Grateful Dead "American Beauty" (Side 2) First Time Reaction

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@L33Reacts Ай бұрын

Since we have finished this standout look at Americana and the beautiful mosaic that is America... Which Grateful Dead album should we tackle next? OR maybe some live stuff? Let me know what you think here.

@lisarainbow9703 Ай бұрын

"Blues for Allah" is an amazing GD album--- I would describe some of it as psychedelic fusion... AOXOMOXOA is excellent, too-- intensely ethereal and psychedelic.

@Hartlor_Tayley Ай бұрын

Workingman’s Dead is like the companion album to this one, recorded in same year. But if you want to do live here a suite that has many delights and is also smokin hot. It’s like 40 plus minutes lol but you asked. Playing in the Band / Uncle John's Band / Morning Dew / Uncle John's Band / Playing in the Band - from Pauley Pavilion, UCLA (Los Angeles) - November 17, 1973

@gr8fulded Ай бұрын

Europe '72 is fantastic

@robertgrosek1124 Ай бұрын

Mars Hotel is one my favorites and under appreciated

@Hartlor_Tayley Ай бұрын

Truckin from Hundred Year Hall live album is super groovy. The drum solo is included at the end of the track. You can always cut it there for brevity

@ericbrown2655 Ай бұрын

Europe '72, a truly great live album!

@Hartlor_Tayley Ай бұрын

Check out their album Hundred Year Hall, same tour without studio vocals etc.

@jackson9282 Ай бұрын

@@Hartlor_Tayley 100 Year Hall I think was their first official concert release after Jerry died? It is mind blowingly good.

@jraben1065 Ай бұрын

I recommend the classic triple-live Album "Europe 72". Often counted among the greatest Live Albums ever. This Dead album helped establish that the LIVE versions of their classic songs were often the best versions. There were several other classic LIVE albums as well, but "72" is my favorite. Among the best Dead Studio Albums, "Working Mans Dead" is the great followup to the classic "American Beauty".

@UFOS4 Ай бұрын

Nice to hear side 2. “Ripple” is my favorite. Listening to the Grateful Dead is like putting on a favorite sweater or jacket or poncho. Warm, toasty and home.

@charleskurtz9744 Ай бұрын

"If I knew the way, I would take you home."

@tomratcliff3755 Ай бұрын

I was on vacation when I bought this, Historic Dead, and Workingman's Dead. This is the stuff that dreams are made of!

@mschiano1 Ай бұрын

Europe ’72 is probably the most accessible live album, but Live/Dead is the fire-breathing monster.

@Hartlor_Tayley Ай бұрын

These are some beautiful songs.

@WeirdErnie Ай бұрын

For live albums - Live/Dead and Europe 72. For studio - Wake Of The Flood and From The Mars Hotel. For a select live cut - Help On The Way/Slipknot/Franklin's Tower from 5/9/77.

@CowboyNeil-ov9lp Ай бұрын

Attics is one of their most underrated songs.

@RobertERensch Ай бұрын

This is a lovely album. CSN did work with the Dead for harmonies before this record. Jerry played pedal steel for CSNY (Teach Your Children). Maybe you’d be interested in Wake of the Flood. It was the album after Pigpen passed. My favorite Dead album will always be Anthem of the Sun. I love the blatant psychedelia. Go to bed, Lee. ✌️

@michaelwebster8389 Ай бұрын

Agree with everything. Anthem of the Sun was what turned me onto them, unfortunately in another country so never got to see them. Wake of the Flood is one of my favourites too. The Dead didn't have the voices of CSNY, but they definitely had a lot of the same musical sensibilities, though they were far more creative and disregarded the rules. Obviously as instrumentalists they were utterly unique.

@RobertERensch Ай бұрын

@ nope. No CSNY voices. Just sharing technique. ✌️

@ScottMcVeigh Ай бұрын

Wow. Im hooked. Wish i was on a carpet ride.

@marymargaretmoore9034 Ай бұрын

A masterpiece of an album.

@adaberns Ай бұрын

Such an amazing album start to finish, so many combined emotions throughout. If you want a stark contrast to this album, listen to Live Dead which is so raw and improvisational, side 1, 2, 3 are all one continuous piece of music

@Lexwell_Lavers Ай бұрын

Masterpiece. Thanks so much for requesting this whole album.

@corawheeler9355 Ай бұрын

Love the Dead. Trucking is my favorite

@DannyD714 Ай бұрын

"ripple" is my favorite grateful dead song. the "american beauty" album was featured in the series finale of the short lived cult classic tv show "feaks and geeks" about high school kids in 1980-81. **spoiler alert** in the final episode lead character lindsay is given the album "american beauty" by her high school counselor, and she immediately falls in love with it. lindsay finds out she's been granted an academic scholarship, and is set to spend the summer at "math camp". her parents drop her off at the bus stop,but after they drive away she gets off the bus before it departs. "ripple" plays as lindsay instead gets in a VW van with some new dead head friends,and drives away to follow the band for the summer. a lot of people wish there had been a second season,but i think it was the perfect way to end the show. after months of confusion about life since seeing her grandmother die, lindsay finally found happiness thanks to the grateful dead.

@michaeldezego340 Ай бұрын

Truckin is sort of autobiographical. The busted down on Bourbon Street is a reference to the Dead being busted in New Orleans. Next album: Either Workingmans Dead, which was released before American Beauty and has a lot of country, blues, folk and rock, Europe 72 ( the original release) which is live, or if you want old Dead, the live 1969 album called Live Dead.

@shiannesmith6877 Ай бұрын

That last one was so good. Added thst to my spotfiy 😊

@dannynewman2 Ай бұрын

"Live Dead" LP from the Avalon Ballroom, SF, '69, is a must. Double album; you could do it in four segments like the White Album...

@floorticket Ай бұрын

"Brokedown Palace" was always a great encore.

@jamessomers8808 Ай бұрын

I love when the Dead used to break out them acoustic sets at the shows.❤

@jeffmartin1026 Ай бұрын

♥♥

@cojaysea Ай бұрын

Live dead is great . Also skull and bones another live album both great . Ripple is such a wonderful song .

@bobschenkel7921 Ай бұрын

The Grateful Dead philosophy in a line: "Let there be songs to fill the air". mandolin by the great Dave Grisman. THE quintessential "Americana" album, with the great line "What a long strange trip it's been".

@thomasmcintosh390 Ай бұрын

I bought Live Dead American Beauty, Workingman's Dead and Terrapin Station. I'm good.

@crackerbarreljones 28 күн бұрын

That's more that you can say for many bands.

@dianegardner7210 Ай бұрын

I was a Deadhead in college and have loved them ever since-they speak to the human condition - sometimes listening to them was like a religious experience

@ZionForman Ай бұрын

Grateful Dead refers to an individual who may have passed on but had debts or obligations in the mortal realm. some living person pays off the debts for the deceased who is then grateful dead or gratefully dead. that's where the name comes from.

@Lexwell_Lavers Ай бұрын

💀👍

@ShiverHinge Ай бұрын

Sweet and classic.

@jamessullivan5860 Ай бұрын

I think you’d really enjoy Shakedown Street to see another side of the dead

@edhorton2766 Ай бұрын

Really, there are so many sides to the Grateful Dead.

@shirleybhs9zd6li5i Ай бұрын

Wow, Joel M such a fantastic album. I loved this way more than I thought I would. Loved this side the best, and "Truckin" was amazing. Guess I'll have do side 1 again. Great reaction, L33, always brings it all in focus, so thanks. Blessings all.

@tomratcliff3755 Ай бұрын

Doesn't look like anyone has mentioned that the Dead had been busted for drugs in New Orleans, and Bobby and John Barlow put this song together after that. Ps trucking was twice as long, they cut it down to 7 minutes for the album.

@realbser1956 Ай бұрын

Great album and I’m not the biggest GD fan. Thanks Lee.

@waltercrain2910 Ай бұрын

deadheads, among whom i count myself, know the great soul-moving stuff happens at the live shows. BUT i've long maintained it's good to know the crisp, clean, studio versions to "overlay" those live shows on to. i bet "ripple" is one of the most played songs at funerals these days...such wistful sweetness. i consider workingman's dead a companion for american beauty. fun to see you exploring the dead and zappa - my two favorites.

@tenjed4224 Ай бұрын

'Make myself a bed, by the waterside to rock my bones'

@woedan48 Ай бұрын

Working man’s Dead is my fave ❤

@maxrnb01 Ай бұрын

Working Man’s Dead should be the next album to react to. It was recorded right after American Beauty. Same vibe and some of their most popular songs.

@jamessomers8808 Ай бұрын

Just remember that the song Truckin, I think is one of the Grateful Dead‘s biggest hits, at least played on the radio. That and Casey Jones, until the late 80s when they re-released a touch of gray, which hit the charts.❤ that was the era when I first saw them after Brent died, and Jerry died, but came back to life.

@deechatterton5828 Ай бұрын

Although he does not actually appear anywhere on this album, David Crosby is all over the vocal performances, especially on this side. They recorded this the same time and in the same studio where CSNY were recording Deja Vu and Crosby's first solo album. Crosby said that the band knew how to sing, they just needed a little guidance in how to perform harmonies. This is the result. These songs have what I think are Robert Hunter's best lyrics. The next album would obviously be Workingman's Dead which was recorded just a few months before and has much the same feeling. If you want a longer version of Truckin', check out the version on Europe '72. It runs somewhere around 18 minutes. It was definitely one of their show stoppers and there are hundreds of live versions out there.

@submandave1125 Ай бұрын

You made a joke about why they were called "Grateful," but the name actually comes from a very old traditional story. There are lots of variations, but generally a father/king sets his sons on a quest to determine the heir. As they set out, they pass an old/injured man on the side of the road and while the older sons ride past to pursue the quest the youngest stops to give aid. He put the man up in an inn, administers medical care, and, after the man dies, gives a proper Christian burial to the stranger. He then resumes the quest even though he's sure that his brothers are hopelessly ahead. On his journey, though, he receives aid from random events, kindly animals, and even strangers, util he, ultimately fulfils the quest and returns home to take his place as the rightful heir. Upon return he comes to realize that all the help he received was at the hands of the spirit of the man he helped in the beginning, the Grateful Dead.

@fineasfogg1461 Ай бұрын

This is wonderful❤

@goonbelly5841 Ай бұрын

I've been everywhere, man. I've been everywhere, man. Crossed the desert's bare, man. I've breathed the mountain air, man. Of travel I've a-had my share, man. I've been everywhere. I've been to Reno, Chicago, Fargo, Minnesota, Buffalo, Toronto, Winslow, Sarasota, Wichita, Tulsa, Ottawa, Oklahoma, Tampa, Panama, Mattawa, La Paloma, Bangor, Baltimore, Salvador, Amarillo, Tocopilla, Barranquilla, and Padilla, I'm a killer. I've been everywhere, man. I've been everywhere, man. Crossed the desert's bare, man. I've breathed the mountain air, man. Of travel I've a-had my share, man. I've been everywhere

@tmAcorn Ай бұрын

They give CSN&Y a run for their money on " Workings Mans Dead " album also!!!

@melvinroebuck1160 Ай бұрын

If you liked that jam they were getting into at the end of Truckin’, definitely check out the version on Europe ‘72 (the jam is long and great, and is separated onto another track called Epilogue that you should listen to with Truckin’). Enjoy! Wonderful reaction to a wonderful album.

@JayColon-uo8oo Ай бұрын

You should check out reckoning recorded at radio city music hall

@jamessomers8808 Ай бұрын

I feel you on the history thing. I also watch a lot of documentaries these days on KZbin, usually something archaeological in England. I’m in a Bronze Age phase right now.😂❤

@kenbelke8549 Ай бұрын

David Grisman's mandolin is perfect........listen to some Grateful Dawg.....Grisman & Garcia

@cardcomm91 Ай бұрын

If you look at the album cover closely, it also spells out American Reality

@johncampbell756 Ай бұрын

If you look at the album cover, they designed it do it can be read as American Beauty or American Reality. The rose is an American Beauty.

@johnharkness7114 Ай бұрын

Dave Grisman on the mandolin in Ripple (and Friend of the Devil on side 1)

@cspack Ай бұрын

I would say Workingman's Dead next, followed by Terrapin Station.

@DrummerJay74 Ай бұрын

It's taken me my whole life to describe the Grateful Dead and I think the phrase "no bullshit" describes them best. But that's just my take.

@johncarr7198 Ай бұрын

That was the album that made them With working man’s dead was just before this This broke them into mass appeal

@brianteichert1959 Ай бұрын

L33, I think you'd dig the song "Black-Throated Wind".

@jameswillhour427 Ай бұрын

You have pretty good intuition. Often do, but don't always agree with your ramblings...but in this case there was a really cool one, really important too imao: oral history lasts longer and is more accurate. I am no expert, but have spent years as a teacher of reading and writing in the schools. Reading myth, being around language, whatever but it is pretty damn cool that you got there too,. This is a branch of a tree called We Used to Know More. Despite our technology--which has its place--we are moronic and proud of it, for the most part. Fun to be a part of it, but our mental acuity has suffered horribly.

@briancullen9575 Ай бұрын

LiveDead or Europe 72 would be great picks for your next GD album. Like with Phish, the Dead were at their best live.

@tmwsiy7158 Ай бұрын

Csnyn worked on harmonies with the band in this album.

@krypticalenvelopment Ай бұрын

they didn't play "Til The Morning Comes" all that often - here is a clip of them playing it after a sojourn thru the "Frozen Logger" song - GD hijinks at its finest kzbin.info/www/bejne/mJi4dHyDhdCgqsksi=or3Y2rWT77Oj0lS4 -- here is a clip of the dead playing "Mason's Children" - a tune recorded but left off of American Beauty for lack of space on the record (they played it for a short time but it fell from the rotation pretty quickly after the record was released without it) kzbin.info/www/bejne/fXiXnmBonpd-r9Esi=1PqtPfjDLD67jIM- and for shits and giggles - a clip of BOBBY ROCKSTAR still playing "Sugar" in the 1980's kzbin.info/www/bejne/aaaqYY1_Zat6h9Esi=UdVfbWdN14zQD-Dm

@T23000PLUS Ай бұрын

if you want to get a heavy dose of Americana I would suggest on of the Garcia / Grisman albums, e.g., "I've Been All Around This WOrld"

@bobmessier5215 Ай бұрын

Play "The Other Ones". It's a great live album that came out after Jerry Garcia died.

@LuisRendon-qz2mg Ай бұрын

Take an the time to listen to there first album. I love MORNING DEW .Check back .

@storknewsofnashville Ай бұрын

Listen to Workingman's Dead next

@dannynewman2 Ай бұрын

Ironically, though the Grateful Dead self-admittedly wasn't known necessarily for making great albums, "American Beauty" is possibly the greatest album ever recorded...