Grateful Dead

As Mr Ones says,,,, this is one of the reasons I come here. Talk about other music.

Thanks Crow for pointing out the Herbie Hancock stuff. Turned out I have most of the stuff mentioned. Listened to "You'll Know When You Get There". What hit me most on first go round was the quality of the recording.

Found I did have a chunk of Iron and Wine which included Sheppard's Dog. What hit me on first go round was how the recording did not compare with Herbie. Recording levels too high? Little muddy to my ears. Could be my copy of course.

Cannonball's Experience in E,,,, I have a live copy off "Live at Pleyid 69",,,, it's only 14 minutes long.

Deadheads, what a musical bunch!

Mr Ones - I have both those Weather Report live collections, too, and they are incredible. If you want some great reading on WR, Pete Erskine wrote a great bio on the band from the drummer’s seat, especially in their heyday, called “ No Beethoven: Autobiography & Chronicle of Weather Report”, and an even better book came out about a year ago called “Elegant People”. Fascinating read, and a deep dive on their recorded works. A fantastic band I never tire of hearing.
As for Miles, he made so many great recordings from the Fillmores, and Black Beauty smokes. A stripped down electric live band, Chick is very prominent on this recording. I think Miles is my top jazz pick, his whole career, but I’m endlessly fascinated by his electric bands and recordings.
I still think how amazing Bill Graham was - genius, really - with some of his billing lineups, mixing different sounds or genres, but Miles Davis & the Dead on the same bill - Wow. Just wow.

You guys and gals just continue to floor me. I know there’s a lot of non-Dead discussion here but my God. It’s just so fantastic!!
THATMIKE-I have about 20 Cannonball discs, including the one you so kindly recommended. I generally prefer live stuff-Cannon is SO generous & descriptive with his introductions and banter. I especially like the 66-71 period. Which ties into the one Cannonball album I have not found on cd. Experience in E. I have a 2-disc compilation that has both songs off side 2 of that album, but none with side one, the 20 minute version of Experience in E. Anyone have or seen this on cd?? It comes up because that song (a Zawinul composition of course) is the 3rd track disc 1 of Forecast: Tomorrow. This and 2 other Weather Report compilations are prizes of my WR collection. A 2-disc set called “Live and Rare” (I believe) and a 4-disc set of live stuff from ‘78-‘81, mind blowing stuff!!
Mwandishi you say?? There was a 3-disc box called The Warner Brothers Years (again, I think that’s the title) that has Fat Albert Rotunda, Mwandishi & Crossings. Also great.
So what did all that inspire me to play??
Miles Davis Black Beauty!! Again, truly mind blowing stuff (Chick Corea setting the keys ablaze!!).
One last thing I want to add, for those of you with the high end stereo/sound systems. My favorite album of the Century (so far) is just chock-a-block full of amazing/interesting/ head spinning things in the stereo spectrum that I would be shocked if most (all??) of you wouldn’t enjoy. It’s not jammy, instrumental, weirdness, but I play this more than once a year. I recently had a co-worker ask me an interesting question:”what one album would you tell EVERYONE you know that they need to hear??” I thought for a bit, and came up with Iron And Wine “The Shepherd’s Dog”, which I have just played another 5 times in the last 3 days. I’m sure it may not be for everyone, but it’s one I brought to a friend’s house 4-5 years ago to show off his mucho-expensive sound gear. Even your wives may love this. So, I stake my (non-existent) reputation on this one. Feedback (good or bad) is welcome.

After Miles, I’m putting on Herbie’s Sextant album!! You all are the best!! (after music, of course) 😃

No? Well somebody shoulda.

Herbie Hancock is to me one of the great geniuses of American music. Everything he did is worth a listen, and a lot of it is as Good As It Gets. All the stuff he did with Miles, and all the albums he made for Blue Note are stone classics. But my absolute favorite period from him is the Mwandishi stuff: ie, the period when HH was calling himself Mwandishi and (perhaps not coincidentally) rumored to be consuming mass quantities of LSD). He kept the same band together for a few years (Bennie Maupin, Eddie Henderson, Julian Priester, Buster Williams, and Billy Hart), touring the world and blowing minds, before he finally ran out of money and had to go a more commercial (though still great) direction with Chameleon.

Official albums include Crossings, Mwandishi, and Sextant, which are quite literally the bridge between the fusion-y free jazz of the late '60 and the straight up funk of Chameleon. There's a few live boots out there that are pretty good, too. (As well as Fat Albert Rotunda, a soul jazz record with mostly the same personnel that's not bad.) If you are the kind of Head who enjoys a good 30 minute Dark Star, you want to check the Mwandishi out sometime.

Forecast: You Will Enjoy It!

Found a used copy on Amazon,,, 20 bucks!

What the hell.

I associate Herbie Hancock mostly with the so called second great quintet of Miles Davis. The incredible rhythm section he was a part of with Ron Carter and Tony Williams." ESP" and "Miles Smiles" are the stand out ones for me. I also like the solo albums he made with Ron Carter and Tony Williams - "Maiden Voyage" and " Empyrean Isles". A few years since I have played those two, mind.
"Blow Up" is great film - I never associated it with Herbie Hancock, though. More a picture Of London just as psychedelia was emerging. Maybe I should dust that one off n' all.

....with two letters in-between.
Just stating the obvious.

Animals 2018 remix on BluRay, listened to the 5.1 surround mix, then the 2018 stereo mix, then the 5.1 again, then changed systems and listened to the 5.1 again, and while reading other people's reactions, I found out about the 2016 5.1 mix of Meddle that was slipped secretly into first runs of the big $550 Early Years Box Set. When they broke it down to individual year boxes, the 1971 box had had the bonus Meddle removed, but some kind soul has pisted it onto the youtubes and a simple search of Pink Floyd Meddle 5.1 will find it, and can play the playlist and have the whole album. It's great, even if a lesser compressed sound quality. But that's beside the main point: this Animals remix is absolutely terrific! Firstly, it's like James Guthrie turned the snare drum on 40 years later, as the drums went from dull to bright and driving. He even added some gated reverb on the drums for specific parts in Sheep and Dogs, and, as much as I hate gated reverb on snare drum, this is incredibly well done. (And probably more like what Peter Gabriel had in mind with the tasteful use of gated reverb, not dominating an entire decade needlessly with that horrid sound on soooooo many songs and albums through the 80s.) The bass sounds incredible, particularly the Pigs part by Gilmour. Guthrie has it sit in the mix in the surround and stereo mixes as a prominent, but not overpowering thing, with full sliding notes that Phil would love hearing, and, like the 5.1 mix of Have a Cigar, some phaser is now evident on the bass, which is more muscular and funkier. The guitar work on Dogs and Pigs is sublime, and sounds far better than it ever has, and I can't understand how David Gilmour would let a petty dispute over liner notes delay the release by four years, delaying by four years people hearing some of his most magnificent guitar work in its full glory. (One also wonders why that 5.1 mix of Meddle was pulled and not released. It was intentionally done after the mix was made.) I made this impulse purchase last night, and it was delivered at 12:30, just 20 bucks. The SACD seems to range for 40-60. Either way, glad I finally gave in and snagged this one, it is astoundingly good.

Edited to add: glad to hear people breaking out Blow Up. I used to play Bring Down the Birds as a warm up exercise before gigs along with Bob Marley's War and In the Hall of the Mountain King. So groovy, one can see why Dee-Lite and millions of people dug it when they got Bootsy to play it. The movie comes on TCM occasionally. Oh, and I once saw Herbie Hancock opening for Dave Matthews Band. I heard Chameleon start, and I asked one of the 25 people in the crowd who was playing, they said, "Somebody called Bernie Hancock or something." "You mean Herbie Hancock?!" Even at 18, I was sad for the lack of crowd for Herbie. By the end of his set, he had pulled people in from the parking lot in Charlotte and maybe a few thousand were grooving to the legend that began as a pianist for Miles Davis, then became the pioneer of funk and synthesizers. 25 years ago, I was happy I got to see a legend opening for Dave Matthews. Most of that crowd had no clue what they missed.

I am looking forward to them

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