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 I Like Alkaloids
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 The Greatful Dead
#8383617 - 05/09/08 10:50 PM (4 months, 26 days ago) |
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I genuinely understand a lot of older music, but I must be missing something here. What's the deal with these guys?
Can anyone point me in the direction of their superior material? I've heard all their "greatest hits" and other bullshit, but I don't understand what the big deal is.
Don't get me wrong, I love the Doors, Pink Floyd, Jimi Hendrix, Led Zeppelin, etc.
Any recommendations?
Does anybody even listen to these guys anymore?
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 creekfreek
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Its all about taste, maybe you just dont like them.
Maybe you havent heard them live?
Have you listened to them while tripping?
You can stream my favorite show here, http://www.archive.org/details/gd1991-09-10.sbd.waddell.89085.sbeok.flac16
This show features The Grateful Dead with Branford Marsalis Playing sax throughout the whole show.
Using the same website you can stream lots of other Dead shows too, Check out some early stuff from them, Pre-1971 with Pigpen for a more raw sound, also try different shows goinf up a few years at a time.
If you will ever like them, this is a good way to find out.
Seriously try to check them out while tripping if you can.
Peace.
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Ashford420
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I generally have to be high to listen to them. One of my favorite songs by them is Ripple. I don't listen to them much. Of course you can't forget Hard to handle or He's Gone.
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porcupine
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the grateful dead is a whole other level above the doors, zeppelin, etc. like someone else said, you generally have to be high to really appreciate their music. they can take you to truly ecstastic states of consciousness
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I Like Alkaloids
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 Re: The Greatful Dead [Re: porcupine]
#8383774 - 05/09/08 11:30 PM (4 months, 26 days ago) |
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Quote:
porcupine said:
they can take you to truly ecstastic states of consciousness
I believe this. Tons of people swear by them. I suppose I discovered the Doors, etc. at the right place, at the right time.
I've heard some of their songs live, but I'm not old enough to have see them live. 
Is that what it was/is about? Being there? Getting soaked with a spray bottle full of water and LSD?
Edited by I Like Alkaloids (05/09/08 11:50 PM)
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recycledsoul
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look at the bottom here:
http://panicstream.com/nonwsp.htm
there is also alot on archive.org the old stuff is better ~70s
the festivals are a good experience if you wanna get into the dead.
just dont start abusing drugs, taking acid every week is not good for you
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recycledsoul
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you can find alot of beauty in the dead- alot of zen
also alot of drug abuse and problems
mannnnnnnnnnnny people still listen
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Madtowntripper
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Quote:
recycledsoul said:
just dont start abusing drugs, taking acid every week is not good for you
Psh!
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recycledsoul
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Quote:
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Quote:
recycledsoul said:
just dont start abusing drugs, taking acid every week is not good for you
Psh!
look at your mood- stressed
yes many people have done this, but it can create a really lot of problems, but no one can make u stop
"when all the windows are broken and your loves a toothless crone"
"comes a time when the blind man takes your hand and says dont you see you got an empty cup only Love can fill"
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listen to what the mind wants you to do, be miserable
just be Here. Reality as it is, dont change it as you would like it to be, just observe, no repression, no expression
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PyroBurns
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Check out the Sugar Magnolia at the Capitol Theater on 1971-2-18. That's one of my favorite songs ever.
Infact that whole second set is awesome:
http://www.archive.org/details/gd71-02-18.sbd.stephens.6672.sbeok.shnf
They vary a lot. I notice that songs will be good in some shows, suck in others, and BLOW ME AWAY in others still. When they are awesome, they are REALLY damn awesome.
The studio recordings don't capture the energy at all IMO.
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old mushmellow
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If you could've gone to a concert and felt the whole experience you would understand why we love them so. It can't be explained easily. The albums can't capture that.
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