he's not that bad, he can definitely shred.
― brimstead, Saturday, 22 October 2016 02:48 (seven years ago) link
Almanac/calendar's out now:
http://www.dead.net/almanac/img/grateful-dead-2017-calendar-almanac-1200x1200.jpg?a
Whole thing's here, I think, though haven't read it all:
http://www.dead.net/almanac/?cmpid=dn/2016November17/GratefulDeadAlm-main-image-1&eml=2016November17/3805321/6131962&etsubid=33554028
― dow, Friday, 18 November 2016 00:47 (seven years ago) link
Cool interview with Lesh: short but sweet, intriguing bits and dig his fave memory of Garcia (also a fairly recent flashback):http://www.rollingstone.com/music/features/the-last-word-phil-lesh-on-jerry-garcia-memories-sci-fi-w434812
― dow, Friday, 23 December 2016 01:27 (seven years ago) link
Aw,that's a sweet memory to share.
― how's life, Friday, 23 December 2016 12:02 (seven years ago) link
the remaster of live/dead doesn't sound so good does it
― global tetrahedron, Friday, 23 December 2016 14:03 (seven years ago) link
This is great:
"My favorite memory was Lew Welch's line in one of his poems. He was describing looking in the mirror in the morning: "I don't know who you are, but I'm going to shave you anyway."
― calstars, Friday, 23 December 2016 19:23 (seven years ago) link
live/dead always sounded kind of muddy to me
i'm gonna end up posting on the steve hoffman forums aren't i
― global tetrahedron, Friday, 23 December 2016 21:39 (seven years ago) link
i think the original has a lot more detail
what about the soundstage
― Forty Watson & the Jute Gute (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Saturday, 24 December 2016 00:53 (seven years ago) link
what kinda bloom are we talking about
― Forty Watson & the Jute Gute (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Saturday, 24 December 2016 00:54 (seven years ago) link
you tell us dude
― calstars, Saturday, 24 December 2016 01:12 (seven years ago) link
― Forty Watson & the Jute Gute (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ)
molly
― increasingly bonkers (rushomancy), Saturday, 24 December 2016 04:31 (seven years ago) link
the 4 hour documentary is screening here in a month. psyched, i only started listening to the dead in the last 9 months or so, i've only heard anthem of the sun thru europe '72. i heard about it thru this tweet @0PNthe crowd ERUPTED during the Wall of Sound section of the dead doc. At the mere sight of a homebaked PA system. it was beautiful
― flappy bird, Monday, 1 May 2017 02:33 (seven years ago) link
hofheinz pavilion 'playing in the band' next
https://archive.org/details/gd72-11-18.set2-sbd.cotsman.9002.sbeok.shnf
― global tetrahedron, Monday, 1 May 2017 02:52 (seven years ago) link
Saw Long Strange Trip tonight. I'm a little more than a fan, much less than an obsessive--bought the Skeletons compilation in high school, then everything up to Europe in fits and starts over the next three decades. I didn't think they needed four hours here. The structure is loose--Altamont isn't mentioned until past the halfway mark, and I don't think Live Dead is mentioned at all ("Dark Star," yes, near the end and very humorously). I was oblivious to the extent of Garcia's heroin habit--not sure if I even knew about it at all. The funniest bit in the film for me was the British road manager describing a key difference in the psyche of Americans and the English.
― clemenza, Monday, 1 May 2017 04:24 (seven years ago) link
question. it's widely accepted that outside of ccr, the dead were the kings of choogle. when would you say the dead first started to choogle?
― Cyborg Kickboxer (rushomancy), Sunday, 14 May 2017 00:31 (seven years ago) link
Somewhat ashamed that someone as lame as al Franken introduced me to it in that documentary, but "Althea" is a great doom-filled dirge
― calstars, Friday, 21 July 2017 03:52 (seven years ago) link
"There's mosquitos on the river...Did you hear what I just heard?"
Probably not, Bob. Probably not.
― calstars, Monday, 24 July 2017 00:08 (seven years ago) link
"Unbroken Chain" came up on recent Discover Weekly playlist. I have to admit it's a lovely tune
― Well bissogled trotters (Michael B), Monday, 24 July 2017 01:18 (seven years ago) link
I got a copy of 1974-05-21 (Edmundson Pavillion, U of Washington) recently. I was pretty impressed by it, as someone who has enjoyed various things but never been a dedicated fan. V cool 46m version of "Playin' in the Band".
― No purposes. Sounds. (Sund4r), Monday, 24 July 2017 01:58 (seven years ago) link
https://archive.org/details/gd72-08-21.sbd.hamilton.150.sbeok.shnf#
^^ this Dark Star seems appropriate for this afternoon. 45 years ago to the day. it's a good one
― tobo73, Monday, 21 August 2017 16:26 (seven years ago) link
haha yes!
― the late great, Monday, 21 August 2017 16:47 (seven years ago) link
thank u
― marcos, Monday, 21 August 2017 17:07 (seven years ago) link
https://scontent.fman1-1.fna.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-0/q81/p480x480/20914647_1706287166051240_4262034767493178114_n.jpg?oh=e14cc9debd4f73686a9d0d0ae241e312&oe=5A264EBA
― Gulley Jimson (Ward Fowler), Monday, 21 August 2017 21:34 (seven years ago) link
fucking weirdo
― calstars, Monday, 21 August 2017 21:39 (seven years ago) link
is this somewhere in golden gate park?
― calstars, Monday, 21 August 2017 21:41 (seven years ago) link
looks like a pipe in his right hand but it's just a phone and his credit cards
― calstars, Monday, 21 August 2017 21:42 (seven years ago) link
Saw Long Strange Trip finally. Definitely had some problems with it, considering it was a 4+hr comprehensive doc but enjoyed it nonetheless. Easily my favorite moment was Steve Parish talking about how nobody was really in charge of anything ... "The situation is the boss, man!" Also found the last interview bit from Garcia talking about Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein incredibly touching.
― ヽ(´ー`)┌ (CompuPost), Sunday, 27 August 2017 16:39 (seven years ago) link
just finished it.. warts and all i prob could've watched four hours just on the Mother McCree era through that '74 ('75?) hiatus. Garcia's such a great interview - esp when considering his prodigious heroin habit.
i sorta regret not trying harder to see them on that last tour, which really would have been the only one i was old enough to make. i was really more of a casual fan at the time and frankly it sounds like it might have been kind of a bummer at that point. my brief stint at Ole Miss was contaminated with "Touch Heads" (or their little brothers) so it took me a while to separate the band/music from that later period fan base. that said, i would definitely watch a deeper plunge into the deadhead culture.
― constitutional crises they fly at u face (will), Wednesday, 30 August 2017 00:59 (seven years ago) link
I enjoyed the doc, but it was weird spending 4 hours immersed in band lore and not hear the name Tom Constanten once. They did a good job avoiding him in concert footage too. I'm not a serious devotee, so I didn't know he was... persona non grata or whatever.
― WilliamC, Sunday, 1 October 2017 01:16 (six years ago) link
Yeah good point. Maybe he didn't fit or suppprt a narrative they were trying to convey? I feel like he's always been a walking, talking former band member who no one really paid attn to, for whatev reason. He's still alive right?
― tobo73, Sunday, 1 October 2017 02:46 (six years ago) link
according to wikipedia:
Several band members and employees felt that he did not fit in with the Dead ethos despite his longstanding friendships with Lesh and Garcia; for example, he was a member of the Church of Scientology throughout his tenure with the band and thus declined to become re-involved with LSD and other drugs.[6][7] According to band manager Rock Scully, "He was sooo different. You know, he was like a crew cut. He was like a marine in a prison camp full of Japanese. He was like our boss in a way. Nobody could go for the hard wire technology of his brain power. I was told I was too hard on him, too. But I had no beef."[8]
Echoing Scully's sentiments, drummer Bill Kreutzmann noted in his 2015 memoir that he "got along really well" with Constanten and "thought he was a cool enough guy"; however, he felt that "Constanten had this thing where, for whatever reason, he would perform at rehearsals pretty darn well, but then, when we'd be in front of an audience, it was like he froze or something. He couldn't let go... He couldn't trust the music to lead... If you can't do that, you can't be in the band." Although Kreutzmann "felt no animosity" toward Constanten upon his departure, he did not consider him to be a "card-carrying member of the Grateful Dead."[9]
In 2012, he recovered from a heart attack.[18] On August 16, 2016, Constanten reported on Facebook that he was in the hospital with a broken neck, after slipping and falling on wet cement on August 10, while walking to the post office from his car in a heavy rain.[19]
― Dr Keith Assblow (stevie), Tuesday, 10 October 2017 14:53 (six years ago) link
He was only in for a year anyway, though it might have been an important year, 1969. He started at the end of November 68 and left at the end fo January 70.
I thought what I'd heard of him live with the band was pretty ok. Didn't think it was the reined in.
― Stevolende, Tuesday, 10 October 2017 15:35 (six years ago) link
i find some of his playing a bit stuffy
― global tetrahedron, Tuesday, 10 October 2017 15:43 (six years ago) link
my brother bought 1100 old dead tapes, so, if you are ever in hudson, ny...
― scott seward, Tuesday, 10 October 2017 17:13 (six years ago) link
I have loads of GB of live stuff anyway.
― Stevolende, Tuesday, 10 October 2017 23:26 (six years ago) link
just started watching long strange trip this weekend. it is really good wow
― marcos, Monday, 30 October 2017 14:44 (six years ago) link
only beef w/ it so far is that despite so much good footage of performances they don't just let those videos roll, they always cut to an interview or something else so fast
― marcos, Monday, 30 October 2017 14:46 (six years ago) link
yeah that's a good point, i hope the home video release has like 12+ hours of supplementals, maybe a full show. any news on that?
― flappy bird, Monday, 30 October 2017 17:16 (six years ago) link
Watched the first half of Long Strange Trip last night. I think it's quite well done overall, although it jumps from their signing to Warner Brothers to Workingman's Dead pretty quickly.
― Get aboard the flappy bird, departing gate 19 (Dan Peterson), Tuesday, 17 July 2018 18:39 (six years ago) link
It initially seems like they skip over some important stuff, but then they come back to it later (Altamont, especially). But yeah, Anthem and Live/Dead aren't mentioned at all, which seems strange. In fact, a lot of important events and people (at least two keyboardists) escape mention completely.
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Tuesday, 17 July 2018 18:48 (six years ago) link
Huh... and this is a long-ass doc, no? What do they spend all that time on?
― i’m still stanning (morrisp), Tuesday, 17 July 2018 18:50 (six years ago) link
Jerry being imprisoned by his own success. Such a sad movie.
― flappy bird, Tuesday, 17 July 2018 18:51 (six years ago) link
Wanting to record desert air and city smog is from the Anthem sessions, although I don't think it was referred to specifically. (Nitrous oxide parties were also at those sessions, but likely many others as well.) xxp
― Get aboard the flappy bird, departing gate 19 (Dan Peterson), Tuesday, 17 July 2018 18:57 (six years ago) link
What do they spend all that time on?
One of the episodes spends way too much time talking about dosed filmmakers not being able to make a film about the Dead, and another spends what feels like 15 minutes on the crew's nitrous shenanigans. Meanwhile, there's no mention of Mickey's departure/return, among other things.
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Tuesday, 17 July 2018 18:58 (six years ago) link
Yeah so these guys are enjoyable but they're nowhere near the VU on any level
― albvivertine, Tuesday, 17 July 2018 19:01 (six years ago) link
i loved that documentary. it has some flaws but i thought it succeeded pretty well at conveying what is special about this band, their music, their scene
― marcos, Tuesday, 17 July 2018 19:20 (six years ago) link
If you don't know a single thing about the band coming in, it's fine. If you are the kind of person who can identify the year of a given live tune by the sound of the keyboard, you'll hate it. It's basically a prolonged episode of Behind The Music.
― Paul Ponzi, Tuesday, 17 July 2018 19:43 (six years ago) link
im one of those 'identify by the keyboard' losers and i loved it! but it was def not comprehensive. need to sample it again.
― tobo73, Tuesday, 17 July 2018 19:45 (six years ago) link