, if you know who she is (was.)
Good old Grateful Dead.
I only have a compilation best of album but I must have this one too I hear.
I assume you heard the farewell concert of The Band: The last Walz. Same era and so good. With a lot of guest musicians we all know.
Assume nothing Will!
@@JimNewstead 😅 you missed a lot. I can really recommend this album by The Band, the backing band of Bob Dylan.
you got to listen to Morning Dew on that album
Morning Dew is a dialogue between the last man and woman left alive following an apocalyptic catastrophe. Dobson (the writer of the song) stated that the inspiration for "Morning Dew" was the film On the Beach, which is about the survivors of a nuclear holocaust.
“This feels like a kind of extended jam, I think they’re known for that” …..uhm
The harmonies were influenced by Crosby, Stills and Nash.
Technically for harmonizing I don't think they can touch CSN, but, as much as I love CSN, there is something much more... I don't have the words for it, but the Dead's early harmonies are so distinct, so... familiar? I loved it when Phil sang more harmonies. They draw me in every time.
@@zzzzzach Not saying they're the same, but they were moved in that direction/influenced by... which they said themselves.
Brown eyed women is a must
Amen! And "Tennessee Jed".....and "Jack Straw".......and "Cumberland Blues".....and, and, and! Such a masterpiece of an album!
In my opinion, the jams are conversations
Good insight!
Yeah.. the Grateful Dead could just get into a groove.. left standing/sitting there with a stupid grin on our face.
one more thing.... Scarlet > Fire from 5/8/77. We all beg you to listen to that.
Estimated Prophet
A great example of Jerry hitting an octave phrase on the low strings while Bob plays counterpoint. My favorite other examples of this style are th-cam.com/video/qIfUd1Xgg18/w-d-xo.htmlsi=7rdxTDJc_ExLm-2J and th-cam.com/video/o7lrU0pN_T4/w-d-xo.htmlsi=I1eGRc_Qw_dc7nxr.
Listen to Jerry's lead guitar...
Trust me on this
1American Beauty
2Workingmans Dead
3Grateful Dead(1971)
4Wake of the flood.
Other than those, leave the studio albums for much later.
The Dead is a live band.
They played for a crowd of about 2,000 or less here, that’s mostly why the crowd is so quiet. This was their big European tour where they tried to bring the larger European crowd on board-who were mostly unaware/uninterested in the Dead.
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Yes!? Duh!
The harmonizing was directly influenced by David Crosby and friends
Maybe an Allman Brothers vibe? The Dead have a deep and wide catalog, all of it good. Looking forward to it!
Maybe? I dunno 🤷♂️!
Crosby Still and Nash is maybe what you’re thinking of.
Robert Hunter ... just a song writer. Heh!
2/28/69
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Too bad the vox were overdubbed because this performance of these two tunes was as good as they ever got.
This is the greatest Rhythm Guitar Jazz solo of all time. Probably the first times I heard this I thought the main Grooves were Jerry. But this entire Jam is all Bobby and god damn is it good. I mean there is nothing like it. One of my Fav bands is The Who because of Townshend guitar. Pinball Wizard. Bobby is like the opposite type of guitarist. I always got a similar goofy vibe from both bands especially because of Tommy. I mean your kidding me Daltrey played a Deaf, Dumb and Blind main character like what? Bobby also has the best sarcastic banter. It is like to be a Great Rhythm Guitarist you got have a sense of Sarcasm. An inherent Satire which brings an inherent depth to your music. A heaviness.
The best period of the band (with one drummer)....the free-jam period between these 2 songs IS the high point of the Dead ever, IMO....just epic! At the 7:15 mark they have already transitioned to Rider...Their vocal harmonies at this time rivaled Crosby Stills & Nash.....Jerry is spot on and unstoppable, Phil Lesh is at his unconventional upper-register best!