johnjconn wrote: 

My favorite B&J, but I like H-D Rum Raisin better.

this one of my favorite GD related songs.

 ozzie1313 wrote: 
That's Eugene for you.

Had to get Sirius for my car so I could listen to their Dead station, though Eugene, OR public radio will probably have there Saturday night Dead show ad infinitem and this has been sustaining.  Was disappointed that you guys are not on Sirius, hate Pand(wh)ora, and they are there.

        

Dis The Man at your own risk.  Dead lives!

This is pretty good, but Cherry Garcia is much better.
Man that stuff is good

Laugh in the sunshine
sing
cry in the dark
fly through the night

Not a huge fan of the Dead, but I think that Jerry Garcia should go down in history as one of America's finest folk musicians.

 meuks wrote: 

I really don't "hate" any band or particular musician based on their music. I don't prefer the sound of the Grateful Dead or Jerry Garcia's music however. Mute is never that far away, so no problem. I'm glad others enjoy it, but I don't.

This made my heart happy just now. 

 meuks wrote: 
The "haters" may just not like the kind of music the Dead make, and not have anything against the band...  And anyone that knows enough about the Dead to make a valid determination of they like their music, should know who Jerry Garcia is.  

 

A kind, kind song selection!  Thank you so much for playing this kind song. 

I'm sure an accidental segue by Bill  to follow Elliot Smith (Dead) with a dead head................

Beautiful tune.

 meuks wrote: 
I would love to hear JGB's Tangled on RP. It's soooo good.

Its nice to see mostly positive comments @ Jerry/ this song. I was thinking the Dead haters would be more of an influence, but a lot of them don't know who Garcia is, they just love to hate the Dead, so maybe it slipped by them. Good tune. There are many better ones that I wish RP would play (Run for the Roses, To Lay Me Down or some of his live covers Harder they Come, Tangled up in Blue... etc.) but so it goes....

 d-don wrote: 
Such a heartfelt tune.

Guaranteed to bring out the naysayers. Hard not to pity those who can't hear the tune.

All I know is something like a bird within her sang...


So beautiful, my heart soars when I hear it.

 bachbeet wrote: 

Respectfully disagree.

A perennial favorite!

This is a beautiful, emotional live Dead song....  sometimes played at a lower tempo which I loved even more.  Dead to the core!

 black321 wrote: 
Huh.Well said about a band(and by that I guess I mean Garcia) that sometimes impresses me but has more often infuriated me.

 black321 wrote: 
Indeed. Who among us is perfect? The thing I love most about the Dead is that they weren't perfect and they were proud of this fact. It was ok. They just ran with a tune and went where ever it went. The highs, the lows, and everywhere in between. Sometimes there were some bumps in the road too, but that was all part of life. You want perfection? Have your computer sing a song.

A Jerry/Dead song is NOT supposed to be a fine, meticulously crafted, tune. It's more like skiing down a slope from the top of a mountain, slowly at first enjoying the view, slaloming from side to side on the trail, still taking in the view, but beginning to build speed, and then more rapidly, heading into some moguls, until you find yourself skiing near the point where you are almost, but not quite, out of control...finally, when you are almost spent, you slowly throttle back and head towards the base of the mountain (for a beer and a bong hit, of course).

Then again, sometimes when you try to ski like this you wipeout and end up slammed into a snow bank ...as it was often as well with the Dead.

This song was written for Janis. Love it.

Nobody like Jerry..

Disorientated mess