Grateful Dead Hour no. 634

By David Gans

Week of November 13, 2000

Jerry Garcia and David Grisman
ARABIA

Interview: David Lemieux and Jeffrey Norman

Ladies and Gentlemen... The Grateful Dead
MINGLEWOOD
RIPPLE
DARK STAR
CASEY JONES

After opening with the extended instrumental from the first Garcia-Grisman CD, this show moves on to the conclusion of our interview with archivist David Lemieux and engineer Jeffrey Norman regarding their work on the April 1971 multitrack compilation Ladies and Gentlemen... The Grateful Dead.Former keyboardist Tom Constanten dropped back in for a jam on April 28, and his participation adds some nice swirling magic to one of my all-time favorite Dark Stars. The St. Stephen/Not Fade Away sandwich that follows (although not on this broadcast) is also one for the books. This show circulated on much-loved tape for years; getting to hear it mixed and mastered in pristine state-of-the-art HDCD was and is a thrill. Ladies and Gents... also includes the great Alligator->GDTRFB->Cold Rain and Snow from 4/29/71 (last show at the Fillmore East, last Alligator) and many other gems.

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sweet ................

On March 5th, 2008 stuman said:

Sweet .... I love the Garcia/Grisman music !! Ladies & Gentlemen sounds like a winner to me ..... Hey is it my imagination or is the GD hour not a whole hour, formated for radio i guise or it`s that space time continuem thing ? anyway great show this week ... just what i needed to start my day !! Thanx David ..... Have a Great day everyone !!!!

boot vs. CD ...

On March 5th, 2008 madcap said:

I had a bootleg version of this long, long ago, and when I got the Ladies & Gentlemen version I was disappointed. It seemed as if the boot version brought Constanten way more to the front. He's not as prominent in the Ladies & Gentlemen version. Is this just my imagination, or have others noticed this, too? And I realize it's possible the boot mix was just screwy and the right mix is the one on Ladies & Gentlemen, but I had several transcendental experiences with that boot in the background and it's the one that still sticks in my mind ...

Regardless, great stuff.

Thanks again David :)

On March 5th, 2008 gratefulmom said:

Awesome ~~~Ripple~~~
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La dee da da da, La da da da da, Da da da, Da da, Da da da da da
La da da da, La da da, Da da, La da da da, La da, Da da.

Peace, Gigi

Dark Star

On March 5th, 2008 exprof2 said:

I believe there is an error - Dark Star with TC was played on 4/28 not 4/27. The Beach Boys were the guests on 4/27.

It was 4/28

On March 5th, 2008 dgans said:

My mistake! I'll have that corrected.

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Length of the "Hour"

On March 5th, 2008 dgans said:

Yeah, Stuman, the GD Hour is less than an hour. These days it usually clocks in somewhere between 55 and a half and 57 and a half minutes. That's still a little too long for the commercial stations, but they are used to it by now.

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inspiring

On March 5th, 2008 cactuswax said:

Thanks DG, I really haven't given that one much love. But now I've pulled it out and I'm midway through the second disc and it's a mofo!

beach boys show

On March 5th, 2008 cactuswax said:

I always loved the weird juxtaposition on that Beach Boys show, even evident in the stage banter ...
Mike Love: "THANK YOU, GRATEFUL DEAD!!!"
Bobby: "thank you beach boys."

Question (s)...

On March 5th, 2008 Billy K. said:

I always wondered 2 things about this set ---

A) why wasn't there a "Playing In The Band" on this set

and

2) why didn't they use anything from 4/26 ???

In the interview they said they used 5 shows -- but in actuality they only used material from 4 shows. Even in the credits of the booklet it says Recorded At The Fillmore East 4/25, 26, 27, 28, 29 1971.

Was it a last minute thing not to include anything from 4/26 -- or due to Duane Allman guesting on a few songs??

Anyways, FWIW, this was an excellent interview. I enjoyed it very much and it sparked my re-interest in these classic shows/and CD set.

Thanks David And Co. for letting us stream it!

It's not 1964 anymore! What are we going to do?

On March 5th, 2008 Golden West said:

I've always thought it obvious that the Beach Boys perceived their popularity (and correctly so) to be past it's peak by April of '71.
And were attempting to use this opportunity afforded them by the Dead (very generously it has always seemed to me) to try to reconnect with an audience (any audience), as evidenced by some of their stage banter.
Their story about one time being on a bus with The Buffalo Springfield (itself an outdated anecdote even for the time) seems to my ears a blatant attempt at patronizing hippies. They were lost in the seventies and trying to ... connect with a generation no longer obsessed with surfing. Or whatever the whole BB thing was about.

Or it's just all been in my head this way all these years.