Don't know if this will get any responses...but post your favorite Grateful Dead songs/jams.

[LeftyFingerPop]

1) Jack Straw...anything in the '70's, and Syracuse 1984.

2) China/Rider...1970's with UJB style jam in the transition.

3) Scarlet/Fire transitions...mainly from the '70's.

4) Great Estimated Prophet jams....Rochester 1980 comes to mind...witnessed personally.

5) Jam out of He's Gone...ie...Binghamton 1979...beautiful

6) Morning Dew

[madinmaryland]

1. Uhmmm.

I was too stoned to remember any of that.

:hi:

[LeftyFingerPop]

3. .

:hi:

[LeftyFingerPop]

2. Two more...

ANY "The Eleven"

ANY "Caution Jam"

[Canuckistanian]

4. It's all right

When it came out, my memory was just returning.

[nomorenomore08]

5. "Sugar Magnolia" (studio version), almost any "Dark Star" or "Sugaree,"

any of those early-period "St. Stephen/The Eleven" jams (e.g. 'Live/Dead' or one of the Fillmore bootlegs), "The Other One/Cryptical Envelopment/The Other One" from 'Fillmore East 2-11-69' (I think that's the one - great set(s) all around with nice Pigpen takes on "Hey Jude" and "I'm A King Bee"). But really, just about any Dead is good Dead... :)

[LeftyFingerPop]

7. .

:thumbsup: Thank you.

[nomorenomore08]

6. Forgot about "Turn on Your Lovelight," which is great in almost any version.

And the 45-minute rendition from Woodstock is just hilarious in its sheer excess.

[LeftyFingerPop]

9. "Take yo hands out yo pockets"

[NightWatcher]

10. Little Schoolgirl, hell anything Pigpen

[nomorenomore08]

13. Yeah, and what was up with their keyboardists constantly dying?

Shades of Spinal Tap's many drummers...

[LeftyFingerPop]

19. The hotseat.

TC....still alive and vibrant

Pig...alcohol death at 27

Keith...Car accident

Brent...Drugs

Vince...Depression/suicide

[NightWatcher]

22. which is why Bruce Hornsby was never called the Dead's keyboardist

they had a gallows humor about it when he played with them

[LeftyFingerPop]

27. Yep...

too bad...because he felt what the Dead was about.

[NightWatcher]

8. St. Stephen -> The Eleven 1970's and Scarlet -> Fire no doubt

I also like some good Dark Star mixes and The Wheel -> Throwing Stones 1990

[LeftyFingerPop]

11. Thank you....Throwing Stones...

very relevant. Some versions really knock me out.

[Inchworm]

12. Love, love the ripple...

not gonna do lyrics.. but damn...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lVdTQ3OPtGY

:hug:

[LeftyFingerPop]

14. If I knew the way...

I would take you home. :hug:

[Inchworm]

16. can't get there buddy...

*sigh*

[bluesbassman]

15. Cumberland Blues

I can't help you with your troubles, if you won't help with mine.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kQBHrVaPUls&feature=PlayList&p=B5C756AA5F50A126&playnext=1&playnext_from=PL&index=56

[elshiva]

17. I don't know their work too well.

I do LOVE "Friend of the Devil" (is that what it is called)
:hug:

[LeftyFingerPop]

21. Beautiful song...

:hug:

[elshiva]

26. Stay beautiful, honey.

:hug:

[LeftyFingerPop]

28. You too, my dear

:hug:

[elshiva]

35. Have you ever been to Maryland? I guess the Dead played here, too, right?

:hug: :loveya:

[LeftyFingerPop]

46. Yes...Baltimore, Landover, Merriweather Post Pavilion. n/t

[elshiva]

49. Ha! Should have know about Merriweather Post Pavilion.

[carlyhippy]

18. shakedown street...touch of gray

[Shell Beau]

20. Shakedown Street has the best beat. That is one of my faves.

[LeftyFingerPop]

24. Cornell 1981....

and Egypt 1978...which I listened to just today in my truck :hug: :hi:

[ccharles000]

23. never heard of Grateful Dead

[LeftyFingerPop]

25. Really ccharles?

:hi:

[ccharles000]

34. yup

I was born in 1989 so they are a tad old for me.:hi:

[LeftyFingerPop]

36. Do you like...

"complicated" music? By that I mean...music that you really have to concentrate on to "get it"? If you do...I will turn you on to some tunes.

LeftyFingerPop (the former philboy)

[ccharles000]

39. ...

the kind of music I like is josh groban/janis ian/mamas and papas

[LeftyFingerPop]

45. See post #30 from NightWatcher...

and check them out!

[Tom Kitten]

29. I like the earlier psychedelic Dead

Like their first three albums, plus stuff on "Vintage Dead" like the original "Dancing In The Streets" or "I Know You Rider" when they used a farfisa organ...I just like the sound of music from that era, 1965-69. That said, I also love "American Beauty" because of the songs, not jams. I liked them live when they would segue from "Sugar Magnolia" into "Fire On the Mountain", which I've talked about before. I saw them live like six times, and enjoyed the shows more for the camaraderie of friends and fellow attendees more than their music, per se.

[LeftyFingerPop]

31. Thanks Tom...

:hi:

[NightWatcher]

30. Ok, stupid question, but yall have all heard of archive.org?

http://www.archive.org/details/GratefulDead

Just thought I'd pass it along if God forbid someone was missing out on this. 6,669 Shows.

Also check out the Dead, http://www.archive.org/details/TheDead and Phil Lesh and Friends http://www.archive.org/details/PhilLeshandFriends for more crunchy goodness

[nomorenomore08]

33. I'm not a hard-core Deadhead myself (though I do greatly enjoy their music), but

someone so inclined could spend a lifetime on that site. I mean, MY GOD... :wow:

[Lithos]

32. Friend of the Devil

It was a staple of the folk/new-grass circuit for a bit and I have many fond memories of the song.

L-

[LeftyFingerPop]

37. Alternative lyrics...

You can borrow from the devil
You can borrow from your friend
The devil give you 20
But your friend has only 10

[Lithos]

42. I remember there were several alternative lyrics

It was a good song to alter to the mood. Can't remember any in particular, but thanks for the set, that helped bring back a good memory or two.

[Bennyboy]

38. It's all about DAY JOB, maaaaaan!

Keep your day job
Till you night job pays....

[LeftyFingerPop]

40. Oh Christ!

:rofl: :hi:

[Dystopian]

41. Morning Dew....

My favorite....
Can one love a song too much?...
I'm listening now...:hug:

peace~

[LeftyFingerPop]

43. The one in the Grateful Dead Movie...

that's the one! :hug: :grouphug: :hi:

I thought I heard....a baby CRY TODAY!

[LeftyFingerPop]

44. And Dystopian, the first Dew I witnessed live

On Mother's Day 1977. at Cornell University, and it SNOWED...

and Garcia was strumming so hard at the end, it sounded like a demented banjo...

[Bennyboy]

54. I saw that one. I saw all of those shows for the movie

But better than 5-08-77? nah....

[Bennyboy]

47. But seriously....

1) Jack Straw...Loved the eighties versions where bobby is just dropping those chords.

2) China/Rider...1970's with UJB style jam in the transition. Some of the 80's stuff is great too, one thing I did not like is when tehy moved this one into the second set.

3) Scarlet/Fire transitions...3-31-84. Stupendeous

4) Great Estimated Prophet jams....The one that played the other night with Branford marsalis(with a Milestones segue) was pretty sweet. There is a incredible one from Long Beach 82 that is really good.

5) Jam out of He's Gone...Oct 74 Winterland and 3-31-84. Totally psychedeilic vocal thing.

6) Morning Dew -5-08-77 (and you know this). Also i love the one that they played to open the second set with at the Greek in 84(?0> Right before they came onstage I yelled "walk me Out Jerry"...and the one and only time, they opened the second set with it.

Dark Star 10-31-91 for Bll Graham with ken Kesey reciting the ee cummings poem "Buffalo Bill is defunct".

[LeftyFingerPop]

50. Benny...

It is so strange...as I get older...I yearn for the dead I grew up on in the early 70's.

I could talk to you forever about this.

You are old enough to know what I am talking about.

To me, the mystique left in the early 80's.

In the 70's, they were THE SHIT.

If you were a deadhead then, YOU UNDERSTOOD. YOU FELT IT. It was almost like a cowboy, tight jean type of thing,,,with a mystique. Do you know what I mean?

The thin Jerry...up until about '79...then he fucked himself up, and I would try to feel it...but it was not the same.

MIDI helped in the 90's...but it was different for me.

[Bennyboy]

52. I am going to see them next weekend.

I like it all. I listen to gdradio.net all the time and tehy play a broad selection. there was some great shit all the time. I personally loved the 80's with Brent. that was when the band was really tight...

[S n o w b a l l]

48. This one of course...

Box of Rain

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8JlnI1Xgn-o

[LeftyFingerPop]

51. I'll Skype you in a min darling.....

:loveya:

[Heidi]

53. Seconded.

Absolutely my favorite Dead song. :)