Grateful Dead - Unbroken Chain | REACTION

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[@cyrus8666]

Wow I didn't realize this would be your first introduction to the band. You've just taken your first step into a larger world

[@lgindoffchannel]

Welcome to the Grateful Dead, please do more and your audience will expand and so will your world.

[@Dminkman]

Atypical introduction into the Dead--one of only a few songs sung by bassist Phil Lesh. It was a massive deal when they finally played it live in 1995, the band's last year. They were very jazzy live, and sometimes jazz greats such as Branford Marsalis, Ornette Coleman and David Murray sat in with them. Some studio recommendations "Truckin'" "Help on the Way/Slipknot/Franklin's Tower" "Scarlet Begonias" "Box of Rain" (also sung by Lesh).

[@robertberry5175]

I was very fortunate to get to see Branford many times, with the Dead. And a few times opening up for them. He really became a true part of the band, those last years, before Jerry's passing. I also saw Dave Murray a few times. (with the boys and with other bands - particularly in the NY area.)

[@paulwatkins2247]

I would highly recommend doing the song "Dark Star" from the album Live/Dead 1969

[@Magumba_State]

Or Dark Star/Wharf Rat/Dark Star with the beautiful jam in 71 (imo the best dark star)

[@user-cr2bt3zp1f]

@@Magumba_State I feel like that’s not a great recommendation for newcomers because it’s hard to appreciate the Beautiful Jam without having an understanding of how Dark Star usually goes and thus why it’s so incredible and unique.

[@shortstuff7959]

More than 500 songs to choose from....more Grateful Dead will be always be appreciated. They are a genre of its own. Check out Eyes of the World - the version that includes Branford Marsalis.

[@AllThingsHomeopathy]

Listening for the secret, searching for the sound, but I can only hear the preacher and the baying of his hounds.

[@bobschenkel7921]

"Unbroken Chain" is a pretty deep end plunge for a first Grateful Dead song. I was at the Philadelphia Spectrum (RIP) in March 1995 when the boys FINALLY busted this one out. Bassist Phil Lesh is the lead vocal on this one, with Donna Jean Godcheaux and Guitarist Bob Weir on backing vocals. Jerry Garcia does the Lead Guitar work here. Only about 450 more songs to go. Have fun, I always did. Phil Lesh named his Autobiography after a lyric from this song "Searching For The Sound". The other cool Phil tune from this album is "Pride Of Cucamunga". Welcome to The Phil Zone.

[@pebblesanddirt]

I got to see them perform this one in March 95 Atlanta

[@mikemccabe6258]

The Dead has 2 drummers and were one of the original San Fran groups playing in the cow palace, Fillmore west, and the ballroom.....American Beauty, Europe 72, Terrapin Station.......this was a LIVE BAND touring yearly with every set different.

[@Hartlor_Tayley]

They go deep. More Grateful Dead please. Great reaction thanks

[@stevenmurano7863]

First time watcher/ new subscriber here. Cool reaction! Very interesting choice for a first dead song. This rabbit hole is DEEP And i hope you will continue down it. The dead are a strange mix of rock, country, jazz, psychedelic, bluegrass, prog, americana and just about anything else. They are more known for their live shows (the majority of which were recorded) and their free form jams. These guys will go more places in one jam than some artists go in a career! Enjoy brother!

[@asharmstrong6730]

Woman vocalist was Donna Jean Godchaux. Her husband Keith was the piano player. He died in a car crash around 1980. Donna's still around.

[@Pcrimson1]

Lets keep him away from Donna as he's just starting out with the Dead. She's ruined some many live performances with her half ass Janis Joplin imitations and caterwauling...Ugh! Was so glad when she left band.

[@samfulford5811]

Strange place to start. Greatest band ever. Keep going

[@alvarhanso6310]

Very interesting way to have your first taste of the Dead. They were primarily known for live concerts, and this song, though recorded and released in 1974, wasn't played live until 1995. Phil Lesh, the bassist, singer, and composer of the piece was classically trained in trumpet and classical composition, and learned bass upon being asked to join the band by Jerry Garcia, the lead guitarist and one of the primary vocalists. Check out live versions (particularly 1972-77) of China Cat Sunflower> I Know You Rider, Scarlet Begonias> Fire On the Mountain, The Music Never Stopped, Weather Report Suite, Morning Dew and if you feel adventurous, Dark Star (Sunshine Daydream 8/27/72 has a great one on film on youtube), The Other One, and Playing in the Band (Sunshine Daydream 8/27/72 has a great one on film). They have prog elements, but started as a jug blues band, incorporating rock, Bob Dylan, and Motown covers, before expanding toward psychedelic originals before expanding again toward original acoustic songtales that seem like Americana classics like Jack Straw, High Time, Comes a Time, Loser, Brokedown Palace, Ripple, Friend of the Devil, Bird Song. They were always evolving, always pushing it. Foolish Heart is a later song that fits in with some of the best prog of the 70s, and they have a prog epic in Terrapin Station that is best heard live before you hear the studio version that the band was shocked by when they heard the orchestrated ending they didn't quite expect. Not the same collaboration that worked for Pink Floyd on Atom Heart Mother at all, though it sounds almost like that's what producer Keith Olsen was going for. The song was epic enough live. It debuted 57 years ago today, 2/26/77, in a version many Deadheads actually think is the best one they ever did. Deep, deep rabbit hole.

[@robertberry5175]

Although recorded very early in the Dead's career, they did not play it live until the last year of the band's first inclination, in 1995. It was in Philly and the place nearly came down from the sound of the fans as they realized the boys were hitting us with something we waited for a long time, to hear. The high notes of the song are a surprise, while done with professionalism.

[@Magumba_State]

This is one of only a few songs the the bass player Phil Lesh of the dead sings, you really should check out more dead!

[@timcardona9962]

Cool reaction - you sound like a musician and that's refreshing, you picked up on some nice details in the music, especially the mixture of jazz and progressive elements. Did you notice the odd time signatures? I think the jazzy guitar section was 15/8

[@ZionForman]

sound effects are the sound of your spacecraft landing on Mars, but of course

[@chrismanard7864]

The building tempo of this song is fantastic. Drawing you in slowly with rising action to a roaring climax and bringing you back down easy. Their live music can do this over a much longer period of time.

[@NebulizerChi]

Just stumbled upon this nigh on a year after the fact ---nearly all of the Gratefuls' studio output gets an unfair rap (yeah, they never put it together on a Sgt Pepper/Tommy/DSotM/Ziggy Stardust/Night at the Opera level, but then those are kind of the top of the tops), but most of the songs are solid and made the transition, for a while at least, into the live act that was their stock in trade So anyone up for a challenge centered on their studio work could do worse than to have a go at the Weather Report Suite (Prelude/Part 1/Part 2: Let It Grow) from the Wake of the Flood album (whence also "Eyes of the World") and Help on the Way/Slipknot!/Franklin's Tower from Blues for Allah Survive that, and the "Dark Star" from Live/Dead offers up a Ph.D. ---it takes up an entire side...

[@asharmstrong6730]

Dead bass player Phil Lesh took a line from this song as the title for his book about his time with the Grateful Dead, Searching For The Sound. This is his song, and he sings lead vocals. Prior to co-forming the Dead in the mid-60s he was involved in composing avant-garde classical music. The Dead were many wonderful things, but a punk band they were not. You should check out their live jams, at which they were exemplary. They were very much at their best live. There are lots of videos on KZbin. One of my favourite bands, and Jerry Garcia is one of my favourite guitarists. He died in 1995. I find it hard to figure how you can know so little about them or what they did? No other band sounds like the Dead.

[@TheMetalJunkie]

yeah it's just a band no one around me listened to i guess

[@asharmstrong6730]

​@@TheMetalJunkie I regret never seeing them live myself. They didn't get over to the UK much. They played close to 3000 concerts, and almost all them were recorded by the band. They were also one of the most bootlegged bands, something they actually encouraged, setting aside a designated area at concerts for tapers. They never had a set list as such either, so every show was different: arrangements of different songs would change on the fly night to night, they'd throw in a few covers, a lot of Dylan songs, and sometimes jams could go on for 20, 30, 40 minutes. As I said, there was no other band like them, though maybe Phish come closest.

[@rmhanseniii]

I’ve heard this 1000’s of times and it’s weird as hell every time

[@dbasstij512]

"jazz solo on top of a rock song"...take that and expand it across a half dozen more genres and that's the gd!

[@StarCitizenSpeakeasy]

GD is one of my fav bands, especially the studio version of Terrapin Station but they are very hit or miss for new listeners. good luck :)

[@musicdunc]

If there’s a genre that someone’s into, there’s a Dead song that’ll fit the genre, particularly if you explore there endless archive of live performances.

[@g.e.5723]

Dude, actually, this is a tune that I'd be okay suggesting to newbies. Studio Dead albums are usually "less than". I ALWAYS tell folks to start with "Europe '72". I try to steer folks away from Studio Dead. Dead Heads will maybe disagree with me.

[@stevec1770]

Keep jammin' oot to the Dead. If you like the progressive material, check out Terrapin Station.

[@chrisstabile3243]

Interesting that your first exposure to a Dead song doesn't feature one of the normal vocalists

[@user-gj6by5jy6v]

In the early 70s there were rumors that the band was breaking up. Hold the album cover up in a mirror and see what it says...UGLY RUMORS

[@lesblatnyak5947]

Nice, the Dead would play live for 3 or more hrs, they would improvise songs too twice their length. Thats why they allowed bootlegs galore caused they rarely played the same song the same way two nights in a row. Phil Lesh, on bass is singing, he never sings. A song called Terrapin Station off Terrapin Station is an example of their long song grove.

[@metalmark1214]

This song has a bit of a yacht rock feel.

[@manualboyca]

I'll be honest - because you're a metalhead, I can't understand how someone would think you would like the dead. However....I LOVE the dead and I would suggest a million songs to react to before this one. In fact, I've never heard this song before. I'm so confused....who said to themself "this guy loves metal - they'll love Unbroken Chain?!?!?! So...confused...

[@timcardona9962]

You "love" the Dead and you're not familiar with one of the best songs they ever recorded? Odd....this is actually a great track to introduce somebody, at the very least it shows off their musical skills

[@ArienDH11]

bro you sound like a poser, at the very least a non-musician

[@leesenger3094]

I went to my first Dead show at the Oakland Colosseum on 12-27-86. My older sister took me. I was into Suicidal Tendencies and Metallica at the time and to this day. After that Dead show, I ended up seeing them over 200 times, traveling East, West, North and South, Winter, Spring, Summer and Fall! Also was lucky enough to catch the Jerry Garcia Band over 30 times as well between Dead shows. I listen to all kinda of music.

[@janna2245]

Phil Lesh the WORST singer. He is, on the other hand, an amazing bass player

[@bobschenkel7921]

NOT so. We Dead Heads would chant "We want Phil" and "Let Phil Sing" at most shows. He didn't have a wide vocal range, but he sang with real feeling and emotion, and he was funny too, and a hell of a guy.

[@bazeye]

A beautiful song spoiled by horrible sound effects.