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Grateful Dead — Eyes of the World
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k-man
(SCruz, CA)
Posted: Sep 13, 2012 - 13:22
 
 joelbb wrote:
Too bad the rest of the album sucked. This was during the "Mars Hotel" period when they thought they could self-produce their own studio albums.
 
Actually, this was from the Wake of the Flood period. Mars Hotel came later.

But you are right, this was Grateful Dead Records 001, their first of three records that were on their own label. Personally, this is my favorite studio album from the band. Certainly Workingman's and American Reality are fine, and both released the same year (!), but this album has always held my fancy, with tunes like Row Jimmy, Weather Report Suite, Mississippi Half-step, among the others.

Cheers,

krich58
(SCruz)
Posted: Sep 13, 2012 - 13:14
 
Thanks buddy, that one worked very well for me...
This song has about the most positive message of any—one of the most fabulous tunes, IMO.

I've heard plenty of versions, but none better than the one from the Great American Music Hall. Garcia's three solos just grow from one to the next—a most amazing warlock, he was. And I always love when Phil takes his solo at the end.

Those that can hear this music, I say we're blessed.

d-don
(Oregon)
Posted: Sep 13, 2012 - 13:08
 
 buddy wrote:

Wow, hi dad, it's been a long time!  Especially since you died 25 years ago. I thought you were the last of a breed, but clearly I was wrong.  I'll make sure you get your Pat Boone records back from the attic.  btw...having a job, shower, and haircut didn't make you any less of a major asshole. Way to stick to your guns!
 
Can I ride with you? Thanks for writing this. Seriously.

joelbb
Posted: Sep 13, 2012 - 13:07
 
This cut is terrific, if somewhat Pop-ie for the GD. Too bad the rest of the album sucked. This was during the "Mars Hotel" period when they thought they could self-produce their own studio albums. Didn't do another studio album as good Working Man's Dead or American Rose until the late 80's "In the Dark". Even hippies have hubris.

ch83575
Posted: Sep 13, 2012 - 13:06
 
I just came over to RP from listening to a '72 dead set on the archive, only to find this... too cool.  You can never have enough dead!

h8rhater
Posted: Sep 13, 2012 - 13:05
 
 buddy wrote:

Wow, hi dad, it's been a long time!  Especially since you died 25 years ago. I thought you were the last of a breed, but clearly I was wrong.  I'll make sure you get your Pat Boone records back from the attic.  btw...having a job, shower, and haircut didn't make you any less of a major asshole. Way to stick to your guns!
 
Nice!  Was gonna post but, what more is there to say?

DD rabbi_phil
(beach)
Posted: Aug 14, 2012 - 09:25
 
 Krispian wrote:

Just Googled that album cover and... OMG you are right.
 

if you thought that was disgusting try 'the handsome beasts' "beastiality"......you'll never shop for pork chops the same ever again

Krispian
(Vancouver, BC)
Posted: Aug 13, 2012 - 01:46
 
 rabbi_phil wrote:


nope. worst album cover artwork ever.....Butthole Surfers- Brown Reason To Live.....definitely 
 
Just Googled that album cover and... OMG you are right.

buddy
Posted: Jul 12, 2012 - 15:21
 
 johnjconn wrote:
Hippies = nothing a job, shower and a haircut can't fix
 
Wow, hi dad, it's been a long time!  Especially since you died 25 years ago. I thought you were the last of a breed, but clearly I was wrong.  I'll make sure you get your Pat Boone records back from the attic.  btw...having a job, shower, and haircut didn't make you any less of a major asshole. Way to stick to your guns!

DD rabbi_phil
(beach)
Posted: Jul 12, 2012 - 15:20
 
 tutakea wrote:
awful. crappy song, and probably the most horrible album-cover-art ever made.
 

nope. worst album cover artwork ever.....Butthole Surfers- Brown Reason To Live.....definitely 

kcar
Posted: Jul 12, 2012 - 15:16
 
 tclodes wrote:
My mama told me, if I don't have anything good to say... I am out of here!
 
Right behind you. This is just...bad. The chorus work sounds like they're rehearsing for the first time. 

drife
(Golden, CO)
Posted: Jul 12, 2012 - 15:13
 
Seriously, something's got to be wrong with you if you think that this guy can actually sing.

Hannio
(Austin, TX)
Posted: Jun 11, 2012 - 18:32
 
 johnjconn wrote:
Hippies = nothing a job, shower and a haircut can't fix
 
It worked for me.

funkyalfonso
(Canada)
Posted: Apr 08, 2012 - 10:37
 
 johnjconn wrote:
Hippies = nothing a job, shower and a haircut can't fix
 
How wonderful to read this. It's as if the decades vanished and I'm an outlaw again.

meinthecorner
(Past the gravy, far beyond the golden fries)
Posted: Feb 05, 2012 - 01:55
 
I confess, I've been a fan since before I saw them at Wembley, in London, 1972, and then later here in Toronto, mid-70's (notice how memory fades) and definitely one thing I can attest to is that Dead are better Live! Funny,that...

vandal
(arriving somewhere, but not here. . .)
Posted: Jan 04, 2012 - 07:02
 
 Al_Koholic wrote:
Has not been mentioned before I don't think, but turn the album sideways and the cloud is a skull.
 
I tried that 2-3 times but it didn't work until I dropped some blotter. . . 
 


elgreenie1
(SE of US of A)
Posted: Aug 30, 2011 - 18:53
 
After James wailing on "Sometimes"  The Dead are so dead to me.  I've just never learned to appreciate more than one or two of their songs and not any with the plinky plink out front like this.  Ah well.  {#Rolleyes}

dklmoore
Posted: Aug 30, 2011 - 18:51
 
AWESOME!!! Always loved when they played this song. We ARE the eyes of the world!

johnjconn
(chicago land)
Posted: Aug 30, 2011 - 18:50
 
Hippies = nothing a job, shower and a haircut can't fix

Mita
(Santa Fe, NM)
Posted: Aug 30, 2011 - 18:50
 
Any Dead is good Dead!

Proclivities
(Carrboro, NC)
Posted: Aug 30, 2011 - 18:49
 
 tutakea wrote:
awful. crappy song, and probably the most horrible album-cover-art ever made.
 
The cover art is pretty well-executed, though that artist (Rick Griffin) has done much better work, but since you are apparently an authority on art, you must know that.  There are certainly thousands of album covers with much worse artwork than that.  I will refrain from commenting on the tune, however.


tutakea
Posted: Jul 30, 2011 - 09:19
 
awful. crappy song, and probably the most horrible album-cover-art ever made.

lshinkawa
(Berkeley, CA)
Posted: Jul 30, 2011 - 09:18
 
strongly dislike the wimpy, twangy grateful dead guitar sound.

(former member)
(hotel in Las Vegas)
Posted: Jul 30, 2011 - 09:18
 


A million memories with these guys...  sigh...



Businessgypsy
(Deepest, Darkest Florida)
Posted: May 28, 2011 - 07:43
 
Nice Rick Griffin cover art. In his Christian enthusiast period, I seem to recall.


Sleepytyme
(Left Coast, California)
Posted: Feb 22, 2011 - 17:14
 
Thank You!

drife
(Golden, CO)
Posted: Feb 22, 2011 - 17:10
 
Gawd! Please no!!!

calypsus_1
Posted: May 11, 2010 - 00:58
 

Grateful Dead - "Eyes of the World" pt 1 Live (1991)



caregiver
(near contentment now)
Posted: May 05, 2009 - 06:03
 
Crazyfingers!  {#Dance}

Al_Koholic
(Exit 82, New Joisey)
Posted: Jan 30, 2009 - 14:48
 
Mugro wrote:
This has to be one of my favorite songs from my favorite band.

mine too.


nana0603
(ND)
Posted: Oct 27, 2008 - 19:50
 

I was listening, and thought I know this music, but was too busy to check out who it was.  I knew It HAD to be the Dead.  Then I saw the album cover and thought, I dont have that.  I wondered what year it came out.  I was only about 5 months old.  I will be looking for this one for my collection.  I will have to listen to some more of it.  Thanks for playing it.{#Daisy}



Mugro
(Lane Village, Red Sox Nation)
Posted: Oct 27, 2008 - 19:43
 
This has to be one of my favorite songs from my favorite band.

BAD
Posted: Aug 25, 2008 - 14:32
 
not really one of my favorite of the Dead's works, but man does this one bring back a lot of memories...

vonwienerhousen
(Rocky Mountains)
Posted: Aug 25, 2008 - 14:32
 
i love this song

purplespider
(Portland, OR)
Posted: Aug 25, 2008 - 14:31
 
Enjoying happy bouncy (stone-y) Dead{#Roflol}

tclodes
(Oklahoma City)
Posted: Jun 23, 2008 - 09:56
 
My mama told me, if I don't have anything good to say...

I am out of here!
erichb
Posted: Jun 23, 2008 - 09:52
 
My favorite dead tune. This is where Phil earns his paycheck.
manzanitafire
Posted: May 22, 2008 - 23:34
 
Thank you!
capandjudy
(Huntington, WV)
Posted: Apr 21, 2008 - 16:33
 
Nice bass part. Phil Lesh steps out!
Jack_Straw
(City of Bridges)
Posted: Apr 21, 2008 - 12:01
 
God damn it! I missed eyes of the world so I could talk to my boring ass douche bag boss. Life isn't fair.
bam23
(Berkeley)
Posted: Apr 21, 2008 - 11:55
 
One good reason to play live Dead is that the fairly weak sounds of Phil's bass, as rendered on this recording, were really developed in concert. There is but a hint here of what he did with the bottom part of a song, or jam, that propelled the entire edifice along. Live recording do manage to capture some of that power.
Cambot
(Never mind where I am now - I'm from Chicago)
Posted: Apr 21, 2008 - 11:52
 
Whoa..

I saw them play a three-hour jam of this at the Illinois State Fair Grounds in nineteen seventy blah blah blah..... patchouli... pot.... volkswagen.

What?
dbenwen
(Peachtree City, Georgia)
Posted: Apr 21, 2008 - 11:52
 
This song just seems so springlike to me...probably the overall sunniness and because the Dead always played Atlanta in the Spring in the 90's.
I really enjoyed the shows I went to, but Deadheads could get really tiring.
o2bnsv
(Sun Valley, ID)
Posted: Apr 21, 2008 - 11:52
 
well put! More live dead please

Ballzak wrote:
Yes, yes, yes!

One of my all-time favorites... but only when live, live, live! God this is a good song live, it makes me SMILE everytime I hear it but that feeling is all but lost on this version. Studio Dead is like warm Bud Light. Why oh why can't we get some LIVE DEAD????

Please?

wferrier
(Johnson City, New York; Home of the Factory)
Posted: Apr 21, 2008 - 11:52
 
need to hear weather report. . .
Al_Koholic
(Exit 82, NJ)
Posted: Apr 21, 2008 - 11:51
 
Has not been mentioned before I don't think, but turn the album sideways and the cloud is a skull.
Alifreckles50
(Frederick, MD)
Posted: Apr 21, 2008 - 11:50
 
one of my favorites....makes me feel downright sentimental!
JesseJ
(Madison, WI)
Posted: Apr 21, 2008 - 11:50
 
There's a good DMB cover of this floating around the net. Worth checking out.
Ballzak
Posted: Feb 18, 2008 - 12:17
 
Yes, yes, yes!

One of my all-time favorites... but only when live, live, live! God this is a good song live, it makes me SMILE everytime I hear it but that feeling is all but lost on this version. Studio Dead is like warm Bud Light. Why oh why can't we get some LIVE DEAD????

Please?
smdeeg
(SillyCone Valley)
Posted: Dec 17, 2007 - 15:21
 
rmurray248 wrote:
If you don't like this one, you'll never get the Dead.

I disagree. I like The Dead, but wouldn't go out of my way for this. Might even get up to get a drink. The song is fine, and the guitar very Dead like. But the singing is weak and uninspiring at best. There are so many better choices even off the studio albums.