What's your favorite Grateful Dead song?

[red dog 1]

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Truckin'

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	Dark Star
	1 (10%)
	Uncle John's Band
	1 (10%)
	Friend of the Devil
	0 (0%)
	Ripple
	3 (30%)
	Truckin'
	1 (10%)
	U.S. Blues
	1 (10%)
	Sugar Magnolia
	0 (0%)
	Touch of Gray
	0 (0%)
	Box of Rain
	2 (20%)
	Golden Road (To Unlimited Devotion)
	1 (10%)
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[bdtrppr6]

1. voted dark star

but it's actually Eyes of the World. specifically from Freedom Hall, Louisville KY 1974 bootleg. perfect version.

[MiltonBrown]

2. My favorite is the Golden Road (To Unlimited Devotion)

First song on their first LP I believe.

It's a straight forward rocker full of joy just like I like 'em.

[red dog 1]

9. A friend & I drove from SF to LA because that 1st Dead album was to be released 2 weeks earler

down in Los Angeles.

(I used to go see the Grateful Dead at the old Fillmore Auditorium, with Bill Graham himself handing out apples at the door as you entered)

[red dog 1]

17. Golden Road (To Unlimited Devotion) is now up there, so you can vote for it now

(Nobody voted for Casey Jones)

[dmoyer]

3. Shakedown Street

Or Fire on the Mountain or Deal or
Scarlet Begonias or St. Stephen or
many more

[Hassin Bin Sober]

4. Bertha, Brown Eyed Women, Jack Straw, Deal

Scarlet/Fire

China/Rider

Only live. Preferably audience recordings.

[LuckyCharms]

5. A horse wearing a Grateful Dead shirt walks into a bar.

Bartender says...hey! I like the Grateful Dead too. They play that song...what is it...Truckin'...that's it...Truckin. I like that song. What's your favorite Grateful Dead song?

The horse got a thoughtful look and stared into space for a full minute.

Finally, the bartender says...well, what's your favorite Grateful Dead song?

The horse continues to think.

After another minute, the bartender says...WELL?

Finally, the horse says...Well, I'm really partial to the China/Rider transition jam from Rhode Island on 6/26/74, but only when I can listen to it on a pair of bitchin' speakers that can sustain Phil's bass levels when I max him out on the equalizer and I can get Bobby's guitar just right in the mix so it sounds kind of like a "jangly" shuffle that is the perfect counterpoint to Jerry's high end.

[nolabear]

6. LOL!!

SO Deadhead.

[LuckyCharms]

7. .

[red dog 1]

8. + 1

[NightWatcher]

14. I was just going to say something douchey like that

Like the one time they did Not Fade Away into GDTRFB back into Not Fade Away and the crowd kept clapping and signing for minutes after the band left.

But I guess Bertha or GDTRFB or Scarlet Begonias or a good Dark Star or.....

[cemaphonic]

10. Ripple

Boringly conventional, I know. But that's one of those songs that sounds like it wasn't so much written, as just having always been there, waiting for someone to find it.

[red dog 1]

12. I love Ripple too

Yet it's rarely played on the radio, even on FM stations,
(It was played once on an episode of "My Name is Earl&quot

[pressbox69]

11. I guess that stranger hadn't heard the news

[red dog 1]

13. I love The Dead's version of Buddy Holly's "Not Fade Away"

(Buddy Holly and Norman Petty wrote it)

[MissMillie]

15. No use for this band

My sister was trying to convince me about them, but I just don't feel it.

[maxrandb]

16. What did the Dead Head say when he ran out of pot?

Man, this music sucks!

[red dog 1]

18. It looks like this poll might end in a tie between Uncle John's Band & Ripple

but I still love Truckin' the most.