Grateful Dead Tuning Poll

it's an organic whole, maaaaan
you don't want to miss a lame weir or lesh joke, do you?

Is there a bad Lesh joke compilation like the Paul Stanley banter one?

weir's kinda more the "funnyman," lesh is the supplier of non sequiturs
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-gyXFJ3PsIQ

does tuning include shambling renditions of Funiculi Funicula?

Wow. This short comp is dire. So many poorly told bad jokes.

it's an organic whole, maaaaan!

I checked out at the 9-minute mark. Couldn't handle it, maaaaan.

haha, yeah, it is pretty bad

here's a longer version
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RZFA6v71MWM

and of course: https://archive.org/details/gd1977-12-31_505

delete the tuning as well as all the bob tracks

Tended to get rid of at least the drums parts when sticking things on disc, not sure about tunings. Probably did that too.
Also skipped a lot of Love Lights but am getting to hear them now.

tuning is the prelude to rock

delete the tuning as well as all the bob tracks

unfair! Cassidy is great, so is "jack straw" as long as you say "HMM HMM HMMM HMM HMM HMM HMM HMM HMM HMM HMMMMMMMM, HMMMM" over the opening couplet, and I'll ride for "Mexicali Blues"

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

yeah i don't actually hate bobby, and cassidy is a jam. i'm just using this as a shorthand for the unrepresented "yeah you have fun listening to every note they ever recorded and boil it down to maybe an hour, and i'll listen to that" approach to the dead.

delete the tuning as well as all the bob tracks

― increasingly bonkers (rushomancy)

dude

dude..

if i want to listen to "el paso" i'll just put on the marty robbins version.

Ditto with "mama tried " / Merle

Bob Weirdo was just there to give Jerry a little break

Except Jerry often played really well on Bob's songs (eg Playing with the Band)

HMM HMM HMMM HMM HMM HMM HMM HMM HMM HMM HMMMMMMMM, HMMMM

otm

i'll probably only listen to "tuning" once or twice but i would never, ever delete

thought this was gonna be a poll about alternate tunings and I'm very disappointed that it was not

Ward yes. I meant from singing

Can't think of a GD song in an alternate tuning...

unfair! Cassidy is great, so is "jack straw" as long as you say "HMM HMM HMMM HMM HMM HMM HMM HMM HMM HMM HMMMMMMMM, HMMMM" over the opening couplet, and I'll ride for "Mexicali Blues"

see also and like turning it down when Donna starts wailing WOOOOAH OOH OOOH OOOH OOH YEAH after the Playing in the Band jam

lol yes

https://s31.postimg.org/cm44dajdn/donna.jpg

<3

dude cmon... "Jack Straw" is a forever banger

Hurts my ears to listen to any Jack Straw bashing, Shannon

jack straw is one of the best GD tunes

when the first warm day of spring comes i put on jack straw and then i know it will be summer again soon

I always save it for July 4th.

it's a great song save for the first creepy couplet

what you don't like hippie "oh, my old lady won't mind" sexism?

really it's the wine (and the way it's sung) that gets me

(and equating women with wine)

but whatever it's a fucking ace song and i love it.

I posted this in another DeadThread, but I always heard those lines of "Jack Straw" as being spoken by the moochiest of the moochy Deadheads. Robert Hunter basically did a character study of the sketchy hangers-on that started to affix themselves to the Dead. "You [the fans, appreciative and dirtbag alike] keep us [the Dead, getting stressed about being dragged around by their audience] on the run."

I'd say definitely you can skip a Chuck Berry cover if Weir is singing it and if he is playing slide, it is kinda hard to learn to do something like that in public. It seems in the mid-70s they did Chuck's "Around and Round" a whole lot and it's just usually slow and non-formative in the boogie dept.

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

also skip Weirdo's hoarse, tuneless vocal improvisations towards the end of most of his songs
but I digress

Yeah, it surely looks like rain.
Woo, it looks like rain and it feels like rain oh lawd
The rain is gonna come
The rain is gonna come
Rainy rain

2 toked 2 tune

I love the hell out of Jack Straw but the opening couplet is the "Tuning" of Jack Straw

Can't think of a GD song in an alternate tuning...

― calstars, Thursday, February 2, 2017 3:27 PM (yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

smdh at everybody itt who thinks Bob Weir is singing in the first person about porkin' hippie chicks.

well technically he is singing in the first person, first person plural specifically, he's not saying "you can share the women, you can share the wine"

Right. Yes. Sorry. But the narrator isn't Bob Weir enjoining the audience to share the women and the wine with him. It's Jack talking to Shannon.

So does Jerry play the role of Shannon?

I think that's how the song works...