Grateful Dead

I am not sure what I would have made of Seastones live. I like the idea of it, but the actuality may have been another matter. I did find the album a bit hard going, the few times I heard it. I'd still be interested in hearing a clean copy, though. Electronic music generally has always intrigued me. I think the first album I heard was Faust Tapes, which was one of the first releases on Virgin records in 1974, I believe. Like Gong's Camemebert Electrique, released on the same label at the same time, it only cost 0.48p, and consequently seemed to be owned by teen freaks everywhere. After that I got into more German electronic bands-Tangerine Dream, Amon Duul 2, Can, Kraftwerk etc. From there I went to Stockhausen, which I found nigh on impossible to get into. But both the Terry Riley albums you mentioned were sampled on the documentary I watched and do seem attractive to me.

http://gratefuldeadoftheday.com/03-05-1972 Winterland Arena San Francisco, California There is a hot 1992 show out of Hampton, but a Winterland date, even one that is a little subdued like this one is, is tough to pass up. The show gets off to a fast and furious start with a strong Bertha, which had become a near-nightly staple in the repertoire since it was introduced in February 1971. The rest of the first set continues to rock all the way through. The Mr. Charlie, Sugaree, and Casey Jones stand out particularly, but every tune is a fabulous rendition. The first Black Throated Wind makes an appearance in that first set, proving to be an excellent little tune from the very beginning. Because of time constraints, the first set is a good deal longer than the second, and the band never really enters into interstellar jamming territory in either set. What we get instead in the second half is a really heady Good Lovin’ with some extended Pig rapping and a Mind Left Body jam. Then a very fun, but far too short, NFA> GDTRB> NFA comes forth to end the set. Finally, a blistering One More Saturday Night serves as the encore.

The box is a 50th Anthem box. The dead in 1968 were a 7 headed monster. Lots of pig - plenty of grease

My brother had copies of "In C" and "A Rainbow in Curved Air" back in the late '60s. I couldn't really get in them then and haven't heard either of them since. More accessible was the John Cale & Terry Riley album "Church of Anthrax" from 1971. I still can't get into Seastones despite having witnessed it live in 1974 at Ally Pally whilst under the influence of a surfeit of space cake.

Hope this website can handle another Box announcement......

https://themidnightcafe.org/2018/03/05/lossless-bootleg-bonanza-gratefu… 4/3/70 Field House, University of Cincinnati Cincinnati OH gd70-04-03.sbd.cotsman.sbefail.flac16 Download: FLAC/MP3 SBD from bootleg “Cincinnati 1970″ This is a flac encoded & tagged version of shnid: 4283 –Setlist– –Electric– 101-d1t01 – //Casey Jones 102-d1t02 – China Cat Sunflower -> 103-d1t03 – I Know You Rider 104-d1t04 – Hard to Handle 105-d1t05 – Dancing in the Streets 106-d1t06 – Me & My Uncle –Acoustic– 107-d1t07 – Friend of the Devil 108-d1t08 – Deep Elem Blues 109-d1t09 – Candyman 110-d1t10 – Wake Up Little Susie -> 111-d1t11 – Black Peter 112-d2t01 – Uncle John’s Band 113-d2t02 – Katie Mae –Electric– 114-d2t03 – //Good Lovin’ 115-d2t04 – Cryptical Envelopment -> 116-d2t05 – Drums -> 117-d2t06 – The Other One -> 118-d2t07 – Cryptical Envelopment -> 119-d2t08 – Cosmic Charlie 120-d2t09 – Not Fade Away -> 121-d2t10 – Turn on Your Lovelight% notes: -missing encore (We Bid You Goodnight). -Casey Jones fades in at…at trouble junction.” -Good Lovin’ fades in about 30 seconds before the drum solo, during the chorus. -There is a minor splice in Lovelight during Pigpen’s rap. -This is the first known Candyman. From the original uploader: As this show is from a bootleg, no source info was given, though the sound indicates that at least one, and probably two analog generations occurred before being transferred to digital. The pitch was corrected using Sound Forge as the original recording was flat. Retracking was done with CDWave. There are occasional, very faint pops in the recording as well as occasional oversaturation. Lastly, and significantly, an intermittent buzz occurs throughout the show from a bad connection somewhere. It is most evident during the acoustic set.

There was a great documentary on television last week about a musical movement called minimalism, of which I know nothing. One of the central artists featured was Terry Riley, and they played a segment from an amazing sounding composition of his called "A Rainbow in Curved Air", which I have duly ordered on cd. And this got me to thinking about Seastones, which seems to have been the nearest the Dead got to playing this type of music. I bought a second hand vinyl copy decades ago, but it was always a bit scratched, so I never played it much. I looked to see if it was still available, and it doesn't seem to be-except at inflated prices. So I thought that would make a great reissue. Something, a bit different, but like the Dylan/Dead box suggested, still within the far reaches of the Dead world.

Looks like some gremlins have invaded the home page.Check out the links across the top of the home page; if you noodle around, you will find that there was a post on Friday. Gremlins = box set announcement pending?

7/87 was the month of the Dylan/Dead shows. They were multi-track recorded (I think), making them possible Box Set material. 2 shows (Dylan-sets not included)were already released as a View From The Vault volume.Would be a nice box for variety's sake, and sure to super-excite a few people. If priced

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=SAJcJsmH14A https://youtu.be/SAJcJsmH14A