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    The Grateful Dead

    in Someone Else's Song

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    On Father's Day a couple of years ago my daughter got me a very cool present - some thing she got from Amazon UK I believe -a CD box set of the FMs from some of the shows from the Fall '71 Tour (when they were doing a lot of live shows on the radio, promoting Skullfuck). Now, I was weaned on many of these shows, some of them were among the first tapes in my collection, so I have a particular affinity for them, as well as they're a REALLY exciting period to be documented - some really killer jamming here and there. 

     

    Here's the list of the shows (about 20 CDs): 7/2/71 Fillmore West (the last show there for them), 10/19/71 (first with Keith), 10/30/71, 11/7/71 SF  (400 seater!), 12/5/71, 12/10/71 & 12/31/71. Like I said, I had all but 1 or 2 of these on cassette, and they appear to be exactly the same - right down to the DJ banter between stuff - except they are upgrades in quality over my multi-gen FMs from long ago.

     

    Needless to say, I was pretty blown away by the present. I had to ask her, "OMFG how much did this cost you?" and she said it was only around 30 bucks. As cheap as that is, I probably wouldn't have sprung for them myself because it's definitely a bootleg operation, and I'm pretty adamant to the money reaching the band, but who was I to turn this down as a gift, right?

     

    Anyway....I digress. Just wondering: did anyone else get this stuff?

     

    Yeah, I bought the 3 boxes below from amazon.uk, at prices cheaper than those appearing today, about $1 per cd
    I know they are bootlegs but....I have spent a lot of money in the latest boxes as, in addition to the already many $$ they cost, customs charge me an arm and a leg
     
    Summer 76: The Complete Broadcasts Cofre
    The Broadcast Collection 1976 - 1980 Cofre, CD
    71 Dead Cofre

    Album side masterpiece

    in Someone Else's Song

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    Um,  Dead Flowers and Moonlight Mile are on side 2, dude.

    You may be right. I would have cited the entire album save for Sister Morphine which I don't like much and in fact I only listened a few years ago as the Spanish edition was mutilated by the f*** Franco government; they also forced the label to change the cover which has become a piece for coleccionists (and I dig it)

     

    http://electricvinylrecords.com/es/rock/729-the-rolling-stones-sticky-fingers-2-lp-vinilo-reedicion-portada-espanola.html

    The Grateful Dead

    in Someone Else's Song

    Posted

    Barcelona, capital of the Great Hippy Nation

    The Music & Art Immersion event brings the passion for The Grateful Dead to the city

    A hundred American fans enjoy for 10 days the private performances of renowned musicians from the 'jamband' scene, inspired by the group of Jerry Garcia

     

    https://www.elperiodico.com/es/ocio-y-cultura/20181009/barcelona-capital-de-la-gran-nacion-hippy-7080205

     

    I missed this thing …It seems a thing for the musicians rather than the fans although the sub headline on American fans disconcerts me. Anyway, now it’s not the best of times for visiting Barcelona given the political tension…

     

    Google translation below

    Alfred Crespo

    Barcelona - Tuesday, 09/10/2018 at 18:14 CEST
    Grahame Lesh, Matt Buttler, Ross James and Scott Law, in a private performance in Barcelona.

    For some it remains true. Music never stops, and is the axis on which everything else tilts. One of the most atypical meetings that Barcelona has experienced in years is a clear example of this. What is Music & Art Immersion? No one better than one of the event's ideologues, Matt Buttler, to explain it: "I'm involved in IGE, a project that organizes a travel-based cultural adventure for musicians and their fans." The intention is to create a musical environment for the performers, In a place in Europe where there will be ten days for all the members of the project to play and collaborate, with the intention of demonstrating that music is the language of peace, I really believe it, so part of the mission is to bring abroad, part of the American musical community, I would love to make it more global ".

    There is nothing. Bring together a hundred selected participants - as you can imagine, the laminated pass that acts as a safe-conduct and allows access to all activities is not exactly cheap - all of them Americans, embark them to the Catalan capital and organize a program of activities that combines cultural visits with concerts that start after breakfast and that continue until the wee hours of the morning. Next to the assistants, near two tens of reputed musicians pertaining to the scene 'jamband', based on mixing improvisation and respect by the American traditional music. A scene practically unknown by these lands, but that counts in the United States with a massive following. And always with the Grateful Dead songs in the foreground.

    Another mystery The Dead's visible head, Jerry Garcia, died in 1995. Since then, with the inactive band excepting punctual meetings, the cult around him has not decreased, capturing young people who had not been born when Jerry and company tried to contribute to build the Great Hippie Nation based on acid rock, LSD and free love.Taking a walk through one of the spaces chosen for the concerts that have brought them to Barcelona - also atypical venues, from a library to modernist palaces, through the European Museum of Modern Art or the basement of an Argentine restaurant - means meeting old people survivors of the Woodstock times sharing bar, drinks and dancing with thirty-something people dressed up in attire close to punk aesthetics or interesting mature people who can not, nor want to, hide that life, at least economically, smiles at them. All together they occupy an entire hotel in the Raval, near the Liceu, where they fraternize and extend the days lying on cushions on the floor while the instrumentalists play to the variable and unpredictable alignment.

    Master of ceremonies
    A novelty compared to previous editions, mainly held in Venice: on this occasion, the local fan is offered the opportunity to taste what the guests of the above mentioned hotel savor for a week and a half. And at a reasonable price. How? Organizing a concert open to the public at Sala Apolo in Barcelona on Thursday, October 11. Under the claim of one of the best-known songs of The Grateful Dead, 'The Music Never Stopped', and without disguising their intentions - "celebrate the music of Grateful Dead" -, who acquires your ticket can witness about three hours of authentic Expansive sounds, initiated by The Everyone Orchestra, directed by Matt Buttler himself. An orchestra also unconventional, in which none of the musicians knows in advance what role to play in the concert. Buttler, master of ceremonies, decides at all times when the participating musicians take action, and does not consider it risky - "in improvisation there are no mistakes, only opportunities," he says. Then, various associative formulas will allow the cast of artists embarked on this charity project (the profits will go to several NGOs), review the songs popularized by Jerry, Bob Weir, Phil Lesh -in Barcelona his son is present, Grahame, leader of the exquisite Midnight North- and company. A unique opportunity to see how Nicki Bluhm, Bill & Jilian Nershi, Holly Bowling, Ross James and Scott Law, among others, immerse themselves in the mental and musical waves of the creators of mythical albums like 'American beauty'. Next station, Prague and Lisbon 

    The Grateful Dead

    in Someone Else's Song

    Posted

    Trie to grab the forthcoming Dave P 26. Sold Out  :worried 


     


    I just read – in the only readable Spanish rock mag, Ruta 66- an interesting journalist piece by maybe the most reliable rock critic here Ignacio Julià – a Wilco fan and Velvet/Lou Reed biographer/fan– on the similarities and differences between the Grateful Dead and The Velvet Underground and the cultural envelopments in both coasts of the two bands in the’ 60. Julià is a huge VU fan and I think that more recently he is also increasingly appreciating the GD (the scarcity of live recordings in Spain, except Europe 72, means that sadly here the Dead are a thing for connoisseurs, even in the rock critic world). I think he is trying to reconcile his old vu passion with a new, acquired passion for the gd. But he fails imho.


     


    His thesis is that both bands were not so different, which I find plainly absurd because his major argument is the duration of (some) Sister Ray(s) and Dark Star(s) and the intertwined guitars of Reed-Morrison vs Garcia-Weir. In fact, he interviews fans of both bands – Lee Ranaldo, Ira Kaplan,  M C Kostek (VU Appreciation Society) and Ross James (Terrapin Family Band)- and tries to confirm his feelings in the questions he addresses to them…to no avail.  All interviewees say they do not see any similarity except the banal ones above mentioned. For instance, Kostek says Sister Ray was a conscientiously degenerate delirium that could take any direction while Dark Star was mainly a mystical search…Despite all, he concludes in a large sub headline that “The extremes meet one another”… what would we be without wishful thinking? J - and recommends hearing Fillmore West 1969 vs The Matrix Tapes to assess the thing.  I have to check that VU thing though.


    (sorry, no link, and if it would exist it would be in Spanish)

    Jefferson Airplane

    in Someone Else's Song

    Posted

    For any of you who haven't gotten into live Airplane from their early days, I recommend the run of shows from 11/25-11/27/66 at the Fillmore. They're partially documented on Fillmore Auditorium: We Have Ignition, though I sometimes think I prefer the recordings I got of those shows way before that release.

     

    Their covers of Fat Angel & Other Side of This Life are incredible, and their early readings of classics like Plastic Fantastic Lover, White Rabbit, and 3/5 Miles in 10 Seconds (complete with jet engine sound effects) just rock. Listen to these recordings and then contemplate what the Dead were doing in late '66, and you'll realize that Jerry and the boys didn't catch up with the Airplane until about 1968 or even '69. Of course, then they blew right past them forever, but still....

    ^thanks for the tip I still remember when I could put my hands on the Volunteers vinyl 2 years after its release. To me, the Airplane were great those days until - including - Bark...

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