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Grateful Dead Live at Kezar Stadium – 1975

seaboot — Tue, 24 Aug 2010 03:56:46 +0000

Their live shows, fed by their improvisational approach to music, made the Grateful Dead different from most other touring bands.
While most rock and roll bands rehearse a standard show for their tours that is replayed night after night, city after city, the Grateful Dead never did.
As Garcia stated in an 1966 interview, “We don’t make up our sets beforehand.
We’d rather work off the tops of our heads than off a piece of paper.”
They maintained this operating ethic throughout their existence. For each performance, the band drew material from an active list of a hundred or so songs.
Due to the band’s varied song selection and the improvisational nature of their playing, no two Grateful Dead concerts were exactly the same.

Grateful Dead Live at Kezar Stadium on 1975-03-23 (March 23, 1975)

1 Interview With Jerry Garcia by James Cameron 09:25
2 Intro By Bill Graham 00:40
3 Blues For Allah \(sans vocals\) 09:07
4 Milking The Turkey \> 06:50
5 Drums \> 03:24
6 Milking The Turkey 09:29
7 Blues For Allah Intro Theme Jam 03:15
8 Crowd \& DJ Talk 00:56
9 Johnyy B Goode 04:09
10 Milking The Turkey/Blues For Allah/Slipnot Theme/Jam 16:26
11 King Solomon\’s Marbles Jam \(2\) 01:02
12 Milking The Turkey Theme Jam 05:17
13 Blues For Allah Intro Jam 02:21

Grateful Dead Live at Springfield Civic Center – 1974

seaboot — Tue, 24 Aug 2010 03:56:22 +0000

The Grateful Dead’s early music (in the mid 1960s) was part of the process of establishing what “psychedelic music” was, but theirs was essentially a “street party” form of it.
They developed their “psychedelic” playing as a result of meeting Ken Kesey in Palo Alto, CA and subsequently becoming the house band for the Acid Tests he staged.

After the Dead relocated to the Haight-Ashbury section of San Francisco, their “street party” form developed out of the many psychedelic dances, open-air park events, and closed-street Haight-Ashbury block parties at which they played.
The Dead were not inclined to fit their music to an established category such as pop rock, blues, folk rock, or country/western.
Individual tunes within their repertoire could be identified under one of these stylistic labels, but overall their music drew on all of these genres and more, frequently melding several of them.
It was doubtless with this in mind that Bill Graham said of the Grateful Dead, “They’re not the best at what they do, they’re the only ones that do what they do.” Often (both in performance and on recording) the Dead left room for exploratory, spacey soundscapes.

Grateful Dead Live at Springfield Civic Center on 1974-06-30 (June 30, 1974)

1 tuning 02:11
2 Don’t Ease Me In 04:30
3 Black Throated Wind 07:48
4 Peggy-O 06:42
5 Jack Straw 05:55
6 Loser 06:53
7 Greatest Story Ever Told 06:32
8 Cumberland Blues 07:40
9 Dire Wolf 07:32
10 Playin’ In The Band> 18:32
11 Uncle John’s Band> 12:02
12 Playin’ In The Band 03:00
13 Phil & Ned Lagin – Seastones 20:23
14 tuning 01:19
15 China Cat Sunflower> 11:02
16 I Know You Rider 07:12
17 Big River 07:01
18 Scarlet Begonias 09:15
19 El Paso 04:11
20 US Blues> 05:31
21 Truckin’> 12:19
22 Eyes Of The World> 24:40
23 Stella Blue 09:15
24 Not Fade Away> 10:06
25 Goin’ Down The Road Feelin’ Bad> 07:30
26 One More Saturday Night 09:20

Grateful Dead Live at Seattle Center Arena on 1973

seaboot — Tue, 24 Aug 2010 03:55:49 +0000

The Grateful Dead formed during the era when bands like The Beatles and The Rolling Stones were dominating the airwaves. “The Beatles were why we turned from a jug band into a rock ‘n’ roll band,” said Bob Weir. “What we saw them doing was impossibly attractive. I couldn’t think of anything else more worth doing” Former folk-scene star Bob Dylan had recently put out a couple of records featuring electric instrumentation.

Grateful Dead Live at Seattle Center Arena on 1973-06-26 (June 26, 1973)

1 Casey Jones -\> 06:23
2 Greatest Story Ever Told 05:20
3 Brown Eyed Women 06:31
4 Jack Straw 05:08
5 Box Of Rain 05:13
6 Deal 04:21
7 Mexicali Blues 03:34
8 You Ain\’t Woman Enough 04:06
9 Row Jimmy 09:21
10 The Race Is On 03:23
11 China Cat Sunflower -\> 08:15
12 I Know You Rider 05:38
13 Beat It On Down The Line 03:26
14 Loser 05:09
15 Playing In The Band 15:56
16 Bertha -\> 06:03
17 Promised Land 03:15
18 They Love Each Other 05:39
19 El Paso 04:31
20 Black Peter 09:26
21 Big River 04:42
22 Here Comes Sunshine 12:12
23 Me And My Uncle 03:25
24 He\’s Gone -\> 14:08
25 Truckin\’ -\> 09:18
26 Drums -\> 01:47
27 The Other One -\> 06:40
28 Me And Bobby McGee -\> 05:31
29 The Other One -\> 10:05
30 Space -\> 08:20
31 Sugar Magnolia 10:00
32 Johnny B. Goode 04:2

Grateful Dead Live at Roosevelt Stadium – 1972

seaboot — Tue, 24 Aug 2010 03:55:19 +0000

Grateful Dead members have said that it was after attending a concert by the touring New York City band The Lovin’ Spoonful that they decided to “go electric” and look for a dirtier sound. Gradually, many of the East-Coast American folk musicians, formerly luminaries of the coffee-house scene, were moving in the electric direction.

It was natural for Jerry Garcia and Bob Weir, each of whom had been immersed in the American folk music revival of the late 1950s and early ’60s, to be open-minded toward electric guitars. But the new Dead music was also naturally different from bands like Dylan’s or the Spoonful, partly because their fellow musician Phil Lesh came out of a schooled classical and electronic music background, while Pigpen was a no-nonsense deep blues lover and drummer Bill Kreutzmann had a jazz and R&B background.

For comparison purposes, their first LP (The Grateful Dead, Warner Brothers, 1967), was released in the same year that Pink Floyd released The Piper at the Gates of Dawn and The Beatles released Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band.

Grateful Dead Live at Roosevelt Stadium on 1972-07-18 (July 18, 1972)

1 Bertha 06:11
2 Me And My Uncle 03:10
3 Bird Song 09:10
4 The Promised Land 03:18
5 Sugaree 07:30
6 Black Throated Wind 05:59
7 China Cat Sunflower -> 07:05
8 I Know You Rider 05:55
9 Jack Straw 05:03
10 Loser 06:36
11 Beat It On Down The Line 03:35
12 Stella Blue 07:42
13 El Paso 04:54
14 Casey Jones 06:41
15 Playing In The Band -> 14:48
16 Brown Eyed Women 04:34
17 Tennessee Jed 07:47
18 Tuning 03:25
19 Truckin’ -> 13:32
20 Dark Star -> 27:12
21 Comes A Time 06:44
22 Sugar Magnolia 08:22
23 Tuning 01:10
24 Ramble On Rose 07:16
25 Greatest STory Ever Told 05:28
26 Mississippi Half-Step Uptown Toodeloo -> 06:39
27 Sing Me Back Home 09:05
28 Not Fade Away -> 05:32
29 Goin’ Down The Road Feeling Bad -> 07:27
30 Not Fade Away 03:17

Grateful Dead Live at Fillmore East – 1971

seaboot — Sun, 25 Jul 2010 06:53:52 +0000

The name Grateful Dead was chosen from a dictionary. According to Phil Lesh, in his biography “…Jer[ry Garcia] picked up an old Britannica World Language Dictionary…[and]…In that silvery elf-voice he said to me, ‘Hey, man, how about the Grateful Dead?’” The definition there was “the soul of a dead person, or his angel, showing gratitude to someone who, as an act of charity, arranged their burial.” According to Alan Trist, director of the Grateful Dead’s music publisher company Ice Nine, Garcia found the name in the Funk & Wagnalls Folklore Dictionary, when his finger landed on that phrase while playing a game of “dictionary”. In the Garcia biography, Captain Trips, author Sandy Troy states that the band was smoking the psychedelic DMT at the time.

Grateful Dead Live at Fillmore East on 1971-04-29 (April 29, 1971)

1 Truckin’ 08:13
2 Bertha// 00:23
3 It Hurts Me Too 06:19
4 Loser 06:52
5 Dark Hollow 02:54
6 Hard To Handle 08:39
7 Ripple 04:42
8 Me And Bobby McGee 05:52
9 Casey Jones// 04:06
10 Morning Dew 09:35
11 New Mingle//wood Blues 03:05
12 Sugar Magnolia 06:32
13 Black Peter 09:00
14 Beat It On Down The Line 03:15
15 I Second That Emotion 05:07
16 Alligator [3:39] > 03:39
17 Dr//ums [0:51] > 00:50
18 Jam [9:13] > 09:13
19 Goin’ Down The Road Feeling Bad [4:59] > 04:59
20 Cold Rain And Snow 05:24
21 China Cat Sunflower [4:59] > 04:59
22 I Know You Rider 04:55
23 Greatest Story Ever Told [2:47] > 02:47
24 Johnny B.//Goode 04:12
25 Uncle John’s Band 06:19
26 In The Midnight Hour [9:21] > 09:21
27 And We Bid You Good Night 04:41

Grateful Dead Live at Merramec Community College – 1970

seaboot — Thu, 22 Jul 2010 23:37:46 +0000

The charter members of the Grateful Dead were: banjo and guitar player Jerry Garcia, guitarist Bob Weir, bluesman organist Ron “Pigpen” McKernan, the classically trained bassist Phil Lesh and drummer Bill Kreutzmann (who then used the stage name Bill Sommers.) Lesh was the last member to join the Warlocks before they became the Grateful Dead: he replaced Dana Morgan Jr. who had played bass for a few gigs. With the exception of McKernan, the core of the band stayed together for 30 years, until Garcia’s death in 1995.

Grateful Dead Live at Merramec Community College on 1970-05-14 (May 14, 1970)

1 Don’t Ease Me In 04:12
2 Friend Of The Devil 04:05
3 Deep Elem Blues 06:11
4 Silver Threads & Golden Needles 03:46
5 Candyman 05:55
6 Casey Jones 04:56
7 China Cat Sunflower–> 04:57
8 I Know You Rider 04:24
9 Mama Tried–> 02:28
10 High Time 06:53
11 Good Lovin’ 12:15
12 Good Morning, Little Schoolgirl 10:57
13 Me & My Uncle 03:27
14 Cold Rain & Snow 06:16
15 Attics Of My Life* 05:23
16 Cumberland Blues 04:19
17 New Speedway Boogie–> 06:09
18 Nobody’s Fault But Mine Jam–>* 01:50
19 New Speedway Boogie–> 01:12
20 St. Stephen–> 06:30
21 Not Fade Away–> 06:46
22 Lovelight 17:27

Grateful Dead Live at Springer’s Inn – 1969

seaboot — Thu, 22 Jul 2010 23:17:09 +0000

The Grateful Dead began their career as The Warlocks, a group formed in early 1964 from the remnants of a Palo Alto jug band called Mother McCree’s Uptown Jug Champions.

Grateful Dead Live at Springer’s Inn on 1969-05-30 (May 30, 1969)

1 Morning Dew 09:45
2 Me And My Uncle 03:00
3 Doin’ That Rag 08:14
4 I’m A King Bee 09:02
5 Dark Star -> 17:03
6 Cosmic Charlie 06:17
7 St. Stephen -> 09:12
8 The Eleven -> 12:33
9 Turn On Your Lovelight 17:33

Grateful Dead Live at Eagles Auditorium – 1968

seaboot — Thu, 22 Jul 2010 23:02:42 +0000

The Grateful Dead’s musical influences varied widely; in concert recordings or on record albums one can hear psychedelic rock, blues, rock and roll, country-western, bluegrass, country-rock, and improvisational jazz. These various influences were distilled into a diverse and psychedelic whole that made the Grateful Dead “the pioneering Godfathers of the jam band world.” They were ranked 55th in the issue The Greatest Artists of all Time by Rolling Stone magazine.

Grateful Dead Live at Eagles Auditorium on 1968-01-22 (January 22, 1968)

1 Alligator 15:54
2 That’s It For The Other One -> 07:21
3 New Potato Caboose -> 07:54
4 Born Cross-Eyed -> 01:40
5 Feedback -> 03:02
6 Spanish Jam -> 10:04
7 Dark Star -> 05:40
8 China Cat Sunflower -> 04:08
9 The Eleven -> 06:32
10 Caution (Do Not Stop On Tracks) -> 05:02
11 Feedback -> 04:38
12 And We Bid You Good Night 01:25

Grateful Dead Live at Avalon Ballroom – 1967

seaboot — Thu, 22 Jul 2010 22:40:53 +0000

The fans of the Grateful Dead, some of whom followed the band from concert to concert for years, are known as “Deadheads” and are known for their dedication to the band’s music.[1][4] Many referred to the band simply as “the Dead”. As of 2003, the remaining band members have toured under the name “The Dead.” Remaining band members Bob Weir and Phil Lesh formed “Furthur” in 2009. Drummer Bill Kreutzmann formed 7 Walkers with Malcolm “Papa Mali” Welbourne in 2009.

Grateful Dead Live at Avalon Ballroom on 1967-01-27 (January 27, 1967)

1 Viola Lee Blues 19:09
2 Morning Dew 06:24
3 Cold Rain And Snow 02:44
4 New Potato Caboose 16:59
5 Alligator > 04:09
6 Caution (Do Not Stop on Tracks) 11:33
7 Good Morning Little School Girl 08:03

Grateful Dead Live at Various venues – 1966

seaboot — Wed, 21 Jul 2010 08:12:14 +0000

The Grateful Dead was an American rock band formed in 1965 in the San Francisco Bay Area.The band is known for its unique and eclectic style, which fused elements of rock, folk, bluegrass, blues, reggae, country, jazz, psychedelia, and space rock and for live performances of long musical improvisation. “Their music,” writes Lenny Kaye, “touches on ground that most other groups don’t even know exists.”

Grateful Dead Live at Various venues – 1966-00-00 (1966)

1 Viola Lee Blues 10:35
2 Don’t Ease Me In 02:19
3 Tastebud 05:45
4 Beat It On Down The Line 02:48
5 Schoolgirl>You Don’t Love Me>Schoolgirl (original reel cuts) 20:46
6 Pigpen Raps 06:14
7 Billy, Bobby, and Pigpen> 01:29
8 New Orleans (sort of an attempt) 03:35
9 Twist and Shout 08:08
10 It’s A Sin 01:42
11 Viola Lee Blues 07:18
12 Midnight Hour 12:57
13 Beat It On Down The Line 03:56
14 Blues Jam (with Jorma and Jack) 07:42
15 You Don’t Have To Ask – Phil Talks About The Move To L.A. 02:37
16 Viola Lee Blues 06:36
17 I Know You Rider 02:45
18 Midnight Hour (plug pulled) 01:22