Funky Grateful Dead ? Plus Shakedown Breakdown
deezlee
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I sometimes mix Shakedown Street into funk/disco/boogie sets.
Hot DJ tip: Shakedown street is a Dead song that you can play without totally sidetracking your set.
If you play pretty much any other Dead song you are pretty much done might as well just put on a bootleg and call it a night cause once they go Dead they don't go back.
The disco factor in Shakedown Street keeps them slightly in the Funk Zone, not quite allowing them to drop into full jangling-layers-of-spiraling-harmony-grateful-dead-all-night mode.
You won't know it until it happens but someday you will be in a situation where this DJ tip might just save you or someone you love.
Okay back to my question for y'all:
Any other Dead or Jerry songs (or them doing covers) that are funky (or at least sorta funky)? Album or live.
Anyone have a favorite funkiest live Shakedown Street that's a good recording?
Thanks
Hot DJ tip: Shakedown street is a Dead song that you can play without totally sidetracking your set.
If you play pretty much any other Dead song you are pretty much done might as well just put on a bootleg and call it a night cause once they go Dead they don't go back.
The disco factor in Shakedown Street keeps them slightly in the Funk Zone, not quite allowing them to drop into full jangling-layers-of-spiraling-harmony-grateful-dead-all-night mode.
You won't know it until it happens but someday you will be in a situation where this DJ tip might just save you or someone you love.
Okay back to my question for y'all:
Any other Dead or Jerry songs (or them doing covers) that are funky (or at least sorta funky)? Album or live.
Anyone have a favorite funkiest live Shakedown Street that's a good recording?
Thanks
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There are a few funky moments on this album.
the Mickey Hart Diga album is great. not sure about mixing it in - someone once told me that one of the tracks was a b-boy thing. not sure if that was a joke.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diga_(album)
Seriously though Blues for Allah lp has a drum break or something funky if I remember correctly.
...so I know enough about their music to know that I can't scratch the surface of a true head's knowledge.
I can ask my friends for ideas but they are heavy deadheads, not knowing about the funk like y'all.
I think I'm going to start by finding a legendary live Shakedown and pressing a dub plate.
Dancing In The Streets from the famous Cornell '77 show.
funky drums at the beginning are what's up.
And the heads would know the cornel show.
I can surely use this song to mix from funk into the dead. Dunno if I could get back to the funk from it though.
Once you drop a dead song around deadheads it's hard to get back to anything else, somehow shakedown keeps em in the boogie zone though.
Thanks y'all.
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