Grateful Dead Music Forum

Assuming you are in a band or at least jam with your friends regularly in the garage:

What are your 5 all time favorite songs to play. You know, the ones you always want to play and you wouldn't mind if you played them every time you played. Doesn't matter if you sing them or not but mention if play the Bob or Jerry parts or both.

Mine are:

1. Beat it on Down the Line (Jerry part)
2. Samson & Delilah (Jerry part)
3. Ramble on Rose (singing lead/Jerry part)
4. Jack Straw (Jerry part)
5. Big River (Jerry part)

I don't care if the band is sick of these songs or the singer doesn't want to sing them. I would play these songs every time because they're so fun (for me) to play. Then there's the songs the other members (especially our rhythm guitarist) wants to play all the time which I'd rather not play... but that's for a different thread...

Jim

1) Terrapin Station
2) Estimated Prophet
3) Playing in the Band
4a) To Lay Me Down*
4b) Brokedown Palace*
5) Sugar Magnolia

*Interesting factoid: Lyrics written in London, 1970. According to an interview with Hunter in a documentary film by Jeremy Marre, "Ripple," "Brokedown Palace" and "To Lay Me Down" were all composed in one afternoon, over a half-bottle of retsina. (The film aired on VH-1 on April 16, 1997.) Not a bad days work at all!!

"*Interesting factoid: Lyrics written in London, 1970. According to an interview with Hunter in a documentary film by Jeremy Marre, "Ripple," "Brokedown Palace" and "To Lay Me Down" were all composed in one afternoon, over a half-bottle of retsina. (The film aired on VH-1 on April 16, 1997.) Not a bad days work at all!!"

That doco is Anthem to Beauty in the classic albums series and is pretty easy to get hold of.

For an sunny backporch acoustic strum I'd have to go with:
Friend orf the Devil;
Uncle John's Band:
Deal:
Brokedown Palace; and
Scarlet Begonias

shooting from the hip...

(all Jerry parts)

1. Dark Star
2. Other One
3. Eyes
4. Playin'
5. BIODTL

1. How Sweet It Is
2. Dear Prudence
3. Let Me Roll It
4. I'll Take A Melody
5. Mississippi Moon

Ship Of Fools
U.S. Blues (I must have played it 10,000 times and I STILL love it!)

Ok. For JGB I have to say my top 5 are:

1. Gomorrah
2. How Sweet it Is
3. Tore Up Over You
4. Valerie
5. Cats Down Under the Stars

Uncle Johns
Hard to Handle
Dark Star
The Other one
Love in the afternoon

Music Never Stopped & Deal are always favorites!

However, whatever gets people off their butts and dancing is usually my favorite that night!

strumminsix wrote:Music Never Stopped & Deal are always favorites!

However, whatever gets people off their butts and dancing is usually my favorite that night!

Me too... when the vibe is right and it all comes together, it's the best. Songs are just vehicles for a collective experience.

Eyes, TOO and UJB the longer the better!

electric:

1. OMSN - Bobby
2. Eyes - Jerry
3. Fumblin' with the blues - Waits
4. It's all over baby blue - Jerry
5. Blow away - jerry (but i also sing it)

solo acoustic:

1. FOTD
2. Drunk on the moon - Waits
3. Jack a roe
4. Rosa lee McFall
5. Oh babe it ain't no lie -cotton

1. Hard to handle
2.Franklins Tower
3. Deep elem (Acoustic)
4. Knockin on heaven's door (JGB version)

OK, I gotta chime in on this one . . .

1. (When I Paint My) Masterpiece
2. Estimated Prophet
3. I Know You Rider
4. Scarlet Begonias
5. Wagon Wheel (Old Crow Medicine Show)
In no particular order.
Once I figure out how to do it and get good sound, I'll post one or more of these on YouTube.
Love RUKind!

Although I agree with strumminsix's comment more

Eyes
Scarlet
Bertha
West LA (my bandmates funk the hell out of it!)
Big RxR
Franklin's

If I had to pick only 5 I'd say

Dupree's
Music Never stopped
Cats Under the Stars
Doin that rag---especially bluegrass style
Big River