there's also George Harrison's Cloud 9
― tylerw, Thursday, 27 May 2010 17:28 (fourteen years ago) link
ugh not a good one
― emotionally abusive jowls (Shakey Mo Collier), Thursday, 27 May 2010 17:30 (fourteen years ago) link
yeah, but it probably introduced him as a solo artist to a lot of people, right?
― tylerw, Thursday, 27 May 2010 17:32 (fourteen years ago) link
a lot of people under the age of 40...?
― emotionally abusive jowls (Shakey Mo Collier), Thursday, 27 May 2010 17:39 (fourteen years ago) link
i'm sure that hearing "got my mind set on you" was one of the first george harrison solo joints i heard.
― tylerw, Thursday, 27 May 2010 17:42 (fourteen years ago) link
tho i may have heard "this song is just six words long" by weird al first, haha
― tylerw, Thursday, 27 May 2010 17:43 (fourteen years ago) link
would Permanent Vacation qualify as a boomer comeback?
― sofatruck, Thursday, 27 May 2010 17:45 (fourteen years ago) link
Of course technically, Lou Reed, Neil Young, Bob Dylan AND George Harrison aren't really boomers. Neil Young comes closest, I think.
― Lows in the hundreds, be sure to cover those meats! (KMS), Thursday, 27 May 2010 17:46 (fourteen years ago) link
yeah, more like "boomer-approved 60s legend" comebacks
― tylerw, Thursday, 27 May 2010 17:47 (fourteen years ago) link
This and the Wilburys were great gateways to all kinds of sixties rock.
― Filmmaker, Author, Radio Host Stephen Baldwin (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 27 May 2010 17:56 (fourteen years ago) link
ehh not quite...got my mind set on you wz a jam when I wz seven tho
― EGGS ARE RAPE! YOU DISGUST ME! (Drugs A. Money), Thursday, 27 May 2010 17:57 (fourteen years ago) link
(not that I'm arguing - Graceland is better than everything mentioned on this thread so far, except for maybe Loaded)
― emotionally abusive jowls (Shakey Mo Collier), Thursday, May 27, 2010 12:58 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
Holy shit, you have to be kidding me.
― Bill Magill, Thursday, 27 May 2010 18:02 (fourteen years ago) link
not at all, Graceland is impeccable work
― emotionally abusive jowls (Shakey Mo Collier), Thursday, 27 May 2010 18:07 (fourteen years ago) link
When the Touch of Grey video came out it was actually the first Dead song I ever heard and I was totally shocked - I thought that they would have sounded like Black Sabbath based on all the skull images and the band's name.
― NARTH Gaydar (joygoat), Thursday, 27 May 2010 18:27 (fourteen years ago) link
heh me too. i'm guessing this was a pretty common reaction.
― used to bull's-eye Zach Wamps in my T-16 back home (will), Thursday, 27 May 2010 18:32 (fourteen years ago) link
(by kids)
― used to bull's-eye Zach Wamps in my T-16 back home (will), Thursday, 27 May 2010 18:34 (fourteen years ago) link
I think I was 12 when it came out so yeah
― joygoat, Thursday, 27 May 2010 18:35 (fourteen years ago) link
this thread has been all about reminiscing about MTV in the late 80s when we were all wee ones.... :D
― EGGS ARE RAPE! YOU DISGUST ME! (Drugs A. Money), Thursday, 27 May 2010 18:36 (fourteen years ago) link
(today at least)
― EGGS ARE RAPE! YOU DISGUST ME! (Drugs A. Money), Thursday, 27 May 2010 18:37 (fourteen years ago) link
let's get back on topichttp://2.bp.blogspot.com/_Wq91zQyc2yg/SI3FUMCKaMI/AAAAAAAAAs0/vUAjfZDLnAI/s400/steve+howe+04.jpg
― Brio, Thursday, 27 May 2010 18:40 (fourteen years ago) link
That guy didnt play on Graceland.
― Bill Magill, Thursday, 27 May 2010 19:27 (fourteen years ago) link
he's better than Creedence though.
― tylerw, Thursday, 27 May 2010 19:38 (fourteen years ago) link
Finding out that George Harrison was in the Beatles was huge for me.
― And if you came back to MN, you could do it on the VERY SAME BROADS. (kkvgz), Thursday, 27 May 2010 19:40 (fourteen years ago) link
he did play left field for the Dodgers tho
― emotionally abusive jowls (Shakey Mo Collier), Thursday, 27 May 2010 19:42 (fourteen years ago) link
I just thought of him as some Kenny Loggins-style beardo.
― And if you came back to MN, you could do it on the VERY SAME BROADS. (kkvgz), Thursday, 27 May 2010 19:42 (fourteen years ago) link
that's awesome
― Brio, Thursday, 27 May 2010 20:01 (fourteen years ago) link
shakey mo you rate graceland as a better album than american beauty
its songs better than the songs on american beauty
just making sure I read you right before I say "wtf"
― in which we apologize for sobering up (underrated aerosmith albums I have loved), Thursday, 27 May 2010 20:02 (fourteen years ago) link
i sense a poll coming on
― tylerw, Thursday, 27 May 2010 20:03 (fourteen years ago) link
I have never willfully given much thought to American Beauty (see post way up there re: my Dead exposure) whereas I listen to Graceland all the time and have pretty much ever since it came out so yes
― emotionally abusive jowls (Shakey Mo Collier), Thursday, 27 May 2010 20:03 (fourteen years ago) link
basically if it contains Bob and Phil's shitty ass singing, I am turning it off
― emotionally abusive jowls (Shakey Mo Collier), Thursday, 27 May 2010 20:04 (fourteen years ago) link
like you know how you can't handle Fogerty YELLING AT YOU? well I can't handle the Dead's I AM WHEEZING OFF KEY AT YOU
yeah I feel you, that held me off the dead for many years (after a v. young pothead "I'm supposed to like these guys" interest in them phase) - but yeah, the songs on American Beauty just tower over anything on Graceland in my opinion
― in which we apologize for sobering up (underrated aerosmith albums I have loved), Thursday, 27 May 2010 20:22 (fourteen years ago) link
i like jerry's voice and i'm not really a dead fan
he sounds sad and exhausted and makes me blue
― m@tt (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Thursday, 27 May 2010 20:34 (fourteen years ago) link
hey its rough being a fat junkie
― emotionally abusive jowls (Shakey Mo Collier), Thursday, 27 May 2010 20:38 (fourteen years ago) link
be nice
― m@tt (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Thursday, 27 May 2010 20:39 (fourteen years ago) link
as the old saying goes, do not speak ill of The Deadhttp://ddenham.tripod.com/heaven.gif
― tylerw, Thursday, 27 May 2010 20:41 (fourteen years ago) link
lol maybe! i don't know too many fat junkies. to maintain that weight while being that high must've required some hard-core calorie cramming
― used to bull's-eye Zach Wamps in my T-16 back home (will), Thursday, 27 May 2010 20:45 (fourteen years ago) link
^he also rates it higher than fragile, close to the edge, funhouse, every vu album, and every other album that has been mentioned on this thread. I'll have some of what he's been smoking.
― Bill Magill, Thursday, 27 May 2010 20:51 (fourteen years ago) link
haha okay I don't rate it higher than EVERY Velvets album (forgot they had all been mentioned). Funhouse, eh its good and groundbreaking and scary and everything but I def. listen to Graceland more.
― emotionally abusive jowls (Shakey Mo Collier), Thursday, 27 May 2010 20:53 (fourteen years ago) link
also I am almost out of what I have been smoking, sorry
― emotionally abusive jowls (Shakey Mo Collier), Thursday, May 27, 2010 4:04 PM (47 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
Phil only sang one song his whole career!
― Bill Magill, Thursday, 27 May 2010 20:54 (fourteen years ago) link
sings plenty of backup tho, right?
― tylerw, Thursday, 27 May 2010 20:56 (fourteen years ago) link
Hold the presses. Phil sang more than one song.
― QuantumNoise, Thursday, 27 May 2010 20:57 (fourteen years ago) link
"Pride of Cucamonga" is a fantastic tune.
― QuantumNoise, Thursday, 27 May 2010 20:58 (fourteen years ago) link
According to Rock Scully's account,Jerry was living off of heroin and Skittles or something.
― kkvgz, Thursday, 27 May 2010 21:00 (fourteen years ago) link
Yeah, man. Phil sings "Unbroken Chain" and some other things besides "Box." He really has a hard time with it live, though. Didn't know he sang the lead on Box of Rain for a while, still sort of hard to believe.
― Trip Maker, Thursday, 27 May 2010 21:00 (fourteen years ago) link
Not long after 'Mars Hotel' Lesh's voice fell apart. He didn't sing for, like, six years something. He then underwent some surgery and started singing live again in the 80s, I believe.
― QuantumNoise, Thursday, 27 May 2010 21:03 (fourteen years ago) link
when i saw the Dead in the 90s, Phil sang that Robbie Robertson song "Broken Arrow" which I think Rod Stewart had a hit with? Anyway, it was ok.
― tylerw, Thursday, 27 May 2010 21:04 (fourteen years ago) link
bob weir's live version of "good lovin" where he was wearing pedophile eyeglasses and a safari shirt and shorts on some live at winterland thing i saw on PBS was the most embarrassing live performance i have ever seen.
― m@tt (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Thursday, 27 May 2010 21:10 (fourteen years ago) link
Bob would be in line for many of those, actually. The "Bobby Touch", so to speak.
― grandavis, Thursday, 27 May 2010 21:17 (fourteen years ago) link