I should probably take this discussion to a listserve from '84
― calstars, Wednesday, 7 June 2017 21:33 (six years ago) link
What do you guys think Hunter's greatest lyric is? A lot of his stuff is so playful (dire wolf) or tries too hard to be psychedelic (china cat) so I can't decide where the middle ground is
― calstars, Wednesday, June 7, 2017 4:29 PM (three minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
box of rain is beautiful
― Universal LULU Nation (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, 7 June 2017 21:33 (six years ago) link
IIRC, Betty pops up in that PBS Soundbreaking thing.
― to fly across the city and find Aerosmith's car (C. Grisso/McCain), Wednesday, 7 June 2017 21:38 (six years ago) link
yes Mississippi - always forget that one
Incidentally Leah in his beard phase looks just like Brendan canning from broken social scene
― calstars, Wednesday, 7 June 2017 21:45 (six years ago) link
I would have also liked to have heard about the time when Garcia and Lesh were going to get rid of Pigpen and Weir. From pigpen's Wikipedia iirc
― calstars, Wednesday, 7 June 2017 21:49 (six years ago) link
Lesh's modern interviews betray a very practiced, rehearsed history. I mean how many times has he told this story? I wish he had dropped some acid beforehand just to get some improvisation. Maybe the cameraman could have dosed his coffee.
― calstars, Wednesday, 7 June 2017 21:53 (six years ago) link
Kreutzmann looks nothing like himself and wtf at Mickey's electric string drone thing.
Also I wonder if Weir directed the cameraman to capture his lotus pose. "Take it back there a little"
― calstars, Wednesday, 7 June 2017 21:55 (six years ago) link
Yeah I wanted a whole hour on Hart's weird music machine thingy
― Universal LULU Nation (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, 7 June 2017 22:58 (six years ago) link
Pretty sure it was that thing that scores the "stranger things" intro to each ep
― calstars, Wednesday, 7 June 2017 23:23 (six years ago) link
Weir's Tesla & his 'Yoga Loft'... any more on the nose & he'd have done the interview under a WELCOME TO MARIN sign
― Yoni Loves Chocha (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 8 June 2017 00:48 (six years ago) link
Between the GD and little feat, the coke must have been epicly heavenly in 77
― calstars, Thursday, 8 June 2017 01:48 (six years ago) link
Not to mention W Becker
― calstars, Thursday, 8 June 2017 01:59 (six years ago) link
i think you could make a case for an entire doc on Betty/boots/taping culture/Dick, etc
― a (waterface), Thursday, 8 June 2017 13:27 (six years ago) link
i've always wanted to read a book tracing the history of audience tapes, going from the early jazz days (benedetti etc) through the Dead through whatever else ...
― tylerw, Thursday, 8 June 2017 14:01 (six years ago) link
That's a great idea. Did Benedetti distribute/copy his recordings for anyone? I'm kind of curious now who the first artist was that had audience recordings passed around/traded.
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Thursday, 8 June 2017 17:06 (six years ago) link
Really enjoyed that documentary. Could have done with a bit more e.g. something covering the whole extended family who depended on the Dead.
The modern day Weir looks really vacant, bewildered and spaced out - as if he's shell-shocked by the whole GD experience.
― Luna Schlosser, Friday, 9 June 2017 13:27 (six years ago) link
Really like the dark star version they put on the soundtrack. NY Valentine's Day 1070
― calstars, Saturday, 10 June 2017 22:52 (six years ago) link
xp Yes, weir kind of bewildered. Prescriptions?
― calstars, Saturday, 10 June 2017 22:53 (six years ago) link
― tylerw
clinton heylin starts with mapleson in his book - would you not start there?
― Cyborg Kickboxer (rushomancy), Sunday, 11 June 2017 00:21 (six years ago) link
Has anybody read this? After the documentary I'm tempted.
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Cornell-77-Magnificence-Grateful-Concert/dp/150170432X/ref=pd_ybh_a_13?_encoding=UTF8&psc=1&refRID=RKVJ0T196CQM24C2X77F
― MaresNest, Sunday, 11 June 2017 10:32 (six years ago) link
I finished the doc this wknd, on the whole interesting & well done (agreed esp up 74). Barlow is a real interesting character for sure and I didn't know much about him, but then when I looked up & saw he was a Dick Cheney crony it all kind of made sense in a weird neolibertarian sort of way.
When he was being interviewed with that weird blutooth earpiece...well I wasn't surprised to find out he was a weird internet tech weirdo.
The thing the doc really did cement for me is that the Dead & their music is very much not for me. I thought the 80s Dead Heads section was especially telling, that was really my first exposure to them, certainly not the music becuz I don't know if any of the Dead Heads were particularly interested in the music, but certainly the culture & circus surrounding them. All of the people I knew in junior high & high school, were Dead tie-dyes, skull shirts & the Dancing Bear gear was de rigueur among the jocks & assholes & popular kid crowd. The Dead were explicitly not for weirdos, they were only for the cool kids.
― chr1sb3singer, Monday, 12 June 2017 16:19 (six years ago) link
clinton heylin starts with mapleson in his book - would you not start there?yeah i guess i would!
i'm about halfway through the doc, enjoying it so far. Almost feel like it's giving a little short shrift to the actual music, like not actually getting anyone to talk about *why* the music is transcendent (for some, anyway). what i'm saying is, the doc should be EVEN LONGER.
― tylerw, Monday, 12 June 2017 16:42 (six years ago) link
All of the people I knew in junior high & high school, were Dead tie-dyes, skull shirts & the Dancing Bear gear was de rigueur among the jocks & assholes & popular kid crowd.interesting! not my experience at all, though -- i was mocked for my Dead t-shirt in 8th grade (1993ish), told i should be more into pearl jam.
― tylerw, Monday, 12 June 2017 16:45 (six years ago) link
interesting! not my experience at all, though -- i was mocked for my Dead t-shirt in 8th grade (1993ish), told i should be more into pearl jam.
Ha, my experience was literally the exact opposite. PJ & Nirvana & all grunge/punk bands essentially were derided by the Dead Heads for "not being able to play their instruments", as a blanket statement. They said the same thing about Neil Young & Crazy Horse as well. The Dead were "players" and everyone else on Earth was a hack.
― chr1sb3singer, Monday, 12 June 2017 16:54 (six years ago) link
The reason the Dead Heads part seemed extraneous to me is that it was relevant to the band from a pop cultural perspective and not a musical one. Maybe in a similar way that's why the LSD connection part earlier also seems kind of boring and doesn't add anything to the listening experience.
― calstars, Monday, 12 June 2017 16:54 (six years ago) link
i agree that some indepth musical discussion would have been welcome
― Yoni Loves Chocha (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 12 June 2017 16:58 (six years ago) link
I think the Ess Dog from Malkmu's "Jenny & the Ess Dog" kinda reps my image of the 80s/90s Deadhead...popular jock/hippie hybrid, good looking longer than usual hair but not hippie long, may have played lacrosse or tennis or some non-football/basketball/baseball/hockey sport very well, rich parents, drives a Volvo station wagon w/stickers
― Universal LULU Nation (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Monday, 12 June 2017 16:59 (six years ago) link
ironic re Pearl Jam/Dead since Pearl Jam have basically turned into a grunge form of the Dead in the last 10-15 years lol
― Yoni Loves Chocha (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 12 June 2017 17:00 (six years ago) link
(besinger i realize we are basically talking about Rich from the U right now haha, he was even good friends w/steve miller's kid in HS just to perfect it)
― Universal LULU Nation (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Monday, 12 June 2017 17:02 (six years ago) link
All of the people I knew in junior high & high school, were Dead tie-dyes, skull shirts & the Dancing Bear gear was de rigueur among the jocks & assholes & popular kid crowd. The Dead were explicitly not for weirdos, they were only for the cool kids.
This was my experience, too ('87-90). The only Deadheads I knew were asshole jocks/popular kids/aspiring frat boys.
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Monday, 12 June 2017 17:03 (six years ago) link
from what i remember, though they were already a big going concern, Garcia dying really boosted the Phish phenomenon, I def know dudes that sort of "transferred over" to being Phishheads (i mean they already liked them but the big thing about jam bands is that they sort of provide a specific type of fan experience -- this was touched on in the movie -- that a certain set of people need in their lives - the summer tours etc etc)
― Universal LULU Nation (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Monday, 12 June 2017 17:06 (six years ago) link
deadheads in 90s suburban cleveland were definitely cool kids but not jocks ime. lots of jock-adjacent cool kids sure, but sports were too big a deal where i lived for jocks to fuck it all up by smoking weed
― marcos, Monday, 12 June 2017 17:06 (six years ago) link
― Universal LULU Nation (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Monday, June 12, 2017 12:02 PM (three minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
Exactly!
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Monday, June 12, 2017 12:03 PM (two minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
James Spader's character from Pretty in Pink but with a tie-dyed Steal Your Face shirt
― chr1sb3singer, Monday, 12 June 2017 17:07 (six years ago) link
Best dark star that year?
― calstars, Tuesday, 13 June 2017 00:01 (six years ago) link
I dig that one
Have I repped for The Mosque 5/25? I've listened to that one a few times on Archive. Laid back and lovely, esp "He's Gone."
― smug dinner-jazz atrocity (Dan Peterson), Tuesday, 13 June 2017 17:05 (six years ago) link
to hell with May 77, listen to Phil & Ned 74: http://saveyourface.posthaven.com/phil-and-ned-1974
― tylerw, Tuesday, 13 June 2017 17:25 (six years ago) link
What is Phil &Ned?
― calstars, Tuesday, 13 June 2017 17:31 (six years ago) link
Seastones!
― smug dinner-jazz atrocity (Dan Peterson), Tuesday, 13 June 2017 17:33 (six years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XW370_ETZ4Y
― smug dinner-jazz atrocity (Dan Peterson), Tuesday, 13 June 2017 17:34 (six years ago) link
that link is a comp of phil lesh and ned lagin doing insane electronic jams through the wall of sound in 1974, bewildering even the headiest of heads.
― tylerw, Tuesday, 13 June 2017 17:47 (six years ago) link
Can't even imagine what it must've been like to experience that through the Wall Of Sound. Phil was probably like, "Bankrupt, shmankrupt -- listen to this!"
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Tuesday, 13 June 2017 18:08 (six years ago) link
hahaha
― calstars, Tuesday, 13 June 2017 18:19 (six years ago) link
also funny to catch snippets of (mostly negative) audience reaction during Seastones segments.
― tylerw, Tuesday, 13 June 2017 18:24 (six years ago) link
I was about to say, I hadn't realized my involvement.
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 13 June 2017 18:28 (six years ago) link
Ned Freaks Unite
― tylerw, Tuesday, 13 June 2017 18:52 (six years ago) link
Dark Star 10/18/74 - Ned joins Keith on a second Fender Rhodes, but you can only hear it on the Archive.org SBDs, NOT on the officially released Grateful Dead Movie Soundtrack. As I understand it, ?Ned was not patched into the 16-track tape but was captured on the 2-track soundboard output. https://archive.org/details/gd74-10-18.sbd.bertha-ashley.22796.sbeok.shnf
― J. Sam, Tuesday, 13 June 2017 19:36 (six years ago) link
seastones rules
― Universal LULU Nation (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 13 June 2017 19:46 (six years ago) link
ned lagin put out a new album last year -- CAT DREAMS:
"Cat Dreams is my new music album on compact disc (cd). It is a work of love, dreams, heart, magic. Music from my life shared with some beautiful little creatures, loved ones. Being a part of their lives as they were and are a part of mine. Biographical dreams and stories. Life music: sweet, emotional, deep, beautiful, happy and sad."
dude loves cats.
― tylerw, Tuesday, 13 June 2017 19:47 (six years ago) link
JSam nice tip!
― calstars, Tuesday, 13 June 2017 21:36 (six years ago) link