Grateful Dead

[lbpesq]

As I recall, Truckin' & Casey Jones received enough airplay to qualify as minor hits, though not nearly as much as Touch of Grey.  And I agree with Peter.  I guess for me the scene really changed when I looked around and saw all these people wearing tie-dye who related to Vietnam like I related to WWII ... something that happened long before I was born.  I sure do miss it.
 
Bill, tgo

[benson_murrensun]

I get a perverse kind of kick out of the fact that the Dead were one of the highest selling concert draws of all time, and had no real hits. There is hope for humanity...

[lbpesq]

Not that they track this sort of thing, but while the Dead consistently sold high numbers of tickets, if you compared the number of individuals who attended their concerts to other bands, they would be a bit further down the list.  If the Dead did a three night stand, it was not unusual for many in the audience to attend all three nights.  I remember them playing five night stands in the Bay Area and personally attending four or five out of five.  There are few bands that could claim this type of repeat audience ... and the few that can are almost all Dead-inspired.
 
Bill, tgo

[mc500]

Funkyjazzjunky,  You have been given some terrific advice.  Please do us a favor and listen to a good sounding version of Eyes Of The World.  I would love to know what you think.   Sadly, I am not much of a jazz fan but EOTW is one of my favorite songs of all time and may qualify to some as jazz.

[sonicus]

I like an extended jam that morphs from Eyes of the World to What's Going On and back again _______

[pace]

Thanks for posting that link to Seastones, Wolf!  
 
What's Going On is so similar to Eyes, that we would swap one out of our setlist for the other depending on our mood....  We felt that stringing them along in a sandwich was too static...

[sonicus]

I am happy you like it , you are very welcome.
 
(Message edited by sonicus on June 02, 2010)

[benson_murrensun]

I am one of those that would attend all the shows the Dead gave in my area, three nights in a row or whatever. They very rarely played the same song twice in a 3-night stand. It was hell on my accrued vacation time but it was worth it. I especially enjoyed the shows at Red Rocks!

[cozmik_cowboy]

To make music for dancers like these is the rarest honor - to be coresponsible for what really is the dance of the cosmos.  If, as some savants or consciousness suggest, we are actually agreeing to create, from moment to moment, everything we perceive as real, then it stands to reason that we're also responsible for keeping it going in some harmonious manner.  The fervent belief we shared then, and that perseveres today, is that the energy liberated by this combination of music and ecstatic dancing is somehow making the world better, or at least holding the line against the depredations of entropy and ignorance.
 
Phil Lesh, Searching For The Sound: My Life With the Grateful Dead (New York, Boston: Little, Brown and Co., 2005), 69.  
 
And the kids (and old farts) dance and shake their bones.......
 
Peter (and RIP Vince Welnick, 4 years today)

[sonicus]

http://www.deadsymphony.com/
 
      I have it &    I give this a VERY high rating ! I LOVE it ___________
 
   Sonic  Regards ______________

[David Houck]

Interesting Wolf.  The sampler certainly sounds intriguing.

[funkyjazzjunky]

I did pretty good (if I do say so my self)  
 
The songs are very interesting and while I did not get to solo, I still loved playing the unique bass style and lines.
 
I wanted to thank you all for helping to get me up to speed.

[edwin]

Were you learning this stuff for a gig? I've played all kinds of music in the past (rock, funk, some jazz, singer/songwriter, avant garde, etc.) but find myself in a GD cover band to help with the bills these days. Lots of room for self-expression!

[afrobeat_fool]

Edwin, you are in a GD cover band now? Which one?

[edwin]

It's called Shakedown St. Of course, there is probably a Shakedown St. in every state!