The Grateful Dead QB

[kicker22]

Journey is good, but greatest band of all time is stretching it. That’s your opinion however.

My all time favorite bands are the eighties underground alternative bands that I discovered in college. Sonic Youth, The Replacements, The Pixies, Dinosaur Jr, Husker Du, Big Black, Butthole Surfers. They in turn begat the nineties Seattle grunge bands. But as far as greatest of all time, only Nirvana, out of all my favorites I listed, would even garner a mention in the “Also Receiving Votes” category.

Do enjoy Journey, however. It’s aged better than many of it’s contempories.

I hear you there. While I like stuff from almost all genres my favorite would still be the punk rock that I listened to in college. New Found Glory, Blink 182, the Atari's, never get old. I could listen to them all day long.

 

[okeefe4prez]

I wish I had been born earlier so I could have enjoyed the Dead in their glory years. Unfortunately I didn't get into them until much later in life, but they are easily in my top 5 for greatest bands ever.

I did have a friend give me a ticket for show 1 of 3 in chicago 5 years ago. Their "last shows ever". I know it's nothing compared to the "real" dead, but it was still an amazing experience. I think we were about 2 rows from the top in Soldier Field, but it still sounded great.

Damn, even those nosebleed tickets were going for like a grand on stubhub. You're lucky you got in. I had a client who got donated a Soldier Field box and they auctioned it off and got like $50k for the thing. I had almost those same seats for that Bon Jovi concert several years ago. Soldier on a nice summer night with beers flowing and the tunes jamming is an epic place.

 

[NorthKCHawk]

Shit, I would take a Yanni concert right now, with CarrotTop as his opening act. I don't care what is on stage, I just want to be out with humans again enjoying life.

 

[Chickenlounge]

Damn, even those nosebleed tickets were going for like a grand on stubhub. You're lucky you got in. I had a client who got donated a Soldier Field box and they auctioned it off and got like $50k for the thing. I had almost those same seats for that Bon Jovi concert several years ago. Soldier on a nice summer night with beers flowing and the tunes jamming is an epic place.

Yeah, a friend of mine is a Bears season ticket holder, and they had first dibs, so he got 4 tickets for each night. He and his wife went to all 3 shows, and with their 2 extra tickets each night, they chose 6 friends and told them "if you can get to chicago, you have a free ticket."

 

[okeefe4prez]

Shit, I would take a Yanni concert right now, with CarrotTop as his opening act. I don't care what is on stage, I just want to be out with humans again enjoying life.

My invites to the neighbors have been picking up a lot of steam bince summer started. I think at one point on Friday night we were up near 30 in my yard and the street. My wife and I just set up the tailgating canopy and my tailgating table and I load the cooler up with beer and ice. I send out a text to a few dudes and it picks up momentum through the night.

Sunday I smoked a pork shoulder and 2 chickens and made a monstrous pot of pozole. We had about 20 over for that. This next weekend my neighbor is going to host. You just gotta make the party. Keep it all outside and make sure you have plenty of room and it'll be fine. You'd be amazed at how many people walking will stop by when you have a few people congregating with brews in hand, a smoker throwing off hickory and charcoal and that '80's playlist from Amazon cranking good tunes.

If you live in some dull apartment, don't have any neighbors or your neighbors are a bunch of shut ins, then you're screwed.

 

[tweeterhawk]

My invites to the neighbors have been picking up a lot of steam bince summer started. I think at one point on Friday night we were up near 30 in my yard and the street. My wife and I just set up the tailgating canopy and my tailgating table and I load the cooler up with beer and ice. I send out a text to a few dudes and it picks up momentum through the night.

Sunday I smoked a pork shoulder and 2 chickens and made a monstrous pot of pozole. We had about 20 over for that. This next weekend my neighbor is going to host. You just gotta make the party. Keep it all outside and make sure you have plenty of room and it'll be fine. You'd be amazed at how many people walking will stop by when you have a few people congregating with brews in hand, a smoker throwing off hickory and charcoal and that '80's playlist from Amazon cranking good tunes.

If you live in some dull apartment, don't have any neighbors or your neighbors are a bunch of shut ins, then you're screwed.

What’s your smoker, if you don’t mind me asking?

 

[okeefe4prez]

What’s your smoker, if you don’t mind me asking?

Pit Barrel Cooker. If you want an entry level smoker, I'd say get a Pit Barrel or Weber Smokey Mountain. Anything else in that price range sucks.

 

[tweeterhawk]

Pit Barrel Cooker. If you want an entry level smoker, I'd say get a Pit Barrel or Weber Smokey Mountain. Anything else in that price range sucks.

Mrs. Tweeter bought me a Traeger off QVC for Father’s Day and just getting into it. Have done ribs, tri-tip, sirloins, burgers. The tri-tip and ribs were a true smoke, the rest was grilling with wood pellets. Like it for smoking but would prefer to grill over open flame or heat where I can get a true sear.

Your neighborhood gatherings during teh Germ sound fun!

 

[okeefe4prez]

Mrs. Tweeter bought me a Traeger off QVC for Father’s Day and just getting into it. Have done ribs, tri-tip, sirloins, burgers. The tri-tip and ribs were a true smoke, the rest was grilling with wood pellets. Like it for smoking but would prefer to grill over open flame or heat where I can get a true sear.

Your neighborhood gatherings during teh Germ sound fun!

I would wager that 75% of the neighborhood is between 35 and 45 years old so everyone is in that sweet spot where they like to drink but no one gets fighting drunk hammered. There are at least 4 independent pods of outdoor parties happening on any given weekend night. Not having to drive anywhere is clutch. I've even taken up smoking cigars. We didn't shut down until 2 on Friday and 1 on Sunday night. Yesterday I was a little tired and I fell asleep early.

 

[thedukeofearl]

I would wager that 75% of the neighborhood is between 35 and 45 years old so everyone is in that sweet spot where they like to drink but no one gets fighting drunk hammered. There are at least 4 independent pods of outdoor parties happening on any given weekend night. Not having to drive anywhere is clutch. I've even taken up smoking cigars. We didn't shut down until 2 on Friday and 1 on Sunday night. Yesterday I was a little tired and I fell asleep early.

 

[AreWeThereYet]

Back in the late 70's one of my older brothers who had pursued a music major had a few Dead albums, Europe live '72, Workingman's Dead, American Beauty, Blues for Allah. I remember playing the live '72 album quite a bit for a time. I liked the stuff from that period, but was interested in a ton of other stuff. Never got into the whole deadhead (stoner culture) scene for a multitude of reasons. (couldn't become a stoner even if I had wanted to, because of panic attacks)

Later on I generally had to be in the mood to listen to their music. Not being a stoner, that would be on rare occasion. I was generally cool with it as long as other stuff could get played too. I'll be honest, I made plenty of fun of Deadheads too.

They're improvisational technique is fun, but honestly very limited. Their technique is actually pretty basic, although original to them and quirky. There were literally tens of thousands of jazz musicians that could blow these guys away (improvising), but that was a completely different genre with different musical sensibilities.

 

[#1DieHardHawk]

Back in the late 70's one of my older brothers who had pursued a music major had a few Dead albums, Europe live '72, Workingman's Dead, American Beauty, Blues for Allah. I remember playing the live '72 album quite a bit for a time. I liked the stuff from that period, but was interested in a ton of other stuff. Never got into the whole deadhead (stoner culture) scene for a multitude of reasons. (couldn't become a stoner even if I had wanted to, because of panic attacks)

Later on I generally had to be in the mood to listen to their music. Not being a stoner, that would be on rare occasion. I was generally cool with it as long as other stuff could get played too. I'll be honest, I made plenty of fun of Deadheads too.

They're improvisational technique is fun, but honestly very limited. Their technique is actually pretty basic, although original to them and quirky. There were literally tens of thousands of jazz musicians that could blow these guys away, but that was a completely different genre with different musical sensibilities.

I'm with you here.

I think the Dead is one of those bands you either love or don't really care for. Personally, I never really saw the appeal but obviously it's subjective.

My take on them is that it's not so much that fans get into their music. Rather, it's more about the overall experience and vibe. I liken it to The Dave Matthews Band. I don't get it, but many seem to love the "experience."

 

[RobHowe]

Saw the Dead along with Bob Dylan and Tom Petty back in the mid '80s.

I kind of remember it. Good time.

 

[#1DieHardHawk]

Saw the Dead along with Bob Dylan and Tom Petty back in the mid '80s.

I kind of remember it. Good time.

Hmmmm.

 

[AreWeThereYet]

Saw the Dead along with Bob Dylan and Tom Petty back in the mid '80s.

I kind of remember it. Good time.

I don't smoke, but I did inhale at the Grateful Dead concert once.

 

[AreWeThereYet]

Saw the Dead along with Bob Dylan and Tom Petty back in the mid '80s.

I kind of remember it. Good time.

O saw Dylan a year or two before this at the Muny in St. Louis. He was doing the Empire Burlesque tour with G. E. Smith's band. Good show, especially the acoustic set. Dylan has always been hit and miss live.

 

[RobHowe]

O saw Dylan a year or two before this at the Muny in St. Louis. He was doing the Empire Burlesque tour with G. E. Smith's band. Good show, especially the acoustic set. Dylan has always been hit and miss live.

Agree. I saw Dylan in Miami around '88 and it was brutal.

I also went to see Eddie Money at a community college back around that time. He played one song and was so zooted he couldn't continue.

 

[RobHowe]

I don't smoke, but I did inhale at the Grateful Dead concert once.

May have been some mushrooms involved for that one, maybe. My good friend slept through the whole show.

 

[AreWeThereYet]

May have been some mushrooms involved for that one, maybe. My good friend slept through the whole show.

I did shrooms once, I will admit. It was my first semester at Iowa. It was a small/med size party thrown by an acquaintance from rhetoric class at the end of the summer. Only part I remember was I took a keen interest in a good looking chick at the party. It must have been glaringly obvious because she couldn't stop laughing. Yep, stoned, trippin', and horny as hell. I did end up with the girl that night though. Very awkward, bad sex followed the next morning by barfing my guts out. Long on enthusiasm, short on execution.

God, that was almost four decades ago. I'd forgotten about it almost that long. Oh the memories, almost memories. Now to think of it, the girl was probably as stoned as I was. That may account for a good part of the constant giggling.

 

[AreWeThereYet]

Recently, I've taken to wearing a hirsute and extreme social distancing.