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    The Grateful Dead

    in Someone Else's Song

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    Same, I can't do it anymore. So slow and sluggish, every song the same mid-tempo. The end for me came when I got home from the Wilco St. Paul November 2017 run and went to a Dead & Co. show the next night. I thought my head was going to explode in frustration at the lack of any dynamic range. I see as many JRAD shows as possible. My favorite way to see live GD music these days.  

     

     

    So slow and sluggish, every song the same mid-tempo....yup...but I saw the wrigley shows a few years ago (and Petty on the Friday night) and I did have a great time with friends.

     

    Attending Dead Co is kind of like attending a live version of a VH-1 show about the grateful dead. That show never got the rights to use the actual music so it utilized similar sounding music. Dead Co is kind of the same for me.

     

    $400 bucks for GA is steep. I'm happy to hang with friends for a weekend in chicago but $800 for two nights is really steep for VH-1 soundtrack.

    The Grateful Dead

    in Someone Else's Song

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    Generally agree about 1989-07-15. It had some boring portions but also some great moments. With the above "edited" version of the Foolish I took out nearly all of the singing, with the Victim I took out all of the singing, with the Crazy Fingers I was able to remove the trainwreck singing flubs but keep the fantastic jerry guitar, with the Truckin' i removed the entire song poriton and iwth the smokestack i reduced it to one verse.

     

    All in all I wouldn't listen to the entirety of all the songs, but the "edited" version actually plays very very well in my opinion...

     

    1989-07-15__Foolish~Victim~Crazy Fingers~Truckin'~Smokestack~Jam__gd_sbd_noblesville_edited97307

     

    The Grateful Dead

    in Someone Else's Song

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    Englishtown 9-3-77 He's Gone through Truckin'

    Sugaree 5-19-77

    Sugaree 5-28-77

     

    Agreed about pre/post mickey accident. Starting in novemberish the band (in my opinion) started slipping into that 1978 sloppy stage. Personally, despite some great shows, i've always thought 1978 was their worst year of the 1970s followed closely by January to august 1971.

     

    Pre=accident 77 I thought hte sound was almost too perfect. Who knows.

     

    My favorite era from the 1970s is currently February / March 1973.

    The Grateful Dead

    in Someone Else's Song

    Posted

    I always liked the 26 Feb 1977 show.

     

    The Terrapin is played a bit differently (choppily? more rhythmically?) and has the extended conclusion.

     

    For some reason I like the "chopping" hammer sound inbetween the songs.

     

     

    I like the Weir slide stuff inbetween the songs.

     

    the Minglewood is exceptional.

     

    The Playin' jam into Wheel, the Wheel outro jam, and the Playin space back into the reprise is arguably the highlight of the show.

     

    The Help Slip Frank Eyes was ok in my opinion. Not ephemeral but pretty good. The Lesh solo into Dancin was fantastic. The Dancin' jam is well done. The R&R is ok.

     

    Not a bad release but there were so many exceptional quality versions of this show already out there...Rhino is probably right that most people / heads don't know of internet archive?

    The Grateful Dead

    in Someone Else's Song

    Posted

    Wow...nice... I never got that close. Milwaukee Mecca 4/15/1989 i was about 10th row...

     

    Did the whole fall tour and that Augusta show easily the best of the tour. On the rail right in front of Jerry both nights. Ah, memories...

    The Grateful Dead

    in Someone Else's Song

    Posted

    Totally agree. One of last great shows / jams with Keith. His demise was a real drag. In my opinion, he wasn't the same after 1974. 1975 / 1976 he was ok but very sedate. 1977 he seemed much more percussive rhythmic than the improv rhythmic of 72/73/74. 1978 he was sloppy (drunk?) percussive rhythmic. 1978 he almost sounded like a drum.

    The Grateful Dead

    in Someone Else's Song

    Posted

    I love the feedback blasts as the post-eyes evaporates into drums...almost spooky...

     

    No doubt! love that Eyes.

     

    The Jack Straw opener the previous night is a beast, too. It's got the "we used to play for silver, now we play for Clive" verse, too (though the "we used to play for acid, now we play for Clive" line tossed out a few times in this era was more fun).

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