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The Grateful Dead - Are any of you fans?

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  • EricTheWearyEricTheWeary Frets: 16293
    danishbacon said:
    What did you guys expect them to sound like?
    Long hair, skulls, guitars, scary name - probably closer to Black Sabbath than Willie Nelson.

    Lot of bands I never really heard at the time, just saw the pictures. I read an entire book about Kiss without hearing them ( they were a bit disappointing as well, although I wasn’t as far wide of the mark). I remember reading quite a lot about ZZ Top in Sounds and then getting to watch them on OGWT, exceeded my expectations and I’ve loved them ever since. 

    And I’ve still never heard Policeman With a Loaf of Bread. 
    Tipton is a small fishing village in the borough of Sandwell. 
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  • gringopiggringopig Frets: 2648
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  • danishbacondanishbacon Frets: 2694
    Fair enough, I grew up knowing the deadbeats and furry looking leftover adult deadheads who were all about peace and love so I only ever associated their visauls with that!
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  • Philly_QPhilly_Q Frets: 22714
    edited November 2018
    What did you guys expect them to sound like?

    As @EricTheWeary has said, I saw the posters, the hair, the guitars... I also had a book called "West Coast Story" in which I read about bands like Alice Cooper, the Beach Boys, the Doors and the Grateful Dead several years before I ever heard their music.  It had pictures of the Dead on stage with big lava-lamp light shows...

    I'm not sure exactly what I was expecting.  Not a proto-metal band, but certainly something intense, trippy and psychedelic.  And BASSY!  I guess something a bit like Iron Butterfly, or early Pink Floyd maybe?  And then to hear the reality - not that I've heard very much, even now - with that light, almost country-ish feel.  I really don't like "Americana", and it seems closer to that kind of sound than I ever imagined it would.

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  • gringopiggringopig Frets: 2648
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  • not_the_djnot_the_dj Frets: 7306
    American Beauty and Workingman's Dead is about as far as I've got with The Dead.

    I'll check out the series on Prime, thanks to the chap that first mentioned it. 
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  • ronnybronnyb Frets: 1747
    This is the house where they lived in the Haight Ashbury area of San Francisco. Visited earlier this year.
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  • CloudNineCloudNine Frets: 4256
    edited November 2018
    Much wisdom in this thread from @gringopig   The thing about the Grateful Dead, if you do get into them, you are in for a treat in terms of available material, as due to the big 'taping scene' that went on over the years, they must be one of the most recorded bands in history. 
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  • duotoneduotone Frets: 982
    @ronnyb ;
    Nic picture, I remember seeing that on the Bob Weir documentary, he walks around inside trying to remember who lived in what room...said it was a bit hazy  =)
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  • duotoneduotone Frets: 982
    Discovered yesterday that there is a Classic Album show on the making of “Anthem of the Sun” & ‘American Beauty’. I need to track this down, nothing on YouTube atm unfortunately.

    https://qello.com/concert/Classic-Albums-Anthem-To-Beauty-2477

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