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Shine on You Crazy Diamond

Nice! My first grader learned about the Liberty Bell last week, which lead to a discussion of Franklin's.

I like that 74 Dijon show a lot. Great first set, gets started with a rare UJB opener that is real rubbery. A fast version of FOTD, which makes me understand why they started it playing it slow. Worked better slow with electric instruments. Not as sprawling as most 74 shows could be, but I think that is a good thing. Show has more of an arc to it, as opposed to many 74 shows, that were all over the place with pacing, song choices. Funny aside, I have a buddy who is the only French Deadhead in all of Dijon, maybe all of France. He is a few years too young to have attended this show, doesn't k

Listening to 6/9/77, guess it was released as part of a 3 show set as Winterland June 77. Missed that one. Anywho, second set is bonkers. Garcia's tone in Help is huge, reminds me of seeing Gilmour 10 years ago, amazing to hear such a powerful sound come out of a guitar. Then a 9 minute Slipknot, and a 17 minute Franklin's! Holy cow, don't recall ever seeing a Franklin's anywhere near that long. Rest of the set is psychedelic gravy: "Estimated Prophet" > (Weir, Barlow) – 11:36 "Saint Stephen" > (Garcia, Lesh, Hunter) – 5:30 "Not Fade Away" > (Holly, Petty) – 6:29 "Drums" > (Kreut

One more thing about that 6/23/74 show: When the Dark Star heats up and Keith switches to the electric piano, it sounds reminiscent of LA Woman. Feel like I've heard them play with this sound before. Has this ever been called a "LA Woman Jam" before, or not quite similar enough? I know Garcia hated the Doors, not much of a fan myself, but LA Woman is pretty good.

Was just listening to 6/23/74. Strong first set, but dang that Jack Straw is slow. Don't remember if that is typical for 74. I'd take a version from the 90's over that. And 6/18/74 is an all time favorite.

From what I've read from various sources, the only full band rehearsals were soundchecks, and the Santa Clara shows. And Trey could never get them to work out the harmonies to Attics of My Life, so he had his buddy transcribe the parts, gave it to Hornsby, and they worked out how to do it together. I think one took the high, one the low, and they knew the rest of them would fill in the middle. Probably fun to be at, maybe fun to relive if you were there, but musically not much worth revisiting otherwise. In other news, working my way through 30 Trips box, found the transition from 78 to 7

His mind has left his body for good...

Cool article in Chicago Tribune today about Stud's archives. Looking forward to hearing a lot more.

Studs Terkel interviewing Garcia in 1979. Can't believe this hasn't surfaced before. Studs archives are undoubtedly a real treasure. Had a cassette tape of him interviewing Dylan in 1963. And saw Studs talk once around 2001. What a legend. Hear Jerry Garcia Talk Bruce Springsteen, Grateful Dead's Egypt Visit http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/hear-jerry-garcia-talk-bruce-springsteen-grateful-deads-egypt-visit-20160122

I think about half of DSO is second generation at this point, so not too far off from becoming a reality.

Looks like the guys from DSO will be playing the Dead in the Amazon series. Actually, I just made that up to infuriate people. Would be so great.

I don't think Marty directed those docs either, same Exec Producer role. Could be wrong.

Yeah, that Stones film was lame. His Dylan and George Harrison docs were good though. Last Waltz was ok...

A lot was shot of FTW, so I'm sure it's there if they want it, but the director was quoted as saying he would not be there.

Scorsese's film is still on. Don't think it has anything to do with any of the 50th anni stuff, focuses on the first 30 years.

I read somewhere the series was going to focus on the roadies, which is at least a novel angle, I guess. I don't think the Grateful Dead experience translates very well to film, as so much of it has to do with the feelings and realizations of transcendence, whether chemically induced or not.

Posted this in the Grateful Dead thread too, but also obviously relevant here: A pretty stunning analysis of, among many things, the influence of the New Lost City Ramblers on Dylan and the Grateful Dead, and the hidden messages in the songs of Dylan and Hunter: http://swarmuth.blogspot.com/2015/12/bob-dylans-secret-answer-record-uncle.html

A pretty stunning analysis of, among many things, the influence of the New Lost City Ramblers on Dylan and the Grateful Dead, and the hidden messages in the songs of Dylan and Hunter: http://swarmuth.blogspot.com/2015/12/bob-dylans-secret-answer-record-uncle.html

I read Gans interviewed the DSO guys so he could keep the focus on the music, but in that article the drummer is discussing second hand info he's heard about the band drinking at shows in the 90's. Maybe they, and other heads, offer something more significant in other parts of the book, but hasn't it all been said before, or couldn't Gans and Jackson filled in those details themselves? Also read quote from Gans that heads will get nothing new out of the book, so again, just not sure what the point is. And I'm really not interested in what the guys from DSO have to say, regardless of what anyon

Kinda cool, pretty much heard it all before. Can't believe they interviewed the guys from DSO for this.

Yes, and over Jerry's guitars, which Phil felt should be given to those Jerry identified in his will (Doug Irwin, the maker), vs. the other guys who felt they were Grateful Dead property.

Lot of rumblings about Phil and wife being control freaks. Story after the last Dead tour of the wife demanding some money from Billy and Mickey for her belief that she was owed in some type of management capacity, and them not paying up. But Phil has always been hard headed, and combined with his financial independence and brushes with death, he doesn't appear interested in compromising in any way. Think the other guys still party pretty hard too, which Phil is not down with.

They certainly acted like they were pretty much just another 5 shows. Pretty typical two set Grateful Dead shows with Drums/Space, one encore. Could barely get a second encore out of them on the last night, and they couldn't squeeze GDTRFB in before NFA? It's cool they decided to stick to doing what they normally do, but for the amount of money people were charged, the hype that went into it, and work that Trey put into it, the rest of the guys could have at least pretended to give a fuck. Trey obviously worked his ass off for this, hopefully he got paid a shit load, more than everyone else.

With Wharf Rat earlier in the set, a real ballad heavy show. Also MLB in that Playin. Great show!