I am starting to expand my musical library. I am slowly picking up dead albums and such and would like y'alls opinion as to what the best Dick's Picks and Dead albums are.
my favorite studio album is american beauty and i really like there late 60s an early 70s live stuff. Check out Europe 72, but i dno really i dont liek the dead all that much
Pick up these for all the studio albums: Grateful Dead - The Golden Road Box Set $135.00 12 CD set with 15 1/2 hours of music, including 7 hours of previously unreleased material. Includes the Dead's nine Warner Bros. albums, digitally remastered in HDCD for superior quality. Contains a new 2-disc set, Birth of the Dead, featuring rare and previously unreleased recordings from the band's pre-Warner days. Includes a 100-page book chronicling the history of the Grateful Dead with rare photos, reproductions of memorabilia, a Grammy-nominated essay by longtime Grateful Dead publicist Dennis McNally and a completely updated discography. Birth Of The Dead Disc 1: The Studio Sides The Autumn Sessions 1 EARLY MORNING RAIN 2 I KNOW YOU RIDER 3 MINDBENDER (CONFUSION'S PRINCE) 4 THE ONLY TIME IS NOW 5 CAUTION (DO NOT STOP ON TRACKS) 6 CAN'T COME DOWN The Scorpio Sessions 7 STEALIN' (Instrumental) 8 STEALIN' (with Vocals) 9 DON'T EASE ME IN (Instrumental) 10 DON'T EASE ME IN (with Vocals) 11 YOU DON'T HAVE TO ASK 12 TASTEBUD (Instrumental) 13 TASTEBUD (with Vocals) 14 I KNOW YOU RIDER 15 COLD RAIN AND SNOW (Instrumental) 16 COLD RAIN AND SNOW (with Vocals) The Hendricks Session 17 FIRE IN THE CITY - Jon Hendricks Golden Road - DISC TWO Birth Of The Dead Disc 2: The Live Sides Various Live Performances 1 VIOLA LEE BLUES 2 DON'T EASE ME IN 3 PAIN IN MY HEART 4 SITTING ON TOP OF THE WORLD 5 IT'S ALL OVER NOW, BABY BLUE 6 I'M A KING BEE 7 BIG BOSS MAN 8 STANDING ON THE CORNER 9 IN THE PINES 10 NOBODY'S FAULT BUT MINE 11 NEXT TIME YOU SEE ME 12 ONE KIND FAVOR 13 HE WAS A FRIEND OF MINE 14 KEEP ROLLING BY Golden Road - DISC THREE The Grateful Dead 1 THE GOLDEN ROAD (TO UNLIMITED DEVOTION) 2 BEAT IT ON DOWN THE LINE 3 GOOD MORNING LITTLE SCHOOL GIRL (Full-Length Version) 4 COLD RAIN AND SNOW 5 SITTING ON TOP OF THE WORLD (Full-Length Version) 6 CREAM PUFF WAR (Full-Length Version) 7 MORNING DEW (Full-Length Version) 8 NEW, NEW MINGLEWOOD BLUES (Full-Length Version) 9 VIOLA LEE BLUES Bonus Material 10 ALICE D. MILLIONAIRE 11 OVERSEAS STOMP (THE LINDY HOP) 12 TASTEBUD 13 DEATH DON'T HAVE NO MERCY 14 VIOLA LEE BLUES (Edited Version) 15 VIOLA LEE BLUES (Live) Golden Road - DISC FOUR Anthem Of The Sun (C) 1 THAT'S IT FOR THE OTHER ONE I. CRYPTICAL ENVELOPMENT II. QUADLIBET FOR TENDER FEET III. THE FASTER WE GO, THE ROUNDER WE GET IV. WE LEAVE THE CASTLE 2 NEW POTATO CABOOSE 3 BORN CROSS-EYED 4 ALLIGATOR 5 CAUTION (DO NOT STOP ON TRACKS) Bonus Material 6 ALLIGATOR (Live) 7 CAUTION (DO NOT STOP ON TRACKS) (Live) 8 FEEDBACK (Live) Golden Road - DISC FIVE Aoxomoxoa (D) 1 ST. STEPHEN 2 DUPREE'S DIAMOND BLUES 3 ROSEMARY 4 DOIN' THAT RAG 5 MOUNTAINS OF THE MOON 6 CHINA CAT SUNFLOWER 7 WHAT'S BECOME OF THE BABY 8 COSMIC CHARLIE Bonus Material 9 CLEMENTINE JAM 10 NOBODY'S SPOONFUL JAM 11 THE ELEVEN JAM 12 COSMIC CHARLIE (Live) Golden Road - DISC SIX Live/Dead (E) 1 DARK STAR 2 ST. STEPHEN 3 THE ELEVEN 4 TURN ON YOUR LOVE LIGHT 5 DEATH DON'T HAVE NO MERCY 6 FEEDBACK 7 AND WE BID YOU GOODNIGHT Golden Road - DISC SEVEN Workingman's Dead (F) 1 UNCLE JOHN'S BAND 2 HIGH TIME 3 DIRE WOLF 4 NEW SPEEDWAY BOOGIE 5 CUMBERLAND BLUES 6 BLACK PETER 7 EASY WIND 8 CASEY JONES Bonus Material 9 NEW SPEEDWAY BOOGIE (Alternate Mix) 10 DIRE WOLF (Live) 11 BLACK PETER (Live) 12 EASY WIND (Live) 13 CUMBERLAND BLUES (Live) 14 MASON'S CHILDREN (Live) 15 UNCLE JOHN'S BAND (Live) Golden Road - DISC EIGHT American Beauty (G) 1 BOX OF RAIN 2 FRIEND OF THE DEVIL 3 SUGAR MAGNOLIA 4 OPERATOR 5 CANDYMAN 6 RIPPLE 7 BROKEDOWN PALACE 8 TILL THE MORNING COMES 9 ATTICS OF MY LIFE 10 TRUCKIN' Bonus Material 11 TRUCKIN' (Single Version) 12 FRIEND OF THE DEVIL (Live) 13 CANDYMAN (Live) 14 TILL THE MORNING COMES (Live) 15 ATTICS OF MY LIFE (Live) 16 TRUCKIN' (Live) Golden Road - DISC NINE Grateful Dead (H) 1 BERTHA 2 MAMA TRIED 3 BIG RAILROAD BLUES 4 PLAYING IN THE BAND 5 THE OTHER ONE 6 ME & MY UNCLE 7 BIG BOSS MAN 8 ME & BOBBY McGEE 9 JOHNNY B. GOODE 10 WHARF RAT 11 NOT FADE AWAY/GOIN' DOWN THE ROAD FEELING BAD Bonus Material 12 OH, BOY! 13 I'M A HOG FOR YOU Golden Road - DISC TEN Europe '72 (I) Disc 1 1 CUMBERLAND BLUES 2 HE'S GONE 3 ONE MORE SATURDAY NIGHT 4 JACK STRAW 5 YOU WIN AGAIN 6 CHINA CAT SUNFLOWER 7 I KNOW YOU RIDER 8 BROWN-EYED WOMAN 9 HURTS ME TOO 10 RAMBLE ON ROSE 11 SUGAR MAGNOLIA 12 MR. CHARLIE 13 TENNESSEE JED Bonus Material 14 THE STRANGER (TWO SOULS IN COMMUNION) Golden Road - DISC ELEVEN Europe '72 Disc 2 1 TRUCKIN' 2 EPILOGUE 3 PRELUDE 4 MORNING DEW Bonus Material 5 LOOKS LIKE RAIN 6 GOOD LOVIN' 7 CAUTION (DO NOT STOP ON TRACKS) 8 WHO DO YOU LOVE 9 CAUTION (DO NOT STOP ON TRACKS) 10 GOOD LOVIN' Golden Road - DISC TWELVE History Of The Grateful Dead, Vol. I (Bear's Choice) (J) 1 KATIE MAE 2 DARK HOLLOW 3 I'VE BEEN ALL AROUND THIS WORLD 4 WAKE UP LITTLE SUSIE 5 BLACK PETER 6 SMOKESTACK LIGHTNIN' 7 HARD TO HANDLE Bonus Material 8 GOOD LOVIN' 9 BIG BOSS MAN 10 SMOKESTACK LIGHTNIN' (Version Two) 11 SITTING ON TOP OF THE WORLD HDCD provides higher resolution when played in an HDCD-equipped CD player, and offers superior sound when played in regular CD players. HDCD CDs can played in all CD players. Beyond Description Box Set $130.00 Beyond Description is a 12-disc box set encompassing the 10 albums released between 1973 and 1989 on their own Grateful Dead Records label, and later Arista. It enhances the live and studio repertoire with the sonic brilliance of 2004 mastering technology and a wealth of newly discovered supplemental material. WAKE OF THE FLOOD 1. Mississippi Half-Step Uptown Toodeloo 2. Let Me Sing Your Blues Away 3. Row Jimmy 4. Stella Blue 5. Here Comes Sunshine 6. Eyes Of The World 7. Weather Report Suite: Prelude 8. Part I 9. Part II (Let It Grow) BONUS MATERIAL: 10. Eyes Of The World (Live) 11. Weather Report Suite: (Studio Acoustic Demo) Prelude 12. Part I 13. Part II (Let It Grow) 14. China Doll (Studio Outtake) GRATEFUL DEAD FROM THE MARS HOTEL 1. U.S. Blues 2. China Doll 3. Unbroken Chain 4. Loose Lucy 5. Scarlet Begonias 6. Pride Of Cucamonga 7. Money Money 8. Ship Of Fools BONUS MATERIAL: 9. Loose Lucy (Studio Outtake) 10. Scarlet Begonias (Live) 11. Money Money (Live) 12. Wave That Flag (Live) 13. Let It Rock (Live) 14. Pride Of Cucamonga (Studio Acoustic Demo) 15. Unbroken Chain (Studio Acoustic Demo) BLUES FOR ALLAH 1. Help On The Way 2. Slipknot! 3. Franklin’s Tower 4. King Solomon’s Marbles, Part I: Stronger Than Dirt 5. Part II: Milkin’ The Turkey 6. The Music Never Stopped 7. Crazy Fingers 8. Sage & Spirit 9. Blues For Allah 10. Sand Castles & Glass Camels 11. Unusual Occurrences In The Desert BONUS MATERIAL: 12. Groove #1 (Instrumental Studio Outtake) 13. Groove #2 (Instrumental Studio Outtake) 14. Distorto (Instrumental Studio Outtake) 15. A To E Flat Jam (Instrumental Studio Outtake) 16. Proto 18 Proper (Instrumental Studio Outtake) 17. Hollywood Cantata (Studio Outtake) TERRAPIN STATION 1. Estimated Prophet 2. Dancin’ In The Streets 3. Passenger 4. Samson & Delilah 5. Sunrise 6. Terrapin Station, Part 1: Lady With A Fan 7. Terrapin Station 8. Terrapin 9. Terrapin Transit 10. At A Siding 11. Terrapin Flyer 12. Refrain BONUS MATERIAL: 13. Peggy-O (Instrumental Studio Outtake) 14. The Ascent (Instrumental Studio Outtake) 15. Catfish John (Studio Outtake) 16. Equinox (Studio Outtake) 17. Fire On The Mountain (Studio Outtake) 18. Dancin’ In The Streets (Live) SHAKEDOWN STREET 1. Good Lovin’ 2. France 3. Shakedown Street 4. Serengetti 5. Fire On The Mountain 6. I Need A Miracle 7. From The Heart Of Me 8. Stagger Lee 9. All New Minglewood Blues 10. If I Had The World To Give BONUS MATERIAL: 11. Good Lovin’ (Studio Outtake) - featuring Lowell George 12. Ollin Arageed (Live) 13. Fire On The Mountain (Live) 14. Stagger Lee (Live) 15. All New Minglewood Blues (Live) GO TO HEAVEN 1. Alabama Getaway 2. Far From Me 3. Althea 4. Feel Like A Stranger 5. Lost Sailor 6. Saint Of Circumstance 7. Antwerp’s Placebo (The Plumber) 8. Easy To Love You 9. Don’t Ease Me In BONUS MATERIAL: 10. Peggy-O (Studio Outtake) 11. What’ll You Raise (Studio Outtake) 12. Jack-A-Roe (Studio Outtake) 13. Althea (Live) 14. Lost Sailor (Live) 15. Saint Of Circumstance (Live) RECKONING Disc 1: 1. Dire Wolf 2. The Race Is On 3. Oh Babe It Ain’t No Lie 4. It Must Have Been The Roses 5. Dark Hollow 6. China Doll 7. Been All Around This World 8. Monkey And The Engineer 9. Jack-A-Roe 10. Deep Elem Blues 11. Cassidy 12. To Lay Me Down 13. Rosalie McFall 14. On The Road Again 15. Bird Song 16. Ripple Disc 2 – BONUS MATERIAL: 1. To Lay Me Down (Studio Rehearsal) 2. Iko Iko 3. Heaven Help The Fool 4. El Paso 5. Sage & Spirit 6. Little Sadie 7. It Must Have Been The Roses (Alternate Live Version) 8. Dark Hollow (Alternate Live Version) 9. Jack-A-Roe (Alternate Live Version) 10. Cassidy (Alternate Live Version) 11. China Doll (Alternate Live Version) 12. Monkey And The Engineer (Alternate Live Version) 13. Oh Babe It Ain’t No Lie (Alternate Live Version) 14. Ripple (Alternate Live Version) 15. Tom Dooley (Live, 1978) 16. Deep Elem Blues (Alternate Live Version, 1978) DEAD SET Disc 1: 1. Samson And Delilah 2. Friend Of The Devil 3. New Minglewood Blues 4. Deal 5. Candyman 6. Little Red Rooster 7. Loser 8. Passenger 9. Feel Like A Stranger 10. Franklin’s Tower 11. Rhythm Devils 12. Space 13. Fire On The Mountain 14. Greatest Story Ever Told 15. Brokedown Palace Disc 2 – BONUS MATERIAL: 1. Let It Grow 2. Sugaree 3. C.C. Rider 4. Row Jimmy 5. Lazy Lightnin’ 6. Supplication 7. High Time 8. Jack Straw 9. Shakedown Street 10. Not Fade Away IN THE DARK 1. Touch Of Grey 2. Hell In A Bucket 3. When Push Comes To Shove 4. West L.A. Fadeaway 5. Tons Of Steel 6. Throwing Stones 7. Black Muddy River BONUS MATERIAL: 8. My Brother Esau (Single B-side) 9. West L.A. Fadeaway (Alternate Version, 1984) 10. Black Muddy River (Studio Rehearsal) 11. When Push Comes To Shove (Studio Rehearsal) 12. Touch Of Grey (Studio Rehearsal) 13. Throwing Stones (Live) BUILT TO LAST 1. Foolish Heart 2. Just A Little Light 3. Built To Last 4. Blow Away 5. Victim Or The Crime 6. We Can Run 7. Standing On The Moon 8. Picasso Moon 9. I Will Take You Home BONUS MATERIAL: 10. Foolish Heart (Live) 11. Blow Away (Live) 12. California Earthquake (Whole Lotta Shakin’ Goin’ On) (Live) All music on the Box Set was mastered in HDCD from the original analog tapes, and only available here, for a very limited time. HDCD provides higher resolution when played in an HDCD-equipped CD player, and offers superior sound when played in regular CD players. HDCD CDs can be played in all CD players. *************Live, you should pick some shows from gdlive or thephilzone or etree and download them**************** GOOD LUCK, YOU CAN'T GO WRONG!
Here's a site that has Dick Picks, Vault, studio etc., year by year reviews. http://thebestofwebsite.com/Bands/GD.htm Archieve goldmine link to the front door http://www.archive.org/audio/etreelisting-browse.php?collection=etree&cat=Grateful%20Dead Collector's guide with year by year reviews http://www.themusicarchive.com/garcia/dead1968.htm My favorites: 1972-05-11 - Rotterdam Civic Hall 1972-05-23 - The Strand Lyceum 1972-05-25 - The Strand Lyceum 1972-05-26 - The Strand Lyceum 1972-08-24 - Berkeley Community Theater 1972-09-21 - The Spectrum 1977-02-26 - Swing Auditorium 1977-05-07 - Boston Garden 1977-05-08 - Barton Hall, Cornell University 1977-05-09 - Buffalo Memorial Auditorium 1989-10-09 - Hampton Coliseum 1989-10-16 - Meadowlands Arena
That is a great show, my first show was 10-14-89, 10-16 is Bobbys birthday with major Dark Star, was released a year or dso ago as "Nightfall Of Diamonds"!
i have to agree with davino, that whole tour in '89 from the warlock shows all the way till miami (2,000th show) was -the- tour to be on, within 18 months of this tour jerry will have dumped menacha/his daughter/being straight, and the the descent begins again. i think bruce hornsby kept things from falling apart, but after the bill graham requiem show 10/31/91, bruce split, and vince is cheesewhiz. and actually davino was right in his post way back when, go to etree.org, which i guess is partnered with archive.org now which is very cool, etree will have that whole tour in 89, most of them soundboards. don't buy their albums they are shite. download the miami 10/26/89 darkstar if you want to hear the dead freak out anyone within earshot of this recording http://www.archive.org/audio/etree-details-db.php?id=15997, it'll freak out your dog too. if you'd like to see the boys prove their jazz chops go to http://www.archive.org/audio/etree-details-db.php?id=17775 nassau 3/29/90 for some brilliant dueling with branford marsalis, the first time branford appeared with them, just amazing off the hook jams.
I agree ...and disagree. '89 was a VERY good year, and Branford was incredible. Their show at Alpine that year was a classic. but as for Bruce and Vince, I think you got it backwards. Bruce has always bored the shit out of me. He makes me want to STOP dancing. Vince, on the other hand, was electric. He had what bruce lacked -- creativity, sponteneity, and tons of energy. (mmm, how he could tickle those high keys) I don't know what the falling out was between him and the others, but I think letting him go was a HUGE mistake. I've never really been a fan since.
it was written up in a book or 2 that bruce was upset about jerry getting back on smack. there is an infamous night at madison square garden summer '91 where bruce confronts jerry during drums about the fact that he can tell something is amiss. jerry then comes out -after- drums/space and begins darkstar/playing in the band... it's like getting 2 second sets in one, altho it didn't manage to keep bruce. i think bill graham also had some pull in keeping bruce around, which became null right before he split. i don't wanna distract this lady from her finding music so i can't get into vince type posts, but anyhoooo i hope she finds some good stuff. i have super fond memories of seeing hornsby at the paradiso in amsterdam while on europe tour, we'd see him walking around amsterdam with his wife, coolest dude ever.
Vince was cast out of the Dead "Family" because in 1995, him and Jerry were doing smack together and the other bandmembers blame him for contributing to Jerrys death.
i asked pete sears one night in '96 or so when he was playing with zero why, since he was the most musical of all the people trying out (imho), he was passed up for the keyboard slot. he didn't respond with 'i can't sing', which is what i expected him to say. he said 'because i don't party'. i'm sure he wasn't refferring to smoking a doob now and then either. couple that with davino's comments and it looks like jerry had smack on the brain from the moment brent died. you can download 'vince welnick and the missing man formation' gig at the fillmore in '96 from archive.org, it is a great quality soundboard. i was there, and i don't remember anything about vince. i do remember thinking during st. steven that kimock is the only one qualified to do dead covers, which thank god came true for a few years.
I definitely agree with you there. Kimock is the man! I've met him a couple of times at SKB shows and he is so cool and down to earth. ...and not to harp on the Vince thing, but I met him too, and I found him to be the same way.
Found Old Renaissance Faire Grounds, Veneta, OR August 27, 1972 at gdlive.com. I've been looking for this show for ages. For some reason it's not at archive.com and gdlive has it list as unknown. Saw the date of the show and there it was. Anyway here's a link if anyone is interested. http://www.gdlive.com/dead/720827
Jimmy Buffet said many a time "the best guitarist in the world isn't worth it if he's an asshole." I think this applies to Vince. I know NO ONE in the players circle who likes him long term. I will hear "well, he can play..." but no nice comments. KT,I'm impressed you got Steve to talk! He's so reserved. Must have been a great night. My first conversation with him was pre-show at "nixon's farm" this dinky field outside of Lincoln, Neb. Zero was booked. Bobby Vega was sick as a dog and some local jerk was sitting in. The blazingly hot day cooled too much for those Cali boys, and we put tie-dye gloves on everyone. So Steve and I are figuring out which tips need to be cut off (all) and if he can still play with gloves. (one song) Now, face to face I'm shy. Painfully so. So was Steve (pre Jen). We talked about how scary the surge of people can be, I from the POV of representing a very different dyer and he from the "star" position. Steve and I have always managed a few words at a show. He once took me to task for not hugging correctly. Seems he'd been "shown how" at a show a couple nights before. "You do it this way," he said, repositioning our heads. "Heart to heart. I thought I knew how to hug for 44 years, but I got told I didn't." Ya know, he's right. It IS better heart to heart. But that might have been Chester's magic. Which incarnation did you see? (bassist) I've been catching Steve since 95. He had a couple GREAT NYE shows in Denver at our instigation. We even managed to be part of that lackluster DVD.
Thanks y'all for all the info. I'm checking ebay for deals and I've found some good ones so far. Europe '72 has really caught my interest so I'm trying to get a steal on that. My dream would be to get all 35 Dick's Picks. I'm trying one volume at a time. If I get some extra cash for my B-day I'm gonna try to pick up a box set. Thanks again. Flmkpr...I hear ya.
