Dead Covers at the Fillmore?

formantua · Nov 30, 2006, 03:56 PM

Peggy-O would be nice......

beanporn · Nov 30, 2006, 07:51 PM

I could see Dire Wolf
They know fillmore's history I would not be surprised to see a dead cover.
And yes The Eagles are shit

LU · Dec 03, 2006, 03:15 PM

I don't know about the likelihood of this happening. I've heard no one in the band is really a fan. The band might appreciate the Fillmore's history and respect the dead as muscians, but bands usually cover songs of bands they like. Where's the fun in covering a song you don't like?

amybee · Dec 03, 2006, 04:21 PM

high time + jim solo = beauty

These bands are very different, but I love them both. I have thought about the similariies between jim and jerry. There is a bit of physical resemblance (beard, etc.), but I think it's more in the charisma and personality. They seem like the type that everyone loves having around and give really good bear hugs. The fillmore shows are going to be amazing dead cover or not. Wish I could go.

jack_ass · Dec 03, 2006, 05:19 PM

capt goodies, capt tripps????? i'm a fan of both, i've always thought the jacket could do some excellent dead covers, i've thought that with carl playing peddle steel some workingmans dead or american beauty songs would be most righteous

.Walt · Dec 03, 2006, 05:29 PM

top 5 in no order: Easy Wind
   Loser
   Candyman
   Morning Dew
   Wharf Rat

LET_THE_FETUS_ROCK · Dec 03, 2006, 07:52 PM

QuoteI don't know about the likelihood of this happening. I've heard no one in the band is really a fan. The band might appreciate the Fillmore's history and respect the dead as muscians, but bands usually cover songs of bands they like. Where's the fun in covering a song you don't like?

The Dead Have a huge catalogue of material and I'm sure with the similarities like instrumentation, vocals, and country, rock and blues influences between the two bands MMJ could find a song or two they do like and cover it better than most any band out there. I think there is a matter of respect in covering a song besides just liking it or not.

Anybody has to have some respect for what the Dead have accomplished. Wether you like their music and fans or not.

ManNamedTruth · Dec 03, 2006, 11:17 PM

So what is MMJ's stance on The Dead? Any interviews out there mentioning them?

CrazyFingers · Dec 04, 2006, 07:06 PM

I love the Dead. I've been listening to them my whole life, my parents were hippies. I would never expect MMJ to cover a Dead song however, if they did, here's what I'd want to hear in this order:

1) One More Saturday Night
2) Lost Sailor -> Saint of Circumstance
3) Deal
4) High Time
5) Ship of Fools

If MMJ played just one Dead song, ANY Dead song, I'd be so excited my head would probably explode.

CrazyFingers · Dec 04, 2006, 07:34 PM

QuoteSo what is MMJ's stance on The Dead? Any interviews out there mentioning them?

Here's an article from another forum on this board where Jim briefly mentions the Dead.

http://www.mymorningjacket.com/cgi-local/yabb/YaBB.pl?board=news;action=display;num=1146786895

red · Dec 04, 2006, 08:06 PM

I'm going to predict that there will be a Dead cover played. I feel it.

COCHESE · Dec 04, 2006, 08:35 PM

Not sure if posted, but from Jambase.
Jim James:THOUGHTS ON GARCIA

1. How would you say the music of Jerry Garcia and/or the man himself has influenced your music, your craft, and/or your life path?

There are certain songs of his that take me to this place... and it is a place to which only his music, his voice, can take me. There is this realm he knew that I think no one else has really quite mastered. It is a place that is not sad, not happy, not fast or slow, but all these things at once. And when I'm feeling tired and beat down, or discouraged about life, it is a place I like to go to hear the simple, sweet, sound of his voice, and I always end up feeling better when I come back. I try to remember that, to just be simple and sweet sometimes, especially when I am feeling like being an asshole.

2. What is your fondest memory of Jerry Garcia?

Oddly enough, my fondest memories of Jerry really don't have much to do with the Dead or his music per se, as I did not really discover that music till much later in life. The first time I recall hearing him was his amazing steel part on Teach Your Children by CSNY. I think that guitar part is one of the sweetest sounds ever made; it makes me want to cry and have kids every time I hear it. I feel like all mysteries of life could be revealed if that guitar part was isolated and analyzed in a lab. We would know then what we've been trying to figure out for so long. It's not even what he is playing, but the way he played it. It's cool how all those guys worked together too, 'cuz another fave of mine is his steel part from Laughing off Crosby's first solo record If I Could Only Remember My Name. I like how he just pops up when you least expect it. Pure genius.

3. What would you say is the most significant thing Jerry has given the world?

There is a certain sweetness to everything he touched and sang and played on. Something so human, yet so divine it is hard to describe. We know he came from another place, but he had such a great way of getting us humans to try and love life and to see all the beauty and possibility that exists in music

lazybones · Dec 04, 2006, 08:55 PM

From Jambands.com.

So Many Roads: Guitarists' Dead Picks
Mike Greenhaus and Benjy Eisen
2005-08-09

One possible alternative future of the Grateful Dead following the passing of Jerry Garcia, saw the group taking it on the road and possibly even to the studio with a revolving chair of guitarists. As a tribute to Garcia's lasting legacy, we asked a cross-section of our favorite musicians to choose which song they'd perform if they were granted such an opportunity. In general, we tried to pick axe-men not usually associated with the Dead, though we couldn't help but throw in some of Garcia's biggest admirers.

Jim James (My Morning Jacket):
I'd do "Candyman," there's something about that song that's so awesome. I'm more a fan of the real structured Grateful Dead songs, the acoustic Grateful Dead songs. On "Candyman," it's just like all the harmonies and all the amazing guitar parts and the lyrics...the whole thing. I'd do that or "'Brown Eyed Women." I'm not even that huge of a Dead fan, but there's just something about Garcia that was so sweet and so awesome. The first time I ever heard him was on pedal steel on 'Teach Your Children" — pedal steel, I think, is one of God's gifts to people. I can sit there and listen to that song over and over and over and it makes me want to have kids and get married and cry. Just the way he emoted was to me more important than any song that he wrote or anything in particular. It was just his force and I think that's why people loved him so much. There was just something about him that was insanely magical.

LET_THE_FETUS_ROCK · Dec 04, 2006, 10:39 PM

I somehow knew Jim was a Jerry fan. I love them both more than any other singer/songwriters out there.

Brown eyed women covered would make me cry!!

Jim could reincarnate Jerry right on stage at the fillmore and we would all dance.

Pookiecool · Dec 05, 2006, 12:09 AM

Nice, good work on getting those interviews, could be the time come the end of dec....

blainesanders · Dec 05, 2006, 11:50 PM

DARK STAR!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

:D :o :) 8)

blainesanders · Dec 05, 2006, 11:54 PM

.... and yes.... i agree....
jim james and jerry garcia do have very similar, incredibly beautiful souls...
i just hope jim doesn't take the "smack train" like jerry did....

(not that i'm wanting to start a "bands on drugs" convo here, i just love em both!!)

ManNamedTruth · Dec 06, 2006, 02:39 AM

QuoteNot sure if posted, but from Jambase.
Jim James:THOUGHTS ON GARCIA

1. How would you say the music of Jerry Garcia and/or the man himself has influenced your music, your craft, and/or your life path?

There are certain songs of his that take me to this place... and it is a place to which only his music, his voice, can take me. There is this realm he knew that I think no one else has really quite mastered. It is a place that is not sad, not happy, not fast or slow, but all these things at once. And when I'm feeling tired and beat down, or discouraged about life, it is a place I like to go to hear the simple, sweet, sound of his voice, and I always end up feeling better when I come back. I try to remember that, to just be simple and sweet sometimes, especially when I am feeling like being an asshole.

2. What is your fondest memory of Jerry Garcia?

Oddly enough, my fondest memories of Jerry really don't have much to do with the Dead or his music per se, as I did not really discover that music till much later in life. The first time I recall hearing him was his amazing steel part on Teach Your Children by CSNY. I think that guitar part is one of the sweetest sounds ever made; it makes me want to cry and have kids every time I hear it. I feel like all mysteries of life could be revealed if that guitar part was isolated and analyzed in a lab. We would know then what we've been trying to figure out for so long. It's not even what he is playing, but the way he played it. It's cool how all those guys worked together too, 'cuz another fave of mine is his steel part from Laughing off Crosby's first solo record If I Could Only Remember My Name. I like how he just pops up when you least expect it. Pure genius.

3. What would you say is the most significant thing Jerry has given the world?

There is a certain sweetness to everything he touched and sang and played on. Something so human, yet so divine it is hard to describe. We know he came from another place, but he had such a great way of getting us humans to try and love life and to see all the beauty and possibility that exists in music

That's great, exactly what i wanted to hear.

mmjindy · Dec 07, 2006, 06:47 PM

Yeah, there's always a dead song to like. They're music crossed many generations and genres. I'd imagine that Jim doesn't dig the noodling sound of the Dead, but when the dead does country folk, it sounds beautiful...Man could you imagine Jim James belting out Attics of My Life or High Time!!!!

On a side note: I saw a quote from Dylan in Rolling Stone that claimed that even Dylan claimed that Jerry found the 'song buried' in Dylan's songs and Dylan would actually listen to a Jerry version of a Dylan song to get ideas of new ways to play it. Crazy but he said it.....

Crispy · Dec 07, 2006, 08:32 PM

What a treat it would be to hear a Dead tune from MMJ! Some of these are truly reaching, but here goes:

I Know You Rider
Franklin's Tower
Tennessee Jed
Sugaree
Terrapin Station

guess they'd need a Donna Godcheaux stand-in for that last one...