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    The whole talking at shows thing...

    in Someone Else's Song

    Posted

    I agree with you about how horrible behavior it is to talk through music at a concert.

     

    Unfortunately, I'd like to add another offensive behavior found at concerts: farting.

     

    This was a serious problem at the Aspen, Colorado show last year. Maybe it was the high-altitude flatulence problem combined with ingesting too many beans or falafels or something, but some dude (of course it was a dude, are you kidding me? No female would ever let loose with something that foul in public). Once was bad enough, but then it kept happening every few minutes for several songs. I could tell others noticed, of course, by the painful expressions on their faces and the fanning their noses in a vain attempt to get the putrid odor away quicker, but no one would say anything. I got so pissed off, I shouted loudly "Who ever is farting, knock it the hell off, you're being completely rude and ruining the show for everyone around you. No one wants to smell your noxious butt wind!". No one 'fessed up, of course, but either they had passed all the gas in their colon or they decided to show some restraint and we had to deal with fart smell no longer for the rest of the show.

     

    And it was still one of the best rock shows I've ever been to.

    Have Extra Pair for Ryman Night 2

    in Got Extras?

    Posted

    Balcony Section 10, Row E, Seats 3 and 4.

     

    I bought these in the presale, so they are will call only. We'll have to meet at the venue, do the transaction in cash only and you'll have to go right in to the show.

     

    Cost to me was $90. shug909@yahoo.com

    The Metal Thread

    in Someone Else's Song

    Posted

    I didn't go through all thirty pages of this thread, but I've always thought the original lineup of Dio (RJD, Vivian Campbell, Vinnie Appice, and Jimmy Bain) and and their first album Holy Diver was a peak of heavy metal. It fell apart pretty quickly after a pretty good second LP, but for a brief time, this metal band was killing it.

    Fall 2011 tour dates announced

    in Just A Fan

    Posted

    damn...can't find shite about when on-sale begins for the two-night ryman stint...but, by hook or by crook, i'll be there both nights!! that's unmissable.

     

    You got that right!

     

    Back to back nights at the Ryman in Nashville in early October? Hmmm, let me think.... awesome historic intimate theater downtown in a historic music city, check... two shows with no travel in between, check... probably very different setlists so a better chance of hearing Monday, check!... close to Memphis, check! Seems like an obvious call to me!

     

    I'm right there with ya, stoked stoked STOKED!!!

    2011 tour dates?

    in Just A Fan

    Posted

    Does anyone think there might be some US Wilco dates in August, Sept and early October or are they going to wait until after Europe to do shows stateside? It would really suck if I didn't get to see them until 2012.

    The Allman Brothers Band

    in Someone Else's Song

    Posted

    Just read that Jambase interview, Trucks sure did get slammed in the comments. I guess I don't see the point either, bringing Dickey up again. He's been out of the band for a pretty long time.

     

    Do you have a link for that interview? couldn't find it... Thanks!

    Sasquatch

    in After The Show

    Posted

    Well, I know what you mean, because this lineup of Wilco is really a true rock ensemble. They are a perfect example of the saying the whole is greater than the sum of the parts and the way they play together like a well-oiled machine blows me away every time. Some members of Wilco draw more attention to themselves than others, obviously :thumbup , but for me the greatness of the band is in how they play together.

    Sasquatch

    in After The Show

    Posted

    Yeah, Stirratt is a huge asset to Wilco and I'd love to hear him sing more, too, whether its harmony or lead. He's got such a great feel on bass and he rocks it, too. Just like Tweedy said in the live DVD, Wilco probably wouldn't survive without John.

    Killer JazzFest Show

    in After The Show

    Posted

    Glad I'm not the only one! :D That pounding piano gets me all fired up for rocking out! Wilco kills it on this style of rock. Monday, 100 Years From Now, Casino Queen, etc. Wish they delved into this style more often.

    Muscle Shoals

    in Someone Else's Song

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    Again, not a part of the 1960's "classic" cannon, but an undeniable classic, nonetheless, from a central figure in the whole Birmingham scene:

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    I gotta second this Dan Penn recording. Dan Penn is one of the great soul songwriters from the Muscle Shoals scene. He's got a great voice, too. This is a wonderful record with the Muscle Shoals band backing him up singing songs he wrote that others had hits with, even though it was recorded many years after the heydey of the 60s to 70s.

     

    More about Dan Penn

    The Grateful Dead

    in Someone Else's Song

    Posted

    They recently came out with a nice pick from the spring '88 east coast tour (which was excellent, in my hazed memory) form Brendan Byrne on April 1st. That's form the Road Trips series. There isn't a lot of commercial release stuff from the period we're talking about, no, but there's plenty out there, for sure.

     

    4-1-88 is a ripping good show, especially the first set. I haven't picked up this release yet, but it seems they are doing a pretty good job of fixing up the sound quality, so it should sound great.

     

    Mississippi Half-Step

    Jack Straw

    To Lay Me Down

    Ballad of a Thin Man

    When Push Comes to Shove

    New Minglewood Blues

    Cumberland Blues

    Deal

     

    China Cat Sunflower

    I Know You Rider

    Estimated Prophet

    Eyes of the World

    drums

    The Other One

    Wharf Rat

    Throwin' Stones

    Not Fade Away

     

    Brokedown Palace

    The Grateful Dead

    in Someone Else's Song

    Posted

    1976 is a great year to start with - trippy but somewhat tight. try 8.4.1976 or 6.15.1976.

     

    9.28.1975 is a great show.

     

    The date right after Cornell 77 is a great show - 5.9.1977.

     

    typically - 72-74 is considered their peak years - jerry more on acid than heroin (so i've heard)...deep but intricate jamming from jerry - check out the Truckin' Dark Star from 7.18.1972; or the Other One from 9.17.72 or 9.28.72...many consider the best show ever to be 5.26.1972 (strand)...of course I am partial to 12.10.72

     

    75 - jerry exands in new directions...

     

    76 - band begins touring again - jerry on heroin now...marked change from the Dark Star / Other One era to more discoey / less deep jamming / still some great shows...

     

    77 - heroin jerry but very tight year (not that spacey)...

     

    78 - sluggish and redundant

     

    79 - rebirth with Brent - rebirth in spacey jams

     

    80 - almost 77 with Brent - great year

     

    81 - starting to get 78ish / sluggish again...

     

    82-84 - tough years with occasional great shows but mainly tired jerry...

     

    85 - a bit of rebirth wtih the return of some great songs (cryptical / he had to die)

     

    86 - sloppy / jerry diabetic coma

     

    87 - rebirth - heroin free / some good shows

     

    88 - occasional good shows but getting redundant again

     

    89 - rebirth (jerry back on heroin); dark star returns in teh fall...

     

    90 - through july one of their best years - then brent died...

     

    91-95 - the demise...near the end the shows were difficult to see / hear...

     

     

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    Not a bad summary. But if you are aiming for completeness, you gotta mention 1969, especially if you want the LSD-inspired version of the band and particularly the March Fillmore in SF run that Live Dead was taken from since many Heads feel that year was the peak of live performances, although I don't necessarily agree. Its certainly heavy psychedelic electric rock, not too much of the good vibes happy dancing music or country rock the Dead became so known for later.

    The Grateful Dead

    in Someone Else's Song

    Posted

    Here's a few of my favorites:

     

    Dark Star> Eyes of the World> China Doll 2-15-73

    Playin' in the Band> Uncle John's Band> drums> Not Fade Away> The Wheel> Uncle John's Band> Playin' in the Band 9-6-80

    Playin'> China Doll> Playin' 8-19-80

    Crazy Fingers> Supplication jam> High Time 6-27-85

    Bird Song> Comes A Time 6-28-85

     

    Not sequences, but excellent jams within the song:

    Dark Star 2-14-70 (goes into St. Stephen> The Eleven> Lovelight)

    Playin' In The Band and Bird Song 8-27-72

    Here Comes Sunshine 2-23-74

    Sugaree and Music Never Stopped 5-5-77

    Mississippi Half Step 9-3-77

     

    sorry, Dark Star 2-13-70 is the one I was thinking of (its on Dick's Picks #4), not the 2-14-70.

    Goodbye Wilco

    in Just A Fan

    Posted

    Exactly. So why should they pay to stare at his shirt when all of them could be watching Wilco?

     

     

     

    What reason is better than "hey, the people behind me can't see the band they paid good money to see"?

     

    Well, part of the debate is how much you value seeing the band. Personally, I go to live concerts to hear the band and participate fully in the show. For me, dancing is the way I fully participate. Seeing the band is a bonus for me, but obviously, for others, seeing the band is just as or more important than hearing them.

     

    I agree strongly with the original poster (except for the part about giving up on going to see a band you love because of some hostile fans). Rock shows are for rocking out. Fans who choose to sit are free to do so. They do not have the right to expect others to also sit just so they can see. What makes the desires of those who choose to sit more important than those who choose to rock out? If its so important for you to see the band and you have to stand up to see, then you have to make a choice to sit or to see. I think its completely arrogant to expect other people to not have fun in a safe and harmless way just for your own convenience.

     

    The same thing happened to me at a Who concert in the early 2000s, for chrissakes! Unbelievable to me that people want to sit down at a Who concert, but each to his own. Just don't ask me to sit down. To throw things and threaten to beat people up after the show for dancing is troglodyte behavior, IMO.

     

    My first Grateful Dead show was a revelation in more ways than one, but one of the most impressive things that day was seeing an entire section of a stadium sitting down during a mellow song with one lone dancer doing his thing in that section and not one person asked him to sit down. The Deadhead ethos is do what you will as long as you are not hurting anyone else. IMO, that is how it should be at a rock show. I don't subscribe to the notion that if the majority of the people want to sit, everyone should sit. I'm not a sheep and this idea that people should do what everyone else is doing is repulsive to me.

    The Grateful Dead

    in Someone Else's Song

    Posted

    While I have been into the GD since I was 13, I have only recently started devouring their live shows. I was just wondering what some of your favorite jam sequences are? I am currently enjoying the Playing in the Band> Uncle John's Band> Morning Dew> Uncle John's Band> Playing in the Band from 3/23/74 (Dick's Picks 24.)

     

    Here's a few of my favorites:

     

    Dark Star> Eyes of the World> China Doll 2-15-73

    Playin' in the Band> Uncle John's Band> drums> Not Fade Away> The Wheel> Uncle John's Band> Playin' in the Band 9-6-80

    Playin'> China Doll> Playin' 8-19-80

    Crazy Fingers> Supplication jam> High Time 6-27-85

    Bird Song> Comes A Time 6-28-85

     

    Not sequences, but excellent jams within the song:

    Dark Star 2-14-70 (goes into St. Stephen> The Eleven> Lovelight)

    Playin' In The Band and Bird Song 8-27-72

    Here Comes Sunshine 2-23-74

    Sugaree and Music Never Stopped 5-5-77

    Mississippi Half Step 9-3-77

    Bands/Artists you're glad you saw because they aren't around any more....

    in Someone Else's Song

    Posted

    Stevie Ray Vaughan 9 times

    Ella Fitzgerald with the Joe Pass Trio in 1985 in a tiny theater in West Hollywood

    Count Basie in the mid 70s at a high school gym (no kidding)

    Miles Davis Quintet #2 reunion: Tony Williams, Herbie Hancock, Wayne Shorter, Ron Carter, Freddie Hubbard

    Georgia Satellites in the late 80s (one of the greatest rock 'n' roll shows I've ever seen)

    Page and Plant twice with amazing drummer Michael Lee

    The Grateful Dead and Jerry Garcia Band over a hundred times

    Warren Zevon in 1987 with Little Feat rhythm section and 1989 with Tim B. Schmidt

    The Beat Farmers with Country Dick Montana

    The Paladins

    Lucinda Williams with Kenny Vaughan on guitar and Fran Breen on drums

    Tift Merritt with Brad Rice and Danny Eisenberg

    NRBQ with Big Al

    King Crimson double trio in the mid 90s

    Henry Kaiser Band when they were doing Grateful Dead covers and jamming

    David Lindley and El Rayo-X

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