First Grateful Dead Cd?

my first dead cd was skeleton's from the closet, too. however, it's definitely not my favorite. i don't see how you can call yourself a Grateful Dead fan and like a best of album with all studio recordings. in fact, i deleted it from my computer.

 

American Beauty was the first album that I ever listened too. I believe its also the first album I ever bought too, if not it was their first album Grateful Dead.

 

My first dead album was Blues for Allah. It's still my favorite studio album. I aquired it when my friend bought it and decided he didn't like it so he passed it on to me. I was mostly into heavy metal at the time, but when I listened to Blues for Allah I was floored. I never knew music could sound like that. Within a year I had stopped listing to metal all together. The dead had become my musical focus. (and it still is.)

 

hmmmm, My first dead wasnt a CD, it was blowing a rainbow, some bootleg from Seatle I think 1980ish. It was a copy of a copy of a tape copy...etc. My first CD was In the dark which I got as an xmas present from a coworker.

 

Here is a gift for you.
http://www.archive.org/browse.php?collection=GratefulDead&field=year

 

My first was American Beauty, bought it in 1971.

 

I had my cousin give me a bootleg from 77. I was maybe thirteen?

 

Live Dead

 

Mine was Aoxomoxoa .. my favorite now though is Wake of the Flood

 

I'm the type of guy that likes to start at the beginning and hear growth so the first one I got was the self titled debut. It's funny I read an interview with Robert Hunter and he said his favorite Dead album was In the Dark because event though it was a studio album it was recorded with only vocal overdubs. IE they set up like they do on stage and recorded all at once and only recorded vocals later.
Peace Out,
Rev J

 

my first grateful dead cd that I purchaced was The Closing of Winterland NYE show

 

the first i heard was 'american beauty'... the first i bought was aoxomoxoa' shortly thereafter... i figured it had a neat name, and since i didn't really know much of the dead at the time, that was good enough for me

 

My first was Grateful Dead I found on the floor after me and my brother had traded rooms in the house we grew up in. It was a white cassette. I still have it.

 

The rest is history

 

Working Man's Dead

 

Skeletons From The Closet

 

My first Dead album was a record, which was their 1967 self-titled album.

It's a masterpiece. All the songs go great together. Excellent cover art too.

 

My dad already had Grateful Dead, Aoxomoxoa, Workingman's Dead, American Beauty, and Blues for Allah.

The first one I listened to was Aoxomoxoa because I was young and was like "HOLY SHIT THAT IS AN AWESOME ALBUM COVER!!!!" And it still is.

 

American Beauty and In the Dark...changed my life!

 

Skeletons from the closet, i got like 3 n lost em all but i got it saved on my computer and ipod so its all good