The Grateful Thread

Discussion in 'Music Corner' started by JRM, Apr 11, 2014.

  1. scribbs

    scribbs Resident Mockery

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    3/30/80 tonight..I know these shows well, having made a 2-cd compilation of the run in an attempt to make something like Going to Nassau. I posted the contents somewhere upstream, if you're interested. 3/30/80 has a great vibe and sound. Garcia is in top form. Making the latest Pick look like an embarrassment, to be honest. I absolutely love how this band evolved through each season, and this run is a fine example of this period.

    While it's on my mind (and in case you've forgotten...), Europe '81 needs more fanfare.
     
  2. scribbs

    scribbs Resident Mockery

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  3. wavethatflag

    wavethatflag God is love, but get it in writing.

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    The sonic presentation of the Movie Soundtrack 5 CD Set is just always so stunning for me. I feel like I'm on the goddamn stage standing between Weir and
    Garcia.

    And don't nobody say, "You're Donna?"

    edit: The Sun will shine in my back door someday.
    The Sun will shine in my back door someday.
    March winds will blow all my troubles away.
     
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  4. scribbs

    scribbs Resident Mockery

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    Yeah, that release has caused me to pull over on many occasions. That first disc alone is top shelf.
     
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  5. dsdu

    dsdu less serious minor pest

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    As you wish. Double negative equals a positive. You're Donna?
     
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  6. wavethatflag

    wavethatflag God is love, but get it in writing.

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    I fell into that one.
     
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  7. bzfgt

    bzfgt The Grand High Exalted Mystic Ruler

    Agree 100%
     
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  8. bzfgt

    bzfgt The Grand High Exalted Mystic Ruler

    I listened to H>S>F again from 1984-04-01 just now to see if it is really as great as it was the first time, and it is...if anyone listens to this, check out Franklin's Tower between 3:45 and 3:54 and tell me what the hell is that he plays at 3:50...

    Also revisited Bird Song from 1980-11-30, I think this is also one of the best ever...
     
  9. Dr. Luther's Assistant

    Dr. Luther's Assistant dancing about architecture

    Location:
    San Francisco

    And wonderful, it is...
     
  10. budwhite

    budwhite Climb the mountains and get their good tidings.

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    Yes! Morning Dew is best served with Gibsons!
     
  11. US Blues

    US Blues Undermining Consensus Reality

     
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  12. Stone Turntable

    Stone Turntable Independent Head

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    New Mexico USA
    Reminder that Garcia was a trickster agent of chaos, bad influence, and a very naughty boy:

    'When we landed, the first person I saw was my brother and friend Jerry Garcia. He looked like one of those yogis in a cave in the Himalayas. He had that beatific, everything is all right already look. For me, he was like assurance, confidence and a sanctuary.

    'They’d told us we were going on two bands after the Grateful Dead. He goes, “Well man, you better get comfortable because apparently, we’re not going on until one o’clock in the morning. It’s a mess here. And by the way, would you like to take some of this?” It was mescaline. And I was like, “Let’s see, it’s 12:30 in the afternoon. By two o’clock in the morning, I’ll be all right.” I used to take LSD and mescaline a lot, so I knew the timing. After eight or 10 hours, you’re into what we call the amoeba state. Your thoughts become very galactic and universal and microscoped.

    'Two hours after I took it, there was a face in my face that said, “You need to go on right now, otherwise you’re not going to play.” By this time I was really, really on it, you know? I just held on to my faith, and what my mom taught me. I asked, over and over, “Just help me stay in tune and on time.”'

    How Santana Hallucinated Through One of Woodstock’s Best Sets (His Own)
     
  13. MattG

    MattG Unreliable Narrator

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    Maryland
    Currently jamming on 5/11/77, St. Paul Civic Center. If that Big River was any hotter, they’d of had to call in the fire brigade. Oh, lawdy
     
  14. budwhite

    budwhite Climb the mountains and get their good tidings.

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    Götaland, Sverige
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  15. Matthew Tate

    Matthew Tate Forum Resident

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    so what do you think will happen next year for workingmans dead and American beauty? there are no remixes but there are some single edits and mixes. include those or use the rest of the space on disc 1 and then all of disc 2 for a concert?
     
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  16. dzhason

    dzhason Forum Resident

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    Same here, probably owe it to (blame it on?) this one that I enjoy Mexicali Blues so much still.
     
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  17. US Blues

    US Blues Undermining Consensus Reality

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  18. Archtop

    Archtop Soft Dead Crimson Cow

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    Greater Boston, MA
    I'll get on it shortly, but I'm currently having my hair blown back by the Hampton, 4/14/84 Dew and I'm bald.

    Edit: I'm not sure which version you're listening to, but I'm assuming you mean the brief chromatically-descending DOM7 voicings. He used that often. Check out DaP 16, Springfield, MA 3/28/73 in ina--> r from 3:31-3:33. Same sort of thing.
     
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  19. frightwigwam

    frightwigwam Talented Amateur

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    Oregon
    I don’t think Jerry did anything deliberately tricky or naughty, there. Both he and Carlos believed in good faith that Santana would go on in the middle of the night (“THEY’d told us...”). Carlos took this into account when he accepted the drug. It’s just that the producers screwed over the plan by pushing Santana on stage in the afternoon, about 12 hours earlier than expected.
     
  20. DrLunchbox

    DrLunchbox Forum Deadhead #1604

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    Hillsborough, NC
    Do we know the status of the Europe 81 tapes? What about the March 81 tapes? Lots of good stuff there. Are those release worthy?
     
  21. budwhite

    budwhite Climb the mountains and get their good tidings.

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    Quite nice. His singing is getting better/more to my liking anyway
     
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  22. Stone Turntable

    Stone Turntable Independent Head

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    I was half-joking. Obviously Santana voluntarily dosed himself. On the other hand the Dead posse was notorious for sneakily slipping hallucinogens into unsuspecting people's beverages, and Garcia thought it was funny when Prankster types used to pop tabs of LSD into random tourist's mouths in San Francisco back in the day. I'll bet things didn't always work out well.
     
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  23. US Blues

    US Blues Undermining Consensus Reality

    And yet, the promoters putting Santana on-stage while under the benevolent medical care of J. Garcia allowed Santana to became famous.

    Soul Sacrifice
     
  24. bzfgt

    bzfgt The Grand High Exalted Mystic Ruler

    Miller sbd 32535

    Yeah it's where he's sort of ascending while the larger pattern is descending. It sounds insane in that instance, I guess it's a DOM 7 but there's something extra wonky about it there it seems like...whatever it is he's doing, it sounds wild
     
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  25. dzhason

    dzhason Forum Resident

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    I’ll have to revisit that 9/19/7o Dark Star, so far it has yet to reveal its wonders to me. To date I have found the 5/15/70 version much more whelming.
     

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