Finally coming to the last tour of my favorite year. This release blew me away(no Brent ref here) upon its release. like a cushion of a million rose petals and as colorful. I do however take umbrage with the edit(s). Over distillation of the essence of the gods
I have more than once, and it's a bit nebulous as to when they actually drop into the groove, but on the Trunk release of 4/17/72, I hear it at 25:18. One could argue 25:20, but there's no need to split hairs. Scroll to 25:00 and just listen. All shall be revealed unto thou. I'd be lying if I claimed that this isn't the most gorgeous thing I've ever heard in my life. It's absurdly great. It's even better than the jam out of the melt on 4/8/72. I can't believe that I typed that, but I did and didn't spontaneously combust.
I'll now likely delay opening the shrink wrap on my new Garcia Keane College release until I've absorbed this DS (or it absorbs me).
I bought that one when it came out but I hated the sound on it and have never really given it another chance. As much 74 as I listen too now I really should revisit it.
You guys keep bringing up these AMAZING Dark Stars that I don't have! Do I just do a search for that date? Is there a page where I can DL this please?
Can you use BitTorrent? If so, there’s a couple of places that you can find most any of the unofficial recordings
Just search the date + grateful dead and the first result will get you to the archives where you can listen to said version
1974-06-20 Gloopy China>Rider is good. To Lay Me Down and Ship of Fools are good versions. Truckin'>jam>Eyes has some very high moments....
After starting from the beginning and moving through everything that’s been officially released, there’s nothing quite like the sea change between December 71 and March 72. The playing and improvisation has a vitality that is through the roof! It’s not like there was a few months of shows either. What the happened? Practice? Are we talking about practice?
Studio sessions for Ace. Having to work on song construction as a band is a different kind of learning than being on stage together. It was also during this time that the sound people got a much better handle on the pick-up for Keith's grand piano, improving the sonics and the overall mix.
I'm way late on this, but Derek told that story from his perspective on a podcast (I think it was Marc Maron's WTF). He said they went "WAY" out there during the jam - too far for Gregg. And yeah, he confirmed Gregg said that he didn't want to play that Phish BS anymore! I'd give my right arm to hear that particular ABB show. I can imagine Warren and Derek really having fun with that.
