Your Grateful Dead song that hooked you?

[OAITW r.2.0]

For me, easy.....Skull and Roses, 1971. This album blew my mind.

But this song, was, whoa, I'm going for the ride. And what a long strange trip it has been....

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Of note-

* Bill Kruetzman plays incredible percussion.
* Pigpen not playing....hmmm.
* The sonic clarity of this LIVE album was unbelievable....thanks Betty and Alembic!
* Wish Buddy Holly and Woody Guthrie could have plugged in....

[gay texan]

1. Friend of the devil

Bad ass bass line

[FalloutShelter]

2. Uncle John's Band

Don’t really know why. Just always got to me.

[quaint]

14. I've selected UJB and Brokedown Palace for my wake songs.

[highplainsdem]

3. Truckin'. Still my favorite...

[OAITW r.2.0]

4. Love it too, but....

You, as a curator of great music on DU.....I ask you to listen to this version of NFA->GDTRFB.....just a great musical moment....energy and musical clarity was pretty amazing.

[highplainsdem]

18. I've listened. I hope it won't offend you too much that I've always

preferred the Stones' cover of Not Fade Away to the Dead and Buddy Holly. That was the Stones record that hooked me.

[marble falls]

5. Working Man's Dead. And any song they ever played.

[IbogaProject]

6. Great album

Up there with American Beauty as among their best. I loved them in concert but I loved their albums more than the tapes of the concerts overall.

[consider_this]

7. Terrapin Station

rather an experience

[OAITW r.2.0]

8. That's a pretty great album.....a friend of mine in China, a big deadhead,

has a restuarnat named Terrapin Station. He serves turtle soup. Quite popular in Zhongshan.

[NBachers]

9. Box of Rain - a comforting, supportive, and personally reassuring song.

[OAITW r.2.0]

10. Ineed...evocative as f...all get out.

[OAITW r.2.0]

11. This fell into my feed....Tennessee Jed.

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[brewens]

12. U.S. Blues.

[quaint]

13. China Cat Sunflower

It was where I was at the time...you know how it goes. If I were first exposed today, it would be different.

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[Bristlecone]

15. Probably Ripple, but more than any one song, the long jams were a hook

To the point that you forgot what song they were even playing; then they’d circle back after 10 or even 20 mins to remind you. You really got lost in it. The right frame of mind also helped.

[RussellCattle]

16. "Touch of Grey". I came to the Dead rather late.

[Bobstandard]

17. Money Money (Finance Blues), One More Saturday Night are favorites but...

But what hooked me was golden Road to Unlimited Devotion.

In 1967, an epic year for great music, that one stood out to me for some reason.

[ProfessorGAC]

19. Slinking Away During Thread

If you can't say something nice....