Songs such as "Truckin" (a true story of life on the road with the Dead in early 1970), "Box Of Rain", "Friend of the Devil", "Brokedown Palace", "Attics of My Life" and the magnificent "Ripple" contain some of Hunter's most direct and compelling verses. Besides the stunning harmonies-which owe a debt to David Crosby 's coaching-and the band's outstanding songwriting ability, it's Robert Hunter's lyrics which raise this album to classic status.
Featuring a smooth electric/acoustic mix of instrumentation spiced by pedal steel and mandolin, American Beauty harks back to their folk and jug-band days of the mid-60s. They contain more excellent songs, better performed, than any other two albums of theirs. The exceptions that proves the rule, American Beauty and Workingman's Dead, are the band's finest studio excursions. The problem was that although they could often produce music of this stature live, their inspiration nearly always crumbled when faced with a studio setting.
In fact a blend of exploratory jazz, folk, rock & roll and world music all bound together by the purest improvisatory psychedelia, few bands have attempted music of such scope and ambition. The Grateful Dead produced some of the most extraordinary and innovative music ever to fall under the general heading of "rock". International products have separate terms, are sold from abroad and may differ from local products, including fit, age ratings, and language of product, labeling or instructions. To learn more about how and for what purposes Amazon uses personal information (such as Amazon Store order history), please visit our Privacy Notice. You can change your choices at any time by visiting Cookie Preferences, as described in the Cookie Notice. Click ‘Customise Cookies’ to decline these cookies, make more detailed choices, or learn more. Third parties use cookies for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalised ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products. This includes using first- and third-party cookies, which store or access standard device information such as a unique identifier. If you agree, we’ll also use cookies to complement your shopping experience across the Amazon stores as described in our Cookie Notice. We also use these cookies to understand how customers use our services (for example, by measuring site visits) so we can make improvements. The ideas and stories in the quiz are from several references and are generally thought of as the main impetus or idea behind the song but only the Grateful Dead truly know what their influences were.We use cookies and similar tools that are necessary to enable you to make purchases, to enhance your shopping experiences and to provide our services, as detailed in our Cookie Notice. It should be pointed out that there is no all encompassing single influence for a song. The game includes a link to the song in YouTube so you can listen to it if you are not sure you remember how it goes (use the "go back" button on your phone to return to the quiz, it is usually on the bottom right of your phone) ! You can guess if you are not sure of the answer from the multiple choice questions but do go back and use the Answer button for all the questions so you can see what the story was regarding each song. This is not so much a competition, but more of a fun way to learn about what the Grateful Dead were thinking of when they wrote songs. Includes Workingman's Dead, American Beauty, Wake Of The Flood, From The Mars Hotel, Blues For Allah and Terrapin Station.
But it covers the original idea/inspiration/influence behind each song on six iconic Grateful Dead albums. Have you ever listened to a Grateful Dead song and wondered what they were trying to say? This quiz is not about such trivia as times and places or whom wrote or sung what song. Robert said "It's like throwing pennies off the Brooklyn Bridge as opposed to throwing pennies in a pond." Someone once asked Robert Hunter what it was like writing songs with Jerry Garcia.
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