headyversion

find the best versions of grateful dead songs

please login or register.

BeggarsTomb48

better weather

+7005


Submissions

1
Tennessee Jed
April 5, 1993
Nassau Coliseum

feels good to get lost in a good fluid jed, the light at end of the tunnellin' jokester's mountain. Barrelhouse vince, weir and lesh and fire jer bear
2
Deal
April 15, 1982
Providence Civic Center

Hot, glinting Deal. early Brent is evolutionary days for the party songs in the ouevre, great tiger smoker!
1
Bird Song
Oct. 30, 1980
Radio City Music Hall

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Snz5k9PkXTk magisterial jamming
1
Truckin'
March 22, 1985
Hampton Coliseum

bobby puts his hand over his forehead as if looking out on a bright day on "other times i can barely see"
2
Mississippi Halfstep Uptown Toodeloo
June 25, 1994
Sam Boyd Silver Bowl, U.N.L.V.

jer bear sings this one beautifully

Comments

Brown Eyed Women
April 6, 1984
Aladdin Theater

That vaudevillian devil may care or fuck off abandon. Awesome immediacy engine ripping energy
Feel Like A Stranger
July 29, 1994
Buckeye Lake Music Center

felt a sudden urge to pivot hard to 94. Totoraitis/Miller source is nicely EQ'd, stranger is nicely jammed out, yas bitch
Samson and Delilah
April 8, 1978
Veterans Memorial Coliseum

... yep im guilty of coming back around for this one after the S>F>E>E, idk man just one of those tunes that they played a lot but like TJ or deal there are just a LOT of really good ones like this 78 rager. Phil lesh.
Space
July 1, 1978
Arrowhead Stadium

Kool add!!! jerry and the drummers, skittering and furious estimated-ish stuff!
Eyes Of The World
April 8, 1978
Veterans Memorial Coliseum

There are definitely cooler and more seamless melts from estimated but this combo is so classic and strong that chances of you giving a shit are 0%, great to hear the tune still not speedy and there's some imaginative choices on this one in terms of rhythmic grid emphasis and chord voicings, sometimes quite open and folksy then getting into some of those more block/cluster chords creating little pockets of tension in the scope of the thing, and then also lots of just rocking out in, again, that rock star party time 78 feeling/mindset