Elric

5y

the petty ass gene clark shade dont even have to mention old man rap hate takes

idk man ive never heard dylan or neil talk down on anybody like crosby loves to and it spoils his poetry for me

his songs still go when its byrds or neil beside him obv

rvi

5y

you're trying to listen to Crosby for his poetry? it's just hippie babble tbh

rvi

5y

maybe you just subconsciously never liked If I Could Only Remember My Name because Grateful Dead members played a lot on it

Elric

5y

yeah so his solo album are a paralyzing amount of that

truly beautiful voice and arrangements roond by his buffonery

Elric

5y

the 2-3 hours ive spent force feeding myself your recs alone

rvi

5y

yeah except for the 3 tracks with wordless vocals and the one in french

rvi

5y

2-3 hours is miniscule time to learn them, need like 100 times that then you can be a lowest level acolyte

Elric

5y

the 2-3 hours ive spent force feeding myself your recs alone

Elric

5y

Yeah I'm not counting the s***loads of listens I did to all their 60s studio stuff I did back in the day with in my normal process

I recognize that the dead are unique and that is why my process was unsuccessful and will continue to take recs from you. Tbh I've never kept any in rotation so maybe send me a crystalline zenith peak apex performance and I'll stay on it.

rvi

5y

yeah you kinda wasted your time on the studio stuff lol. bunch of 7/10 albums at their best

i cant remember, did you even ever marinate the Live/Dead album? from 1969

rvi

5y

grateful dead is always a frustrating band even for a lot of heads because some of the vocals are just lame as hell or occasionally excruciating. like half the songs (more shorter ones) are Bob Weir songs, whose voice ranges from dead average to really bad. during a lot of their peak years they had a f***ing godawful backing vocalist that literally makes me say "shut the f*** up" to myself out lout sometimes when i listen. then their later period keyboard/vocalist guy had an absolutely horrendous constipated voice that fit horrible

Elric

5y

I don't know if I can say I marinated exactly and also it was eons ago

I can find that one

rvi

5y

if you never marinated on it then thats definitely the place to start, because its their first live album + key historical live album + most psychedelic period + literally their peak period, or at least one of them

but honestly just listen to the Dark Star from that album and stay on it for a while instead of the whole double album, since youre looking for a singular zenith apex performance. The most historically significant version of their widely agreed greatest jam vehicle, so it's the closest thing they have to a single definitive track tbh. and knowing the way you like to listen you might be able to appreciate it more in that context rather than some obscure version

Elric

5y

Maybe I'll give it my first listen ages next time I dose a little of this lsd I've been dabbling in

Elric

5y

the petty ass gene clark shade dont even have to mention old man rap hate takes

idk man ive never heard dylan or neil talk down on anybody like crosby loves to and it spoils his poetry for me

his songs still go when its byrds or neil beside him obv

Elric

5y

yeah so his solo album are a paralyzing amount of that

truly beautiful voice and arrangements roond by his buffonery

Elric

5y

Yeah I'm not counting the s***loads of listens I did to all their 60s studio stuff I did back in the day with in my normal process

I recognize that the dead are unique and that is why my process was unsuccessful and will continue to take recs from you. Tbh I've never kept any in rotation so maybe send me a crystalline zenith peak apex performance and I'll stay on it.