The 1972 Grateful Dead...

[LeftyFingerPop]

My favorite year...

When I could not afford headphones, so I held the 12 inch box speakers to my ears.

And I still sing this in the shower.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hOXPVRLpoQA&feature=related

[bluesbassman]

1. Ya know, with a little more hair, a beard, and glasses...

You still wouldn't look like Jerry. :rofl:

Cool tune. :hi:

[LeftyFingerPop]

3. I could show you a pic!

:rofl: :hi:

[Mopar151]

2. I have seen the Dead on a good night

And I beleive... You ever seen 25000 people clap IN TIME! The crowd was still singing "Not Fade Away" when the helicopters left.

[LeftyFingerPop]

4. What I used to like when leaving a show...

Was the totally spontaneous applause that would happen 30 minutes AFTER a good show.

[abq e streeter]

5. Robert Hunter...( from wikipedia)

The first lyrics he wrote for the Grateful Dead were composed on LSD, and mailed to the band from Arizona: a suite that would later become "China Cat Sunflower"/"The Eleven" (these were originally performed together for a short time).


I'm guessing true Deadheads already knew this ( or know the real story if this isn't). I do like them, but not a huge fan,so I don't play the few Dead albums I own very often, which makes it a little spooky that the first Live Dead ,with the side with Death Don't Have No Mercy, was on my turntable at the moment I heard that Jerry had died . Brown -Eyed Women, that you posted earlier, is one of my faves of theirs. Only saw them once, in '77, and the memory of that one time is um, just a little bit hazy.

[LeftyFingerPop]

6. I've been to around 70 Dead shows before Garcia died...

After a few, I learned that one should always go to a Dead show completely sober.

It makes remembering it easier.

I've been to many shows besides the Dead...but the Dead were the only band that ever got me off.

For me, their music, as I explain it to my friends, becomes something other than music.

It becomes something that makes my life become apparent.

Jazz, country, rock, and classical music in one show.

When I was young, in my 20's, I had a few shows where I would stare in amazement and think "Phil is God".

And what made him, and them Gods was the fact that they are/were just regulars guys.

At the shows, I would sense the music in my chest...and no other band ever did that for me.

:hi:

[abq e streeter]

7. Well, I did go completely ( well, more or less) sober ( in other words just normally stoned)

however, apparently something got passed around which I apparently partook in........Springsteen is the guy that does it to me; opens a door on life itself, although Dylan and The Band,and Joe Strummer and The Mescaleros, were in that area too.

[LeftyFingerPop]

8. Dylan and The Band...

Love them both.

There was an album in the 70's with Dylan and The Band playing together. The name of the album will not hit me until tomorrow lol.

I've seen Dylan probably 5 times.

I was struck really bad with major depression in February 2000...2 hospitalizations.

I think it was in July or August 2000, I went to see Dylan open for Phil Lesh in Upstate NY.

I had an incredible seat, second row, stage center. Daytime in an amphitheater.

I was still really fragile, paranoid, etc.

I was REALLY close to the stage...Dylan opened while it was daylight.

For about 20 seconds, he looked at me...HARD.

I think I blushed. I started looking around like "Who? Me?"

I smiled at him, and he gave me a half assed grin back.

Freaked me out lol.

[abq e streeter]

9. Live Was before The Flood, studio was Planet Waves

Saw the opening night of that tour in Chicago...Incredible; greatest show I'd ever seen till my first Springsteen show a year and a half later...( but still one of the greatest shows I've ever seen).That's pretty cool, making eye contact; supposedly Dylan avoids that like the plague, although he talks about how exciting it was for him that Buddy Holly made eye contact with him when at 17, he went to see the Caravan of Stars at the Duluth Armory just 2 nights before that fateful night at the Surf Ballroom in Clear Lake...

[mdmc]

10. I have a friend that tours with Spingsteen

the way deadheads toured with the dead..

My friend took me to a Springsteen show - he is the boss..

[abq e streeter]

11. I have long wished I had the time and money to do that with the E Street Band

I love living in New Mexico, but one drawback is that Bruce never comes here ( solo in about '95, and that is it), so seeing him involves 900 mile ( Denver) or 1000 mile ( Phoenix) round trips, which I have done whenever I could; most recently Denver last April, and saw Bruce in Chicago 3 times, but that's all. I wish it had been 70 ( or more) times like Lefty's count of his Dead shows. Bruce , and the band, are still incredible, but I'm glad I caught on to them early on and saw them when they were still in their 20's, and put on shows that to me, nobody else could touch . And I do wish I'd seen the Dead more than I have ( did see the Phil Lesh band a few years ago here and enjoyed it very much; same bill with Dylan); I have too many friends whose musical tastes I respect highly that have also seen countless Dead shows and swear there was nothing like it to doubt it. Like I said, my one time didn't provide many very clear memories ( not that most Dead shows probably did either)...

Pretty much unrelated, but just remembering seeing Dick Dale a few years ago, and he sort of "held court" sitting on the lip of the stage after the show, just answering questions and shooting the shit with whoever felt like sticking around. Someone asked him if he had fans that followed him around like Deadheads, and he said he had a few, but didn't know what to call them. Then said the logical name would be Dickheads...

[Bennyboy]

13. By the time you heard your third "Promised Land" you'd be bored....

that's the deal with the Dead. You just don't know what is going on or coming next. And the band hints at it but may not play it.

With Bruce, and you know I am a HUGH Boss fan, he only changes five or six songs in every show (and that is only lately....)

[abq e streeter]

14. Gotta disagree, and you know I hold your musical knowledge and taste in the highest regard

but personally, I could hear 1,000 Promised Lands and not be bored.

[Bennyboy]

12. I don't have a favorite year.......

Or even era. I find myself playing all of it.

I saw them at least 500 times. Jerry about 200 more times. Seen em all, Jimi, Kiss, Ozzie and Miles Davis and all between. Saw Dylan and The Band and Dylan many times including the tour with Phil....

IF YOU ARE INTO THE DEAD AT ALL, CHECKOUT THE BAND FURTHUR. THEY ARE FIRE RIGHT NOW AND THE GUITAR PLAYER (JOHN KADELIC) IS JERRY REINCARNATE. IT IS LIKE SEEING THEM BAK IN THE OLD DAYS OF YORE.

THERE IS NOTHING LIKE A GRATEFUL DEAD CONCERT!