How did you get into the Grateful Dead?

Remastered or original recording?


What the hell I'll download both and decide for myself.

 

Haha, whichever you prefer Not even sure which one I have, I think original.

 

Here is an awesome 72 show for you guys to listen to:

http://www.archive.org/details/gd72-08-27.sbd.braverman.16582.sbefail.shnf

An all around beautiful show with Ken Babbs as MC and Ken Kesey at the Oregon Fairgrounds. The band goes into deep space on Playin and Dark Star. A nice introduction into Live Dead. The stage is this bands home, this is where lives were changed.

 

Anthem is pretty much the ONLY good studio album.

 

ehh, aoxomoxoa, american beauty, workingman's dead, and live/dead are all pretty great too.

i also really like birth of the dead. there's some sick pigpen harmonica on a few songs.

 

bobby sheddin tears and all. Real nice.

 

opening song on Anthem of the Sun is the shit

 

It seems like there are always a few bands who take what they're doing very seriously, being aware a lot of people are opening their minds to the music. Someone brought a copy of American Beauty over and the Dead went (in my mind) from a good band to a guide to a higher place. And Robert Hunter was as much a part of that as Jerry Garcia was. This side turned me into a Deadhead:
Ripple
Brokedown Palace
Till the Morning Comes
Attics of My Life
Truckin

For the integration part of the trip.

 

Actually Anthem is NOT a studio album. Much of it is stitched-together live performances from a west coast tour in early 1968.

I would say that Workingmans Dead, American Beauty, and In the Dark are all very good studio albums.

 

How did you get into the Grateful Dead?



Truth be told they never actually let me in....i made the mistake of fucking gerry garcias girlfriend and the cut my audition short....free love 60's my ass

 

American Beauty is probably my favorite album but Workingmans dead is really good If Im in the mood, Its more folkish.

 

I was introduced to them at the Rainbow Gathering in New Mexico, then again by my friend Luke

 

I've pretty much just heard about them from hippieland forums, I'm probably gonna buy a coupole of albums if I go into town tomorrow and see if I like em by the rep they've got on here, I probably will

 

with the grateful dead, LIVE dead is where it's at

www.archive.org search grateful dead live music archive...there are plenty of treasures there

 

Yes, that's why I have hundreds of Dead concert soundboards in my iTunes.

 

I watched the Grateful Dead Movie on PBS in middle school and was instantly hooked. Ive always been enamored with the 60-70s culture and music so it just naturally fell into place that i like the dead haha

 

Phish is the better live band...

 

they could never be the better "Dead" band thats for sure
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That's quite clever i must say

 

I saw Dark Star Orchestra at a festival and of course they turned me on to The Grateful Dead. =D