Yes!! A roots band. You nailed it. "A band beyond description". Americana, blues, folk, rock, bluegrass, jazz ... Etc. A big pot full of all the best ingredients, playing improvisational different every night for 30 years! GREATEST BAND EVER.
@robertgrosek11246 ай бұрын
You’re right they are rootsie. Your right they are proggy. Your right they are rocky. And jazzy And country. And reggae. And folky. And R&B. And if you listened to that whole concert you would hear it all. Your smile and headshake at the end of Jerry’s solo …..I’ve done that 10000 times over 50 years of listening. They are on-call happiness for me and always will be. What a resource!
@elithejwalker7 ай бұрын
Tremendous song writing in the Grateful Dead.
@robertberger56397 ай бұрын
Robert Hunter was a great songwriter and was often referred to as the non-performing member of the band. A poet in his own right, he was known for his definitive translation of the Austrian poet Rainer Maria Wilke's poems into English. Dylan loved him and, in fact, Hunter wrote a song or two for Dylan which, if you think about it, is pretty amazing to have Dylan sing one of your songs. You are so right when you point out that it's the songwriting that separates the GD from just about all other bands.
@jmleyland7 ай бұрын
Phil Lesh is cracking me up here! 😂
@dropfishboogie38696 ай бұрын
He's for sure trippin.😅 he's vibrating
@ffrederickskitty46074 ай бұрын
He's having way too much fun.
@dropfishboogie38696 ай бұрын
The Grateful Dead didn't always play well but when they got in the pocket it was nothing short of magic.❤
@thesecretjewishspacelaser99597 ай бұрын
Great example of the Grateful Dead “bounce”. They make you move.
@shortstuff79597 ай бұрын
Robert Hunter wrote many of their songs. One of the best poets of the century. He was the great, great, great grandson of Robert Burns. (I think I have enough greats in there)
@labird19947 ай бұрын
Wow yeah I love the performance , i enjoyed it very much !! thank you Rory 👍👌🤗
@shortstuff79597 ай бұрын
check out Terrapin Station from the album of the same name. Yet another sound from the Grateful Dead.
@JB-Deadskins7 ай бұрын
Nooooo. It is horrible what they did to such a great song by adding the orchestral part at the end. Totally without the band's knowledge or consent.
@hollysmith99797 ай бұрын
I'm not a big Greatful Dead fan but I enjoyed this live performance and I agree with the folk/early rock/hippy music sound. I know they fit in very well with the Woodstock crowd back in the day with the love, peace and partaking in some local party favors 😉 must have been fun...lol...I would like to see more...🤗💕 thanks for the request Elisabeth 😊❤
@michaelwebster83897 ай бұрын
Another great Hunter/Garcia song - and a really nice version. They did it quite funky in the latter part of the 70s.
@michaelwebster83897 ай бұрын
They actually were pretty progressive in the 60s, and some of their albums in the 70s were kind of progressive as well.
@robertstein37706 ай бұрын
The good old Grateful Dead the best American band in my opinion.
@CryptoCopilots5 ай бұрын
It's definitely a FACT the best American band ever haha ☮ (~);}
@T23000PLUS7 ай бұрын
Jerry Garcia (Grateful Dead) also does a great cover of "The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down"....(Jerry Garcia Band)
@JB-Deadskins7 ай бұрын
Some Grateful Dead Jazz. This is an audience video with soundboard recording of Help on the Way>Slipknot!>Franklin's Tower from 10-8-89 in Hampton, VA. I was at this show. kzbin.info/www/bejne/kKvPf4qGi6eWnM0si=YiP852LiBVZODqBR
@T23000PLUS7 ай бұрын
that was good. PLease do more. Its's worth checking out the early to mid eighties too
@Garciadann6 ай бұрын
Check out Bow Thayer if you love the craft of the song. Levon Helm the drummer for The Band plays drums on his album Spend it All. The song Wingless Angels is amazing and album also has Morphine ‘s sax player Dana Colley on it. Bow has released over 30 albums!
@bobschenkel79216 ай бұрын
One of my buddies had BRNEYEWN as his license plate, good thing they allowed eight letters. I had to consult "The Complete Annotated Grateful Dead Lyrics" to be sure but the way it is spelled out there sums it up. The title was copywrited as "Brown Eyed Woman", but Robert Hunter, who wrote the song, intended it to be "Brown Eyed Women", the way Jerry Garcia really sings it. This is a classic case of a typographical error. Any way you spell it, it is still a great song.
@jrb69606 ай бұрын
They cover a lot of ground - very rootsy and totally Americana (listen to the albums Workingmans Dead and American Beauty) - but also have serious jazz, funky, blues, rock n roll, acid rock, psychedelia etc - worth gong down the rabbit hole.
@GratefulAmericans6 ай бұрын
The crazy thing about the dead rabbit hole is you can’t stop. Just when you think you can’t get anymore into them, you fall deeper down the hole. Thousands of hours and just can’t get enough
@tenjed42242 ай бұрын
It's impossible for anyone to tell the full scope of musical identity possessed by individual members of the Dead. The improvisation that was a cornerstone of The Dead's early days, even though not as paramount, still found its way into developing new sounds the boys played in later years. You will find, as you listen, almost all original songs have multiple versions used in concert. We went to shows not knowing what we would hear from one night to the next, in what order, grouping, how those songs would be played, what specific songs, etc.
@elithejwalker7 ай бұрын
This is actually one of the saddest and most tragic songs, if you listen to the lyrics.
@JoeRoaddogSmith7 ай бұрын
That was good Dead
@thesecretjewishspacelaser99597 ай бұрын
You haven’t dropped very far down the rabbit hole yet. Try China/Rider from 7/17/89 for the next step down.
@JB-Deadskins7 ай бұрын
I've resubscribed now that you've finally started to pay attention to Grateful Dead. I left you a bunch of links after your first reviews, but you never seem to come back to read comments after you post reactions.
@perryolsen13703 ай бұрын
The Gratful Dead have a lot of different sounds.
@1984isnotamanual7 ай бұрын
What brought you to a Dead video?
@1984isnotamanual7 ай бұрын
@@Christ_Is_The_King777 👍✌️
@richardwirt31937 ай бұрын
Rory Reacts listen to Frank Zappa ( Rat Tomago )
@krypticalenvelopment7 ай бұрын
try this version of "The Other One" from 1985 (Portland, Maine) kzbin.info/www/bejne/q5jMm6F_d8iqppYsi=yB3ykxCrkw58e_wa&t=6480