guaranteed to fulfill the Dead’s dance-band obligations. But while it’s catchy, it’s also totally fucking bananas. There are several verses, choruses, parts, sections, a bridge or maybe three, chords you don't expect (maybe they were surprised too), modulation up, (spoiler ale...
Jerome John Garcia, known to Deadheads as “Jerry,” is none other than the lead guitarist for the Grateful Dead, which rose to fame during the counterculture era in the swinging 1960s. While he wasn’t one for the spotlight, Garcia was seen as the “spokesman” for the group. Garci...
Back with Mr FromOhio, he has the loud-quiet dynamic going, firstly loud on Soon, which revolves on a recurring volcanic harmony of power chords and tom-tom detonations; the resulting thud resembles one huge rock smashed downwards on to another and Crawford’s breathless strumming in between ...
32: The Grateful Dead: Help On The Way/Slipknot! (Solo: Jerry Garcia) It’s typical of the Grateful Dead to place one of the most exploratory guitar pieces in the middle of a suite that boasts two of their catchiest tunes. The transition out of ‘Help On the Way’ is classic on its...
From there I began to approach my role in a more melodic way and to not fixate so much on the chords." Stanley's connection to these songs runs deep because he was raised in the very environment that spawned the Grateful Dead. He says, "Whe...
Grateful Dead – New Minglewood Blues Niall O Sullivan –Let It Be Me Solomon Burke –Ooooooo You The Beatles –Get Back Johnny Taylor –I Found A Love Dedringer –Direct Line Michael Martin Murphy – Carolina In The Pines Edie Brickell & The New Bohemians – What I Am Elvis Presley – ...
(Same chords as verse 1) Like him, I'm tired of try'n' to heal This tom-cat heart with which I'm blessed. Is destruction loving's twin? Must I choose to lose or win? C | C | B5 | E5 | E5 || Maybe when my turn comes I will have guessed. ...
28. The Grateful Dead, Shakedown Street (1978) Arista 28. The Grateful Dead, 'Shakedown Street' (1978) By their own admission, 1978's 'Shakedown Street' was the Grateful Dead's attempt to pivot towards something more commercially viable. "We were trying to sell out: 'Oh, let's make a...
The Doobie Brothers can now be counted among the countless groups whose recording career had gone on longer than the Beatles'--from the Beach Boys through the Who and the Kinks and the Stones through the Grateful Dead and Fleetwood Mac and Jefferson Spacemobile through Led Zeppelin and Yes ...
I took a break from analyzing the Grateful Dead while working on other things, but now it’s time to resume, with a tune that is deeply loved by Deadheads and not of conceivable interest to anyone else. Terrapin Station is a weirdly disjointed album, reflecting the conflicted motivations beh...