[mcullinan]

What are everyones favorite Dead songs? Is it ok to keep this in the same thread?
Mine are:
Eyes of the World
El Paso
Black Muddy River
 

[Mike Nomad]

Well, since you are including covers, I'll have to say:

Estimated Prophet

He's Gone

Visions of Johanna (my first 1st)

[martyo]

What are everyones favorite Dead songs? Is it ok to keep this in the same thread?
Mine are:
Eyes of the World
El Paso
Black Muddy River
 

I will list mine if you want, but trying this over the years the # is between 20 and 30. It starts like this:
Uncle John's Band
China Cat/Rider
Jack Straw
Deal
Bertha
Morning Dew
Scarlet/Fire
Hard to Handle
Greatest Story
Saint of Circumstance
St Stephen
Cold Rain and Snow
Ship of Fools
Feel Like a Stranger
and Peggy-O/Fennario and The Mission
and..........  

[mcullinan]

Ooh Ship of Fools, love that song!!! Hes gone too.

[martyo]

Mike,

Why do you consider Estimated (Weir,Barlow)(which needs to be on my list too) and He's Gone (Hunter,Garcia) covers?

[martyo]

Ooh Ship of Fools, love that song!!! Hes gone too.

See, that is what I mean. That's what happens with me Mike. 

Mike, kinda figured Stella Blue for you too, and Crazy Fingers, which needs to be on my list too.

[Mike Nomad]

I will list mine if you want, but trying this over the years the # is between 20 and 30.

Yer cheatin! 

mcullinan only listed three...

@ martyo:

I don't consider Estimated or He's Gone as covers. I was working off your original post, which included El Paso (Marty Robbins).

(sorry about the missing 't' in your name when I first posted. keyboard replacement on the horizon)

[mcullinan]

Yeah.. that was part of the Deads charm, magnificence. They took these songs and morphed them into their own. And the Dead have always shown a deference to musical history. By playing they showed an incredible love/appreciation for whats gone before and they were original in how they treated each song.
M

The Marty Robbins original is great too! For me I love the story of it!!!
http://lala.com/zeZR

[martyo]

I don't consider Estimated or He's Gone as covers. I was working off your original post, which included El Paso (Marty Robbins).

Sorry, wasn't thinking

El Paso should probably be on my list too. Took a young lady to her first show in Berkeley in '70. She got so excited at El Paso, "we sang that in chorus"....

[Len_Dreyer]

A few of my favorites not mentioned:

early 70's - Friend Of The Devil
Loser
Dark Star
Sugar Magnolia
Looks Like Rain

Len

[Mike Nomad]

Yeah.. that was part of the Deads charm, magnificence. They took these songs and morphed them into their own. And the Dead have always shown a deference to musical history. By playing they showed an incredible love/appreciation for whats gone before and they were original in how they treated each song.
M

The Marty Robbins original is great too! For me I love the story of it!!!
http://lala.com/zeZR

One of my favorite Cover You'd Swear The Band Wrote is All New Minglewood Blues, in part because of how convoluted the lineage is: All New Minglewood Blues (1978) updates their “New New Minglewood Blues,” found on the first album (1967), which is a cover/update of Noah Lewis’ “New Minglwood Blues” (1930), which is an update of his own “Minglewood Blues” from a few years earlier (1928).

[mcullinan]

heh... Its almost a tongue twister!

[tvyankee]

Mine is, Cold Rain & Snow,

There gonna open tomorrow night with that? Thats right i said and i will be there 3rd row DEAD Center to hear it in all of its Bliss.

Thank You and Good Night.

[DeadFish]

I have to tell y'all that I like them all.

It is that simple.

Except for the first three albums, I bought most of them on the day they came out.
Quite frankly, I never bought a Dead album I liked on that day.
It always took a long listen.  And with a long listen came a long liking, especially with the convolutions and spins that the band could put on any particular song.

So, if you followed that, there is reason that I actually like them all, having at one time never liked any.
 

...well, it made sense when I typed it...

Best Regards,
DeadFish

[Len_Dreyer]

For those who might not have tried it, I just did, gdradio.net plays very nicely through my sb3.

Len

[bprice2]

I have to tell y'all that I like them all.

It is that simple.

Except for the first three albums, I bought most of them on the day they came out.
Quite frankly, I never bought a Dead album I liked on that day.
It always took a long listen.  And with a long listen came a long liking, especially with the convolutions and spins that the band could put on any particular song.

So, if you followed that, there is reason that I actually like them all, having at one time never liked any.
 

...well, it made sense when I typed it...

Best Regards,
DeadFish

Oddly enough, this makes a lot of sense to me.    It seems like every song I've heard that I didn't like so much, I've heard another version that I thought was amazing...and vice versa. 

[Mike Nomad]

I have to tell y'all that I like them all.

It is that simple.

Except for the first three albums, I bought most of them on the day they came out.
Quite frankly, I never bought a Dead album I liked on that day.
It always took a long listen.  And with a long listen came a long liking, especially with the convolutions and spins that the band could put on any particular song.

So, if you followed that, there is reason that I actually like them all, having at one time never liked any.
 

...well, it made sense when I typed it...

Best Regards,
DeadFish

+1. Brilliant summation of (a part) of the Deadhead Experience. After 35 or so years of listening to The Boys, there are parts of Anthem of the Sun and Blues For Allah where I am still waiting for ignition. Eh. Sometimes it's like that...

[DeadFish]

+1. Brilliant summation of (a part) of the Deadhead Experience. After 35 or so years of listening to The Boys, there are parts of Anthem of the Sun and Blues For Allah where I am still waiting for ignition. Eh. Sometimes it's like that...

'Zactly, Mike!   

[zybar]

Since I am killing time at Heathrow waiting for a flight, seemed like the perfect opportunity to listen to some Dead (Dick's Picks Vol 10 from 1977) and post what some of my favorite songs are.

Here is my top five in no particular order:

-  Peggy-O
-  Scarlet Begonias>Fire on the Mountain (ok, I am cheating by selecting two songs - but who cares?)
-  They Love Each Other (one of my two wedding songs)
-  Brokedown Palace
-  Mississippi Half Step Uptown Toodleloo

Man, that was so hard to just pick five songs!!

As Deadfish said so well..."I like them all".

How about a different thread with favorite Jerry tunes?

George

[Mike Nomad]

Hey Now!

This may be old news for some, but, (if I understand the story correctly) the source for this 24-bit transfer of 17 Oct 1974 are 3.5 IPS reels made for Jerry:

http://bt.etree.org/details.php?id=525174

Files download as FLAC. I've only listened to the first couple of minutes, so far. Sound is most totally excellent. The first couple of seconds of the opening track are repeated, and need to be cut out. Also missing the last song & the encores (Sugar Mag, Casey Jones & US Blues).

Update 1: BEWARE - Very noisy technical problems during the first song. I thought my system was having a meltdown...

Update 2: It's obvious these reels were done for personal use / picking tracks for a cue sheet, etc.: A few seconds of applause is left at the end of each track, along with the few seconds before the first note of each track. So, the cuts are _hard_.