Grateful Dead Covers Project

I have written about discovering The Grateful Dead before, here

Well there is a recent project for fans of the Dead to film themselves performing tracks of the band and uploading them to youtube. Details of which can be found here.

I thought I'd give this a go, and here are my attempts...

I Wasn't A Teenage Deadhead... Unfortunately

37 years of age is too old to be discovering the Grateful Dead…

But this is what has happened to me. For the past 36 years my life has been a life lived in total ignorance of The Dead and their music. I'd heard of them knew Jerry Garcia by sight, but had never listened to them. It wasn't even that I'd heard them, decided I didn't like them and their music had to grow on me, I was completely ignorant.

Now due to a recent epiphany I can’t stop listening to the Dead and I wish I’d discovered their music years ago. They are a great Rock'N'Roll band who have brilliant songs. A wonderfully un-disciplined/Musical band that deserve to be listened to by more people.

As well as their CD's I find youtube a veritable treasure chest of Grateful-Dead/Dead-Associated-bands clips and Music.

And all this begs the question why someone who fell in love with Rock'N'Roll at the age of 11 after discovering the Beatles, should only be discovering this music now?

Oh Well... Here's a couple of favourite clips for anyone who reads this...