Orders should arrive within 3-5 business days after processing time. Standard Shipping ships via USPS First Class with tracking. Standard Shipping on orders under $59.99 is $6.95(AK & HI $7.95). See you next album, and be ever wonderful.Free shipping on orders over $59.99. Editing is by Rich Bunnell, and special thanks to Mike DeFabio for production and original music. Follow Discord & Rhyme on Twitter for news, updates, and other music stuff that strikes our fancy, often/usually related to the Moody Blues. You can buy or stream American Beauty and other albums by the Grateful Dead at Spotify, Apple Music, YouTube, Amazon, and any number of other retailers. The Grateful Dead - Box of Rain (this episode only) The Dukes of Stratosphear - What in the World?. “Discord & Rhyme (theme),” composed by the Other Leading Brand, contains elements of: Howard Wales – organ on "Candyman", "Truckin'" piano on "Brokedown Palace" Pigpen (Ron McKernan) – harmonica, vocals, lyrics on "Operator"ĭavid Grisman – mandolin on "Friend of the Devil", "Ripple"ĭavid Nelson – electric guitar on "Box of Rain"ĭave Torbert – bass guitar on "Box of Rain" Phil Lesh – bass guitar, guitar, piano, vocals Jerry Garcia – guitar, pedal steel, piano, vocals Tons of Grateful Dead show freely and legally available on the Internet Archive ()ĭiscord & Rhyme’s American Beauty playlist (Spotify)Ĭhina Cat Sunflower->I Know You Rider (Europe ‘72 version)Ĭrosby, Stills, Nash, & Young - Teach Your Children While they were never quite as good post-77 as they were before it (in this writer’s opinion, obviously), there’s still plenty of good stuff to be found and there’s plenty of resources on the internet that will help you explore further. If you like these shows - feel free to dig around more in the eras in which they were recorded. It’s probably the best starter for getting into post-74 Dead. The band is really tight here - far tighter than they were pre-hiatus - so it’s a great way to hear the band in their element without them going too far out into extended jamming. Gives you a really good picture of what the band sounded like at the time - jazzy and spacey, with lots of extended improvs, but grounded in country and folk.Ĭornell 5/8/77 - This show is legendary amongst Deadheads (many consider it their all-time best show) and while it’s not that good, it’s very good. The Grateful Dead Movie Soundtrack - A five-disc set of tracks from their final set of shows in 1974 before the band took a two-year long live performance hiatus. If you don’t like this one, there’s a good chance that the Dead just aren’t for you. Plus - excellent thirty-minute versions of “Dark Star,” “That’s It For The Other One,” and “Turn On Your Lovelight.”Įurope ‘72 - A triple live recording made soon after American Beauty, this contains tons of wonderful new songs and fantastic renditions of earlier songs. Your best bet for getting into the early, psychedelic Dead.ĭick’s Picks Volume 4 - Highlights from a pair of shows from February 1970, this is a good blend of their earlier psychedelic sound with some of the more country and folk based music that would soon make up Workingman’s Dead. Live/Dead - The original classic 1969 live album, filled to the brim with A+ jams. Here are his recommendations for getting started started, presented chronologically by recording date (with Amazon affiliate links): The final scene of Freaks and Geeks, where Lindsay sneaks off to follow the Grateful Dead on tour that makes heavy use of “Ripple,” is available on YouTube here.Īt the end of the episode, Phil promised a brief rundown of getting into live Dead recordings, since they have so many that it’s nearly impossible to know where to start. WARNING: While historically significant, it’s a pretty bad show, so don’t start your live Dead journey here. You can hear the complete live version of “Box Of Rain” that served as the final encore of the final Dead show we mentioned at the Internet Archive here. The word “Beauty” on the cover of this album is written in a font that can be read ambiguously - depending on how you look at it, the title can also be read as “American Reality”. Short on jams and long on great songs and fantastic harmony vocals, American Beauty is a folk-and-country tinged masterpiece and is a wonderful entry point for beginning your voyage into the world of the Grateful Dead. While the group is perhaps best known for their marathon live sets and endless catalog of concert recordings, Phil decided to focus on 1970’s American Beauty - the album generally considered to be the band’s best studio LP. Well, Phil isn’t a stoner at all, and he’s here to tell you all about why the Grateful Dead are great. The Grateful Dead are such a ubiquitous cultural institution that many people don’t engage with their music - it’s frequently written off as slow, lazy music for stoners.
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