Musical Tastes

[Mark Yacavone]

Originally Posted by Jeff Niceswanger

Mark, I don't know why, but I could just never like the Dead. I think maybe it was because my boss, that I could not stand, was a big dead head. Don't know, but something sure soured me. ]

Jeff, I kinda know where you're coming from.
I knew of the Dead from the Haight Ashbury days.
About 1970, after hearing Workingman's Dead and American Beauty, I found out what an accomplished studio musician Jerry was. A multi-instrumentalist, who played guitar, banjo, and pedal steel, a lot of us heard his work without knowing it..."Teach Your Children" pedal steel opening and backing is one everybody knows.
Once the whole traveling hippie C/F show thing started, I had no interest in seeing them live.
What I did was buy the greatest hits CD and then left in only the acoustic and more mellow stuff, and then burned a CD to listen to in my RV. Try them that way.

This is what I had left, only re-arranged for better flow, IMO

"Touch of Grey" (Garcia, Hunter) – 5:50
Originally released on the 1987 album In the Dark
"Sugar Magnolia" (Hunter, Weir) – 3:19
Originally released on American Beauty
"Casey Jones" (Garcia, Hunter) – 4:28
Originally released on the 1970 album Workingman's Dead
"Uncle John's Band" (Garcia, Hunter) – 4:46
Originally released on Workingman's Dead
"Friend of the Devil" (Dawson, Garcia, Hunter) – 3:24
Originally released on American Beauty
"Franklin's Tower" (Garcia, Hunter, Bill Kreutzmann) – 4:33
Originally released on the 1975 album Blues for Allah
"Estimated Prophet" (John Perry Barlow, Weir) – 5:38
Originally released on the 1977 album Terrapin Station
"Eyes of the World" (Garcia, Hunter) – 5:20
Originally released on the 1973 album Wake of the Flood
"Box of Rain" (Hunter, Lesh) – 5:20
Originally released on American Beauty
"U.S. Blues" (Garcia, Hunter) – 4:40
Originally released on the 1974 album From the Mars Hotel

Originally released on the 1978 album Shakedown Street
"The Music Never Stopped" (Barlow, Weir) – 4:35
Originally released on Blues for Allah
"Hell in a Bucket" (Barlow, Weir) – 5:38
Originally released on In the Dark
"Ripple" (Garcia, Hunter) – 4:10
Originally released on American Beauty