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    December 29, 2014 - January 04, 2014

    Welcome back to the Tapers' Section, as we roll into 2015, where we'll have plenty of things going on to mark the Grateful Dead's 50th Anniversary.

    We'll start this week with music from 12/14/80 in Long Beach, CA, specifically the start of the second set, featuring Cold Rain And Snow > Samson And Delilah ; It Must Have Been The Roses ; Estimated Prophet. The master cassette cuts at the end of Estimated, hence the awkward cut.

    Next up is the end of the first set from 5/2/81 in Philadelphia, where we have New Minglewood Blues ;Althea , Promised Land. There are plenty of things you can count on in the Grateful Dead world, and good shows at the Spectrum were some of the things you could most certainly count on.

    Lastly this week, from the tail end of the 1980s, we have the end of the show from the Grateful Dead's final performance at the LA Forum on 12/10/89 featuring Space> The Wheel > I Need A Miracle > Stella Blue > Good Lovin, It's All Over Now, Baby Blue.

    Have a great start to 2015, and we'll look forward to seeing you here every week for more music from the Tapers' Section.

    David Lemieux
    vault@dead.net

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  • mark_mumper
    9 years 1 month ago
    Compare audience & soundboard recordings of Forum Dec 10 ’89
    The latter half of second set at The Forum Dec 10 1989 makes striking comparison between the soundboard and the audience recordings—what sounds, in the soundboard (or sounded strongly to me at first, second, and now third listens here at Tapers’ Section), as “calamitously untogether” playing in “Need a Miracle” (eventually, by its middle), “Stella Blue,” and “Good Lovin’” has some partial explanation and mitigation from better hearing the audience’s part in the proceedings (via an audience recording posted on the Archive at https://archive.org/details/gd1989-12-10.fob.french.brown.83792.sbeok.f…). The band seems (humorously, by evidence clear in the soundboard) to’ve been taken aback (and Jerry maybe discombobulated some?) by the audience’s singing of “I need a miracle every day” in the most volumetric audience-back-at-ya song delivery I’ve ever heard in a Grateful Dead performance. And, in those three songs, the audience recording’s whole-hall sense of things smoothes out what otherwise, in the recording posted here, sounds like bad awkwardness and breakdowns in the band ensemble—especially in “Stella Blue,” in which the audience recording has it sounding not (or nearly not) untogether at all, due to the music’s occurring among the audience’s role in it. (And Bob does a fine job [if a little too overt] with lots of redeeming feedback.) Yet there is that remarkable blaring pinched twang that Jerry for some reason puts onto his playing in the verses—terrible! And even in the audience recording some real breakdown’s evident ~6:40 in to “Stella Blue.” (And what's with Jerry's muted near-absence in first few minutes of "Good Lovin'"?) —A good case for matrix of aud & sbd here, if releasing this show ever gets full-on consideration. One’s on the Archive now (using the aud recording referenced above): https://archive.org/details/gd1989-12-10.mtx.tobin.102402.flac16.
  • marye
    9 years 2 months ago
    in other news
    Nice DL interview: http://consequenceofsound.net/aux-out/taping-the-dead-the-origins-of-live-recording-legend-david-lemieux/
  • DoDa Man
    9 years 2 months ago
    Hmmmmmmmm
    Byrd, Well, I guess I can see why he hasn't responded to your requests!! No soup for you!! DoDa Man
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Welcome back to the Tapers' Section, as we roll into 2015, where we'll have plenty of things going on to mark the Grateful Dead's 50th Anniversary.

We'll start this week with music from 12/14/80 in Long Beach, CA, specifically the start of the second set, featuring Cold Rain And Snow > Samson And Delilah ; It Must Have Been The Roses ; Estimated Prophet. The master cassette cuts at the end of Estimated, hence the awkward cut.

Next up is the end of the first set from 5/2/81 in Philadelphia, where we have New Minglewood Blues ;Althea , Promised Land. There are plenty of things you can count on in the Grateful Dead world, and good shows at the Spectrum were some of the things you could most certainly count on.

Lastly this week, from the tail end of the 1980s, we have the end of the show from the Grateful Dead's final performance at the LA Forum on 12/10/89 featuring Space> The Wheel > I Need A Miracle > Stella Blue > Good Lovin, It's All Over Now, Baby Blue.

Have a great start to 2015, and we'll look forward to seeing you here every week for more music from the Tapers' Section.

David Lemieux
vault@dead.net

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...and New Year to all! Hey, we don't always agree about what we like, but we are all in agreement about what we love, the music of the Dead!Whether you are in the cold rain, or snow, or here comes sunshine on the dawn of this new year, enjoy, and I say "thank you, for a real good time" to the extended Dead family, and those who keep this site going!
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to hear Hornsby playing Brent's piano synth on "Good Lovin'." It doesn't really work. That's Brent's sound. Sad footnote that Brent OD'd and nearly died three days after this show.
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calamitously untogether last three songs of that L.A. Forum second set, gosh (not the encore, though)
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Love this encore. So sweet 3-1-70 also another gem Baby Blue encore. I heard this piece on Sirius a few weeks back. Hornsby and Brent !! Forget about the dead you left, they will not follow you
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It's now been three years since I last, but far from the first time asked the cat's burnin' ass to included a show from either Birmingham or Atlanta's Omni during the mid-70', but the shithead has yet to deliver...on purpose I might add. Fuck yourself forever, LeMew. Eat shit and lick your ass too. If you can. And if you can't, then you've got fuckin' forever to sit there and die tryin'. Sincerely, Byrd
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Whatever happened to asking nicely? BTW, what's the problem if they don't get released in the foreseeable future? They will likely be available eventually and in the meantime you can stream/download them freely. Certainly no reason to get salty and hurl insults, no? I ask respectfully.
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Thank you grateful prof! As for me, I grew up with the Dead and its all good to me!
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y'all be cool. ignore the, uh, dissenting voice below.
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Thanks, Dave. Always been curious about those Long Beach shows!
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Byrd, Well, I guess I can see why he hasn't responded to your requests!! No soup for you!! DoDa Man
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The latter half of second set at The Forum Dec 10 1989 makes striking comparison between the soundboard and the audience recordings—what sounds, in the soundboard (or sounded strongly to me at first, second, and now third listens here at Tapers’ Section), as “calamitously untogether” playing in “Need a Miracle” (eventually, by its middle), “Stella Blue,” and “Good Lovin’” has some partial explanation and mitigation from better hearing the audience’s part in the proceedings (via an audience recording posted on the Archive at https://archive.org/details/gd1989-12-10.fob.french.brown.83792.sbeok.f…). The band seems (humorously, by evidence clear in the soundboard) to’ve been taken aback (and Jerry maybe discombobulated some?) by the audience’s singing of “I need a miracle every day” in the most volumetric audience-back-at-ya song delivery I’ve ever heard in a Grateful Dead performance. And, in those three songs, the audience recording’s whole-hall sense of things smoothes out what otherwise, in the recording posted here, sounds like bad awkwardness and breakdowns in the band ensemble—especially in “Stella Blue,” in which the audience recording has it sounding not (or nearly not) untogether at all, due to the music’s occurring among the audience’s role in it. (And Bob does a fine job [if a little too overt] with lots of redeeming feedback.) Yet there is that remarkable blaring pinched twang that Jerry for some reason puts onto his playing in the verses—terrible! And even in the audience recording some real breakdown’s evident ~6:40 in to “Stella Blue.” (And what's with Jerry's muted near-absence in first few minutes of "Good Lovin'"?) —A good case for matrix of aud & sbd here, if releasing this show ever gets full-on consideration. One’s on the Archive now (using the aud recording referenced above): https://archive.org/details/gd1989-12-10.mtx.tobin.102402.flac16.