i was in this hippie shop once and the chick that owned it was playing amazing music and im not sure if it was the dead or not but it was like bordering on the doors like "light my fire" kind of thing where it just goes on and on but its amazing. and i've listened to a lot of dead songs and nothing sounds like that and thats sort of what i imagined they would sound like. know what im saying? i loved it either way and if i could find out who it was i would be so happy.
I don't know if you'll be able to find your song or not, but here is a link to practically every GD recording ever. Good stuff! You do have to register to the forum to get access though. http://www.speedingarrow.net/forum/viewforum.php?f=4
i cant really give anymore description =[ but bluedoggie you could be right because i was almost positive it was them. it's just that all the dead songs i've heard sounded nothing like i pictured they would. i'll try that though
i just listened to it. and still not it maybe i have the wrong band. but seriously why are they tagged as psychedelic? they sound like a normal band to me. psychedelic to me is like the doors, some beatles stuff, jefferson airplane,floyd, hendrix, etc you know? do i totally have the wrong idea?
no, you have the right idea darlin...grateful dead has a LOT of material. They are considered psychadelic because they have real long jams and play a lot of different styles of music in there.....wharf rat, and fire on the mountain are my two favorites. Bird song is pretty good too....real mellow and chill though. Plus, if we ever had a chance to see them live...well im sure it was a completely different ballgame. I have a few friends that saw the dead in the early 90s and late 80s and said they are completely different than listening to an album. I consider Floyd, Airplane, and the Doors more psychadelic than the dead...the dead to me is just one of the first jam bands to make it big. They are more folk/jazz/classic rock rather than psychadelic. If you want a cool "jam" band to listen to that is makin it big nowadays, i would start with Umphrey's McGee. They are a good one for starters i think. The Motet is my favorite though....www.archive.org has live recordings all for free (over 2,000 grateful dead shows! for free...) that you can just download them in mp3 format right off the website. check it out if you have some spare time....
You don't have the wrong idea at all, no. It's just that they were a part of the original San Francisco scene in the mid 60s- the Dead, and Jefferson Airplane, and Big Brother and the Holding Company, and Quicksilver, etc. etc... I would say that even a psychedelic band can't be totally out there allllll the time... But yeah...listen to any good jam of theirs from their inception on up through the 'retirement' in '74...the Dark Star, Playin', and Other One jams from '72 to '74, in particular...unbelievable. Hit me up for some tunes, if you want to check out some examples of shows that have that mix of down-to-earth and freakiest-of-the-freaky psychedelic stuff. There are plenty of them!
I'm really not so much into the 70s and later Dead. Not when I know how mind-blowingly psychedelic their 60s stuff was. Because that's some of the trippiest shit ever. And that while improvising in front of an audience... amazing. I can recommend their 60s concerts, a lot have been bootlegged and are available on thee internet. I only have Live/Dead official but I rarely have money to spare on CDs I'd definitely call them a psychedelic band, but it became less evident when they went more bluesy and folky with Workingman's Dead and after that.
