Deadhead here , it was a lifestyle for me for about 4 years of my life, carefree ....I worked all winter long and saved my money for tickets and gas to tour the country spring summer and fall......I got to meet all different colors, religions, beliefs and what brought us all together was the love of freedom and music.... I was 16 then and would give anything to have just 1 season of my life back to tour and be free ❤
My husband is from San Francisco and has followed the Grateful Dead since the 70's. We have been to many concerts. It's not just a band, it's a philosophy and a life-style.
I too, am from SF and totally agree with your comment. I miss those days at Winterland when you could spend five bucks for a night with the Dead. Give your husband a hug from me, who knows, we may have met...
The Grateful Dead were not just a fantastic Americana Band, they were also a way of life. Their fans have experienced their catalog in ways no other band can claim. (Yeah, I know about Phish and the others) ✌️
most over rated band in history. The fans are absolutely the worst. Garcia was a bum. They had to prop up that junkie when i saw them in 95, 40 minute jams that go nowhere.
Sugar Magnolia! Fire on the Mountain! What separates the Dead from other groups is they toured all year long and their fans followed them from show to show. It was a lifestyle!
Jay and Amber I lobby for your next Grateful Dead reaction to be "Uncle John's Band." It has a bit of a Jimmy Buffett feel to it. I'm really sure that you both will dig it!
I saw them do a real long version of Fire on the Mountain in the early 80's where it went from song to jam to the dual drummer show back to jam and ended in the song. It took up a good 45 minutes and seemed like 4 hours in my acid soaked brain but I remember every glorious moment of it!
Really glad you're coming back to more Grateful Dead. I could sit here an suggest all sorts of songs from different eras of the band, but I won't. I'm gonna tell you what pulled me into following this band that you can't get from listening to any one song. Every night the Dead would go on stage, they had no set list. No one knew what they were going to play that night, neither the band nor the audience. So both the audience and the band all knew they were going to go on a journey of discovery that night. There was a lot of trust involved on both sides of the stage. And the journey was found in what the band played between songs, in how the music would wander and shift and morph and build in energy and intensity. The music could also deliver to you any number of emotions throughout the show just by how the band, and particularly Garcia, played a section of music. You could experience joy, anguish, fear, loneliness, tension, exhilaration and joy again all within a 40 minute jam. So keep searching for the sound. We'll all find it together.
The Dead was one of those bands. You either liked them or not. Fortunately for Amber, there's a huge amount of music by them out there. For more acoustic guitar you might check out Richard Thompson. From his early days in the 60s in Fairport Convention (big in the folk rock genre) to his years doing a duet with his then wife LInda, to his solo stuff. Just got to watch him perform last Saturday and he's still going strong.
Oh man!!!! The Dead have a whole catalogue of phenomenal songs! My favorite is Throwin Stones!! Was so stoked when I finally heard it live 💀🐻 Not Fade Away, Samson and Delilah, I Need A Miracle
Thanks for reminding me about Throwin Stones, that one had slipped my mind. I would include Hell in a Bucket and Tons of Steel, but the suggestions I did see are all solid choices. Matter of taste, I suppose.
Love your appreciation for The Dead - they aren’t everyone’s cup of tea, but there is absolutely nothing else like them and never will be I was lucky enough to have seen a show in 1993 in Buffalo (my first visit to the US) when I was 17 I was ready to join the circus and leave it all behind - Amber, you would have for right in! Love from Canada
For full disclosure, I saw the Grateful Dead 28 times from 1969 to 1973. I was an official Dead Head so my opinion may be affected. The Dead played many different styles of music from blues to country to psychedelic rock to jazz. Two of my favs are "Me and My Uncle" and "China Cat Sunflower" check em out. Going to see the Dead was a community celebration involving massive quantities of acid, pot, tequila and a sober driver. We would go to shows Friday and Saturday night. Getting a ticket was like gold. One summer in Boston we went to a show when the sun was setting and left when the sun was rising, totally blown away. Long live The Grateful Dead.
The Dead's repertoire was vast--you could see them four nights in a row and not see a single song repeated. Some suggestions: Morning Dew (from Europe 72 album), Ripple, Brokedown Palace, Box of Rain, Music Never Stopped, Franklin's Tower.
My first Dead concert was 1972. They really were a great live band although they did some great records - Workingmans Dead, American Beauty and Wake of the Flood my favorites, partly because they're from my own youth. Amber would love Ripple and Cassidy.
Listening to this brought back ALOT of good memories of past Dead shows. Great blend of blues, rock, jazz, country, folk, bluegrass, etc.. They toured constantly and many of the songs went into endless, improvisational jams. I had a buddy in high school who was a total Deadhead, and dragged me to many shows. Of the many great memories, I still think back to the van we travelled in, which had pro-law enforcement, pro-conservative, pro-firearms stickers all over it, to ellude and deter the police from the copious amounts of weed we were travelling with. Great times!! Definitely listen to Box of Rain!!
GD was a little Country band who could play a single song for hours, which made them perfect for the hippie dance clubs, like the Filmore, and a favorite at Ken Kesey's early Acid Tests..
AMBER, IT'S REALLY NO SURPRISE THAT YOU GRAVITATE TOWARDS THE GRATEFUL DEAD AND FELL IN LOVE WITH THIS BAND WITH THE FIRST SONG!! ESPECIALLY SINCE WE HAVE ALL LEARNED SINCE THIS CHANNEL BEGAN THAT YOU DEFINITELY HAVE A 60S SOUL!! AND THE GRATEFUL DEAD PRETTY MUCH ARE THE 60S SOUL!! BACK IN THE 70S THERE WAS NOTHING QUITE LIKE A GRATEFUL DEAD CONCERT!!! THE ATMOSPHERE WAS EXTREMELY WOODSTOCK-LIKE ALL THE TIME NO MATTER WHEN YOU WENT TO A GRATEFUL DEAD SHOW!! AND YOU KNEW THAT YOU WERE IN FOR AT LEAST 4 HOURS SOMETIMES AS MUCH AS SIX TO EIGHT HOURS OF THIS KIND OF MUSIC!! I WENT OUT WITH A GIRL IN THE LATE SEVENTIES WHO WAS A DEFINITE BONAFIDE DEADHEAD!! COMPLETE WITH THE LONG SUNDRESSES AND THE CRAZY DANCING!!😂❤
Such a deep cataloge to get into. Throwing Stones, Althea, Cassidy, Deal, Eyes of the World, all great songs. I would check out live versions if you can.
You guys are great! Try out the Dead's Sugar Magnolia and Uncle Johns Band. Also I need more Bruce Springsteen! Try Rosilita, Jungleland, 10th Ave Freeze Out or She's the One (live from Barcelona) . Bruce is always the best live!
I've met this legendary band personally. Jerry Garcia came to our senior party. Courtesy of Keasey from "the one that flew over the cuckoo's nest" his nephew my classmate. One of the perks of living in Eugene Or. Amber you would have fit right in to the beatnik crowd. You got to come out here for the country fair if you ever get a shot. Seen grateful Dead twice at autzen stadium as well. Great show I think. Don't remember a lot it was party central. If you know what I mean. Haha.
Amber, don't let anyone dampen you're groovy Deadhead spirit, it will serve you well thru life. Here are a few more Dead songs you may want to try "New Speedway Boogie", "I Need A Miracle", "U.S. Blues" and there version of the Rascals "Good Lovin". Peace & Love always.
When you listen to Grateful Dead, you have to remember that the singers, Jerry and Bobby, didn't write most of the songs. Most of the Jerry songs were written by Robert Hunter and most of the Bobby songs were written by John Perry Barlow. Songs not written by them or Jerry or Bobby are traditional Gospel, bluegrass, country and many other genres. Understanding the meaning of the songs, you have to understand them.
They are huge students of all types of American music (bluegrass, blues, rockabilly, rock, jazz, western, country). There was a period where their parents were aging and dying and they fell away from their weirder 60's psychedelia and went to their roots for two albums of very acoustic songs. Those appealed to the radio stations since they were short and less 'weird' - so those songs have become many people's idea of what the Dead is, but there is ~so~ much more. And again - I recommend you check out some live songs where they get very improvisational :)
This song brings me back to my late '80s college days when so many of my classmates were Deadheads. They haven't been a band I've kept on my regular rotation since then but whenever I do hear them, it always brings back happy memories. Check out 'Box of Rain' and 'Ripple' if you haven't yet. Amber'll dig 'em for sure!
Saw the Grateful Dead multiple times on tour but the two best shows I saw were in Buffalo. Steve Miller Band was the opening act for one of the shows, and Sting was the opening act for the second. Always an amazing experience, and the variety of sound the Dead put out is amazing.
A Senior Manager I worked for was a typical three piece suit, straight laced kind of guy. That is until he hosted a Christmas party at his home. I walked in and was greeted with Dead music playing and posters all over the walls. I loved it but, it was kind of hard to take him seriously at work after that.
My cousin moved in when he was 15 and I was 5. That's when I was introduced to the Grateful Dead. I got to see them with Jerry as a 22nd birthday present in the late '80s. What an experience! Their sound is a fusion of so many genres. And people who have never listen to their music have no clue, because there are so many bad assumptions made because of their name. Jerry Garcia passed away 2 months after my dad. It was rough. The band is not only a family, but so are the fans, and they have always treated their fans like family. So his loss was felt around the world. 😢 Thankfully I was able to take my daughter to see The Dead (when they finally reassembled after Jerry died), and then Ratdog at the Further Festival, right after Farm Aid with Phish! When my dad was dying, he slipped into coma for the last 12 hours. We played music most of that time, whisper quiet, and when I played Black Muddy Water from the In The Dark album. He'd not heard it it before, but his breathing relaxed as he was listening to the gentleness of the song. My daughter and close friends know to play that and Ripple for me when it's time. At the end of Ripple, your hear a lot of people singing along. It's the wives, girlfriends, and children of the band. Listen to it, it will stay in your heart forever. Love you guys {{{hugs}}}
The Dead - are an amazing group there best stuff is live “ Fire on the mountain “ & Scarlet Begonias live . They have the most extensive catalog of live recordings. Great bass playing on this song . Two drummers, great guitar players and keyboardist .
Jerry Garcia was a Bluegrass banjo player before the Dead. The band 'Old and In the Way' showcases this aspect of his talent. Check it out...all excellent players.
Jerry Garcia,, Bob Weir and Ron "Pigpen" McKernan started out in a Jug Band called Mother McCree's Uptown Jug Champions. Jerry was a great Banjo Player in addition to Guitar and, later Pedal Steel Guitar, so the "Country" vibe is real. Jerry was also a big fan of the Bakersfield, California Country Sound, so The Dead covered Merle Haggard a few times. "Friend Of The Devil" was a true fan favorite, and eventually The Dead electrified it and put it in the rotation. Saw it live a bunch of times, but never acoustic, only electric.
Amber as an old Dead head cant remember how many times I've seen them in bands form in one shape or other has to be around twenty times. Probably only seen Srv,Jimmy Buffett, April wine or loverboy or Rush more times
Deadhead here. Followed them for 3 years in High School. I would show up late to school whenever I got back wearing the clothes from concert which was typically gauze skirt, tank top, no shoes, tons of bracelets other deadheads made/sold and always bells on my ankles😂 How I ever graduated, I’ll never know! Great times, I don’t regret one bit but wouldn’t, or more like couldn’t do over again 😵💫
Back when I was a teen in the late 80s they would tour and I'm near a big venue in Indiana, the Dead Heads would follow them around and they'd all be in our town it was so fun. We had some folks with a stick up their but want to put on a bunch of rules but the merchants kind of squashed that for the money they would bring. You could go out and hang with them camping near the concert and buy beads and tye dyes
at about 3:57 where Jay says you can't place Dead in a perfect genre. Amber has one of the best music reaction quotes of TH-cam history: "You don't need to and I don't want to." Nuff Said.
I've been a Deadhead since the late 80's, thanks for giving this reaction to us today! Now back to my cave in the hills of Utah... Could you two wonderful people do one (pick one any one) off of Workingman's Dead? Pretty please? (Dire Wolf maybe?) hint. hint.
Here’s “Friend of the Devil” being performed by Jerry Garcia & David Grisman (mandolin) on Letterman back in 1993. It’s my favorite performance of this song. It’s electric! th-cam.com/video/lI_E6s0wvIo/w-d-xo.html
Thanks Galvin. I’m sure I saw it then, but that was long ago. I just played it twice. First I watched, then I just listened. I remember so clearly when I heard the sad news when Garcia died. I saw the band a handful of times from the early ‘70s on, and I regret not going many more. My good college buddy was a Deadhead and always asked if I wanted to go with him… then, with him and his wife,…then with him, wife and kids. He probably went over 100 times and continued with all the permutations from the Garcia band to the Further tours. Well at least I have the 6 or 7 shows I did go to, to be nostalgic about. Only saw Pigpen once: the very first time I saw them, when the band played in a small repurposed movie theater in Brooklyn! Walking distance from my home!
this was the song that pulled me in. i was a prog metal purist, and when i heard the multiple acoustic guitars weaving in and out from each other it was a sound i had to attain, now im trying to play guitar like jerry garcia and love americana music
This is one of those Dead songs that gets close to their bluegrass side. David Grisman played mandolin on this song, and Jerry Garcia the lead singer of the Dead played in a bluegrass band with Grisman on the side (Garcia was a GREAT banjo player as well as a singer and guitar player). Later in life, Grisman and Garcia did several folk/bluegrass collaboration albums that are really amazing.
Amber is on the bus, for sure. You want to hear cool sounds, check out Unbroken Chain or The Wheel. thanks so much for getting back to the good ol' Grateful Dead.
At one point a while back you two expressed curiosity about the Bluegrass genre. Check out Jerry Garcia’s virtuosity in that realm along with David Grisman, Sam Bush, Bella Fleck, Doc Watson (old timey folk) et.al.
If you get a chance to see the Documentary/Movie - "Festival Express" there is a scene where Jerry is in the Bar Car of the train picking out some Bluegrass riffs. That was one of the Highlights for me. 🎸😎
Amber, there's lots of great acoustic Dead songs littered thru the albums. There's also a really nice acoustic live album called Reckoning which is one of my favorites. Don't know if I have fav songs from it, maybe Bird Song and Cassidy, but I love whole thing. Also fyi Jerry was a partner in a bluegrass band called Old & In the Way with some other famous bluegrass/acoustic people (David Grisman, drawing blank on the others, sorry), their albums are great fun too.
Jerry’s lifelong lyricist, robert hunter, was a kook, and one hell of a story teller....i knew about hunter right as i was getting into them in 1995 b/c my friend had a GD songbook for guitar and all the jerry songs were credited to garcia/hunter, and id hear the words & when id listen to jerry songs that were new to me back then, & think to myself “good lord, this guy must be quite a character”, ...& its true. Hunter collaborsted with bob dylan in his last years, writing words with dylan & they even did a whole album together in 2009...thats how good robert hunter was
They were unique and had their own genre of music. This reminded me of Paul Simon for some reason; the sound of his voice and how the acoustic guitar played caught my attention. Nice one guys.
I'm not a Deadhead, but I love many of their songs ever since buying their first album when it came. Truckin' is probably my favorite, though it's hard to pick just one.
It's always better to listen to The Dead playing live, preferably in concert, but on video with a nice surround sound system will do in a pinch when you need a fix. Watching them play is like going to a magic show, and each of the instruments (in their hands) are their wands, putting you in a deep trance lifting you up, spinning you around, bringing you back down and placing you gently back in your own body after 3 to10 hours of continuous jam after jam after jam.
I am so glad that you reacted to this song. I have been waiting for you to get to it. I had a feeling that you would like it, particularly Amber. Go Amber, boogie down!😁
Been on the bus since 1990 when I was at UVM. GD music seems familiar as soon as you heard it, like, Where you been all my life? Please try Phish someday. I suggest starting with a You Enjoy Myself or Run Like an Antelope from 1992-95.
The ultimate hippie band of all time, takes me Back to my late teen years, smoking, trying to figure out what my life will be. Thank you Grateful Dead for the party music 🎉😅😊
a great song of course. the band is most noted for its extended fee form instrumentals.... ( 'mood songs' ) Dark Star, China Cat , Morning Dew would come to mind. according to a Garcia quote I read, the band started as bluegrass, then went to see ' A Hard Days Night'. Beatlemania forever.
Deadhead here , it was a lifestyle for me for about 4 years of my life, carefree ....I worked all winter long and saved my money for tickets and gas to tour the country spring summer and fall......I got to meet all different colors, religions, beliefs and what brought us all together was the love of freedom and music....
I was 16 then and would give anything to have just 1 season of my life back to tour and be free ❤
My husband is from San Francisco and has followed the Grateful Dead since the 70's. We have been to many concerts. It's not just a band, it's a philosophy and a life-style.
most over rated band in history. The fans are absolutely the worst. Garcia was a bum.
I too, am from SF and totally agree with your comment. I miss those days at Winterland when you could spend five bucks for a night with the Dead. Give your husband a hug from me, who knows, we may have met...
The Grateful Dead were not just a fantastic Americana Band, they were also a way of life. Their fans have experienced their catalog in ways no other band can claim. (Yeah, I know about Phish and the others) ✌️
most over rated band in history. The fans are absolutely the worst. Garcia was a bum. They had to prop up that junkie when i saw them in 95, 40 minute jams that go nowhere.
Being a Deadhead is like being Amish with lots of mushrooms
I finally curated my tapes from over 1,000 tapes on my wall in chronological order to my favorite 200. All Maxxell XLII's of course.
@@fadeawayinwestla That's awesome! Now what? Public?
And it still is. The Music never stops 😉 (~);}
Sugar Magnolia! Fire on the Mountain! What separates the Dead from other groups is they toured all year long and their fans followed them from show to show. It was a lifestyle!
...and not to forget "Box of Rain" either. 🥰
@@navigatingwithnana ...and Terrapin Station "...let my inspiration flow..."
Sugar Magnolia is my favorite.
I would simply fall over if they ever get to the Sugar Magnolia / FOTM combo from the 5/8/77 show at Cornell. Such a tight jam..
Heck yeah 😎❤♾️🌼🥀☠️🥀🌼♾️
Jay and Amber
I lobby for your next Grateful Dead reaction to be "Uncle John's Band."
It has a bit of a Jimmy Buffett feel to it. I'm really sure that you both will dig it!
And Buffett did an awesome cover of "Uncle John's Band" on the Fruitcakes album.
Classic! And one of the best, IMHO. ✌🏻💀
Some of the best 147 days and nights of my life were at Dead concerts 💗
Some of my favorite Dead songs...'One More Saturday Night', 'Bertha', 'Uncle John's Band' and my all-time favorite, 'U.S. Blues'.
A long ago ex introduced me to this song because my name is Ann Marie. Lots of fond memories about this song and the ex.❤❤
A “psychedelic road trip” is a perfect analogy for the Dead’s music. Keep going, the rabbit hole is long and deep!!!
I got into them at around age 12 or 13. I just knew something was up.
With two pills, "one that makes you larger , one that makes you small". I believe never seen AIWL.
"may the long time sunshine upon you all love surround you and the pure light within you guide your way on"
I saw them do a real long version of Fire on the Mountain in the early 80's where it went from song to jam to the dual drummer show back to jam and ended in the song. It took up a good 45 minutes and seemed like 4 hours in my acid soaked brain but I remember every glorious moment of it!
One of the best shows I ever attended was back in the early 70’s with GD and the Allman Brothers, when they jammed at midnight it was off the hook!
“Box of Rain” is another good one.
Really glad you're coming back to more Grateful Dead. I could sit here an suggest all sorts of songs from different eras of the band, but I won't. I'm gonna tell you what pulled me into following this band that you can't get from listening to any one song. Every night the Dead would go on stage, they had no set list. No one knew what they were going to play that night, neither the band nor the audience. So both the audience and the band all knew they were going to go on a journey of discovery that night. There was a lot of trust involved on both sides of the stage. And the journey was found in what the band played between songs, in how the music would wander and shift and morph and build in energy and intensity. The music could also deliver to you any number of emotions throughout the show just by how the band, and particularly Garcia, played a section of music. You could experience joy, anguish, fear, loneliness, tension, exhilaration and joy again all within a 40 minute jam. So keep searching for the sound. We'll all find it together.
The Dead was one of those bands. You either liked them or not. Fortunately for Amber, there's a huge amount of music by them out there. For more acoustic guitar you might check out Richard Thompson. From his early days in the 60s in Fairport Convention (big in the folk rock genre) to his years doing a duet with his then wife LInda, to his solo stuff. Just got to watch him perform last Saturday and he's still going strong.
Jay and Amber personify something I’ve been saying for decades. Some people listen to the Dead, and some people hear them.
Oh man!!!! The Dead have a whole catalogue of phenomenal songs!
My favorite is Throwin Stones!! Was so stoked when I finally heard it live 💀🐻
Not Fade Away, Samson and Delilah, I Need A Miracle
Throwin Stones is awesome. It's a little scary how it relates to now.
@@kesleycottrell1416 It's perpetually relevant.
They definitely need to listen to Throwing Stones!
Thanks for reminding me about Throwin Stones, that one had slipped my mind. I would include Hell in a Bucket and Tons of Steel, but the suggestions I did see are all solid choices. Matter of taste, I suppose.
@@bookman7409 When Push Comes to Shove, West LA Fadeaway. Great CD!
One of my favorite Dead songs I used to sing all of the time back when I was still playing a little guitar.
Where to even start with The Grateful Dead....so many songs and jams. Built To Last is one of my favs.
Love your appreciation for The Dead - they aren’t everyone’s cup of tea, but there is absolutely nothing else like them and never will be I was lucky enough to have seen a show in 1993 in Buffalo (my first visit to the US) when I was 17 I was ready to join the circus and leave it all behind - Amber, you would have for right in! Love from Canada
One of the great live performance bands of all time.
You need to hear China Cat/ I Know You Rider live from Cornell University. You won't believe how good they really were
That entire show is one of their best. The late 70's/early 80's had some of the best Dead shows, IMO..
Ah the Dead, so much to love. A few of my favorites, Ripple, Uncle John's Band, and Sugar Magnolia. Try to find live videos though.
Damn Amber, again u always feel the groove , u would fit right in with the deadheads , they feel the music also😊
always nice to see y'all come back to the Grateful Dead, they've got such a wide catalog, you can't not find SOMETHING you'd enjoy.
Said before: The Grateful Dead are their OWN genre!
For full disclosure, I saw the Grateful Dead 28 times from 1969 to 1973. I was an official Dead Head so my opinion may be affected. The Dead played many different styles of music from blues to country to psychedelic rock to jazz. Two of my favs are "Me and My Uncle" and "China Cat Sunflower" check em out. Going to see the Dead was a community celebration involving massive quantities of acid, pot, tequila and a sober driver. We would go to shows Friday and Saturday night. Getting a ticket was like gold. One summer in Boston we went to a show when the sun was setting and left when the sun was rising, totally blown away. Long live The Grateful Dead.
I've never had a song touch me as deeply as their song "Brokedown Palace"
The Dead's repertoire was vast--you could see them four nights in a row and not see a single song repeated. Some suggestions: Morning Dew (from Europe 72 album), Ripple, Brokedown Palace, Box of Rain, Music Never Stopped, Franklin's Tower.
This, for reasons I can’t completely explain, is my all-time favorite song by the Dead. I just love this!
My first Dead concert was 1972. They really were a great live band although they did some great records - Workingmans Dead, American Beauty and Wake of the Flood my favorites, partly because they're from my own youth. Amber would love Ripple and Cassidy.
I'm glad someone mentioned "Cassidy".
My first show was also in 1972, my older sister and her boyfriend took me on my 10th birthday.
@@edprzydatek8398 From Bobby Weir's solo album "Ace."
@@algrap1954 "Cassidy" is also on the Dead's album; "Reckoning".
@@edprzydatek8398 yes
The Greatful Dead is definitely an acquired taste! Careful, you'll get hooked!😁😁
We used do this song in our band in 1979.
A song that is a genre in itself; one of their best
Listening to this brought back ALOT of good memories of past Dead shows. Great blend of blues, rock, jazz, country, folk, bluegrass, etc.. They toured constantly and many of the songs went into endless, improvisational jams. I had a buddy in high school who was a total Deadhead, and dragged me to many shows. Of the many great memories, I still think back to the van we travelled in, which had pro-law enforcement, pro-conservative, pro-firearms stickers all over it, to ellude and deter the police from the copious amounts of weed we were travelling with. Great times!! Definitely listen to Box of Rain!!
GD was a little Country band who could play a single song for hours, which made them perfect for the hippie dance clubs, like the Filmore, and a favorite at Ken Kesey's early Acid Tests..
Actually started out as a jug band.
Love the Greatful Dead! A lot of very different sounds but also folky too! 😀❤️💕👏🏻👏🏻
Dead & Company final tour this summer. Going to Dallas in May and the last 3 shows in San Fran where it all started in July :)!!!!
AMBER, IT'S REALLY NO SURPRISE THAT YOU GRAVITATE TOWARDS THE GRATEFUL DEAD AND FELL IN LOVE WITH THIS BAND WITH THE FIRST SONG!! ESPECIALLY SINCE WE HAVE ALL LEARNED SINCE THIS CHANNEL BEGAN THAT YOU DEFINITELY HAVE A 60S SOUL!! AND THE GRATEFUL DEAD PRETTY MUCH ARE THE 60S SOUL!! BACK IN THE 70S THERE WAS NOTHING QUITE LIKE A GRATEFUL DEAD CONCERT!!! THE ATMOSPHERE WAS EXTREMELY WOODSTOCK-LIKE ALL THE TIME NO MATTER WHEN YOU WENT TO A GRATEFUL DEAD SHOW!! AND YOU KNEW THAT YOU WERE IN FOR AT LEAST 4 HOURS SOMETIMES AS MUCH AS SIX TO EIGHT HOURS OF THIS KIND OF MUSIC!! I WENT OUT WITH A GIRL IN THE LATE SEVENTIES WHO WAS A DEFINITE BONAFIDE DEADHEAD!! COMPLETE WITH THE LONG SUNDRESSES AND THE CRAZY DANCING!!😂❤
my absolute favorite by the dead is sugar magnolia the guitar, lyric and vocal are all very very good
Such a deep cataloge to get into. Throwing Stones, Althea, Cassidy, Deal, Eyes of the World, all great songs. I would check out live versions if you can.
You guys are great! Try out the Dead's Sugar Magnolia and Uncle Johns Band. Also I need more Bruce Springsteen! Try Rosilita, Jungleland, 10th Ave Freeze Out or She's the One (live from Barcelona) . Bruce is always the best live!
I've met this legendary band personally. Jerry Garcia came to our senior party. Courtesy of Keasey from "the one that flew over the cuckoo's nest" his nephew my classmate. One of the perks of living in Eugene Or. Amber you would have fit right in to the beatnik crowd. You got to come out here for the country fair if you ever get a shot. Seen grateful Dead twice at autzen stadium as well. Great show I think. Don't remember a lot it was party central. If you know what I mean. Haha.
Amber, don't let anyone dampen you're groovy Deadhead spirit, it will serve you well thru life. Here are a few more Dead songs you may want to try "New Speedway Boogie", "I Need A Miracle", "U.S. Blues" and there version of the Rascals "Good Lovin". Peace & Love always.
Brokedown Palace is Jerry's finest vocal performance. New Speedway Boogie, China Doll, Candyman etc all great.
All of American Beauty. Not a single bad song on there, all of it essential listening.
Live version of this feels different...slower and bluesy. Sugaree or Must've Been the Roses are great.
When you listen to Grateful Dead, you have to remember that the singers, Jerry and Bobby, didn't write most of the songs. Most of the Jerry songs were written by Robert Hunter and most of the Bobby songs were written by John Perry Barlow. Songs not written by them or Jerry or Bobby are traditional Gospel, bluegrass, country and many other genres. Understanding the meaning of the songs, you have to understand them.
They are huge students of all types of American music (bluegrass, blues, rockabilly, rock, jazz, western, country). There was a period where their parents were aging and dying and they fell away from their weirder 60's psychedelia and went to their roots for two albums of very acoustic songs. Those appealed to the radio stations since they were short and less 'weird' - so those songs have become many people's idea of what the Dead is, but there is ~so~ much more. And again - I recommend you check out some live songs where they get very improvisational :)
This song brings me back to my late '80s college days when so many of my classmates were Deadheads. They haven't been a band I've kept on my regular rotation since then but whenever I do hear them, it always brings back happy memories. Check out 'Box of Rain' and 'Ripple' if you haven't yet. Amber'll dig 'em for sure!
Saw the Grateful Dead multiple times on tour but the two best shows I saw were in Buffalo. Steve Miller Band was the opening act for one of the shows, and Sting was the opening act for the second. Always an amazing experience, and the variety of sound the Dead put out is amazing.
One of my three favorite Dead songs along with Truckin' and Ripple...
A Senior Manager I worked for was a typical three piece suit, straight laced kind of guy. That is until he hosted a Christmas party at his home. I walked in and was greeted with Dead music playing and posters all over the walls. I loved it but, it was kind of hard to take him seriously at work after that.
My cousin moved in when he was 15 and I was 5. That's when I was introduced to the Grateful Dead.
I got to see them with Jerry as a 22nd birthday present in the late '80s. What an experience! Their sound is a fusion of so many genres. And people who have never listen to their music have no clue, because there are so many bad assumptions made because of their name.
Jerry Garcia passed away 2 months after my dad. It was rough. The band is not only a family, but so are the fans, and they have always treated their fans like family. So his loss was felt around the world. 😢
Thankfully I was able to take my daughter to see The Dead (when they finally reassembled after Jerry died), and then Ratdog at the Further Festival, right after Farm Aid with Phish!
When my dad was dying, he slipped into coma for the last 12 hours. We played music most of that time, whisper quiet, and when I played Black Muddy Water from the In The Dark album. He'd not heard it it before, but his breathing relaxed as he was listening to the gentleness of the song. My daughter and close friends know to play that and Ripple for me when it's time.
At the end of Ripple, your hear a lot of people singing along. It's the wives, girlfriends, and children of the band. Listen to it, it will stay in your heart forever.
Love you guys {{{hugs}}}
The Dead - are an amazing group there best stuff is live “ Fire on the mountain “ & Scarlet Begonias live . They have the most extensive catalog of live recordings. Great bass playing on this song . Two drummers, great guitar players and keyboardist .
Jerry’s vocals make you feel good about feeling bad. A true icon.
Jerry Garcia was a Bluegrass banjo player before the Dead. The band 'Old and In the Way' showcases this aspect of his talent. Check it out...all excellent players.
Jerry Garcia,, Bob Weir and Ron "Pigpen" McKernan started out in a Jug Band called Mother McCree's Uptown Jug Champions. Jerry was a great Banjo Player in addition to Guitar and, later Pedal Steel Guitar, so the "Country" vibe is real. Jerry was also a big fan of the Bakersfield, California Country Sound, so The Dead covered Merle Haggard a few times. "Friend Of The Devil" was a true fan favorite, and eventually The Dead electrified it and put it in the rotation. Saw it live a bunch of times, but never acoustic, only electric.
Amber as an old Dead head cant remember how many times I've seen them in bands form in one shape or other has to be around twenty times. Probably only seen Srv,Jimmy Buffett, April wine or loverboy or Rush more times
Deadhead here. Followed them for 3 years in High School. I would show up late to school whenever I got back wearing the clothes from concert which was typically gauze skirt, tank top, no shoes, tons of bracelets other deadheads made/sold and always bells on my ankles😂 How I ever graduated, I’ll never know! Great times, I don’t regret one bit but wouldn’t, or more like couldn’t do over again 😵💫
You guys have to listen to “I’d Love to Change the World” by Ten Years After. Not only are the lyrics great, Alvin Lee’s guitar playing is AMAZING!👍
Back when I was a teen in the late 80s they would tour and I'm near a big venue in Indiana, the Dead Heads would follow them around and they'd all be in our town it was so fun. We had some folks with a stick up their but want to put on a bunch of rules but the merchants kind of squashed that for the money they would bring. You could go out and hang with them camping near the concert and buy beads and tye dyes
I don’t know if anyone mentioned it but that’s not a banjo. That’s David Grisman on the mandolin… He played with Jerry a lot.
at about 3:57 where Jay says you can't place Dead in a perfect genre. Amber has one of the best music reaction quotes of TH-cam history: "You don't need to and I don't want to." Nuff Said.
I've been a Deadhead since the late 80's, thanks for giving this reaction to us today! Now back to my cave in the hills of Utah... Could you two wonderful people do one (pick one any one) off of Workingman's Dead? Pretty please? (Dire Wolf maybe?) hint. hint.
I used to sing this in the jug band i played in. I have a recording of this song live, and a girl sitting up front giggled just like you did!
Jay absolutely needs to be able to hear the Grateful Dead from back in the day when pig pen was with them check out it hurts Me Too!
Easy Wind.
Here’s “Friend of the Devil” being performed by Jerry Garcia & David Grisman (mandolin) on Letterman back in 1993. It’s my favorite performance of this song. It’s electric! th-cam.com/video/lI_E6s0wvIo/w-d-xo.html
Thanks Galvin. I’m sure I saw it then, but that was long ago. I just played it twice. First I watched, then I just listened.
I remember so clearly when I heard the sad news when Garcia died. I saw the band a handful of times from the early ‘70s on, and I regret not going many more. My good college buddy was a Deadhead and always asked if I wanted to go with him… then, with him and his wife,…then with him, wife and kids. He probably went over 100 times and continued with all the permutations from the Garcia band to the Further tours. Well at least I have the 6 or 7 shows I did go to, to be nostalgic about. Only saw Pigpen once: the very first time I saw them, when the band played in a small repurposed movie theater in Brooklyn! Walking distance from my home!
this was the song that pulled me in. i was a prog metal purist, and when i heard the multiple acoustic guitars weaving in and out from each other it was a sound i had to attain, now im trying to play guitar like jerry garcia and love americana music
This is one of those Dead songs that gets close to their bluegrass side. David Grisman played mandolin on this song, and Jerry Garcia the lead singer of the Dead played in a bluegrass band with Grisman on the side (Garcia was a GREAT banjo player as well as a singer and guitar player). Later in life, Grisman and Garcia did several folk/bluegrass collaboration albums that are really amazing.
This is from their 1970 album American Beauty, which in my opinion is their absolute best album, contains my favorite Dead song Ripple.
Scarlett Begonia's / Fire On The Mountain, from Cornell live, 1977... 18 minutes of pure heaven...
Amber is on the bus, for sure. You want to hear cool sounds, check out Unbroken Chain or The Wheel. thanks so much for getting back to the good ol' Grateful Dead.
If you like this style of Dead and storytelling songs, try "Brown-eyed Women" or "Jack Straw", both off the great double live album - Europe '72 -.
At one point a while back you two expressed curiosity about the Bluegrass genre. Check out Jerry Garcia’s virtuosity in that realm along with David Grisman, Sam Bush, Bella Fleck, Doc Watson (old timey folk) et.al.
Billy Strings is a must
If you get a chance to see the Documentary/Movie - "Festival Express" there is a scene where Jerry is in the Bar Car of the train picking out some Bluegrass riffs. That was one of the Highlights for me. 🎸😎
One of my favorite songs. Thanks for playing it. ❤❤
Hey Guys,
It's great to meet the two newest Deadheads...
Love you guys.
Amber, there's lots of great acoustic Dead songs littered thru the albums. There's also a really nice acoustic live album called Reckoning which is one of my favorites. Don't know if I have fav songs from it, maybe Bird Song and Cassidy, but I love whole thing. Also fyi Jerry was a partner in a bluegrass band called Old & In the Way with some other famous bluegrass/acoustic people (David Grisman, drawing blank on the others, sorry), their albums are great fun too.
Go! Amber...what a catchy song, and the acoustic- guitar- playing catchy too. 👍☝️🤓
Ya must hear their jam "Bertha".. it's wonderful!!
Peace from Pennsylvania ✌️
"Casey Jones", "Mexicali Blues", and "Sugar Magnolia"
1st concert id seen 16 years old, still can't believe my parents let me go. long island 1980.
Jerry’s lifelong lyricist, robert hunter, was a kook, and one hell of a story teller....i knew about hunter right as i was getting into them in 1995 b/c my friend had a GD songbook for guitar and all the jerry songs were credited to garcia/hunter, and id hear the words & when id listen to jerry songs that were new to me back then, & think to myself “good lord, this guy must be quite a character”, ...& its true. Hunter collaborsted with bob dylan in his last years, writing words with dylan & they even did a whole album together in 2009...thats how good robert hunter was
They were unique and had their own genre of music. This reminded me of Paul Simon for some reason; the sound of his voice and how the acoustic guitar played caught my attention. Nice one guys.
I'm not a Deadhead, but I love many of their songs ever since buying their first album when it came. Truckin' is probably my favorite, though it's hard to pick just one.
It's always better to listen to The Dead playing live, preferably in concert, but on video with a nice surround sound system will do in a pinch when you need a fix. Watching them play is like going to a magic show, and each of the instruments (in their hands) are their wands, putting you in a deep trance lifting you up, spinning you around, bringing you back down and placing you gently back in your own body after 3 to10 hours of continuous jam after jam after jam.
You stumbled onto one of the Dead's Classics. For more of the same try "Playin in the Band" and "Bertha"
My personal favorite by them is "Box of Rain". Check it out if you haven't already.
Now do "Ripple ". You will have no regrets
And then watch the Eric Stoltz movie Mask.
I second that. "Ripple" is one of my favorite Dead songs.
They have done Ripple already 😊
"Dire Wolf" is a country jug gripper. You'd dig that Dead.
"Sage & Spirit" is an instrumental with a lot going on, very much worth a listen.
I am so glad that you reacted to this song. I have been waiting for you to get to it. I had a feeling that you would like it, particularly Amber. Go Amber, boogie down!😁
For different sounds try “Dire Wolf”, “Brokedown Palace,” “Casey Jones”
Been on the bus since 1990 when I was at UVM. GD music seems familiar as soon as you heard it, like, Where you been all my life?
Please try Phish someday. I suggest starting with a You Enjoy Myself or Run Like an Antelope from 1992-95.
unfortunately i only saw the dead 75 times in 6 years . keep on rockn the dead here amber its grate
" Casey Jones " by Grateful Dead
This was a serious devil drinkin' song back in the days. When mischief was in the air.
Woohoo! Love this one. Probably my favorite of theirs!
The ultimate hippie band of all time, takes me
Back to my late teen years, smoking, trying to figure out what my life will be. Thank you Grateful Dead for the party music 🎉😅😊
Jerry Garcia one of the greatest guitar pickers of all time. He is truly missed.
Counting Crows did a pretty cool cover of this epic tune several years back ...worth checking out some time soon, guys!
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I think the Grateful Dead song The Wheel would be right up your alley.
a great song of course. the band is most noted for its extended fee form instrumentals.... ( 'mood songs' ) Dark Star, China Cat , Morning Dew would come to mind. according to a Garcia quote I read, the band started as bluegrass, then went to see ' A Hard Days Night'. Beatlemania forever.