Okay I know this is a day late but I have a good excuse. I had class and didn't get home in time. So better late than never. This week on the weekly Video rewind, I'm going to feature the song that truly inspires me whenever I feel down and out.
To call the Grateful Dead one of the best groups of the 60's is an understatement. For 30 years, the Dead were the vanguards of what music could be. When lead guitarist Jerry Garcia passed on in 1995, it brought the curtain down on an era of music that will never occur again.
You can go through the Dead's Music Catalog and not find a bad song. Box of Rain, Sugar Magnolia, Casey Jones, you name it. This wasn't just hippie music, it was the living breathing soul of a generation that believed in peace and love over all.
For me, the Dead were a legend, something I always wanted to see but never got the chance to. There's an urban legend that when the old Student Union, then known as the Trident, at Cal State LA was opened, the Dead came down and played a secret concert at the little Amphitheater that the Luckman auditorium now sits on.
I've never been able to find out if that were true or not, but I remember when what turned out to be their last studio album "In the Dark" was released, the Grateful Dead embraced the still-new media of the Music Video for their first song off the album, "Touch of Grey," a song that resonates with fans dead head and non-deadhead alike. Pay close attention to the skill at the puppetry in the video.
So, in an effort to provide some good Karma for next week's finals, I present the only song ever to break the Top 10 for the Grateful Dead, their seminal anthem of positivity, "Touch of Grey"
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