The grateful dead

Erick Vallerwrote:

Love the Dead here, seeing Dead and Co is my modern excuse for catching shows and visiting different climbing areas (skipped the last tour/wanted to take a summer off from solo cross country touring). The usual tour closers allow me to revisit Boulder and see old friends/projects, Alpine Valley gives me the excuse for the Devils Lake trip. Personally I’m wondering what the crossover with Zappa fans are. Plenty of routes and boulders paying tribute to Zappa tunes, but in my travels/shows/experience Dead fans are totally on board or “I’m not into that at all”. So to sum up: I’m a vegan, atheist, Deadhead who LOVES Zappa. I just want to know how small of a percentage of the population I belong to. 

I’m just as much a Zappa fan as I am a dead fan.  I agree, pretty weird

Climberdudewrote:

I’m just as much a Zappa fan as I am a dead fan.  I agree, pretty weird

We’re a special bunch for sure

Are there people other than the Dead making music? Would be news to me.

Long long silky silky crazy crazy night. 

Buck Riowrote:

I just gave away my Custom Shop Signature Series Robert Cray Strat to my nephew in Denver. My fingers hurt too much to barre a chord, so I figured he could use it until I die, then he can have it.  I kept my LP standard, just because I like to look at (tobacco burst).

Man, that's rough.  I dunno if I -could- stop playing music at this point.  I'd have to focus more on pedal steel or (shudder) blues harp.

That's classy of you to pay the music forward.  Good on you.

PNW Chosswrote:

Excuse my ignorance ive never been a fan. I thought that the Grateful Dead was dead. I was under the impression that without Gerry they are just "the Dead". How does a band missing the key member have a reunion tour? That would be like Nirvana with no Kurt. 

Automatic disqualification for calling him ‘Gerry’

I totally have heard of Chris Benchetler and think the Grateful Dead totally sucks.

Millennial climbing partners to me in my car on the way to the crag, "...um...would it be ok to, ever, listen to something other than the Dead?"

Listen to: I know you rider, me and my uncle, Mississippi half step, Tennessee Jed every time I drive past New  Paltz on the way to West Trapps. Dicks picks. Kansas 1974

The Dead is Dead.  They're okay but heard everything a billion times.  The post-dead jam-band movement is where the cool stuff is:  Widespread Panic, String Cheese Incident, Leftover Salmon, Moe, Keller Williams, etc, etc.

https://jambands.com

By all means, listen to your Dead.  But don't stagnate there. Expand your horizons.

I've inhaled once before so obviously I listen to the Grayeful Dead. But in all seriousness they are by far my favorite band especially to listen to while climbing, it helps me get in the right flow.

Get lots of compliments on my stealie chacos at the crag. Love the dead but Phish is my favorite.

Spider Savagewrote:

heard everything a billion times.

This is one of the best things about the dead. It's like you pick your 10 favorite songs, then listen to them play it slightly different each time...over and over and over until infinity

John Reevewrote:

Man, that's rough.  I dunno if I -could- stop playing music at this point.  I'd have to focus more on pedal steel or (shudder) blues harp.

That's classy of you to pay the music forward.  Good on you.

I still pull out my trombone from time to time. My embouchure still works. 

Spider Savagewrote:

...the cool stuff is.....

Hoh-man.  That's a fine wine, Jason Todd.

you guys should check out dave matthews bands

Top Roperwrote:

Automatic disqualification for calling him ‘Gerry’

I think it's spelled "Trey"

PNW Chosswrote:

Excuse my ignorance ive never been a fan.

Same here. GD = excessive quasi-muisical masturbation. They are the origin reason I despise jam bands.

you'll find ramblers from East and West telling high of `fire on the mountain` and zipping around `going down the road feeling bad`