(not that i ever want to hear this)
― tylerw, Thursday, 19 October 2023 21:56 (seven months ago) link
You want love?We'll make itSwim in a deep seaOf blanketsTake all your big plansAnd break 'emThis is bound to be a whileYour body is a dark star Your body is a star, pouring its light into ashes Your body is a dark star
― calstars, Friday, 20 October 2023 01:55 (seven months ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/nwTMjxM.jpg
― calstars, Saturday, 11 November 2023 04:44 (six months ago) link
https://open.spotify.com/track/727MIUcOQhC9etXDqhHic8?si=dRV2m-A6Q0GFORxutGmSNASounds like a college cover band
― calstars, Sunday, 26 November 2023 03:18 (six months ago) link
No sloppier than Chuck himself was in 72....
― Reeves Gabrels' Funko Pop (majorairbro), Sunday, 26 November 2023 05:33 (six months ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vGhMdhdDIlMLove this 87 terrapinJerry so focusedRest of the band not sure what part comes next
― calstars, Saturday, 20 January 2024 19:59 (four months ago) link
https://www.stereogum.com/2250575/grateful-dead-most-top-40-albums-billboard/news/
― Marten Broadcloak, mild-mannered GOP congressman (Raymond Cummings), Monday, 5 February 2024 20:42 (three months ago) link
Beat That On Down The Line, Taylor...
― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Monday, 5 February 2024 20:48 (three months ago) link
13 studio albums, 180 live albums? something like that. Honestly Taylor could easily beat this by releasing 50 live albums.
― Reeves Gabrels' Funko Pop (majorairbro), Tuesday, 6 February 2024 05:03 (three months ago) link
Don't give her any ideas
― atmospheric river phoenix (morrisp), Tuesday, 6 February 2024 05:51 (three months ago) link
Digging the new Dave's Picks with the pair of '85 Frost shows. I get why they fall back on '77 and the '72-'74 well so often with these archival releases, but it's nice for a change of pace. Jerry's voice is mostly shot, but he seems to make up for it with his solos. The 4/27/85 show seemed to have the better rep from the tape trading days, but the second night is better to me - less individual peaks maybe, but Jerry's voice is better, a better overall setlist and killer flow. I mean the entire second set run of "Hell in a Bucket > Crazy Fingers > PITB > China Doll > Drums > Space > PITB > Wharf Rat" is a nice run with great transitions. Both nights had a spark in the "Drums/Space" section.
― Maxmillion D. Boosted (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Friday, 9 February 2024 18:49 (three months ago) link
Listening to Angel’s Share. Phil trying to teach “unbroken chain” to the band in the studio, hilarious
― calstars, Friday, 9 February 2024 22:09 (three months ago) link
When is that clip from? I’ve heard rehearsal banter from 1995 when Phil is teaching the band unbroken Chain and it’s great. Jerry is definitely not keeping up.
― tobo73, Friday, 9 February 2024 22:29 (three months ago) link
Guessing calstars is referring to the digital studio outtakes they released with the Wake of the Flood reissue, from the August '73 sessions.
― Maxmillion D. Boosted (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Friday, 9 February 2024 22:38 (three months ago) link
YesPhil reprimands “Weir” and then he and Jerry discuss the turn around
― calstars, Friday, 9 February 2024 23:26 (three months ago) link
The funky middle section is a complete shambles, again sounds like a college band in a basement
― calstars, Friday, 9 February 2024 23:28 (three months ago) link
In the ‘95 recording Phil’s explaining the arrangement to the band and yells over to Garcia, “you got that, Gorilla??” (Or something like that).
― tobo73, Friday, 9 February 2024 23:48 (three months ago) link
I didn't realize they had never played it until then, wow
― Reeves Gabrels' Funko Pop (majorairbro), Saturday, 10 February 2024 11:36 (three months ago) link
asked this in the "digital era legacy song" thread but doesn't seem to be many deadheads in there, so i'll ask here
when did “althea” become one of the most popular dead songs? it’s not on a major album or any of the greatest hits, not one of the 50 most played according to jerrybase. yet it has 20 million more streams on spotify than “sugar magnolia.” what gives? is it a john mayer thing?
― the defenestration of prog (voodoo chili), Thursday, 22 February 2024 16:07 (three months ago) link
is it a john mayer thing?
I think so, yes
― I painted my teeth (sleeve), Thursday, 22 February 2024 16:11 (three months ago) link
Yeah, I think that's a big part of it. I mean, it's also a damn fine song that I know non-Deadheads in my life even like, but it's probably the Mayer thing. He's talked in several interviews about how that was the song that got him into the Dead.
― Maxmillion D. Boosted (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Thursday, 22 February 2024 16:16 (three months ago) link
It’s also just like a really cool song and riff
― calstars, Thursday, 22 February 2024 16:16 (three months ago) link
I refuse to give Mayer credit for anything lol
― calstars, Thursday, 22 February 2024 16:17 (three months ago) link
Go To Heaven is their most underrated LP imho
― I painted my teeth (sleeve), Thursday, 22 February 2024 16:17 (three months ago) link
If I had any ILM cred to worry about in the first place I might be ashamed to admit this, but I will be going to see Dead & Johnny at the Sphere this summer. No interest in seeing U2, got shut out of Phish there, so I took the chance when buddies of mine got an extra for a show out there (also because I've never even been to Vegas, so my wife and I are going to make a long weekend out of it).
― Maxmillion D. Boosted (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Thursday, 22 February 2024 16:20 (three months ago) link
If you're looking for non-Mayer culprits, Al Franken talks about how great Althea is at the beginning of the Long Strange Trip documentary from 2017, which was where I was first heard about it since I had wrongfully skipped Go To Heaven before then.
― Judi Dench's Human Hand (methanietanner), Thursday, 22 February 2024 16:25 (three months ago) link
Oh that's right, I forgot about that scene.
― Maxmillion D. Boosted (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Thursday, 22 February 2024 16:26 (three months ago) link
Weird I never made the connection between Mayer and the slow but steady build in online hype for Althea. It’s a fine song but not a standout imo. Relistened to a big chunk of the Andrew Hickey Dark Star episode last night. It’s so great even the second time around.
― tobo73, Thursday, 22 February 2024 16:37 (three months ago) link
yeah wasn't a quality judgment, i do really like the song. one of the better studio dead tracks, imo. but it definitely has elevated in stature in recent years, and again, somehow has 20 million more spotify streams than sugar magnolia?
― the defenestration of prog (voodoo chili), Thursday, 22 February 2024 16:39 (three months ago) link
Well I mean, I'd rather hear almost any other Dead song than hear "Sugar Magnolia" yet again, but that is still a surprising surge in popularity.
― Maxmillion D. Boosted (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Thursday, 22 February 2024 16:41 (three months ago) link
side note: 'go to heaven' has to be one of their absolute worst album covers ever, what were they thinking
― the defenestration of prog (voodoo chili), Thursday, 22 February 2024 16:41 (three months ago) link
Cocaine
― Maxmillion D. Boosted (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Thursday, 22 February 2024 16:42 (three months ago) link
otm
― I painted my teeth (sleeve), Thursday, 22 February 2024 16:45 (three months ago) link
Yall are on cocaine, that cover is great
― calstars, Thursday, 22 February 2024 17:10 (three months ago) link
Grateful Dead album covers I rank below Go To Heaven, in descending order:
Skeletons from the Closet: The Best of Grateful Dead Built to LastIn The DarkWithout a NetGrateful Dead (1967)The first six Dick's Picks releases
And I'd like to argue that Go To Heaven would have been an excellent album cover if they'd been competent at making disco.
― peace, man, Thursday, 22 February 2024 17:11 (three months ago) link
Nah, the Ampex tape style ones are actually pretty good and far better than the dumb fractals and skeletons on flying carpets of later entries.
― Maxmillion D. Boosted (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Thursday, 22 February 2024 17:13 (three months ago) link
such a classic Dead move to have use the white suits for the album cover after the album where they did a couple disco tracks, which of course had a more typical Dead style cartoon cover itself.
― Judi Dench's Human Hand (methanietanner), Thursday, 22 February 2024 17:21 (three months ago) link
xp
I never realized that was supposed to be an Ampex tape. I was trying to keep my list contemporaneous to the actual existence of the band, because all of those are better than the pile of mostly dreck that followed Jerry's death.
However, I am a big fan of the covers from Dick's Picks 19-24. I only realized a few years ago that the background of the Baltimore Civic Center show is an overhead shot of the Chesapeake Bay that is flipped and mirrored.
https://cdn11.bigcommerce.com/s-w8qmypftv/images/stencil/1280x1280/products/1684464/3240958/My05NDUzLmpwZWc__88303.1674170192.jpg?c=2
― peace, man, Thursday, 22 February 2024 17:24 (three months ago) link
yeah the Ampex thing resulted in a funny Grateful Dead/Shellac 1000 Hurts cover connection
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Thursday, 22 February 2024 17:29 (three months ago) link
I was reading an old Bananafish zine the other night only to learn that Hetty MacLise (née McGee, wife of Angus and former girlfriend of PigPen!) played a de-tuned tambura on the single version of "Dark Star". Supposedly the Dead was the band at her and Angus wedding in Golden Gate Park on the Spring Equinox of 1968, while the officiant was Timothy Leary.
― citation needed (Steve Shasta), Thursday, 22 February 2024 17:32 (three months ago) link
Yeah, 19-24 are probably my favorites of the bunch, always love #19 (smoking show too!)
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/5/51/Grateful_Dead_-_Dick%27s_Picks_Volume_19.jpg
― Maxmillion D. Boosted (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Thursday, 22 February 2024 17:32 (three months ago) link
xp is that damn single available in digital form anywhere?
― I painted my teeth (sleeve), Thursday, 22 February 2024 17:41 (three months ago) link
Is it not on iTunes? It was on the Long Strange Trip... comp, and remastered as an unlisted extra on the 2001/03 reissue of Live/Dead.
― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Thursday, 22 February 2024 17:45 (three months ago) link
Spotify has the single version on the What a Long Strange Trip comp (the one with the black and red cover).
― Maxmillion D. Boosted (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Thursday, 22 February 2024 17:46 (three months ago) link
thanks, yeah I am looking for a CD bonus track not a stream
― I painted my teeth (sleeve), Thursday, 22 February 2024 17:48 (three months ago) link
Physically it's also out on the Rhino San Francisco Nuggets box.
― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Thursday, 22 February 2024 17:48 (three months ago) link
ah cool
― I painted my teeth (sleeve), Thursday, 22 February 2024 17:49 (three months ago) link
lol, still never heard the studio recorded version after all these years.
― Western® with Bacon Flavor, Thursday, 22 February 2024 17:50 (three months ago) link
I can't A/B them right now, but the 7" single duration is 2:50 while the version on the greatest hits comp is 2:41...
― citation needed (Steve Shasta), Thursday, 22 February 2024 17:51 (three months ago) link
lol duly noted
― I painted my teeth (sleeve), Thursday, 22 February 2024 17:51 (three months ago) link