Any Dead fans in here?

RoadTrip

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

YellowSnow

I have all the Dead records Inc this 6 LP Ducktard box that I got in the spring.

YellowSnow

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

I was about to answer with @trublue but you mean the Grateful Dead not the actual dead.

RoadTrip

YellowSnow 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?

YellowSnow

RoadTrip said:

YellowSnow 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.

whlinder

@HarveyRoad

Purple_Pills

@seatownfunk

Fishpo31

YellowSnow 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…

El_K

Not a fan. I just don’t get it.

GrundleStiltzkin

@trublue

CFetters_Nacho_Lover

GrundleStiltzkin said:

@trublue

Unfortunately after working 25+ years in law enforcement some shit is creepy and not funny in any context

seatownfunk

Gorge Shows were fun. 95 degrees, Hookers, Blow and a little too much acid

YellowSnow

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

YellowSnow 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.

YellowSnow

alumni94 said:

YellowSnow 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

Fishpo31 said:

YellowSnow 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

YellowSnow said:

Fishpo31 said:

YellowSnow 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

I have heard that Bob was slowing down some stuff, and Billy didn’t like it…

SECDAWG

No, not me.

LebamDawg

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