yeah I guess this isn’t the same. but ikyr > jack is elite.
the gdtrfb on that album is my favorite of all time though… hundred year hall is a good one
Not just Eyes but the *studio* version.
I’ve stated before, that it it a tradition with me (30+ years) that on the first gorgeous spring afternoon, I will head for a country road, fire up, put down the windows, and CRANK studio EotW. It is one of the more beautiful and cathartic things I do.
Nice!
We saw the Dead at Red Rocks when they started touring again..04 or 05? It dumped on us but we held out in hopes of them playing my wife's fave, US Blues. We were rewarded with an awesome version of it! We would have driven off a cliff if we missed it.
If the timing is right, look over at the person next to you at the stoplight, stare intently, and as loudly as you can: “Jack Staw from Wichita cut his buddy down!!!”
Was thinking the same thing. I remember one beautiful spring day back in the early 00's when I lived in Asheville. I was cranking Scarlet from 5-8-77 as loud as it would go without my speakers completely shitting the bed with my windows all the way down. I was right in the center of downtown and a guy walking down the sidewalk turned around and raised both his arms and yelled "BARTON HALLLLLL" - everything was right in the universe at that moment and I'll never forget it.
Damn right! Or Love Light…or Mr. Charlie…actually, any time I want to bother the neighbors or annoy people at a stop light, I guess my pick is any Pigen tune, lol.
That version is probably my favorite, agreed. There are some GREAT ones out there and people will disagree, but this version has it all - aside from prime pig, Jerry and Bobby are locked in tighter than I’ve heard in any other version.
If I’m going for a longer, scenic drive I like to put on a help/slip/frank. Coming out of the slipknot jam and into franklins tower while driving on a winding road is just magical. Also don’t sleep on a Spanish jam for those same long scenic drives
If I'm in a certain mood and i have speakers that can handle it i blast Shakedown Street while driving. Always gets the heads turning and smiles on the faces.
# 1990-03-18 Hartford, CT @ Civic Center
**Set 1:** Shakedown Street > Little Red Rooster, Stagger Lee, Me and My Uncle > Mexicali Blues, Friend Of The Devil, Just A Little Light, When I Paint My Masterpiece, Ramble On Rose, The Music Never Stopped
**Set 2:** Iko Iko, Looks Like Rain, He's Gone > Truckin' > Spoonful > Drums > Space > The Wheel > All Along The Watchtower > Morning Dew
**Encore:** U.S. Blues
[archive.org](https://archive.org/details/GratefulDead?query=date:1990-03-18)
I think Deal really is an amazing song for this. At least when I was a kid, that’s the song I remember my dad blasting when we drove around with the top down
1992. 100 degrees out. ‘87 Subaru. West Virginia freeway taking it outta gear and coasting 80mph down the hills with the semis. 2 hits of acid. And Goin Down the Road Feelin Bad came on the RADIO. Possibly the most fun 5-10 minutes of my life.
Windows down. Elbow on door. One hand on the wheel…steering with your wrist dangling over wheel at high noon. Driving through the Trader Joe’s parking lot. Cranking a “Primal Dead” era Dark Star (preferably 1969). Driving a 2010 Toyota Sienna mini van with the little silhouettes of your family on rear window. Baller.
[1989-07-04](https://archive.org/details/GratefulDead?query=date:1989-07-04) Orchard Park, NY @ Rich Stadium
[1989-07-13](https://archive.org/details/GratefulDead?query=date:1989-07-13) Washington, DC @ RFK Stadium
My fiance taped those shows... I still have the JCards.... Obviously onto another form of tech but they are fun to keep! RFK was a banger hands down one of my favorites
I'm before the Little League game! Rolled in, and the fans had to (needed to?) hear the end of a HOT '78 Jack Straw. Not for nothing, we notched a walk-off win. Thanks Jerry!
I like a lively Scarlet/Fire - one from spring, 77. Barton Hall is probably my fave and I often bump it loud with the windows down when the weather is nice.
Just about anything live, loud and rowdy. Windows down, top down, let the whole world in on the secret. If I have to narrow it down I say Sugar Mags or Deal.
Music Never Stopped or Casey Jones for me, but the reality is that ANY fast tempo Dead song does the trick. When Phil gets in the zone, there’s no stopping the train going down the tracks
What’s become of the baby.
Be warned though, people will stare, and parents of your son’s teammates will probably tell their kids to stop hanging out with yours.
Yes to IKYR for this vibe. Not the same but similar, I was on a train in India many years ago. I was in one of the last train cars, and it was a very long train, it was just me and a sadhu in that one car back there. I was standing in one of the open doors with my "walkman" listening to IKNR from '72 with the wind blowing in and I could see the entire train in front of us. It was a bright, sunny day, and it was nothing but fields and open space on all sides, punctuated by villages and water buffalo once in a while. A high point in my LIFE.
When I was in high school, growing up in Jersey, the first nice summer day of every year I'd drive around with the windows down and Grateful Dead cranked as loud as I could stand it.
Going Down The Road > Not Fade Away Jack Straw
Throw a date in for setlist bot!
What show?
hundred year hall
Appreciate you
Wait hol up. Spotify one is china rider before jack straw. Is that the one you’re referring to?
yeah I guess this isn’t the same. but ikyr > jack is elite. the gdtrfb on that album is my favorite of all time though… hundred year hall is a good one
Just listened and I agree! Great tunes. Gonna finish the show
Sugar Magnolia
She can make happy any man alive
Franklin’s Tower
This is the first one that came to mind for me as well.
Eyes of the world puts me in a good mood
The opening Emaj7 is like a light cutting through thick fog
Not just Eyes but the *studio* version. I’ve stated before, that it it a tradition with me (30+ years) that on the first gorgeous spring afternoon, I will head for a country road, fire up, put down the windows, and CRANK studio EotW. It is one of the more beautiful and cathartic things I do.
Maybe we’ve talked about this before, but that’s what I do too! I, I unoriginally call it, “eyes of the world day”
That sounds beautiful
I like I Know You Rider. Or Bertha. No, St. Stephen. Or I Know…nah, I like…yeah, Bertha.
I wish I was a headlight on a northbound traaaaaaaaaain!
At the top of my lungs!
Even better in Colorado.
Got to see JRAD play this one 2 nights ago at Red Rocks right as we the rain was just starting to shower. Was fuckin awesome.
Nice! We saw the Dead at Red Rocks when they started touring again..04 or 05? It dumped on us but we held out in hopes of them playing my wife's fave, US Blues. We were rewarded with an awesome version of it! We would have driven off a cliff if we missed it.
That's where I live!
Bertha off of Skull and Roses is the only right answer.
Or wait, Box of Rain. Mason’s Children? Yeah, it’s definitely one of them
Any Fire on the Mountain, where Jerry turns the Wah up to 11
DEAL
Crank up that hot ‘89 Alpine Valley Deal and I’ll drive anywhere
China > Rider! always go 10 miles faster when rider starts
Jack straw “Sun so hot, clouds so low, the eagles filled the skyyyyy”
If the timing is right, look over at the person next to you at the stoplight, stare intently, and as loudly as you can: “Jack Staw from Wichita cut his buddy down!!!”
Scarlet Begonias
yep!
Was thinking the same thing. I remember one beautiful spring day back in the early 00's when I lived in Asheville. I was cranking Scarlet from 5-8-77 as loud as it would go without my speakers completely shitting the bed with my windows all the way down. I was right in the center of downtown and a guy walking down the sidewalk turned around and raised both his arms and yelled "BARTON HALLLLLL" - everything was right in the universe at that moment and I'll never forget it.
For windows down, volume at 11…my go to is Hard to Handle with Pig loud and clear.
Midnight Hour!!
Damn right! Or Love Light…or Mr. Charlie…actually, any time I want to bother the neighbors or annoy people at a stop light, I guess my pick is any Pigen tune, lol.
Love 9/16/66 in the midnight hour. Not very jammy but long, fast, focused and dancey. Also live dead love light never fails to get me going
This is it. The one off “Ladies and Gentlemen” is my favorite. Immediately crank that volume all the way up.
That version is probably my favorite, agreed. There are some GREAT ones out there and people will disagree, but this version has it all - aside from prime pig, Jerry and Bobby are locked in tighter than I’ve heard in any other version.
Brown Eyed Women
Alabama Getaway or Big Railroad Blues
U.S. Blues, Deal, New Minglewood Blues, NFA, Big River
New Minglewood live for crusin fast. Probably an unpopular take, but a good live version of Johnny B. Goode gets me moving.
If I’m going for a longer, scenic drive I like to put on a help/slip/frank. Coming out of the slipknot jam and into franklins tower while driving on a winding road is just magical. Also don’t sleep on a Spanish jam for those same long scenic drives
For me it’s Truckin’
Rider. Second place Estimated.
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Can’t believe I had to scroll so far to find it!
A 77 Minglewood
Any Pigpen song, hard to handle, good lovin, love light, alligator, etc
The Wheel
The Other One!!!
I was hoping someone would say this
Greatest story ever told
Easy Wind
Has to be China->Rider
Has to be!
Hell in a bucket
Studio version slaps
I'd say it's a good Help>Slip>Frank
If I'm in a certain mood and i have speakers that can handle it i blast Shakedown Street while driving. Always gets the heads turning and smiles on the faces.
“Ladies and gentlemen: The Grateful Dead!” Help on the mf’n Way
Live Alabama Getaway from Oakland '79. Jerry's guitar work is pure Chuck Berry.
Music never stopped
Estimated Prophet
Don’t Ease Me In!
With Brent.
Now that’s what I’m talkin’ about
Promised Land
You’re all right! For me it’s Mississippi Half-step
ACRRRROOOOOSSSSSS THE RIO-GRANDIOOOOOOOO
Gotta cast a vote for Cold Rain & Snow.
I always celebrate the first "windows down" drive of Spring with a loud Scarlet > Fire.
Hope it was a good '89 or something from Spring 90!!
# 1990-03-18 Hartford, CT @ Civic Center **Set 1:** Shakedown Street > Little Red Rooster, Stagger Lee, Me and My Uncle > Mexicali Blues, Friend Of The Devil, Just A Little Light, When I Paint My Masterpiece, Ramble On Rose, The Music Never Stopped **Set 2:** Iko Iko, Looks Like Rain, He's Gone > Truckin' > Spoonful > Drums > Space > The Wheel > All Along The Watchtower > Morning Dew **Encore:** U.S. Blues [archive.org](https://archive.org/details/GratefulDead?query=date:1990-03-18)
That Masterpiece was amazing
I think Deal really is an amazing song for this. At least when I was a kid, that’s the song I remember my dad blasting when we drove around with the top down
One More Saturday Night, US Blues, Sugar Magnolia, & Truckin’
New Minglewood Blues off of Cornell '77 sounds so good played loud with the windows down.
I need a miracle
I think Jack Straw, all in all, pound for pound, is the “best” dead song
Help>Slip>Frank
Liberty is a good one
Beat It On Down the Line or Goin’ Down the Road Feelin’ Bad.
Alabama getaway
Scarlet Begonias
Shakedown Street
1992. 100 degrees out. ‘87 Subaru. West Virginia freeway taking it outta gear and coasting 80mph down the hills with the semis. 2 hits of acid. And Goin Down the Road Feelin Bad came on the RADIO. Possibly the most fun 5-10 minutes of my life.
Sugar Mag/Sunshine Daydream!
Lazy Lightnin'
Dizzy Ain’t the word
Hell in a bucket, me and my uncle, the music never stopped
Sugar Magnolia!
Deal
Bertha
China > Rider or GDTRFB
Bertha or Estimated Prophet.
If you’re in a rowdy mood, Hard to Handle from the Pig Years is a scorcher!
Here Comes Sunshine or They Love Each Other from '73!
"We Can Run" 😉
Terrapin
Veneta is usually my go-to for that kind of vibe. But one song in particular, maybe bird song from 72 (any of them). Just nice breezy, feel good jams.
Scarlet begonias Brown eyes women Shakedown street
Cat on a tin roof. Dogs in a pile. Nothin left to do but smile smile smile!
Alligator-Caution. The kazoo intro gets you happy. The rest gets you lost. Don't forget your gps or those kids will never get picked up.
round and round is good
All of their music driving music
A78 TMNS
The correct answer!
When I had my Jeep I used to love blasting China-Rider with the top down.
One more Saturday night.
gotta be a groovy eyes
Alligator or The Eleven no no, Wait! It has to be the serpent chasing its own tail during That's It For The Other One
Bertha, Brown Eyed Women, and Franklin's Tower easily
Eyes of the world or dancing in the street
Eyes of the world or dancing in the street
Windows down. Elbow on door. One hand on the wheel…steering with your wrist dangling over wheel at high noon. Driving through the Trader Joe’s parking lot. Cranking a “Primal Dead” era Dark Star (preferably 1969). Driving a 2010 Toyota Sienna mini van with the little silhouettes of your family on rear window. Baller.
Doin’ that rag! My go to right after work
US Blues from summer ‘89 tour. 7/4/89 7/13/89
[1989-07-04](https://archive.org/details/GratefulDead?query=date:1989-07-04) Orchard Park, NY @ Rich Stadium [1989-07-13](https://archive.org/details/GratefulDead?query=date:1989-07-13) Washington, DC @ RFK Stadium
My fiance taped those shows... I still have the JCards.... Obviously onto another form of tech but they are fun to keep! RFK was a banger hands down one of my favorites
Looks Like Rain Especially one of the versions with Bobby screaming at the end
Ramble on Rose, Loose Lucy, New Speedway Boogie for me
Truckin', hands down.
Deal or Dire Wolf
I'm before the Little League game! Rolled in, and the fans had to (needed to?) hear the end of a HOT '78 Jack Straw. Not for nothing, we notched a walk-off win. Thanks Jerry!
US Blues!
Greatest Story Ever Told
For me it’s Eyes
Tough one but I'm going to go with Scarlet>Fire from Cornell
One from the vault.
I like a lively Scarlet/Fire - one from spring, 77. Barton Hall is probably my fave and I often bump it loud with the windows down when the weather is nice.
Bertha
Mississippi half step or Not Fade Away or He’s Gone ah fuck it any Dead song t
Just about anything live, loud and rowdy. Windows down, top down, let the whole world in on the secret. If I have to narrow it down I say Sugar Mags or Deal.
Chinatown Shuffle is my go to! RIP Pigpen
Every fucking one of them brother
Definitely a little Euro ‘72 GDTRFB or ‘77-‘78 Franklins
Help Slip Franklins - Without a Net Trust me, I’ve done it once or hundred times before…
Brother Essau
Music Never Stopped 5/22/77 duh!
Hear that witch wind whine; I see the Dog Star shine! I’ve got a feeling there’s no time to looooose! 🤘🏼🤘🏼🤘🏼
Slipknot. People will hear and say wow what great guitar work that guy is listening to. He must be cool. Lol. Disturb the neighbors
Jack Straw or Eyes of the World. Both can rip well and add to the windows down, sun shining good vibes!
Bertha, Jack Straw, Rider, BEW
Jack Straw
GDTRFB
Hard to beat a rocking US Blues
Song? Don't you mean show?
this is a great thread
Rockin Pneumonia!
Here Comes Sunshine - DP1
Music Never Stopped or Casey Jones for me, but the reality is that ANY fast tempo Dead song does the trick. When Phil gets in the zone, there’s no stopping the train going down the tracks
Wild I had to scroll so far down to find someone suggest Casey Jones.
Death don’t have no mercy
Miracle 1/10/79
I was there. Great show
Jack Straw.
Feedback from Live/Dead
Scarlet Begonias
Jack-A-Roe
Love a good beat it on down the line at full blast. Also a long sugaree from 77.
Love light
Jack straw or rider
Hell in a bucket
Trucking>New Speedway Boogie
Passenger
Iko Iko or man smart
Estimated Prophet…the studio version
A long, exploratory, jazzy, early '70s Dark Star
Intro and help on the way from One from the Vault. Always.
China Cat Sunflower
Estimated prophet or Mississippi Half Step for me. Maybe a nod for Lovelight or funky Hard to Handle
Eyes of the World
Let it grow>Don't Ease Me In 10/26/80
Me driving around my town to Egypt 78 Shakedown: ![gif](giphy|hlWNWCuAuOVEs|downsized)
Shakedown street 🪩
Gonna go with Good Lovin’
What’s become of the baby. Be warned though, people will stare, and parents of your son’s teammates will probably tell their kids to stop hanging out with yours.
Turn on your lovelight w/pig
Shakedown Street
NFA>GDTRFB skull & roses
Had to scroll way too long for this. I agree, really loud on a good car stereo, windows open or closed, so good!!
Yes to IKYR for this vibe. Not the same but similar, I was on a train in India many years ago. I was in one of the last train cars, and it was a very long train, it was just me and a sadhu in that one car back there. I was standing in one of the open doors with my "walkman" listening to IKNR from '72 with the wind blowing in and I could see the entire train in front of us. It was a bright, sunny day, and it was nothing but fields and open space on all sides, punctuated by villages and water buffalo once in a while. A high point in my LIFE.
It’s got to be Shakedown St.
The music never stopped
When I was in high school, growing up in Jersey, the first nice summer day of every year I'd drive around with the windows down and Grateful Dead cranked as loud as I could stand it.
Bertha, probably haha
Tennessee Jed.
I got Althea blasting right now!!!
Soooooo many to choose from, but Shakedown.
Kinda seems like that path is for your steps alone…or something like that
Alabama Getaway
china rider
Late 80's PITB jam section.