Yeah, I saw the debut of "That Would Be Something" at one of the Boston Garden Shows, took me awhile to realize what the song was as it was so out of context for me (and I have owned the album it is from for 45 years !).
Once at Boston Garden in 1991 and that was it until three performances in 1993 (6/7 Michigan, 9/17 MSG, and 12/11 San Diego). At the time I prided myself on staying up to date on things but I have to admit being pretty damn confused when they went into it at the San Diego gig. (it became more frequent in '94)
Back in the mid-'80s not only those, but also Wake of the Flood, From the Mars Hotel, Blues for Allah and, less tragically, Steal Your Face were all out of print. MoFi put out a vinyl copy of Mars Hotel that I picked up at the time, very expensive to me at the time but the only way of getting it. By '87 or '88, at least all of the studio albums had been reissued on CD. (Side note, Reckoning was only available with terrible packaging/name as For the Faithful, I still have that version as my vinyl copy).
Re;Reckoning was only available with terrible packing/name as For the Faithful, I still have that version as my vinyl copy).[/QUOTE] Right, and on Pair Records confusingly enough !!
A cassette of "For the Faithful" (paired with a WB two-fer cassette of "Workingmans/American Beauty") both handed down to me in the mid-80's were my proverbial bus-stop.
I too was exposed to Reckoning via a For The Faithful cassette purchased in the late 80s. I guess hidden treasures can be unearthed at suburban shopping malls.
Latvala always insisted that fall 77 was superior to spring 77. I saw many shows that year, and agree whole heartedly. The best Estimateds, Truckins, Peggy-O's, Terrapins, and my favorite Black Peter in October at Tempe.
Finishing the evening with 2/26/73. A gem of a show from early '73. This is a subsequent listen, and I'm digging it more than I did the first time through.
The second half from 2/28 ain't nothin' to sneeze at. The Jack Straw kicks it. And then it ramps up in a big way.
I remember liking 2/28 more the first time through, I’ll see if that holds when I listen to it later today.
This one and the one before it, the second Garcia (or Compliments). Mississippi Moon from Garcia sure is a weird song.
Literally just walked in from my mailbox where I received the Golden Road set this morning. Already had the SACD of AB, and a couple others but I'm too lazy to buy them individually when this set is supposed to be just fine. (But is that without or without the HDCD conversion?)
Compliments is my favorite Jerry studio album, but the alternate take of Mississippi Moon, without horn and strings, is much better I think...
I'll listen to the alternate take, but Mississippi Moon is one of my favorite things ever recorded in the studio by Garcia. Great instrumentation. Who uses a bass clarinet? Genius.
I think one of our resident recording technology experts, @bmoregnr, said that Jeffrey Norman uses HDCD because he likes the filters used in that process, not because of the encoding/decoding aspect, which he hasn't featured at all for a while because he wanted everyone to have the same experience when listening. I know of at least one audio manufacturer who's come out and said, in so many words, that the encode/decode process was much ado about nothing. But, full disclosure, I've never owned a CD player with HDCD decoding.
From a few weeks back: The one thing I'm still unclear about is which earlier Dead HDCD releases, if any, DO utilize the full array of HDCD grooviness and thus benefit from an HDCD player. For instance is it really true that the Golden Road box discs sound exactly the same on regular and HDCD players (as is stated above)? Norman seems to be saying he only stopped using peak extension sometime after the Complete Europe '72 came out in 2011.
Dude my home town...we could have met for lunch or something. It could have been....the most freaking awesome lunch ever!!!!
Dick's 35, 8/7/71 Golden Hall, San Diego, CA portion. Garcia's guitar part on "Mr. Charlie" sounds higher than usual.
That’s because it was inconsistently applied prior to that. All the Dick’s Picks from 15 on utilized the features. Some of the Road Trips and Download Series did, but not all and there is no pattern I can discern. The early Dave’s Picks did, none since 2015 do. Both official release box sets (studio and live) do not. The live box set yearly releases up through 2014 did, even the ones sourced from 16/44.1 digital recordings (i.e., no possible benefit from Peak Extend, only losses for those without HDCD decoders).
It is a cool treatment by Garcia, but it throws me off when I revisit after a long layoff. But yeah, it is pretty good. Actually a lot of weird stuff is some of the best stuff. lol
Listening to that, yes, on those early 1971 versions Garcia is playing an upper harmony guitar part compared to Weir's part, while on Europe '72 they are playing in unison. Also in 1971 they usually mess up the timing coming back in after "Mr. Charlie told me so" while by Europe I think they get it right on every version.