How To Get Into The Grateful Dead

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  • @phillspunt9992
    @phillspunt9992 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

    For me, I was like half on the bus back during high school, but I had grow an appreciation for country music before I could be a full-on deadhead. Wish I could've followed them back in the good Ole days man!

  • @RobertJones-st3wj
    @RobertJones-st3wj 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    I agree more with what Joe Rogan said I didn't hate them I just didn't really click with them

  • @OGRE_HATES_NERDS
    @OGRE_HATES_NERDS ปีที่แล้ว

    the halloween 1980 concert is what finally made the whole thing "click" for me

  • @snerdterguson
    @snerdterguson 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    I was 19, my only experience with Grateful Dead was Truckin, Casey Jones and Touch of Grey. Then a friend told me to listen to Europe 72. So I borrowed his copy of the album that had bonus tracks. I enjoyed all of Disc 1, including what is now among my favorites, Morning Dew but then suddenly I hear, though I didn't know the name at the time, Bob Weir say "Time for a cryin' song" and they play what I still think is the best Looks Like Rain they ever played and I was hooked. No lie, I listened to the song for the next hour. I just kept it playing on repeat.

  • @tourhead
    @tourhead 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Well done! I like this video!! I've been a Dead Head since the late 70's. First record I heard was one of the sides of Europe 72. First one I bought was Skeletons From The Closet. Next was Skulls and Roses. First show. 3-14-81 Hartford Ct. Last show. 1-19-20 Mexico. So many roads between.

    • @joergie6008
      @joergie6008 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      Hey now head

    • @tourhead
      @tourhead 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@joergie6008 Hey now Joergie!!!!

  • @tstass1321
    @tstass1321 3 ปีที่แล้ว +17

    Wake of the Flood started my 45 year un ending devotion to the many styles and sounds of the Dead.. By the way ...Phil Lesh is the greatest bass player in my opinion. His sound cuts through to your dancing soul

    • @bjenkin100
      @bjenkin100 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      I love that...
      I agree but you don't hear that-- of course I confess I am extremely biased ; •)

    • @Blaize24
      @Blaize24 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      Heh. That was my gateway album, also, and also approximately 45 or so years ago.

  • @brianlevine4802
    @brianlevine4802 3 ปีที่แล้ว +19

    When I was 15 my "cool" aunt who lived in California came back home for a visit. My Aunt asked me what kind of music I was listening to. I grew up in fundamental type of church. My stepfather didn't allow non church media in the house. I listened to the radio but not at home. My Aunt had moved to the Bay area in the late '50's. She had used her GI Bill money to get a degree in Electrical Engineering. She got a job with Bayer,Weir and Pagliano, Civil Engineers. She met Bob Weir when he was a young boy. She says "This kid I know is in a band. They are getting some airplay now. They're called the Grateful Dead.". My Aunt was not a free love hippie by any standard. She did respect ability. Plus it really pissed off Mr. Weir that Bob had become a musician in psychedelic rock band. He expected to get a call any day from Bob that he was in terrible circumstances,needed money,was going to prison,etc. That call never happened. So my Aunt was telling me to find their music and give it a listen. Her alcoholism and the associated problems caused a rift between us but the gift of the Grateful Dead is what I choose to remember.

    • @beachmasterX
      @beachmasterX 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Nice, bro you are an og word of mouther

    • @bjenkin100
      @bjenkin100 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      Nice, love how all these great and varied little stories we have lead us all down an inevitable path of destiny onto a collision course with each other whereby we become intertwined into a shared experience of one of the greatest phenomenon consciousness has ever created... that of the Grateful Dead

  • @daveh640
    @daveh640 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Greatest of all time. No close second on my list. 89- to that terrible day august 9th 1995 jerry and the boys brought happiness where i danced without consequence or judgement from others. I love the greatful dead and i will love them till my last breath. Thanks for this video sir!

  • @pc1972
    @pc1972 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    We had tickets for the Dead at Wembley 1971. Then the Lyceum with New Riders a month later. Holy cow. Dead Head ever since.

  • @squigtonianmayhem4602
    @squigtonianmayhem4602 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    I had always dug the music, growing up. Good tunes. No brainer. In '94, I went to my first Dead show, Noblesville. Didn't even have a ticket, never got in to the show. Didn't need to. I was hooked. Sadly, only a little over a year later, we lost Jerry, things would never be the same again. But, the magic allows us to live and relive it forever.

    • @beachmasterX
      @beachmasterX 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      I miss Deer Creek🤣

    • @bjenkin100
      @bjenkin100 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@beachmasterX me to ... 1990-1992 Summers great times , and especially what joy compared to the dreaded Buckeye shows a few days apart.

    • @jerryakbar6147
      @jerryakbar6147 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      Hate to tell ya but Jerry was already way gone in 94. Thanks to John Kahn and Jerry’s no holds barred attitude when dealing with drugs. I started seeing them/ him in 79. Went to all the radio city shows and something like 150 JGB shows. Tickets 7.50. I went to a DSO show a few years ago. Never thought that would happen. It was the best dead show I’d been to in over 30 years. Do the math.

  • @zerotoleranceforstupidpeop4301
    @zerotoleranceforstupidpeop4301 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    My introduction to the Grateful Dead was Shakedown Street, followed by Skeletons From the Closet, and then Go To Heaven. This was in 1986-87, my senior year of high school. I've been a Deadhead ever since.

  • @glennwiltsee7405
    @glennwiltsee7405 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    I came to the Dead through GrayFolded.

    • @nankypooh655
      @nankypooh655 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Not a bad entry level.

  • @jefftaich2761
    @jefftaich2761 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    American beauty all the way! Keith and Kevin Looney had the album playing at their home in Larkspur California when I walked in and heard Sugar Magnolia. I asked who it was I have never heard the song before or the grateful dead although I grew up in the land of Dead! That's basically mostly all I've listen to now for the last 50 years. It never gets old I find something new every time I hear a song. Thank you Keith and Kevin. RIP Kevin❤️

  • @joergie6008
    @joergie6008 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    How cute🌹😎☠️Magic is what we do, music is how we do it - Jerry Garcia

  • @jamesmoore3694
    @jamesmoore3694 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    to listen to the dead thru the years can be looked upon as one would look at monet's paintings of haystacks. same haystacks (songs) just at different points in time. the joys of shadows and light. my 1rst show was in 77

  • @WhiskeySam1
    @WhiskeySam1 3 ปีที่แล้ว +13

    As cheesy as it sounds, “Skeletons from the Closet” was how I found them. Then I heard Unbroken Chain. And it went from there. Europe 72 (and it’s brilliant Vol 2. Follow up) is a great place to step into Live Dead. I’d also challenge anybody listen to Help>Slip>Franklins from Great American Music Hall 75 and not fall in love with this band.

    • @bjenkin100
      @bjenkin100 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      yes and that "Eyes" too !

    • @gregberry1812
      @gregberry1812 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Europe is the best live album ever

    • @Sasquatch64
      @Sasquatch64 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Not cheesy at all. I got into the Dead through the same album. What attracted me first was the album cover. After that, I was gone. The Dead became my life.

    • @skeeter197140
      @skeeter197140 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Same here. I was on a band trip in Florida when I was 14, and went into a record store and decided I was going to see what this whole Dead thing was about, and bought "Skeletons From the Closet". It took a while (I was a metalhead), and I ended up being dragged to a Dead show that summer, and that was all she wrote. 50 shows and 36 years later, here we are.

    • @gregberry1812
      @gregberry1812 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@skeeter197140 had to drag you out after the encore.

  • @joonkim9860
    @joonkim9860 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    It was the Skulls & Roses album cover. I didn't know who they were or what they called themselves even...the strangest stuff I had ever heard. Been on the bus since.

  • @Lowtech14
    @Lowtech14 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    I think American Beauty is a way to get someone on board. If they lean toward hard rock or punk, I’d start with Live/Dead’s 1-2-3 kapow of St Stephen/ Eleven/ Lovelight.

  • @joebaby555
    @joebaby555 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    “Without a Net” is a wonderful introduction to Live Grateful Dead , put it on while hiking,or driving or riding a bike..they are the soundtrack of my life’s activities.🔥

  • @riomasanicur2977
    @riomasanicur2977 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    I discovered them only recently with 44.What a shame. But now, I enjoy.

  • @kevinjones9685
    @kevinjones9685 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    My GD primer for new ears is something like: Two From The Vault, Fillmore East 1971, One From The Vault, Reckoning and Without A Net. Stepping Out With The Grateful Dead is an honorable mention

  • @thetruckersmanifesto3873
    @thetruckersmanifesto3873 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    So many roads best song

  • @Handletakentryagain
    @Handletakentryagain 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    I found the grateful dead with a nitrous balloon and a 1976 row jimmy from portland Oregon I believe. For sure a 76 row jimmy. Pure magic.

    • @tourhead
      @tourhead 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      Portland shows were always killer!!!!

  • @johnr8820
    @johnr8820 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    You don’t into The Dead....The Dead gets into you.....

    • @nankypooh655
      @nankypooh655 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      Who are The Grateful Dead, and why do they keep following me?

  • @michaeldesimone8763
    @michaeldesimone8763  4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Let me know if you like The Grateful Dead, and if there's any other bands you'd like to hear my thoughts on.

    • @henrysimon2463
      @henrysimon2463 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      I love both the dead and licorice.

    • @analogkid4957
      @analogkid4957 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Michael thank you for the video. Growing up in the 1980’s as a teenager I was a huge Rush fan. My older brother was a Deadhead. However I think both bands are similar in a way. Both Rush and The Grateful Dead changed their sound with each album. Both bands have thoughtful lyrics that transcend time and bring new fans. Both bands have loyal hardcore fans and toured a lot. The Dead though changed their set each night.
      I recently found out that the late Neil Peart and Mickey Hart respected each other and attended each other’s concerts. Neil wrote about meeting Mickey Hart in his book.

    • @gregberry1812
      @gregberry1812 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@analogkid4957 wow I can just se Neil in a tye dye frying off his ass dancing like a fool with a rose in his teeth.

    • @joebarr725
      @joebarr725 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      Little Feat, Radiators, Los Lobos, NRPS, ABB, Quicksilver, Cold Blood.
      And I adore the Grateful Dead.

    • @nankypooh655
      @nankypooh655 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@analogkid4957 There's most definitely a technical proficiency in both band's music, although I prefer GD to Rush. I love Rush up to Permanent Waves, but they lost me when they became more synth driven. I'm glad to hear there was a mutual appreciation society between Mickey and Neil, but, I have to admit, as good as Neil was, I really didn't like his style of drumming. He was a good drummer, but I always felt that he drummed like he had something to prove, and after a while I just wanted to scream, "OK, Neil! You got the job. Just chillax, and don't try so hard!" But, you know, that's just me. I'm sure many will disagree with my take.

  • @jcolterh
    @jcolterh 3 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    A combination of Workingman's Dead, Grateful Dawg and The pizza Tapes got me into the Dead. Basically, the country and bluegrass music sucked me in. Now, I love all their stuff. Especially, their 1970s work.

    • @direwolf6234
      @direwolf6234 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      70 to 74 are my favorite years... great new tunes softer drugs youthful energy

    • @snerdterguson
      @snerdterguson 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      I lucked out and saw Grateful Dawg in a little Indie theater. I often find myself singing to myself, will you where white, oh my dear, oh my dear. Will you wear white Jenny Jenkins

  • @dondon747x
    @dondon747x 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    Being a Deadhead I started seeing Jerry and the band play. It was not a buy the album band. The Dead were a live band concert thing. I really liked the experience of seeing them. Every show was different and every time they played a song it was different. Some concerts were great and some not so good. Getting into the Grateful Dead and being a Deadhead are different things.

  • @SeattleSpursFan1882
    @SeattleSpursFan1882 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    Setlists were used post Brent.

  • @tylerkoaltrain8612
    @tylerkoaltrain8612 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    I love all deadheads man❤️💙❤️

    • @nankypooh655
      @nankypooh655 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      I'm NOT a "Dead Head"! I'm GRATEFULLY DEADICATED, but I'm sending the love back to you, friend. :)

  • @arlenmargolin1650
    @arlenmargolin1650 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    Wow where did you come up with this information I mean I've never heard of this stuff

  • @mcganahanskjellyfetti7722
    @mcganahanskjellyfetti7722 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Estimated Prophet 10/29/1977

  • @raymondtilley2957
    @raymondtilley2957 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    How to get into the grateful dead is very simple… Buy the album Europe 72! I got the album for Christmas back in 1974 and wore it out I had to buy another one and then wore that out and got the CD!

  • @godfreydaniel6278
    @godfreydaniel6278 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    200+ show Deadhead here - from the Haight to Dead and Co. The wisest thing I know about considering the Dead as a musical entity and social phenomenon is to keep in mind that the Grateful Dead are like a joke - either you get it or you don't. If you get it - nothing more needs to be said. If you don't - no amount of explaining will help you...

    • @gregberry1812
      @gregberry1812 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Explaining no.
      Lsd maybe.

  • @erichanhauser3190
    @erichanhauser3190 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    The Grateful Dead Movie.

  • @jonathanrubino2577
    @jonathanrubino2577 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    No better way than taking some LSD and listening

    • @gregberry1812
      @gregberry1812 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      Mushrooms maybe but thats just preference

    • @psst...heyyou6508
      @psst...heyyou6508 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

      ​@@gregberry1812This.
      Music was born out of the LSD experience

  • @beaverwithachainsaw
    @beaverwithachainsaw 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    If you don't already get it, there's no amount of explaining will clarify it for you.

    • @lenny3804
      @lenny3804 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      Exactly you got it or you don’t

  • @cheesemcsqueeze8845
    @cheesemcsqueeze8845 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Don’t know if you happen to be a Zappa fan but I love him and the Dead almost equally, though right now I’m on more of a Dead kick. Anyway would love to see some Frank content

    • @Sasquatch64
      @Sasquatch64 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Me too. Two of my favorite artists.

    • @s.tepper4030
      @s.tepper4030 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      I'm a Zappa-phile and a Deadhead. Bands led by two people with completely different approaches, but with stellar results in the studio and live.

    • @Sasquatch64
      @Sasquatch64 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@s.tepper4030 You had the "freaks" and you had the "hippies". I think both could find common ground.

    • @cheesemcsqueeze8845
      @cheesemcsqueeze8845 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@Sasquatch64 Indeed as I am both lmfao

    • @nankypooh655
      @nankypooh655 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      Sadly, old Frank didn't think very highly of The Grateful Dead or their fans, but I always found it amazing that, more often than not, many GD fans are also fans of Frank Zappa. Good music is good music, and I happen to be one of the many who like both.

  • @chris7brook
    @chris7brook 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    the only way to get into the Grateful Dead is to go see an actual Grateful Dead concert with Jerry Garcia and that's over forever and ever and ever 💀☠️👽

    • @gratefulkm
      @gratefulkm 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      To presume that the magic that was created that is the Grateful dead only works in a few ways, Would be a rash conclusion about the most powerful music ever created and yes music is most defiantly magic

    • @nankypooh655
      @nankypooh655 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      I saw every show that passed my way 1987-95. I wasn't a tour head, but a hometown host. I think that while Jerry is gone, that doesn't take away from the experience, it's just slightly different now. I saw The Other Ones, and The Dead, and had a good time. I've seen Bob Weir, both with Rob Wasserman, and Ratdog a few times, and had fun. I've seen Micky twice and had a great time. IMHO the closest thing to recreating, replicating, and duplicating what an original GD concert was like was/is seeing Phil Lesh, and The Terrapin Family Band. Of course, I'm a Phil-Head so my opinion might be biased, but it always seemed to me, that as far as style and sound is concerned, it's the closest thing to an actual GD concert. And I refuse to see The Dead and Co. until Bill and Phil make peace, and he comes back.

  • @andrewptob
    @andrewptob 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Best album to get into them is Skull and Roses, but that’s what hooked me, so I’m a bit biased

    • @Perromedico
      @Perromedico 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Europe 72 here

    • @gregberry1812
      @gregberry1812 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@Perromedico ditto

    • @arlenmargolin1650
      @arlenmargolin1650 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@Perromedico that was a great record and when they came back I went to see a concert in Baltimore where I spied a speaker cover from that tour that was thrown out into a dumpster so after I got done tearing it off the frame and stuffing it into my backpack I proceeded to hitchhike home back to New Jersey where one of my good friends managed to steal it from me which I found out years later I still haven't gotten this thing back but I'm still waiting for the day when I see it because I am going to reappropriate but anyway back to your comment that was a great record

  • @sergiomoreira8196
    @sergiomoreira8196 3 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    I’m a 70s deadhead.

  • @MyCheriAnolani
    @MyCheriAnolani 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    I miss Jerry ❤️

  • @KarlKrogmann
    @KarlKrogmann 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    I love licorice.

  • @RobHollanderMusic
    @RobHollanderMusic 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    It helps if you enter in a transcendent state. Good starting albums would be American Beauty/Workingman's Dead, Live Dead, Europe '72, and the Garcia and Weir initial solo albums. By the way, Garcia was rated #13, not #44, in the Rolling Stone Greatest (Rock) Guitarists shtick - still not high enough. I put him at any position in the top 5 myself. RS has the habit of confusing fame, rock stardom, headlines, and record sales for ability on the frets. I remember them putting Keith Richards, an infamously likable rascal but hardly a great player, at some spot in the top 10 and just groaned.

  • @marcbernicker206
    @marcbernicker206 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    St.Stephen, Dark Star, nfa, gdtrfb

  • @direwolf6234
    @direwolf6234 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    you skipped over the first studio album with godchaux 'wake of the flood' which was incredibly well crafted and gave us so many classic tunes while having a biblical edge ....

  • @seanoconnell2123
    @seanoconnell2123 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Hate licorice, Love the Dead

  • @pedropolin
    @pedropolin 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Great video!! Lovely

  • @niku30504
    @niku30504 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    I took acid and went to a Dead show in 1978, without knowing any of their songs. And the rest is ….. obvious ….. 😏

  • @giovannito858
    @giovannito858 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    kinda weird that he doesn't start off just telling people to listen to live dead. live albums or live shows, doesn't matter, just make it live.
    here's a nice primer and what i started with way back in the day.
    europe '72
    grateful dead (the live album) aka skull & roses
    live dead
    without a net
    all of those should be easy to find on spotify, apple, etc.
    if ya make it past those albums and want to proceed, then the internet archive's grateful dead portal is your best friend. just go to the shows with the most listens and you're golden.

    • @JayRiemenschneider
      @JayRiemenschneider 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Great advice tho I’d steer anyone away from 69 Dead at least to begin with. Dead Set is a good kickoff too. Get that live sound and feeling in your bones is the right advice.

    • @giovannito858
      @giovannito858 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@JayRiemenschneider for sure.
      i hear you about including live/dead. thought about it before adding it. the reason i did is it's a classic. anyone that really wants to know what they were about, should listen to live/dead.

    • @JayRiemenschneider
      @JayRiemenschneider 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@giovannito858 oh yeah absolutely, but a new listener could just say to hell with this tho hahaha. One from the vault would be great too, that one really turned the corner for me

  • @jeffdavis146
    @jeffdavis146 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Some Deadheads let me hang out with them. It caught on.

  • @Rose-z3s
    @Rose-z3s 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    Thanks for the helpful video!

  • @patswayze7359
    @patswayze7359 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Put on a live set and just sit back and melt

  • @InfamousMedia
    @InfamousMedia 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Lsd helps

  • @stratjed
    @stratjed 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    How do we get all the new comers to stop coming ? This past summer D&C shows were a overcrowded Schiff show ! Real deadheads (those who saw jerry LIVE ) aint into that scene MAN. The dead was Counter culture for the adventurous not pretend hippies with bags of CASH .

  • @shaneharris3586
    @shaneharris3586 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    I dont want everyone into them.

  • @Perromedico
    @Perromedico 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Keith was a much better piano player then Brent.

    • @analogkid4957
      @analogkid4957 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      I like Brent he was the Generation X guy Keith was in the 1970’s. Brent was more organist and Keith was more traditional pianist/keyboards

    • @Perromedico
      @Perromedico 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@analogkid4957 exactly

    • @andrewptob
      @andrewptob 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      Keith’s improv was not as good as Brent’s, but Keith supported the songs a bit better with his sound.

    • @Perromedico
      @Perromedico 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@andrewptob Hmmm,I dunno .

    • @terrybull2903
      @terrybull2903 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      and blue is prettier than green

  • @WaterKreature
    @WaterKreature 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    This too much for me, just let the music play to get into it

  • @TM-vq1bf
    @TM-vq1bf 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    Aoxomoxoa