Author Topic: One Dead Album (Read 658 times)

David Houck · « **Reply #15 on:** August 20, 2009, 10:59:32 AM »

Terry; your request has been filled and was shipped today at 1:58pm EDT.

dnburgess · « **Reply #16 on:** August 20, 2009, 02:11:34 PM »

I'm not really a Dead Head - but American Beauty will always be special for me because we used to use the Mobile Fidelity pressing as a demo record in the hifi store in which I worked as a teeenager.

cozmik_cowboy · « **Reply #17 on:** August 20, 2009, 02:35:30 PM »

Just one? I couldn't do it. Different Dead for different moods. I can tell you In The Dark wouldn't be it. If you want me to recommend one album for someone else, I'd need more info. Into exquisite songs? Working Man's Dead. Into full-blown jamming? Live/Dead. Can't decide? Europe '72 (Like Bill said, only because it has more music than Grateful Dead/Skeleton & Roses/Skullf**k). Looking for the flat-out best bass tone ever recorded? S&R. But the best advise I coukld give is don't ask for one - ask what order to buy them all in. (My actual current favorite is an audience recording of Alpine Valley '82, with John Cippolina & a percussionist name escapes me sitting in - it was great then & it's great now. And there was this girl in the next car in the parking lot.....my buddy & I still talk about her in reverent tones.)

Peter

David Houck · « **Reply #18 on:** August 20, 2009, 03:42:12 PM »

I agree with Peter. Your life will be more complete if you own several Grateful Dead albums.

Of course, I also couldn't just pick three.

lbpesq · « **Reply #19 on:** August 20, 2009, 04:21:18 PM »

Pick one Dead Album? No way, won't do it, wouldn't be prudent. lol

Dave: Ugly Rumors?

As I write this, I'm sitting on the very western edge of the continent, about 100 yards from the Pacific watching whales swim by. Life is good.

Bill, tgo

David Houck · « **Reply #20 on:** August 20, 2009, 04:32:37 PM »

Life is indeed good, Bill!
Which rumors?

lbpesq · « **Reply #21 on:** August 20, 2009, 06:58:22 PM »

Mars Hotel - Ugly Rumors in the mirror.

pauldo · « **Reply #22 on:** August 20, 2009, 07:51:04 PM »

This is good - I appreciate the efforts in attempting to pare it down to just one.

This gives me some idea of what to look for, as mentioned earlier I am familiar with alot of the 'greatest hits' from the dead. Currently I only have Terrapin Station and In the Dark - the later seems to get poo-pooed by some folks (not just here) in off site discussions with others they indicate it as a 'sell-out'. ?

Skulls and Roses and Europe 72 seem to be the best bets.

Peter - I was at the Alpine Valley show in 82!
Did I see you there? I was the guy with the real shiny eyes!
Don't remember too much from it(something funny slipped into my drink):-` I do know it was really coooool.

Dave - D-string and North side wall (just because those neighbors are so loud!) :-p

David Houck · « **Reply #23 on:** August 20, 2009, 08:32:12 PM »

Bill; Hah!! I never knew that! (Or if I did, those storage cells are gone) So no, that's not why I'm recommending Mars Hotel, but deciphering record covers certainly works as a good reason, or at least it did back when record covers were big enough to decipher. We used to spend quality time with a magnifying glass and some Roger Dean covers. My guess as to why I'm so partial to Mars Hotel may be that when it came out I often resembled the folks on the back cover while listening to it.

tom_z · « **Reply #24 on:** August 20, 2009, 11:09:05 PM »

Paul - here's a link to a streamable live performance from 05-08-77. It's considered by many to be a peak performance in a peak year. The audio quality of the recording is A+.

http://www.archive.org/details/gd77-05-08.sbd.hicks.4982.sbeok.shnf

Enjoy!

jerryme · « **Reply #25 on:** August 21, 2009, 05:00:00 AM »

If it means anthing I have about 2000 hours of live Grateful Dead, and I only own two albums; American Beauty and Workingman's Dead

Colin

sonicus · « **Reply #26 on:** August 21, 2009, 05:21:35 AM »

I heard a tape from a 1971 show at the Harding
Theater . Phil was playing his Alembic modified Gibson EB-3. That was an awesome performance that day, I will never forget the fire and furry that I heard in Phils playing that day! You could sense the fire and hear his intellect going to work.I liked the sound that Bass had.

sonicus · « **Reply #27 on:** August 21, 2009, 05:27:22 AM »

I find that the live recordings from the late 1960's to mid 1970's to have a certain magic to my ears.

(Message edited by sonicus on August 21, 2009)

spose · « **Reply #28 on:** August 21, 2009, 08:37:58 AM »

the dead made albums?
heh..

my favorite is If Only I could Remember My Name by David Crosby(1971)
maybe not an offical Dead album, but read the credits!

pas · « **Reply #29 on:** August 21, 2009, 08:59:04 AM »

I have that one...on vinyl, no less.