It's not that I don't like Franklin's Tower, but it suffers from the light switch effect found to more annoying consequences on Fire on the Mountain. I mean, Dark Star is not harmonically complex, but it is more harmonically nebulous, which is something I prefer. I can't cite a better Slipknot! than that from 2/26/77, but there are a few worthy contenders: 12/31/76 - really spacy; almost not Slipknot! 5/9/77 - very close to 2/26/77, but somewhat less Phil-centric 5/22/77 - another one that's in the top shelf 6/9/77 - more balanced and great. Some wild cards are 6/14/76 and for an '80s version, 4/9/83 is brief, but Jerry's hammering it. You'll like that one, I suspect.
Yeah I'll check that 83, never heard it. I have a place in my heart for 4/1/84. I know what you mean about FOTM, it kind of bores me these days (and it was never a favorite but for years I was sucked into the whole Scarlet>Fire trip, and liked it in that context when done well as a kind of energy release). FT is kind of similar and although I don't get bored with it as much, I can if I listen to it too much.
OK 1976-10-09...what a fantastic show, I am all a-bubble with enthusiasm. The return in to Slipknot! after drums>Samson is one of the best things I ever heard. And I get a little bored with NFA in 1976-1978 sometimes, but this one is right on the money.
Seems like a little bit of an oversell, but maybe I have to listen to the whole thing again and hear it in context
This is a Dick's Picks that's supposed to have speed issues, or so I recall reading in this forum. Today I picked my guitar to "sit in" on "Help On The Way" and I found no problems at all to play in tune with it. Is my guitar out of tune or is the tape speed of this show correct after all?
Key of F minor. Sorry; I'm the harmonic police. More correctly, it uses an F dorian scale derived from the key of Eb Major. So, the i chord is F minor, but the scale is not F natural minor. It's F dorian.
From my somewhat recent dabbles into 76 this seems more like a 77 show to me. Way more note perfect and more energy then the summer of 76. Remember that second set being very inspired.
What would you do if the chords that you knew were corrected, notated and renamed too? Who are the Harmony Police?
What the hell made them play this 5/9/77 Bertha so butter like slow? They opened the second set like this. Love it. A nice change. Spent a lot of recent time in 73,74 and 78. This show is incredibly good.
I remember someone posting about this one being a big ofender regarding speed issues. Personally, I've loved it for years and never noticed any strange, and that's why I decided to check it out with the guitar today. Incidentally, just like yesterday with the '73 Denver concert, I didn't pass the audition, but today it was not due to my guitar not being in tune, it was only my incompetence.
Listening to yet another Help>Slipknot>Franklin's. This time, 6/17/76, from the last Dave's Picks I bought (and that I had ignored until today, to be honest). I just love the aluminum tone coming from that Travis Bean.
I believe that it was the member formerly named libertyc**s that most frequently opined about DiP33 being unlistenable due to speed issues. I have no idea WTF he was on about most of the time and his attitude was toxic and the antithesis of what this thread is about. So, there’s that.
Buffalo? That’s possibly my favourite Bertha. Love the groove on that one. Edit—I’ve said it before, a Top 3 1977 show from the first half of the year, IMO.
Yeah I remember hearing this for the first time and thinking that this Bertha is unique. man they are dialed in 5/9/77