Tennessee Jed?

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#101
I bet I could drop in a lot of the Grateful Dead’s typical 1st set songs between 1970-1974 and some of the barn burners from 1977-1980 into a playlist without telling most people from this board who is singing and would get a positive reaction. Deal, Jack Straw, Brown Eyed Women, Minglewood Blues, US Blues, Going Down the Road Feeling Bad, Promised Land, Sugar Magnolia, Casey Jones, list goes on…
They played jug band music, bluegrass, psychedelic rock, jazz, avant garde, classic country western, classic rock, disco, funk, and just about everything under the sun as times changed over a 30 year touring history. 3,000 live shows.
 
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HODGY said:
I bet I could drop in a lot of the Grateful Dead’s typical 1st set songs between 1970-1974 and some of the barn burners from 1977-1980 into a playlist without telling most people from this board who is singing and would get a positive reaction. Deal, Jack Straw, Brown Eyed Women, Minglewood Blues, US Blues, Going Down the Road Feeling Bad, Promised Land, Sugar Magnolia, Casey Jones, list goes on…
They played jug band music, bluegrass, psychedelic rock, jazz, avant garde, classic country western, classic rock, disco, funk, and just about everything under the sun as times changed over a 30 year touring history. 3,000 live shows.
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Maybe not for everyone, but fantastic songwriters and musicians.
 
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BanditVol said:
I like quite a few of them, but also think they are overated.

I will say this...Yesterday is generally considered the greatest pop song of all time by a large consensus. If you know anything about music, it's also a very complex song with a very original chord sequence. There is nothing else like it, and Paul McCartney says he literally dreamed it up one night and wrote it down when he woke up. I am impressed by their song-writing ability for sure.

But yeah, though I appreciate they could write music, not a huge fan. I grew up in the 70s and 80s, and the Beatles just seemed so stale. They still do! :D
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Yesterday is my favorite Beatles song.
 
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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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You'd be a lot cooler if you did.....
 
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SoFloVFL said:
You'd be a lot cooler if you did.....
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lol! Nah, I'd just be wondering when the flashback was going to hit

So I take it you are "cool" in this sense? :D:D:D
HODGY said:
I bet I could drop in a lot of the Grateful Dead’s typical 1st set songs between 1970-1974 and some of the barn burners from 1977-1980 into a playlist without telling most people from this board who is singing and would get a positive reaction. Deal, Jack Straw, Brown Eyed Women, Minglewood Blues, US Blues, Going Down the Road Feeling Bad, Promised Land, Sugar Magnolia, Casey Jones, list goes on…
They played jug band music, bluegrass, psychedelic rock, jazz, avant garde, classic country western, classic rock, disco, funk, and just about everything under the sun as times changed over a 30 year touring history. 3,000 live shows.
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Yes, very impressive creativity and reach and whatever else you want to call it, and I get they have some hard core fans. Just not my thing for the most part.
 
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Daddy made whiskey and he made it well …cost two dollars and it burned like hell. I cut hickory to fire the still. Drink down a bottle and be ready to kill.
Brown eyed women and red grenadine. The bottle was dusty but the liquor was clean. Sound of the thunder with the rain pouring down and it looks like those Damn Vols are getting down.,,,,it’s time for a Wildcat beat down!
 
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BanditVol said:
lol! Nah, I'd just be wondering when the flashback was going to hit

So I take it you are "cool" in this sense? :D:D:D
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Naw, I wouldn't recommend it for anyone that doesn't want to do it....I was just making a matthew mcconaughey reference from Daized and Confused....I have alot of things from my wild days that I would take back, but I'm not positive those experiences are included in them...and it's definitely not for everyone.
 
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VeeOhElEsYes said:
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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Meh, honestly it's not a factor of me hating the Dead or anything. Hell, I ended up seeing them in concert like 3 times.

I am actually quite fond of Jerry Garcia's version of "Whiskey in The Jar". Listening to it right now as a matter of fact.

Just saying that my normal musical rates usually involve very loud guitars.
 
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BanditVol said:
lol! Nah, I'd just be wondering when the flashback was going to hit

So I take it you are "cool" in this sense? :D:D:D
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I’ll say this. I will go to my grave knowing that trying LSD was one of the best things I ever did. Now I’m not suggesting it would be good for everyone, or that everyone try it—but for me, it made me see and understand things in a new way, made me more open-minded and less judgmental of other people. By all accounts, it made me a better, more likeable, more friendly, and happier person. Plus, it led to me making some decisions in my career that made it more lucrative than I would have EVER expected.

I haven’t tried it in years, and probably never will again. But I do believe that psychedelics opened up a part of my mind that made my life MUCH MUCH better.
 
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SoFloVFL said:
Naw, I wouldn't recommend it for anyone that doesn't want to do it....I was just making a matthew mcconaughey reference from Daized and Confused....I have alot of things from my wild days that I would take back, but I'm not positive those experiences are included in them...and it's definitely not for everyone.
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Ah that movie. I hate that movie and particularly the director. His philosophy of life as expressed in his films is "there is no God so why not just get high all the time". To me, he's a microcosm of what's wrong with a lot of people in our country. But now I am veering off into politics and religion. :eek::D
 
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BanditVol said:
Ah that movie. I hate that movie and particularly the director. His philosophy of life as expressed in his films is "there is no God so why not just get high all the time". To me, he's a microcosm of what's wrong with a lot of people in our country. But now I am veering off into politics and religion. :eek::D
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The three biggest sources of argument for Southerners…politics, religion, and college football. We are already tempting fate in Volnation by discussing one of the big three 😂
 
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BanditVol said:
Ah that movie. I hate that movie and particularly the director. His philosophy of life as expressed in his films is "there is no God so why not just get high all the time". To me, he's a microcosm of what's wrong with a lot of people in our country. But now I am veering off into politics and religion. :eek::D
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Yeah, it's not my favorite movie either, I was just making a joke, so we can agree there. And probably on religion too. While I had wild times in my early years, I eventually found Jesus. Thankfully.
 
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BanditVol said:
Ah that movie. I hate that movie and particularly the director. His philosophy of life as expressed in his films is "there is no God so why not just get high all the time". To me, he's a microcosm of what's wrong with a lot of people in our country. But now I am veering off into politics and religion. :eek::D
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I think you should revisit the works of Richard Linklater.
 
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EasternVol said:
Helter Skelter and Hey Jude are good in my view. That's about it.
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Heh. Another David Keith flashback. We had 5th period study hall together, I think it was 1971, our junior year at Young High. Singing Hey Jude when it came on the radio I brought to school. Mornings in the cafeteria we would play “football” flipping field goals at each other with a triangular folded sheet of paper.
 
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#120
Never understood the appeal of The Grateful Dead. "Truckin'" and "Casey Jones" were ok, but not much else.
 
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kcvols1 said:
I think you should revisit the works of Richard Linklater.
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Thats exactly who I'm talking about. I think Dazed and Confused is an apologia for being a worthless stoner with no ambition in life (no, I am not holding back here). It's the opposite of what I believe in.

I also saw the "Boy" movies. The very end is when The Boy is now in college, early in his frosh year, and it's confusing, so he and some friends go and drop shrooms.

Seriously. That's this guys answer to life. Get high! That's all he knows apparently.

I have nothing but contempt for him.
 
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