Also, seeing the Roky tribute invoked, may I remind y'all of this:
http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/417FESRBHDL.jpg
1. Bertha - Los Lobos2. Jack Straw - Bruce Hornsby And The Range3. U.S. Blues - The Harshed Mellows4. Ship Of Fools - Elvis Costello5. China Doll - Suzanne Vega6. Cassidy - Suzanne Vega7. Truckin' - Dwight Yoakam8. Casey Jones - Warren Zevon with David Lindley9. Uncle John's Band - Indigo Girls10. Friend Of The Devil - Lyle Lovett11. To Lay Me Down - Cowboy Junkies12. Wharf Rat - Midnight Oil13. Estimated Prophet - Burning Spear14. Deal - Dr. John15. Ripple - Jane's Addiction
― Now I Know How Joan of Arcadia Felt (C. Grisso/McCain), Thursday, 17 March 2016 20:03 (eight years ago) link
The Burning Spear track on there is really good.
― the top man in the language department (誤訳侮辱), Thursday, 17 March 2016 20:15 (eight years ago) link
^^^ yeah, one of my gateways to the Dead.
― Retro novelty punk (Dan Peterson), Thursday, 17 March 2016 20:19 (eight years ago) link
Because when I think of psychedelic improvised music I think of Jenny Lewis, Sharon Van Etten, and Mumford & Sons
― Jimmywine Dyspeptic, Friday, 18 March 2016 01:36 (eight years ago) link
Unknown Mortal Orchestra – "Shakedown Street"
This
― calstars, Friday, 18 March 2016 01:38 (eight years ago) link
www.thewire.co.uk/audio/tracks/listen-to-a-track-from-wfmu-fundraising-album-of-grateful-dead-covers
― Jimmywine Dyspeptic, Friday, 18 March 2016 01:38 (eight years ago) link
Yeah, that UMO track is one of the handful I'm looking forward to hearing. It's a good cause and there are enough good-seeming tracks here to justify the purchase, but there are some artists on here I really don't want showing up in searches of my Discogs Collection
― Jimmywine Dyspeptic, Friday, 18 March 2016 01:40 (eight years ago) link
I think I've come full circle to the point where I like a number of dead songs but so not really like *The Dead* overall as a band and institution.
― human life won't become a cat (man alive), Friday, 18 March 2016 01:46 (eight years ago) link
earliest posts itt are an abomination
― the late great, Friday, 18 March 2016 02:09 (eight years ago) link
ppl were too busy writing 1500 word posts ranking gay dad b-sides back then to really wrap their minds around real cosmic shit
― adam, Friday, 18 March 2016 02:12 (eight years ago) link
fuckin Belle & Sebastian motherfuckers, fuck 'em
― the 'major tom guy' (sleeve), Friday, 18 March 2016 02:22 (eight years ago) link
tbh when I think of psychedelic improvised music I do not think of the majority of the dead discography or performances
― HYPERLINK TO RAP GENIUS (BradNelson), Friday, 18 March 2016 02:26 (eight years ago) link
well it's obviously a tribute to the dead as songwriters, not the dead as psychedeic improvisational shamen or w/e
― lute bro (brimstead), Friday, 18 March 2016 03:52 (eight years ago) link
All the B&S ilxors I have met have been lovely people...but yeah
― Chicamaw (Ward Fowler), Friday, 18 March 2016 10:04 (eight years ago) link
tbf i suppose many of my posts from 13 years ago were an abomination too
― the late great, Friday, 18 March 2016 10:27 (eight years ago) link
my pal matt jammin' black peter. aceeeeeeeeeed.
http://www.relix.com/media/photo/song_premiere_matt_valentine_black_peter#1
― scott seward, Friday, 18 March 2016 14:11 (eight years ago) link
i directed my wfmu pledge toward that the second i heard about it. dopest show on wfmu anyway
― adam, Friday, 18 March 2016 14:46 (eight years ago) link
― lute bro (brimstead), Thursday, March 17, 2016 11:52 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
Wouldn't it then be a tribute to Robert Hunter and John Barlow as much as the Dead, then?
― Wimmels, Friday, 18 March 2016 16:07 (eight years ago) link
i'm only going to say this ONE more time just in case he is reading ILX right now: A Willie Nelson album of Dead covers would be the best-selling album of his career. especially if he had that deluxe nu-americana T-Bone production. that way you get: every deadhead to buy a copy. every willie fan. every NPR listener. lots of other curious people. equaling millions! and then the tour with Dead people.
― scott seward, Friday, 18 March 2016 16:15 (eight years ago) link
would buy
― Wimmels, Friday, 18 March 2016 16:17 (eight years ago) link
yeah that is a great idea! i'd buy the thing. is this the only time he's covered them? it's good, even though it has the dreaded ryan adams involvedhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0g3jrW0wp0A
― tylerw, Friday, 18 March 2016 16:17 (eight years ago) link
I mean, would definitely buy
yeah, you'd have to keep people like ryan adams out of it. should ideally just be crusty nashville veterans playing behind him and if he's gonna sing with someone make it some crusty songwriter friend of his like guy clark.
― scott seward, Friday, 18 March 2016 16:21 (eight years ago) link
I'm listening to Jerry singing "Loser" at the moment, and that is tailor made for Willie.
― Retro novelty punk (Dan Peterson), Friday, 18 March 2016 19:29 (eight years ago) link
yeah the whole first side of Garcia's first solo LP would be good probably. Even Bird Song!
― tylerw, Friday, 18 March 2016 19:31 (eight years ago) link
Grateful Dead fans rejoiced at yesterday's news that the National have finally set a May 20th release date for their long-anticipated Dead tribute album, Day of the Dead. Featuring 59 covers from artists ranging from Anohni to Courtney Barnett to Wilco, there’s never been a Dead covers project of this extent before.
http://pitchfork.com/thepitch/1062-10-excellent-grateful-dead-covers-not-by-jam-bands/
― scott seward, Saturday, 19 March 2016 14:51 (eight years ago) link
I'm just going to not read any more about The (fucking) National's all-star Dead tribute and just listen to the fucking Grateful Dead.
― bearded flack trickster god (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Saturday, 19 March 2016 21:02 (eight years ago) link
otm
― the late great, Saturday, 19 March 2016 21:31 (eight years ago) link
yeah, you'd have to keep people like ryan adams out of it
the ryan adams one is really good. I soft-pedal this because I know people just have a personal dislike of the guy but his last few records have been pretty stunning and his singing has matured into a pretty spectacular thing imo
― tremendous crime wave and killing wave (Joan Crawford Loves Chachi), Sunday, 20 March 2016 01:02 (eight years ago) link
Gold is a very enjoyable album too
― niels, Sunday, 20 March 2016 13:34 (eight years ago) link
http://pitchfork.com/news/64364-the-national-courtney-barnett-the-war-on-drugs-more-cover-the-grateful-dead-listen/
i've only gotten through the first two (national and bruce hornsby) but they're both great and imo they get it
― HYPERLINK TO RAP GENIUS (BradNelson), Thursday, 24 March 2016 20:43 (eight years ago) link
― bearded flack trickster god (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Saturday, March 19, 2016 4:02 PM (5 days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
I will happily do neither!
― human life won't become a cat (man alive), Thursday, 24 March 2016 20:46 (eight years ago) link
good stuff.
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/03/27/magazine/bill-waltons-long-strange-tale-of-nba-survival.html?hpw&rref=magazine&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&module=well-region®ion=bottom-well&WT.nav=bottom-well
― scott seward, Saturday, 26 March 2016 20:48 (eight years ago) link
i didn't even realize at first that my friend matt made that pitchfork list. until he posted it on facebook. i didn't get that far...
― scott seward, Saturday, 26 March 2016 20:49 (eight years ago) link
the world needed another fancy boxed set.i bet ira kaplan does a good Wharf Rat, and Oneida & friends doing Drums/Space is cool, but I can't say i'm interested in any of the rest, really. that list was nice because i got to hear krefting's "to lay me down" which is a killer tune.
― ian, Sunday, 27 March 2016 19:33 (eight years ago) link
I really like the War on Drugs version of "touch of grey"
― van smack, Sunday, 27 March 2016 22:52 (eight years ago) link
it works and it's fine, like p much everything they put out
― human life won't become a cat (man alive), Monday, 28 March 2016 02:28 (eight years ago) link
highest recommendation for this new book http://images.perseusbooks.com/image/pbg/week/classic/260x/72/liquid/center/color/ffffff/99/9780306822551.jpghttp://dacapopress.com/book/hardcover/heads/9780306822551goes much deeper than just the Dead (but it also has plenty about the Dead)
― tylerw, Wednesday, 30 March 2016 14:28 (eight years ago) link
rad
― marcos, Wednesday, 30 March 2016 14:36 (eight years ago) link
This thread being in SNA a lot has gotten me to revisit Blues for Allah, which I think is my new favorite Dead studio record.
― human life won't become a cat (man alive), Wednesday, 30 March 2016 15:14 (eight years ago) link
I was telling a friend about how I hated Franklin's Tower in college because it always seemed like some interminable and sloppy live version of it or Fire on the Mountain or Franklin's Tower into Fire on the Mountain was playing through a haze of pot smoke at the end of every single house party that took place in the three years I lived with ag school hippies. Yet now I actually enjoy it partly because of my nostalgia for those smoky wee hours, even my nostalgia for disliking the song.
― human life won't become a cat (man alive), Wednesday, 30 March 2016 15:17 (eight years ago) link
also studio version is tite
It's Scarlet Begonias>Fire on the Mountain
and Help on the Way>Slipknot>Franklin's Tower
― Chicamaw (Ward Fowler), Wednesday, 30 March 2016 15:37 (eight years ago) link
xxp haha totally, kind of the way i feel about bad fan recordings of phish shows bc of how often i heard them w/ a few kids i hung out w/ in college
interminable & sloppy dead shows are better than phish always though
― marcos, Wednesday, 30 March 2016 15:43 (eight years ago) link
The answer to the thread question is of course yes.
The dead notes series (12 parts up to now with live jams in excellent quality) over at the aquarium drunkard is highly recommended.
― it's the distortion, stupid! (alex in mainhattan), Wednesday, 30 March 2016 15:49 (eight years ago) link
― Chicamaw (Ward Fowler), Wednesday, March 30, 2016 10:37 AM (12 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
Oh, that totally makes sense now. Franklin's Tower and Fire just sound kind of superficially similar to me. And I definitely remember Scarlet Begonias being one of those end of party songs -- that little instrumental line that plays in between every line of the verse makes me instantly picture a certain girl's goofy dancing face and swinging floppy arms.
― human life won't become a cat (man alive), Wednesday, 30 March 2016 15:52 (eight years ago) link
i love that hippie dance, my wife does it very well
― marcos, Wednesday, 30 March 2016 15:54 (eight years ago) link
it's funny, i must've gone to college during the lowest ebb of grateful dead college fandom (late 90s/early 00s). no one was into the Dead! not even the on campus communal living situation.
― tylerw, Wednesday, 30 March 2016 15:55 (eight years ago) link
The one where they kind of look like a zombie trying to keep balance on a wobble board? xp
― human life won't become a cat (man alive), Wednesday, 30 March 2016 15:56 (eight years ago) link
― tylerw, Wednesday, March 30, 2016 10:55 AM (22 seconds ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
No that's when I went to college too, and fandom was alive and well. Maybe it was an NJ thing, there seemed to be a much bigger hippie/jam band culture in NJ than where I grew up.
― human life won't become a cat (man alive), Wednesday, 30 March 2016 15:57 (eight years ago) link