Your best bet for getting into the early, psychedelic Dead.ĭick’s Picks Volume 4 - Highlights from a pair of shows from February 1970, this is a good blend of their earlier psychedelic sound with some of the more country and folk based music that would soon make up Workingman’s Dead. Live/Dead - The original classic 1969 live album, filled to the brim with A+ jams. Here are his recommendations for getting started started, presented chronologically by recording date (with Amazon affiliate links): The final scene of Freaks and Geeks, where Lindsay sneaks off to follow the Grateful Dead on tour that makes heavy use of “Ripple,” is available on YouTube here.Īt the end of the episode, Phil promised a brief rundown of getting into live Dead recordings, since they have so many that it’s nearly impossible to know where to start.
WARNING: While historically significant, it’s a pretty bad show, so don’t start your live Dead journey here.
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You can hear the complete live version of “Box Of Rain” that served as the final encore of the final Dead show we mentioned at the Internet Archive here. The word “Beauty” on the cover of this album is written in a font that can be read ambiguously - depending on how you look at it, the title can also be read as “American Reality”. Short on jams and long on great songs and fantastic harmony vocals, American Beauty is a folk-and-country tinged masterpiece and is a wonderful entry point for beginning your voyage into the world of the Grateful Dead. While the group is perhaps best known for their marathon live sets and endless catalog of concert recordings, Phil decided to focus on 1970’s American Beauty - the album generally considered to be the band’s best studio LP.
Well, Phil isn’t a stoner at all, and he’s here to tell you all about why the Grateful Dead are great.
The Grateful Dead are such a ubiquitous cultural institution that many people don’t engage with their music - it’s frequently written off as slow, lazy music for stoners.
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