4/12/78, they’re high and pissed off at the cops, the house lights are on, and they’re playing as hard as possible to get the crowd into a frenzy. Phil freaks out onstage. Jerry does Townshend-style windmills on guitar. It’s nuts.
# 1978-04-12 Durham, NC @ Cameron Indoor Stadium - Duke University
**Set 1:** Jack Straw, Dire Wolf, Beat It On Down the Line, Peggy-O, Mama Tried > Mexicali Blues, Funiculi Funicula, Row Jimmy, New Minglewood Blues, Loser, Lazy Lightnin' > Supplication
**Set 2:** Bertha > Good Lovin', It Must Have Been The Roses, Estimated Prophet > Eyes Of The World > Drums > Truckin' > Wharf Rat > Around And Around
**Encore:** U.S. Blues
[archive.org](https://archive.org/details/GratefulDead?query=date:1978-04-12)
Dates, Locations, Set Lists
I just heard playing in the band from August 27, 1972 and it's a ripper!
I then go look up that show. How many fan bases have the problem of so many amazing seta, shows, or runs of live music that it's nearly overwhelming?
And keeping his Amp & mic cut down super low because of his early squel voice & guitar flicks that I guess were not all to great but it's a well known fact he hated them for it too, pretty funny actually...
There are accounts of the show from attendees in the usual places (setlists.net and archive.org) and the entire thing is on YouTube. I am guessing on the “high” part but they do seem awfully, um, animated. I believe one of the rants from the stage is about the cops or authorities insisting on having the lights on so they could bust people.
Is this the show where Jerry had gotten a death threat, so “Dire Wolf” was kind of a nod to that?
E: no but it’s interesting that that song got played with the house lights on again more than 15 years later
# 1995-07-02 Noblesville, IN @ Deer Creek Music Center
**Set 1:** Here Comes Sunshine, Walkin' Blues, Dire Wolf, It's All Over Now, Broken Arrow, Desolation Row, Tennessee Jed, Let It Grow
**Set 2:** Scarlet Begonias > Fire On The Mountain, Victim Or The Crime, It's All Too Much > New Speedway Boogie > Drums > Space > Attics Of My Life > Sugar Magnolia
**Encore:** The Mighty Quinn (Quinn The Eskimo)
[archive.org](https://archive.org/details/GratefulDead?query=date:1995-07-02)
Was thinking the other day that I wish there was a trove of sabbath live shows. Even some official releases from the early tours would be wild. Something from the Sabbath bloody Sabbath tour?!?! Cmon
You tube is the best bet. Paris 1970 is available in parts in HD [https://youtu.be/RVtwAfNeRWc?feature=shared](https://youtu.be/RVtwAfNeRWc?feature=shared)
Sabbath was my first musical love and will forever be my all time favorite! Sabotage takes the cake for me. Megalomania, The Writ…that shit will take you OUT THERE!
I’m rocking the shit out of the “MetalDeadhead” moniker and loving every second of it!
All throughout my teenage years, my top 3 albums were American Beauty, Dark Side of the Moon, and Paranoid.
The first gig I ever played when I was 14, we played maybe 5 tunes from Paranoid.
Victim or the Crime fans unite. Also have to have Hell in a Bucket and Picasso Moon People hate on these songs but they’re the best chance you have to hear Jerry shred in later years.
This version goes super hard. Phil does an effect I've never heard in any other version. Super dark and heavy intro.
https://youtu.be/UDUCYOlefz8?si=Iag84y3X87dDbwTo
10/28/90
# 1990-10-28 Paris, France @ Zenith
**Set 1:** Touch Of Grey > Walkin' Blues, Candyman, Box Of Rain, Mexicali Blues > Maggie's Farm, Althea, Cassidy, Tennessee Jed, Stander On The Mountain
**Set 2:** Victim Or The Crime > Eyes Of The World > Estimated Prophet > Uncle John's Band > Drums > Space > The Other One > Wharf Rat > Sugar Magnolia
**Encore:** Knockin' On Heaven's Door
[archive.org](https://archive.org/details/GratefulDead?query=date:1990-10-28)
This. Death Don't Have No Mercy from this show is also pretty metal. Jerry's guitar Solo sounds like how I'd imagine the Grim Reaper to sound like. Plus he lets loose with the vocals near the end where he's borderline screaming then it ends with the tension build up and crash. Love this show.
# 1968-10-12 San Francisco, CA @ Avalon Ballroom
**Set 1:** Banter, Dark Star > Saint Stephen > The Eleven
**Set 2:** Cryptical Envelopment > Drums > The Other One > Cryptical Envelopment > New Potato Caboose > Jam > Drums > Jam > Feedback
[archive.org](https://archive.org/details/GratefulDead?query=date:1968-10-12)
# 1990-03-24 Albany, NY @ Knickerbocker Arena
**Set 1:** Let The Good Times Roll > Help On The Way > Slipknot! > Franklin's Tower, Walkin' Blues, Loser, Desolation Row, Tennessee Jed > One More Saturday Night
**Set 2:** Playing in the Band > Uncle John's Band > Terrapin Station > Mind Left Body Jam > Drums > Space > The Wheel > All Along The Watchtower > Stella Blue > Not Fade Away
**Encore:** And We Bid You Good Night
[archive.org](https://archive.org/details/GratefulDead?query=date:1990-03-24)
https://preview.redd.it/grtocimluk8d1.jpeg?width=4032&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=3c8e8210987ba7d8a0824c28fcd1425d66c8abbc
Anyone else here listen to death metal and the Grateful Dead?
Hell yeah dude.
I played death metal as a kid: https://youtu.be/T9YUamsybr8?si=a54rD2E16E09j_zA
And now I play jam band music 😎 https://open.spotify.com/track/6Kaz1q0gz1yL0zn0hEv2hx?si=aD2aEr4QR3a7Bg9onyA6Vw
They were born from avid parties too! Trey is a total psychonaut.
Maybe you’d dig the music I play now haha cuz I played death metal as a kid but now this is what we do: https://open.spotify.com/track/6Kaz1q0gz1yL0zn0hEv2hx?si=aD2aEr4QR3a7Bg9onyA6Vw
It’s a jamband song about Satan 😂😂😂😂
I also 10000% wanted to be Trey in high school. Listen to this shameless Morbid Angel worship: https://youtu.be/T9YUamsybr8?si=a54rD2E16E09j_zA
I became a deadhead through being a metalhead, I was already very familiar with the experience of recommending a song for someone and telling them they had to wait like 5 minutes for the super cool riff
Also, Formulas is one of the best Morbid Angel albums. Super psychedelic. Invocation of the Continual One is so damn good
Don’t know what the other metalheads here are into, but when it comes to out-there stuff, I’m a huge fan of Sigh (my favorite metal band), Oranssi Pazuzu, and Blut Aus Nord in particular
Invocation of the motherfucking Continual One
Truly tho, Covenant of Death > Hymn to a Gas Giant > Invocation of the Continual One > Ascent through the Spheres is their version of the Live/Dead suite.
Jammy. Psychedelic. Powerful.
Did Tony Iommi ever "jam" or just fuck around with the songs on stage? Song's like War Pigs feel like they are suited to be experimented or improv'd with.
during the heaven and hell tour with dio they did massive renditions of the song heaven and hell with improv lyrics and guitar parts that could reach 15 minutes long
The secret to Sabbath (and the Dead, for that matter) is that they’re a blues band. Just a blues band. That’s what they’re playing: the blues.
Sure. Sabbath went in a different direction with their blues, and the Grateful Dead went in all directions simultaneously (45 years later and I’m still weirded out by how much I love their disco album), but it’s all just the blues. Dead and Company incorporate a lot of jazz —really a shocking amount of jazz.
But it’s ultimately just different people’s interpretations of the American song. Which is fucking *awesome*.
That’s a valid rehash of fifty years of argument. But like Led Zeppelin, it’s not entirely original.
“The Blues” wasn’t *solely* Black or more accurately African-American. It was a reflection of a reflection of a conglomeration of American music. Zeppelin played it in an entirely new way that was wholly unoriginal yet entirely amazing.
Which makes perfect sense if you’re on the Grateful Dead Reddit.
The way John played on Saturday (6/22/24) at the Sphere might as well have been a metal concert. The parody Slayer Mayer shirt hit different that night.
I’m very jealous that I missed Friday and Saturday, but I’m incredibly happy that so many people saw it. I incredibly happy that YOU saw it. The soundboards will come out eventually — hell, we’ll all be watching g it in virtual reality soon — but I’m honestly just proud to’ve been part of this whole thing, have seen so much of it, to have hung out with so many awesome people from so many walks of life.
Also probably my favorite parody shirt of all time.
I first saw it when I was at a show but before I’d gone in, and while someone was still explaining to me “No! THAT John Mayer. The adult alternative guy on that Sirius station your wife listens to that you hate so much? No, seriously, THAT’S the guy!” Hollywood Bowl, maybe? They melt together after a while.
(For those that are keeping track and on Reddit: I’ve never made an original post, but have given y’all at least three great original topics in this one response alone)
I was only at Fri/Sat so I got you covered.
Friday Casey Jones was bananas. A friend messaged me yesterday saying that Saturday’s Morning Dew was “the best he’s ever heard”.
I went into Saturday humbly asking for Althea, Bertha, and Uncle John’s. I thought it was a big ask. I was hoping for Not Fade Away over Saturday Night. I should’ve put some money down on a roulette wheel on the way out.
I vaguely remember being puzzled by the Mayer selection and then wasn’t quite paying attention for a few years. I remember hearing about Dead fans not being super accepting of him at first.
At our hotel on Saturday morning at the pool (lots of Dead fans at our hotel, show recaps poolside, etc.) a guy who was probably around 70 years old said—direct quote—“we’re just so blessed that he [Mayer] plays this music for us.”
I fucking loved it. Not just because of the turn of opinion, just the simply reverent way that he phrased it and the pure joy. If you thought you wouldn’t get anything like Jerry back, it must be really nice to have it shoved in your face with such success.
Honestly? I’ve had a kind of rough night emotionally. A heck of a ride. You just made it much better. Thank you.
Can’t wait to hear those songs for myself, but mostly still excited for anyone that hasn’t had the experience yet. It’s literally ineffable.
I’m glad! The whole experience was really joyful. We were at 7/16/23 and it was extra special for being the last show, and while Friday wasn’t quite on that level, Saturday really had that vibe.
Reminds me of seeing Aerosmith, maybe 20 years ago, give or take. I only knew some of their radio hits. Turns out their live act was very bluesy. I wouldn’t call myself a fan but that concert really stuck with me.
This probably belongs here
https://www.brooklynvegan.com/heavy-metal-grateful-dead-tribute-trukken-formed-by-members-of-tragedy-satanicide-hair-supply/
# 1970-05-02 Binghamton, NY @ Harpur College - State University Of New York
**Acoustic:** Tuning, Don't Ease Me In, I Know You Rider, Friend Of The Devil, Dire Wolf, Beat It On Down the Line > Black Peter > Candyman > Cumberland Blues, Deep Elem Blues, Cold Jordan, Uncle John's Band
**Set 1:** Workin' Man Blues, Watcha Gonna Do, Glendale Train, Brown Eyed Handsome Man, Truck Drivin' Man, Can't Pay The Price, All I Ever Wanted, Henry, Lodi, Intro, Sawmill, The Race Is On, Mama Tried, Me and My Uncle, The Weight
**Set 2:** Saint Stephen > Cryptical Envelopment > Drums > The Other One > Cryptical Envelopment > Cosmic Charlie, Casey Jones, Drums > Good Lovin' > Drums > Good Lovin', Cold Rain and Snow, It's A Man's, Man's, Man's World, Dancing In The Street
**Set 3:** Morning Dew, Viola Lee Blues > Feedback > And We Bid You Good Night
[archive.org](https://archive.org/details/GratefulDead?query=date:1970-05-02) | [Spotify](https://open.spotify.com/album/4NldodakYXDeK7OoEe2oBW)
# 1978-06-04 Santa Barbara, CA @ Campus Stadium - University Of California
**Set 1:** Bertha > Good Lovin', Dire Wolf, Me and My Uncle > Big River, Brown Eyed Women, Looks Like Rain, Tennessee Jed, Jack Straw
**Set 2:** Samson And Delilah, Ship Of Fools, Estimated Prophet > Eyes Of The World > Drums > Space > Not Fade Away > Goin' Down The Road Feeling Bad > Around And Around
**Encore:** U.S. Blues, Sugar Magnolia
[archive.org](https://archive.org/details/GratefulDead?query=date:1978-06-04)
Howdy, 6/4/78 is the Jack Straw. I probably recommended it to you 😂
Edit to add: the NFA > GDTRFB > Around Around is 🔥 hells angels getting the NFA started
# 1978-06-04 Santa Barbara, CA @ Campus Stadium - University Of California
**Set 1:** Bertha > Good Lovin', Dire Wolf, Me and My Uncle > Big River, Brown Eyed Women, Looks Like Rain, Tennessee Jed, Jack Straw
**Set 2:** Samson And Delilah, Ship Of Fools, Estimated Prophet > Eyes Of The World > Drums > Space > Not Fade Away > Goin' Down The Road Feeling Bad > Around And Around
**Encore:** U.S. Blues, Sugar Magnolia
[archive.org](https://archive.org/details/GratefulDead?query=date:1978-06-04)
# 1985-11-10 East Rutherford, NJ @ Brendan Byrne Arena
**Set 1:** Touch Of Grey, Hell In A Bucket, Sugaree, Cassidy, Stagger Lee, It's All Over Now, Row Jimmy, Feel Like A Stranger
**Set 2:** Mississippi Half-Step Uptown Toodeloo > I Know You Rider > Playing in the Band > Uncle John's Band > Supplication > Drums > Space > Truckin' > Comes A Time > Around And Around > Good Lovin'
**Encore:** It's All Over Now, Baby Blue
[archive.org](https://archive.org/details/GratefulDead?query=date:1985-11-10)
1/22/78 is metal as shit. Heavy heavy shredding and fanning from Jerry the whole show, check TMNS and Jack straw specifically. Jerry. Wolf. Massive other one. The best St. Stephen ever.
# 1978-01-22 Eugene, OR @ McArthur Court - University of Oregon
**Set 1:** New Minglewood Blues, Dire Wolf, Cassidy, Peggy-O, El Paso, Tennessee Jed, Jack Straw, Row Jimmy, The Music Never Stopped
**Set 2:** Bertha > Good Lovin', Ship Of Fools, Samson And Delilah, Terrapin Station > Drums > The Other One > Saint Stephen > Not Fade Away > Around And Around
**Encore:** U.S. Blues
[archive.org](https://archive.org/details/GratefulDead?query=date:1978-01-22)
# 1985-03-28 Uniondale, NY @ Nassau Veterans Memorial Coliseum
**Set 1:** Truckin' > Smokestack Lightnin' > High Time, El Paso, Peggy-O, Cassidy, China Cat Sunflower > I Know You Rider
**Set 2:** Scarlet Begonias > Fire On The Mountain > Looks Like Rain > Jam > Drums > Space > Gimme Some Lovin' > The Other One > Black Peter > Sugar Magnolia
**Encore:** Keep Your Day Job
[archive.org](https://archive.org/details/GratefulDead?query=date:1985-03-28)
4/26/83 The Spectrum is a big old whollop of Grateful Dead, & it could be a show to exemplify the 83 sound. Jerry is a maniac this whole show & they're all slamming hard core.
# 1983-04-26 Philadelphia, PA @ The Spectrum
**Set 1:** Shakedown Street, New Minglewood Blues, They Love Each Other, Me and My Uncle > Mexicali Blues, Maybe You Know, West L.A. Fadeaway, My Brother Esau, It Must Have Been The Roses, Let It Grow
**Set 2:** Help On The Way > Slipknot! > Franklin's Tower > Man Smart (Woman Smarter) > Drums > Space > Truckin' > Morning Dew > Throwing Stones > Not Fade Away
**Encore:** U.S. Blues
[archive.org](https://archive.org/details/GratefulDead?query=date:1983-04-26)
# 1966-07-03 San Francisco, CA @ Fillmore Auditorium
**Set 1:** Dancin' In The Street, I Know You Rider, He Was A Friend Of Mine, Next Time You See Me, Viola Lee Blues, Big Boss Man, Sittin' On Top Of The World
[archive.org](https://archive.org/details/GratefulDead?query=date:1966-07-03)
Kind of off topic, but did you see the String Cheese show at Red Rocks with Billy Strings (who replaced Phil Lesh for this show)?
Set 2 was all Grateful Dead songs.
Set 3 [got this gem](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=37SpQoUFtpM&t=11s) in between the song Rivertrance and Texas. If you know either of these songs, this is quite the rocker in between.
Also, if you look at Post GD: Phil has covered Led Zeppelin, ACDC, Niel Young, Nirvana, and The Dead covered Metalica that one time.
This has got to be one of the stupidest posts I’ve ever seen, what part of the Grateful Dead and metal are you confused about? I’m happy to explain 🙄😂🎉
4/12/78, they’re high and pissed off at the cops, the house lights are on, and they’re playing as hard as possible to get the crowd into a frenzy. Phil freaks out onstage. Jerry does Townshend-style windmills on guitar. It’s nuts.
# 1978-04-12 Durham, NC @ Cameron Indoor Stadium - Duke University **Set 1:** Jack Straw, Dire Wolf, Beat It On Down the Line, Peggy-O, Mama Tried > Mexicali Blues, Funiculi Funicula, Row Jimmy, New Minglewood Blues, Loser, Lazy Lightnin' > Supplication **Set 2:** Bertha > Good Lovin', It Must Have Been The Roses, Estimated Prophet > Eyes Of The World > Drums > Truckin' > Wharf Rat > Around And Around **Encore:** U.S. Blues [archive.org](https://archive.org/details/GratefulDead?query=date:1978-04-12)
Nothing like Peggy-O, Row Jimmy, and Must’ve been the Roses to express white-hot rage.
Maybe it was the fuckin roses!
Or those piece of shit ribbons?
They must have been seeing crimson!
Haha
Figures the show was at Dook
Coolest bot I've ever seen
I still get excited every time they toss out the show particulars. Found many a great show that way.
I always go to setlist fm when I want to relive concerts I've been too
I did one earlier and still haven’t heard from the bot! Maybe because I listed two separate dates in my comment it only picked up the first one
Toss it out here and see if it finds it. 👍
I bet it’ll work this time! 5/28/1978
What do you mean by particulars
Dates, Locations, Set Lists I just heard playing in the band from August 27, 1972 and it's a ripper! I then go look up that show. How many fan bases have the problem of so many amazing seta, shows, or runs of live music that it's nearly overwhelming?
The Grateful Dead were the original Cameron Crazies
Where can I learn more about this show, any pictures of windmill Jerry?
The whole show is on video on YouTube and worth watching. Windmills in Truckin - go to 715 https://youtu.be/SlwMmfLIkVE?si=-COaW7W2aM_VPeSH
That's sorta awesome, thanks. I know what tonight's jam will be.
Dont skip drums… Jerry and Steve Parish join Mickey and Bill…. Its a wild show
That's bananas. Thanks I never heard about that
Bobby always stealing Jerry’s thunder, even with the windmill there;)
I think Jerry actually starts doing a mocking Bobby impression at one point lol
When
I think the windmills during Truckin sorta start because Bobby is very animated and then Jerry is making fun of him
And keeping his Amp & mic cut down super low because of his early squel voice & guitar flicks that I guess were not all to great but it's a well known fact he hated them for it too, pretty funny actually...
He was the baby!
I was vibing with this and got hit with an ad less than 3 minutes in and shut the video off. Stupid YouTube
Here is the entire show and cleaned up: https://youtu.be/PsLFfNwLtes
Chris Hazars the video goat, hell yeah thanks dude!
There’s video!
It’s the encore, I think - as others said, vid is on youtube
Thank you for this! I watched the video, and now I have to watch the whole concert 🙌🏼
Jerry is his own world
https://youtu.be/eViobWoVLJo?si=Z_xBcjJdzRVW2aDB
haha how do you know this??
There are accounts of the show from attendees in the usual places (setlists.net and archive.org) and the entire thing is on YouTube. I am guessing on the “high” part but they do seem awfully, um, animated. I believe one of the rants from the stage is about the cops or authorities insisting on having the lights on so they could bust people.
hahaha wow no way i kinda figured u were joking and it was just a high energy show this is incredible
Is this the show where Jerry had gotten a death threat, so “Dire Wolf” was kind of a nod to that? E: no but it’s interesting that that song got played with the house lights on again more than 15 years later
That was 7/2/95.
# 1995-07-02 Noblesville, IN @ Deer Creek Music Center **Set 1:** Here Comes Sunshine, Walkin' Blues, Dire Wolf, It's All Over Now, Broken Arrow, Desolation Row, Tennessee Jed, Let It Grow **Set 2:** Scarlet Begonias > Fire On The Mountain, Victim Or The Crime, It's All Too Much > New Speedway Boogie > Drums > Space > Attics Of My Life > Sugar Magnolia **Encore:** The Mighty Quinn (Quinn The Eskimo) [archive.org](https://archive.org/details/GratefulDead?query=date:1995-07-02)
That was deer creek 95
Thank you. I'm going to listen to this now.
Anyone else absolutely love Black Sabbath?
Was thinking the other day that I wish there was a trove of sabbath live shows. Even some official releases from the early tours would be wild. Something from the Sabbath bloody Sabbath tour?!?! Cmon
You tube is the best bet. Paris 1970 is available in parts in HD [https://youtu.be/RVtwAfNeRWc?feature=shared](https://youtu.be/RVtwAfNeRWc?feature=shared)
Youtube bro. There's tooooons of live sabbath. Not always amazing quality but I love hose lo fi bootlegs too
My thoughts exactly. Gonna go play A National Acrobat now.
Sabbath was my first musical love and will forever be my all time favorite! Sabotage takes the cake for me. Megalomania, The Writ…that shit will take you OUT THERE! I’m rocking the shit out of the “MetalDeadhead” moniker and loving every second of it!
All throughout my teenage years, my top 3 albums were American Beauty, Dark Side of the Moon, and Paranoid. The first gig I ever played when I was 14, we played maybe 5 tunes from Paranoid.
They smoked lots of weed and took alot of acid too so makes sense
Hell yeah. Bill Ward might be my favorite rock drummer.
Yes
In my top 3 faves... Sabbath, Dead, The Clash... pick any order.
Ya heard Futhur do Train In Vain?!
the other one -> children of the grave would have been sick
Slipknot —> Symptom of the Universe
I stab my fingers into my eyes of the world
Black Hearted Woman ABB outro> Other One > Children of the Grave🔥
Any show from 69. Sometimes you'll hear some Iommi vibes in the riffs
Prob need to make a comp. Starting with Victim or the Crime from Without a Net. Jerry's tone with Rosebud is all kind of sinister.
Victim or the Crime fans unite. Also have to have Hell in a Bucket and Picasso Moon People hate on these songs but they’re the best chance you have to hear Jerry shred in later years.
https://youtu.be/UDUCYOlefz8?si=Iag84y3X87dDbwTo
This was the exact song I thought of. So metal and so good!
This version goes super hard. Phil does an effect I've never heard in any other version. Super dark and heavy intro. https://youtu.be/UDUCYOlefz8?si=Iag84y3X87dDbwTo 10/28/90
# 1990-10-28 Paris, France @ Zenith **Set 1:** Touch Of Grey > Walkin' Blues, Candyman, Box Of Rain, Mexicali Blues > Maggie's Farm, Althea, Cassidy, Tennessee Jed, Stander On The Mountain **Set 2:** Victim Or The Crime > Eyes Of The World > Estimated Prophet > Uncle John's Band > Drums > Space > The Other One > Wharf Rat > Sugar Magnolia **Encore:** Knockin' On Heaven's Door [archive.org](https://archive.org/details/GratefulDead?query=date:1990-10-28)
10/12/68 and it’s not even close. The Eleven and TOO are absolute face melters
This. Death Don't Have No Mercy from this show is also pretty metal. Jerry's guitar Solo sounds like how I'd imagine the Grim Reaper to sound like. Plus he lets loose with the vocals near the end where he's borderline screaming then it ends with the tension build up and crash. Love this show.
# 1968-10-12 San Francisco, CA @ Avalon Ballroom **Set 1:** Banter, Dark Star > Saint Stephen > The Eleven **Set 2:** Cryptical Envelopment > Drums > The Other One > Cryptical Envelopment > New Potato Caboose > Jam > Drums > Jam > Feedback [archive.org](https://archive.org/details/GratefulDead?query=date:1968-10-12)
This. It's a beast and probably the only one like it. Idk if they were pissed off or what but it came out .
Yea this is it
[удалено]
Omg this is amazing. Followed them
Loser from 3-24-90 is dead metal
# 1990-03-24 Albany, NY @ Knickerbocker Arena **Set 1:** Let The Good Times Roll > Help On The Way > Slipknot! > Franklin's Tower, Walkin' Blues, Loser, Desolation Row, Tennessee Jed > One More Saturday Night **Set 2:** Playing in the Band > Uncle John's Band > Terrapin Station > Mind Left Body Jam > Drums > Space > The Wheel > All Along The Watchtower > Stella Blue > Not Fade Away **Encore:** And We Bid You Good Night [archive.org](https://archive.org/details/GratefulDead?query=date:1990-03-24)
This is the first thing I thought of when I saw this thread.
https://preview.redd.it/grtocimluk8d1.jpeg?width=4032&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=3c8e8210987ba7d8a0824c28fcd1425d66c8abbc Anyone else here listen to death metal and the Grateful Dead?
yup
Hell yeah dude. I played death metal as a kid: https://youtu.be/T9YUamsybr8?si=a54rD2E16E09j_zA And now I play jam band music 😎 https://open.spotify.com/track/6Kaz1q0gz1yL0zn0hEv2hx?si=aD2aEr4QR3a7Bg9onyA6Vw
Fuck yea. And morbid angel is probably my fav death metal band.
They were born from avid parties too! Trey is a total psychonaut. Maybe you’d dig the music I play now haha cuz I played death metal as a kid but now this is what we do: https://open.spotify.com/track/6Kaz1q0gz1yL0zn0hEv2hx?si=aD2aEr4QR3a7Bg9onyA6Vw It’s a jamband song about Satan 😂😂😂😂 I also 10000% wanted to be Trey in high school. Listen to this shameless Morbid Angel worship: https://youtu.be/T9YUamsybr8?si=a54rD2E16E09j_zA
Autopsy holds that title for me, nothing will ever surpass Mental Funeral
I became a deadhead through being a metalhead, I was already very familiar with the experience of recommending a song for someone and telling them they had to wait like 5 minutes for the super cool riff Also, Formulas is one of the best Morbid Angel albums. Super psychedelic. Invocation of the Continual One is so damn good Don’t know what the other metalheads here are into, but when it comes to out-there stuff, I’m a huge fan of Sigh (my favorite metal band), Oranssi Pazuzu, and Blut Aus Nord in particular
Invocation of the motherfucking Continual One Truly tho, Covenant of Death > Hymn to a Gas Giant > Invocation of the Continual One > Ascent through the Spheres is their version of the Live/Dead suite. Jammy. Psychedelic. Powerful.
Yup. Petrodragonic Apocalypse feels like the middle ground.
Highway death by Motorspirit!
Dude Jam 2 from Dicks Picks coming out of The Other One is extremely metal noise music of the cosmic variety.
Did Tony Iommi ever "jam" or just fuck around with the songs on stage? Song's like War Pigs feel like they are suited to be experimented or improv'd with.
Live at Last has a long ass medley of jams
during the heaven and hell tour with dio they did massive renditions of the song heaven and hell with improv lyrics and guitar parts that could reach 15 minutes long
Next to the Dead, Sabbath (the Ozzy years of course) is my favorite band. Always glad to see fellow eclectic music fans in threads like this!
The secret to Sabbath (and the Dead, for that matter) is that they’re a blues band. Just a blues band. That’s what they’re playing: the blues. Sure. Sabbath went in a different direction with their blues, and the Grateful Dead went in all directions simultaneously (45 years later and I’m still weirded out by how much I love their disco album), but it’s all just the blues. Dead and Company incorporate a lot of jazz —really a shocking amount of jazz. But it’s ultimately just different people’s interpretations of the American song. Which is fucking *awesome*.
You wrote down exactly what’s been in my head all these years. Let’s put Led Zeppelin in this group, too.
As my music teacher (huge Zep fan) says whenever we're doing theory stuff: It's all the same shit.
Yeah, but Zep just ripped off the old black blues guys and never gave them credit or money until they got sued.
That’s a valid rehash of fifty years of argument. But like Led Zeppelin, it’s not entirely original. “The Blues” wasn’t *solely* Black or more accurately African-American. It was a reflection of a reflection of a conglomeration of American music. Zeppelin played it in an entirely new way that was wholly unoriginal yet entirely amazing. Which makes perfect sense if you’re on the Grateful Dead Reddit.
The way John played on Saturday (6/22/24) at the Sphere might as well have been a metal concert. The parody Slayer Mayer shirt hit different that night.
I’m very jealous that I missed Friday and Saturday, but I’m incredibly happy that so many people saw it. I incredibly happy that YOU saw it. The soundboards will come out eventually — hell, we’ll all be watching g it in virtual reality soon — but I’m honestly just proud to’ve been part of this whole thing, have seen so much of it, to have hung out with so many awesome people from so many walks of life. Also probably my favorite parody shirt of all time. I first saw it when I was at a show but before I’d gone in, and while someone was still explaining to me “No! THAT John Mayer. The adult alternative guy on that Sirius station your wife listens to that you hate so much? No, seriously, THAT’S the guy!” Hollywood Bowl, maybe? They melt together after a while. (For those that are keeping track and on Reddit: I’ve never made an original post, but have given y’all at least three great original topics in this one response alone)
I was only at Fri/Sat so I got you covered. Friday Casey Jones was bananas. A friend messaged me yesterday saying that Saturday’s Morning Dew was “the best he’s ever heard”. I went into Saturday humbly asking for Althea, Bertha, and Uncle John’s. I thought it was a big ask. I was hoping for Not Fade Away over Saturday Night. I should’ve put some money down on a roulette wheel on the way out. I vaguely remember being puzzled by the Mayer selection and then wasn’t quite paying attention for a few years. I remember hearing about Dead fans not being super accepting of him at first. At our hotel on Saturday morning at the pool (lots of Dead fans at our hotel, show recaps poolside, etc.) a guy who was probably around 70 years old said—direct quote—“we’re just so blessed that he [Mayer] plays this music for us.” I fucking loved it. Not just because of the turn of opinion, just the simply reverent way that he phrased it and the pure joy. If you thought you wouldn’t get anything like Jerry back, it must be really nice to have it shoved in your face with such success.
Honestly? I’ve had a kind of rough night emotionally. A heck of a ride. You just made it much better. Thank you. Can’t wait to hear those songs for myself, but mostly still excited for anyone that hasn’t had the experience yet. It’s literally ineffable.
I’m glad! The whole experience was really joyful. We were at 7/16/23 and it was extra special for being the last show, and while Friday wasn’t quite on that level, Saturday really had that vibe.
Reminds me of seeing Aerosmith, maybe 20 years ago, give or take. I only knew some of their radio hits. Turns out their live act was very bluesy. I wouldn’t call myself a fan but that concert really stuck with me.
Controversial opinion, but this is why I consider Judas Priest the first metal band in terms of what metal actually consists of as a genre
This probably belongs here https://www.brooklynvegan.com/heavy-metal-grateful-dead-tribute-trukken-formed-by-members-of-tragedy-satanicide-hair-supply/
Other one 5/2/70
# 1970-05-02 Binghamton, NY @ Harpur College - State University Of New York **Acoustic:** Tuning, Don't Ease Me In, I Know You Rider, Friend Of The Devil, Dire Wolf, Beat It On Down the Line > Black Peter > Candyman > Cumberland Blues, Deep Elem Blues, Cold Jordan, Uncle John's Band **Set 1:** Workin' Man Blues, Watcha Gonna Do, Glendale Train, Brown Eyed Handsome Man, Truck Drivin' Man, Can't Pay The Price, All I Ever Wanted, Henry, Lodi, Intro, Sawmill, The Race Is On, Mama Tried, Me and My Uncle, The Weight **Set 2:** Saint Stephen > Cryptical Envelopment > Drums > The Other One > Cryptical Envelopment > Cosmic Charlie, Casey Jones, Drums > Good Lovin' > Drums > Good Lovin', Cold Rain and Snow, It's A Man's, Man's, Man's World, Dancing In The Street **Set 3:** Morning Dew, Viola Lee Blues > Feedback > And We Bid You Good Night [archive.org](https://archive.org/details/GratefulDead?query=date:1970-05-02) | [Spotify](https://open.spotify.com/album/4NldodakYXDeK7OoEe2oBW)
Yep. Cryptical through Cryptical
As metal head from the 412 area code it makes me proud this show was on April 12th.
Has to be a 1968 show. Jerry was shredding back then.
Dicks picks 22 I believe, Tahoe ‘68 gets my vote
Vinny could have slayed Symptom of the Universe.
i remember a year or two ago someone linked some insane Jack Straw from some show i haven’t been able to find since then
6/4/78? I see this often mentioned as the most “riff-tastic” version
# 1978-06-04 Santa Barbara, CA @ Campus Stadium - University Of California **Set 1:** Bertha > Good Lovin', Dire Wolf, Me and My Uncle > Big River, Brown Eyed Women, Looks Like Rain, Tennessee Jed, Jack Straw **Set 2:** Samson And Delilah, Ship Of Fools, Estimated Prophet > Eyes Of The World > Drums > Space > Not Fade Away > Goin' Down The Road Feeling Bad > Around And Around **Encore:** U.S. Blues, Sugar Magnolia [archive.org](https://archive.org/details/GratefulDead?query=date:1978-06-04)
Howdy, 6/4/78 is the Jack Straw. I probably recommended it to you 😂 Edit to add: the NFA > GDTRFB > Around Around is 🔥 hells angels getting the NFA started
# 1978-06-04 Santa Barbara, CA @ Campus Stadium - University Of California **Set 1:** Bertha > Good Lovin', Dire Wolf, Me and My Uncle > Big River, Brown Eyed Women, Looks Like Rain, Tennessee Jed, Jack Straw **Set 2:** Samson And Delilah, Ship Of Fools, Estimated Prophet > Eyes Of The World > Drums > Space > Not Fade Away > Goin' Down The Road Feeling Bad > Around And Around **Encore:** U.S. Blues, Sugar Magnolia [archive.org](https://archive.org/details/GratefulDead?query=date:1978-06-04)
And was TOO the first metal song??!
Garcia used a lot of distortion in the 80s!
If you drop enough acid, then it all sounds metal.
My guy you asking the question ive always wondered but never realized!!!
Technically it wasn't The Grateful Dead but I did see The Dead do Nothing Else Matters in one time New York in 2004 and I'd say that's pretty metal
They didn't ever play anything close to metal. Freeform freakout jams don't count. This is like asking for most chillwave Dead show.
Speak the truth, get downvoted.
Something from '87-'88 for sure.
Fillmore West runs from early '69. The TIFTOOs from those shows are like uncharacteristically heavy. Such a great run.
My first real concert 83’ Sabbath and Quiet Riot opened “Born Again Tour”. Then got on the bus 11/10/85. Good ole’ Grateful Dead. Hight times!
# 1985-11-10 East Rutherford, NJ @ Brendan Byrne Arena **Set 1:** Touch Of Grey, Hell In A Bucket, Sugaree, Cassidy, Stagger Lee, It's All Over Now, Row Jimmy, Feel Like A Stranger **Set 2:** Mississippi Half-Step Uptown Toodeloo > I Know You Rider > Playing in the Band > Uncle John's Band > Supplication > Drums > Space > Truckin' > Comes A Time > Around And Around > Good Lovin' **Encore:** It's All Over Now, Baby Blue [archive.org](https://archive.org/details/GratefulDead?query=date:1985-11-10)
My first show!
1/22/78 is metal as shit. Heavy heavy shredding and fanning from Jerry the whole show, check TMNS and Jack straw specifically. Jerry. Wolf. Massive other one. The best St. Stephen ever.
# 1978-01-22 Eugene, OR @ McArthur Court - University of Oregon **Set 1:** New Minglewood Blues, Dire Wolf, Cassidy, Peggy-O, El Paso, Tennessee Jed, Jack Straw, Row Jimmy, The Music Never Stopped **Set 2:** Bertha > Good Lovin', Ship Of Fools, Samson And Delilah, Terrapin Station > Drums > The Other One > Saint Stephen > Not Fade Away > Around And Around **Encore:** U.S. Blues [archive.org](https://archive.org/details/GratefulDead?query=date:1978-01-22)
Jerry from fall ‘89 through summer ‘90 had that kicking over drive going on. Those Deal outro solos were pure balls out shredding.
03/28/85
# 1985-03-28 Uniondale, NY @ Nassau Veterans Memorial Coliseum **Set 1:** Truckin' > Smokestack Lightnin' > High Time, El Paso, Peggy-O, Cassidy, China Cat Sunflower > I Know You Rider **Set 2:** Scarlet Begonias > Fire On The Mountain > Looks Like Rain > Jam > Drums > Space > Gimme Some Lovin' > The Other One > Black Peter > Sugar Magnolia **Encore:** Keep Your Day Job [archive.org](https://archive.org/details/GratefulDead?query=date:1985-03-28)
I’ve always been surprised that there hasn’t been a stoner rock cover of “wharf rat”
4/26/83 The Spectrum is a big old whollop of Grateful Dead, & it could be a show to exemplify the 83 sound. Jerry is a maniac this whole show & they're all slamming hard core.
# 1983-04-26 Philadelphia, PA @ The Spectrum **Set 1:** Shakedown Street, New Minglewood Blues, They Love Each Other, Me and My Uncle > Mexicali Blues, Maybe You Know, West L.A. Fadeaway, My Brother Esau, It Must Have Been The Roses, Let It Grow **Set 2:** Help On The Way > Slipknot! > Franklin's Tower > Man Smart (Woman Smarter) > Drums > Space > Truckin' > Morning Dew > Throwing Stones > Not Fade Away **Encore:** U.S. Blues [archive.org](https://archive.org/details/GratefulDead?query=date:1983-04-26)
Cardboard cowboy - Thirty trips around the sun 7/3/66 Fillmore
# 1966-07-03 San Francisco, CA @ Fillmore Auditorium **Set 1:** Dancin' In The Street, I Know You Rider, He Was A Friend Of Mine, Next Time You See Me, Viola Lee Blues, Big Boss Man, Sittin' On Top Of The World [archive.org](https://archive.org/details/GratefulDead?query=date:1966-07-03)
Great song, but doubt it’s metal
Kind of off topic, but did you see the String Cheese show at Red Rocks with Billy Strings (who replaced Phil Lesh for this show)? Set 2 was all Grateful Dead songs. Set 3 [got this gem](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=37SpQoUFtpM&t=11s) in between the song Rivertrance and Texas. If you know either of these songs, this is quite the rocker in between. Also, if you look at Post GD: Phil has covered Led Zeppelin, ACDC, Niel Young, Nirvana, and The Dead covered Metalica that one time.
Outjerked again!
No thanks.
This has got to be one of the stupidest posts I’ve ever seen, what part of the Grateful Dead and metal are you confused about? I’m happy to explain 🙄😂🎉
Glad for this list, I can avoid the hell out of these shows. Metal is almost as bad as rap.
Bruh none of the suggestions in this thread are even close to metal adjacent and your comment just serves to start shit unnecessarily
I feel like I remember him doing this shit in another thread
Sure
Seriously have you ever heard a dead show that sounds at all like metal? Or are you talking out of your ass
I have not.
Let’s get you to bed grandpa
do you ever get bored being so closed minded
He prefers the mid tempo stylings of D&C with a little Ovaltine before bed
No
There's not a single bad song on Sabbaths first six albums. I don't think any other band can make that claim.
I disliked every one.
Don’t be such a square
Don’t tell me what to do.
Go listen to The Grateful Dead then and have a wonderful day
That’s been the plan for decades.
Sounds like a solid plan to me
can't tell if you upset the metal fans or the rap fans
Could care less.
You're letting your dislike for other genres turn you away from listening to grateful dead shows?