L-R: Aykroyd, Ramis, Murray
― tumblin’ dice outro (morrisp), Saturday, 11 September 2021 01:58 (two years ago) link
Photo is actually a still of when they encounter the old lady ghost in the nypl stacks
― calstars, Saturday, 11 September 2021 02:00 (two years ago) link
xxxxxxpost birdistheword, also check out Weir's accurately-titled Ace--as Deadhead Xgau opined way back then:Ace [Warner Bros., 1972]Weir can be preachy and screechy, but Robert Hunter's homiletics ("Playing in the Band") make up for John Barlow's post-hippie know-nothingisms ("Walk in the Sunshine"), and "One More Saturday Night" isn't any less a rockabilly epiphany because it strains Bobby's vocal chords--that just adds a note of authenticity. With Barlow redeeming himself on the elegiac pre-hippie fable "Cassidy" and Keith Godchaux sounding like a cross between Chick Corea and Little Richard, this is the third in a series that began with Workingman's Dead and American Beauty. A-
― dow, Saturday, 11 September 2021 02:05 (two years ago) link
Ace is a wonderful, wonderful album.
― in twelve parts (lamonti), Wednesday, 15 September 2021 06:30 (two years ago) link
Won't let me paste anything, but it's from 1990, so may be just as well---press release for Dave's Picks Vol. 40, w links to Listening Party etc.:http://view.email.dead.net/?qs=6ceb8ca8d65dd0c108e4a444be120b4ed9eef6a4717bb0a7736434639088d68c0f11bde2d65fe50dc711383bec9f2a326316c7f0d7536017d3d7cb675128e047e7cee5b73a713fc726e930426d0b9ca8
― dow, Friday, 15 October 2021 17:27 (two years ago) link
How’s the Phil Lesh and Friends show these days? Have the chance for great seats from a friend but not cheap.
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Wednesday, 27 October 2021 18:41 (two years ago) link
I think it really depends which lineup you get, he's been bouncing around between different backing bands on different week/ends for this run. This weekend it's mostly the Dawes guys backing him up, which I'm not exactly excited about tbh. But I guess MC Taylor from Hiss Golden Messenger is playing with him Friday and Saturday nights, which could be cool.
― a superficial sheeb of intelligence (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Wednesday, 27 October 2021 18:50 (two years ago) link
Yeah I was considering the Saturday show, it's for my birthday (after other plans got canceled) but still not sure I want to drop $220/seat on it.
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Wednesday, 27 October 2021 20:09 (two years ago) link
Concerts are so fucking expensive now aren't they. I spent like $125/pop for Bela Fleck tickets at carnegie hall, but prime seats.
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Wednesday, 27 October 2021 20:12 (two years ago) link
My own take on this issue.... https://vassifer.blogs.com/alexinnyc/2020/01/exhuming-the-buried-or-how-i-learned-to-lighten-up-appreciate-the-grateful-dead.html
― Alex in NYC, Wednesday, 27 October 2021 20:24 (two years ago) link
xpost - yeah, my Dead & Co. tickets ended up being not much less than $200 by the time all the $46(!!!) worth of fees got added in.
― a superficial sheeb of intelligence (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Wednesday, 27 October 2021 21:14 (two years ago) link
I just can't do it. I can't drop that kind of cash on a concert I'm not even sure I'd be that into. I could justify maybe $50. Even for something I'm sure I want to see $220 is a lot.
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Thursday, 28 October 2021 13:08 (two years ago) link
I'm trying to think of the most I've paid for tickets, or who I would do that for. (There's probably a thread for this.) I don't see a lot of big name shows. I think I paid $60 for Bryan Ferry. Sparks are coming next year and I haven't pulled the trigger yet, but I think balcony tix for that are about the same. $220 for the guy who wasn't really even a vocalist in the Dead plus some ringers is outrageous imo.
― Three Rings for the Elven Bishop (Dan Peterson), Thursday, 28 October 2021 13:25 (two years ago) link
It was for arguably the "best" seats, but I'd be paying $135 even for GA floor tickets.
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Thursday, 28 October 2021 13:28 (two years ago) link
I also generally speaking don't go to big production/big name shows. I don't see a lot of shows period, but when I do I usually like smaller venues and non-major artists better as an experience.
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Thursday, 28 October 2021 13:29 (two years ago) link
Oh, ZZ Top was the last show I saw pre-Covid. Nosebleed seats, but $40.
― Three Rings for the Elven Bishop (Dan Peterson), Thursday, 28 October 2021 13:35 (two years ago) link
$220 for the guy who wasn't really even a vocalist in the Dead plus some ringers is outrageous imo.
Yeah, I didn't even pay this much for three actual Dead guys and ringers when I saw them, though not appreciably lower by most standards. I could justify it this time after not having spent a penny on shows between March 2020 and September of 2021 though.
― a superficial sheeb of intelligence (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Thursday, 28 October 2021 13:54 (two years ago) link
imagine paying $200 to hear John Mayer noodle on his guitar at a 'dead' show
― calstars, Thursday, 28 October 2021 16:56 (two years ago) link
imagine swinging into a thread to inaccurately describe something to feel like a cool guy on the internet.
― a superficial sheeb of intelligence (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Thursday, 28 October 2021 16:59 (two years ago) link
Tried with the Dead again this morning while doing laundry; listened to about a third of the Fillmore West 1969 3CD set before giving up and switching to the Allman Brothers' At Fillmore East, which it turned out was what I wanted all along.
― but also fuck you (unperson), Thursday, 28 October 2021 16:59 (two years ago) link
Depending on which third that was, I get it. The first disc is meh, the magic really shines on the second two discs, imo. But I'm not sure it'd still be in your wheelhouse.
― a superficial sheeb of intelligence (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Thursday, 28 October 2021 17:02 (two years ago) link
Allman Bros at Fillmore East is going to scratch a very different itch than Dead at Fillmore West, so that makes sense. I also come back a lot to the fact that the Dead were about the entire atmosphere at and around the shows, and I'll just never experience that (whether or not I would have liked it, which I'm not sure).
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Thursday, 28 October 2021 17:07 (two years ago) link
That's a good point, the atmosphere is a huge contributor to it (I know, cue the 100 jokes about stinky hippies). But it really does make a difference.
― a superficial sheeb of intelligence (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Thursday, 28 October 2021 17:09 (two years ago) link
xxxp You shoulda at least skipped to St. Stephen->The 11
― juristic person (morrisp), Thursday, 28 October 2021 17:14 (two years ago) link
I was halfway through "St. Stephen" when I bailed out. I've owned the set (and had downloads of the expanded set with all the concerts in full) for years. It's really the only Dead thing I can even get close to liking. Every couple of years I get the urge to listen to it, but it fades quickly.
― but also fuck you (unperson), Thursday, 28 October 2021 17:16 (two years ago) link
Finally getting around to Wake of the Flood after 30 years. I always lumped it in with the other limp mid 70s albums but I guess it’s the first of those and was made not soon after Europe 72 so..yeah it’s ok, better than I thought. I love Half Step and Eyes. No use for the 1-2 punch heroin hangovers of Jimmy and Stella. Haven’t made it past the first minute of Weather but was dismayed when Bobby started singing…
― calstars, Friday, 29 October 2021 00:00 (two years ago) link
That’s a great album; that one and the two after it are my favorites of theirs.
― juristic person (morrisp), Friday, 29 October 2021 00:33 (two years ago) link
Gotta defend Row Jimmy, imo one of the greatest Garcia/Hunter songs. Enigmatic, world-weary, and stoic in the most beautiful way. And rhythmically tricky in the verses. Full of evocative imagery, e.g. "grass shack nailed to a pinewood floor." There are lots of great live versions, but I treasure the studio version because Keith gets to play both Rhodes and Clavinet via the miraculous technology of overdubbing
― J. Sam, Friday, 29 October 2021 00:45 (two years ago) link
Stella is beautiful, too
― juristic person (morrisp), Friday, 29 October 2021 00:52 (two years ago) link
Listened to American Beauty today zzzzzzzzz
― DT, Friday, 29 October 2021 01:07 (two years ago) link
I like the studio Eyes of the World a lot. Some days I enjoy Stella and Jimmy. Here Comes Sunshine is one of my favorite live tunes and the studio one is pretty good.
American Beauty I kind of waver on, some days it feels right. I love Box of Rain and Friend of the Devil and Ripple. Til the Morning Comes feels kind of dated and icky. Other songs are mostly solid.
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Friday, 29 October 2021 01:15 (two years ago) link
I’ve never liked American Beauty or Workingman’s too much, guess that’s unusual, I have tried to get into them but it’s just not my type of material or performances.
― juristic person (morrisp), Friday, 29 October 2021 01:20 (two years ago) link
I don't love Workingman's Dead outside of "Black Peter" and "Easy Wind" and maybe "Dire Wolf" but American Beauty is one of those albums where I look at the track list and shake my head in disbelief at how utterly stacked it is.
― J. Sam, Friday, 29 October 2021 01:30 (two years ago) link
― tobo73, Friday, 29 October 2021 01:46 (two years ago) link
Faux reggae part?
― juristic person (morrisp), Friday, 29 October 2021 03:32 (two years ago) link
Yeah I'm not a super Dead fan but American Beauty is just a great album
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 29 October 2021 04:04 (two years ago) link
xp Row Jimmy always had a reggae-ish feel rhythmically, but in later live versions they tended to play up that element of it more (there's a specific little "faux-reggae" arpeggiated guitar riff Jerry would play in the outro of 90s versions that I think tobo73 is alluding to). At least in early versions of the song I think they incorporated a reggae feel in a subtle and organic way
― J. Sam, Friday, 29 October 2021 05:07 (two years ago) link
Grateful Dread
― Precious, Grace, Hill & Beard LTD. (C. Grisso/McCain), Friday, 29 October 2021 05:08 (two years ago) link
lol I'm sure there are dozens of reggae Dead cover bands called that. Not googling to confirm
― J. Sam, Friday, 29 October 2021 05:18 (two years ago) link
Listening for the reggae part here; mesmerized by the peak fashions:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KTEDpckHqk0
― juristic person (morrisp), Friday, 29 October 2021 05:54 (two years ago) link
Uncle Jah's Band
― calstars, Friday, 29 October 2021 12:41 (two years ago) link
I and I Need A Miracle
― J. Sam, Friday, 29 October 2021 12:47 (two years ago) link
What was the word Billy Joel liked to use for overpriced concerts of his? A “gouge”.
I don’t foresee myself being willing to buy any super expensive concert tickets in the future but would probably make one exception: Nine Inch Nails. Never seen them, want to.
― Legalize Suburban Benches (Raymond Cummings), Friday, 29 October 2021 12:51 (two years ago) link
irl lol at Uncle Jah's Band.
Speaking of Dead cover bands, I know Steely Dead got shit on over on the Dan thread, but a friend had an extra ticket last night so I checked them out. I have no huge interest in Dead or Dan, and a high tolerance for stuff like Dread Zeppelin, and I liked them fine. They're great musicians (especially the "Jerry") and had some interesting arrangements (Help>Slip>Green Earrings) that go beyond just being clever mashups. I smiled a lot, and I'm sure got as much out of that $15 ticket as I would from any "real" $200+ Dead show.
― Three Rings for the Elven Bishop (Dan Peterson), Friday, 29 October 2021 13:15 (two years ago) link
some amazing eyebrow dancing by Mickey Hart at about 9:19 in that video.
― peace, man, Friday, 29 October 2021 13:28 (two years ago) link
good christ i'd forgotten all about Bob's wall street mullet/ponytail abomination
― caddy lac brougham? (will), Friday, 29 October 2021 13:34 (two years ago) link
NIN are absolutely amazing live, i've not really listened to them much but was gobsmacked by them. this was during 'ghosts' era xxxp
― global tetrahedron, Friday, 29 October 2021 15:17 (two years ago) link
I saw them on the first lollapalooza, had never heard them, had no idea what to expect and it was kind of mind blowing especially in broad daylight at like 3pm
― joygoat, Friday, 29 October 2021 17:23 (two years ago) link
Haven't seen them since the Downward Spiral tour, which was amazing.
― a superficial sheeb of intelligence (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Friday, 29 October 2021 17:31 (two years ago) link
I’ve always wanted to do a “Guess if Real or Fake” game with Dead cover band names.
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Friday, 29 October 2021 18:48 (two years ago) link