Tennessee Jed?

#51
#51
CCR was probably the greatest rock and roll band in America, or at least they could have been... If you look at their body of work and what they did in two or three four years it is freaking off the charts.
Lawyers money agents and jealousy killed that band.
 
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Zues1 said:
CCR was probably the greatest rock and roll band in America, or at least they could have been... If you look at their body of work and what they did in two or three four years it is freaking off the charts.
Lawyers money agents and jealousy killed that band.
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They're up there with Grand Funk
 
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I'd venture out to say that most Dead haters on here have hardly even listened to any of their music and associate their music with a hippie stereotype. Hillbillies should love the Dead, they're are the embodiment of Americana music. Easily the most important and influential rock band of all time. The Music Never Stopped.
 
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stolitonic said:
Meh, I always preferred the Stones. The Beatles were a bit "full of themselves". The Stones were always more of a "I'm gonna get drunk and steal your woman" kind of vibe.
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Here's your song man.

I was born in a desert
Raised in a lion's den
And my number one occupation
Is stealing women from their men
 
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TN Dog said:
I’m a Musician, a huge deadhead and I bleed orange! The Grateful Dead covered so many genres of music and they’re the greatest American rock ‘n’ roll band of all time!
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To each his own, but my vote for Greatest American rock n roll band goes to the guys who wrote the Unofficial Fight Song of the USA:



Doesn't even bother me that he was from Gainesville, Florida.
 
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Tennessee Tennessee ain't no place I'd rather be... Love this song! One of the Deads best and always gets me teary eyed for my home! I used to smear the Dead till I recently really gave them a listen. Jerry's guitar is on par with Hindrix (truth!) and the tunes are remarkable in their catchiness and to use their word "inspiration". There's a reason they were America's top selling band for a generation, (Eagles and Fleetwood Mac being possible exceptions). I just wish I had been "awake" enough in the 80's and 90's when they were still on the road, rather than living in MC Hammertime. Would absolutely love to have this rockin' somehow at Neyland!
 
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VeeOhElEsYes said:
It's crazy to me that Grateful Dead's Tennessee Jed is not a huge song for the Vols played during games. Why is it not?! I think heard I've the Pride of the Southland play it before, but just can't believe it's not a household song for all Vols fan. Go Vols!
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It was used on the video board for the montage that ran between the third and fourth quarters for several years. They quit using it because they wanted to be able to post the videos to the web afterwards, and could not get the digital rights to do so. It’s why you see them use the same song every week for the “this is Tennessee“ video, they purchased digital rights to use and distribute that song.
 
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vol_in_ga said:
People who don’t like the dead are plain vanilla. Not that that’s a bad thing, vanilla is great, but just because you have no creative bone in your body or ability to appreciate anything other than a 3 chord skynard song within the rock realm doesn’t mean that which you don’t understand sucks.
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This person who dislikes both the dead as well as Skynard will gladly compare music appreciation playlists with you in terms of depth, complexity, and quality. Questions of taste should not devolve into casting dispersions on another’s musical knowledge or sensitivities.
 
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AlumniVol said:
sheesh the dead hate is strong in here damn lol. I love the dead but understand they are not for everyone
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I don’t hate the Dead. I am INDIFFERENT to the Dead. There is a difference. They don’t move the needle for me one way or another. Now Skynard by comparison, produces feelings of nausea as does anything rap related.
 
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My guess is that their "stoned out of their mind on acid" ethos doesn't appeal to the great majority of Vol fans (a small subset it does though, I am sure :p)

I have always known about them is the big connection to LSD.

What I didn't know until reading a book that included a lot of background on Bay Area musicians in the late 60s, is that the Grateful Dead actually STARTED the LSD epidemic. One of their sound men had a degree in chemistry and figured out a way to make a quality product on the cheap.

So very familiar with musicians being stoners, that's about as common as grass on a football field, but being the ones that started the manufacture of a drug is unique.

But yeah, not a fan either. Never dropped acid. :p
 
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VeeOhElEsYes said:
It's crazy to me that Grateful Dead's Tennessee Jed is not a huge song for the Vols played during games. Why is it not?! I think heard I've the Pride of the Southland play it before, but just can't believe it's not a household song for all Vols fan. Go Vols!
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Heck no. You've got to be kidding me. That was awful
 
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vol_in_ga said:
People who don’t like the dead are plain vanilla. Not that that’s a bad thing, vanilla is great, but just because you have no creative bone in your body or ability to appreciate anything other than a 3 chord skynard song within the rock realm doesn’t mean that which you don’t understand sucks.
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Just when I was starting to believe all of the assurances that Grateful Dead fans aren't just a bunch of oddballs whose heads are full of bong water, you go and say something like this.
 
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BanditVol said:
My guess is that their "stoned out of their mind on acid" ethos doesn't appeal to the great majority of Vol fans (a small subset it does though, I am sure :p)

I have always known about them is the big connection to LSD.

What I didn't know until reading a book that included a lot of background on Bay Area musicians in the late 60s, is that the Grateful Dead actually STARTED the LSD epidemic. One of their sound men had a degree in chemistry and figured out a way to make a quality product on the cheap.

So very familiar with musicians being stoners, that's about as common as grass on a football field, but being the ones that started the manufacture of a drug is unique.

But yeah, not a fan either. Never dropped acid. :p
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I think that’s the subject of Steely Dan’s “Kid Charlemagne”.
 
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