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You know what would be the coolest? If Kim Thayil inducted MC5 and then Wayne did the same for Soundgarden.
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Well, the new album is finally here. After a dozen spins, I feel confident in ranking Ode to Joy at the very bottom of my list. As a long-time Wilco fan, I'm not happy or sad about this. It is what it is. Given the band's recent trajectory, though, I feel safe in saying that the only thing that could possibly bump the new album from the bottom is the next album (barring some kind of space-time continuum miracle).
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YHF
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WTA
TWL
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OTJ
Also this, for Old School types: OTPHJ > OTJ
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For sure! Lucky enough to see Cream in 2005 at msg was a great experience!
Man you are truly one of the lucky ones! I first heard Live Cream when I was about 18 and was a seminal piece of work for me. Immediately thereafter I scarfed up all the officially released live stuff. The recorded output of live stuff shows they were the best jam band that ever was. IMO.I love Rush, Zeppelin, The Who and others but for me Bill Bruford and Ginger are the two best Rock drummers ever.
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Rizzo's return was the highlight of my day. Kimbrel's return was the lowlight of my day.
I felt like I lost TWO games in 10 innings.
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If the trajectory of the Brewers follows that of the Cubs then it's their turn for a ring. Which I wouldn't pissed about. There's a rivalry which keeps getting better but I don't hate 'em like I do the Cards.
Also THIS from 5.5 months ago - they were ridiculous last September if I recall. But not unlike Chicago they were pretty battered most of the year. What happened this week was fucking tragic, though. Yelich was right at the top for another MVP award. The dude was MONEY. And well on a path to be the first player IN MLB HISTORY to be a 50 HR 30 SB guy. Think about that one. It makes me sad even though he kills my team.. That said, they still could very easily sneak in the playoffs if the Cubs continue their sporadic play
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3 and 1/2 months since there's been a post. I just punched myself in the face with my fist (after I looked at my watch and my wrist).
Christ, there have been SO many insane, spectacular things happen this year I can't even begin to list them all! Just today Nico Hoerner (who got called up Monday from AA ball - not for the 40-man, but when both Baez and Russell went down) hits a home run ON THE VERY FIRST PITCH HE SEES AT WRIGLEY. Some stat nerd should figure the odds of that one out.
Anyone feel free to chip in on anything amazing you saw happen.
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New Halloween 1973 box set announced today:
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After seeing KISS last night, I was thinking about bands that had great marketing. Not bands created specifically by marketing (boy bands, Spice Girls, etc.) but marketing that pushed bands to higher levels. Here are a few...
1) KISS, duh!
2) Grateful Dead
3) Rolling Stones (mostly from the iconic Warhol lips and tongue alone)
4) The Beatles, esp. in the moptop days
Hard to argue with any of those. Zeppelin's Swan Song logo has sold a gizllion shirts. Motorhead is wildly successful, given the fact that they didn't sell millions of records. AC/DC! The Phish logo is iconic - every Phish fan has multiple shirts.
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I own one Black Crowes record - "The Southern Harmony and Musical Companion." I like it quite a bit (I'm a sucker for southern guitar rock), though others may have more informed recommendations.
Yeah. The guitar tone on Sometimes Salvation is one of my favorite moments from that band. But I haven't really gone past the first 4 records so I'm not really a hardcore person with them.
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The (now 3rd) annual Little League Classic game in MLB is one of the neatest sporting events going. Heartwarming and so much fun.
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Yeah, people harp on those years for Jerry being at a low point with drug addiction and unhealthiness, which is true, and there were some bad shows and his voice was shot maybe half the time, but the musical performance peaks were really not that scarce in those years as some make it out to be and I think it applies to JGB and the Dead.
The sound quality of the recordings makes a big difference to me and there were some sweet SBD recordings in '84 and '85, probably better than the quality of the boards in '82 and '83 overall. These Philly shows sound pretty great to my ears!
It still astonishes me that no matter how bad Garcia looked in '83 and '84 in particular he still had moments - entire shows, even - where he was just playing the most amazing shit. It seems (to me) that every year from Brent coming on board from '79 through '82 the band just got better as a whole. '82 is a high point of that particular period. In '83 and '84 things get a bit more hit/miss and erratic. That said there's many many shows that are mind-blowing. If he was on he was ON, but if not....well he was not.
I've always thought that the reason '85 is so highly regarded is a direct result of the good number of incredible boards that circulated. Some of those '85 shows just leap out of the speakers and grab you by the balls and scream "PAY ATTENTION!". There are shows in '80-'82 where the boards are kind of flat, missing Bobby a LOT or Phil, etc. I still listen to 'em a lot anyway - it's a very exciting era for me.
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I don't know if Garcia was off his gourd or what, but if I was at that show, I would have walked out during the ending of Wharf rat and never looked back. That was a train wreck.
If this was the best show they could muster for Dave's picks, then they're definitely scraping for resins, or holding back on Betty shows just to prolong the usefulness of this subscription.
I'll respectfully disagree. The whole first half-decade of the Brent Era is so woefully under-represented in the catalog it's always a pleasure when they delve into that. I know they were way lax in running tape from the board in those first 5 Brent years - which seemed to disappear after the 1/85 bust - but I love that period nearly as much as any other classic period.
I might have went with 12/1 -just because I'm super-familiar with that show - but the sound of the band Fall '79 is very jazz-like especially in the jams.
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Apparently there will be a "gender reveal"
of the new box set at the Meet Up on Thursday. Has anyone heard about what it might be? I've asked everyone I know who is connected and I'm getting nothing. Anyone here hear rumors/answers on this? Deadheads aren't well known for caring about "spoilers". -
I'm not familiar with that 12/3 show. If it's anything like 12/1 this will be a GREAT pick. I have to wonder if there were any tape anomalies that prevented 12/1 from consideration. I'm a huge fan of Fall '79, that show and the NYE run in particular.
I need to see if this is a Betty, and at what exact date Meyer Sound came on board. I was thinking it was the NY Run but it might have been earlier in the tour.
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The Q could be pretty thrilling, it was a fresh approach to the music that needed a kick in the ass after the last few years of the Dead. Can't say I'm itching to listen to the Q much now these days.. Would rather listen to Jerry.
Yes, yes and yes.
JRAD was fun last night. Received Wilco goodness twice. Once with a cover of Hoodoo Voodoo, and twice when Glen Kottke joined the band for Other One drumming splendor.
It was a fine show. I think I’m finding it harder to get to the point of musical ecstasy I long for. I think I was there during the drum duo of Other One.
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I saw The Q a good number of times from '99-'02. While I understand the idea of "showing off" - there was more than a little of that - it also COULD be amazing, as JW said as well. I really liked that band a lot, but then I was a huge Fusion/Prog fan as a young guy so that might explain THAT. There was a lot going on at times, almost an aural assault. But when they were all locked in and listening to each other it was some of the best GD music I've ever heard, certainly more exciting than the last few years of the Jerry-led band. Deer Creek 7/15/01 was just an amazing night - I've been to The Creek maybe 150 times or more over the last 30 years and it was a Top 10 all time Creek show, by any band I've ever saw there.
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Stella Blue coming out of Space is pretty sweet.
Very sweet. I think that might have happened less than 10 times in the early Brent Years (79-80), and then the only one I really recall after that was 6/14/91 RFK.
Gotta love Voodoonola.
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Question for anyone here who is a fan - has anyone been to the "Live From The Artists' Den" (Wiltern Theater, LA) screenings? I know Kim turned up to introduce it at The Wiltern last week for the first airing, and apparently Kim AND Ben were there to introduce it (Seattle?) tonight. That show in the film is well loved by the band as well as the fans. It's pretty epic. It doesn't have that wild energy of the early years but it's a sweet document of a very professional band crushing tunes from every phase of their career. Bits and pieces have existed off and on on YT for awhile. It's going to be at an IMAX in downtown Indy and I really want to see it. Any feedback appreciated if you've saw it.
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A few things that stand out for me in this very captivating movie - I watched it on the 12th after I got back from Deer Creek:
- The live performances. Never have I seen Bob so animated and lively. You can tell he was really getting off on the RTR concept in that first leg, especially. Isis is off the chart with energy, and even a song like One More Cup Of Coffee (which I never considered to be a major work) is stellar. The clip of Joni with Bob & McGuinn doing Coyote (did they say that was shot at Gordon Lightfoot house?) was a treasure.
- The sequence with Bob and Joan Baez ("Thought will fuck you up") was intense as hell, and might have been the most revelatory part of the movie for me. Like, "Why didn't we stay together and rule the world?" "Well...because...". It's obvious Joan loves that man so much it hurts in all of her Q/A.
- Deadheads: Did you catch the Blues For Allah sticker on Scarlet's violin? That part of the film was late '75, the Dead LP came out in September of the same year. Interesting that the sticker was in place 2-3 months after the LP came out. And MY GOD she seems like she must have been a real firecracker.
- Ginsberg is The Buddah. Bob definitely respected the fuck out of that guy. Even if his scenes in concert were cut he delivers the ending benediction of sorts in the movie, and did so brilliantly, and in a way uniquely his.
I would give a 10/10, if not for the "fake news" parts of the movie, so 9.5/10.
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That's perfect.
I feel bad - there's a newish dad in the neighborhood, and we're all just starting to kind of hang out. He came to a St. Paddy's day party we threw, and he heard I was "into the Dead" so he was very excited to talk about Dead & Co with me, and I had to hold him up, saying that I really had no interest in the newest iteration with the band. He got kind of defensive, and it almost got awkward, but I wasn't being a dick about it - I just said I had no interest. I like the old stuff, Meyer's a fine player, but does nothing for me, the tempos are too slow, etc. etc. etc.
Anyways - fast forward to a week or so ago, he wanted to know if I was interested in going in on a Nugs livecast of any of the upcoming shows. The devil floating over my left shoulder was screaming "No you dipshit! Don't you remember? I said I had no interest. The last thing I want to do is sit on my couch listening to some band I don't want to be listening to." The angel over my right shoulder said "Be nice! Be kind. It might be fun to hang out." So I told him that if he wanted to order something up, I'd be game, and I'd head over once I put all the boys down in bed." The next day I couldn't resist telling him "full disclosure though, I'm really not a Dead & Co guy." I haven't heard from him since, and now I feel bad.
Weekend nights are MY time. You know? Would I rather watch Dead & Co plod through another 6 song 1st set, or do I want to watch the new Scorsese Dylan doc on Netflix?
You just described my whole feeling about this perfectly. Cheers.
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Saw on another board that the 8/1/19 Grateful Dead Movie Meet-up will be 6/17/91 from Giants Stadium.
Also:
That quote is intriguing. They missed the traditional May box set last month, but were promoting the $800 Woodstock box. Which is nice, but...no.
Apparently I'd better save some cash for what we will find out about in a few hours haha.
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Maybe it's cause I was only 7 this year, so my formative years music wasn't kicking into gear yet, and the stuff I look back at fondly came before this, but this is a year of things waiting to happen in my eyes (as well as dying off), more than things happening.
The coolest record of 1989 has to be Pixies Doolittle. Honorable mention to Soundgarden Louder Than Love
In other news Jawbreaker and Fugazi were getting going. Mudhoney put out their debut (with better things to come). REM was regrouping as was Bruce Springsteen. Sonic Youth was just about to get amazing with Goo, but not yet. Public Enemy was working of Fear of a Black Planet. Psychedelic Furs, Replacements, The Smiths were all running out of steam.
Kind of a crossroad.
I enjoyed everything about this post. I know nothing about Jawbreaker, and I would put New York as the coolest record. Certainly one of Lou's very best records of all time, and who is cooler than Lou?
PE was crushing it then. I think they're the best of the whole genre, but that's just me. SG's Louder Than Love is underrated, but really a glimpse of what's to come. Badmotorfinger blew my head off when I first heard it.
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1989 was a big live music year for me. I was running around with the Grateful Dead and when I wasn't doing that, I was going to see punk and grunge shows at Cabaret Metro and Lounge Ax. In between all that, I was working on my undergrad degree and working. Looking at all the ticket stubs from that year, I'm not sure how I afforded it or found the time/energy. Ah, to be young again! 1989 was a very good year...
I saw the most Dead shows I ever saw in one year in '89 (17). And a couple of JGB shows (Alpine & Poplar).The Spring still felt like a continuation of the hit/miss occasional shows I saw in '88 but from July forward it got amazingly good. But, back to the OP haha:
One thing here that I didn't see mentioned was the first major label (A&M) release of the Seattle "Grunge" movement - Soundgarden's "Louder Than Love". I did not hear that when it came out - Badmotorfinger was my fist exposure to SG, and I still think that is the crowning achievement of the whole scene - but the template is being set with Louder Than Love. AIC's first record came out a year later, then Temple of the Dog in early '91, then 6 months later Nevermind, Ten and Badmotorfinger ALL IN THE SAME MONTH. Buh bye, Poison, Buh bye Warrant, etc. I know about Melvins, Mudhoney, Mother Love Bone, etc.But props to SG for going big. They were supposed to be the "next big thing" but all of the others of the "Big Four" blew up before them.Because they were the weirdest of the four.
Blah blah blah New York is one the 5 best Rock records I've ever heard and Freedom was the return to form I'd waited on for a decade. And OH MERCY! So those are my 3 faves of '89.
The Black Crowes
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I kind of lost track with that band after Three Snakes in the mid 90s. But I agree with you here that those first records were really excellent. You're about a decade younger than me so I can imagine how excited you must have been in that post-HS/college years. Hell, I was crossing the threshold of 30 and I thought bands like them and PJ helped to save rock and roll.
I've said it here before but SH&MC is one of the very best records of the 90s. There's really not a dud in the whole bunch and the guitar tones on Sometimes Salvation is one of my favorite things in Rock.