GD song

What was the grateful dead tune that originally stole your heart. The one song that started your appreciation for the dead? Where were you when you first heard it? And what were you doing?

For me it was "fire on the mountain" I've been in love ever since

 

U.S. Blues. I guess I was about 14. I "ran away from home" for a couple of days and spent the weekend with an old hippie couple in the country with my friend phillip. The lady was a substitute teacher. thats how I knew them. anyways I ate some shrooms and they put in the Grateful Dead Movie (US Blues is the first song). That is also the first time I tripped too so I had double the fun. But about half way through the video "Eyes of the World" came on and so US Blues was my favorite GD song for about thirty minutes. but anyways thats how I was introduced to the Grateful Dead.

 

probably sittin on top of the world. I had been into the dead a little bit but they werent my main band. I was in a car next to my ex girlfriend on a burn run, that shit was blastin from 1971-12-10, and it gave me that warm feelin and that chill down my spine for the first time. The reason why I love this band so much.

 

St. Stephen, i was in 9th grade....they owned me from there on out.....well untill I heard Phish....

 

For me it was China Cat Sunflower. I was about 14 (1979) and heard it played by a friends older sister. I have no idea if the version was live or off of Aoxomoxoa, but it started me on a trip that has yet to end.

 

I was blazing with some rainbow cats when I was 16, and they had Fire on the mountain playing, and I think that was when I gained the initial accuired taste for them. But it was later that night, walking home at about 3am in the pouring rain, stoned out of my mind, and listening on headphones to the cd he lent me, which was that 5/??/77 show in Boston Garden, and I was listening to Cassidy and I started tearing up SO that was the official moment when I fell in love.

 

Terrapin Station. wierd huh?

 

Ripple ...

 

Sugar Mag got me listening Box of Rain got me hooked.

 

Box of Rain caught my heart and mind and Ripple sealed the deal. more than 25 years ago

 

Sunshine Daydream. When we got married my hubbie had some dead tapes he had copied and one day I decided to take them with me to work to listen. Sunshine Daydream was the song I could hear the best while I had to keep the sound down in the room I worked. After that, I began to collect cd's. My faves now are St. Stephen and He's Gone. I also love everything on Garcia & Grisman's Shady Grove. I could let that cd play over and over again.

 

I had heard a lot of the dead's stuff like Casey Jones and got a kick out of it- but then I got into "Blues for Allah" and the whole grouping of Help on the Way-->Slip Knot-->Franklin's Tower just amazed me.

Then I started to get into the "Wake of the Flood" album and from then on the live stuff, Jerry's own stuff and everything in bewtween...maybe a little less than traditional way of becoming a fan of the Dead- but it worked out for me.

 

Eyes of the World -- the one off of Without a Net with Branford playing sax. It seemed to go on forever and to this day whenever I hear any version of that tune I feel warm and comfortable. Ratdog played here in Frederick, MD, a few years ago adn they busted out with that in the second set and I was in heaven!

 

yeah that EOTW is amazing i listen to it over and over

 

friend of the devil. i was into a lot of classic rock as a kid, and i just dowloaded a bunch of dead because of hearing so much talk from people whose opinions on music i respectd and that was the first one i remember loving. it got me into the modern jam band scene, and i have somewhat lost my rock and roll roots in favor of jam bands.

 

Casey Jones. Never heard anything like it in my life. The Dead blew me away when I first heard them, and they continue to do so everytime I listen to them.

 

box of rain got me interested.
then i picked up the American beauty album, and i was hooked!

in the last episode of the TV show "freaks and geeks" the hippy guidance councilor at the main characters high school recommends her "American beauty" to de-stress her. she puts the record on, and throughout the scene, "box of rain plays". she loves the album, and she then runs away to follow the dead..... thats the first time i heard them officially.

 

always liked them, but after listening to the lyrics of truckin, i couldnt get it out of my head

 

The Other One!!! Such an amazing song, from the start with the peaceful vocals to the more trippy part with Bobby signing.

Escapin' through the lily fields
I came across an empty space
It trembled and exploded
Left a bus stop in its place
The bus came by and I got on
That's when it all began
There was cowboy Neal
At the wheel
Of a bus to never-ever land