https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qdq_gg9rJZ8&ab_channel=DSDtape
― Maresn3st, Friday, 11 September 2020 17:04 (three years ago) link
New newsletter, w link to hear Angel's Share of American Beauty, also podcast, then link to pre-order 50th Anniversary AB, ditto for next Dave's Picks:http://view.email.dead.net/?qs=7c09a14552edfd1d0036a5e34b20833f9178db113d8e8f89fa613a7a5643983e2012adcf82122aa34784207164165d4d59d13e76e17f33748775a08bdcc865aa1dd7b6af32fcfbf8
― dow, Friday, 2 October 2020 01:54 (three years ago) link
The Good Ol' Grateful Deadcast is such a good podcast. Interview with Ned Lagen last week was so interesting, and they did a deep dive on If I Could Only Remember My Name. They have such good people working for them.
― in twelve parts (lamonti), Tuesday, 15 December 2020 09:58 (three years ago) link
The submissions are comin' in and what a mighty fine bunch they are - from the (naturally) all female-fronted Brown Eyed Women Band to a Hebrew version of "Friend Of The Devil," we're already feeling inspired. How about you? There's plenty of time to bide, so why not safely gather your tribe or do the Dead from a distance?Already done did it? Simply upload your rendition to YouTube, tag it "DeadCoversProject," and we'll make it available to view on the band's official YouTube channel in February.More info:http://view.email.dead.net/?qs=6093a5e362a95f29ab5941b9eef7feac75b364bcb1b4da8471cecdfe25c551802cf32a2de67bb8c35c42ee5bbe5316360d6056b8a94241aacd78e96af31393cd8bbb0a9d7b0bc2343ac38beaea3b934e
― dow, Tuesday, 2 February 2021 00:03 (three years ago) link
i grew up on touch of grey so is that a good start?
― xzanfar, Tuesday, 2 February 2021 00:29 (three years ago) link
the guitar-guitar/guitar-piano interplay in this continues to beguile me. I think it's one of the most sublime things in recorded music.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NDuZfdf4hFQ
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Tuesday, 2 February 2021 22:10 (three years ago) link
Sometimes I think that the 6/23/74 Jai-Alai Fronton is my favorite Dead show ever. Tonight is one of those nights. I mean, a killer “Seastones”! That jam into “Ship of Fools”! The “Dark Star” jam! So much to love. It’s a killer night for Keith too. I’m listening to the Dave’s Picks version now, but this tape was one of the instrumental ones when I first got j to the Dead and I’m glad it still sounds as good today.
― soaring skrrrtpeggios (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Sunday, 14 February 2021 05:19 (three years ago) link
“got into”, damn my fat fingers posting from my phone
― soaring skrrrtpeggios (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Sunday, 14 February 2021 05:26 (three years ago) link
haven’t heard that one, will check it out!
― brimstead, Sunday, 14 February 2021 17:48 (three years ago) link
It’s a stone-cold classic
― tobo73, Sunday, 14 February 2021 18:35 (three years ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/VfkZ70m.jpg
― calstars, Saturday, 20 February 2021 19:52 (three years ago) link
nice acoustic set, night before harpur college. at first i couldn't believe that the harmonies in the first set were the dead, because they were in tune- then i realized members of NRPS were sitting in
https://archive.org/details/gd1970-05-01.sbd.miller.95683.sbeok.flac16/gd70-05-01d2t01.flac
― global tetrahedron, Tuesday, 9 March 2021 23:41 (three years ago) link
lmao
Reviewer: mattsegel - favoritefavoritefavoritefavoritefavorite - June 26, 2013Subject: UnbelievableI don't care how 'good' the second set is, the first set is unreal, Jerry singing on Mama Tried and MAMU...sound is perfect. This is gold! Actually upon further review I don't think Jerry is singing on those songs.
I don't care how 'good' the second set is, the first set is unreal, Jerry singing on Mama Tried and MAMU...sound is perfect. This is gold! Actually upon further review I don't think Jerry is singing on those songs.
― global tetrahedron, Tuesday, 9 March 2021 23:43 (three years ago) link
that's a true deadhead review right there.
― Totally different head. Totally. (Austin), Tuesday, 9 March 2021 23:49 (three years ago) link
my favorite one was this, a direct quote. re: 5/8/77
Yes, it is overrated. It is not *THAT* much better than a handful of other shows. It is, however, the absolute #1 work of art that I consider proof of the divine essence of man.
― global tetrahedron, Tuesday, 9 March 2021 23:51 (three years ago) link
bought those recent 50th anniversary Workingman's Dead / American Beauty sets — and the live shows sound great. Good to be reminded that a pro mix can elevate a familiar recording. Performances are super loose, even sloppy at points, but they have a certain magic.
― tylerw, Wednesday, 10 March 2021 03:10 (three years ago) link
also -- worth a follow https://twitter.com/charliemiller87
― tylerw, Wednesday, 10 March 2021 03:13 (three years ago) link
― tylerw, Wednesday, 10 March 2021 04:10 (nine hours ago)
Stop it Tyler. I've managed to persuade myself that I didn't need these!
― Duke, Wednesday, 10 March 2021 12:49 (three years ago) link
They are both really good! But if you can only buy one, I'd recommend the American Beauty one since it has the 2/18/71 show at the Capitol Theatre that includes the "Beautiful Jam" out of "Wharf Rat" and back into "Dark Star". It's tremendous and I've come back to that set much more often than the one packaged with Workingman's Dead.
― soaring skrrrtpeggios (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Wednesday, 10 March 2021 15:04 (three years ago) link
It was cool to hear wharf rat sandwiched in a dark star sandwich but didn’t notice anything distinct enough to be given a title like that
― calstars, Wednesday, 10 March 2021 15:59 (three years ago) link
It's barely over five minutes, here's a YouTube excerpt of that portion:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9WD3d_CUTbw
― soaring skrrrtpeggios (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Wednesday, 10 March 2021 16:01 (three years ago) link
From the great Grateful Dead Guide blog:
also the "Beautiful Jam", done only during the 2/18/71 Dark Star, which is quite unique, almost a song in itself. (I don't think it's closely related to the Tighten Up jam, though others hear it that way.)
― soaring skrrrtpeggios (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Wednesday, 10 March 2021 16:03 (three years ago) link
A shorter excerpt, at just four and a half minutes was included on the So Many Roads box, which might be on your favorite streaming service of choice too. It was on Spotify at one point, but I haven't checked recently.
― soaring skrrrtpeggios (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Wednesday, 10 March 2021 16:08 (three years ago) link
Yeh the Spotify version is what I’m listening to but it’s not broken out as a distinct track
― calstars, Wednesday, 10 March 2021 16:16 (three years ago) link
i am a very attentive dead listener and haven't caught on to the 'beautiful jam' yet. doesn't strike me as anything remarkable
― global tetrahedron, Wednesday, 10 March 2021 16:32 (three years ago) link
it's good, but most dark stars from that era are
― global tetrahedron, Wednesday, 10 March 2021 16:33 (three years ago) link
i dunno, i think it's pretty remarkable — "beautiful jam" is a good title.
― tylerw, Wednesday, 10 March 2021 16:57 (three years ago) link
Listened to that live set and hooboy that run of “Greatest Story Ever Told” through “Hard to Handle” is a bit too much Weir lead vocals for me.
― Western® with Bacon Flavor, Wednesday, 10 March 2021 17:28 (three years ago) link
If I let myself start buying the 50th A. sets, would also get Anthem of the Sun and prob Aoxomoxoa---how's the debut s/t?
― dow, Wednesday, 10 March 2021 17:31 (three years ago) link
xp haha! i think that is first eve "greatest story" — and it shows! funny, i was listening to that new live set included with The Band's Stage Fright and it's like those dudes were Steely Dan compared to the Dead. But then again, you don't ever get that weird trainwreck danger you do from the Dead.
― tylerw, Wednesday, 10 March 2021 17:32 (three years ago) link
(All of the live bonus sets are still on archive.org, or were the last tyme I checked.)
― dow, Wednesday, 10 March 2021 17:33 (three years ago) link
weird trainwreck danger you do from the Dead.
― calstars, Wednesday, 10 March 2021 18:27 (three years ago) link
how's the debut s/t?It is okay. The live set included is nothing revelatory, its worth is dependent on your opinion of those early days. There isn't a whole lot of jamming, outside of "Viola Lee Blues." The sets on WD and AB are both more interesting. Have not listened to the Anthem 50th, though it looks good. I don't think they released one for Aoxomoxoa.
― trip maker, Wednesday, 10 March 2021 20:23 (three years ago) link
They did one for Aoxomoxoa which has both stereo mixes of the album on disc 1, and a live show from the Avalon Ballroom on disc 2.
― "what are you DOING to fleetwood mac??" (C. Grisso/McCain), Wednesday, 10 March 2021 20:27 (three years ago) link
so they did! My bad.
― trip maker, Wednesday, 10 March 2021 20:35 (three years ago) link
Does anyone stand for weirs solo record from 78? Overcooked https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fGB46f4fGzc
― calstars, Monday, 29 March 2021 04:20 (three years ago) link
typo or accurate description?
― nothing (Left), Monday, 29 March 2021 14:59 (three years ago) link
I’m at the “why do i keep trying to listen to this terrible band” stage which, if this thread is anything to go by, is the first stage of fandom
― nothing (Left), Monday, 29 March 2021 15:01 (three years ago) link
did the dead ever do “la woman”?
― brimstead, Monday, 29 March 2021 15:44 (three years ago) link
Halfway through Robert Greenfield's Bear: The Life and Times of Augustus Owsley Stanley III. He was, as Sydney Greenstreet would say, quite a character. His lineage encompassed the highest reaches of Kentucky politics--governor, senator, even talk of a presidential run one year.
― clemenza, Monday, 29 March 2021 16:01 (three years ago) link
XXP that was me last year!
― Western® with Bacon Flavor, Monday, 29 March 2021 16:11 (three years ago) link
that's me at time as a confirmed fan
― global tetrahedron, Monday, 29 March 2021 16:21 (three years ago) link
My road to moderate Dead fandom went from seeing them with Dylan and Petty in the late '80s and thinking they were boring and kind of embarrassing (Dylan and Petty were fine), to enjoying "Touch of Grey," to picking up the Long Strange Trip 2-CD compilation sometime in the '90s, to having a crush on a hippie chick who gave me some live tapes to listen to, to hearing a live track from a Jerry Garcia Band album in a record store and really clicking with Garcia's guitar playing ("oh yeah, this guy was great"), to a full immersion in the Napster/Slsk era. I've listened to their full studios discography over the years and a whole bunch of Dick's Picks and other live shows available on streaming, and I've reached the point now where they are among my go-to's to toss on whenever I can't think of what else to play. My early objections to their ragged vocals and rhythms have turned into fondness, and I recognize that at their best as a live band they were truly great. Just took a while for me to hear it.
― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Monday, 29 March 2021 16:32 (three years ago) link
did the dead ever do “la woman”?― brimstead, Monday, March 29, 2021 11:44 AM (fifty minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink
― brimstead, Monday, March 29, 2021 11:44 AM (fifty minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink
I don't think so, but after thinking about it for a bit I could imagine Jim Morrison bellowing out a version of West L.A. Fadeaway (except for maybe the verse about the mob/"copacetic").
― peace, man, Monday, 29 March 2021 16:39 (three years ago) link
my cousin (who i went to my only dead show with) and I used to sing the opening line of 'bombs away' just to enrage each other. I haven't heard the whole record though.
― joygoat, Tuesday, 30 March 2021 17:12 (two years ago) link
Probably just as well, though there are some l a session guys on there I think
― calstars, Tuesday, 30 March 2021 17:57 (two years ago) link
Too bad The Doors didn't cover Dead (can well imagine Morrison listening, though, around the time of Morrison Hotel for inst) Los Lobos did do "West L.A, Fadeaway," and it fit right in.from my Nashville Scene ballot comments re 2010 albums:
On Los Lobos' Tin Can Trust, it seems like the narrator is on theverge, he's some old tired guy, but made up his mind to do something,take revenge and/or a commission, various indicators of volatilitykeep rolling by or up the block, and little jolts--I know, enough withthe foreplay already, but the tension keeps getting renewed,reinforced, and the Dead cover, "West L.A. Fadeaway," fits perfectly,with no crunchy granola attached(it's all sidewalks and traffic, the whole album, and thenthere's the sardonic "happy ending" history short). A cliche to sayit's a soundtrack for movies you can make up, but it really seems towork that way, rumbling implications--if it were so definite astoryline, would get too familiar too fast, perhaps. It is badassurban country, obsessive as a shot glass lens.
― dow, Tuesday, 30 March 2021 21:13 (two years ago) link
the 8/24/72 dark star is a total masterpiece. i love it. that's it for now.
― tobo73, Monday, 5 April 2021 23:30 (two years ago) link
Veneta was like 3 days later which is a major peak on a number of songs .
― Stevolende, Tuesday, 6 April 2021 12:44 (two years ago) link
2/26/77 PITB>The Wheel>PITB was playing on the Sirius Dead station on my morning commute. Good one!
― trip maker, Tuesday, 6 April 2021 20:01 (two years ago) link