"That's Otis..."  Lolz... : )

 PA1749 wrote: 
No offense, but that is one of the worst covers ever.

                               

I was just reading Nick Paumgarten's essay in the New Yorker on the Dead's enormous recording vault.  My reaction: you guys are weird.

This is the best recording of this deeply spiritual song I've heard.  Bravo, Bill.

Definitely not a fan of the Dead, but this song is sweet and well done live.

Wow- a lot od Dead bashing.  I'm no Head, but the music is golden.  As their current incarnation- Furthur- they are putting out wonderful live shows.  Saw them for 3 nights at Red Rocks in October and I 'highly' enjoyed!!

 scrubbrush wrote: 

hysterical

Saw them at American Unersity, with Blood Sweat & Tears as opening act 😄😄😄😄

  angelomisterioso wrote: 

I can't even handle the truth of this.  

Saw them in Boulder, with Warren Zevon as the opening act 😃😃

Play Jane's Addiction's cover from Deadicated!

A kind, beautiful song.  Thanks for playing!

makes me sentimental about memories that I'm not even sure are mine

I envision Bill firing up a bowl in the studio to this song.

Open the window, turn on the fan, open up a bottle of red and kicking back.

Not much better than live Dead!

 bokey wrote: 
Not (often) true.  The Dead were anything but cons — they'd play hours and hours of music with a new set list every day/night.

The funny thing was that the Dead put on some of the BEST shows I've ever seen as well as a few of the WORST.  I knew it was a bad show when my pals and I started hoping Bobby would "save" the show with Throwin' Stones or a Marty Robbins tune; it's not that Bobby was bad ... it was just that it was usually the Jerry songs and guitar that had magic, and Bobby's sometimes sounded like fluff in comparison. (Sorry Mr. Weir... I am truly grateful for those shows you pulled out of the muck!)

 LaurieinTucson wrote: 
My, now 19 year old, also enjoyed her first Dead concert like your son.

Ripple, to me, is the emotional backdrop to the final episode of Freaks & Geeks, where our heroine decides to not go to college (like she's told her parents) but gets off the college-bound bus at its first stop, where her friends are waiting. Ripple plays in the background as they all laugh, get in their van, and she heads off to the rest of her life.

Brilliant end to a brilliant, short-lived, Judd Apatow series. 

SIR:  apparently Otis belonged to Bob

http://www.flickr.com/photos/dgans/1218333086/

prefer the studio version to this one.... but it always makes me smile when I hear that song.
When my daughter was a baby and couldn't sleep, we'd go for a drive and listen to the Grateful Dead... she always loved that and it always calmed her down.... 

The only Dead concert I ever went to was when I was pregnant with my oldest, now 16-year-old son. The first time I "felt the baby move" was during that show. And I was NOT high. At least, not high on any substances....

Hooray for hippies!

I've never been a Dead fan, but I really like this song.  Solid 8

Jerry Garcia by ~RussCook
Russ Cook  ©2010 ~RussCook

A submission for all you deadheads floating free in deviant space. Really digging this wacom pencil thing.

 jwb wrote: 

hey, cut Bobby some slack...it had been a long strange trip ;)

 toterola wrote: 

...and you took the time to call attention to him calling attention to himself. You're on an internet message board - if you have to ask the question...

 Papernapkin wrote: 
But you took the time to call attention to yourself. What's up with that?

I KNEW you'd be playing The Dead after "Take a Look"  ... LOL