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If I'm honest I enjoyed listening to the first five minutes of pretty noodling while reading all the one star reviews, wondering why all the visceral backlash. I enjoyed listening to the Analyse Phish podcast with Harris Wittels (RIP) and going on that journey even though Phish are clearly shite. I'm still enjoying it 12 minutes in tbh, although it's a shame I don't have this on a day I'm working as it would be good to have in the background. I looked the whole first track, all 23 minutes. After St Stephen started I'm on the I'm Our train, much more jam band nonsense like Phish with silly lyrics. Things are back on track with The Eleven. Bass, drums and guitar all intermingling nicely. I can't argue with this at all. Basically all the time noone is singing this is pretty good. Enjoyed some of Turn on Your Love Light but there was far too much bullshit coming out the mouth of the big man. Think I'm going pretty solidly down the middle here, and that's before the 7 minutes of feedback I know is coming, doubt that will sway me either way (as it turns out it was far mellower and nice than I expected). Decent while it was on, very much doubt I'll be back to any of it particularly.
I wish i liked them. But i don't. It's like background jazz.
good background music but i dont think i would seek it out bc the tracks are so long and rambling
Jam bands aren't a favorite of mine but I can understand why folks who are jam band friendly would like this album.
Jazz. Rock
I know it's a jam album, but I don't get this jam. A bit too noisy and disorganized.
Jos tämä tosiaan on improvisaatiota, saa siitä pelkiltään yhden tähden, koska kovin hyvinhän tämä pysyy kasassa! Kivoja melodioita joten kivahan ne on kuulla uudestaan ja uudestaan ja tauon jälkeen uudestaan. Eli kääntöpuoli: sairaan pitkä ja ei meinaa lähtee kuin ajoittain
Haluanko OIKEASTI oikeasti osallistua mihinkään näistä orgioista uudelleen? Tällä hetkellä luulen, että en. Tai toivon.
what
I can't imagine following this band around.
Of all the dumb live albums on this list, this is probably the worst. Even if I were a Grateful Dead fan I'm not sure why I'd rather listen to this than one of the countless other bootlegs out there.
A really good album, I'm a fan of instrumental music so this was a big hit for me.
I'm sure this sounded great in their heads. It's unfortunate that it didn't stay there. This is awful.
Definitely a vibe
The only GD album I own. I find the studio albums a bit underwhelming but this (especially the first disc!) Is joyous. A band that feels each other in performance.
If I were to sue the Grateful Dead, or their estate, for the 75 minutes I lost listening to this self-indulgent, pointless drivel, what do you think my chances of winning would be? Seriously though, I just don't get the appeal of the Dead. I've always been a classic rock/blues/psychedelia kind of guy, but the Dead never resonated with me. 2 stars.
I’ve enjoyed a couple of Grateful Dead’s live albums before but this one is not good. The first couple of tracks seem really aimless, there are a couple of better ones towards the middle, but then the 7 minute track of just feedback towards the end was the final straw
Isn't the whole thing about the Dead is that you have to SEE them perform live? In person? On acid? So my inclination is to brand this as a memento for anyone who went to a Dead show. I saw the Dead in the Gimme Shelter movie, where they peaced out after being informed that the Hell's Angels were picking fights with members of Jefferson Airplane. That's as close as I ever came to seeing them live. This album suggests I didn't miss much. But I enjoyed Gimme Shelter from the comfort of my living room. Got to see The Flying Burrito Brothers with future Eagle Bernie Leadon, Grace Slick in all her Jefferson Airplane glory, and a German Shepherd get up on Stage with The Stones. The Dead blew it. They could have influenced the Hell's Angels. Apparently they were friendly with them. Shame on Garcia and company for sticking Mick Jagger with the tab.
I couldn’t even listen to this thing in full; I had to skip ahead several times. Also, one almost 8-minute “song” of feedback is insane. It’s a no from me.
I like it. I think jam bands have their place and I’m glad to hear good call and response in the recording
This was the most obnoxious album I have had to listen to yet. The sound was muddy, there was a 23 minute meandering go no where song, 7 minutes of feedback and to end it all a 36 second closer. I hated it so much it actually nearly ruined my day.
Very jam heavy. Not much substance, either. It was still good background noise, but it didn’t make for a good listening experience.
Not really my style
I wasn't sure what to expect. I didn't hate it, but again, it didn't 'grab' me at any stage. In fact, I remember thinking "this first track goes on a bit" and then when I checked we had actually reached track 4! I guess that is the best analysis I can provide my experience - it was all a bit monotonous.
Niet iets waarvan ik spijt heb er niet live bij te zijn geweest
Sounded like a cat dying
Ehhh it's ok, but doesn't do much for me.
I realised pretty quickly that 23-minute live tracks are next to impossible to focus on for the entire duration. So, beware; this is not an album for close listening. I also imagine this would've been pretty painful to listen to live. That being said, it's excellent background music. The jams are mellow and laid-back without sounding too egregiously noodly. The melodies are unmemorable but not bad. The instrumentation and musical skill being showcased is fairly strong. Can I see myself giving this album a 3, on par with Hearts and Bones, Born in the USA, and Natty Dread? Sure - but no way it's getting higher than that.
I love The Dead, but I’m not into live albums as I’ve mentioned. But this one is a bit more than just some live recording of some concert some time ago. It is a beautiful time capsule of a bygone era. I understand it was a quasi-religious experience to see The Dead live or even give up a conventional life altogether to follow them on the road. That is so fucking cool, and I would have loved to be a carefree Deadhead hippie had I been born in the right decade to do so. Instead I’ll have to settle for lighting some incense at home so I can vibe to Jerry and the boys from the confines of my inflexible normcore life while considering what is and what might have been.
Maybe being familiar with the studio versions would make this better for me. Some interesting bits but a solid middle of the pack experience.
Favorite Songs: Dark Star St Stephen Holy moly, what an Album. The mixture of Kathy tunes and 60s rock is just mindblowingly good.
I'm still not convinced live albums belong on the list, but if they do, this is a good one. Proto prog, still with masses of psychedelic influence, with extended (to an average of over 10 minutes a song) versions and jams. Good background music, but doesn't really grab my attention much. I really liked it, but would have preferred to see the show as well (or to have been there!)
Jam sessions...
not my type of music, but good late 60's album
all you haters are lucky they didn't put triple LP Europe 72 on the list instead :P
There was no need to put this album on this list. Almost no reason to make the album in the first place. I’m sure it was a fun concert to be at, but if you asked the attendees if they thought that concert was to go down in history as one of the best of all time, they’d probably say, “Meh. Was alright, but nothing special.” if they were being honest with themselves. It was alright but barely escapes getting a one. 2/5
I like Grateful Dead. Noodling jam bandy stuff isn't my favorite so, as much as they're hailed as a live music experience, I'll happily just take their studio tracks. This was alright though.
As a Deadhead , kind of a disappointment that they chose this live album to be on this list. This does not show how a much of a powerhouse live band they were, like their further live albums such as Europe 72 and Cornell 77 would. If you're a Deadhead, this album is going to be enjoyable, but everyone else is going to hate it. This album is not going to convert anyone to be a Grateful Dead fan anytime soon.
I FUCKING HATE JAM BANDS
Dorky cacophonous stoned noodling. Fucking hairy hippies.
Nah... Langsom om at komme i gang
To be entirely honest, I don't usually like listening to the Dead's live albums: they meander and can go on forever (6 songs -not counting the last and seventh, clocking in at a mere 37 seconds - totaling 1:13:09...seriously?), and each performance is of variable quality depending on the crowd, the set list, and the how high the group was; BUT here we have a 1969 recording, which means Jerry and Pigpen (on harmonica) are still with us, and the band is just revving up to their cult status while playing small free shows in The Haight. That alone warrants a listen. The album cover is gorgeous, and as we open with Dark Star (at the Fillmore, no less), a sense of peace and dreamy wonder come over me. The Grateful Dead's music is evocative in a way that so much rock is not: it has such a strong milieu and encapsulates the loving, tripping heart of the hippie movement and of the Summer of Love. Very soothing and trance like. Probably a dope trip for the audience and performers alike. Each song feels like a movement. The second half is darker than expected, dabbling in the blues and the erotic, warped distortion of LSD and heroin. One can imagine the kaleidoscopic liquid light show that might've accompanied and illuminated the concert. A serious showcase of the band's musical abilities and an early hint as to how deeply and lovingly they would change the landscape of rock n roll. Standouts: St. Stephen, Turn on Your Love Light, Death Don't Have No Mercy.
Im sure this is amazing for Dead Heads but I just cannot do this.
The soundtrack to when you finally decide to tackle a house project that you really didn't want to be doing, but it's better than sitting around and listening to this shit in silence, and then you realize that you're doing the project wrong and it's all going to shit and it's worse than before and at the same time this ABSOLUTE GARBAGE is blaring and stressing you out and wasting your fucking time Not speaking from experience or anything though haha
I was kinda dreading this one, but there are a lot of fun and interesting moments here. There is, of course, also plenty of self-indulgence: the feedback track alone drags down the score. All things considered, they’re a notable act and it’s worth experiencing their very famous live sound, even if it’s a pass for you. Best song: Turn On Your Love Light
Rating: 6/10
I felt this was all a bit directionless and rambling.
I'm a fan overall of the Dead and these are classic older Dead songs played in the legendary Fillmore venue. 1969 must have been an amazing year to see this and to hear these songs. My favorite era of Dead is later, but still there is a beauty here. Turn on Your Love Light and Dark Star are stand outs that Dead fans continued to love for decades.
I can see the appeal of The Dead Show, where you're just hanging out with friends in a cow pasture, drinking beer and getting high with these guys playing in the background. That doesn't sound too bad. But to recapture that experience and drop it into a 12" plastic disc and call it a 'live' album just doesn't work.
Although "Live/Dead" was recorded just one year before "Workingman's Dead" and "American Beauty," but the style differences are distinct. Though "Live/Dead" and "American Beauty" are the only Grateful Dead albums on the 1001, I think it's "Workingman's Dead" that I'm most familiar with. And so I'm most familiar with the folk and Americana version of the Grateful Dead. "Live/Dead" is my first exposure to a more psychedelic and blues influenced Dead. The middle of "Live/Dead" is its strength, but to get there you have to make it through 23 minutes of "Dark Star." That opening track just goes on and on, embodying the jam band reputation that the Dead would later fully embrace. But the tracks that follow are more focused, led by the standout bluesy "Turn on Your Love Light."
Likes: less twangy than American Beauty. Dislikes: TOO LONG. 25 min versions of songs?! This is why I never listened to the Grateful Dead. This is and the fact that I never did enough drugs.
My previous railings against improvisational music, I’m primarily looking at you jazz, also apply some to The Grateful Dead. I actually like The Dead, like a lot. Strangely however, I do not like their signature acid rock where 20 minute songs are the norm and tripping balls is a baked in requirement. Instead rather, I love when they focused in the studio and recorded songs like their follow on albums Workingman’s Dead and American Beauty. I conveyed my affection for these two albums in my American Beauty review. I give a bit of leeway for a live album because that’s part of the magic. Seeing this album performed live, sans acid, would significantly improve the experience. I give a bit of leeway as well because recording equipment was not what it is today in 1969. The Dead were somewhat at the cutting edge of recording technology. Case in point, this album was the first live one to be captured on a 16 track recorder. The Dead were also one of the first bands to double track their vocals the soften and broaden their sound. They used to experiment with all kinds of strange sound generating methods too. Having said that I love The Dead but not their well known explorations, they do hit some extended grooves that I enjoy. And I love Turn On Your Love Light. That song is fun and playful. I don’t despise the improv stuff as much as I do with jazz. While 73 minutes is far too long for a 7 song album, the visceral reaction is not present.
Not my thing
Groovy funky jazzy hippie rock at its finest. 4 stars.
Føler ikke jeg behøver lytte til mere end 2 af de 7 numre på det her live album for at beslutte mig for at det ikke er noget for mig. De er et berømt jam band og den første sang varede 23 minutter. Ikke for mig.
jam rock
Enjoyed it more than I thought I would, but there's no worry of my becoming a deadhead anytime soon.
No me gusta. People I like and respect are Dead Heads, and I think I understand the attraction, but for me it was very self indulgent and something of a let down. All the songs are longer than they need to be, and there is way to much of what sounds like jamming to me.
First track incredibly boring. Picks up speed.
Boring jam band noodling. What the purpose of this being on the list?
I feel an unfortunate amount of this gets lost in translation from the live sound to the grooves in wax. It is still excellent, but my goodness do I wish I could have been there in the moment.
A pretty good live album, almost a 3 but you can just tell this would be killer live.
Cherry Garcia
Turn on your love light was a bop. other than than really slow album. I just cannot get into the Dead man. I really want to like them too
I want to give this 1 star just for the song feedback. I've never listened to a full Dead album before but it was okay. I was put off by the 20 min intro song, but most of the other songs were just ok.
Listened Before? No Album Art: 4 / 5 - not enough orange albums in this world; plus titties. I'll take any excuse to listen to some live Dead. Surprisingly I haven't listened to this particular album before. I mostly focus on early 70s Dead when listening to archived shows as I'm a sucker for American Beauty and Workingman's Dead. This one appears to be a collection of cuts from SF shows in '69, just before they established commercial success with those two releases I just mentioned. Album opens with Dark Star, a storied jam from the Dead's catalog, known for stretching its original <3 minute playtime upwards of 40 minutes. This one weighs in at a modest 23 minutes, for which the first several minutes are intro noodling. I contend that no one records live shows better than the Dead. Their micing is (generally) fantastic and they strike a perfect balance of cleanliness and live aroma in the recording. For a late 60s recording (remastered in 2001) this is super clean with great mixing. Sure there is some crust on the overall guitar tone, but that's more a feature than a bug to all Dead recordings. As far as Dark Star's go, this one is a bit more spacious through its midsection, with a jam that almost sounds self destructive around the 13 minute mark. Kind of peters out towards the end -- not my favorite DS, but honestly its never bad. Transitions over to St. Stephen, which is a more traditionally formatted folk-rock jam. I'll never not love this song. IMO songs like these are what separate GD from many other jam bands; they could actually write solid songs and put together compelling studio recordings. Segues seamlessly into one of the more blistering renditions of The Eleven that I have heard. Not the tightest I've heard them play (they go out of sync a bit around the 5 minute mark), but they make up for it with soul. Death Don't Have No Mercy is a wonderful blues jam with IMO the best / most coherent jam on here. Jerry brings straight fire with solid accompaniment from Pigpen on the organ. I have a soft spot for their bluesier numbers and this is no exception. Feedback is just what it says it is. Amazing that they went for nearly 8 minutes of this over, I dunno, a song. Even so, it certainly captures a mood that I'm sure soured many a long strange trip. While this is not the best live Dead recording I have heard by any stretch of the imagination, I imagine this was a very important album to its time. Apparently this is the first official live release from the band, that allowed the masses to appreciate their live magic from their living rooms. High quality recording that captured several of the Dead's staples in their fullest form. On a Dead curve this is a low 3 show, but on a global scale I give it a solid 4 / 5. Added to Library? Yes Songs Added to Playlists:
3.5 stars. Love some dead but this wasn't my favorite live stuff to listen too.
I expected to like this a lot more. The feedback song to end the album doesn't really make sense to me. I can deal with dissonance in small doses, and when properly timed its a great way to build tension, but this one wasn't it. I don't think this album would get someone to be a fan of the Dead.
I can see why they say this is "All one song" it was very easy to get lost and have no idea where I was in the album. This made me want to rip some ice cold fattys and dance around in some sort of cloth. The jams sure were crunchy in this live album for sure. I especially liked the end of Death Don't have Mercy. And while I don't listen to Dead enough I like it when I do. Also I have to pay my respects because they have influenced so many of my favorite bands today.
Heard this a number of times growing up but always thought it was weird to open up the set with Dark Star. Imo that's a perfect song for the middle. Picks up strong with St. Stephen, although I could do without that weird western part at the end. The eleven is one that I think is a pretty good look at where the Dead end up in their career. Perfect transition from Eleven into Turn on Your Love Light, a classic sung by Pig Pen RIP. Bassline towards the end is tasty. Death Don't Have No Mercy is a long bluesy one with some eerie organ work towards the end. Allie would HATE Feedback. Could very well see people on psychedelics freaking out at this one. I personally love the controlled chaos of it all. Overall great live album that was revolutionary in its recording techniques, but there are also better live Dead (hehe) albums out there. 3.5 but I'm rounding up.
First time listening to a Grateful Dead album. Pleasantly surprised
It was alright as chill background music, but I really didn't need the last two tracks.
Felt like an unnecessary show of ability, there was no song that sounded cohesive
the music is very good, the singing not so much
I bet the dead are grateful that they never have to listen to this. Stupidly long 'songs' devoid of any form or hook. Just impenetrable jazz rock noodling. It started badly and got worse. I saw that the penultimate track was 7 minutes long and called 'Feedback'. I thought 'it can't be, can it, surely not...?'. Yep. It is. Rating: 1/5 Playlist track: St. Stephen Date listened: 20/10/23
Although i’m admirative of psychedelic rock, i’m less of prog rock and that album is closer to prog than psychedelic. I admire the improvisation, the quality of the musicians but is just way too long and sometimes cahotic for me, like 75 minutes with 7 songs is a lot. But i never listen to greatfull dead and this album will kot be my favorite but i might listen to other of their work and i understand why it have gain a lot of acclaims
If I had, in fact, died of boredom while listening, I would've been grateful. I can only assume that's where they get their name.
Meandering
Classic early dead. No Franklin's Tower or Uncle John's Band, but DarkStar/StStephen is a classic. Love the warm sound of them live, tight recording.
This is a great live album with the remarkable quality that it either works as something you listen to very closely or has the power to run in the background and spurs you on to do some great creative work.
lmao the top reviews fucking *haaaaate* this, and even the overall global score's pretty mediocre. Meanwhile I'm like "eh pretty good, but not quite as layered as Phish songs tend to get"
I have to assume appreciation of the Grateful Dead requires some past experience that makes you look past how grating and annoying their sound is.
Assuming this album would be listenable if I was tripping balls literally at the live show in 1969 but otherwise, nope.
Not a huge fan and this album did nothing to make or break that opinion.
Al een flink aantal keren geprobeerd into deze band te raken, maar gewoonweg niet te doen, wat een eindeloos gepriegel.
Mjah, iets te jammerig naar mijn smaak
Boooeeehhh get of the stage!
Eine der großen Impro-Bands. Sehr jazzy, bluesy, rockig, progressive; mir aber zu wenig straight, sondern sehr wild und experimentell.
I don't care for live albums and I certainly do not care for live albums that are 75 minutes long. I have never been a huge Grateful Dead fan, maybe its the lack of drugs, but I doubt it. I skipped songs. It is better than a one but not a two; however, I will round down
psy rock pas méchant 5.5/10
I get the hostility towards the Dead and still maintain my POV that live albums should be minimal in count and amazing in quality to belong on this list. Does this one meet both thresholds? Close, but no. I'm no Dead fan, but do appreciate the Dead and their live music. 3/5.
Not bad. Little too instrumental for me at times.
A bit cheeky
Live / Dead 2 / 5
I grew up with a deadhead for a dad (not a euphemism to be clear) so I've always had them around but rarely actively explored myself. I've been meaning to though so this was a great album to pop up here. I really dug it too. The jams are just awesome.
Talented musicians but truly no reason for a song to be 23 minutes long. Don’t need to say anything about Feedback either, that speaks for itself
7/10. Yeah, the 8-minute track of feedback really cements this band as the greatest of all time... But really, the Grateful Dead are fine, and I liked this album in general because they didn't sing much, which is how I prefer them.
Feedback? Really? 4/10
Hmmmm okee vind andere albums leuker deze nummers zijn way too long
One of the worst albums on this list. Difficult to listen to, terrible aimless noodling, endless.
God no. I just can't deal with free-form jamming to this extent. I love a lot of prog rock (ELP/King Crimson etc.) and this does have some similarity, but it just feels a little bit too aimless. The musicianship is clearly there; it just all feels like that annoying local band that won't shut up and finish their set.
I'm neither a fan of the Dead, nor of far rambling live albums with extensive jamming. But this is a pretty excellent album, by any standard. I enjoyed it. Carefully crafted yet improvisational, surprisingly innovative. "Feedback" nearly did me in, but this is still one of the better live albums I have heard. Fave Songs: Death Don't Have No Mercy, The Eleven, St. Stephen
Mostly enjoyed this one so 3*
I mean... it was fine. Better than silence but not something I'd seek out.
Jam rock psicodélico, mayormente instrumental. Me ha gustado. Venga, vinilo.
jam rock
I cannot emphasize enough how baffling it is that this album starts with 23 minutes of the worst jam band noodling I've ever heard in my life (seriously, nobody is paying attention to each other, every instrument is off doing it's own thing the entire time), and ends with 8 minutes of feedback. The four songs in between are actually all right, but I can't in good conscience recommend it, because why would I want to subject anyone to the bookends? It's probably a four star record if you skip tracks 1, 6 and 7, but I'm docking it for having the audacity to waste my time.
Track #1: buckle the fuck up, this song is 23 minutes long and starts with random string plucking that starts to resolve into a pattern of some sort. Here we go. Not for me. Totally fine but no fun to be had for me. Gave that “feedback” track a solid chance but it’s the only track I skipped.
Given how famous this band is for their jam sessions on stage, this really, really sucked. It was bland, boring, and uninspired. Seriously sounds like amateur night. SO DULL.
I really liked the dead in undergrad, but man I really did not enjoy this album. Either I was listening to quite not dead stuff back then or I’ve changed. Either way, blegh
Too many long songs
Just kinda washed over me
très inégale comme album. Il y a peut-etre 1 toune que j'ai vraiment aimé. Je pense qu'il fallait probablement être là poura pprécié à ca juste valeur et être dans le meme trip qu'eux... 2.75
it’s fine but I will never understand why people worshipped this in any state of mind
I just don’t really get the hype
No
Very little to get excited about with this one. Dead Heads will love it, the rest of us don’t get it…. 2/5
Live/Dead is the first live album (and fourth overall) released by the American psychedelic rock band Grateful Dead. It was recorded and released with the intentions of showcasing the band's live performances while also fulfilling their contract and paying off debts to the record company Warner Bros. Critics loved this album and noted that it was the next best thing than actually listening live at a Dead concert. Grateful Dead popularized jam rock with their style of music and this album is no exception. It fuses genres of rock, blues, jazz, folk, country, bluegrass, hard rock, gospel, reggae, and world music along with psychedelia to give it a nice spin. The album is one of the best of psychedelic rock from the 60's and created a generation of cult followers. Finally, I'm reviewing a Grateful Dead album. I always hear so much about this band, but rarely do I listen to their music. The music is beautiful, but it almost feels sacred - like you're supposed to listen to it in a certain setting with people you love or fellow dead heads. The live album really captures the energy from a Grateful Dead concert, which I'm told you need to experience at least once. This band will go down in history as having the most psychedelic accessible music that anyone can jam to in any head space. Give it a listen and let your worries melt away.
First time with Grateful Dead and very unimpressed at first listen but a few listens more and I started to get with the vibe - a fascinating rock jazz psychedelic fusion. Sure, a little meandering at times, but there’s a genuine buzz in the interaction between the musicians and between the band and the crowd.
I want to understand the Grateful Dead but I just haven’t figured it out yet. I hoped this album would help me but no such luck. The musicianship is hard to argue with but it is impossible for me to figure out why a song like Dark Star really has to be over 20 minutes. It was hard to pick what song to put on the playlist because they are all kind of interchangeable so I just went with the shortest one because o know I’m not going to want to listen to a song that is 15 minutes very often.
Why are live southern rock shows just so boring? There is nothing interesting or engaging about this, it's just slow and bland.
The Dead have never been my thing. It was good to finally give this album a try, but I found my mind wandered a lot as I listened. Each jam was too long to draw me in and keep me invested. 3 for now, May re review at a later date.
It kinda just sounds like an extended bland jamming session, not like something that's thought through or especially interesting.
Grateful dead was good background music while I painted. I just don't find myself listening to much grateful dead on my own
Not a grateful dead fan. Songs are too long.
Cool guitars. Easy listening. Great background music. Those guitars were talking. Would revisit for vibes
I am a definite fan if live concert albums and this is one if my favorites. I particularly enjoy them if the bands just hang out and jam for the crowd. Dark Star by itself is reason enough for this album to make the list.
I saw the Dead once, sometime in the early 90s. We were all hippies for a year, I think, and so we went to their show. They played a few songs I knew and that was cool. But I wasn't high so the only thing that really made the whole trip worth it was the girl I had a crush on being there, too. The music was all fine background to that - pretty top notch background, really.
Embarrassing, tiresome, amateurish music. Circus music played by clowns for the benefit of clowns.
I tried. Made it about three songs in and it felt like I had already been listening for an hour. I do, generally, like the sound. So that's something!
Midt på 3 lenge mellom jeg hørte den og skriver
Wanky
This was probably really great if you were on acid and there also
I've given it a lot of thought and honestly after weighing the two options, I'm going to go with dead.
I thought studio Dead was bad. Deadheads must take a lot of drugs to make this palatable.
Je comprends comment on peut s'y perdre, mais me paraît un peu vieilli.
Didn't really keep my attention, seemed to just go on for ages
There is a reason why they solid acid in the parking lot of their shows.
No/Thanks
The first Grateful Dead live album, even before their two famous studio albums. It propelled them to fame and showcases their insane ability to improvise. A double album with just 6 songs, it's very easy to digest and leave in the background. Still very early in their career, and also dated by jam band standards, a lot of ideas don't work or tend to drag on too much. We start off with the jazzy groovy "Dark Star", one of their most iconic songs, and certainly mind blowing for a lot of first-time listeners. It's a fantastic introduction where they mess around with a lot of techniques, including abrasive distortion and atonality. You never know where the song is going, but you're excited to see what happens next. "St. Stephen" is our pop song, "short" and catchy with plenty of cool moments. Gets quiet, gets loud and explodes, has a satisfying coda that jumps straight into the next song. "The Eleven" is an acid rock instrumental (with some vocals for a minute), very groovy and entrancing. Love the consistent flow and high energy, good teamwork all around. Awesome transition to the next song. "Turn On Your Love Light" is a fun bluesy dance song. Good mix of loud and quiet moments. "Death Don't Have Mercy" is an ok song (a bit Beatlesesque) but doesn't offer much. "Feedback" shows has several psychedelic attributes and is a forerunner to space rock music, but it's pretty bland and not very satisfying. Pink Floyd was doing much better distortion work at the same time. Their later live albums show they could do better, but the first four tracks show they have so much to offer. The last two tracks do drag down the overall quality. But very enjoyable and a good introduction to the Dead, jam bands, and the power of live recordings in general.
Self indulgent, definitely has the broken clock effect of being occasionally right.
Seeing how this is a live Grateful Dead album, I expected quite a bit of jam band shenanigans. I didn't expect the album to begin with a 22 minute noodling around session (Dark Star), and end with 8 minutes of just noise (Feedback). But what's in between is really good, so just take tracks 2, 3, 4, and 5, make it a single length live album and you are good to go.
Is this really the band that people followed around religiously? I suppose I could see how it’d be fun in some of the later tracks (aside from feedback, which was also bad) but the early tracks were half hour long slogs that I found nothing good in at all. It’s not deserving of a 1 star but I still got barely any enjoyment out of this album whatsoever.
This is a good older live show.
Listening to this live Grateful Dead album here in this year of our lord 2023, I'm reminded of the first time someone sat me down and had me listen to a live recording of this band more than 20 years ago, and the words that echoed in my head then as clearly as they do now: "Why in the fuck is this jerk forcing me to listen to this garbage?" It's fine if you like the Grateful Dead, I just don't get it and I'm pretty sure that I never will. I've given it a chance. I've given it 100 chances, it still sounds like a bunch of people with nothing meaningful to say noodling around a guitar for a half hour so that hippies have something to listen to while they do drugs and pretend to be more enlightened than the rest of us. I'm already so sick to death of this, and I just finished the first song. It's 23 minutes long. I thought I'd listened to multiple tracks, but it's hard to tell, since all of their songs sound the same. It's like if you took prog rock, and stripped away everything interesting that they were doing musically and lyrically, leaving a miasma of pointless notes played over and over until the acid finally wears off and you realize that you're in your mid-40s with no vocational skills and a broken-down VW bus full of dirty children with names like Magnolia and Dew Drop and Camshaft 2/5 I will never forgive you for making me listen to this band again. Never.
Gotta give it a 5 to help counter all these 1s, yes it's weird early Dead but it still far superior to random 80s pop band
Chill music, cool guitar licks, but drags on and does not provide too much else.
The same old discussion with live albums again and I'm sure this must have been a very cool experience to see live but for somebody who isn't a Grateful Dead fan, this provides little to nothing tbh. The songs are sometimes quadrupled in length versus the studio recording and often just filled with jamming
I'm conflicted; on one hand I find that going to a jam band's concert would drive me nuts because they're doing that... just jamming and as a concert goer, I'd want to see them perform actual songs I recognize vs. mindlessly playing their instruments. But on the other hand, I can see the appeal of watching musicians play. That being said, I'm firmly in the first camp; what a load of nonsense this was. 3/10.
The Dead have some great shows. I don't know why this one was selected. It's alright but is FAR from them at their best.
haluan tykätä tästä mutta en pysty. liian tylsää jopa meikäräisen standardeissa. tyhjää kitaranrämpytystä joka jatkuu ja jatkuu eikä vie mihinkään... ilmeisesti huume hörhöilyä (its illegal btw...criminals) ei kuitenkaan ykkösen arvoinen, on hyviä kohtauksia myös. disrespectfullia kakkosta tälle, pitäisi olla paljon parempi mitä on death d0nt have no mercy
Having listened to this, I must say that I really cannot understand why people used to follow this band around on their tours. Just an hour of nothing
I hate live albums
I don't have much to say. I wasn't really intrigued by it.
This might be a hot take but I don't really enjoy live albums. Doesn't do much for me to listen to some dudes riffing for 23 minutes in my living room. Having said that, the music wasn't bad, it just didn't pique my interest. Probably wouldn't listen again unless I was looking for random background music
one of the best live album
No wonder some many people got high in 60’s. Soul destroying.
Is actually a great album in the 2/3's of it where they aren't doing overly self indulgent jamming
Gave up halfway through. A terrible load of pish 👍🏾
This was painfully boring
17th July 2023 Listened a day late on the drive to London. Worked from home and had Mary-Ruth, Stephen and Freddie over for supper. Jazz, blues and folk riff freely off each other for an hour.
Read the negative reviews first and expected to hate it. Then I listened to it. This is an amazing album. Just goes to show you not to follow other but make your own mind up. It's pretty 'jammy' and really good for chillin- there's some fine musicianship on show here too: these guys were at the top of their game. One of the best 60's rock albums - certainly considering it's a live album too and not studio recorded.
Liian vänkyrää. Ei toimi tällänen räpellys mulle 2/5
Oikein nautinnollista. Vinskana voisin pyöritellä useamminkin.
Ihan jees instrumentaalivoittoista menoa 3/5
Didn't really get into it
Some ok jam rock here, but it definitely dragged on a bit for me. The first track taking up a whole third of the run time was insane, and the track 'Feedback' was unlistenable. 'St Stephen' is my top pick, as it's a bit more lyric-focused.
Not high enough
hippie boomer shit. the only reason anyone likes them is nostalgia and the only reason anyone liked them back then is because weed could make anything sound good. noodly aimless and god those lyrics are so bloody dated. the vocals lmao. ugh i simply hate it. :) zero stars.
Strikes me as "fans only" material, not "hear this before you die" material. Three strikes right off the bat - live album, long album, and long rambly jam tracks. However, it sounds like the importance of this album is that it captured their live performance sound, which is fundamental to why they have such a strong fanbase in the deadheads. On another positive note, it also strikes me that, although the tracks may be rambly, they're not noodly - their skill is evident within the improvisation.
I'm one of the odd Dead fans that actually prefers the studio versions.
Just way too damn long, but I'm not a fan of the Grateful Dead so this may be best for fans. Definitely captures their essence though and it sounds overall very nice. Ironically enjoyed "Feedback" the most.
Not a huge Grateful Dead fan but this was enjoyable. Maybe I need to experience more of library.
This was quite intense psychedelic rock which though I enjoyed elements I did find it quite dense at times. Some of the drawn out sections I probably struggled with for the same reason as jazz, sort of that meandering... Which I bet I like at times but it didn't always hit the spot here but overall I thought it was very good. Hard to rate
So of the pysch stuff was a bit much for me but when it got more bluesy I loved it.
I just keeps going and going and going. Half the album is the band tuning.
listened to again truly great live jam album
I may have related this before but I mostly discounted the Dead until a close friend turned me on to a few tracks that, while not making a superfan out of me, did open my eyes to their value above the whole traveling hippie drug festival thing. I'm not hugely impressed with this live collection. A lot that strikes me as akin to noodley jazz scales with slacker instrumentation, a good chunk of lazy blues meandering, and the not quite 8 minutes of feedback can absolutely go stuff itself. Can't deny some standout sections that truly capture a band perfectly in sync and jamming on a shared frequency with their audience.
Juu dehär e en trea for suuure
Very chill for a jam rock album, i appreciate that.
Gillade Dark Star en massa o sen va de lite neråt tbh... death dont have no mercy va o helt bra
This drug infused elongated jam session proved surprisingly effective background to my weekend afternoon book reading… But yeah, Grateful Dead isn’t my jam.
Just the noodliest thing.
One of their weaker albums ..
Kinda sad I missed the tour
Guitar noodling! And lots of it! I’ve mostly only listened to a few studio albums by Grateful Dead but they stretch out and jam much more live. Like the Allman Brothers live album we had a while back, this is perfect music to put on in the background while cooking. Bright, cheerful, pleasant music. Wait, “Feedback” is really 7+ minutes of experiments with guitar feedback? Surprised that one made the cut for the live album. Gets kinda cool in the second half of the song though.
Tried to clear my cache to not be biased when listening to this but it didn't really work. I find their music to be pretty boring and redundant. They are kind of the reason why I grew up writing music instead of jamming music. When I sit on my couch and watch TV and grab a guitar, this is the music that my hands make. They play the major pentatonic scale up and down the neck in the same comfortable key and without regard for anything besides my fingers moving in familiar patterns until I'm tired of listening to it. That's what I hear when I hear the Grateful Dead. It's so straightforward, comfortable, unprovoked, and just not what I like. The first track takes 12 minutes before you even get to any tension and then it ends with what sounds like a bunch of dudes just playing their instruments in isolation and then the recordings pasted together. I took some sips of the Kool Aid but I still don't like it. I understand the value of this being one of those sorts of sounds that you put the record on and then do something else but even then it still doesn't jive with me. In that scenario, 9 times out of 10 I'd rather listen to either jazz or some other classic rock where I know some of the songs and can pick and choose where my brain can give some focus to.
I mean, with all due respect, I couldn't possibly be unbiased to a Dead live album. I had a coworker who, when given control of the radio, would only play shit like this. So it's soaked into my conscious at this point. There was one time, he and I were speaking on hologram performers (a la Tupac). He said to me, "Y'know, if they did a one night only Jerry hologram... I might go." Brian, you would've killed someone for a ticket to that. Anyway. Favorite track: "Death Don't Have No Mercy"
Masterfully made prog rock/acid rock tracks with range of impressive instrumentals, including an organ solo on "Death Don't Have No Mercy". 'feedback' the weakest track imo but still earns a 5/5 for me.
Not sure how this one made the list when "Europe '72" (or "Skull & Roses" for that matter) didn't. I doubt this album is going to win over any new fans. That being said, I really like licorice. 4/5
I could smell it.
The Dead never die.
"Live/Dead" is the first official live album (fourth overall) by American rock the Grateful Dead and a double album at that. It was recorded over a series of San Francisco concerts in early 1969 and to mitigate debt accrued from their previous album "Aoxomoxoa" and fulfill their record contract. They wanted a more representative version of their live performances. It also was the first live rock album to use 16 tracks. The album received positive reviews with critic Robert Christgau commenting that it "contains the finest rock improvisation ever recorded." High praise from a guy that I rarely see something completely positive from. Slow guitar, percussion and bass start their epic 23-minute "It" song "Dark Star." Honestly, this sounds like their tuning their instruments for a good long time. The song picks up and sort of gets a groove. Jerry Garcia in total jazzy improv mode. The vocals come in at the 6:00 mark. Is this an acid trip? About patterns of life? The start and end of life? Maybe all the above. The song continues with chaotic guitar, guitar interplay, improv and feedback. Yeah, what a journey. The second side kicks off with "St. Stephen." Hey, we have a melody here with the guitar. Prominent organ. This is more bluesy. St. Stephen was the first matyr of the New Testament and was stoned to death or is this about Stephen Gaskin, a 60's counterculture figure who formed a community. I'm saying both. The song transitions right into "The Eleven." This is fast pace. The rhythm and percussion stand out. Unique time signature. More blues-based guitar and even more trippy lyrics with fantasy and nature imagery. Imagine that. Side three begins with Ron "Pig Pen" McKernan on vocals on the Bobby Bland cover "Turn On Your Love Light." They do a great job fusing R&B and jam band. And, they do another unique cover with Blind Gary Davis' "Death Don't Have Mercy." This is their most bluesy song with organ. It adds a gospel vibe. Jerry bringing it on the vocals. And, why not end with nearly eight minutes of feedback on they do that with "Feedback." I'm of a fan of irritating noises but this takes right to the limit. The album actually ends with a 30-second a capella song "And We Bid You Goodnight." This album has incredible improvisation, pyschedelia, blues, jamming and guitar interplay. Each songs raises the intensity as the song progresses. I would have to give the slight live album edge to Europe 72' but this is really good. I wouldn't say this is for the casual music fan but any of the jam band and even jazz fans will appreciate most of this. And Deadheads? Well, you're already there with this.
Great live album.
There are some really good blues riffs and momente shining through every now and then again, but overall they are just so buried under overlong and seemingly aimless meandering. Also "Feedback" must be a cruel joke, akin to Finnigan's Wake. I guess you would have had to be there to appreciate it, otherwise I can't think of a reason why one should waste their precious time on earth with this.
This was an interesting album to sit down and experience. Dark Star might possibly be the longest song (of one single part) I've heard so far on the list. The transcendental, "tune-out to it" feel of this one felt very much like the same feeling I get from some jazz music. Honestly it seemed like jazz on an electric guitar. "Jazz-rock", I guess. It was an interesting live album for sure, I'm not if I'll come back to it again any time soon though - Dark Star was cool but I wasn't so invested in the other tracks here. Favourite: Dark Star
Most fans of the Dead I’ve encountered have this weird thing about them. They don’t love music as much as they just love the Dead. That fact has always kind of soured me on these guys for some reason. Now, I’ve listened to my fair share of their live stuff over the years, and if I had the change to see them back in ‘69-‘72, oh absolutely I’d have been there. Garcia is undeniably one of the greatest talents in psych rock history. But boy oh boy do these songs just go on and on. I think for me it’s almost easier to not think of these as songs, just an extended jam of some buddies who have good chemistry. In which case, this album kicks. It’s like a nice piece of warm toast that you save half of for later, then come back to it and it’s a bit stale.
Maybe if my formative experiences with psychedelics were soundtracked by The Dead, I’d have more patience for their nonsensical noodling…but they weren’t…and I don’t.
Definetely a great live record, arguably one of the best ever made.
Okay, the middle track, which has more singing and is 15 minutes long is enjoyable, but the rest of it is interminable jam band noodling. Never trust an album where the artists are enjoying it more than the fans.
fine, not my cup of tea.
(Granted this is a live album so it might not be as great as studio ones) But this was the first exposure I've ever had to Grateful Dead, and with the amount of hype, "dead heads" I know, and how much praise is heaped onto the band, I expected the music to be a bit... better? It's nothing terrible, but I feel like I've heard this exact style and musical ideas so many times in this list, nothing stood out whatsoever.
I appreciate that the Dead created the jam band mythos. I appreciate the musicality to their improvisation and their bluesy sensibilities. I acknowledge their centrality to the counter-culture movement of the 60s and their exclusive membership to the Haight-Asbury club. I just don’t like their music. I don’t.
So when I dick around for the guitar for an hour I'm a "public nuisance" and "about to be evicted for noise violations", but when the Grateful dead does it they're "one of the greatest bands of all time" and "make eleventy billion dollars"
Too unstructured for my liking, dragged on.
Lotta noodlin'. Never got to see them live. I kept saying "next time". And then there wasn't a next time. One of my life's regrets.
I was surprised by this. I really did not enjoy this, and I was expecting too. A lot of it sounded like they weren't really trying to make music.
Man, that first song had me kind of hopeful that maybe the rest of album would be decent, but nope, not really. Overall, pretty boring album. Glad it's over with. My favourite song was Dark Star.
This album worked as some really nice background music for me with some really stellar guitar work. Think I would have enjoyed it more high as a kite.
Long mostly bluesy jams, some a little psychedelic (and 7 minutes of feedback to ignore - helpfully labelled “feedback”). Not bad.
Sure, it's an early and important artifact, but it's not early as interesting, rich or enjoyable as the later records, including the live ones. Perhaps the editors didn't want to go down the rabbit hole of Dick's Picks, from the vaults, etc. but this is not even in the top 5 of live records that got broad release. One gets it, but this is a lazy choice given that it's almost primitive compared to all that was to come. Consider how later versions of "Space" and "Epilogue" are vastly better (plus weirder) than the "Feedback" here. And later bangers are much more richly textured and tuneful (and less bangy-clangy) than "Love Light."
Eerste livealbum van de Grateful Dead, toentertijd opgenoment met state of the art opnameapparatuur. Tracklist bestaat uit lange versies van nummers zoals Grateful Dead dat wel vaker deed op concerten, waaronder enkele covers. Niet heel toegankelijk, maar zit wel erg goed in elkaar. leukste nummer: St. Stephen - Live at the Fillmore West Het nummer "Black Star" werd legendarisch door de lange solos live - tot wel drie kwartier lang - en het feit dat het niet vaak live gespeeld werd. Voor Deadheads werd het een heilige graal om bij een concert te zijn waarin het nummer werd gespeeld.
Interesting live album. The Grateful Dead are one of those iconic bands that people almost make a pilgrimage to see. A bit before my time and I've never really jumped onboard though.
It was so good to get this album this week. I'm listening to a favourite podcast at the moment and the latest episode is on The Grateful Dead. They are one of the 60s bands that has passed me by, somehow. I enjoyed this but I'd love to check out some of their studio albums. They are way more blues rock than I thought they'd be
This is the one. This is what a Grateful Dead album is supposed to sound like. It's everything that the Dead are known and loved for. They've always been a musician's band and that's super evident here. It's so easy to get lost in the layers and transitions and the interplay between the instruments. I really enjoyed it.
Groovy 🤟🏽
The Dead are kinda like rimjobbing. It seems like a good idea at first, but the more time you spend on it, you realize it stinks.
Worst album ever.
Live, improviserende, psykedelisk rock, lange numre, en stemning
:'( I really thought I'd like this more.
grateful dead man what can i say
Coincidentally the podcast 'A History of Rock Music in 500 Songs' released an episode on Dark Star while I was listening to this. The podcast makes the Grateful Dead sound interesting - if fact, seems like dull hippy noodling to me of the worst kind. The podcast says that you can't really appreciate the Grateful Dead unless you hear them live, while you're tripping. But you could say that about any band? Saved from my first '1' rating by the Feedback son.
Yeah, endless nurdly jam band stoner nonsense - struggled to find a song or melody
Je m'attendais à un véritable défilé de clébards tous plus dégueulasses les uns que les autres, il n'en sera finalement rien. Tout juste un ou deux saint-bernards, et bien brossés qui plus est.
Quel plaisir de reprendre le générateur sur cet album après un super week end de 4 jours !
Scant song-like moments and the late attempt to experiment can't save this recording as an official live document. Violent disagreement with the Dead.
Enjoyed parts of this, but the long songs did my head in. Wondering if there are more accessible Greatful Deas albums
You know those jokes like "beware people with tattoos; they're proof they can sit still while being stabbed for hours"? This is the musical equivalent of that. I'd be extremely wary of someone who can sit through this whole thing happily, haha. I cannot do these prolonged jam sessions, it’s just not for me. I gave each song a fair play time and then skipped to the next one. All in all, I listened to an hour of this. The only song I didn’t mind was “Turn on Your Love Light” but even it started to wear on me after about 8 minutes.
Is this the best live album on the list? Best track: Turn On Your Love Light
það getur vel verið að þeir séu bestir á sviði. þetta er mun betra en annað efni frá þeim. fær 4, þarf aðra yfirferð en var mjög gott.
Unusual album. It started as psychedelic rock with some pretty awesome passages here and there, very interesting stuff, so atmospheric, no need for drugs to trip. Then a bit of interludes, and we're off to Elvis Presley impersonation? I was actually thinking that somehow the album finished and something else started. Very surprising, took me off-guard for sure. And finally another slightly psychedelic song with a long noise outro, which was not as fascination as the song in the beginning. Overall impressive record, a bit all over the place and pretty long, I think it would work much better, if they would split it into two albums. But not a bad start for my first listening to Grateful Dead.
Yawn
Every now and then, on a Saturday afternoon, some mates and I get together for a jam. We're all late 30s-mid 50s, so we generally play a few songs from Metallica/Slayer/ACDC/Motley Crue etc, then at some point we get stoned, decide 80s heavy metal is too intense and start jamming on a late 60s Hendrix or Black Sabbath tune. And you get so stuck into it, you don't even realise it's been half an hour and you're on your 3rd solo spot in Hey Joe. Of course it's SUPER fun and we always have a good laugh at the end but I'd never record and play it back, let alone sit around clear-headed on a Monday morning and listen to someone else do it. The one thing that really sticks out about the grateful dead is that they didn't seem to be good musicians. The extended jamming is nothing special and the actual songs are outright bad. Soooo many bum notes and parts where they're searching for the key. I know the bar was lower back then, but it was still the age of Clapton and Hendrix, both doing something similar to a wayyyyy higher standard. This sucks by any measure, really. 2/5.
Un disc del moment. Per disfrutar en ple viatge de drogues psicodèliques a finals dels '60, preferiblement en algun local directe a San Francisco. Tantes décades després, en ple s XXI, sona com una letargia del passat. Jams inacabables, pesades, amb un so ja molt superat
Tocan una masa, cantan muy poco. Se vuelve eterno por partes, pero hay calidad.
Much much better than American Beauty. World's greatest jammers (King Gizz will take the crown eventually but they need the context of history behind them more)
Not only is this boomer rock to the Nth degree being a Grateful Dead Album it has almost completed the triforce of my most hated things in music: live music recordings, and songs longer than 6 minutes. The first fucking track is 23 minutes long! I can tell this wouldn't be bad if it was just a regular recorded album. The one redeeming quality is that you can't hear the crowd in the background of the recording. Sound quality is still shit tho even on my dinky laptop speakers I can tell. This is an immediate 2
For all their fame and influence, I have never listened to a Grateful Dead album. The most impact they’ve had on me is eating Cherry Garcia ice cream. That whole, psychedelic jazz, rock, improvisational, instrumentals, extended solos stuff interspersed with feedback, is not my thing. Although I do appreciate the talent and the seminal works, I can’t say I feel I’ve missed anything. But I have now listened to one of their albums, thanks to this project. I still prefer the ice cream.
My inner dialogue… Upon seeing this as today’s album: oh no A minute into the first song: maybe I will like this, it’s kind of cool 9 hours later and the first song is still going: No.
I turned this on with every intention of giving it a chance. Three minutes in, out of respect for myself and my sanity, I stopped. This band managed to seal the deal in that short amount of time. From the tones of the instruments to the meandering disjointed playing, I cannot abide.
I went into this with an open mind. I'm not a Dead fan, but they seem like cool guys, so I saw this as a chance to fully engage with their live music, and I hoped that I would finally appreciate this band that is beloved by so many. That did not happen. This is actively bad music. Everyone raves about their jamming, but they are a terrible jam band. First of all, no one is playing anything remotely interesting, there were clams all over the place—especially by the bassist, and worse still, none of these guys are listening to what anyone else is doing, so it's like everyone is playing a different song. (And not in a good way, like Ornette Coleman or Ascension-era John Coltrane.) What's more, there's no fire or passion. This is the limpest, blandest, hackey-sackiest music I've ever heard. The fact that these tracks were not taken from one concert, but were instead hand-selected from a few different shows blows my mind. Like seriously? These were the best takes? Good lord. Please, people. Do not listen to this music. If you want that jam-band spacey vibe, there are so many better live albums out there that will slake that thirst: Happy Trails by Quicksilver Messenger Service, At Fillmore East by The Allman Brothers, or Live at the Fillmore East (March 7, 1970) - It's About That Time by Miles Davis. Those are great albums. This one is just not good.
At one point I self classified as a Dead Head. This listening experience brought on an epiphany—what if it’s not the music I liked but the soft cotton skirts and the hippy boys? Indeed. If I’m being honest with myself there was always something unsettling with the devout Dead Heads. Yeah I love the songs Box of Rain and Terapin Station but those jams…ugh…meet me in the parking lot where I’m buying a flowy skirt and some mushrooms. Andre and I were recently at a bar with Dead Head friends and a Dead cover band was playing. It all came back when our friend got up to do that Dead dance… that uncomfortable feeling—-CRINGE. I looked around at the zombie dance groove these folks all partook in and ugh…Super cringe. And that’s how I felt listening to this live album…vocals are off, those “jams” make me feel like I’m drowning, flowy skirts and hippy boys ain’t my jam.
Don't be a coconut
ce fut interminable!!!!!!!!!
What the hell is this.23 minutes of mindless soloing followed by nonsense lyrics.I hate this the songs have no hooks,they’re too long and they’re not even musically interesting.I can’t believe this but I think it’s worse than GENESIS.At least those guys were weird with it.The drummers really good but he can’t save this wreck.THERES A 7 MINUTE LONG “SONG” OF FEEDBACK THIS ALBUMS A 0.
This is it: the transition from jazz and blues and psychedelic rock to jam bands in recorded form. Utilizing the new 16 track recording, to capture a lot of the finer details of and emotion of a live show
Pop-rock sesentero con abundancia de instrumentalización. Guitarrero y en ocasiones psicodélico
Effectivement parfait avec le pétard du matin
PREFS : Saint Stephen, The Eleven, Turn on Your Love Light MOINS PREF : Feedback
Annoying drugged out hippies!
Started off really slowly and experimental and I wasn’t sure what the heck I was listening to. But then it felt like it came to a nice place. Place of psych rock haha, so that works out. I’m still not super keen on live recordings though Saved songs: St. Stephen, Turn On Your Love Light, Death Don't Have No Mercy
Fuck me what a slog. I tried to imagine myself on a lawn at a music festival, with a little half tab deep inside me, and I decided I'd only hate it more. The one song that connected with me was 'Death Have No Mercy'. It's hard to imagine anyone in a Grateful Dead audience enjoying this more than the band themselves, who for the majority of this are off on their own tangents with sprawling guitar solos and out-of-time drums. I straight up don't understand how this can be referred to as psychedelic, it doesn't leave any space to go on your own journey. 1.5/5 for the sporadic moments on this album where it all comes together and does create a little piece of magic.
When I heard all those stories about people following these guys around for years, I really didn't think it would just be a bunch of blokes noodling on guitars and doing silly voices. Most of the material here either felt completely aimless or like a bad rip of other, better artists. Not free-form or experimental enough to be interesting, not structured or melodic enough to be engaging. One and a half. Fave track: Feedback
I would describe myself as a fan of the Grateful Dead generally. They have some flawless albums, but they also have some duds - for me this one sits somewhere in the middle. Plenty of appealing musicianship throughout and good vocals, but even I have my limits with their jams. Listening to this did prompt me to go back and revisit to some of my other favourite live stuff they recorded. Fave track: St Stephen
Had some good moments... The Grateful Dead still haven't clicked for me. Maybe I need to listen to the right performances. As an album, this one is not amazing. Inclusion of Feedback was a bad call.
Átti ekki von á miklu, og þetta var svo sem ekki mikið. Langar djammsessionir og lög sem renna saman í eitt, en þetta var samt ekki leiðinlegt. Allt í lagi. Næsta plata.
This album was hugely influential and remains one of the highest regarded live albums. However, the jam rock format is dated and many of the improvisation sections are overlong. There are moments of brilliance scattered throughout, but the listener definitely needs to be able to sit with moments that don't really go anywhere. Having said that, I am consistently amazed with the Grateful Dead's ability to to deconstruct a song, and send it to truly interesting places before bringing it all back together. They were certainly tapped into each other in a special way.
Just too much meandering. Some cool moments, but not enough to make it worth a second listen.
To Marty's chagrin I've never been a huge deadhead but I do appreciate them! That being said I feel like a different live album would have been better suited for this list. Nothing to dislike, just nothing exactly blew me away? Eminently listenable just not as memorable as others I've heard from them!
I don’t think it’s out of line to give this a 3. I respect the musicianship and there’s a lot to like in this (dark star and the eleven were highlights), but jamming loses a lot of its charm when it’s recorded, and the dead lose a lot of their charm when you’re sober. Is an 8 minute song if feedback really necessary? I’m sure this would wonderful to see live but as an album listening experience it left a lot to be desired.
I’m not really a jam band person but the Grateful Dead are very good and the solos are great
This is the best and worst of the Grateful Dead. A lot of discordant sounds like people playing difftsongs at the same time. The feedback track was completely unnecessary. That said both St Stephen and Love Light we’re fantastic!
Of course I have to give this a 5! This album shows the Dead at their wildest and while it's no Europe '72 it does have a few Glorious moments. The St. Stephen-Eleven-Lovelight suite is exceptional and made me jealous of anyone who got to see this lineup of the band in their prime. An entire album side of just "Dark Star"? Wow. I would totally understand if anyone takes off an entire star for "Feedback". This is probably a 4.5 because of that but what the heck.
Oh, dandy. A live album. Nevermind the live album, this is a Grateful Dead live album, and as a consequence not only is live, it's also nearly an hour and a quarter of noodly guitars and I can find little appeal to it. To be fair to it, the first track is the bottom of a slightly inclined ramping up, going from terrible to tolerable, but there's no way I would ever - ever - elect to listen to this again.
Can someone please inform the Grateful Dead that they don't have to be boring when they're playing music? I really feel bad for the audience, this must have been terrible to sit through.
Time has not been this album's friend. It was leading recording technology at the time but over 50 years later it's hard not to think "Could've fooled me" Dylan and the Mothers kicked off rock and roll double albums a couple of years before this and by 1969 a double LP seemed to be the thing to do. Zappa's double also had a side with only one song although this practice didn't hit its stride on studio albums until the prog rockers. The Dead decided to have two songs that each took a full side on this album. This hasn't aged well. The Allman Brothers did the same on their live at the Fillmore East album a couple of years later but the Allmans had Duane and Dickey trading licks so were better equipped to pull this off; even with the two of them, those sides of that Allman Brothers' album sound a bit tired these days. This album shows us that Gerry can play and validates the Deadheads complaints about how far down he is on the various lists of greatest guitar players. Regardless, time has made sides with just one song tedious. Experimenting with noise was what the cool kids were doing in the late 60s but the experimentation with nearly 8 minutes of noise on "Feedback" is terrible even when compared to other late 1960s experiments like "Revolution 9" or VU's "White Light / White Heat." At least there's not a 5+ minute drum solo.
I'm not sure if Live and Greatest Hits albums should be on this list. And given that this is hella looong and improvised to boot, I wasn't too keen on it. I think that you also have to be a dead-head and fan of this group to appreciate it.
I am a big fan of Grateful Dead, especially their music that feels so free and improvised yet somehow still so composed and premeditated. This album has elements of that, however I don't think it's the best live album that the Dead have to offer. Still enjoyable to listen to, but it has its ups and downs. I like the bluesy feel throughout, and the layered instruments (multiple guitars, drums, organ, bass, vocals) all working in unison. I experienced a few "get on with it" moments while listening to periods of songs that felt like they took forever to evolve - I believe the jam band genre gets this criticism quite frequently. Fave tracks: Dark Star, Death Don't Have No Mercy
The Dead are always best experienced live. Pretty neat that they apparently got someone to invent the microphone splitter required to record them while playing a live show, to the benefit of all live recording since. I'm not the type of person to give up my job and follow the dead around while they're on tour, but I will jam out to these tracks any day. Fav Tracks: Dark Star, The Eleven, Death Don't Have No Mercy
I was never a deadhead for some reason, Not quite what I was expecting from a band that was once one of the loudest in the world. Reminded me of Man but more "mellow" if you know what I mean. Would I buy it - probably not, but I would definitely listen again.
10/10 jazz rock is a flawless genre I think one of those songs was in 11/8? perfection!
I did not enjoy this album. If I wanted to listen to good improvised blues rock I'd listen to Cream. This is over bloated, boring crap. 1/5
Meandering crap. Endless noodling. Make it stop.
Fucking MID
amo la musica de abuelo que tomaba lsd en su juventud
Not really my cuppa tea.
i don’t give a shit, life’s too short to try the Grateful Dead again