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Where do i start with the Dead?

Posted on 2/5/22 at 10:24 pm
Posted by prplhze2000
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Posted on 2/5/22 at 10:24 pm
I'm finally ready to take the plunge.
Posted by NachoReb
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Posted on 2/5/22 at 11:56 pm to
Europe 72
Posted by MondayMorningMarch
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Posted on 2/6/22 at 12:00 am to
Europe 72, American Beauty ad Workingman’s Dead
Posted by BigOrangeBri
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Posted on 2/6/22 at 12:02 am to
No need to go past the first two posts
Posted by Thurber
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Posted on 2/6/22 at 12:02 am to
Althea. Peggy O. US blues. Bird Song. Cassidy. Tennessee Jed. Deal. Loser. He’s gone. I honestly am just naming songs that are easier (I think) to digest first.
Posted by Treacherous Cretin
Columbus, OH
Member since Jan 2016
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Posted on 2/6/22 at 12:50 am to
Do you have a source for good LSD or magic mushrooms? Do you like to listen to music while in a psychedelic state?
Posted by Bill Parker?
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Posted on 2/6/22 at 12:56 am to
Pigpen
Posted by cgrand
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Posted on 2/6/22 at 7:39 am to
E72 is a fine place to start
another easy entry is the skull & roses live album and/or the april 71 live album “ladies and gentlemen”

for a good visual try the sunshine daydream movie (8/72) or the Grateful Dead movie (10/74)
Posted by DownSouthJukin
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Posted on 2/6/22 at 8:36 am to
quote:

Europe 72


I’m not a huge Dead fan, but that was my intro and it’s a good one.
Posted by Mizooag94
Hillbillyville, MO
Member since Sep 2018
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Posted on 2/6/22 at 11:28 am to
Go here and read the reviews of the shows:

Setlist Program

If it sounds interesting, there is a link to listen to it on the archive.

Also go to YouTube and search. My friends have uploaded all their videos and it is fun to watch the band play as well as listen.
Posted by High C
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Posted on 2/6/22 at 11:32 am to
Don’t
Posted by bisceaux
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Posted on 2/6/22 at 11:33 am to
Long Strange Trip - pretty good documentary on Amazon Prime that uses some of their best music

A friend of mine who wasn't big into the dead watched this and became a dead fan shortly after
Posted by Nicky Parrish
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Posted on 2/6/22 at 12:41 pm to
Sugaree
Posted by Mizooag94
Hillbillyville, MO
Member since Sep 2018
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Posted on 2/6/22 at 12:52 pm to
Many greats but 2 favs off the top of my head, and a little bias as I was at both shows:

3/25/85

JGB 8/13/84
Posted by Treacherous Cretin
Columbus, OH
Member since Jan 2016
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Posted on 2/6/22 at 3:32 pm to
quote:

Sugaree

Check out the one from 9/2/80.
Posted by redneck hippie
Oklahoma
Member since Dec 2008
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Posted on 2/6/22 at 9:33 pm to
One From the Vault
Cornell 5/8/77
Dicks Picks Vol 8 5/2/70
Ducks Picks Vol 19 10/19/73 OKC

Check out Jerry Garcia Band and Legion of Mary
Posted by Treacherous Cretin
Columbus, OH
Member since Jan 2016
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Posted on 2/7/22 at 4:59 am to
Ducks picks?

Legion of Mary was awesome. I’ve got a great recording from 4/21/75 at Keystone in Berkeley that I recently made copies of and gave away to relative strangers. One to a woman with a Jerry tattoo who works in the liquor store and one to a dude who moved into my old neighborhood. He was a young guy and had never heard of Jerry Garcia or the Grateful Dead.

I saw Legion of Mary saxophonist Martin Fierro play with Zero in 1995 when they were touring in support of a new album with a lot of lyrics by Robert Hunter. Great show and that’s where I got turned on to Steve Kimock (and Bobby Vega).
Posted by AlxTgr
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Posted on 2/7/22 at 6:32 am to
quote:

American Beauty ad Workingman’s Dead
Period.
Posted by Treacherous Cretin
Columbus, OH
Member since Jan 2016
1503 posts
Posted on 2/7/22 at 7:13 am to
Those are both great albums and should be high on the list. But if you want to hear some jams then you’d be better off starting with Live/Dead. And yes, getting dosed beforehand would enhance the experience.

Another good suggestion no one has made yet is to watch the Grateful Dead Movie. It’s brilliant.
Posted by redneck hippie
Oklahoma
Member since Dec 2008
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Posted on 2/7/22 at 8:11 am to
quote:

I saw Legion of Mary saxophonist Martin Fierro play with Zero in 1995 when they were touring in support of a new album with a lot of lyrics by Robert Hunter. Great show and that’s where I got turned on to Steve Kimock (and Bobby Vega).


never saw Zero, but I did see KVHW and seen many Kimock shows, almost all at Chester's in Fayetteville, AR. I got to see Martin with Kimock and Vega, show was billed as Kimock and Friends I believe. Martin's cancer was pretty far along at the time. He was drawing from a deeper well that night. It was electric and amazing.
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