Getting on the Bus: Welcome
"The bus came by and I got on, that's when it all began..." -That's It for the Other One I first heard the Grateful Dead sometime in my sophomore year of high school: it was Anthem of the Sun , admittedly a very strange choice. The Grateful Dead are a group whose specialty was in live performance, and I chose a studio album to start my journey. I thought it was good, and dare I say I was even intrigued by what I was hearing, which lead me to hearing more records: Aoxomoxoa , Workingman's Dead , American Beauty , and the fantastic Live/Dead record. Those latter three certainly had my attention, but I had yet to properly get on the bus. I saw the Dead as a good studio group and a very good live group, but I did not yet hear anything that blew me away. The second time I heard the Grateful Dead, it was my first year of University. This time, I picked up Europe '72 , and in one fell swoop, everything cli...
