I think my petals are opening a little faster than I expected... I might be able to get that Road Trips one. I'll check...
Yep! Getting it now as we 'speak'... Recorded live at Municipal Auditorium Austin, TX (November 15, 1971) DISC 1 1. Truckin' 2. Bertha 3. Playing In The Band 4. Deal 5. Jack Straw 6. Loser 7. Beat It On Down The Line 8. Dark Star> 9. El Paso> 10. Dark Star 11. Casey Jones 12. One More Saturday Night DISC 2 1. Me And My Uncle 2. Ramble On Rose 3. Mexicali Blues 4. Brokedown Palace 5. Me And Bobby McGee 6. Cumberland Blues 7. Sugar Magnolia 8. You Win Again 9. Not Fade Away> 10. Jam> 11. Goin' Down The Road Feeling Bad> 12. Not Fade Away 13. Johnny B. Goode Bonus CD - Texas Christian University in Fort Worth, Texas (11/14/71). 1. China Cat Sunflower> 2. I Know You Rider 3. Sugaree 4. Truckin'> 5. Drums> 6. The Other One> 7. Me And My Uncle> 8. The Other One> 9. Wharf Rat> 10. Sugar Magnolia ***EDIT AH... I see the bonus disc is where that last snippet is taken from. That will be great, now, to have it in FLAC!
Geez, gone for a few days and almost 20 pages to catch up on. Hadn't really thought too hard about the split between Weir's Dylan and Garcia's Dylan in this way, although I'd certainly noticed it. I appreciate Visions of Johanna being the exception -- I have yet to hear a version that failed to floor me. Hey, this one arrived in the mail just yesterday, along with the Legion of Mary set (incl. bonus disc!), and I'm looking forward to giving it a spin. Earlier this year I stumbled upon a couple fan-made compilations, one of the '74-'75 Garcia-Saunders stuff and one of summer '77 JGB. I've been slow to warm to the GS material (including LOM), but I like enough of it just enough that the official release seemed worth picking up when the opportunity presented itself. The JGB comp, on the other hand, clicked for me right away. I'm eager to hear more. And yeah, as a big fan of both Keith and Donna, my god, this is great stuff. The track durations very nearly scared me off, but once I got acclimated, the rather unhurried approach to the music started to make sense and really won me over. I think the most pleasant surprise has been the reggae stuff -- Stop That Train, Stir It Up, Sitting in Limbo, The Harder They Come. I wish more of it was officially available (or, failing that, that there was some Archive-like way to get at it). I hear these 7/29-30 shows are highly regarded, though, so this is sure to be better than nothing. I'm generally very good at hearing lyrics, but I too thought it was "elegant pie" until now!
I am not sure how well that split really holds up. Garcia also sung It's All Over Now, Baby Blue, She Belongs to Me, and (if we are taking the mid-'60s period out to the Basement Tapes, which is questionable) Quinn the Eskimo.
Guilty as charged. PS: Blow Away is another fine post-breakup song. Don't ask me how I know these things.
I'm one who usually finds something nice to say about any Grateful Dead show - and I find I can listen to 2 or 3 shows from 78 or 84 0r (random later year) in a row and not get bored, but your last sentence there is how I would describe a lot of 71, even late 71 when they at least did a small jam in Playin in the Band. To the extent the GD are ever staid, they are so frequently in 71. The jams are great, but there are tons of repeats in the first set stuff. Billy was frequently the (lone) drummer on the full-band acoustic sets they did in 1970. (Hart played with the New Riders until Dryden joined them in late 70 (or was it early 71 I forget.) A different beast, to be sure though. @Wright mentioned those in his post - Evidently he also did masterpiece as early as 72, but the original point I think holds - Planet Waves did seem to blow the lid off the Dylan covers for Garcia.
What he actually says is 'imagine me drinking champagne from your boot, better than a drive-in movie, oh my.'
Weir branched out a bit more with Ratdog - Knockin Senor Silvio (of course that's a Hunter/Dylan tune) Slow Train Comin
