Ripple is me favorite Dead song.

Badmoon does the Dead have any really bluegrassy songs...like the stuff he (Jerry) plays with David Grisman.

when they sing harmony, does jerry sing the lower part or the higher part?

do you have any other songs to recommend that hasn't already been said?

[QUOTE=thickasabrick]ya? did the Grateful Dead like change their style from album to album (like zeppelin or jethro tull) or did they stay generally the same (ac/dc)? if they had a lot of different styles i suppose i will end up buying them all anyway.[/QUOTE]

The Grateful Dead usually put on tape whatever they were doing during the time. Of course a lot of different influences were pasted around, and since each member wrote at least one song, there'd be tons.

But their albums mostly varied.

S/t - Psychedelic + Rock n Roll

Anthem Of the Sun - Psychedelia

Aoxomoxoa - Psychedelia (But with a lot more going on)

Workingman's Dead - Roots

American Beauty - Roots + Psychedelia + Rock n Roll

Wake of The Flood - Jazz + Roots

Mars Hotel - Reggae + Jazz + Tons of stuff

Terrapin Station - Soul + Funk + Gospel

Shakedown Street - Reggae + Blues

Go to Heaven - Rock n Roll

In the Dark - Reggae + R&B + ect

Built to Last - Soft Rock + ect


Some of those were very hard to describe.

[QUOTE=FreebirdTPM]Badmoon does the Dead have any really bluegrassy songs...like the stuff he (Jerry) plays with David Grisman.[/QUOTE]

"Cumberland Blues", the largest portion of their Roots studd is more Country and Folk.


[QUOTE]when they sing harmony, does jerry sing the lower part or the higher part?

do you have any other songs to recommend that hasn't already been said?[/QUOTE]

Jerry actually has the highest voice. Bob Weir and Pigpen have the lowest.

Reccomend
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Eyes of The World
Mississippi Uptown Toodeloo
Brokedown Palace
Loose Lucy
China Cat Sunflower
Franklin's Tower
I Know You Rider
Bird Song (It's actually a Jerry Garcia song, but they of course play it all time)

That should do you good for some time.

[QUOTE=Livewired]In Lunch's avatar?!?


How is Jim too cool for Christmas?[/QUOTE]

It's the cover of the Jimi Hendrix Christmas album. I told you Jimi would make a good Santa.

He has a Christmas album!?!?!?!?!?!?!!?!?!?!?!!??!!!!!!?!?!?!!?!??!!?

Ya, He does Little Drummer Boy and some other stuff.

Once you guys get more Grateful Deaded, I want to possibly start a clan.

Terrapin Troopers?


But I don't know. :)

[QUOTE=Badmoon]Once you guys get more Grateful Deaded, I want to possibly start a clan.

Terrapin Troopers?


But I don't know. :)[/QUOTE]
Yay I'll study then join:D

i alwaysed like ossy and def lepared thats the kinda music i grew up on al the old ones led zepplin and what not

[QUOTE=Badmoon]Once you guys get more Grateful Deaded, I want to possibly start a clan.

Terrapin Troopers?


But I don't know. :)[/QUOTE]

Maybe if the Grateful Dead get better. :)


/uncalled for and inaccurate

Jew

Christian

Maybe you're forgetting something. For you information: The Grateful Dead will be, and are, the greatest band in the world's history!

Dead > Beatles

Dead > Stones

Dead > Zeppelin

Dead > Who

Dead > Doors

Dead > All of um

:angry:

Hehe, did you ever write that article?

[QUOTE=the_man_at_games]i alwaysed like ossy and def lepared thats the kinda music i grew up on al the old ones led zepplin and what not[/QUOTE]

Lepared? I wish I was that smart

Ohhh, I will.

[QUOTE=Freddie9]Lepared? I wish I was that smart[/QUOTE]

:lol:

I'm recording that as proof that Def Leppard fans are dolts.

[QUOTE=Badmoon]Ohhh, I will.[/QUOTE]

Good luck proving them better than The Beatles :p

Proving stuff will be easy, it's changing their opinions that'll be hard. ;)

I call 'em as I see 'em

Beatles>all.....except maybe Christopher Franke.

i always get kind of bugged when some of my mellow friends who listen to indie and bob dyln type stuff try to tell that the beattles created rock n roll....same people who say that the doors are rock band...

I am not into thrash death metal or 7 string bass guitar crap but still:

the heart of rock is distortion!....am i to assume that by definition led zepplin was the first rock band?

I would say that rock came from a mix of country n Blues (most 70s guitar riffs are blues based)....

during the time of the beatles: Page, Clapton, hendrix and jeff beck were trying to find that rock sound (most of them with 'the yard birds') the band eventaully split and 'the other yardbirds' became led zepplin...Hendrix found that rock tone...Clatpton eventially found it...

I guess wat im tryin to say is:

Rock found its roots in guitarists trying to bring blues riffs into counrty/RnB...

Rock started officially in 1969 anything pre was the root of POP.....

[QUOTE=Badmoon]Maybe you're forgetting something. For you information: The Grateful Dead will be, and are, the greatest band in the world's history!

Dead > Beatles

Dead > Stones

Dead > Zeppelin

Dead > Who

Dead > Doors

Dead > All of um

:angry:[/QUOTE]
No. The Grateful Dead are good, but all of those bands are better than them.

Actually screw it, Its all a matter of opinion anyway, and I probably don't listen to enough Dead to back that up.


Album/song recommendations?

American Beauty or Working Man's Dead are usually considered their best. I like Working Man's Dead a lot better.

[QUOTE=Badmoon]Maybe you're forgetting something. For you information: The Grateful Dead will be, and are, the greatest band in the world's history!

Dead > Beatles

Dead > Stones

Dead > Zeppelin

Dead > Who

Dead > Doors

Dead > All of um

:angry:[/QUOTE]
You're such a fanboy, Badmoon :lol:

Badmoon, what did you think of the Festival Express documentary?

[QUOTE=Badmoon]Maybe you're forgetting something. For you information: The Grateful Dead will be, and are, the greatest band in the world's history!

Dead > Beatles

Dead > Stones

Dead > Zeppelin

Dead > Who

Dead > Doors

Dead > All of um

:angry:[/QUOTE]

I think the dead were probably better musicians than the beatles, stones, and the who (except maybe moon), they (garcia?) were better songwriters than most of those guys except maybe lennon/mcartney. i think townshend was a great writer, but his guitar playing left something to be desired.
i think zeppelin was all around the best (skill,songwriting,live show), but im just a fanboy so its biased.

[QUOTE=KARMAPOL1CE]Badmoon, what did you think of the Festival Express documentary?[/QUOTE]

is that out on video/dvd yet? a girl from toronto recommended i go see it, but it never came to theatres in my city. it looked really cool from what i saw.

i started the psychadelic Bay Area section in my Rock and Roll book last night, it was mostly about Jefferson Airplane and Big Brother, i'm just getting to the Grateful Dead part, so i will have enough info to join your Grateful Dead clan Badmoon.

lets pray the_man_at_games or whatever his name was never comes back.

[QUOTE=KingEdward5150]
Rock started officially in 1969 anything pre was the root of POP.....[/QUOTE]

umm...k let me just think how im going to phrase this.

oh ok i got it: YOU ARE WRONG!

most would consider it excactly the opposite. many artists that were around in the sixties claimed that real rock ended when dylan and the beatles came about (early sixties). Jim Morrison started the mantra "Rock Is Dead" around the late sixties, because its true. real rock and roll wasn't around anymore, but the public accepted what they were now hearing as rock. I wouldn't consider Zeppelin real rock, they had just as many folk/blues/or even "pop" songs as they did rock songs. Grateful Dead couldn't really be considered true rock, neither could the Doors, or Sabbath or any '69 and on bands.

when i think of rock and roll, i think of Chuck Berry, Jerry Lee Lewis, Elvis Presley. Those guys are rock and roll. I'm not saying sixties and seventies music wasn't good, but you can't make the statement you did, without thinking of what Rock music really is.

edit- schools really boring today, sorry for making three long posts in a row.

[QUOTE=thickasabrick]is that out on video/dvd yet? a girl from toronto recommended i go see it, but it never came to theatres in my city. it looked really cool from what i saw.

i started the psychadelic Bay Area section in my Rock and Roll book last night, it was mostly about Jefferson Airplane and Big Brother, i'm just getting to the Grateful Dead part, so i will have enough info to join your Grateful Dead clan Badmoon.

lets pray the_man_at_games or whatever his name was never comes back.[/QUOTE]


Yea the DVD is out. Go buy it. Now! Make haste.

throw stones, but i never really got into the dead.

[QUOTE=KARMAPOL1CE]Yea the DVD is out. Go buy it. Now! Make haste.[/QUOTE]

i believe i will.


and Heatseeker, what do you mean by Throw Stones?

he means "flame" him.

Thats how it was before we discovered fire.

The Grateful Dead are meh to me. Say what you will, but they're just meh.

I Have become increasingly intrigued to check them out. I get my paycheck today so I ll probably get American Beauty.

[QUOTE=Woodstock]The Grateful Dead are meh to me. Say what you will, but they're just meh.[/QUOTE]

Sorry to whomever, but I agree with that. They just don't interest me.


Thanks rockandroll :thumb:

magicbus nice avatar.