NEMD Grateful Dead Appreciation Thread

Thanks to this thread I've had Live Dead on the go this past hour, just building to the end of 'Turn on your love light' as we speak. Man, it must be 20 years since I've listened to this album. I'd forgotten how epic Dark Star sounds, and just how damn good it is. Got Anthem Of The Sun and Aoxomoxoa lined up next. :)

Favourite I think will always be Cassidy. Guy at work gave me, I think a live 4 disc vinyl import 20 odd years ago when he heard me listening to West Coast 60s stuff one saturday morning when the factory was mostly closed down, said here you go, give this a listen, and that was always the stand out track. Damn, I hope that album's still gathering dust at my mam's somewhere. Gotta dig it out if it is.
 
when i was a kid i loved aoxomoxoa but anymore i think i would have trouble listening to the album all the way through. it just seems like they paid no attention to the track placement.

there was a moment at the 3-18 tower show where they had started up rosemary, and no one knew what it was until phil started croaking the first line. everyone looked at each other and smiled. seemed like a hundred of us said rosemary! all at once. it was a nice moment to share.
 
so i saw furthur saturday night in wilkes-barre

i feel asleep during the second set

venue sucked dick, wasn't loud enough(always a problem at furthur shows....wish i went to the tower shows cause i know that place gets LOUD) and no monitors

despite the zzzz, i'm gonna head up to syracuse for friday's show
 
Have seen them 30+ times. Sort of where I foun d my nitch (and a crazy drug habit) in high school. Some of my best days were spent at the shows. When jg died (8/9/95) I slowly started tO get my shit together.
I love songs like brokedown palace, black muddy river, jack a roe, china cat, oh help-slip-frank, just to name a few.
Miss those days and the braincells that were left behind...lol
 
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the tower shows were plenty loud
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yep

i saw ratdog play there back in october '09 for bobby's bday show and the night after(would turn out to be my final 'dog show)

my ears are still ringing

i miss ratdog, god damn they were getting fun
 
i liked the original ratdog line up with wasserman the best.

but the last time i saw the new school of ratdog was like 6 years ago, so i'm not really hip to the current sound.
 
vince welnick was originally in ratdog, than got kicked out for od'ing on the tour bus

which is ironic, because in blair jackson's 'garcia', vince is quoted as saying he was going to take matters into his own hands regarding john kahn using dope with jerry

i loved ratdog for mark karan, jeff chimenti, sometimes kenny sounded awesome on sax, and it was awesome hearing bobby sing every song

wish furthur would let bobby do that
 
i really don't like to rehash this shit, because the whole deal leaves me with a bitter taste in my mouth.

welnick tried to kill himself while he was in a deep depression. problem was that he tried to do it with benzos and probably didn't do that thorough a job anyway. call it a cry for help. the other band members responded not by showing the guy any love but by completely ignoring him (if you remember, he was not invited to those 'grateful dead reunion' shows). this led to some further depression coupled with it's close relative self-medication.

a couple years later the poor guy managed to be successful by cutting his own throat in front of his wife.

it's a shameful chapter in the history of the band and more than one person should be ashamed of their part in it.
 
an interesting corollory to this is that weir complained about welnick wanting to revive a lot of older dead songs and do more beatles covers with the band...and that is just about exactly the formula that furthur is following these days.
 
furthur tonight @ syracuse

never been to 'cuse, pretty excited

also excited that i don't have to drive and as much as i love my dad. he will not be there

so i think i'm gonna get dosed, in a hefty manner

due for dew! i know they are going to play the eleven 11/11/11...

still a lot 'one tour songs' that i really want to hear that have not been played yet:
black throated wind, row jimmy, dew, stagger lee, rueben and cherise,weather report suite(although lIG was played)

they are due for the 2nd jack straw and playin' of the tour :)

i like having expectations and shit, so they can be broken and i can bitch how i didn't like the setlist ;)
 
consider yourself considered.

have fun at the show. old and washed up versions of the dead are better than no dead at all.
 
got there too late for lsd and stuff, but still felt good

typical up-state new york intensity, one of the better furthur shows i've been too

during set break this tiny,super cute, extra silly prankster girl befriended me,so we danced and stuff, i wanted to take her home in my pocket, and keep her

but she was on tour

Alligator>
This Could Be The Last Time
Ruben And Cerise
High On A Mountain>
Loser
Brown Eyed Women
Jack Straw
Revolution

Weather Report Suite>
Let It Grow>
Dear Mr. Fantasy>
Playing In The Band>
I want You (Shes So Heavy)>
Dark Star>
We Love You>
King Solomans Marbles
Sugaree>
Goin Down The Road Feeling Bad

for the 2nd time this tour, i went to a show without a ballad, what gives?
 
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of course there was

at 11:00 they played the 11

and the 2nd encore, useless blues ended at 11:11(they turned the house lights on by this point)

everyone was dancing so hardcore to us blues....weird, where were those faggots during the sick fucking jack straw

hurr derrr hurrrrr
 
god i love dark star orchestra and ithaca, ny

surely you are all aware of the mojo associated with upstate new york shows, especially ithaca

saw them last night for their 2000th show and holy fuck what a great show and atmosphere (there was about 1/3 the size of a furthur arena crowd, but i'm willing to bet there were more people dancing, singing and swaying than you would see at a furthur show)

i went there solo, and really didn't make any connections with anybody there, but god damn i had the time of my life

here was the set list

NFA>Jack Straw, Mission In The Rain, Hell In A Bucket, It Hurts Me Too(w/Lisa on vocals), Me and My Uncle>Mexicali Blues, Believe It or Not, Blow Away, Might As Well

Playing In the Band>Uncle John's Band>Unbroken Chain(with Rob Barrcos on vocals)>Sailor>Saint>Terrapin>Drums>Space>Shakedown Street>Unbroken Chain reprise>Comes A Time> UJB reprise>NFA

Filler: Forever Young

straw, mission, FUCKING beleive it or not(been to sooo many shows, finnally got to see this mutha performed), blow away(although it was short version..no WAIT A MINUTE) all killed in the first set, like really hard, especially that jack straw and mission in the rain, wowzah

the 2nd set was as good as it looks,s although hakedown outta space i thought was watered down....thought for sure i'd get a dew, but a great comes a time instead

can't wait to see them again thanksgiving eve at beautiful penn's peak, pretty sure they sold that place out last year(they always play there thanksgiving eve)

attendence really seems to be growing, very awesome to see, this band(regardless of formation) is going to be around for a longggg time

it really is pretty awesome to see so many young (18-30) people really digging this music

and i always thought it was annoying that on dso's web page they automatically played music at it's main page

but today i stopped and listened to it..... they have song very sick samples!

i love how jeff mattson can take over a show with that guitar playing
 
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I'm sure it's been posted before but I love The Dead because their songs are like life. positive and negative. They don't bullshit around the bad but they just power through for positivity.
 
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