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    - "Let Love In"- "Nocturama" (copied to MP3 from the vinyl record) - "Dig, Lazarus, Dig!!!" - "Push the Sky Away" - "Mermaids" digital EP
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    Been on a bit of a Frank Black Francis trip of late. I seem to fall into and out of love with this guy every few years, and this is apparently the year I fall back in love with his music. The current playlist looks a little something like this:- "Come on Pilgrim" (Pixies) - "Wave of Mutilation: The Best of Pixies" (Pixies) - "Teenager of the Year" (Frank Black) - "Show Me Your Tears" (Frank Black & the Catholics) - "93-03" (Frank Black/FB&tC) - "Live Sessions (iTunes Exclusive)" (Frank Black) - "Bluefinger" (Black Francis) - "The Seus" (Black Francis) Speaking of the Pixies, now that Kim Deal has parted ways with the group, they apparently have a new song the released just this morning, "Bagboy": http://pixiesmusic.com/new/.
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    Solid Sound 6/21/13, the "covers" show. Pretty fun setlist, running the gamut from the Beatles to the Replacements, the Modern Lovers to Cheap Trick, Television ("Marquee Moon") to Blue Oyster Cult, Neil Young to Daft Punk. "Waterloo Sunset" (Kinks) to "Waterloo" (ABBA). And yes, the Dead. And Pavement, Thin Lizzy, Big Star, Dylan and the Stones. Have I left anyone out? Yo La Tengo, Count Five, Velvet Underground. And much more, or at least a little more...
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    "The Second Album + the First Rehearsal Tapes." These guys were punk before punk was punk. And they'll still be punk long after punk stops being punk (which, I believe, will be next Friday). I can't think of another team of musicians that is more of the antithesis of "popular music" than Martin Rev and Alan Vega. At their core, these guys are artists, just a voice adrift in the dull pulsings of a cheap keyboard and an old drum machine. I don't recommend this band for the casual music listener. It took me a couple years to *like* these guys, so imagine how long it took for me to start singing their praises. Bottom line: forget everything you think you know about music, because it doesn't apply here. To call them abrasive would be an understatement.
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    Jolly vacation time is winding down so I've got Bunny Wailer's "Rock 'n Groove" rolling along. I had it converted from LP to CD - it ain't perfect but when you've got some of the hardest grooves ever laid down by both Sly & Robbie and the Radics, you can't lose. I know it's just one thing, but with marye's approval, I could vine it. ? Next up? Marley, Isaacs, Studio One - Lord have mercy, music hits with 0 pain. Deadicated
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    Blaze of Glory I'm always happy to find someone new to like, even if she ain't that new or young at all. And always encouraged to know that there's more good music in the world than I'll ever get a chance to hear. But as a kid who grew up listening to and loving the Beatles, the most popular band of all time, it's always a head-scratcher to me that I can't find the music I love among what currently passes as "popular music." Not that I necessarily want the music I love to be "popular" (when, in fact, there's a lot of pleasure in having these folks all to ourselves, getting a chance to see them in clubs and theatres instead of fighting the arena crowds), just wishing more success for the artists whose music I love... I'm using this little gem of an album as a set break in my May '77 immersion, a palate-cleanser. Now back to the GOGD.
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    A buddy of mine bought the new album, "Kveikur," on vinyl from Amazon, and, thanks to AutoRip, had no use for the download code included with the record and sent it to me. This is my first experience listening to these guys, though I have a number of fans who are raving fans. Just never got around to giving 'em a listen, I guess. They're Icelandic, and not a lick of their lyrics are in English, but whatever. I dig their sound; they remind me a lot of Switzerland's Dungen and the U.K.'s Durutti Column. They play very spacey, ambient, post-psychedelic rock, which I dig. I mean, if you can stomach the Legendary Pink Dots, grooving to these guys is a cake walk. Of course, I say all this assuming no one here has ever listened to Sigur Rós before....
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    6/18/74 I've got a combo of Road Trips & Miller in the unit - so far so good. Essential '74 Dead.
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    I've sang to and with my Dad just about everyGrateful Dead song ever written. But... This was the last one, the last one I sang to him. http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=endscreen&v=rT0rhVhXnNA&NR=1 The ending in this fits. He has been my Master Teacher and Our suffering has been un-measurable yet Our love has been at every ending... it's like a full-house Aces and 8's.
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The real-time reports continue...
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Live -- Everybody's Talkin' There really is something good to be said for a well-played, well-made compilation live album...
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I've been into the Dead for a long time, but I'm sort of just now opening up my mind to the live stuff. Took me awhile to be able to sit through a 20 minute jam I guess, but I'm there, and now I'm loving me some 30 minute dark stars, and some of the really cool song sandwiches. Which (finally) brings me to my question: I'm freaking out over the Pauley Pavilion show with the Playing>UJB>Morning Dew>UJB>Playing sandwich (one of the most amazing jams/song medleys I've ever heard), and I'm noticing how different, much slower and soulful this Morning Dew is than an earlier version I have. Are there other songs that they significantly changed their arrangement of over the years that I should be on the lookout for?
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They all sort of morph though time, and that's half the fun. But you used the word significant (significance outside of a strict statistical implementation is actually subjective and context-dependent, and I shudder when considering the implications of legions of statisticians and actuaries measuring Dead songs for Significance..."Excrement! Rip that whole section out!") so I'll assume you meant substantial instead. First, there's the glaringly obvious ones where Bob covers Pig (Lovelight, Good Lovin') and then Dancin' In the Streets (compare 60's versions with 78-on versions) and one of the biggest is Friend Of The Devil which transforms from a lively, up-tempo country ditty in the early 70's to an almost lethargic heroin dirge by the end of the decade.
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New! Check Archive for 4/26/71. SBD FLAC. Eight tunes of sweetness. Jerry on pedal. Guess I'll have to throw on the Dead's sets, too.Thanks PTB.
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Some great places to get started! Thanks.
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There might be better versions available out there, but if you stream/download it from Archive as I have, there is a tape splice during the first UJB and the five individual tracks don't match up exactly right, which is a real drag when you're immersing yourself in the beauty of this jam, and how they morph the songs into one another. So I took the liberty of playing with them, taking out about 5 seconds of audio around the splice so that it passes by without notice, and matching up the tracks into one amazing roughly 40 minute or so mp3. Download here if you'd like: http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?b8cp32tf5uace9x Playing>UJB>Morning Dew>UJB>Playing November 17, 1973, Pauley Pavilion, UCLA
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Billie Holiday "Jazz at the Philharmonic" 6/03/46 Gerry Mulligan "Pleyel Concert" 6/03/54 Grateful Dead Paramount Theatre 6/03/76 1st set (Hunter Seamons matrix - nice!) Joe Henderson "Page One" 6/03/63 RVG GD Paramount 2nd set Maybe a '76er'll be comin' our way!
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Scarlet/Fire ~ Broomfield, CO. 2/16/12 Damn y'all .... "Heart of Gold Band" indeed-E! I had a grateful time at these three shows ... Colorado rocks (literally ;-)! Thanks for the amazing hospitality everyone...
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Are you back, or just passing through?
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=zM31080jOSM Not Fade Away Lyrics By: Hardin/Petty Music By: Hardin/Petty I wanna tell you how it's gonna be, you're gonna give your love to me, I wanna love you night and day, you know my love not fade away. You know my love not fade away, not fade away! My love is bigger than a Cadillac, I try to show you but you drive me back, Your love for me has got to be real, your gonna know just how I feel. Our love is real, not fade away, not fade away! Played a few times by the Grateful Dead in their earliest years, and became a staple from the end of 1969 onwards. Staples- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uY3vgBzgYn4 Come ON....xo
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V/Vm - White Death. A release based around the account of Valerian Albanov and his crew of sailors who aboard the Saint Anna were left trapped in pack ice. It's a tail of survival in the extremes. Available for free download with the artist's express permission - http://vvmtest.bandcamp.com/album/white-death The Caretaker - Patience (After Sebald). The Caretaker - An Empty Bliss Beyond This World. Nurse With Wound/Stereolab - adventures beyond the ultraworld. battersea dub lighting the third eye. cream teas and spliff. cucumber sandwiches and columns of smoke. proud to be british. worried about the economic crisis? let's smoke a joint. transit of venus across the morning skies. that'll be british sausage time to you and me. thank you good doctor, thank you. The Orb - The Orb -
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The Obvious Child Has been on full-bore repeat loop in my head all through a sleepless night. I keep hearing the same verse: Well I'm accustomed to a smooth ride Or maybe I'm a dog who's lost its bite I don't expected to be treated like a fool no more I DON'T EXPECT TO SLEEP THROUGH THE NIGHT So was this swirling all 'round my brain all night BECAUSE I couldn't sleep, or was it the REASON I couldn't sleep? Cause-and-effect, or self-fulfilling prophecy? Next up, Zevon's "I'll Sleep When I'm Dead," no doubt...and then the Beatles' "I'm So Tired." And so on...
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My prior one double-posted, so this is the edit to make it look just a little less annoying...
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oh, do please stop being so annoying gratefaldean!!! you're a troublemaker you are!! ha ha ha!!!i can see how that Paul Simon song could keep you awake; it has a rhythm like a train on the tracks which sounds mighty fine to my ears. man, those early simon & garfunkel records brings ol' jonapi to tears. absolutely beautiful music. these last few nights it's been The Orb's Little Fluffy Clouds keeping myself awake; impossible to extract that bassline from the brain, infusing one's senses causing a flood of lucid dreaming like bobbing in warm cushioning water. ahhh, the sound of early '90's bliss; rural idyll, countryside bathed in sweet summer sunlight with a beautiful righteous doobie in the hand and my wife by my side. was that really 21 years ago? my how time flies.... have wonderful weekends everyone.
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Sidney Bechet "The Best of" 6/08/39 just Summertime James P. Johnson "Snowy Morning Blues" 6/08/44 ROAD TRIPS 6/09/76 Boston Music Hall I'm so ready for an announcement I can taste it y'all!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Psychedelic Sunday w/ Andy Frost. A classic radio program that has been around for what seems an eternity. Anything and everything from 65 to 75.
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the night tripper - Gris-gris I'd perused the New Arrivals section at one of the local record stores, Euclid Records, and had moved on to this and that. When I came back to the NA section Gris-gris had just been filed under Blues next to the Louis Jordan compilation I was going to pick up. Well, Louis had to wait - this was the first time I'd seen Gis-go so I had to go for it fo' sho! 1968 drugged-out underwater voodoo!!!
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A Musical Celebration of Jerry Garcia (Fillmore, SF, 12/4/10) Jesse McReynolds, Peter Rowan, David Nelson, and many others. Such sweet, sweet music. Available from and proceeds to the Rex Foundation. Hey Deadicated, I just saw Dr. John opening for Gov't Mule last Saturday. Fine show all the way around...
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can you just imagine '73/'74 era Dead jamming with these masters? surely the most beautiful concert that never was. we can always dream of course....
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I've had improvised variations on this infectious riff running in my head all day, and can't help wondering why Furthur isn't toying with this as a transition jam. I'd be shocked to find Jeff doesn't already know it well.
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4/26/08, Merlefest This was the last time that I saw Levon play, am wishing that I'd been much more determined in pursuing my desire to see a Ramble at the barn. Levon was in good voice, the band was cooking. Writing this, I realize that a few hours earlier that day was also the last time I saw Doc Watson play. Damn.
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Duke Ellington "Small Groups, Vol.1" 6/16/37 Jimmy Smith "Home Cookin'" 6/16/59 Grateful Dead Iowa State Fairgrounds 6/16/74 a convoluted mix of Road Trips Vol.2 No.3 and what I had - the RT sounds so good. I would so have enjoyed the show W.A.A.!!! Also, streaming round 3 from The Olympic Club, San Francisco - cool. Tigre!
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DAVE'S PICKS VOL III........right here on the listening party :)
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FINALLY just picked up the Europe 72 stuff. Not the entire box set, but Volume 1 and 2. Great, great stuff. But one thing is jumping out at me, and I didn't see it mentioned anywhere else online. Does Vol. 1 play fast? Especially on the Morning Dew, that's the highest pitch I've ever heard of Jerry's voice, and other stuff here and there, the harmonies on He's Gone, it just sounds like it's played on a record player too fast and everything's a little higher pitched than usual. Has anyone ever noticed this or heard of it being an issue?
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Indeed. E72 was speeded up a little, apparently (I read somewhere) in order to fit all the songs on a double LP.
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I was on a mission to find hardware in our basement to affix a gauntlet of sorts to stymey our dog Guinness from escaping when I came across crateloads of tapes.Grateful Dead made up a good number of them, but I was a taping fool when I got into reggae so I decided I'd set up my cassette deck and tackle the mountain of music before me. This music will never see the light of day on CD. What I'm listening to is a tape comprised of Studio One 12" from the late '70's and early '80's. Sir Clement Dodd was a Jamaican producer who recorded just about everybody in JA who was a quality performer. There's a newly remastered package that includes a compilation CD, three hour DVD and 100 page book called the Studio One Story that I recommend highly. It's on the Soul Jazz label The names on the tape sleeve for the tape I'm listening to don't reveal who fronted the fabulous stable of Studio One musicians, but I think I can come up with a few: Heavenless - is an instrumental that features the incredible Don Drummond on trombone. What a riddim'! I can't remember the next, but then there are three by Cornell Campbell - Conversation, Queen of the Minstrel & What Kind of World. He sounds like a reggae version of Curtis Mayfield. The flip side of the tape has Alton Ellis and Sugar Minott among others. All feature tasteful dub effects and fine instrumentation. Needless to say, when I started searching through the basement "archive" this was one of the tapes I had to find. The date on the tape is 2/07/88. Is there anybody else out there who listens to this stuff? By the way, I'm extremely stoked about the next Dave's Picks - hope you are too!
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hey Deadicated!yes, i'm a massive fan of dub and reggae, especially artists like King Tubby, Augustus Pablo, The Congos, Yabby You, Scientist, Prince Jammy, I-Roy, Burning Spear, Horace Andy, Lee Perry, Mad Professor etc. and yes, that Studio One box set is fantastic! I remember when Soul Jazz used to a have a little record store in the old Spitalfields Market in London (before they gutted the soul out of the Market and turned it into a faceless mall with a coupla stalls). saw many a fine show in London, £5.00 for Augustus Pablo; those were the days!! and of course those deep bass vibrations of the sound systems we used to get in Brixton, just down the road from me. fine weed, fine rum and fine riddims indeed. Cornell Campbell is great. you might want to check out the "I Shall Not Remove 1975-80" release on the excellent Blood & Fire label - http://www.bloodandfire.co.uk/ They mainly do CDs now but they still do limited pressings on vinyl which are mastered by Moritz Von Oswald from Rhythm & Sound/Basic Channel fame. Anytime you want recommendations or info on releases, old or new, then drop me a message, man.
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..thanks for the reminder Deadicated...I have not had a roots session for quite some time (too many dang Grateful Dead releases to listen to ;-) ). I lost a lot of roots gems on a non backed up hard disc a while back and my vinyl is scattered around the globe. A lot can be recovered through the maze of blog sites but it takes so much time. Don Drummond is a barely recognised genius. If he had been playing jazz in New York at that time he might have been a star...I imagine him as a sideman for Miles...as it was his life disintegrated into a nightmare. The great Rico Rodriguez kept the trombone tradition going though. ahh yes..those heavy heavy roots and dub shows in London in the 70s and the chance to see Sly and Robbie almost every week. Prince Far-I was the hardest and heaviest..
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yeah, Prince Far-I was mighty.and the On-U Sound guys are excellent. a good friend of mine handles all their artists for release in Japan. many a classic story too about Lee Perry arriving in Narita and immediately wanting to smoke a spliff; he simply doesn't recognise that it's illegal. to him it's a normal plant (i'm with ya there Scratch...). spent the entire time traveling with him from the airport into Tokyo with him asking every ten minutes or so, "can i smoke now?" "no, Perry-san, absolutely NOT!". he's like a big kid!
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........Dylan & Dead rehearsals vine---one of the finest things I've gotten off this magnificent medium----many thanks to all in their heartfelt love & joy to keep on keepin on---What a long-strange trip it's been.......Keep on Smilin!! Da Roach!
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Blunderbuss Not quite the guitar workout I'd have expected, but I am enjoying the vinyl quite well, thank you. And thank you jonapi for the Yo La Tengo vid. A nice kick in the ass for a Friday morning. Hard to believe that these guys have been around since the '80s...where does the time go?
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This is arguably the best TLMD I have heard... Everything about this is amazing... quality, jerry's sweet soulful voice, The crispness of his guitar, the electric piano and even Donna's singing... If you want to relax on a friday night... prep yourself and kick back in a comfortable chair and crank this up... It will ease your soul...
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Duke Ellington "The Duke's Men, Vol.2" 6/22/38 J.J.Johnson "The Eminent J.J.Johnson, Vol.1" 6/22/53 Sonny rollins "Saxophone Colossus" 6/22/56 Elmo Hope "The All-Star Sessions" 6/22/61 Where there's Monk & Nichols, there's ... Miles Davis "Nefertiti" 6/22/67 Grateful Dead Central Park 6/22/69 Grateful Dead PNE Coliseum, Vancouver 6/22/73 Grateful Dead Jai-Alai Fronton, Miami 6/22/74 Grateful Dead Tower Theatre, Pa. 6/22/76 Bob Marley Straffordshire, UK 6/22/78 Lowell George 6/22/79 Happy Friday, y'all!
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Louis Armstrong "Hot Fives & Hot Sevens" 6/23/26 Billie Holiday "Complete Colombia Recordings" 6/23/38 Big Brother & the Holding Company featuring Janis Joplin Carousel Ballroom 6/23/68 (Bear's Sonic Journals #1) Invest!!! Grateful Dead Jai-Alai Fronton 6/23/74 Jerry Garcia Santa Rosa High School 6/23/77
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=avK3uV1nQR4 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jtACNmlplKo http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tSCCy6jAgd0&feature=related http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H8iSabTnpYQ&feature=related http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hm3s6v56WSM&feature=related Whilst listening, I smiled as I felt like Jesus. I loved you best! If just for a while as I listened and then I let the duties of another be theirs. Happy Birthday! I love you, xo! more than...
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at least one person on this site acknowledged RH's birthday. C'mon people, w/o the words it would have not been possible.
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Early Ellington 6/25/28 Roy Eldridge "Little Jazz" 6/25/35 Modern Jazz Quartet "Django" 6/25/53 Clifford Brown "The Beginning & the End" 6/25/56 Thelonious Monk "Monk's Music" 6/25/57 Dave Brubeck "Time Out" 6/25/59 Tina Brooks "True Blue" 6/25/60 Led Zeppelin "How the West Was Won" 6/25/72 Left out a few - Bill, Wes, Andrew & lee - maybe next time.