Any deadheads out there?

[advocatia]

Any Grateful Dead fans around here? How many shows? Where/When? Any really long time fans going back to the 60's/early70's. Favorite tunes?

I have grown to appreciate them more and more as I get older for some reason. Some of their stuff is brutally bad (by their own admission) while most of it is in a league of its' own.

Miss old nine fingers.

[rainman_16]

I've been listening recently to the GD station on Sirius and really enjoy it on the reco of a work colleague. Wished I had begun appreciating their music 30 years earlier.

I like Eyes on the World and Ripple among others

[Lion]

I am not a "Deadhead" but did grow up in the 60's listening to their music...and do have their first 7 albums and also Jerry's first solo album. I was not one for going to many of anyone's concerts back then preferring to buy albums instead. Of course ticket prices for concerts back then were relatively cheap compared to now. Seats were $3.00, $4.00 and $5.00USD(albums cost around $3.00) but when I did go I did have a lot of fun. I remember the free concerts in Grant Park in Chicago in the late 1960's and very early 1970's...I would take the train downtown and go to the concerts. The last free concert I attended Sly and the Family Stone were suppose to play but he got to high and never showed. People got upset and started a riot downtown breaking windows and looting stores.....I got my butt on a train and got the He!! out of there!!!

In 1973 I got interested in Jazz music and said goodbye to Rock N Roll.....

Take it easy.....Leo

[advocatia]

Originally Posted by Lion

I am not a "Deadhead" but did grow up in the 60's listening to their music...and do have their first 7 albums and also Jerry's first solo album. I was not one for going to many of anyone's concerts back then preferring to buy albums instead. Of course ticket prices for concerts back then were relatively cheap compared to now. Seats were $3.00, $4.00 and $5.00USD(albums cost around $3.00) but when I did go I did have a lot of fun. I remember the free concerts in Grant Park in Chicago in the late 1960's and very early 1970's...I would take the train downtown and go to the concerts. The last free concert I attended Sly and the Family Stone were suppose to play but he got to high and never showed. People got upset and started a riot downtown breaking windows and looting stores.....I got my butt on a train and got the He!! out of there!!!

In 1973 I got interested in Jazz music and said goodbye to Rock N Roll.....

Take it easy.....Leo

SIRIUS/XM has a pretty good Jazz channel. I enjoy it alot. You said goodbye to rock-n-roll? How could you? That's blasphemous! (totally kidding).

[ghotihead2001]

There are a few heads around these parts

[advocatia]

Originally Posted by rainman_16

I've been listening recently to the GD station on Sirius and really enjoy it on the reco of a work colleague. Wished I had begun appreciating their music 30 years earlier.

I like Eyes on the World and Ripple among others

Two great ones.

So Many Roads
Bertha
Franklin's Tower
Brokedown Palace
Big Railroad Blues
Viola Lee Blues

..... too many to choose.

[advocatia]

Originally Posted by ghotihead2001

There are a few heads around these parts

Thought so. Cool.

[ghotihead2001]

Originally Posted by advocatia

Thought so. Cool.

Sure thing....might be worth your time to check out the Furthur tour this spring/summer....call it a nostalgia act, but certainly can be a good time if you take it for what it is!

[Lion]

I do have a friend who is a "Deadhead" and would follow them around the country...he currently has over 400 CD's from concerts which he downloaded off the Internet from other collectors. Remember the Grateful Dead believed in sharing their music for free so you can find them on the Internet. I believe it was from last year but he bought that special CD set from one of the Dead's concert tours of Europe. I believe there were something like 72 CD's in the boxed set.....

Take it easy.....Leo

[Lion]

Originally Posted by advocatia

SIRIUS/XM has a pretty good Jazz channel. I enjoy it alot. You said goodbye to rock-n-roll? How could you? That's blasphemous! (totally kidding).

Yes I did, I found that Jazz music is very enjoyable and relaxing, is a true American style/form of music along with Blues and improvisation is and can be central to the music. To me the Grateful Dead used this element in their music so when they played concerts they never played the same song twice the same way!!!

Take it easy.....Leo

[ghotihead2001]

Originally Posted by Lion

Remember the Grateful Dead believed in sharing their music for free so you can find them on the Internet.

All the legal, free, streaming (mostly high quality) GD you could want

http://archive.org/details/GratefulDead

[Dr. Robert]

I lived (and am back) in the San Francisco Bay Area as a youth & grew up w/ the Dead.....I saw/heard them as The Warlocks....saw them @ lots of live shows
I welcomed several new yrs. eves @ The Winterland w/ the Dead....the best new yrs eves.
I welcomed this new yr. & last yr. @ The Bill Graham Theater in San Francisco w/ "Furthur" Bob Weir & Phil Lesh & band......not the Dead, but most excellent.
I am off to listen to "I know you rider" real loud.
I miss smiling Jerry & Pigpen.

[Watchdog]

Originally Posted by Dr. Robert

I lived (and am back) in the San Francisco Bay Area as a youth & grew up w/ the Dead.....I saw/heard them as The Warlocks....saw them @ lots of live shows
I welcomed several new yrs. eves @ The Winterland w/ the Dead....the best new yrs eves.
I welcomed this new yr. & last yr. @ The Bill Graham Theater in San Francisco w/ "Furthur" Bob Weir & Phil Lesh & band......not the Dead, but most excellent.
I am off to listen to "I know you rider" real loud.
I miss smiling Jerry & Pigpen.

Very cool!:). Cheers!

[ghotihead2001]

Originally Posted by Dr. Robert

I lived (and am back) in the San Francisco Bay Area as a youth & grew up w/ the Dead.....I saw/heard them as The Warlocks....saw them @ lots of live shows
I welcomed several new yrs. eves @ The Winterland w/ the Dead....the best new yrs eves.
I welcomed this new yr. & last yr. @ The Bill Graham Theater in San Francisco w/ "Furthur" Bob Weir & Phil Lesh & band......not the Dead, but most excellent.
I am off to listen to "I know you rider" real loud.
I miss smiling Jerry & Pigpen.

I've watched that closing of winterland DVD many times. Alas, I was born too late

[Dr. Robert]

Originally Posted by ghotihead2001

I've watched that closing of winterland DVD many times. Alas, I was born too late

Bah humbug......Winterland, now condos....the Fillmore is still cooking......the Avalon Ballroom, now a multiplex cinema......the Fillmore West (the old Carousel ballroom) now a Honda dealrship......the Family Dog by the beach (Playland) now a supermarket......& the oldie, the Matrix is now a yuppie bar & grill
Still cooking is Freight & Salvage in Berkeley & Lesh & Weir took over the Sweetwater Music hall in Mill Valley.
Long live the Grateful Dead

[ghotihead2001]

I'm moving to SF next year.... Will have to find some new stomping ground

[Dr. Robert]

Originally Posted by ghotihead2001

I'm moving to SF next year.... Will have to find some new stomping ground

No worries....you're still moving to the best city on the face of the earth.

[Dr. Robert]

For all you Deadheads......
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YiEO1Vg7ksQ


check out Jorma's version...gotta love the Airplane too!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JIWdMlsTzp0


Aw lord...I wish I was a hippie again, hell I'd be happy just to have my hair back.

[Lion]

Originally Posted by Dr. Robert

For all you Deadheads......
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YiEO1Vg7ksQ


check out Jorma's version...gotta love the Airplane too!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JIWdMlsTzp0


Aw lord...I wish I was a hippie again, hell I'd be happy just to have my hair back.

Did you also attend the " Acid Tests".....back in the days with the Merry Pranksters???

Take it easy.....Leo

[Dr. Robert]

Originally Posted by Lion

Did you also attend the " Acid Tests".....back in the days with the Merry Pranksters???

Take it easy.....Leo

As a U.S. citizen I am utilizing my right to take the Fifth Amendment.

[AIKO]

Yes for sure, not old enough to have seen shows from the 60's/70's though. My first show was in 86 and saw in the neighborhood of 50-60 times up until Jerry died, my dogs are Ripple and Sugaree :-) i have seen Furthur a few times the past couple of years and have been very impressed, also caught my first DSO show a few months ago in Asheville, NC-really exceeded my expectations. When Jerry died seems like a lot of people split between Phish and Widespread-i went the Widespread route, seeing them 2 nights next week.

[eman1200]

spent my first two years of college travelling around with the Dead. set me back a few years, but no regrets. too many favorite songs to list.

[Vincent65]

I never got it, personally - for my 'head' days I much preferred Gong, Zappa, Faust and Can. And a bit of Here & Now, and The Residents. Peace man...

[unclesallie]

I saw plenty of Dead shows, but not a 'deadhead', was never into the smelly/dredlock/poster/empty eyed stares scene. On the other hand, I loved the Dead.
Too bad they are gone. Now I listen to The Dead Channel on XM/Sirius radio in my car car.

[tudorluv]

luv the dead, all things jerry, and nowadays a john k band (of furthur) front row fanatic here