What are your favorite songs and why?
Favorite shows you went to?
What were you doing when you found out Jerry died?

To answer my own questions:

Favorite songs: Friend of the Devil, slow version. I have loved that song since the first time I heard it while serving in the Persian Gulf in Operation Desert Storm. It was the first Grateful Dead song that I ever heard that wasn't Touch Of Grey, or Truckin. It has always stuck with me.
Uncle John's band. I just love the guitar melodies most of all on this one.
Morning Dew. It may just be my imagination, but when I saw The Dead at Shoreline in 1992, I know Jerry was in pretty poor health, but there was something about the mood of the crowd during that song that seemed almost touching, and it seemed like Jerry felt it also.
Samson and Delilah. First song I ever heard sung by someone other then Jerry. Saw it live at Shoreline, and loved it ever since.

Favorite show: Shoreline Amphitheater, 2nd night. Encore was Johnny be good.

I was driving a truck, over the road in Northern Idaho when I heard Jerry died.

Long Strange Trip, and Touch of Grey are my favs by them

Me and my friend hopped on a greyhound bus in Omaha with nothing but our backpacks and a couple hundred bucks to see our first dead show in Portland Oregon.

Once we arrived in Eugene we had heard of Jerrys passing and the rest of the shows being cancelled. Man...what a bummer that was.

We ended up spending two months camping up in Cougar mountain outside of Eugene, and partied with a bunch of hippies and dead heads. We met some really great and interesting people and had the time of our lives.

So, there is a special place in my heart for The Grateful Dead, because when I hear them now it always reminds me of that summer that I will cherish forever.


Favorite songs:

Friend Of the Devil - we met a guy backpacking through the west coast who claimed to have "spent the night in Utah in a cave up in the hills" This was also my friend who I was traveling with favorite song...who passed away a few years after our trip. So, I always stir up strong emotions when I hear it.


I also like Ripple, Jack Straw, St Stephen, and Uncle Johns Band.

I was Grateful When they Died.

I like alot of their stuff, but im not even close to being a Dead Head

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vPNgjA4i6gM

in the parking lot



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3u2Endt5LQo

truckin

i'm too young to have been a dead head,....although i find myself listenin to them quite often

favorite song : franklin's tower,....just makes my soul happy

where i was in jerry died : i think i was in the 5th grade

Franklin's Tower would be my all time favourite
Dead tune.

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Not sure where I was when Jerry passed,
but I was on duty when I heard the news.


edit to add url, the site apparently doesn't allow youtube videos.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sEniyvOtETc

Odd, I'd quite a similar, entire summer at Cougar Hot Springs outside Eugene.

Not a purist DeadHead, but I love many of their songs - and saw my fair share of their shows.

I'd have to love Ripple the most. It never fails to put me on my knees in tears...