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  • gratefaldean
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    Live Used vinyl I just grabbed. I used to have a copy of this album, disappeared under mysterious circumstances, which is to say, I have no recollection of where it went. It definitely was a part of my "keyboard rock" period.
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    Coming off 8/14 & 15/71 - Berkeley Community Theatre that rip. There's a picture of Jerry playing a Strat in Deadbase IX with a caption that says "Berkeley Community Theatre 1971". I think they mean 1972 because surely Jerry's playin' somethin' Gibson at those shows. 8/16/80 Mississippi River Festival Set 1 8/16/51 Dizzy Gillespie 8/16/52 Geri Mulligan w/ Chet Baker 8/16/57 John Coltrane "Lush Life" 8/16/59 Teddy Edwards "Sunset Eyes" 8/16/60 Eric Dolphy "Out There" 8/16/61 R.R.Kirk "We Three Kings" 8/16/80 Mississippi River Festival Set 2 I was at this show and had the best time of any I'd attended - music was pretty good, too. I believe they atoned nicely for any missteps they may have had 11 years earlier.
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    Between yesterday and today, I heard, and am listening to, a pair of incredible shows.Though not perfect regarding completeness/sound quality, 8/12/72's essence is not to be denied. When the good sound is there, it's fantastic- Jerry's guitar and voice in this show are what please me most about the man. We get a Stella in the 1st set and Black Peter with a perfect break in the second. And today's show - 8/13/75 - is simply unstoppable! Last year I and a buddy were on vacation in San Francisco and he decided one morning to score some Asian food. His restaurant of choice turned out to be right around the corner from the Great American Music Hall. As we walked west along O'Farrell St., it dawned on me this was the site of the famed "Spot Check"! After we got the food, we walked back to the GAMH and I tried to see about trying to see the interior of this hallowed space. Just then someone popped out the front door. I asked him if it'd be OK to snoop a bit and he said sure. I'll not get over how small it was relative to what I'd been listening to all these years! So as I listen to Sugaree, I stand upstairs in the back and imagine the band on stage with the crowd rapt and swaying as Jerry slays 'em in the vocal outro. Cheers!
  • Parkas4Kids
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    'Details': https://store.volcoment.com/item/205967 I've never heard of this band prior to about two weeks ago, but this album blew me away. I recently joined the Volcom Entertainment Vinyl Club, where, for $40 plus shipping and handling, you get an exclusive, limited edition 45 every few months. Well, this particular gem was mixed in with my recent sign-up goodies, and I was a tad skeptical of its potential. Needless to say, my skepticism was unnecessary. Their style is somewhere between '60s-era psychedelic and '70s-era thrash metal. Side A is pretty solid, but when you get to side B, watch out! The sonic assault of those three songs--"My Big Cups," "Love Hums," and "Edge of the Apocalypse (Forever)"--will not only knock your socks off, they'll require a change of underwear! For those of you with functioning turntables, get the 12". It comes with a download, and the record itself sounds FANTASTIC. I know, I listened to it (and may have slam-danced, as well) last night. You can also score the MP3s for less than $7 from your local digital retailer, but where's the fun in that?
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    On this date in 1970
    In what would be her final public live performance, Janis Joplin packed Cambridge’s Harvard Stadium to the brim and beyond for a show that goes down as one of Boston’s most famous live music moments.According to an article on Harvard.edu about one of the photographers at the show, only about 10,000 people were allowed inside the stadium but the crowd of people that gathered around the stadium to get a glimpse of the show reached as high as about 40,000. Many fans even climbed the walls of the stadium to get inside! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=heBezleB2HE
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  • Parkas4Kids
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    http://majestico.bandcamp.com "Live At Japan," a free download of a 26-minute live performance by the Nashville, TN band. You can also download their free debut EP, "Boundary Conditions," for free, but "Live At Japan" is where it's at.
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  • RamblinRosebud
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    Just bought Dick's Picks Vol. 24 and am half way through. Great set.
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Renegade Soundwave Track: The Phantom (It's In There) Label: Mute Cat#: INT 126.911 (12 Mute 88)
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I didn't know it was a problem.
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Deadbeat Track: Mecca (Drum Jack) Label: Wagon Repair Cat#: WAG 033
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Alex Coulton Track: Pointe Noire Label: Dnuos Ytivil Cat#: 899YTIVIL
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Paul Woolford Track: Erotic Discourse (Kowton Remix) Label: Hotflush Recordings Cat#: HFRMX011D
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September 1976~Good ol Grateful Dead Dick's Picks volume 20
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Touch of grey wake&bake Saturday morning!!
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Madalyn Merkey Track: Mend Label: New Images Cat#: NI 04
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12.03.79 scarlet> fire, terrapin....
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Sunshine Daydream Veneta Oregon 8/27/1972
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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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Moritz von Oswald Trio Track: Pattern 3 Label: Honest Jon's Records Cat#: HJRCD45
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Emmanuel Jal Track: Kuar (Olof Dreijer Remix) Label: Innervisions Cat#: IV29
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with the Grateful Dead West Germany April 24, 1972 Truckin'
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Klara Lewis Track: Untilted Label: Editions Mego Cat#: eMEGO 190
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English Interpretation The night is quiet, the streets are calm, In this house my beloved once lived: She has long since left the town, But the house still stands, here in the same place. A man stands there also and looks to the sky, And wrings his hands overwhelmed by pain: Upon seeing his face, I am terrified-- The moon shows me my own form! O you Doppelgänger! you pale comrade! Why do you ape the pain of my love Which tormented me upon this spot So many a night, so long ago?
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What a long strange trip it's been/ The Best of the Grateful Dead
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summer '71/ volume 1/#3 Big Railroad Blues...Saturday, Sunshine and Grateful Dead...a perfect day!
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Musiciens Du Dompago Track: Flûtes Et Clochettes Label: Philips - Prophet Series Cat#: 9814309
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Playin' in the Band!
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Truckin' up to Buffalo 07/04/1989Rich Stadium, Orchard Park, N.Y.
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Jerry Garcia Band/after midnight Kean college 2/28/80
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JGB...soothes my soul
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Grateful Dead ~ View from the Vault IV ~ July 24,1987 Oakland Stadium - Oakland, CAJust like They are still there I know I was. Real good show which also had Bob Dylan join later for a couple of sets that ran pretty late. So much joy watching this and going back again tonight. "Where does the time go?"
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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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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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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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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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Hot Chocolate Track: Put Your Love In Me Label: RAK Cat#: 5C 006-60 166
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William S. Burroughs Track: "Summer Will" Label: Industrial Records Cat#: IR0016
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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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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