September 10 - September 16, 2007
This week, as we roll toward the official start of Fall, we have 15 years of Grateful Dead history to cover, starting in 1972.
Our first track this week is the second set opening jam from 9/10/72 in Hollywood, featuring a well-jammed He’s Gone>Truckin’ combination. These two songs often segued into an Other One, but on this night, they left them together as a stand-alone jam, saving the night’s big jam for later in the set.
Next up are a couple of tracks from 9/16/72 at the Boston Music Hall, the second of a two night stand in Boston. Worth noting is that these two shows were scheduled to be performed at the Saratoga Performing Arts Center in Saratoga Springs, NY, but the local authorities didn’t sound too keen on having the Grateful Dead take over their venue, so the shows were re-scheduled for Boston. From this second show in Boston, we have a very pretty, early Stella Blue, as well as the first set closing Playing In The Band.
Moving up a year, we have a very nice pair of tracks from the excellent shows at William and Mary College, with the first being a typically good 1973 version of China Cat Sunflower>I Know You Rider from 9/11/73 and from 9/12/73, this nascent Weather Report Suite, complete with horn accompaniment.
Next up is some music from the Grateful Dead’s return to Madison Square Garden in 1987 after a four year hiatus from the venue Jerry famously called “juiced.” From the first night of the five night run, on 9/15/87, is this post-Drums sequence of The Wheel>Gimme Some Lovin’>Black Peter>Sugar Magnolia and from the next night, 9/16/87, is the second set opening jam of Bertha>Greatest Story Ever Told>Devil with the Blue Dress>Good Golly Miss Molly>Devil with the Blue Dress>He’s Gone. Check out Jerry’s stunning vocal flourishes at the end of He’s Gone; truly some unique stuff. These recordings are drawn from the Beta PCM digital tapes.
Check in next week, when we’ll have some more great music for you. As always, feel free to write with questions or comments.
David Lemieux
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I thought last week’s offerings were among the best ever and this week’s not far behind…..really.
Also a tip inspired by David’s commentary last week: if you pretend that all the buffering pauses that occur during streaming are in fact tape flips, then you will feel much less aggravated by the whole process!!
Btw IMO the Quicktime Streams sound significantly better than the WMP streams, dunno why
inside info part 4
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Should we let that Deal go Down ? (ooops!) My hope is that achievement of just a few of these benchmarks might eventually be considered a success....... ;-)
Badgerer
I- well, I just gotta say this, in all honesty: but I LUV Cosmic Badger.
oh, yea...
AND Iz.
cosmic weirdness
....from this morning for TigerLilly and the 'Badge has been corrected. thanks for playing. There will look like a little duplication, but I thought we should all see badger's original post because it is a thing of beauty!
it is indeed
izzie! I think our friend Badger should write this into the Uncyclopedia Grateful Dead page. He is at least as talented as those guys are!
as for cosmic weirdness, is far from over, but that is another topic! ;-)
Thanks for the tunes
Good day all! I've enjoyed the China>Rider from 9/11/73, along with other snipets from the past. The sound thru Windows Media is reliably good. Looking forward to more treats from fall tour stops in 1972 & 1973. Having hundreds of hours of shows on cassettes, DAT's and cd's, streaming and listening is just fine with me. Thanks for the chance to listen!
Interesting Compilation
Random but a great 8-CD collection at http://sharefreemusic.com/Garcia.html
Poke
Super.
"and the "haters" must have overlooked the stellar 11 disc complete fillmore west 1969 box set....yes 11 cds (including the bonus disc) of the most stellar GD shows ever. Every single note of a best ever run of GD shows from 69. I guess that wasn't enough...."
OH REALLY? This sounds great! Where can I buy it?
Ahem.....
Horns
Just a FYI for everyone, that's Joe Ellis (trumpet) and Martin Fierro (sax) on thw WRS from 9/12/73.