Grateful Dead

Miles Davis "Bitches Brew" zowie. In David Gans' book Playing in the Band, Phil talks of Miles opening for the GD with the Bitches Brew lineup. I never heard the album until I bought the CDs of it a year or so ago. About once each month, it is something to be enjoyed.

however I am currently experiencing 6/14/85. A beautiful audience recording i highly recommend Morning Dew from this show it opens the second set and it SOARS. Greek me, Dave.

Funny Kyle & others you brought this up today, I was JUST looking on amazon at some random GD and saw a Miles Davis/John Coltrane CD set from 1960 that I was severely contemplating buying...I came this close. I inspected it recalling how Bobby noted in the past how he was trying to emulate Coltrane on his guitar, so I was briefly inspired by that to take a dive into some of this stuff. I didn't end up pulling that trigger, but am very open to doing so and expanding that sound to my ears a little bit. I am always happy to receive suggestions! Admittedly, my jazz knowledge is very poor - I only have Miles' 'Kind of Blue' and I think that's it. However, I did take a history of jazz class while at UVM, thinking this will be slam dunk class and that I might actually learn something. Unfortunately, what this class turned out to be was probably one of the most difficult classes I have EVER taken. Instead of allowing time to take in all of the different eras and performers, the class consisted of reading like a 500 page book, and then also being issued like 10 cassettes with probably 20-30 songs on each side (and remember, many had no lyrics), and we had to literally be able to identify ANY of the songs by like a 30 second snippet, and also be able to name who was playing what instrument during the segments. It was absolutely ridiculous. Let's just say it wasn't one of my best grades in college....but did leave me with a few lasting impressions that continue to interest me. And, if this were a 'GD Class' by the same parameters, well, now that would be a fun one in which to participate and I daresay I would likely get a higher mark. I would also agree that the most jazzy dead was '73 - 74 where they could all turn on a dime and the explorations were definitely more jazzy-in-feeling. Sixtus

Summer '73 Box aka skeletons without beards, the complete recordings.

Pray for Summer '73.

Actually, the closest they got to Jazz was 72 -74, when Billy was the sole drummer, he could swing; Mickey has 0 swing. Check out Big River pre and post hiatus.

I think what separates the Dead from Jazz is the harmony, and how chords are used and substituted. Also, a very important part of Jazz is swing; the Dead never really did swing, might be a few exceptions though, can't think right now...

The Dead, for the most part, seem to be different from all the jazz I have heard in terms of material played and maybe chords used to play it. But they seemed to adopt the principles of jazz, and apply it to rock n' roll, blues and country. The way they improvised was jazz like-but the music they were improvising on didn't seem jazz like to me. There attitude on stage seemed a bit jazz like too. When I saw them for the first time, in 1981, I was struck by how low key their entrance on stage was. My memory isn't precise, but I seem to recall that they just shuffled on stage, tuned up for a bit, then eased into Mississippi Half Step. Quite low key. Very, very different from other rock concerts I saw round about that time, like The Stray Cats and The Cramps. And Iggy Pop, who appeared on stage like a whirlwind, arms and legs cartwheeling in different directions, before picking up the mike stand and throwing it into the audience like a spear. But back to The Dead, I guess the closet they came to being jazz in terms of material was Eyes of the World and Blues for Allah. And the jams they played during 1974. But I don't know-I'm just waffling. Good subject to waffle on, though.

Steve Wozniak has an inventive mind, so it comes as no surprise that he’s a fan of Bitcoin. The Apple cofounder spoke at the ET GBS about what made him a fan of the cryptocurrency. “Bitcoins to me was a currency that was not manipulated by the governments. It is mathematical, it is pure, it can’t be altered,” he said. Unfortunately, all of this doesn’t safeguard Bitcoin from fraud. The American inventor and philanthropist told a full house at the summit how his own Bitcoins got stolen. “The blockchain identifies who has bitcoins… that doesn’t mean there can’t be fraud though. I had seven bitcoins stolen from me through fraud. Somebody bought them from me online through a credit card and they cancelled the credit card payment. It was that easy! And it was from a stolen credit card number so you can never get it back,” said Wozniak. https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/magazines/panache/would-you-believ…

...to everyone's collective groans. A few years ago I attended a free lecture about the Dead with a panel including Dennis McNally, Blair Jackson, and a few others. Very entertaining, even my non-deadhead wife found it interesting. Anyway, the big bearded bear Steve Wozniak was also in attendance, several rows below us but hard to miss. Always liked that guy when I've seen interviews with him, didn't expect to see him at this kind of event. Recently, I read that he was praising Bitcoin because it was "pure math". Ok then, Steve. But don't forget, Tulips are "pure flowers" too.