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  • katky111
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    We all seem to post past one another here, but I must say that you undoubtedly have the most eclectic personal taste in music that I've ever encountered. While nothing has yet struck me, I do listen - and look forward - to your diverse audio samples! Keep 'em coming!/thanks, kate
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    #11 upon arrival most of yesterday, today back to my latest find, Tull (well it's a timely discovery for MY life's journey)...I suspect TAAB may well have just permanently catapulted into my all-time top 5 albums list. Holy cow! As proof that '77 was a gr8 year for someone other than the Dead, I give you the mad genius of IA and JT: peace, kate
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    William S. Burroughs Track: "Summer Will" Label: Industrial Records Cat#: IR0016
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    English Translation You are dead, you are dead, my dearest, And I breathe, you have left me, You have left me forevermore, Never to return, and I remain- No, no, if my verses have any power, I will go confidently to the deepest abysses, And, having melted the heart of the king of shadows, Will bring you back to me to see the stars again, Or, if pitiless fate denies me this, I will remain with you in the company of death. Farewell earth, farewell sky, and sun, farewell.
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    Your canonization of PL is spot-on in my book! :)) The more I read, the more I understand that he is a seminal figure in the evolution of the bass guitar from a simple anchor line to rhythm support. Because of his quick wit and native intelligence, interviews are always an intriguing affair. Perhaps one of my favorite, and also the most surprising, responses came during a Jackson interview (of course!) in April 90, to which Phil averred, in response to a question regarding musical influences: "...I don't study other bassists, and I don't think I've really drawn much from them. In my own style of playing, such as it is, I've been influenced more by Bach than by any bassists. Actually, you can go back even further - Palestrina, sixteenth century modal counterpoint." Okay, now I could identify diverse influences of the blues, jazz, country, western, balladic, and even carribean (Aiko) musical traditions in the Dead's catalogue, but 16th century modal counterpoint had eluded me entirely!/kate
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    As I alluded to on the #11 thread, I've recently discovered Tull; despite the usual studio reccos for newbies from a couple JT boards, my first choice - after copious sampling on Amazon and iTunes - was a '77 live comp (specifically, "Bursting Out", which would be absolutely no surprise to Heads :)) ). Anyway, "A Passion Play" arrived in the mail yesterday and I listened with a sense of rapturous epiphany on the way in for some unscheduled (and blessedly quiet) time at the office. However, in one of those queer alignments of cosmic circumstance, my draw from the Toscanini RCA box - that is, for listening once in the office - was AT & the NBC SO's rendition of Haydn's Symphony No.88*; an extraordinary coincidence because I was immediately struck by a strong similarity between the powerful musical currents of the 2 works! Sadly, my lack of technical musical education or general knowledge correlates with a deficient vocabulary in this area that precludes a more satisfying explanation of these congruencies. Still, a pretty neat observation among pieces written approximately 185 years apart! *Given the forum, I feel inclined to specify that the piece was recorded in studio on 3/8/38 ;) ...deadheads and dates...(and yes, that's nineteen thirty-eight (magnificent sound, by the way)/ peace,kate
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    Marshun, I know the feeling!!
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    uh..... I dunno, that new Dave's Picks? Wichita anyone?
    A pleasant thing to come home to. Kudos to the United States Postal Service! The new Dave's Picks is pretty sweet, and not just because it's from '72. As usual, the latest release sounds great, but I love the context.... the Dead were in the middle of an amazing run that saw them perform over 50 shows in the last half of '72, a show every three or four days. They bounced around the country daring tour heads to keep up.While I enjoy the local perspective as expressed in the liner notes, I wish Dave (or whomever) would have included some historical perspective as it relates to this awesome run of Dead shows. This Wichita show is but one of many incredible performances that summer and fall. A slice of the Dead at their peak. I'm still deep into playing this for the first time, but already the standout tunes are the Jack Straw (yeh, yeh, I know... Jack Straw from Wichita), followed by a pretty new Box 'o Rain. Yeah, the Box is sketchy, but Phil's bass line from the previous J Straw had me distracted, I think he really is a God. Sweet China Rider transition, too. Truckin' Other One Brokedown looms.... we'll see how it goes.
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    Thanks A.Cajun.Head, Cool. Sometimes I get those directions mixed-up like everything is happening at once in waves or something.
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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.