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RoadTrip
RoadTrip Member, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 8,211 Founders Club
Well, I guess specifically Dead & Company. This was a 4th of July show in Colorado where Dave Matthews played with them.

https://youtu.be/KqKasOUTo6Q

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  • YellowSnow
    YellowSnow Moderator, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 37,636 Founders Club
    I have all the Dead records Inc this 6 LP Ducktard box that I got in the spring.


  • YellowSnow
    YellowSnow Moderator, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 37,636 Founders Club
    I think John Mayer shreds on the lead stuff but a lot of the Dead and Company stuff is too slow for my taste and Bob’s vocals are shot.

  • CFetters_Nacho_Lover
    CFetters_Nacho_Lover Moderator, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 32,613 Founders Club
    I was about to answer with @trublue but you mean the Grateful Dead not the actual dead.
  • RoadTrip
    RoadTrip Member, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 8,211 Founders Club

    I think John Mayer shreds on the lead stuff but a lot of the Dead and Company stuff is too slow for my taste and Bob’s vocals are shot.

    I heard a rumor Dave Matthews might take over for John?
  • YellowSnow
    YellowSnow Moderator, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 37,636 Founders Club
    RoadTrip said:

    I think John Mayer shreds on the lead stuff but a lot of the Dead and Company stuff is too slow for my taste and Bob’s vocals are shot.

    I heard a rumor Dave Matthews might take over for John?
    NO!

    That guy can’t noodle like Jerry.

  • Fishpo31
    Fishpo31 Member Posts: 2,669

    I think John Mayer shreds on the lead stuff but a lot of the Dead and Company stuff is too slow for my taste and Bob’s vocals are shot.

    Bill Kreutzman agrees, at least with the tempo…
  • El_K
    El_K Member, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 1,517 Swaye's Wigwam
    Not a fan. I just don’t get it.
  • CFetters_Nacho_Lover
    CFetters_Nacho_Lover Moderator, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 32,613 Founders Club
    Unfortunately after working 25+ years in law enforcement some shit is creepy and not funny in any context
  • seatownfunk
    seatownfunk Member Posts: 807
    Gorge Shows were fun. 95 degrees, Hookers, Blow and a little too much acid
  • YellowSnow
    YellowSnow Moderator, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 37,636 Founders Club
    The Dead are my all time favorite American band. @alumni94 sold the couch just a few years too early for me to see them live. If they'd played the Gorge in '98 I would have been there for sure.

    I don't care for the pre 1970 studio albums and live stuff quite as much. But once they moved on from psychedelia to cuntry rock in 1970 I'm all in.


  • alumni94
    alumni94 Member Posts: 4,878

    The Dead are my all time favorite American band. @alumni94 sold the couch just a few years too early for me to see them live. If they'd played the Gorge in '98 I would have been there for sure.

    I don't care for the pre 1970 studio albums and live stuff quite as much. But once they moved on from psychedelia to cuntry rock in 1970 I'm all in.


    Sorry for dying. I should have stopped the chili corn dogs, and maybe the drugs. Anthem of the Sun is great album, so is Live Dead. Check them out again.
  • YellowSnow
    YellowSnow Moderator, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 37,636 Founders Club
    alumni94 said:

    The Dead are my all time favorite American band. @alumni94 sold the couch just a few years too early for me to see them live. If they'd played the Gorge in '98 I would have been there for sure.

    I don't care for the pre 1970 studio albums and live stuff quite as much. But once they moved on from psychedelia to cuntry rock in 1970 I'm all in.


    Sorry for dying. I should have stopped the chili corn dogs, and maybe the drugs. Anthem of the Sun is great album, so is Live Dead. Check them out again.
    I own Live Dead, Two From the Vault (1968) and Live at Fillmore East 1969. All good stuff with Pigpen doing epic Turn on Your Lovelight.

    But I think those sets pale in comparison to what they doing live starting in 1971- 72.
  • YellowSnow
    YellowSnow Moderator, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 37,636 Founders Club
    Fishpo31 said:

    I think John Mayer shreds on the lead stuff but a lot of the Dead and Company stuff is too slow for my taste and Bob’s vocals are shot.

    Bill Kreutzman agrees, at least with the tempo…
    I heard things sped up when Billy left the group.
  • seatownfunk
    seatownfunk Member Posts: 807

    Fishpo31 said:

    I think John Mayer shreds on the lead stuff but a lot of the Dead and Company stuff is too slow for my taste and Bob’s vocals are shot.

    Bill Kreutzman agrees, at least with the tempo…
    I heard things sped up when Billy left the group.
    Barely, if at all.
  • Fishpo31
    Fishpo31 Member Posts: 2,669
    I have heard that Bob was slowing down some stuff, and Billy didn’t like it…
  • SECDAWG
    SECDAWG Member Posts: 5,020
  • LebamDawg
    LebamDawg Member, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 8,842 Swaye's Wigwam
    edited August 2023
    Their first album is dynomite, Viola Lee Blues, Good Morning Little School Girl - and I think their best is Working Man's Dead - thus sending me to cuntry/blues rather easily

    Edit: seen live at Volunteer Park - they used to play all over Seattle area back in the day when they were making a name for themselves. Can't remember* how many times I saw them live.

    *for some really good reasons
  • YellowSnow
    YellowSnow Moderator, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 37,636 Founders Club
    LebamDawg said:

    Their first album is dynomite, Viola Lee Blues, Good Morning Little School Girl - and I think their best is Working Man's Dead - thus sending me to cuntry/blues rather easily

    Edit: seen live at Volunteer Park - they used to play all over Seattle area back in the day when they were making a name for themselves. Can't remember* how many times I saw them live.

    *for some really good reasons

    The first album is fine and lays the ground work but pale in comparison to the best of what 1967 had to offer.

    But Workingman's Dead is where they finally found their sound.
  • seatownfunk
    seatownfunk Member Posts: 807

    LebamDawg said:

    Their first album is dynomite, Viola Lee Blues, Good Morning Little School Girl - and I think their best is Working Man's Dead - thus sending me to cuntry/blues rather easily

    Edit: seen live at Volunteer Park - they used to play all over Seattle area back in the day when they were making a name for themselves. Can't remember* how many times I saw them live.

    *for some really good reasons

    The first album is fine and lays the ground work but pale in comparison to the best of what 1967 had to offer.

    But Workingman's Dead is where they finally found their sound.
    Tough to upvote and down vote at the same time. Seattle '71 is a hot hot show with Pig, new songs, coke, whiskey and a lot of lsd. But I am a sucker for the '60s raw psychedelia studio albums