Listening to 3/24/90 which has been chopped up and spread across several official releases. Most of it (maybe all of 2nd set) is on Dozin' at the Knick. A really good show that deserves better treatment.
Kind of an accident of history how it wound up being chopped up, but Dixon' has the full second set. In addition to the show (which Ai was at) being presented more coherently, Loser deserves to be released with a proper multi-track mix with Garcia up louder, rather than the pretty weak John Cutler on the fly two-track mix used for the first Spring '90 box (a bad decision all around, and one that really hurts that particular track as much as any).
46 years ago today I made my second trek to the felt forum. listening now on sugarmegs. first was Santana a couple of months earlier.
Speaking of Losers, I just heard and really dug 4/29/72. Garcia nails it and it has a unique feel to it. Probably the highlight of the show so far (I’m on Good Lovin’ as I type this).
You know what is also great? The almost 18-minute "Let It Grow" from Charlie Miller's SBD from Providence, 05/14/1978. Those of you with the porch-crusher were probably already familiar with it, but it was completely new to me. It did me all kinds of good last night after a rough Monday.
I have serious emotional difficulties contemplating the relative musical qualities of '90s Dead because at it's heart Garcia is being inexorably pushed (albeit voluntarily) past his physical limit and the sadness swamps my ability to listen and judge with any clear-headed aesthetic detachment. '95 always makes me involuntarily recall that most horrible of ancient legends about music and suffering: One of the most brutal methods of execution ever created took the form of a hollow bull statue. Invented in ancient Greece by Perillus, a bronze worker in Athens, it was given as a gift to a cruel tyrant named Phalaris of Agrigentum. As well as roasting criminals alive, the device also doubled as a musical instrument, converting the victim’s desperate cries into what Perillus described as "the tenderest, most pathetic, most melodious of bellowings."
Is it from the Weather Report Suite? Didn't the rest of the program run like this: Looks Like Rain -> Cold Rain & Snow -> Here Comes Sunshine?
Thanks - I don't think I've ever heard that show, other than the Hey Pocky Way, which was a bonus track on the All Years Combine DVD set.
We all loves a good Loser. And that was a good one. Nice crowd reaction as well (aud source on relisten). Thanks for the heads up. 1990 is my "favorite" year. (actually I don't have a "favorite" year, they're all good!)
Listened to this day in grateful dead history earlier tonight. Think it was the 12/5/79 show. EPIC shakedown and great Samson. Ship of fools was really nice but He's Gone was waaaaaaay to slow.!! I mean seriously, #werewolf would be falling asleep. Sounded like he's gone on sleeping pills. I usually love that song. Anyway... I did have to turn it off before the other one. I'm assuming this was an early Brent era show? The keyboards were really well done. It was interesting not hearing much in the way of his backing vocals (of which I am a fan!). Was this recorded in multitrack? The sound was absolutely stellar!! I must say it was a nice bonus getting a rental with SXM. Made the drive much more chill.
Listening to 12/6/92 -- definitively one you should take a listen to, if you haven't already. I use to listen to this show a lot after I received it later in the year - actually I think it was part of Christmas tape stash gift from that year. Weir is a off - vocally - but solid show all around.
6 December 1973- Cleveland. We're fortunate to have with us tonight a recruiting station for the Venusian Red Cross." ~ Robert Alton Weir Great show. Phil is eager to play, the show is just saturated with Bass feedback, particularly in songs where one might least expect semi-Seastones type weirdness. And Phil's playing in general is out front, innovative, and on-point.
