Grateful Dead

What an incredible musician! I heard about Billy Strings here on the Dead Forum , hopefully Ill turn someone on to a real rocker! Check out Junior Brown.

The John Einarson book on the Springfield is a good one. He is actually a decent writer, and does his research. I suggest his Gene Clark book (Mr Tambourine Man) and his Flying Burrito Bros book (Hot Burritos) if you enjoy their music, which I do.

In the mid-80s, Bruce Palmer & Dewey Martin put together a bastardized Buffalo Springfield, I think it was called Buffalo Springfield Again, something that pissed off Stills, Furay and Young, who filed a cease and desist. I saw them I think twice, and actually chatted with Palmer one time when I ran into him. At that time he was pretty unkempt, as if it had been a rough few years since the heyday of the Springfield. The music was what you would have expected, great songs done by a bar band. I wish I’d asked about the infamous hearse story in LA, where Stills & Furay, driving in the opposite direction in LA traffic, saw Young with Palmer driving in Neil’s hearse. Talk about a chance encounter. The Springfield was born. I would have loved to have seen them in their heyday.

So besides my subscription, I did my part to help sales by ordering two a la carte Da46 for two good friends. My subscription shipping notice came 4/27 and my a la carte notice came 4/28. Just saying.

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Last five:

Fleetwood Mac "Bare Trees"
Fleetwood Mac "Lived from the Record Plant 12/15/74" Really a great Bob Welch showcase
Buffalo Springfield debut album
The Kinks "Transmission Impossible- radio broadcasts from 1960s to 1980's"
Santana 3
Thelonius Monk with John Coltrane (their only studio recording)

Currently reading:
"For What It's Worth: The Story of Buffalo Springfield" by John Einarson and Richie Furay

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Please don’t look below if you don’t want to know about the bonus disc. But if you do:

Tracks 1-5 from Jersey City
Bertha, GSET, Bird Song, Mississippi, Brokedown Palace!!
6-11-Boulder CO
China>Rider, BEW, Truckin’, CR&S, Ramble On Rose. Pushing play now!!

McLaughlin has kept his farewell to touring with the 4th Dimension in the US since that 2017 tour, but will return this summer with Shakti, and at some of the shows (unfortunately, not Boston), Bela freaking Fleck will open with a solo set. Talk about musicianship!

Daverock, Jimmy doing Within You Without You at the New Universe Music Festival in Raleigh in 2010 is a great video from a dvd of that 2 night jazz fusion fest at a small club in Raleigh, NC that closed with John McLaughlin and 4th Dimension, followed by an all star tribute to Mahavishnu with Jimmy on lead guitar throughout and McLaughlin only listening, not performing to his classics being played by Scott Kinsey, Lenny White, Ranjit Barot, Zakir Hussain, Matt Garrison, Anthony Jackson, Gary Husband, Wayne Krantz. That was the first time I got to see McLaughlin, and the first time I got to experience Mahavishnu music being played at full stage volume, which is incredibly loud. Also, check out that whole Meeting of the Spirits video from November 4, 2017 at the Capitol Theatre. 3 hours plus of amazing instrumental music. The drummer for Jimmy Herring's band in both is Jeff Sipe, aka Apt-Q258 as he was known in the Aquarium Rescue Unit, and he is an incredible drummer. He was also in Phil and Friends for a bit (but not at the same time as Jimmy); he plays with a small kit, but explores it in wondrous ways as Moon or Peart used much larger kits. He's that good.

Nappy, I recall hearing that story but I don't recall the show, it could have been the Frost. Today on the smoker we are cooking ribs and chicken, we are drinking Sierra Nevada Torpedos and we are listening to lots of Grateful Dead and Blues. Kick it off Louisiana Fog by Charlie Musslewhite. 4/29/71 what a great show, put it together with 4/28/71, what a killer release that would be!

Alvarhanso - thanks for that. Obviously a major omission, me not knowing about him. I'll have a look on you tube later to see if there are any clips of him.

Mr Ones - I was more Black Sabbath than the Mahavishnu Orchestra in the 1970s too. It was my brother who bought albums by the Orchestra - he sowed a seed. Another one he had was by a later line up, featuring Jen Luc Ponty on violin, called "Visions Of The Emerald Beyond". Must be about 45 years ago since I've heard that one.

HF - that sounds like a vision of hell, The Dead, AAB and the Band all on the same stage at the same time. A bit like going for a meal and having the starter, the main course and the sweet all served on the same plate.

I recommend Shakti to those who enjoy John McLaughlin. The second side of their first album is a single track’What need have I for this-what need have I for that-I am dancing at the feet of my Lord-all is bliss-all is bliss’ this is magnificent and becomes more so when you hear applause at the end and realise that they were playing live.

and I were classmates. Neither one of us liked modern physics very much. We both agreed that attending class just added to the confusion. So we didn’t go very often.

For Daverock, he's a guy that I first heard of in a Guitar World magazine from 1997 that was devoted to Southern Rock, which I got for the plethora of Duane articles and transcriptions. At the end of it was a top 10 current Southern Rock type bands to know, and at the very top of the list was the improbably named Col. Bruce Hampton and the Aquarium Rescue Unit. And they say the music is just as weird, but incredibly high level musicianship with Oteil Burbridge on bass and a guitarist to remember: Jimmy Herring. Not long afterward, I got into Phish, and through that portal got some tapes of Aquarium Rescue Unit or Phish shows where they sat in. Then I found out about Jazz is Dead featuring Jimmy playing Jerry's lead lines and lead vocals as guitar lines. Then, the ABB suddenly fired Dickey Betts, and Jimmy was the chosen replacement. He and Derek Trucks have a unique telepathic bond and elevate each other to heights that are just unreal. Turns out, the ABB had tried to hire Jimmy before, even once trying to get him to learn slide to fill the slide guitarists slot when Warren Haynes left the first time, and Derek was too young for his dad's permission then to join. Jimmy left the ABB for Phil Lesh and Friends' greatest lineup, the Quintet, or Q, for five years 2001-05. In 2002, Jimmy was tapped by Michael Houser of Widespread Panic to be his successor, as he was dying of cancer. This plan was interrupted by another offer, this one to join the reforming members of the Grateful Dead at Terrapin Family Reunion in August 2002 at Alpine Valley, and between 2003-04, he was the lead guitarist in The Dead. He did join Panic in 2006, where he still is, but has had a nice side career of jazz fusion instrumental bands that do some pretty great covers like Zappa's Zoot Allures, Mahavishnu's Dawn, the Jungle Book Theme from the Disney cartoon, Sweet Dreams by Roy Buchanan (wow!), Within You Without You by George Harrison (double wow!). He uses only volume pedals and reverb. He used envelope filter and some distortion with The Dead, but incredible tone, note choice, fluidity, jazz notes/scales and sounds. Listen to Jazz is Dead do Weather Report Suite, it's incendiary. Those two solo albums Mr Ones mentioned are Lifeboat and Subject to Change Without Notice are great. I'm obviously a bit of a fanboy, but the guys has killer tone and his chops are just out of this world. My all time favorite guitarist is Duane, but for almost 25 years, my favorite living guitarists have been Jimmy and Derek Trucks. It was crazy to me when I moved to his hometown and got to know people like my pastor who grew up next door to him, and the guy who was his bass player in high school; basically he and Jimmy were the only guys in town who loved Frank Zappa and the Dixie Dregs and Mahavishnu, or at least only guys playing that kind of stuff.