Sorry to hear that. Side 1 is great. Side 2 is pretty good too.
― Duke, Tuesday, 27 February 2024 00:23 (six months ago) link
As a kid the cover scared the shit out of me
― calstars, Tuesday, 27 February 2024 00:25 (six months ago) link
Morning listening https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aI384OjjF1c
― Marten Broadcloak, mild-mannered GOP congressman (Raymond Cummings), Wednesday, 28 February 2024 11:54 (six months ago) link
Not as pyrotechnic or psychedelic as some versions, but I dig this
― Marten Broadcloak, mild-mannered GOP congressman (Raymond Cummings), Wednesday, 28 February 2024 12:04 (six months ago) link
@albertmiller30823 years agoThe pace of this Dark Star accelerates & decelerates perceptibly AND imperceptibly. Very unique musical expression captured for eternity here.
― il lavoro mi rovina la giornata (PBKR), Wednesday, 28 February 2024 12:15 (six months ago) link
jerry sounds so pretty.
― scott seward, Wednesday, 28 February 2024 12:19 (six months ago) link
I found the case for DP2 on a shelf I don't look at much . Looked in it later and no disc. bummer.Need to find the editions I do have though.
― Stevo, Wednesday, 28 February 2024 13:59 (six months ago) link
the only single-disc DP.
― Reeves Gabrels' Funko Pop (majorairbro), Thursday, 29 February 2024 10:23 (six months ago) link
that's my second fave DS
― a (waterface), Thursday, 29 February 2024 15:00 (six months ago) link
so in terms of studio albums, I've done american beauty, workingman dead and terrapin station. any thoughts as to what I should tackle next
― Swen, Sunday, 3 March 2024 15:50 (six months ago) link
Blues For Allah is very good.
Bob Weir’s Ace is actually a GD album that is cut from the same cloth as Workingman’s Dead and American Beauty, and it’s really good. It was recently remixed and a lot of people don’t like the new version as much.
― Cow_Art, Sunday, 3 March 2024 15:55 (six months ago) link
❤️❤️❤️❤️
― Swen, Sunday, 3 March 2024 16:02 (six months ago) link
Besides Ace (which lives up to its title), the other companion solo albums, Garcia and Mickey Hart's Rolling Thunder, are worth checking out. The former is a widely acknowledged classic, and the latter is weird in the best way.
I may be alone in this, but I think the debut is a fun Garage Rock record. In fact, I'd rep for all of the '60s albums.
― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Sunday, 3 March 2024 16:13 (six months ago) link
I never realized until I got copies, but so many GD live classics come from Ace/Garcia.
― il lavoro mi rovina la giornata (PBKR), Sunday, 3 March 2024 16:18 (six months ago) link
my question is do we feel like the grateful dead and jefferson airplane ever hung out
― Swen, Sunday, 3 March 2024 16:20 (six months ago) link
Absolutely. Have you heard the first David Crosby solo album? Members of both bands on there, along with Neil Young, Joni Mitchell, and others.
― il lavoro mi rovina la giornata (PBKR), Sunday, 3 March 2024 16:23 (six months ago) link
yeah they all played together in the Planet Earth Rock & Roll Orchestra!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Planet_Earth_Rock_and_Roll_Orchestra
― I painted my teeth (sleeve), Sunday, 3 March 2024 16:24 (six months ago) link
well not "all" but a bunch
stop
― Swen, Sunday, 3 March 2024 16:26 (six months ago) link
Jerry played steel guitar on the Volunteers album too, and was credited as "Spiritual Advisor" in the Surrealistic Pillow liners (an album he named BTW).
― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Sunday, 3 March 2024 16:26 (six months ago) link
wahhhhhhhhhhhhhhht. wow I'm dumb. thank you for this. JP was my absolute favorite band growing up
― Swen, Sunday, 3 March 2024 16:27 (six months ago) link
love volunteers
JA rather
― Swen, Sunday, 3 March 2024 16:28 (six months ago) link
I recently finished the "Got A Revolution" JA bio, recommended
― I painted my teeth (sleeve), Sunday, 3 March 2024 16:29 (six months ago) link
👍 finally I was just looking into the Crosby scene for the first time in ages the other night, must be something in the air clearly
― Swen, Sunday, 3 March 2024 16:33 (six months ago) link
*funnily
― Swen, Sunday, 3 March 2024 16:34 (six months ago) link
my question is do we feel like the grateful dead and jefferson airplane ever hung out― Swen
― Swen
this thread keeps reminding me of shit from my curated dark star playlist that i lost in the crash, some sweet fillmore side project jams with jack casady on bass
i love lesh a lot but jerry and jack together is a beautiful thing as well
(to be clear i didn't lose the files themselves, what i lost was the _curation_ haha)
― Kate (rushomancy), Sunday, 3 March 2024 16:37 (six months ago) link
loving it
― Swen, Sunday, 3 March 2024 19:47 (six months ago) link
Kantner's Blows against the Empire has some prime post-airplane jefferson/dead weirdness too.
― BrianB, Sunday, 3 March 2024 20:08 (six months ago) link
Where has this studio version of PITB been all my life lmfao
― calstars, Sunday, 3 March 2024 20:23 (six months ago) link
they probably lived together at the Fulton at house, yeah?
― brimstead, Sunday, 3 March 2024 21:10 (six months ago) link
should I have (re)bought Sunfighter today for $6 y/n
― I painted my teeth (sleeve), Sunday, 3 March 2024 21:23 (six months ago) link
I sampled those perro adjacent albums and didn’t take much away
― calstars, Sunday, 3 March 2024 21:39 (six months ago) link
pay no more than 1.99 for sunfighter, punx
― Reeves Gabrels' Funko Pop (majorairbro), Sunday, 3 March 2024 22:58 (six months ago) link
yeah, I was gonna say, that's a dollar bin staple of Silk Degrees proportions
― Judi Dench's Human Hand (methanietanner), Sunday, 3 March 2024 23:03 (six months ago) link
no shade intended to the quality of Silk Degrees, which everyone should own a near mint copy of that cost them between 50 cents and a dollar.
― Judi Dench's Human Hand (methanietanner), Sunday, 3 March 2024 23:04 (six months ago) link
fwiw even the thrifts in Oregon price at $2.99 minimum, but yeah I passed on it
― I painted my teeth (sleeve), Sunday, 3 March 2024 23:22 (six months ago) link
Silk Degrees mention lol
― calstars, Sunday, 3 March 2024 23:26 (six months ago) link
Sock accounts itt? lol
― calstars, Sunday, 3 March 2024 23:28 (six months ago) link
so in terms of studio albums, I've done american beauty, workingman dead and terrapin station. any thoughts as to what I should tackle next― Swen, Sunday, 3 March 2024 16:50 (yesterday)
― Swen, Sunday, 3 March 2024 16:50 (yesterday)
Aoxomoxoa was my introduction to GD, and I still enjoy it.
― Duke, Monday, 4 March 2024 19:24 (six months ago) link
next up then! this is exciting. thanking you all. (loved blues for allah btw, and loved the title track)
― Swen, Monday, 4 March 2024 19:28 (six months ago) link
Aoxomoxoa was my introduction to GD, and I still enjoy it.― Duke
― Duke
ok but WHICH MIX
― Kate (rushomancy), Monday, 4 March 2024 20:00 (six months ago) link
If you get the 2019 reissue, both mixes are on the same disc!
('69 mix is my answer, btw)
― Maxmillion D. Boosted (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Monday, 4 March 2024 20:03 (six months ago) link
both mixes are on the same disc!
and a live show on the 2nd disc! that's the version I got to replace my old LP (no, I don't remember which mix it was)
― I painted my teeth (sleeve), Monday, 4 March 2024 20:10 (six months ago) link
TBH I don't know which mix I have! I've a (probably 1980s) UK vinyl edition and a 2001 CD version from the Golden Road boxset. I must read the notes to the latter again.
― Duke, Monday, 4 March 2024 20:47 (six months ago) link
^^Those are probably both the Remix (the 2001 CD definitely is).
― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Monday, 4 March 2024 20:53 (six months ago) link
Wiki:
Second-guessing the end results, Garcia and Lesh went back in the studio in 1971 to remix the album, removing many parts present on the original release, including a choir singing on "Mountains of the Moon", many difficult-to-identify sounds on "What's Become of the Baby", and an a cappella ending for "Doin' that Rag," dropped for an earlier fadeout. The remix also uses different vocal takes on some songs, most noticeably "Dupree's Diamond Blues." The result, with the same catalog number (WS1790) and perhaps brighter sound, but with much of the original's experimental character removed, can be identified by the "Remixed September, 1971" legend on the back cover. Mistakenly, the song timings on the first (1987) CD release refer to the original mix, not the remix (varying most significantly on "Doin' that Rag," which was edited from 5:15 to 4:41, and "China Cat Sunflower," edited from 4:15 to 3:40).The original mix was later planned for CD release, but the original master tapes could not be located. When the masters were finally found, years later, they were used for The Warner Bros. Studio Albums vinyl box set, marking the first time the 1969 mix has been available since the 1971 remix replaced it, in 1972. The 2013 high definition remastering for download uses the remixed version – even though promotion related to this release declared "produced from the original analog master tapes in 2013, using the original album mixes".An edit of the track "Doin' that Rag" was released on the Warner/Reprise Loss Leaders compilation The 1969 Warner/Reprise Record Show. Since this set stayed in print through the late 1970s, it provided a sample of the original mix for some years after the full album was only available in the remixed version.---On June 7, 2019 Rhino Records released the "50th Anniversary Deluxe Edition" of Aoxomoxoa. Disc one contains both mixes of the album – the one from 1969 and the one from 1971. Disc two contains previously unreleased live tracks from the Avalon Ballroom in San Francisco, recorded on January 24–26, 1969.
The original mix was later planned for CD release, but the original master tapes could not be located. When the masters were finally found, years later, they were used for The Warner Bros. Studio Albums vinyl box set, marking the first time the 1969 mix has been available since the 1971 remix replaced it, in 1972. The 2013 high definition remastering for download uses the remixed version – even though promotion related to this release declared "produced from the original analog master tapes in 2013, using the original album mixes".
An edit of the track "Doin' that Rag" was released on the Warner/Reprise Loss Leaders compilation The 1969 Warner/Reprise Record Show. Since this set stayed in print through the late 1970s, it provided a sample of the original mix for some years after the full album was only available in the remixed version.
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On June 7, 2019 Rhino Records released the "50th Anniversary Deluxe Edition" of Aoxomoxoa. Disc one contains both mixes of the album – the one from 1969 and the one from 1971. Disc two contains previously unreleased live tracks from the Avalon Ballroom in San Francisco, recorded on January 24–26, 1969.
― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Monday, 4 March 2024 20:56 (six months ago) link
Yes. Going by the outro to Doin' That Rag, it seems both my versions are the 71 remix. So I've never heard the 69 mix. I must rectify that.
― Duke, Monday, 4 March 2024 20:57 (six months ago) link
interesting that the Warner/Reprise record show was in print for so long, for just a promo sampler comp
― Reeves Gabrels' Funko Pop (majorairbro), Monday, 4 March 2024 21:25 (six months ago) link
the original mix is definitely worth hearing, but I hardly ever listen to it.