Grateful Dead

DummyBearsI've been listening to lots of their music in bits and pieces over the last couple of months more then I normally do by a lot. I'm currently in the process of listening straight through to the entire Europe 72' Tour concert by concert in order. What are some of the best dead songs from that tour or in general you guys like to listen to. I have been absolutely fascinated by their music and everything surrounding them, any other dead heads out there.

Max.broEurope ‘72 volume 11, uncle John’s band. Holy fuck that’s the best dead song I’ve ever heard. Concert wise I’d go for 3/29/89, they had famous saxophone player Branford Marsalis play and they had a killer performance of eyes of the world, they also performed we can run which is a pretty Lowkey dead song that in my opinion deserved way more recognition, brent’s voice had a lot of soul up until his early passing

Max.broEurope ‘72 volume 11, uncle John’s band. Holy fuck that’s the best dead song I’ve ever heard. Concert wise I’d go for 3/29/89, they had famous saxophone player Branford Marsalis play and they had a killer performance of eyes of the world, they also performed we can run which is a pretty Lowkey dead song that in my opinion deserved way more recognition, brent’s voice had a lot of soul up until his early passing

Max.broAnother cool thing about volume 11 is that’s the concert where the sugar mag cover is on the official Europe ‘72 album, they played an awesome dark star right before it then got the crowd mad excited by playing in my opinion one of the most vibrant sugar magnolias out there

theabortionatorBest is subjective and your tastes will probably change. The song that you get into most at first might not be your favorites later.

My favorite song will forever be brokedown palace.


But sort of all depends on what youre in the mood for. So much stuff.

Also a big fan of traveling mccouries cover of loser.

Althea, bertha, cold rain and snow, franklins tower, brown eyed women, sugaree.

Idk hard to pick favorites.

ThaLoraxFrom Europe, I'm a big fan of the setlists from the London nights.


Missoula '74 is one of my favorite shows:
https://www.newschoolers.com/videos/watch/1004088/Grateful-Dead---5-14-1974---Harry-Adams-Field-House--University-of-Montana---Missoula--MT

ThaLoraxBob lives in my hometown. I used to see him all the time (I've served him gelato a bunch haha). He and Phil are both such nice guys, and the food at Phil's venue is so good. Love his venue. Getting out of a show there, and walking 15 feet to seeing another show at the bar is tons of fun. Plus, the musicians will often hang out with the crowd there.

DummyBearsDarks star is one of my favorites especially the crazy guitar parts the make it sound ridiculous it's so long i sometimes have trouble focusing or distinguishing between the different versions because each one is such an experience but I'm definitely gonna pay close stop that one

Max.broThat’s facts, if you ever get the chance listen to “Pacific Northwest ‘73-‘74 believe it if you need it” playing in the band, it’s like 40 minutes straight and i listened to it with earbuds on a long drive back home from skiing and I swear it felt like I was tripping on a light dose of dmt lmao. Also I was the same with their later concerts and I’m deffo not 100% a fan of the Keith Godchaux era I mean it just doesn’t feel as vibe-ey, same with the early stages of Brent but up in their later concerts like spring 1990 and most specifically 7/7/89 are so good, i just can’t listen after ‘93 because that’s all when Jerry started to really go off the deep end. But regardless I think 7/7/89’s iko is the best iko ever recorded

CrunnchyVanManMorning dew from Europe 72 is amazing


Fire on the mountain from Cornell is prob my favorite though

CrunnchyVanManalso workingman's dead and American beauty are top notch albums

Max.broMorning dew is super underrated a lot of people hate it I’m not sure why, I’m not a fan of the original ‘67 studio version of it though lmao

DummyBearsThe songs on the albums are good ones but I would rather listen to live recordings every time.

CrunnchyVanManMorning dew from Europe 72 is amazing


Fire on the mountain from Cornell is prob my favorite though

CrunnchyVanManword, the lives are almost always better. its kind of a different song than most of their other stuff, its lyrically sad in its own way and doesn't really have the same upbeat jammies of most of the rest of their songs. idk I think its just a super beautiful song

BigPurpleSkiSuitLive at Barton Hall is still my favorite dead stuff. Recently our local bluegrass band, the pickpockets has been playing some fire renditions of Shakedown Street, Scarlet Begonias, and Fire on the Mountain that get everyone moving.

TomWallnussBarton Hall is for sure the best scarlet>fire, '77 was a great year all around, second best after '89 overall imo

DolansLebensraumI never really understood the attraction to this type of jam band jazz type shit.

i dont see how some melody or sound you come up with as you are playing it can possibly be as good as a melody that is deliberately thought out and perfected.

idk. The gd do sound pretty original tho.

SFBv420.0i wouldnt consider myself a dead head but managed to catch 7 or 8 shows in the late 80's and 90's
back in the late 80s they used to do 3/4 day shows in the bfwisco thats east troy aka alpine valley and allow the full deadhead camp party sell/barter whatever freak fest go down in the lots
So it was as much about the scene as the individual shows
It was pretty easy to scale or boost people over the perimeter fence in a few places and they were always short security staff so
10 would try and only 3 or 4 would git caught escorted out to go back around to try again
by the final night theyed just give up and peeps would send full coolers over
back then they were doin 150+ shows a year in those days so they had it down tight most nights and its a kick ass venue
some good times and drug hazed memories
that sadly ended
They moved it to a chicago suburban outdoor theater for a couple nights after that ended bout 90 and the deadheads were wandering the rich folks subdivisions back yards takin moochin water faucets and takin ghetto showers and freakin out the locals
after that it was soliders field
caught the show there 92 with steve miller and
in 94 year before jerry died
definately showing his age by then and an off night for him
Traffic opened and fuckin slayed it though

SFBv420.0i wouldnt consider myself a dead head but managed to catch 7 or 8 shows in the late 80's and 90's
back in the late 80s they used to do 3/4 day shows in the bfwisco thats east troy aka alpine valley and allow the full deadhead camp party sell/barter whatever freak fest go down in the lots
So it was as much about the scene as the individual shows
It was pretty easy to scale or boost people over the perimeter fence in a few places and they were always short security staff so
10 would try and only 3 or 4 would git caught escorted out to go back around to try again
by the final night theyed just give up and peeps would send full coolers over
back then they were doin 150+ shows a year in those days so they had it down tight most nights and its a kick ass venue
some good times and drug hazed memories
that sadly ended
They moved it to a chicago suburban outdoor theater for a couple nights after that ended bout 90 and the deadheads were wandering the rich folks subdivisions back yards takin moochin water faucets and takin ghetto showers and freakin out the locals
after that it was soliders field
caught the show there 92 with steve miller and
in 94 year before jerry died
definately showing his age by then and an off night for him
Traffic opened and fuckin slayed it though

SFBv420.0i wouldnt consider myself a dead head but managed to catch 7 or 8 shows in the late 80's and 90's
back in the late 80s they used to do 3/4 day shows in the bfwisco thats east troy aka alpine valley and allow the full deadhead camp party sell/barter whatever freak fest go down in the lots
So it was as much about the scene as the individual shows
It was pretty easy to scale or boost people over the perimeter fence in a few places and they were always short security staff so
10 would try and only 3 or 4 would git caught escorted out to go back around to try again
by the final night theyed just give up and peeps would send full coolers over
back then they were doin 150+ shows a year in those days so they had it down tight most nights and its a kick ass venue
some good times and drug hazed memories
that sadly ended
They moved it to a chicago suburban outdoor theater for a couple nights after that ended bout 90 and the deadheads were wandering the rich folks subdivisions back yards takin moochin water faucets and takin ghetto showers and freakin out the locals
after that it was soliders field
caught the show there 92 with steve miller and
in 94 year before jerry died
definately showing his age by then and an off night for him
Traffic opened and fuckin slayed it though

DummyBearsWe need more of this anyone with stories please share them.

DummyBearsWe need more of this anyone with stories please share them.

DolansLebensraumI never really understood the attraction to this type of jam band jazz type shit.

i dont see how some melody or sound you come up with as you are playing it can possibly be as good as a melody that is deliberately thought out and perfected.

idk. The gd do sound pretty original tho.

ThaLoraxI've served Bob, Monet and Chloe Gelato multiple times. Does that count? 🤣

skiP.E.I.Great candidate for a video part/edit song.

https://www.newschoolers.com/videos/watch/1007176/Grateful-Dead---Fire-On-The-Mountain--Studio-Version-

BigPurpleSkiSuitTGR already kind of blew it out of the water by making this whole movie


https://www.newschoolers.com/videos/watch/1005333/Fire-On-The-Mountain---Official-Grateful-Dead---Chris-Benchetler-Film

skiP.E.I.I see your point but does TGR really count? I don't think I've ever watched a whole TGR movie.

DummyBearsAnyone that has more stories encountering any of the members that wants to share would be interesting.