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and finally towards the end the acid has kicked in and Pete finally gets it. This is a great video and the first time I have seen it.
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I love the Rockpalast(sic) stuff from a number of bands. The dead played well that night, although Jerry looks rather green. They say Pete or someone from the who had to meet the plane and provide Jerry so he wouldn't go into withdrawal.
LWR you post the best stuff!
but just don't get the appeal of the Grateful Dead. Maybe its a generational thing. Can't make it past a few minutes. Do have a few albums. Reckoning is my favorite. I prefer the acoustic stuff.
Most music is a generational thing. You listen to the very best of earlier generations and pick and choose. Here and there you discover something a little obscure like Lester Young.I am of that generation and didn't like the Dead at first because they were too much the center of the whole Beat/Hippie BS scent. But over time I got to really like their long jams. Garcia's guitar playing is very melodic - I think it's based on the Phrygian mode or something - flat 7, otherwise major - and it reminds me a little of Debussy. The singing complements the guitar nicely. I like the way all their jams segue into I Know You Rider. Or so it seems.
It's never too late to turn back the clock.
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I do not think I have listened to it since high school even though I still possess it.
In my (most unhumble opinion) NEW SPEEDWAY BOOGIE is the epitome of their career. Though I would never speak as a fan but that song is one of the best songs I have ever heard. Never bought the record so it lives on in my memory.
It is like this: on one side you have Jay Reatard who said all that needed to be said in a very solid 45 minutes opposed to the GRATEFUL DEAD who took all night to say what they had to say and by the time it was over (as if I ever went to one of those interminable shows) you would forget anything useful they had to say.
Attending a DEAD show is the equivalent of going to the grocery store to listen to the music playing over the PA and taking so long to shop you had to use the restroom two or three times before you decided to pay. For me this would be equally as interesting as going to hear THE DEAD drone on for three hours.
I am grateful I do not understand the appeal.
All you need to know.
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I heard them many times in the bay area.
It always seemed Jerry's guitar was way out of tune ....
The Dead is/are one of those things that one either "gets" or "doesn't get". No real need for apologies on either side, from my perspective.
There's a fair amount of their shtick that I really don't much care for; never had much interest in the spacier aspects and I don't think I've ever made it through a whole "Dark Star" -- but their stuff that I like... I love.
If you like "Reckoning", how do you feel about "American Beauty"?
all the best,
mrh
The Dead are – and have always been – a “get it/don't get” thing.
Though there are a few tunes I do enjoy (“Ripple” on “American Beauty” is particularly lovely to me), I've never appreciated their overall sound or approach.
But a few of my close college buddies had all their albums. They'd pick ’em up as soon as the LPs hit the shelves. And those guys’ basic musical tastes and mine overlapped to a high percentage.
“American Beauty” is the one album of all the Dead releases that I have and will play from time to time.
hitsware hit it on the head, too: there was frequently at least one instrument and/or voice out of tune. I can handle a bit of this in the middle of an otherwise well performed tune, but the Dead ….
And, as you say, there’s no need for apologies on either side.
-=- Charlie F.
they came from different genres of music...Jerry from folk and more so, bluegrass, Phil was a classically trained musician, first on violin, then on trumpet, Pigpen was hard blues all the way, Bob was country and rock, Marty Robbins woven into his brain, Mickey was into percussion and some jazz (Coltrane I'd say, and Bill was just a drummer and not all that good for awhile. How all of this diverse talent/interest rolled into the Warlocks/Dead is amazing if for no other reason than it did. But it did.
I too like their acoustic journeys best, but I do like quite a bit of their improvisation rock jamming. Not all, but alot of it.
It developed during a time of great change, the paradigm was moving, legal LSD was a major glue and inspiration both for the band and the fans that "got it". Folks like to think they are progressive and on the leading edge of the envelope, dropping psychedelics and going to a Dead concert was just that.
Disclaimer: I met Jerry and Sara in St Michael's alley in the very early 1960's. They were a folk duo and there was never more than 10 or 15 folks in that coffee shop at a time to hear. I loved what I heard and over time got to yakking about music with them and taking smoke breaks and going for a beer or three. Then there was the Top of the Tangent in Palo Alto as well, when David Nelson dropped into the scene. Jerry went from banjo to guitar under the tutelage of David. I have always said that if you want to hear where Jerry got it from, it was David.
The story went on from there and the friendship cemented and went forth...
They played in my living room for a party that seemed to last a month, Kingfish played at my wedding in 1974...I was in Europe with them in 1972. I have sold them 30-40 pix and written the liner notes for an album iof theirs (what an honor that was).
Anyway, either you were on the bus or you were not....
It was a time of musical richness and wonder, it was the road I found myself skipping down.
Thank you for passing along more information about the band than I'd known since I first heard about them circa 44 years ago.
The San Francisco scene and sound were simply alien to me. Except for Janis, I didn't find anything that grabbed me. And this wasn't a preconceived locale prejudice. After I'd heard something on the radio I liked, I'd find out that it was a British band. Or an L. A. band. Or a Boston band. Und so weiter.
(Oops! I do still love and play my original LP of “The Electric Flag.” Guess I like more SF sounds than I'm aware of.)
I didn't know doodley about the Bay scene until a friend turned me on to "The Electric Kool-Aid Test" in the mid-’70s. That gave me a new appreciation for the music and the people that were there when everything took off.
Though I was fascinated by Further, I did miss the bus that you were on. It sounds like a fine scene.
-=- Charlie F.
for incredible times, here is the original ...Rikki Lee does it well too, but the Airplane own it
Bob needs to teach him how to smoke a cigaret while he's at it.
I always think its interesting seeing guitar gods play with the Dead. They never seem very comfortable. I remember seeing Mick Taylor play with them and Jerry kept prodding him to start playing. I get the impression they don't like to upstage Jerry on his turf so they seem to be uncharacteristically subdued.
Excellent.
I only learned of their performance(s) together in Oakland decades after the fact -- for me, to have seen those two bands together would have been...umm... the ultimate trip :-)
all the best,
mrh
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