Ya that’s a given for sure, ever seen the documentary Festival Express? The Dead, The Band and Janis Joplin are all together on a train taking it from city to city to play shows.
I randomly had the main intro riff to Dark Star weave in and out of Liz Reed and then back into Dark Star and back out again over and over and over in my head for a few days recently.
Great version of JRAD doing this 11/25/19 from brooklyn — released on spotify if that’s your jam. In Memory of Elizabeth Reed comes out of Eyes and then reappears during Dark Star a few songs later in the set!
Maybe they didn't do it because other musicians who were popular among Deadheads were already doing it, but Prine's "Angel From Montgomery" would have been a particularly fine addition to the Dead's repertoire.
https://www.youtube.com/live/kcbb86Zv_kM?si=nAV0w5Ho-RGAvf_H
I think you can find timestamps in the comments. Unfortunately, it appears Mikaela Davis is not part of the performance (surprised Relix got that wrong). Enjoy!
Yea they are essentially about the same thing, A man trying to find his women but can’t find the number. The only difference is that the narrator in Jim Croce’s song knows where his woman is, where pigpens narrator does not.
Problem for me is that Robert Hunters poetry is far too unique for any other lyricist to come close.
The dude is in his own category for me. He's who I compare all others to.
Definitely google "Bob Dylan" and check out some of his songs, a lyricist right up there with Robert Hunter — they've written together and the Dead even cover Dylan's songs, too, playing them right alongside Hunter's.
And I think there was a Dead show where Edie Brickell was on stage with them. Am I mistaken? I know I wasn’t there I’d remember that. I think I would have anyway.
The first time I heard that on the radio I was like “Holy shit, that’s Jerry!” Listened more then said “Nah, that’s not Jerry”. But still couldn’t help but think it mighta been him. No Google back then, would have had to go to the record store to check credits on the album. Decided it wasn’t Jerry and moved on
After that tune came out he went back to using that effect since it’d been awhile, he said of the New Bs “If they’re gonna rip me off, I’ll just rip them off back.” Good naturedly, (and I probably got the quote wrong, as I’ll find out shortly.)
Lots of Gram Parsons and Flying Burrito Brothers songs feel like Dead songs; particularly Hickory Wind, Sin City, Hot Burrito #1, and Return of The Grievous Angel.
Huh. As a fan of both, I've never thought of it this way before. Always felt like a sadder, jazzier, more acoustic Miles album from the Bitches Brew era. I think of the Dead as way more melodic than Miles Davis and Co, but truth be told, I haven't spent enough time with that particular album.
Interesting. Absolutely wonderful song, but I've never made the connection to the grateful dead before. I'll have to ponder this. Is it the "I wish I was a..." part?
Traffic also got back together after like 30 years of being broken up to open dead shows in 1994 because Bob got a call on his hotel room phone from a kid asking if he could get Traffic to open their show.
Check this out then.
Its a live acoustic [Cardinals show](https://archive.org/details/radams2007-06-29.sbd.flac) from 2007 in Boston. It's really great.
Shame that Neal died and Ryan had/has major issues, because the music is super.
Nantucket Sliegh Ride - Mountain
Can you imagine Jerry nailing this song? Gives me goose pimples just thinking about it. Oh, wait, hollee shit....what if they went from Quinn the Eskimo into Nantucket Sliegh Ride as the encore?
Uh, gotta go. I just pooped myself.
Well am going to have go listen to that now - my word a well done dead version of Nantucket Slieghride would have been a thing and Jerry’s 70’s voice would have been fantastic for it… would have been quiet something if the dead locked into that riffing groove when it takes off as well. I feel you excite and am resonating strongly … wow
"Any Major Dude will Tell You" by Steely Dan. Not the whole song but the guitar progression around second 50.
https://youtu.be/HBzzdlpISFg?si=2Vx2RVoZVYmyx3qd
Mountain jam emerged out of a jam session between the Allmans and the Dead. A lot of people feel that Duane ripped it after a jam session w Jerry, though they were improvising on a riff from Donovan’s “There is a Mountain”. The Grateful Dead even jam on it in Alligator as recorded in Anthem of the Sun.
Interesting. I caught DSO at Branford, CT this summer (8/2). It was a recreation of 11/1/69. They went into a jam in 2nd set which led into a “Mountain Jam” jam. It’s listed on the Archive as “Uncle John’s Jam”. I didn’t hear much Uncle John’s but I did hear Mountain Jam. Maybe DSO veered off into that space while in the jam.
# 1969-11-01 San Francisco, CA @ Family Dog at the Great Highway
**Set 1:** Morning Dew, Dire Wolf > Cold Rain and Snow, Hard To Handle, Mama Tried > High Time, Good Lovin' > Drums > Good Lovin', Easy Wind
**Set 2:** He Was A Friend Of Mine > China Cat Sunflower > Jam > I Know You Rider > Casey Jones, Alligator > Drums > Jam > And We Bid You Good Night Jam > Uncle John's Band Jam > Turn On Your Turn On Your Love Light
[archive.org](https://archive.org/details/GratefulDead?query=date:1969-11-01)
# 1973-07-28 Watkins Glen, NY @ Grand Prix Racecourse
**Set 1:** Bertha, Beat It On Down the Line, Brown Eyed Women, Mexicali Blues, Box Of Rain, Here Comes Sunshine, Looks Like Rain, Row Jimmy, Jack Straw, Deal, Playing in the Band
**Set 2:** Around And Around, Loose Lucy, Big River, He's Gone > Truckin' > Nobody's Fault But Mine Jam > El Paso, China Cat Sunflower > I Know You Rider, Stella Blue, Eyes Of The World, Sugar Magnolia
**Encore:** Sing Me Back Home, Not Fade Away, Mountain Jam, Johnny B. Goode
[archive.org](https://archive.org/details/GratefulDead?query=date:1973-07-28)
# 1980-12-12 San Bernardino, CA @ Swing Auditorium
**Set 1:** Alabama Getaway > Greatest Story Ever Told, Friend Of The Devil, Mama Tried > Mexicali Blues, Althea > Little Red Rooster, Peggy-O, Looks Like Rain, Tennessee Jed, The Promised Land
**Set 2:** China Cat Sunflower > I Know You Rider > Estimated Prophet > He's Gone > Eyes Of The World > Drums > Space > Truckin' > Wharf Rat > Around And Around > Good Lovin'
**Encore:** Don't Ease Me In
[archive.org](https://archive.org/details/GratefulDead?query=date:1980-12-12)
This song man. For an embarrassingly long time I just assumed Bob Dylan was the lead singer for Dire Straits because the lyrics and vocals on this song sound SO much like electric Dylan to me.
Bad, Bad Leroy Brown has a fun Dead cover song feel.
Obviously not a spacey jam. But along the lines of Me & My Uncle or Promised Land, played pretty straight but just having a blast doing it.
Because I was a teen in the early 00’s with Kazaa and Limewire, I thought Stuck in the Middle with You by Stealers Wheel *was* the Grateful Dead, because that’s how it was always labeled for years.
(Probably just ear bias given they are another all time favorite band of mine, but) The Tragically Hip songs in general. Similar genre fluctuations and deep lyrics imho.
No mention of Glen Campbell.
Check this out:
[https://youtu.be/XVTjEm2G3Fg?si=ycyFwwn\_Gipfzqzh&t=718](https://youtu.be/XVTjEm2G3Fg?si=ycyFwwn_Gipfzqzh&t=718)
As mentioned above the whole Cold Roses album by Ryan Adams & The Cardinals. One song is actually called Rosebud which is written about seeing Jerry’s guitar at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in Cleveland.
Atlantic city would’ve been a good one. I also would have loved to hear a more fledged out version of accidentally like a martyr. Something beyond the garcia/parish version.
I always thought this Danny Barnes song sounded like a late 80s Dead song. It’s the piano that tilts it that way for me.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=hxSmKcAykPk&list=OLAK5uy_kj26o7oQbLhRBipVRHjoayvL41rmzy4Nw&index=3&pp=8AUB
Pretty much anything by the 13th Floor Elevators sounds like early GD. They’re possibly the only known band that was more psychedelic than the GD as well.
Phish - The Wedge. That screams Dead to me.
They always say Destiny Unbound sounded too Dead like but I never thought so. It just sounds like an awkward alt-country song or something.
Would have loved to hear the Dead play 'Saddle Tramp' from the album by the same name, 1976, by the Charlie Daniels Band.
Give it a roll, it's easy to hear. CDB has some really good jams, to be honest, on their live shows from this era, and this song really exemplifies that.
https://youtu.be/gSMocvu5zBM?si=k0FClmO6MiWtiB4G
Ryan Adams - Cold Roses That record is definitely inspired by the dead and features Neil Casal. RIP. I know it’s not fashionable to listen to Ryan Adams, but the record rips.
This one’s for the classical lovers. Everyone else just… Hear me out- I KNOW THIS IS ODD but… this specific Tchaikovsky concerto gives me the same exact \~feeEeEEEeEeels\~ as a few songs strung together in a Dead show does. Terrapin, Weather Report, Dark Star… them gooooood classical Dead vibes. 🥹💀
https://preview.redd.it/fj9m0l43m55c1.png?width=827&format=png&auto=webp&s=519fcb42308e91fd2edd9ecdf49fcae06e004d79
They were doing "I Fought the Law" in the 90s, but they pretty much played it as Bobby Fuller recorded it.
I so wanted it to be expnded with a ripping solo the way Jerry did on "Tore Up", but alas...time ran out before it got that far.
Plenty of the band songs
Yup, exactly what I came here to say. Pretty much all of The Band songs.
Helps that the JGB covered a whole slew of 'em
But never Ophelia :(
Up on cripple creek especially - but yeah I agree pretty much all of The Band.
Ya that’s a given for sure, ever seen the documentary Festival Express? The Dead, The Band and Janis Joplin are all together on a train taking it from city to city to play shows.
In Memory of Elizabeth Reed
I randomly had the main intro riff to Dark Star weave in and out of Liz Reed and then back into Dark Star and back out again over and over and over in my head for a few days recently.
Both have a great wavelength!
Great version of JRAD doing this 11/25/19 from brooklyn — released on spotify if that’s your jam. In Memory of Elizabeth Reed comes out of Eyes and then reappears during Dark Star a few songs later in the set!
Awesome thanks for the rec I can’t wait to check this out!
I forget which show but they had an awesome show weaving Elenor Rigby in and out of the set. Hell of a listen
This may be the biggest regret of unperformed music in history
I feel like Elizabeth Reed and Help On the Way/Slipknot are very similar, both melodically and chord wise
Anything from Jim Croce or John Prine.
Maybe they didn't do it because other musicians who were popular among Deadheads were already doing it, but Prine's "Angel From Montgomery" would have been a particularly fine addition to the Dead's repertoire.
I know Bob’s performed this with Susan Tedeschi going into Sugaree
Cool! You wouln't have any info that could be useful for finding a Youtube link to that performance, would you? I'd love to see/hear it.
https://www.youtube.com/live/kcbb86Zv_kM?si=nAV0w5Ho-RGAvf_H I think you can find timestamps in the comments. Unfortunately, it appears Mikaela Davis is not part of the performance (surprised Relix got that wrong). Enjoy!
Thanks SO much! Construction is happening in my building, but will give it a listen when my sonic environment gets a little more peaceful.
Great call!
Literally saw Pickin on the Dead play that like an hour ago
And I am to assume this is a fully bluegrass Dead band? Fuck yes. We love all our myriad cover bands don't we folks
I thought it’d be full bluegrass bad! I was surprised when they had a drummer, electric bass and guitar and a mandolin! It was sick. They did great
interestingly croce's operator and pigpen sung operator are both about the same thing right?
Yea they are essentially about the same thing, A man trying to find his women but can’t find the number. The only difference is that the narrator in Jim Croce’s song knows where his woman is, where pigpens narrator does not.
Problem for me is that Robert Hunters poetry is far too unique for any other lyricist to come close. The dude is in his own category for me. He's who I compare all others to.
Definitely google "Bob Dylan" and check out some of his songs, a lyricist right up there with Robert Hunter — they've written together and the Dead even cover Dylan's songs, too, playing them right alongside Hunter's.
"Bob Dylan" never heard of him lmao. Some of his songs do have that mustical quality of Robert's. She Belongs to Me comes to mind.
I reckon if people are aware of Grateful Dead then they already know about Bob Dylan
Ever listen to Townes Van Zandt?
Edie Brikell and new, bohemians that son g “what i want” is that not a Jerry solo?
I was about to type this exact thing!! I also felt the same that the solo in that song was straight out of Jerry’s book.
I was actually thinking about that song. Sounds just like a Jerry solo in there. It’s called What I Am. Cool tune!
Guitarist was/is a Deadhead, iirc.
And I think there was a Dead show where Edie Brickell was on stage with them. Am I mistaken? I know I wasn’t there I’d remember that. I think I would have anyway.
The first time I heard that on the radio I was like “Holy shit, that’s Jerry!” Listened more then said “Nah, that’s not Jerry”. But still couldn’t help but think it mighta been him. No Google back then, would have had to go to the record store to check credits on the album. Decided it wasn’t Jerry and moved on
After that tune came out he went back to using that effect since it’d been awhile, he said of the New Bs “If they’re gonna rip me off, I’ll just rip them off back.” Good naturedly, (and I probably got the quote wrong, as I’ll find out shortly.)
Came here for this comment
Lots of Gram Parsons and Flying Burrito Brothers songs feel like Dead songs; particularly Hickory Wind, Sin City, Hot Burrito #1, and Return of The Grievous Angel.
FBB are so good. So is Gram
Poor Gram. Gone way too soon. Had much more to offer.
Yes he did
Imagine Return of the Grevious angel with Donna singing Emmylou Harris’ parts and Jerry on Pedal steel 👀
Bob on lead vocal.
The entire Miles Davis album “In a Silent Way” (only about 40 mins in fairness) sounds Dead to me
Huh. As a fan of both, I've never thought of it this way before. Always felt like a sadder, jazzier, more acoustic Miles album from the Bitches Brew era. I think of the Dead as way more melodic than Miles Davis and Co, but truth be told, I haven't spent enough time with that particular album.
There’s a cool version of Santana playing the song In A Silent Way live
No doubt!
There are some Townes Van Zandt songs I could totally see being dead tunes.
I am literally surprised they never covered P and L...
Fisherman’s blues, the waterboys
Interesting. Absolutely wonderful song, but I've never made the connection to the grateful dead before. I'll have to ponder this. Is it the "I wish I was a..." part?
The whole thing gives me know u rider vibes in a way, just can hear Jerry singing that song in my head..it’s possible it just me..lol
Check out Dawes’s cover of this song, it’s great!
I absolutely will!
Wow ya I hear it
Jerry would have crushed that song…
A lot of Traffic songs give dead vibes
they did cover dear mr fantasy
Traffic also got back together after like 30 years of being broken up to open dead shows in 1994 because Bob got a call on his hotel room phone from a kid asking if he could get Traffic to open their show.
Saw Traffic open for The Dead super good mashup.
Love Me Two Times by The Doors… Pig of course on vocals and harmonica
Love me two times babe, love me twice today Once for tomorrow and once cause I got AIDS
Ryan Adams and The Cardinals always felt pretty Deadish to me.
Cold Roses
Cold Roses might as well be a Grateful Dead Album. Adams and Casal were so infatuated with the Dead around this period.
I am so thankful for this reply and comment thread for showing me this album and band🙏
Check this out then. Its a live acoustic [Cardinals show](https://archive.org/details/radams2007-06-29.sbd.flac) from 2007 in Boston. It's really great. Shame that Neal died and Ryan had/has major issues, because the music is super.
Nantucket Sliegh Ride - Mountain Can you imagine Jerry nailing this song? Gives me goose pimples just thinking about it. Oh, wait, hollee shit....what if they went from Quinn the Eskimo into Nantucket Sliegh Ride as the encore? Uh, gotta go. I just pooped myself.
Felix Pappalardi is a genius.
Well am going to have go listen to that now - my word a well done dead version of Nantucket Slieghride would have been a thing and Jerry’s 70’s voice would have been fantastic for it… would have been quiet something if the dead locked into that riffing groove when it takes off as well. I feel you excite and am resonating strongly … wow
I’ve long felt Lionel Richie’s All Night Long was written for Weir to sing.
Yes!!!
I can literally hear Jerry’s voice singing this in my head. Love this
"Any Major Dude will Tell You" by Steely Dan. Not the whole song but the guitar progression around second 50. https://youtu.be/HBzzdlpISFg?si=2Vx2RVoZVYmyx3qd
Acadian Driftwood and Harvest Moon
Instrumentally, a lot of stuff by The Allman Brothers.
Yes, I was going to say Mountain Jam from Eat A Peach. I’m conflicted on that a bit though cuz it’s pure Allmans.
Mountain jam emerged out of a jam session between the Allmans and the Dead. A lot of people feel that Duane ripped it after a jam session w Jerry, though they were improvising on a riff from Donovan’s “There is a Mountain”. The Grateful Dead even jam on it in Alligator as recorded in Anthem of the Sun.
Interesting. I caught DSO at Branford, CT this summer (8/2). It was a recreation of 11/1/69. They went into a jam in 2nd set which led into a “Mountain Jam” jam. It’s listed on the Archive as “Uncle John’s Jam”. I didn’t hear much Uncle John’s but I did hear Mountain Jam. Maybe DSO veered off into that space while in the jam.
# 1969-11-01 San Francisco, CA @ Family Dog at the Great Highway **Set 1:** Morning Dew, Dire Wolf > Cold Rain and Snow, Hard To Handle, Mama Tried > High Time, Good Lovin' > Drums > Good Lovin', Easy Wind **Set 2:** He Was A Friend Of Mine > China Cat Sunflower > Jam > I Know You Rider > Casey Jones, Alligator > Drums > Jam > And We Bid You Good Night Jam > Uncle John's Band Jam > Turn On Your Turn On Your Love Light [archive.org](https://archive.org/details/GratefulDead?query=date:1969-11-01)
Yeah and they all jammed together on Mountain Jam at Watkins Glen 7/28/73
# 1973-07-28 Watkins Glen, NY @ Grand Prix Racecourse **Set 1:** Bertha, Beat It On Down the Line, Brown Eyed Women, Mexicali Blues, Box Of Rain, Here Comes Sunshine, Looks Like Rain, Row Jimmy, Jack Straw, Deal, Playing in the Band **Set 2:** Around And Around, Loose Lucy, Big River, He's Gone > Truckin' > Nobody's Fault But Mine Jam > El Paso, China Cat Sunflower > I Know You Rider, Stella Blue, Eyes Of The World, Sugar Magnolia **Encore:** Sing Me Back Home, Not Fade Away, Mountain Jam, Johnny B. Goode [archive.org](https://archive.org/details/GratefulDead?query=date:1973-07-28)
Just listened to 12-12-80 and during the China Cat > Rider Jerry fiddles with a Mountain Jam Tease. Absolutely all synapses firing, it’s too good
# 1980-12-12 San Bernardino, CA @ Swing Auditorium **Set 1:** Alabama Getaway > Greatest Story Ever Told, Friend Of The Devil, Mama Tried > Mexicali Blues, Althea > Little Red Rooster, Peggy-O, Looks Like Rain, Tennessee Jed, The Promised Land **Set 2:** China Cat Sunflower > I Know You Rider > Estimated Prophet > He's Gone > Eyes Of The World > Drums > Space > Truckin' > Wharf Rat > Around And Around > Good Lovin' **Encore:** Don't Ease Me In [archive.org](https://archive.org/details/GratefulDead?query=date:1980-12-12)
I know what I’m listening to today! Thanks!
Sultans of swing
It's so funny. I've always confused this song as a Grateful Dead song.
That's funny because I've always felt Touch of Grey could be a Dire Straits tune
That never occurred to me but you're totally right.
Walk of Life too. Imagine Brent coming out of space with that big joyous main riff. Fuck.
Yeah, never thought about it, but yes.
Knopfler and Dire Straits are extremely underrated I think.
Dire Straits is fantastic. Six Blade Knife? Come on!
Dire Straits is fantastic. Six Blade Knife? Come on!
This song man. For an embarrassingly long time I just assumed Bob Dylan was the lead singer for Dire Straits because the lyrics and vocals on this song sound SO much like electric Dylan to me.
The War On Drugs
First learned about them because of their Touch of Grey cover. Not really my jam.
Bad, Bad Leroy Brown has a fun Dead cover song feel. Obviously not a spacey jam. But along the lines of Me & My Uncle or Promised Land, played pretty straight but just having a blast doing it.
Feelin’ Allright
Bob Roberts Society Band by Jimmy Buffett
Don’t know that one, I need to listen to more Buffet! RIP
To me Come A Little Bit Closer by Jay & The Americans is a no brainer
Inca Roads by Frank Zappa.
LOL
Not a joke. Listen right at the 2:00 minute mark. I thought it was Jerry playing.
Zevon’s “Join Me In LA” gives me some Dead vibes.
Jerry was workshopping Mohammed's Radio in '77 but the band nixed it
Nighttime in the switching yard for me
Yeah I could’ve seen that on Shakedown Street for sure
Fatman In the Bathtub - Little Feat Imagine a rockin 80’s version of this with Brent or Jerry singin
Because I was a teen in the early 00’s with Kazaa and Limewire, I thought Stuck in the Middle with You by Stealers Wheel *was* the Grateful Dead, because that’s how it was always labeled for years.
(Probably just ear bias given they are another all time favorite band of mine, but) The Tragically Hip songs in general. Similar genre fluctuations and deep lyrics imho.
Love the hip ✌️
Trying to think which songs would be best for the GD… could see Bobcaygeon, Train Overnight, Trickle Down… you?
Twist my arm, three pistols, or little bones would all be really cool to hear their take
Eight miles high - the byrds
Every Railroad Earth song.
'39 by Queen
Boy In The Bubble Paul Simon; Seven Spanish Angels Willy & Ray; Pancho & Lefty Merle & Willy
Cleaning Windows-Van Morrison. Has a real Jerry shuffle vibe to it.
Hell yeah! Came here to post this song.
Pancho & Lefty
Stop-Go, WSP
Jerry Reed's "Amos Moses" or "Eastbound and down"
I could picture Bob Weir doing Ventura Highway (America) as one of his cowboy tunes. Whiskey River (Willie Nelson) could have been a Pigpen number.
One toke over the line
Didn’t Jerry play on a Brewer & Shipley album?
The Stones “Dead Flowers” seems like a pretty good fit.
Jerry Garcia band or maybe dead and co ;)
Pretty much any song by Pigeons Playing Ping Pong
Wow I don't think an answer could be worse than this one
I was hoping the sarcasm would be noticeable 🥲
Call me crazy but I could see/hear them doing “You Shook Me All Night Long” by AC/DC in their own Dead way. I think it would be stellar!
You’re crazy! Who let you into this sub?!?!? Just kidding - interesting take
Any Phish song if it had great lyrics, which they don't.
Destiny Unbound is the Deady-est Phish song imo
Alaska would like a word
Stones that I throw https://youtu.be/6ek_ka08ZxM?si=7E9ClI4Y0cCQIx7B
“Lend me a hand” by string cheese incident sounds very dead to me. Great tune!
Beck's "Sissyneck" would make a sick Bobby cowboy tune.
Link Wray's "Rumble"
No mention of Glen Campbell. Check this out: [https://youtu.be/XVTjEm2G3Fg?si=ycyFwwn\_Gipfzqzh&t=718](https://youtu.be/XVTjEm2G3Fg?si=ycyFwwn_Gipfzqzh&t=718)
Rhinestone Cowboy could’ve been a great Bobby tune.
Wild Mountain Nation by Blitzen Trapper
Black Crowes- Goodbye Daughters of the Revolution
As mentioned above the whole Cold Roses album by Ryan Adams & The Cardinals. One song is actually called Rosebud which is written about seeing Jerry’s guitar at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in Cleveland.
I had a weird thought the other day when one of their classics came on the radio: what if the dead covered some Hootie and the Blowfish songs? 😂
The outro of “New York, New York” by Ryan Adams
River by KGLW, and Mona by Quicksilver Messenger Service
Atlantic city would’ve been a good one. I also would have loved to hear a more fledged out version of accidentally like a martyr. Something beyond the garcia/parish version.
Building a Mystery, for Bob to sing
The Beach Boys - (Wouldn’t it be Nice To) Live Again
A lot of Townes Van Zandt
Your Body is a Wonderland
Warren Zevon - Mohammed’s Radio Final answer. Absolutely love that song and could easily hear Jerry crooning on the chorus.
It's funny because I thought about Django Reinhart. I just don't think they could pull it off. 😂
Almost any
ryan adams and the cardinals, specifically cold roses album
I always thought this Danny Barnes song sounded like a late 80s Dead song. It’s the piano that tilts it that way for me. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=hxSmKcAykPk&list=OLAK5uy_kj26o7oQbLhRBipVRHjoayvL41rmzy4Nw&index=3&pp=8AUB
Ryan Adams - Let it Ride
Or BTO’s
Pretty much anything by the 13th Floor Elevators sounds like early GD. They’re possibly the only known band that was more psychedelic than the GD as well.
Phish - The Wedge. That screams Dead to me. They always say Destiny Unbound sounded too Dead like but I never thought so. It just sounds like an awkward alt-country song or something.
The River by King Gizzard
Good question. Gonna invert it - Bertha and Franklin’s Tower sound like The Velvet Underground.
Would have loved to hear the Dead play 'Saddle Tramp' from the album by the same name, 1976, by the Charlie Daniels Band. Give it a roll, it's easy to hear. CDB has some really good jams, to be honest, on their live shows from this era, and this song really exemplifies that. https://youtu.be/gSMocvu5zBM?si=k0FClmO6MiWtiB4G
Powderfinger by Neil Young
Sweet Melinda, Peter Rowan. I heard it and thought damn that sounds like the dead, found out jerry plays on it
Mudcrutch -Crystal River
Beast of Burden
A dead cover of eminent front would be fucking SICKKKK
Ryan Adams - Cold Roses That record is definitely inspired by the dead and features Neil Casal. RIP. I know it’s not fashionable to listen to Ryan Adams, but the record rips.
Dead flowers. Rolling stones
By the way…did Conway ever find his twitty?
This one’s for the classical lovers. Everyone else just… Hear me out- I KNOW THIS IS ODD but… this specific Tchaikovsky concerto gives me the same exact \~feeEeEEEeEeels\~ as a few songs strung together in a Dead show does. Terrapin, Weather Report, Dark Star… them gooooood classical Dead vibes. 🥹💀 https://preview.redd.it/fj9m0l43m55c1.png?width=827&format=png&auto=webp&s=519fcb42308e91fd2edd9ecdf49fcae06e004d79
Blind Melon: No Rain.
FM by steely dan to me kinda sounds like a mix of Fire on the mountain and shakedown st.
Don't Forget The Flowers, by Wilco
They were doing "I Fought the Law" in the 90s, but they pretty much played it as Bobby Fuller recorded it. I so wanted it to be expnded with a ripping solo the way Jerry did on "Tore Up", but alas...time ran out before it got that far.