Is there any mandolin music for the Dead

**themattman** · Aug-03-2006, 11:11am

Hey, i just ordered my first mandolin and would like to know if anyone knows if there is any Grateful dead music for the mandolin? Being a huge dead fan this would make my day.
Anyway thanks
Matt

**glauber** · Aug-03-2006, 11:25am

"The dead don't play the mandolin, nor those who descend into the grave." 1 Tich 3:16

There have been threads about this in the past... lots of mandolin players are nouveau deadheads by the way of Dave and Jerry.

By the way, did D Grisman play the mandolin in the original recording of Ripple?

**Tom C** · Aug-03-2006, 11:27am

Yes, Ripple and Friend of the Devil.

**glauber** · Aug-03-2006, 11:30am

Of course, Friend of the Devil too. Very nice.

**themattman** · Aug-03-2006, 11:55am

Cool. Were do I find the tabs for these songs?
Matt

**glauber** · Aug-03-2006, 12:07pm

Use the Search, Luke!

Try this thread, for example.

**TeleMark** · Aug-03-2006, 12:24pm

For straightforward (if this adjective can be applied to the Grateful Dead...) chords, go to rukind.com .

**Mikey G** · Aug-03-2006, 12:48pm

The guys in my bluegrass band are all dead heads, and some followed them around the country, (not me...never got 'em.) Every time we play some obscure song, I find that it's "deadly." (They actually sound pretty good, at times.) Besides Friend of the Devil, we do Rider, Me and My Uncle, and a few others.

**glauber** · Aug-03-2006, 11:44pm

There is some mandolin in the Ripple here (click). The liner notes say:

6. RIPPLE( 4:50)
From The CD Pure Jerry 2: Lunt-Fontanne Theatre October 31, 1987
Jerry Garcia/Robert Hunter (Ice Nine Publishing) ASCAP
Jerry Garcia|John Kahn|David Kemper|Kenny Kosek|David Nelson|Sandy Rothman

According to the Jerry Site, Sandy Rothman is the mandolin player.

[Edit: this isn't the original version with D Grisman which was in the album American Beauty, but a live version with the Jerry Garcia Band.]

**cooper4205** · Aug-04-2006, 8:08am

Uncle Johns Band is tabbed out on Mandozine

**SternART** · Aug-04-2006, 10:06am

Yeah Glauber, but that isn't the original recording of Ripple with the Grateful Dead on American Beauty in 1971.
That is the The Jerry Garcia Acoustic Band's version live in 1987. It was definitely Grisman on American Beauty.

**glauber** · Aug-04-2006, 10:24am

Originally Posted by (SternART @ Aug. 04 2006, 11:06)

Yeah Glauber, but that isn't the original recording of Ripple with the Grateful Dead on American Beauty in 1971.
That is the The Jerry Garcia Acoustic Band's version live in 1987. It was definitely Grisman on American Beauty.

I know. Sorry, i wasn't clear; i was just listening to that track yesterday and remembered this conversation, so i thought i'd document another version of Ripple with mandolin. It turned out that Sandy Rothman is a very interesting musician too. I put a link to his homepage in my post.

**Brady Smith** · Aug-04-2006, 1:05pm

Yes there is plenty of classical music for the mando.

**Perry** · Aug-08-2006, 2:00pm

Perhaps slighlty off topic here but the first Wake the Dead album is a great example of blending Dead style into trad styles. Plenty of tasty mando. I don't have the other Wake the Dead albums but I am sure they are good as well.

I played Jerry style electric guitar for years in Deadish jam bands though I was always too lazy or not good enough to copy any Jer solos note for note. You just kinda absorb the feel after a while. Jerry often doodled in the Mixolydian mode.

A good approach may be to buy the Dead songs books and learn the melody to the song(s). You would need to be able to read standard notation though. Jerry often stuck close to the melody.

There are also some Dead guitar transcription books out there that you can transfer to mando.

So much to do so little time!

**AlanN** · Aug-08-2006, 2:12pm

I always liked that Compliments of...record, a lot of covers done in an offbeat style, had Anytime The Hunter Gets Captured By The Game, plus Russian Lullaby, which I thought Grisman should have been all over, but I don't think there was any mandolin on it. That was about the time I stopped 'following' the band.