Friend Of the Devils: Atlanta, 4/78

Episode Duration: 01:38:12

The Deadcast pulls into Atlanta’s Fox Theatre to explore the Dead’s two April ‘78 shows, delving into the local underground music scene with Glenn Phillips of the Hampton Grease Band, as well as rare Jerry Garcia interviews.

Guests: Donna Jean Godchaux-MacKay, Glenn Phillips, Steve Maizner, David Lemieux

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by Jesse Jarnow

 

The first two times the Grateful Dead performed in Atlanta, in 1969 and 1970, they shared bills with the Hampton Grease Band, the local underground heroes who pioneered the practice of playing for free in Piedmont Park. Though the Grease Band themselves didn’t survive past 1973, its members continued (and continue) to remain vital members of the local music scene. Guitarist Glenn Phillips, then experiencing his first success as a solo artist, attended one of the Dead’s Atlanta ‘78 shows and had an especially powerful experience. Glenn is the author of a soulful memoir, Echoes: The Hampton Grease Band, My Life, My Music and How I Stopped Having Panic Attacks. (I’m an enormous fan of both the Hampton Grease Band and Glenn’s solo work, and wrote a long history of the group, and created GreaseBase.)

 

<a href="https://glennphillips.bandcamp.com/album/echoes-1975-1985">Echoes 1975 - 1985 by Glenn Phillips</a>

 

Nick Paumgarten wrote about the history of the Betty Boards for the New Yorker, before they were returned to the Dead’s vault. Enormous thanks to David Gans for use of interviews, originally published in Conversations With the Dead, as well as the Retro Photo Archive, for access to some way cool and never-heard audio of Jerry Garcia talking about his guitar and gear with journalist Jon Sievert, recorded during this period.

 

A documentary about Atlanta’s Fabulous Fox Theatre.

 

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    Hi Jesse - "the sound is amazing" I think is a big overstatement for this box, relative to available Dave's Picks and other boxes. The sound is good if you turn it up very high and get used to the muffled sound. Not vibrant, not crisp, but muffled and low volume. Don't get me wrong, I'm very grateful for it, and for your continued work, but I got this nasty feeling you are too close a friend of the sales devils when you say stuff like that.

The Deadcast pulls into Atlanta’s Fox Theatre to explore the Dead’s two April ‘78 shows, delving into the local underground music scene with Glenn Phillips of the Hampton Grease Band, as well as rare Jerry Garcia interviews.

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by Jesse Jarnow

 

The first two times the Grateful Dead performed in Atlanta, in 1969 and 1970, they shared bills with the Hampton Grease Band, the local underground heroes who pioneered the practice of playing for free in Piedmont Park. Though the Grease Band themselves didn’t survive past 1973, its members continued (and continue) to remain vital members of the local music scene. Guitarist Glenn Phillips, then experiencing his first success as a solo artist, attended one of the Dead’s Atlanta ‘78 shows and had an especially powerful experience. Glenn is the author of a soulful memoir, Echoes: The Hampton Grease Band, My Life, My Music and How I Stopped Having Panic Attacks. (I’m an enormous fan of both the Hampton Grease Band and Glenn’s solo work, and wrote a long history of the group, and created GreaseBase.)

 

 

Nick Paumgarten wrote about the history of the Betty Boards for the New Yorker, before they were returned to the Dead’s vault. Enormous thanks to David Gans for use of interviews, originally published in Conversations With the Dead, as well as the Retro Photo Archive, for access to some way cool and never-heard audio of Jerry Garcia talking about his guitar and gear with journalist Jon Sievert, recorded during this period.

 

A documentary about Atlanta’s Fabulous Fox Theatre.

 

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Hi Jesse - "the sound is amazing" I think is a big overstatement for this box, relative to available Dave's Picks and other boxes. The sound is good if you turn it up very high and get used to the muffled sound. Not vibrant, not crisp, but muffled and low volume. Don't get me wrong, I'm very grateful for it, and for your continued work, but I got this nasty feeling you are too close a friend of the sales devils when you say stuff like that.

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