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Let's all kick back and watch Jerry, Brent and Bobby trade verses on Death Don't Have No Mercy during the "Formerly Known As The Warlocks" show in Hampton in 1989.



And here's my first Dead show ever, July 4th 1986 at Rich Stadium in Buffalo. If you look over Jerry's shoulder at the 2:40 mark you can see the section my brother and I were sitting in. At least I was there when I wasn't dancing my ass off while mingling on the field.

Pigpen tears it up in this 1970 performance of Easy Wind.

BSmack wrote:Let's all kick back and watch Jerry, Brent and Bobby...

Let's not and say that we did.

Marty,

Maybe a little Birdsong to take the edge off?

the only dead song worth a shit is "fire on the mountain."

Jeezis...those dudes make MGMT look straight.

PSUFAN wrote:Jeezis...those dudes make MGMT look straight.

...but at least they're not AP.

BSmack wrote:Pigpen tears it up in this 1970 performance of Easy Wind.

i like Easy WInd. I also like a lot of the bluegrass, country and rock songs the Dead ripped off and made their fans think they were their own.

in college with a lot of new endland prep school kids, you try and tell some fly to the Meadowlands shows "going down the road (feeling bad)" was a Woody Guthrie or Leadbelly tune. naw, it's all JERRY!

morons.

King Crimson wrote:i like Easy WInd. I also like a lot of the bluegrass, country and rock songs the Dead ripped off and made their fans think they were their own.

in college with a lot of new endland prep school kids, you try and tell some fly to the Meadowlands shows "going down the road (feeling bad)" was a Woody Guthrie or Leadbelly tune. naw, it's all JERRY!

morons.

I ran into a few of "those" along the way. But most of the heads I've known were acutely aware of which songs were written by members of the band and which ones were covers. Then again, I spent a lot of time in the 80s and 90s with hardcore taper heads who had thousands of hours of shows between them.

Oh, and in keeping with the topic, here's Jerry and the Boy's doing Hell in a Bucket at Rochester's Silver Stadium. Somewhere in that teeming mass of humanity in front of the stage is a very young BSmack getting his dancing groove on. Ah the memories. :D

BSmack wrote:But most of the heads I've known were acutely aware of which songs were written by members of the band and which ones were covers.

Concur.

And when you get into the superhardcore Heads, they can often tell you which city said tunes were first performed in and whatsuch, and will tell you which other bands have done the same covers as the Dead.


Never confuse posers for Heads.

hell in a bucket is a fun Weir tune, but i'm not a Built to Last guy.

to me, and i've plenty of time high as whatever listening to classic boots in college and in Boulder inna day, i like the shit i grew up with in terms of Hank Williams and Willie or Woody or Dylan or oldies stuff or Traffic's Mr. Fantasy...like the Beatles more than the Prep School version of it pre-Phish in the early 90's. to me, no matter the old Haight shit i never heard live....that shit was not so great.

i like a lot of Weir's tunes. like easy wind.

King Crimson wrote:hell in a bucket is a fun Weir tune, but i'm not a Built to Last guy.

Not that's it's terribly germane, but Hell In A Bucket is In The Dark, not BtL... although they did that song live for at least 5 years before it appeared on a studio album.


But, gotta love --

There may come a day I will dance on your grave
But if unable to dance, I'll crawl

Dinsdale wrote:

King Crimson wrote:hell in a bucket is a fun Weir tune, but i'm not a Built to Last guy.

Not that's it's terribly germane, but Hell In A Bucket is In The Dark, not BtL... although they did that song live for at least 5 years before it appeared on a studio album.


But, gotta love --

There may come a day I will dance on your grave
But if unable to dance, I'll crawl

you are right Dins, In the Dark is that LP. I was wrong with BtL.

edit: i really like the studio stuff (I know you aren't supposed to)...insofar as Working Man's and American Beauty.

Here's my other favorite song from In The Dark, Tons of Steel. RIP Brent.

Here's something you don't see everyday. A full version of Terrapin Station on You Tube from Richfield, OH 3-14-93.

Can't claim to be a 'head, but do likes me some Bertha...



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