The Grateful Thread

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

  1. US Blues

    US Blues Undermining Consensus Reality

    You're covering such rich territory, and is such great quantity, that your impressions can serve as a guide to the perplexed.
     
  2. OmIsWhereTheHeartIs

    OmIsWhereTheHeartIs Forum Resident

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    Don't Ease Me In - mix is messed right up which is unfortunate cuz it has a lot of energy and a good opener.

    BTW - a really, really nice version. Ton of energy with Bobby going overkill on vocals.. but it works. This mix has great bass and drums. You can really hear Billy's intricate drumming in this period. He was on fire in 73-74.

    Peggy-O - really good mix. Piano sounds beautiful and nice counterpoints on bass.

    Jack Straw sounded gorgeous with Jerry's guitar popping out.

    Greatest Story is a really nice ripping version. Love this song.

    A really nice non acoustic Dire Wolf.

    PITB gets way out there. Really nice drum work by Bill.
     
  3. OmIsWhereTheHeartIs

    OmIsWhereTheHeartIs Forum Resident

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    I always love a PITB > UJB. Playing in the Band.... whose band? Uncle John's Band. This one is just a beautiful combo too... weaving and dazzling the whole time. And then a nice transition back into PITB to end set one.

    Again this Charlie Miller is just a beautiful listen. A nicely recorded 73/74 is always heaven. Hence why my 73 show was marred by a poor AUD first set.

    Maybe its the gummies but this show and this SBD are just gorgeous
     
  4. Eyes74

    Eyes74 Abstractor of the Quintessence

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    6/30/74 is killer.
     
  5. OmIsWhereTheHeartIs

    OmIsWhereTheHeartIs Forum Resident

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    Was this your pick?

    I always listen to Seastones cuz I'm dedicated but... meh. It'd be cool if it was shorter.
     
  6. Eyes74

    Eyes74 Abstractor of the Quintessence

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    No, but it would've been if someone hadn't beat me to it.
     
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  7. OmIsWhereTheHeartIs

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    Ho boy this is just a money China > Rider. A nice long transition jam too. Nothing is quite as perfect as a China > Rider.
     
  8. Eyes74

    Eyes74 Abstractor of the Quintessence

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    Listening to 7/12/90 DS >Drums>Space on the porch under the moon and stars.
     
  9. OmIsWhereTheHeartIs

    OmIsWhereTheHeartIs Forum Resident

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    90s Drums>Space is where its at.
     
  10. US Blues

    US Blues Undermining Consensus Reality

    Seastones. :uhhuh:
     
  11. US Blues

    US Blues Undermining Consensus Reality

    It was my pick, you need to hear the great, unreleased shows from this year.

    I also suggested 20 September 1974- Paris, and I'm curious how that landed.
     
  12. OmIsWhereTheHeartIs

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    74 has always landed right in my sweet spot. And that Paris show was fantastic. I can't remember if I said much about it then but I clearly recall it as a stand out.
     
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  13. OmIsWhereTheHeartIs

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  14. US Blues

    US Blues Undermining Consensus Reality

    I also set you up with your shows from '77 thru '79 in this series. You can thank me later. :tiphat:
     
  15. OmIsWhereTheHeartIs

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  16. Archtop

    Archtop Soft Dead Crimson Cow

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    Yeah, that transition is lovely, long and loose, yet focused. Gotta love the dichotomy there.
     
  17. OmIsWhereTheHeartIs

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    This show is just perfection. Just a great snippet of a really cool and brief phase. Maybe one of the best Around and Arounds and Help/Slip/Franks. Also love King Solomons/Stronger Than Dirt, Sage and Spirit and Blues for Allah and wish they did them all more.
     
  18. uzn007

    uzn007 Pack Rat

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    Reported.
     
  19. notesofachord

    notesofachord Riding down the river in an old canoe

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    I don’t know, maybe it was the roses gummies
     
  20. Mr. Rain

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    Well, when bzfgt reviewed that Dark Star, he wrote about this moment: "At 15:13 Garcia starts playing the descending melody I pointed out a couple of times recently; I thought maybe it came from another song, but now I think that this is where I remembered it from."
    And looking back, the 9/16/72 Dark Star: "At 3:22 Garcia starts hinting, and not for the last time tonight, at the little descending lick that I pointed out last time as something I associated with another song; I wonder now if it wasn’t just other Dark Stars of which I was thinking." [Just a bare hint in this one, though.]
    And the 9/10/72 Dark Star: "At 5:25 Garcia starts toying with a descending sequence that he sometimes plays in a different song, but I can’t remember which one. Weir and Godchaux echo him with some arpeggios and there is a pretty section here." [It's more of a group effort in this one, the way Keith echoes Garcia.]

    So yeah, that lick does turn up a few times in September '72 and I bet it's in a few more Other Ones too.
    But this is a good instance of the dreamlike nature of Dead improvs, where little pieces will float up to the surface now and then and you go, "hey wait, have I heard that somewhere before?"
     
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  21. Crazy Otto

    Crazy Otto Voodoo all night long

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    One of the best car crashes
     
  22. Flaming Torch

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    I think the first time I heard the Dead's Around and Around was the Steal Your Face double sometime in the late 70s. I knew the song best from the Stones 5 5 x 5 EP and the Bowie Drive in Saturday b side. I don't really have a favourite Dead version.
    Oh Steal Your Face is in the 5lp Grateful Dead Collection vinyl box and on the high resolution official download. I never minded the album although yes compared to live stuff we have through the archival releases it does not quite make it. I had no access to Dead tapes in the 70s and vinyl boots were jolly expensive and GD boots not that easily found in the UK (in my recollection anyway).
     
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  23. LandHorses

    LandHorses I contain multitudes

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    “Again and Again”
     
  24. Eyes74

    Eyes74 Abstractor of the Quintessence

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    10/31/91 this morning. Nice H>S>F opener.
     
  25. Jerry

    Jerry Grateful Gort Staff

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    Button in center handed out at the Greek Theater, Berkeley, early/mid-80’s.
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