Thread 127341815

Am I the only deadhead on /mu/?

there is at least one other but he is a notorious autist who takes pleasure in deliberately derailing sharethreads to ruin them for everyone else

>>127341815 (OP)
This band is completely boring shit. Highly overrated. No, I didn't need to be there, no, your random 70s live bootleg is even more boring than their studio albums.
Bad musician's that didn't know how to improvise.
You needed a lot of drugs to like them.

>>127341815 (OP)
you're not alone but there's few of us.
they were never that popular btw, their fanbase of north californian boomers just happened to overlap with those who first started using the internet which is why people like me who lives in a country were the dead never even played found out about them.

dont need to explain why i find them great, if you know you know, but i feel sorry for guys like >>127341994 who cant appreciate what is possibily the definitive american music of the XX century, probably the younger generations are discouraged to get into them because of the length of their masterpieces and the time/effort required to listen to different versions to compare and appreciate (btw if that guy read something about them he would know they were all very skilled musicians).

I just don't get it, bros. This band is all I listen to. I just don't get it. Why do people like this band? I can't stop listening to them and asking why people like them. I literally can not think about anything other than the Grateful Dead. Somebody please help me. Why do people like them? Why the FUCK would anybody like them? I have spent thousands of hours listening to this band.

>>127341994
>Bad musician's that didn't know how to improvise.

>>127341994
this is bait

>>127341815 (OP)
Hopefully.

I thought they blue had like a couple live albums and it was up to you to find the rare bootlegs recordings where the dead play blues jams on acid for hours. What is really "listening to the grateful dead"? Are these jams really that good? Like to drop acid every Friday night and hear blues music? Knowing there's music more trippy than the dead? I don't know... I might try to listen to the dead if someone answers my questions. All I like is the debut album btw.

>>127341815 (OP)
greatful dead blows ass. they sucked back then, and they suck forever.

>>127341822
and Nico sperg but he's been dead for months now, and I doubt he really gives a shit about the grateful dead much he just wants to cum in his /mu/ waifu

>>127343127
*removes the word 'blue' before the word 'had'*

>>127341815 (OP)
god, I hope so

>>127341815 (OP)
I never liked these dumb hippes.

>>127343127
>the rare bootlegs
They played 2000+ shows. Almost (if not) everyone of them recorded. the bootlegs are not rare at all.

>>127341815 (OP)
I like the dead and related stuff like NRPS and Robert Hunter but i'm into too much different stuff to be full Dead head.. can't reference show dates and all that nonsense
https://youtu.be/k_avn_xAYUY

>>127343985
But what are the bootlegs like in a summary?

>>127343127
blue

>>127343127
just listen to Europe 1972 or any Dicks Pick's album.

>>127344612
They have official releases of live shows. but you can also find full bootleg shows on places like archive.org etc

I like the studio albums better than the live ones
not a complete deadhead but really enjoy most of their stuff. I do like some live stuff too, mostly earlier albums before 1975

>>127344763
Dicks pick's
Picked volume 05 randomly. So far so good. It's good blues. But I don't Exactly get why are they so venerated. It may be their gigs was a safe place to take acid or some acid addiction not recognized by deadbeats. Anyway good blues rock. I'm sure I'll listen a few more from dicks pick's.

>>127344781
Which are their more psychedelic or experimental live albums? Like the guy said above it seems to be just blues rock.

>>127345694
they didn't really make any psychedelic or experimental music. they made folk/blues rock and did a lot of improvising and jamming during their live shows. but nothing was ever very experimental.

>>127345643
listen to workingmad's dead and american beauty.

>>127345694
Primal Dead, from the beginning through 1969. Try the Fillmore West 1969 compilation, Dick's Picks Vol. 22, or Road Trips Vol. 2 No. 2 especially starting with "That's it for the other one". The second set of 2/14/1968 was dedicated to the memory of Neal Cassady.

>>127341815 (OP)
No.

>>127344763
>>127345643
dicks picks 8 is a personal favorite

PROTIP: go subscribe to The Deadpod.

>>127346116
supreme taste.
i suggest >>127345643 to listen to the 2nd and 3rd set of this show

I went to Widespread Panic today and made almost 400 dollars selling fake acid (just plain sugar cubes)

I liked Uncle John's Band but nothing else I've heard by them is as immediate or fun. They seem kind of ponderous and hokey. You can consider me filtered I guess.

>>127346116
Volume 14 my favorite. The November 30th show in particular is mind blowing.

>>127346116
Volume 14 is my favorite. The November 30th show in particular is mind blowing.

>>127346116
Listening right now. I'm enjoying but also filled with fear something bad gonna happen, like they are demonic or me having a heart attack. I've been clean for years man wtf.

The Dead rule, yeah. Big fan of 1969 to 1972.

>>127347389
The Playin' > Mind Left Body from December 2nd has to be my favorite, complete breakdown of the jam into feedback and noise before coming back with that wonderfully delicate MLB.

>>127346150
I'd rather listen to the Dead than listen to some zoomers discuss music made 50 years before they were born.

Here's a link to all the Dick's Picks releases: https://thecurtainwithblog.blogspot.com/2018/04/grateful-dead-dicks-picks-volumes-01-36.html?m=1

>>127350501
Dick's Picks Vols. 22 and 35 are particularly worth downloading, since neither have freely circulating vault tapes, just the official release. Vol. 22 was just plain ancient, while Vol. 35 was the set of reels given to Keith Godchaux to learn the material and later found on his parents' houseboat.

>>127350547
Good to know, thx.

Yes.

Always love it when we have a Dead thread that sticks on this board. To celebrate here is the longest-ever Truckin' the Dead did, which incidentally was recorded in my city: https://youtu.be/KJ4r5alJ0dE

i don't like how thin and anemic the guitars sound

>>127341815 (OP)
Take a shower and grow some taste hippy fuck

>>127341815 (OP)
Had a ceramics teacher in high school, name was Candy. She was old, round, had hair down to her ass, and one of the coolest teacher I ever had. Used to talk about being a roadie for the dead, Woodstock, loved her.

Pigpen > Brent > Keith

>>127351546
Pig & Brent are GOAT, yup. Love the Spring 1990 tour. 1970 will forever be the best year for the Dead tho.

>>127351811
It always throws me off when people agree with me since I'm used to having to defend my opinion. Spring is amazing. I love Brent's voice and the way he played with Jerry is top tier. Pig's rapping and blues stuff in the early Dead was also top tier. People dickride Keith too much and I rarely if ever go back to his stuff. I'm also not big on Cornell

>>127351838
'73-'79 is not my thing, yeah. (Bear's Choice came out in the first half of 1973 but they didn't release anything I like after that until Go To Heaven.)

GD with Brent feel like a totally different band from their early days though I will say that.

>>127341815 (OP)
i hope

>>127344612
>>127344781
https://blog.archive.org/2024/12/18/top-ten-most-popular-grateful-dead-recordings-at-the-internet-archive/

What's the longest GD compilation? Skull Fucked is 23hr38min long.

>>127351936
Of fucking course Cornell '77 is at the top.

>>127341815 (OP)
Unless you're ciencaras, which is a mexican hipster gay guy in his 30s who's a "deadhead".
https://www.last.fm/user/ciencaras

>>127352110
30 Trips Around the Sun is an easy one, a full show from every year of the band's existence for 73 hours. Europe '72 Complete Recordings hits about 70 hours, which is a lot of Black Throated Wind.

>>127352860
Damn lol. That's a few degrees above me when it comes to being a diehard Deadhead lol.

Listening to Dick's Picks vol. 22 & blazing. Good shit.

>>127343985
>>127344612
>>127344781
>>127352128

The were pretty unique in their support of people taping their shows, eventually having "tapers" tickets and allowing big mike stands etc...My roommate in college taped probably 50 shows himself and had a collection of hundres of others that he had traded for.

there are fucking 7000 audience recordings of Dead shows on Archive.org

https://archive.org/details/GratefulDead?tab=collection

personally, I prefer the Allman Brothers Band.

>>127353332
Based boomer anon. And yea I love the ABB too but the Dead inch out just ahead imo.

>>127350461
It's an old dude who was around for their heyday and plays old show recordings, you absolute retard.

>>127353781
Trolololo

>>127345694
Infrared Roses is a relatively short compilation of some of their most "out there" jams

>>127349242
I'm this guy. The music is amazing like the bests takes on folk rock or blues rock but I feel weird. Maybe I really had to be there in the past. then there's that song the friend of the devil. Is this music dark in any sense?

>>127354238
Take your seroquel

>>127354238
The occult only has the power/significance you give it. There were creepy things happening in 1960s-70s Hollyweird (read Weird Scenes Inside the Canyon by David McGowan) and the Grateful Dead were in the milieu of Vito Paulekas (the real inventor of the hippie scene) but it's not like Charles Manson can reach out physically to you through the music. Just don't be superstitious or think too hard about it and let it be benign to you. The vast majority of these old New Age Boomers ended up leading pretty benign, or at least long, full lives. Ken Babbs is still alive and has written several books – you might want to give them a read: one of them is a novel about the Vietnam war, and he has at least one memoir as well.

>>127355073
Lol you nailed it I do take Seroquel
>>127355202
Interesting. Just worried because when I used to listen to sixties garage rock comps I would get these weird lapses where I felt I was about to die, like the head feeling light and I was about to faint because at random times throughout the day. It was hard to breathe too. There have to be an explanation for this because I blame the music for this. Yes, I am diagnosed schizophrenic but the sensation I described was real, I was on meds at the time as I am now.

>>127355560
Buddy I will say this. The mind has the power to make you feel a lot of ways, physically. If I think hard enough about blood I'll have a panic attack where I'll have the same symptoms. The Dead however made same of the gentlest, most positive and most comforting music out there, particularly American Beauty, which is basically my comfort blanket if an album could be such a thing. I'd recommend you start out with American Beauty, Workingman's Dead, Skull & Roses, Bear's Choice, Live/Dead, and Veneta '72 as those are their folkiest and most positive sounding albums. Bear's Choice is mostly acoustic stuff with some blues standards thrown in for good measure, and Skull & Roses is about the same but a bit more acid-y. American Beauty, and the year 1970 are their really primo stuff though. I've been meaning to listen to all the '70 concerts sometime. Anyways yeah, they're full of positivity, despite all the MKUltra and other creepy bullshit around them at the beginning.

What is the final boss of Dead live shows?

>>127355975
Right. The mind is powerful. I know this because I know mind controls the body and not the other way. I just think is good music. Not trying to discourage anyone from listening to the grateful dead. Thanks for the recs I man. As a not american man learning guitar the dead can teach me one thing or two about the blues. Have a nice day.

>>127356543
I'm not American either thankfully. God bless and God speed bruvva.

A GD show a day keeps the doctor away!

Listening to the Spring 1990 compilation. Feeling good B-)

WEIR EVERYWHERE.

JERRYJAM AGE OF AQUARIUS 420 SCARLET BEGONIAS PURP DRANK 4EVER

I was Jerry in a past life, and Pig in another.