Workingman’s Dead
#TheGratefulDead #Workingmansdead #70srock #countryrock #folkrock #jerrygarcia #bobweir #roberthunter #rootsrock #rock #rockmusic #music #musicsky #musiciansky Think this through with me ... The Dead release their 4th album on June 14, 1970. It come at a time when some decisions needed to be made -- the band was dealing with some heavy debt and the 70's music landscape was changing by the minute. They traded their trippy, sonic stuff for some…
Grateful Dead: "St. Stephen" #Bloomsday2026 #FWakeBloomsday2026
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Pop references to The Grateful Dead employ stereotypes about the band and the Deadheads. Frank Zappa's "Teen-Age Wind" ("You Are What You Is", 1981) milks the tropes of the Deadhead as sponger and of Jerry Garcia's long solos: "And nobody'll give me a ride to the Grateful Dead concert [...] I
Today, I've been listening to The Grateful Dead's concert at the Los Angeles Memorial Sports Arena on 16 December 1994. This was the last of the five Dead shows where saxophonist Branford Marsalis sat in. The first was at Nassau Coliseum on Long Island on 29 March 1990; the complete
The Grateful Dead is the debut studio album by the American rock band the Grateful Dead, released by Warner Bros. Records on March 17, 1967.
Robert Christgau wrote of the album:
One of the year's few supposedly psychedelic LPs that wasn't actually a pop LP (cf. Sgt. Pepper, Forever Changes, Mellow Yellow), the already legendary San Francisco band-collective's debut stood out and stands tall because its boogieing folk rock epitomizes the San Francisco ballroom ethos—blues-based tunes played by musicians who came to rhythm late, expanded so they were equally suitable for dancing and for tripping out... - Wikipedia
During my last few months in Palo Alto before I moved to Philadelphia for graduate school in September 1988, I went to see The Grateful Dead play a Saturday and Sunday pair of shows on 30 April and 1 May at Stanford's Frost Amphitheater. The Saturday show (which has been
For class today, I printed the two quatrains and the one-line chorus of "The Other One", by Bob Weir and Bill Kreutzmann (The Grateful Dead, "Anthem of the Sun", 1968), three times and cut them into three sets of nine one-line strips each. I carefully handed out the strips to
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