[welting]

The dead are like, totally blowing my mind man. No but seriously I like them.

[Haakon]

I was checking them out with the "American Beauty" because it was the most acclaimed one. I was dissapointed though, it wasn`t the psychedelic music I expected, it sounded like happy rock music. It wasn`t bad, but not what I was looking for. What am I missing? I`m going to check out some live material after what I just read.

Quicksilver is also on my need to be heard list in the genre, and allready ordered "Country Joe And The Fish - Electric Music For The Mind And Body".

[Music Director]

Originally Posted by Psychedelic Syd

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Please don't make me actually post it... It would take so long and I'm in a lazy mood today...
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Okay, so take a few days.

I love the Grateful Dead. Saw them a million years ago when I was in college. They're also on my list of faves - not quite in the top twenty but close.

[iam the walrus]

Originally Posted by Haakon

I was checking them out with the "American Beauty" because it was the most acclaimed one. I was dissapointed though, it wasn`t the psychedelic music I expected, it sounded like happy rock music. It wasn`t bad, but not what I was looking for. What am I missing? I`m going to check out some live material after what I just read.

Quicksilver is also on my need to be heard list in the genre, and allready ordered "Country Joe And The Fish - Electric Music For The Mind And Body".

Check out Anthem Of The Sun man, trippy trippy music. Their tune, "That's It For The Other One" is psychedelic brilliance. Hell the entire album is wicked dude. And Dark Star's probably the fav live album...love the Dead man, great band.

[iam the walrus]

Why the dudes were so popular...the Deads brought back the whole essence and simplicity of the 60s to dudes like me who weren't necessarily a part of the hippie culture the first time around. Everyone wanted to be a hippie dude, be one with nature, feel the sublime music in a trance through the drugs and feel the love of mankind. Dudes brought the music, the whole atmosphere and made it accessible to different generations in a way more so than bands like Quicksilver could ever do I think. Combined with how entertaining the dudes were live, its easy to see how the band had and continues to have such a phenomenal fan base.

[Psychedelic Syd]

Originally Posted by Haakon

I was checking them out with the "American Beauty" because it was the most acclaimed one. I was dissapointed though, it wasn`t the psychedelic music I expected, it sounded like happy rock music. It wasn`t bad, but not what I was looking for. What am I missing? I`m going to check out some live material after what I just read.

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No, you are correct, some how their "Americam Beauty" and "Workingman's Dead" period still classifies to some as psychedelic, when in reality it isn't very psychedelic at all... Check out Aoxomoxoa (not sure if I spelled that right), Anthem of The Sun or their first album (as well as a host of good live albums that are available)...

I personally would say you should check out Quicksliver's first two albums over anything by the Grateful Dead... I find them superior...


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[welting]

I really like the Dead in their Workingman's dead and American Beauty days. Songs like Truckin and Casey Jones are so good. I like theri more psychedelic stuff too, but I just like that facet of their music as well.

[Satchmo8101]

Some news on upcoming Dead Recordings.


Dick's Picks 35, and other items

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First, Dennis McNally asked me to spread this announcement far and wide about Dick's Picks 35, then we'll deal with a few more items:

A Note About This Dick's Pick: The Legend of the Houseboat Tapes

Although the Dead's vault is enormous and impressively full, the band certainly doesn't have a tape of every show it played; in fact, they don't even have a copy of every show they recorded. Tapes drifted off in a variety of ways - including Jerry Garcia handing them out… And therein lies the story of Dick's Picks #35.

This spring, our archivist David Lemieux got a call from Donna Jean Godchaux-Mackay. It seems that in the late summer of 1971, just before Keith Godchaux began rehearsals with the Dead, Garcia handed him a big box of tapes and said, “Here, this is our most recent tour. Learn our music.� The irony was that Donna Jean doubts mightily Keith ever bothered to listen to them - he'd never listened to the Dead all that much before he auditioned, first with Garcia and then the rest of the band - he just had an uncanny innate facility for the music. In any case, he left the tapes on his parents' houseboat in Alameda, and there they stayed. For 35 years.

A month ago, his brother Brian and son Zion were cleaning out the houseboat, found the tapes, and gave them to Donna, whose jaw dropped. One call to Lemieux later, and the Dead's long-lost missing tour from the summer of 1971 had resurfaced. Master tapes include April 28 and 29 at the Fillmore East (released as “Ladies and Gentlemen,� taken from the multi-track masters), the 7/31 Yale Bowl (alas, blank), a small piece of the Hollywood Bowl, Berkeley Community Theatre, and others.

Dick's Pick #35 will be four CDs: the complete San Diego (8/7/71) show, all that was salvageable of the 8/24 Chicago show, and an hour-plus from the Hollywood Bowl (8/6). It will be available at dead.net Friday, June 17th.

Not a soundboard-recorded note of that tour's music circulates among Dead Heads, so this is a truly remarkable find. How they survived 35 years in a watery environment simply proves, yet once again - if you needed convincing - that God smiles on the Grateful Dead.

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Other coming attractions.

By now you won't be surprised to hear that sometime in the future there will be some sort of 'product' release, it happens all the time. But I was told one interesting item slated for later this year, that is cleared for your consumption!

In mid-October, there will be two items released, dealing with the same material. The Grateful Dead shows at the Fillmore West from 2-27-69 to 3-2-69 are legendary, and much of Live Dead comes from those shows. There will be a 10-CD package, limited to 10,000 copies, and available only from dead.net, that will contain every single note from the entire run. Rhino/WEA will release a 3-CD compilation of selected cuts from this series. The Rhino/WEA package will be available everywhere, including the GDForum store.

So, there you go, now you have something else to look forward to!

[dblecros]

how did i know you'd like this crap band? esp?

[Seerix]

Not a fan...at all, actually. I can see the appeal to hippies, but i am not a hippee. They are talented from a musicianship standpoint, but that alone has never done much for me.

Other than Traffic, I could pretty much do without all jam rock. Aside from a few scattered songs, I could do without this band.