The Grateful Dead are one of the most underrated and talented bands of the psychedelic era and even beyond that
>Jerry Garcia is hippie Robert Fripp
>combined jazz, psychedelic rock, reggae, and a bunch of other shit into a unique sound
>"They're not the best at what they do, they're the only ones who do what they do"
>literally have a reputation for playing better live than on albums
>Garcia is the most recorded guitarist in history
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Easton King
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Lincoln King
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Dylan Garcia
Literally my moms homeless man
John Long
you mom is homeless or he looks like her homeless boyfriend?
Charles Howard
where do I start with them?
Benjamin Butler
They suck. Their chart positions confirm that. The only way to not suck is having your songs at the top 3 places on the Billboard hot 100 as The Beatles did in 1964.
Angel Nelson
they're great but it's too bad garcia wasn't open to hip hop
David Butler
Workingman's Dead
American Beauty
Europe '72
Christian Long
thx duders
Luis Diaz
They dead had I would say four or five stages of development.
early or Primal Dead from '67-'69,Country-JazzImrov Dead '70-76,Rockand Roll Dead '77-'85 and then possible Post Jerry's Coma '86-'95 when they were just doing it to feed the beast of an organization they'd built and were all but washed up.
to suggest one can start anywhere is not going to work with the GD.
You should sample some of the early stuff like this; archive.org
then on to the early 70's youtube.com
then into the deeper exploratory jamming in the mid 70's, youtube.com
then check out the epic '77 may tour run, youtube.com
then the early 80's of which I saw about 100 shows including this; youtube.com
and the rest I'd leave off for now
Henry Richardson
addendum; you may have noticed I selected all Live recordings... the Dead themselves always insisted they were a Live band and their studio recordings never expressed what they wanted ... they have their place but they fail to convey what they did Live which is what we loved best.
Brandon Clark
europe 72 btfo most other music i've heard to be honest desu
not even into "jam" like that, these niggers were on another level entirely.
Evan Nelson
What do Dead heads say when they run out of weed?
>Man this band sucks
Robert Perez
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Angel Walker
from that Tour youtube.com
Landon Davis
I always recommend that people start with GD's '77 show at Cornell. This is widely considered the holy grail of Dead shows; it was even archived in the Library of Congress. This track is one of the biggest highlights of that show, for me, but both sets are incredible and worth a listen in it's entirety.
Easton Roberts
I wanted to note the segment from 21:00 to 24:00 minutes as part of what they were good at .. after several minutes of seemingly aimless indecypherable jamming creating a sense of the chaos of unbeing there suddenly emerges as through the cosmic fog the radiant form of Uncle John's Band.. a protogalactic genesis of epic proportions.
Jason Carter
They are not underrated whatsoever. Also Dead Heads make me not want to get into them or talk about them publicly.
Landon Thompson
I'm a Grateful Dead fan and I also find Dead Heads to be too fucking annoying. If you can ignore them, then they're an altogether pretty fucking good band.
Nolan Perry
I liked American Beauty.
Where should I go next?
Christopher Morales
Workingman's Dead if you are limiting yourself to their studio output.
Levi Gomez
After Workingman's Dead I would listen to some of their live stuff like
Cornell 5/8/77 and Europe '72