Dark Star (Live At The Fillmore East, New York, NY 2/14/70) Dark Star (Live At The Fillmore East, New York, NY 2/14/70) Brand-new, never-before-heard Dark Star from 2-14-70??
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It's mostly just for when we are out, but when I work from home, like today (car's in the shop), I'll often put it on just to make him feel like he does when we aren't there so he won't come upstairs and stare at me to play.
I caught the Shoreline Americanarama show where Weir guested with both My Morning Jacket and Wilco. Everything except for Dylan's anticlimactic closing set was terrific. Weir played Dark Star and St. Stephen with Wilco, and the Wilco track on the covers album is from that show. Wish I could have caught more than one show on that tour, but I picked a great one at least.
Arch who you want in the cup? I'm going with the Pens, Cullen is a Moorhead Mn guy. Great game lastnite btw...
If I come home after leaving my dog alone all day in the company of the radio, she looks at me like saying "not only did you leave me alone, but I had to cope with this crappy noise all the time. Come here, walk me out, then play with me and turn that sucker off right now!"
I may need to relisten but I remember the studio "Slipknot" and "King Solomon's Marbles" being in the ballpark of the One From The Vault versions.
Nashville for me; great fan base (not that Pittsburgh doesn't) and fresh blood. I rooted for the Pens because I don't like Ottawa's 1-3-1 style and I don't want it to get more traction in the league than it already has. Plus, Canadiens fans will self-destruct if PK Subban wins a cup. But both of those tracks are more or less composed. They sound heavily improvised but even live, while there's some level of improvisation going on, it's not as much as it may seem like. Much like The Eleven.
For that reason alone, a Nashville victory would be outrageously fun. And hopefully Pens fans won't be as sour as Canuck fans were few years back...
Slipknot does have that open A minor section, although it is kept pretty short in the studio version, and the early live versions.
Listened to the CM version of the 2-14-70 early show. Too bad there's such a big cut in the St. Stephen>Eleven transition, but it was a very satisfying break from all the May 1977 material.
Is that the one where the guy yells "Something nutty!" before China Cat? I can't remember which one it is, but it's a set losing China>Rider from the 80s...
Yeah, I saw a lot of shows in 91...9 or 10, at least, anyway, although I'd have to look at a list and count them (EDIT: I'm pretty sure I saw 12 shows that year). Some of them were great, particularly in the summer, RFK and the Giants Stadium shows were really good, and although some of the MSG shows that Fall were a bit lazy compared to the year before, 9/14 was outstanding (I missed Branford but I caught the first one at Nassau and that one is better anyway, at least as far as I recall from the tapes). But the biggest problem, aside from the aforementioned busy-ness and Jerry getting comparatively lost in the shuffle at times, was Vince's sound, he had some really cheesy patches. He always blamed it on Bob Bralove and said he wanted to play a B3 sound but they wouldn't let him. Who knows, but those keys were kind of lame at times. Still a decent year, especially if you compare it to what came after rather than what came before. But to my mind, from 1977 through 1990 the band were kicking ass, and after that it was spotty. Really 1972 through 1990, in fact. Before and after things were relatively inconsistent. I like 68-71 fine, and love some of it, but the band really came into its own beginning with Europe 1972 and stayed that way, with some setbacks here and there, until Brent kicked it....
Speaking of "something nutty" and China Cat: I just found the live version of China Cat->Rider by Stephen Malkmus & the Jicks that I caught live in SF last year at Spiral Stairs' 50th b-day show at The Chapel. One of only a couple of times they've played it live that I know of, and Malkmus clearly hadn't rehearsed the lyrics to China Cat so it's mostly gibberish made up on the spot, but pretty funny at the time: Stephen Malkmus & The Jicks: China Cat Sunflower > I Know You Rider (live)
No! Yes. Maybe. I'm listening to it right now, it sounds fine but I'm not sure it stands out that much. Some of it is kind of meandery before the lyrics...Some people seem to hate the fast Eyeses, I've found...sounds good to me though. Edit: sorry for the flood of posts but damn, it's hard to keep up with this thread! It's good to see so much interest in the Dead, though. This thread has got me listening to them again, if it gets any worse I'll be tempted to go back to Born Cross-Eyed, too...but I have no time for that! Anyway, this place is better (I even googled "Steve Hoffman"), it's good to have discerning and critical Heads.
Cool, I'm not so much for Pavement but they do seem to copy a lot of bands I like (particularly the Fall and Wire). I'm actually 90% sure that is the "something nutty" China Cat, now that I think of it, although it may just be audible on the audience version, I can't remember.
