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I’ve followed the band since ‘72, and there’s truly no other like them. You could spend months exploring the catalog of studio albums and recordings of their live shows, which is where the magic was made. The greatest jam band provided the soundtrack for a community celebration that followed them wherever they played. Start with the early, Primordial Dead ‘65-‘72, the Pigpen Era. Skull & Roses & Europe ‘72 are favorites. Then check out ‘77-‘78, and the many Dick’s Picks or Dave’s Picks, taking you from the Keith Godchaux & Brent Mydland eras on keyboards. My fav is Dick’s Pick 18 from the Unidome in ‘78, a show I attended. The music never stopped, so enjoy it all. ✌️❤️🎶
The Dead are not my favorite band, but the older I get the more I appreciate them. They are a quintessential American band. Blues, Jazz, Folk, Bluegrass, Country....its ALL in there. ✌🏼
The last few videos your commentary volume is too low compared to the music. Hard to hear what you're saying. Otherwise, great job! Good song selections lately and sincere reactions. Keep it up.
8:16 You are getting a selection of songs that are upbeat and positive, and this was their closest thing to a pop hit when they were young. The Grateful Dead sang about everything in life and most of their songs touched on tragedy. They had many dark, slow, haunting and beautiful tunes, starting with Black Peter, Bird Song, Wharf Rat, Dark Star, China Doll. Keep going down the path. They also have a lot of proto-rap like Bobby on Truckin' here, you should hear Jerry spitting truth on New Speedway Boogie.
My parents took me and my brother to our first Dead show back in 1969 in Golden Gate Park in SF. It was a free show with Jefferson Airplane playing as well. It was Grace Slick who invited my mom to come to the show. Little did my parents know they were handing out free acid at the show. I mostly remember my mom telling me over and over not to put anything in my mouth or to take anything from a stranger. We saw them many more times over the years. I think the last for me was in 1986 in Park City Ut.
My hubs was a long time Dead Head. He roadied a couple of summers during college for them in the Pacific Northwest. He always said they were a Live Band (better than recorded). But he also said it was the biggest party with the best drugs etc....lol!
My late-husband bought me my 1991 Toyota 4 Runner in '93 with about 37,000 miles on it. I lost that 4-Runner in 2007 from a blown head gasket, 2 years after my husband died. The truck died 250 miles short of 250,000 miles, and a lot of those miles were driving to Grateful Dead shows. So many memories in that truck! I was absolutely devastated. I left it at my mechanics and had one last cigarette listening to Goin Down the Road Feelin Bad and crying my eyes out. Every time I hear you mention your 4-Runner I think back fondly and sadly about mine. I wish you many good miles in your truck, Polo!
Do you all still cheer when they say "What a long strange trip its been" like you are at the show? so many good GD songs...hard to choose. I love love love Scarlett Begonias, China Cat Sunflower, Jack Straw, Saint of Circumstance, Estimated Prophet, Cold Rain and Snow and a rockin' Cumberland Blues brings me joy....sigh. Like them all lol.
Grateful Dead had a huge following. I was always a fan of Little Feat during the Lowell George years. Little Feat is still good, but during the Lowell George years, they were great. Lowell George died much too young. Try “Fat Man In The Bathtub”
I just listened to Little Feat's "Waiting for Columbus" album yesterday - there are so many great tunes that I'd want Polo to react to, knowing how he likes horns. "Spanish Moon" jumped out at me, with the Tower of Power Horns. But "Mercenary Territory", "Time Loves a Hero"... I could list the whole album.
Love that you're here listening to the dead been a dead head since I was 13 or so, 46 now😊 There was nothing quite like a live dead show😂 They are the reason I love such a diverse array of music❤❤
Aww your nice review is lovely! Thank you for having an open mind to music. I wish the band was still around because the experience is just amazing! Peace and love.
The Dead loved playing. They were known to keep ad-libbing and improvising the night away. I went to a concert in Iowa City and they didn't stop playing until 2:30 am.
It is but it’s not instantly accessible to everyone, this is a good introduction as are studio versions of candy man, st Stephen broke down palace etc. nice primer
@@LSD19966 I didn’t mean accessibility relating to finding it I am referring to accessibility relating to enjoying it like us seasoned deadheads with 40 years of experience with them. The live stuff is great for us but it takes time to digest the dead.
Ah...got it..and I agree that live tracks can take getting accustomed to as opposed to the watered down engineered studio tracks, especially if you hear the wrong one. His Shakedown reaction is a prime example, which was a dog version, imo, compared to Merriweather 85 or NYE 84
"I'd like to get some sleep before I travel but if you got a warrant I guess you're gonna come in" hilarious. "Ripple" is another amazing song from the Dead. Another note, the Grateful Dead typically ran 2 drummers and sounded fantastic. I can't imagine how you blend two drummers into a band. Glad you like them.
Originally this song was going to keep building with each new experience they had on the road. Robert had a few more verses, but The Dead never added them in. At least from what I have heard so far. Also saw Dead and Co this year, 3 days of camping, and it felt like a huge community of nearly 30,000 people. "You need more food, have some of ours" "thirsty? Here you go."
I feel like you would really dig “Fire on the Mountain” which of course is paired with “Scarlet Begonias”. Known as “Scarlet >Fire”. I humbly recommend the famous 5/9/77 version from Cornell University.
Was fortunate enough to see them in 92 and 93 at Buckeye Lake in Ohio. I was 18/19. Extreme life changing experience. Went to see Dead and Company in 18 and it just wasn't the same. Glad I got to experience it with the full band. RIP Jerry.
@@friendsofthefeather I was there I think in 93. IT rained hard on the way down from Michigan and I left my motorcycle in someone's garage and rode in my friend's car. Wasn't until the exit ramp that I found out I was the only one in the group with a ticket, they were just there for the party at the campground. I sold my ticket and partied hard...LOL
Yeah - there's a big part of the Dead that's just about having fun. They also did some of the best sad music I've ever heard, so they're quite varied in their moods and styles - probably more variation than just about any other band. I think the message of this song is just how hard they worked, how much of a cost it was travelling across America touring continually, and how they were sick and tired of harassment from police and authorities for just living their lives and doing what they did, travelling around and entertaining people.
I have been watching so many channels listening to my music and I am so thrilled that you kids (way younger than me) are listening to and enjoying our "OLD" music.
I hear this song, I always think back to an interview that Bill Walton, center for the Celtics at the time, gave, he was asked what he thought about Houston (as in The Rockets), he responded with "too close to New Orleans", Deadhead
POLO... tech suggestion. Put your commentary on both channels. Whenever you / Polo speaks, I cannot hear you / him (sound goes on pause). I lost the speaker out of my left side of my headphones, so I cannot hear Polo. I only hear the song, in which case, there is no reason to watch the reaction.
The Deads response to prog is a song called Terrapin Station off the Terrapin Station album. There is a live version out there that has a drum section while on the album its an orchestration section that is brilliant. 🙏🍁
We are friendly, Dude!! You’d be hard pressed to find a band with more chilled out fans, for the most part. There are a plethora of songs, live & album tracks, to check out. You’re in for a long, strange trip, my friend. ✌🏼
Greatful dead had such a wide range of lovers of their music 🎶. Not just hippie folk , my bf at the time was /still is critical care ICU doctor, lol . He go to ER on call with his hair in pony tail , pierced ear and a tye dye shirt on to put central IV lines , run a code blue intubate patients tranf them to ICUs, then go home and jam out to greatful dead
More dead… though I agree with most here that live is better, nothing wrong with dipping a toe in the water with some of the listener friendly studio songs first
This is one of my FAV DEAD SONGS!!! SO GLAD you listened to this one!! Can't BEAT that INTRO!! LOVE the vocals in this one and the overall VIBE of the song!! BASE LINE KICKS TAIL!!! Gives the whole song a very FLUID sound!!! HUGS!! ❤
How about China Cat Sunflower/I know you Ryder from Winterland 12/29/77? This may be a long strange trip but so worth your effort, especially seeing what you like up to this point with you reactions. Take a ride, I'd bet you a cookie that you'll love it the rest of your days.
The song mentions their bust in their New Orleans hotel. You might want to sample "Black Muddy River", "Brokedown Palace" or "Box of Rain" which are songs about death and dying since there is so much of it around us these days I love your reactions to the Dead.
This was the first song I ever heard by the Grateful Dead. It was the late 80's and I was in high school. The music was coming out of my brother's room. I went in to see what it was. I had to find out what that beautiful sound was. It literally changed my life. ✌️ & ❤️, baby!
At the time of this recording, there were six band members: Jerry Garcia lead guitar and vocals Bob Weir rhythm guitar and vocals Phil Lesh bass guitar and vocals Bill Kreutzmann drums Mickey Hart drums Ron "Pigpen" McKernan organ, harmonica and vocals
@@harlanginsberg7269 I just looked on my album, and it was indeed Howard Wales on the organ, but Pigpen is credited as the harmonica player. My list was of the band members at the time, I didn't look at the album credits until you mentioned it.
@@JB-Deadskins That may be. My check of Wikipedia said not but who knows. The only reason I checked was I was almost positive that wasn't Pigpen on organ. I just wasn't sure whether it was Wales or Constanten
This is 2nd time in 2 days (both times on your channel) I've heard an old song with fresh ears. I remember hearing this song on the radio in the background, back in the day. I remember it but I didnt really LISTEN. What an awesome song. Thank you. ❤
Met Bob Weir in central park in the early 1980’s, He was leaning against the bench stretching before going for a run. Wound up running about 8 miles with him. Afterwards, he thanked me for taking him around the park and left me four tickets at the box office to see the dead at Radio city music hall the next evening!
Jerry Garcia, front man, played guitar& vocals! Also, wrote ALOT of those music! FYI-THEY SAY(??) He was on "acid/LSD" JUST ABOUT EVERY SINGLE DAY! ALSO, alot of the Bands in the 60''s did quite a bit of heroin! I think that's why a good option of the music back then was Soo amazing!!!
Saw them in the 70's-- (Bay Area) Driving down the freeway exit, could see a parking lot with 100's of psychedelic colored buses & RV's--- with the welcoming aroma of cannabis we could smell from the off-ramp! 🤑 (Wasn't legal, shh) Colorfully dressed people dancing before it started. Audience members passing joints down their rows...😎
I am 67. 1st Dead show was Golden Gate Park. I was 12 years old and wandered away from family picnic. The music was in the bandstand between De Young and Stienhardt. Amazing and never heard anything like it. But, I was jamming till my Dad found me. Welcome to the Tribe! Nothing like Live Dead though. Listen to Dick's Pick's Cow Palace. 1974. I was at that one. The "wall of sound" era. Mind blowing acoustics. "Brown Eyed Women" is a gem. Again. Welcome Home!
working Yer way to the ' real' Dead - which is NOT Shakedown street.... the 10 - 20 minute live songs. Utube - Morning Dew. ( from an out there movie ' on the beach' song by Canadian folkie B.Dobson..) China Cat. also U tube. or the true mood music of Dark Star.
Dont get it twisted bruh. Its more like: OK Polo, lets see what you got! Havnt even gotten farther than that and i know you were NOT READY for this particular musical journey... Youre so prideful right now...youre gettin on the bus...we all know it, right guys?
Gotta echo all the people saying you have to check them out live. I’d recommend listening to Scarlet Begonias and Fire on the Mountain (both studio versions), then check out the two of them back to back from the Cornell 5/8/77 show. Absolutely amazing.
I would like to hear your reaction to the Grateful Dead song, "Throwin' Stones". Written in the 1980s its message is very appropriate to what's happening in the world today, as well as tomorrow.
Please listen to Terrapin Station!!!!! Before one of the final shows I had been to, I would have said that China Cat Sunflower was probably my favorite GD song, however, after the show when my brother and I were discussing… I mentioned how Terrapin Station was my favorite of the show that night, which made me realize, whenever Terrapin Station is played it’s always my favorite of the show… so maybe terrapin is actually my favorite GD song 🤔 Will you rise, fall, or climb, to get to Terrapin? Love the vids❤!
Yo Polo my man... you love the LIVE experience so take it from a heady tour veteran with 238 shows (with Jerry Garcia) under my belt. When it comes to the Grateful Dead... only do live reactions. Listening to the dead in the studio is fine but most true fans don't buy the studio records... we have hundreds of live shows in our collection. Some are the shows we saw and loved, others we saw and don't remember so well. 😂 I do like this recording of Truckin' but I even enjoy live versions that Weir can't remember the lyrics. He knows all 174 verses of Desolation Row, but homefries the original. Classic. Keep up the good vibes my dude. I enjoy your channel. It's a beautiful thing to see a grown ass man discovery of the tunes I grew up with! What a time to be alive!
It's a hippy hip hop song. The Grateful Dead, the unheralded founders of rap music. Who knew.😆 Not really of course, but the cadence is definitely comparable in some ways. Most Deadheads, as you can see in many comments, are nuts about their live performances. While I love some of those also, I love their studio albums just as much. The studio releases were mainly all I had access too when I first discovered their music in the early 70s, so that's what I listened to. With one exception, which was the Europe 72 album. Which is one of my favorite albums by them. They have some great music. Keep checking them out, the studio and live songs. You'll enjoy it.
Yo Polo Love your reactions and perspective- I have been listening to the Dead for 35 years. It is real music. I could not make out all the lyrics at first - but once I could it blue me away. The pure musicianship, and the interaction of the band. They can take a song out and bring it back so eloquently- You are right about the positivity - they are the best Vibing group that was . No time to hate. Massive song catalog- I would suggest “Mississippi half step uptown toodeloo “ really pure americana- great melody and feeling. Great posi vibe - very relatable. Also Friend of the Devil! Keep Rockin’
I didn't appreciate them when they were in their heyday in the 60's and 70's. I got to like them in the 90'sand on. I always got the impression they just loved playing their music and having fun and doing some drugs along the way. You hear thing different in your late 70's than in your 20's.
