From the fans: [(Bracket comments in italics are mine)]
Very nice! Many thanks.
--David [From David Dodd, author of the Annotated Grateful Dead siteJ]
You have the most
dense and most accurate collection of dead guitar tabs I have ever seen, and
probably will ever see....good vibes your way man.
Chris
Thank
you! Please, please, please, keep tabbing and posting, these are
unbelievable. Your dedicated hard work is greatly appreciated. These tabs
have brightened my days and have refreshed my love of guitar. Let me tell you,
tabs are the lifeblood of the part time guitarist. God, I love the
Dead! I thought the least I could do was to send along my
gratitude. Once again, thanks!
From P2252d
Dear Darks,
I've been a fan of your GD tab site for a long time now, and I
just wanted to say thank you for posting and sharing your tabs. I appreciate
the many Garcia leads you've tabbed out on your site. The essence of Dead's
appeal to me was always Jerry, especially his amazing melody lines. After he died, I decided it was finally time
for me (at age 30) to finally pick up the guitar and try to make some music for
myself, since he wasn't around to make it for me anymore. And the entire reason
I wanted to play was to recreate, even if only in some small limited way, some
of those leads. Your site helps me do that. Thanks,
Mike
Greetings, thanks so kindly for having taken the time to transcribe and post all the work that you've done! It's very much appreciated...I've been able to jam with many, many people thanks to the songs I've learned from your site.
Toastandjam
Hey just wanted to say thanks for providing such accurate and detailed tabs. Your site helps my band out tremendously when we need a GD cover.
-
Darks,
Your site is awesome. Never have I found such a comprehensive, yet correct tabs. Your hard work is very
much appreciated. In particular by me, someone from a
generation who never had a chance to see the man in action. Even though he’s
not around anymore, the recordings of his music speak volumes to me, so
anything that brings me closer to the music is very thankfully received. Once
again, many thanks from a younger fan.
I love,
LOVE, your site! It's given me much to work on and learn and I am very
grateful for it! Keep it up and keep more coming,
if you can! I would love to see They Love Each Other and Crazy
Fingers.
Jared
Hey bro i
love your website, best dead source on the net! anyway my friends and i want to cover saint Stephen for our high schools battle
of the bands next year and we thought wed get started early since its a pretty
daunting task. i was just
wondering what date the show you tabbed out is so i
can get it exactly. thanks for all the great tabs!
-Eric
Keep up the good work!
R
Hi
GRATE site...very helpful... Keep up the grate work and thanks for the site. best regards
Marty ...going where the climate suits my
clothes...
Thank you!
Please, please, please, keep tabbing and posting, these are unbelievable. Your
dedicated hard work is greatly appreciated. These tabs have brightened my
days and have refreshed my love of guitar. Let me tell you, tabs are the
lifeblood of the part time guitarist. God, I love the Dead! I
thought the least I could do was to send along my gratitude. Once again,
thanks!
P2252d
Hey,
a friend just told me of your site
darks, I have never gotten the tabs stuff .and should learn but learned
ear mostly since 78.. sing some and love
high backups.. .. and jus thought I'd hit
you up nice site and good vibes your way
for sharing all that, Jerry once said he was
willing to share all he knew when (spoke to him once or twice
actually) . he'd a been a great
teacher ... anyhow .. Sharp studio! I have
a resurrection among others.. really like
the tones it's capable of in contrast to my other
axes..
Chris
Dark Thank you for your work and your site! Immensely helpful to the likes of me (a less than gifted guitarist) who has been gradually improving over the yrs. thanks again, and again...
Pete
Excellent site - very accurate. I do have one correction on Jack
Straw. I do believe it is G#m instead of Emaj7. Once again - in my opinion,
this is the most accurate site I have found on the net.
Jonathan
I think you have
the most accurate and complete Grateful Dead tabs on the Internet today. Good Job!
BTW...NICE
AXE!!
Just found
your site through rukind and am
loving it! Just wanted to say thanks for taking the time and
effort and keep up the great work!
-Jared
darks
I love your site.
It has really brought up my playing and enjoyment you have all the theory and technique that I aspire to.
Thanks
Brian
Hey man,
thanks a lot for putting those tabs out.
It's helping me out big time.
Nice Work!
Pam
Hi, I happened
upon your site and was very impressed, to say the least. Obviously a labor of love. Thanks for posting so much useful
Michael
Darks,
A thank you for the amazing
tabs! What can I say that has not been
said? This is everything I've ever looked for in Dead tabs and you even tabbed
out King Solomon's,,, MY GOD!!!! Your work will last me my playing days. Mucho gracias.
I'm having fun going
through your tab site, thanks for putting that out there!
Thanks,
Great site,
man. Finally, someone who cares about
accuracy! I was wondering if you could tab out “So Many Roads”? That would be most appreciated! I love the
lyrics to that song! Keep in touch…..Thanks in advance.
PeAcE
Fred
This is the actual intro jerry
plays, [Bird Song] watch the movie
"Dead Ahead" and you can see, also sounds much closer to jerry's
playing than the other intros you have. So you can mark THIS ONE the
"Garcia" Riff!....EXCELLENT site, great tabs
..best i have seen...just droppin my 2 cents. [Same notes, different, better, position, I
made the change.]
Mason
First, thank you for this site!
I love it. My favorite time
period for the dead is 1980 - 1990. Wish
list: 1. More Modern Cumberland - with the into used throughout the 80's 2. More Jerry tunes - She
belongs to me, visions of Johanna, Peggy-O, High Time, etc. Will be eternally grateful! [Wish I
could find a recording of SBTM and VOJ]
Ron
Mr. Dark!
Wow! What tabs! I am not very good (at least
I don't think so; having a family makes it hard to practice) but I really love
this stuff. I am going to work on some of these this weekend.
One wish: can you tab out Money, Money from
Mars Hotel? In guitar or bass? I love that tune and
can't find it anywhere. Great song. Wonder why the
Dead boys only played it 3 times? [I think I read once that the women hated
the tune]
Thanks again,
Dale
Man, I have searched
for good dead tabs on the net and yours are the only ones worth taking a look
at. i just want to say thanks for keeping sacred the
spirit of the music and making possible for everyone to be able to share it. as long as their are folks like you out there, the music
,and most definitely the spirit of the music, will live on. I just think it is
a rip to have to pay for music that is originally free and is born out of the
constructs of spiritual and musical freedom, which is meant to be shared. its cool
to think about how whenever we play a riff that jerry once played we might be
conveying that same emotional and spiritual sensation in ourselves, but more
importantly in others, that he did countless times and still does today if by
an old show from
73 , by some band playin in a bar, or by the remaining members of the grateful
dead.
Phillip
I was utterly stunned when i saw this
guitar… I've always dreamed of having an axe like Jerry's. You my friend seemed
to have made your dream come true. I thought it was impossible to recreate but
you seemed to have recreated it. [go here:
http://www.resurrectionguitars.com/] Appreciating your site,
John
I just wanted to commend you on your quest for detail and
accuracy!
Not only are tabs full and complete but you site is well done
and easy to navigate through.
So my hats off to you and keep up the great work!
You have definitely have set a standard that will be hard to
beat!!
*The Grizzbear
It’s great that Darksaw took all that time to post that
stuff...amazing.
jackstraw116
hi im pete. let me just say that your tab work is impeccable and has helped me out so much. how are they so good?? [I play them over and over again till they’re as good as I can make them]
Greetings!
I want to thank
you for a great web page! And I'd like to ask you which book would you
recommend for a guitarist to learn all of the various scales and modes that are
listed in the tabs. I understand the idea of using modes and scales over a chord
pattern. I can strum chords fairly well but I want to move on to be able to try
to do some of the stuff that Jerry did. [Try
out “Fretboard Logic” and an online-available program called “Guitar Scales
Method”]
Thanks again.
hey bro I was wondering if u could do lazy lighting, ill trade u
grateful dawg studio tab,I
had john mcgann do it,he
does all dave grismans tab
and tony rices, im shure u know who that
is, it has two solos and tag ending. Even if u don’t do lazy lighting ill
still hook u up,its note for note u do great on these
tabs ,keep it up man I just learned Gomorrah, man its awesome, im trying to learn as much jerry as bobby ,they are both
really smokin’ players. IM a banjo picker also ,do you know where to get any good jerry banjo tab,
like old and in the way licks, let me know
RYDAWG
Darks,
I had a few suggestions that may make the tab site even better:
1) How about a "last updated" field ? I see announcements on gearhead sometimes but it might be sort of nice to see that there were some updates to a song since the last time I came by. [Done]
2) How about a smaller and fixed-space font ? (Such as Courier 10 or 8) ? In order to print the tabs and have the bars line up, I usually copy and paste them into Word and set the font smaller... It works but its a pain. (I could send the HTML to set the font if you wanted) [It’s a lot less work than tabbing them out in the first place! 12 font is legible for me from a screen 4 feet away; 10 font isn’t ]
3) How about more of the same ? This is the best Jerry/Dead tab site on the entire freakin Internet! I visit a few times a week and I have really enjoyed working through the songs! Thank you for sharing!!
John
Hey, I just wanted to say thanks for all the great work you did with your tab site. It is the best Dead-tab site I’ve seen yet. I love it!!! Do you plan on posting any new ones? Or know of a site that even approaches the quality of yours? I'd love to see more. Keep up the dynamite work!
-Ken
Your Jerry axe is killer! Would love to get to play that one. Is that alembic made? [See the “Credits” page]
I noticed that the links to the wav files doesn't work. Kind of bummed since that means I have to go through my tape archives and try and locate the versions you have tabbed. [Some work, some don’t. Yahoo web page storage limits keep me from posting all the links.]
Still all and all, appreciate the work put in.
Jay
Excellent
site. I just stumbled across it when I did a Google
search for
Tommy
Thanks a lot for putting these
together. They are great!
best,
damian
Darks:
I just saw your Tab Web site for the first time. Absolutely wonderful. Thank you for all the work and effort.
2 questions: 1st: Is any of the tab you have written in Althea the fingerpickin he
did during the song (ie, verse and chorus) , or is it just the leads?
2nd: There are some abbreviations I see in some of your tabs. Do you have an index anywhere of what the abbreviations mean? [The abbreviations make a little sense if you are familiar with the discography. SMR = So Many Roads, ITD = In the Dark, etc.]
thanks.
Bruce
hey man this is my bros computer, but I found your site man it is right on,but I was wondering if the tab that isnt labeled live if it was studio, I got almost all the studio stuff, I was just wandering what versions the tab was from, please mail me back and let me know
Could I get the tab you have for the Other One?,
thanks and thanks for the other tabs on your site.
Ryan
Tabs are great. I am pretty much intermediate in ability so deciphering the "Tabs" helps a ton on a tune like "Jack Straw" where playing Bobby’s part is easy for me yet I want to learn the licks. Its the lick at the end of BRRB that I cannot get out of my head , that’s what led me to your site. Keep it up, your doing a lot of us a great service. Many people on Deadbase.com mentioned you when I posted my request.
Dale
Your site is the most complete and well displayed tabs for The Grateful Dead I have ever found. I thank you for all the work (relaxation) you put into this site. I'm glad to find people that can share their knowledge of guitar with others for the love of the music rather than $. I love to come home after a long day at work and play songs from this band. It takes you out of the stress and lets you pass time seamlessly. Thank You for my relaxation. This site makes Anyman Alive happy. I'm anyman.
Johnnie Joe
Great website! I'm a relative beginner, but I have learned a lot by working through some of your tabs. Is there any chance you will ever tab Hunter's acoustic version of Terrapin from the Jack 'o Roses album? I can't tell which chords he's playing, or whether he is using a capo. He has a few great little licks in the song, especially in the "ivory wheels on a rosewood track" part.
Anyway, thanks for a awesome website!
-Brian
Darks,
Here's a couple of tunes I thought about: Black Throated Wind, Peggy-O, TLEO and The Wheel
Hey Darks,
Just going over your revised tab for Althea. I really dig those bridge licks! Finding it a little tricky putting them together over the lyrics but it's coming along. That's half the fun.
Thanks,
Jamie
I just wanted to thank you for taking the
time to make such a great site, it has been very helpful. I also wanted
to ask if you could do The Eleven, or Alligator? Thanks a lot man,
Right on,
Darks,
That Hell in a Bucket was right on.
Did you just go right off of In the Dark? [Yup]
Andy
Darks,
I was thinking about the songs Candyman and
Peggy-o. I know how to play most of these tunes, but I’m a little weak on
the solos and fills and you seem to be right on about most of them. I
know you're probably swamped and this isn't a priority for you, but I just
wanted to toss out ideas. I appreciate your site and the hard work that
goes into it. Thank you for everything.
Andy
hey thank you very much for the great site i
found this site way back in the day when you had just like scarlet
begonias and teddy bears picnic and what not but any way thank you again
Bob