The Grateful Dead

[PrideOfCucamonga]

One of my favorite bands by far. Anyone listen to Cornell 77, it is by far some of the best music i have ever heard. What are your guys thoughts on the dead?

PrideOfCucamonga Reviewed by PrideOfCucamonga on 03-14-2007. The Grateful Dead One of my favorite bands by far. Anyone listen to Cornell 77, it is by far some of the best music i have ever heard. What are your guys thoughts on the dead? Rating: 5

[Fengzi]

Ah yes, Cornell 77 is a classic. Definitely the best Scarlet>Fire out there. The Boston(5/7/77) and Buffalo(5/9/77) shows, before and after Cornell, are also fantastic, pretty much anything from 77 is a keeper. I always like '73 and '80 shows as well, depends on my mood. 73 has some great long jams and the boys were really at the top of their game then. But in 80 Brent was starting to shine and the sound was definitely more rockin. I've got hundreds of sbds on disc but I think I probably play these three years about 90% of the time.

So Pride, are you old enough to have gone to any shows yourself? Between 1985 and 1995 I was fortunate enough to have gotten to about(lost count ) 30 shows. Damn those are such good memories. My life has seen a lot of change since then, nearly all for the better, but the one thing I really miss is going to see the Dead. As the saying goes "There is absolutely nothing like a Grateful Dead concert"

[KEGS]

I saw the Jerry Garcia Band Front row at the Capitol Theatre in Passaic N.J. Mar 17 1978 awsome show my friend was yelling rosie rosie so loud that jerry just looked down at us an smiled I'll never forget it.

[PrideOfCucamonga]

No im not old enough to have expierenced a real Dead show. Im only 20 so the best thing i have expierenced Is Phil & Friends, and RatDog. Over the summer i got to see the Rhythm Devil (billy, brent, Kimock, and mike gordon.) That was a lot of fun. I would have to agree that in 77 they were on top of their game, completely flawless. The winterland 77 show is also crazy, i loved the help on the way->slipknot->franklins tower, one of the best, atleast i think so. The day after (or maybe that night) brent broke his arm and they had to cut the tour short, what a shame! I am also a huge fan of 74, i think they jammed way more in 74 than 77. I cannot remember the date but the Providence Civic Center Show is great. If you have it on archive, go back and listen to China cat->Mud Love Buddy Jam->I know you rider. The transitions are amazing, the MLBJ is sick. In the second set of the show they play a huge jam (something like 30 mins) into one of my favorite US Blues, its super chill and relaxed, this is my favorite US Blues. I am trying to think of some other great shows to talk about, i'll get back to it in a while.

[KingsBlend420]

I'm a freshman in college and I've been a deadhead ever since 9th grade or so. Love them. Sucks that I've only seen RatDog, Phil and Friends, and The dead and not the original band. They are amazing. I used to trade shows and everything, but got way too busy with school to keep doing it.

[timothylearyisdead]

Althea is my all time favorite song

[divestoned]

I had the honor of seeing the dead at cal-expo in sacramento while jerry was still alive after the concert it took us 5 hrs to find the car!

Dive:stoned:

[Fengzi]

Cal-Expo was a great venue. One of the best shows I went to was one of the Cal shows in '86. We were able to walk right up and get a spot on the grass about 15' in front of Jerry. They opened with One More Saturday Night and I think it was the first and only time they ever did that. Apparently they had a power problem the night before(Saturday Night), right at the end of the show, and couldn't do the encore. So they basically opened Sunday's show with Saturday's planned encore.

Another great Venue was Alpine Valley up in Wisconsin. It was in the middle of these corn fields out in the middle of nowhere. Some farmer would clear out some land and let all the Dead Heads camp there. For 3 days it would be this Dead Head village with thousands of happy trippin people. The show I saw there in '87 was probably the best I ever went to. The China Cat>Rider was smokin and later they pulled out All Along The Watchtower, only the second time it had ever been played. Nobody really knew what it was at first, not expecting the Dead to be playing Hendrix(well Dylan, but they did it Hendrix style) but when people figured it out everyone went nuts.

Here's a link to a downloadable version of that Alpine Valley Show. It's an audience recording but tip top quality for an aud. Definitely worth the down load Internet Archive: Details: Grateful Dead Live at Alpine Valley Music Theatre on 1987-06-26

[Fengzi]

I posted these a while back but, what the hell, I'll post them again

These are from a Shoreline Ampitheater (Mnt View, CA) show back in 93. Hope you like 'em

[4gan2ja0]

i have a grateful dead poster, does that count as seeing them? love'em, but too young to have ever seen anything by them...sucks