Category: GD
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Just Play
Going through some scratched up old CDs, I found a copy of the Crosby, Stills and Nash release Carry On (Atlantic 7567804872, 2006). Entering some dates to trace Croz’s whereabouts in the various periods in which he frequented the Garciaverse (most intensely, fall 1969-fall 1971 and again March-September 1975), I am reminded that Crosby, Stills,…
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Simon and Garfunkel meet Anthem of the Sun
“Grateful Dead Records,” Rolling Stone, November 23, 1967, p. 4. The Grateful Dead hopes to have some new records out soon, particularly a single in late November and an LP in January. If the group obtains the approval of Warner Brothers, the January release will be a two-record set chock full o’ goodies. Some of…
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Late Jerry
On a forum of which I am a part, poster Elliot makes a very interesting observation about our hero in 1995. I suspect he was putting in as much effort as he was capable of. He was definitely serious about that learning [Unbroken Chain]. Before the first night of the May ’95 Seattle shows we…
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Compensation on TDIH
I have explored, mentally more than online, the hypothesis that when Jerry’s vocals were especially, noteworthily bad, he compensated with his guitar playing, really concentrating on it and giving it extra “oomph”. If we could gather all the data (like continuous measures of the quality of singing and guitar playing), the compensation hypothesis might be…
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Lurid Nightclub Atmosphere
https://archive.org/details/gd66-12-01.sbd.sirmick.26968.sbeok.shnf Garcia, after Minglewood: Welcome to another evening of confusion and high frequency stimulation. And, Sucrets, cold beer on tap, lurid nightclub atmosphere, and Beatniks … more Beatniks than you can count on two hands.
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Darkness, Darkness
**Fulsomely updated, 11/28/2014 at 12:34 PM, GMT -0700)** **update2: Blogger is making me crazy. Sorry for poor formatting** This post now needs to be completely reconstituted. 1. San Diego papers I mentioned in my 11/18/73 post that the San Diego State Daily Aztec is digitized and online. Bravo, and thank you, librarians! They have also,…
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Dead in the Panhandle – Sunday, April 9, 1967
Video! (Reminder: Jerrybase benefits from the work of Gordon the Drummer, who maintains the state-of-the-art list of GD and JG videos for us. Thank you, GTD!) http://stock.mrfootage.com/pages/assets_clip/popup_play.php?session_numb=80572&language_numb=1&business_numb=1004&shot_numb=407764 http://vimeo.com/97755921 http://vimeo.com/97755927 The 921 link has two minutes of pure gold, starting with the Grateful Dead playing “Caution”, high quality color and sound, a bit distant (but correspondingly…
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gd1984-10-06.127557.set2.schoeps.oade.BCE.flac1648
https://archive.org/details/gd1984-10-06.127557.set2.schoeps.oade.BCE.flac1648 Spinning this now. Oade. Garcia gave an interview to the Boston Globe guy around this time in which he sounds very happy and positive about the Dead. It’s stunningly orthogonal to so much of the other stuff going on in his life around this time. But I love that the big fella could just…
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Englishtown: Get the Aud!
https://archive.org/details/gd1977-09-03.aud.102409.flemming.berger.flac24 You want to hear the energy of Englishtown? Get the aud.
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Summer ’72
John L. Wasserman item in the Datebook of July 23, 1972, p. 25: “The Grateful Dead and crew are currently mixing down some 60 hours of music from their spring tour of Europe for fall release”. Saw something from Night Times from about that time, with prospective release date of October 5, 1972. I note…