Grateful Dead

I've listened through Set I. Bob is mixed right for this show, Jerry at center. Bob is not shifted to center during his post China Cat lead like he was in some instances. However, I thought Phil got shifted during the Playing jam. He was right center and then is moved to center and his volume increased - when making that shift Kidd overshoots the center position slightly to slightly left of center and then brings it back to center. Don't have the timing on that at hand.

Classically great '73 Set I. Gotta say that the Looks Like Rain struck me as wildly gorgeous. Some very interesting spaces in the Playing. So wild that they just go full on deep space to close Set I as they were want to do in that era.

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Did I hear Kidd switch channels in the China>Rider?

...Dick's Picks Vol. #3

may 22nd 1977
@ the Sportatorium in Pembroke Pines, FLA

with headphones
OMG!

why have you avoided me
for so LONG?

WELCOME BACK!!!

: )

PS - - - and this one is NOT ON that survey LIST - - - for SHAME

All the cool old stuff seems to come from caves in the South of France.

Today's mystery in my digital device show was 10/12/84 Augusta Civic Center. What a second set.

In the truck ride home I got the second set of 9/3/77 Raceway Park, Englishtown as part of the top 30 fan rated Grateful Dead Shows. They talked about this briefly on Tales from the Golden Road yesterday, apparently the survey started with a list of shows SiriusXM had in the shows they had in the can processed as 'playable' through their system. A pretty fun little activity they have scheduled for the month of April, which conveniently has 30 days.

Here's the list so far down to #3 that some kind soul painstakingly kept track of and posted it on reddit today:

30. 1977-12-29 - San Francisco (Winterland)
29. 1989-10-08 - Hampton VA (Hampton Coliseum)
28. 1974-06-18 - Louisville KY (Freedom Hall)
27. 1974-10-19 - San Francisco (Winterland)
26. 1987-09-18 - New York NY (MSG)
25. 1977-05-28 - Hartford CT (Hartford Civic Center)
24. 1974-10-18 - San Francisco (Winterland)
23. 1980-10-31 - NYC (Radio City Music Hall)
22. 1972-09-21 - Philadelphia PA (The Spectrum)
21. 1972-05-03 - Paris France (Olympia Theater)
20. 1991-06-17 - East Rutherford NJ (Giants Stadium)
19. 1971-02-18 - Port Chester (Capitol Theater)
18. 1977-05-07 - Boston MA (Boston Garden)
17. 1978-07-08 - Morrison CO (Red Rocks)
16. 1969-02-27 - San Francisco (Fillmore West)
15. 1975-08-13 - San Francisco (Great American Music Hall)
14. 1989-07-04 - Orchard Park (Rich Stadium)
13. 1978-12-31 - San Francisco (Winterland)
12. 1973-06-10 - Washington DC (RFK Stadium)
11. 1989-10-09 - Hampton VA (Hampton Coliseum)
10. 1989-07-19 - East Troy WI (Alpine Valley Music Theater)
9. 1970-02-13 - New York NY (Fillmore East)
8. 1989-07-07 - Philadelphia PA (JFK Stadium)
7. 1977-05-09 - Buffalo NY (War Memorial)
6. 1972-05-26 - London (Lyceum)
5. 1990-03-29 - Uniondale (Nassau Coliseum)
4. 1970-05-02 - Binghamton NY (Harpur College)
3. 1977-09-03 - Englishtown NJ

Way down in the South of France, all the Neanderthals love to dance (while singing and playing music beating on modified stalactites and rocks with sticks and bones [makes me wonder what they were smoking])

...the Eskimo OPENS set II

december 27th 1986 set II
@ henry kaiser convention center in oakland, ca

this one got
lots of attention
when cassettes RULED
today on my phone
ENCORE: push comes to shove

twist their arms around you,
slap you till you cry
wrap you in their sweet perfume and love you till I die

PEACE for ALL!

Wrembel delved briefly into early instruments going way back, said we don't know what they were really like... though we imagine stone and bone and wood whistles, flutes (examples exist that date back 30K plus), drumming on anything resonant, early string bass built as a bow, chants and song. Music was part of ceremony and ritual going back hundreds of thousands years... somewhere read of a recently discovered cave in south of France where the stalactites had been modified by people in Neanderthal times as if being tuned. The Disney version, dinosaur skeleton as a xylophone.

DMCVT - re musical stalagtites / mites you may find interesting a discussion of lithophones from Great Sand Dunes National Park . Nice intro video by History Colorado on ut2b (2021 Stephen H Hart award).

Nels Cline “Consentrik Quartet” for Sunday coffee, Pure Jerry Bay Area 1978 is next in the queue

5/2/87 Frost Amphitheatre
Most likely followed by 5/3, I started these last year and didn't finish for some reason...

It did occur to me that I should open up this new copy of Electric On The Eel I have sitting here... lol

To be continued...

Nice to see recent jazz love, it's a cool rainy Sunday here, perfect for that. Last night down in Putney, Stephane Wrembel's quartet, hot jazz, Django and beyond. Small venues so fine, often the artist will hang out after at the merch table and visit. Between songs, his discourse in various directions, noted the old saw synchronicity of Pink Floyd albums for movies 2001 and Wizard of Oz as if to test the audience, then into instruments of great antiquity, etc. This was a converted church with a bar at the entry level, perfect. Stephane spoke on his upcoming Django a GoGo event, two weeks from now (but five hours drive) in NYC and Maplewood NJ, week long series of concerts and music camp. I asked him over merch if he had explored the various cave art of the Dorgogne, if a favorite, he indicated best known Lascaux, did not seem familiar with Werner Herzog's movie, Cave of Forgotten Dreams. Did not get all the way to speculations that ancient people altered stalactites tuning them for subterranean vibraphones... or was that a Disney.