Grateful Dead

Live -- Everybody's Talkin' There really is something good to be said for a well-played, well-made compilation live album...

I've been into the Dead for a long time, but I'm sort of just now opening up my mind to the live stuff. Took me awhile to be able to sit through a 20 minute jam I guess, but I'm there, and now I'm loving me some 30 minute dark stars, and some of the really cool song sandwiches. Which (finally) brings me to my question: I'm freaking out over the Pauley Pavilion show with the Playing>UJB>Morning Dew>UJB>Playing sandwich (one of the most amazing jams/song medleys I've ever heard), and I'm noticing how different, much slower and soulful this Morning Dew is than an earlier version I have. Are there other songs that they significantly changed their arrangement of over the years that I should be on the lookout for?

They all sort of morph though time, and that's half the fun. But you used the word significant (significance outside of a strict statistical implementation is actually subjective and context-dependent, and I shudder when considering the implications of legions of statisticians and actuaries measuring Dead songs for Significance..."Excrement! Rip that whole section out!") so I'll assume you meant substantial instead. First, there's the glaringly obvious ones where Bob covers Pig (Lovelight, Good Lovin') and then Dancin' In the Streets (compare 60's versions with 78-on versions) and one of the biggest is Friend Of The Devil which transforms from a lively, up-tempo country ditty in the early 70's to an almost lethargic heroin dirge by the end of the decade.

New! Check Archive for 4/26/71. SBD FLAC. Eight tunes of sweetness. Jerry on pedal. Guess I'll have to throw on the Dead's sets, too.Thanks PTB.

Some great places to get started! Thanks.

There might be better versions available out there, but if you stream/download it from Archive as I have, there is a tape splice during the first UJB and the five individual tracks don't match up exactly right, which is a real drag when you're immersing yourself in the beauty of this jam, and how they morph the songs into one another. So I took the liberty of playing with them, taking out about 5 seconds of audio around the splice so that it passes by without notice, and matching up the tracks into one amazing roughly 40 minute or so mp3. Download here if you'd like: http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?b8cp32tf5uace9x Playing>UJB>Morning Dew>UJB>Playing November 17, 1973, Pauley Pavilion, UCLA

Since I've Been Loving You Zepplin

Billie Holiday "Jazz at the Philharmonic" 6/03/46 Gerry Mulligan "Pleyel Concert" 6/03/54 Grateful Dead Paramount Theatre 6/03/76 1st set (Hunter Seamons matrix - nice!) Joe Henderson "Page One" 6/03/63 RVG GD Paramount 2nd set Maybe a '76er'll be comin' our way!

Scarlet/Fire ~ Broomfield, CO. 2/16/12 Damn y'all .... "Heart of Gold Band" indeed-E! I had a grateful time at these three shows ... Colorado rocks (literally ;-)! Thanks for the amazing hospitality everyone...

Are you back, or just passing through?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=zM31080jOSM Not Fade Away Lyrics By: Hardin/Petty Music By: Hardin/Petty I wanna tell you how it's gonna be, you're gonna give your love to me, I wanna love you night and day, you know my love not fade away. You know my love not fade away, not fade away! My love is bigger than a Cadillac, I try to show you but you drive me back, Your love for me has got to be real, your gonna know just how I feel. Our love is real, not fade away, not fade away! Played a few times by the Grateful Dead in their earliest years, and became a staple from the end of 1969 onwards. Staples- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uY3vgBzgYn4 Come ON....xo

The Obvious Child Has been on full-bore repeat loop in my head all through a sleepless night. I keep hearing the same verse: Well I'm accustomed to a smooth ride Or maybe I'm a dog who's lost its bite I don't expected to be treated like a fool no more I DON'T EXPECT TO SLEEP THROUGH THE NIGHT So was this swirling all 'round my brain all night BECAUSE I couldn't sleep, or was it the REASON I couldn't sleep? Cause-and-effect, or self-fulfilling prophecy? Next up, Zevon's "I'll Sleep When I'm Dead," no doubt...and then the Beatles' "I'm So Tired." And so on...

My prior one double-posted, so this is the edit to make it look just a little less annoying...

Sidney Bechet "The Best of" 6/08/39 just Summertime James P. Johnson "Snowy Morning Blues" 6/08/44 ROAD TRIPS 6/09/76 Boston Music Hall I'm so ready for an announcement I can taste it y'all!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Psychedelic Sunday w/ Andy Frost. A classic radio program that has been around for what seems an eternity. Anything and everything from 65 to 75.

the night tripper - Gris-gris I'd perused the New Arrivals section at one of the local record stores, Euclid Records, and had moved on to this and that. When I came back to the NA section Gris-gris had just been filed under Blues next to the Louis Jordan compilation I was going to pick up. Well, Louis had to wait - this was the first time I'd seen Gis-go so I had to go for it fo' sho! 1968 drugged-out underwater voodoo!!!

A Musical Celebration of Jerry Garcia (Fillmore, SF, 12/4/10) Jesse McReynolds, Peter Rowan, David Nelson, and many others. Such sweet, sweet music. Available from and proceeds to the Rex Foundation. Hey Deadicated, I just saw Dr. John opening for Gov't Mule last Saturday. Fine show all the way around...

I've had improvised variations on this infectious riff running in my head all day, and can't help wondering why Furthur isn't toying with this as a transition jam. I'd be shocked to find Jeff doesn't already know it well.

4/26/08, Merlefest This was the last time that I saw Levon play, am wishing that I'd been much more determined in pursuing my desire to see a Ramble at the barn. Levon was in good voice, the band was cooking. Writing this, I realize that a few hours earlier that day was also the last time I saw Doc Watson play. Damn.

Duke Ellington "Small Groups, Vol.1" 6/16/37 Jimmy Smith "Home Cookin'" 6/16/59 Grateful Dead Iowa State Fairgrounds 6/16/74 a convoluted mix of Road Trips Vol.2 No.3 and what I had - the RT sounds so good. I would so have enjoyed the show W.A.A.!!! Also, streaming round 3 from The Olympic Club, San Francisco - cool. Tigre!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EZjDxo-AISo http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HnW8WMx_94E&feature=related http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KNKlpmtWI1s&feature=related http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xWnjEMbFFME ------------------------------(-----@ @@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@ I love you, All, xo!

Americana Yes, I do like it.

DAVE'S PICKS VOL III........right here on the listening party :)

FINALLY just picked up the Europe 72 stuff. Not the entire box set, but Volume 1 and 2. Great, great stuff. But one thing is jumping out at me, and I didn't see it mentioned anywhere else online. Does Vol. 1 play fast? Especially on the Morning Dew, that's the highest pitch I've ever heard of Jerry's voice, and other stuff here and there, the harmonies on He's Gone, it just sounds like it's played on a record player too fast and everything's a little higher pitched than usual. Has anyone ever noticed this or heard of it being an issue?

Indeed. E72 was speeded up a little, apparently (I read somewhere) in order to fit all the songs on a double LP.

I was on a mission to find hardware in our basement to affix a gauntlet of sorts to stymey our dog Guinness from escaping when I came across crateloads of tapes.Grateful Dead made up a good number of them, but I was a taping fool when I got into reggae so I decided I'd set up my cassette deck and tackle the mountain of music before me. This music will never see the light of day on CD. What I'm listening to is a tape comprised of Studio One 12" from the late '70's and early '80's. Sir Clement Dodd was a Jamaican producer who recorded just about everybody in JA who was a quality performer. There's a newly remastered package that includes a compilation CD, three hour DVD and 100 page book called the Studio One Story that I recommend highly. It's on the Soul Jazz label The names on the tape sleeve for the tape I'm listening to don't reveal who fronted the fabulous stable of Studio One musicians, but I think I can come up with a few: Heavenless - is an instrumental that features the incredible Don Drummond on trombone. What a riddim'! I can't remember the next, but then there are three by Cornell Campbell - Conversation, Queen of the Minstrel & What Kind of World. He sounds like a reggae version of Curtis Mayfield. The flip side of the tape has Alton Ellis and Sugar Minott among others. All feature tasteful dub effects and fine instrumentation. Needless to say, when I started searching through the basement "archive" this was one of the tapes I had to find. The date on the tape is 2/07/88. Is there anybody else out there who listens to this stuff? By the way, I'm extremely stoked about the next Dave's Picks - hope you are too!

..thanks for the reminder Deadicated...I have not had a roots session for quite some time (too many dang Grateful Dead releases to listen to ;-) ). I lost a lot of roots gems on a non backed up hard disc a while back and my vinyl is scattered around the globe. A lot can be recovered through the maze of blog sites but it takes so much time. Don Drummond is a barely recognised genius. If he had been playing jazz in New York at that time he might have been a star...I imagine him as a sideman for Miles...as it was his life disintegrated into a nightmare. The great Rico Rodriguez kept the trombone tradition going though. ahh yes..those heavy heavy roots and dub shows in London in the 70s and the chance to see Sly and Robbie almost every week. Prince Far-I was the hardest and heaviest..

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tg0BNTebcbY http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lVdTQ3OPtGY&feature=related http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dV8TE5l_J0o&feature=related http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oYWVY4mUPPo http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jl9EdDfg9UI&feature=related http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oMJKQg0qC_0&feature=related http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gdlyi5mckg0 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5EoQ3GkH4Zc&feature=related "Believe it if you need it or leave it if you dare..." Happy Summer Dayz A-Head! Peace, love, music, safe-travels, friends and family... and every good wish there ever was to You--->All, xo! I love you...All, xo! ------------------------------------------(-----@

........Dylan & Dead rehearsals vine---one of the finest things I've gotten off this magnificent medium----many thanks to all in their heartfelt love & joy to keep on keepin on---What a long-strange trip it's been.......Keep on Smilin!! Da Roach!

Blunderbuss Not quite the guitar workout I'd have expected, but I am enjoying the vinyl quite well, thank you. And thank you jonapi for the Yo La Tengo vid. A nice kick in the ass for a Friday morning. Hard to believe that these guys have been around since the '80s...where does the time go?

This is arguably the best TLMD I have heard... Everything about this is amazing... quality, jerry's sweet soulful voice, The crispness of his guitar, the electric piano and even Donna's singing... If you want to relax on a friday night... prep yourself and kick back in a comfortable chair and crank this up... It will ease your soul...

Duke Ellington "The Duke's Men, Vol.2" 6/22/38 J.J.Johnson "The Eminent J.J.Johnson, Vol.1" 6/22/53 Sonny rollins "Saxophone Colossus" 6/22/56 Elmo Hope "The All-Star Sessions" 6/22/61 Where there's Monk & Nichols, there's ... Miles Davis "Nefertiti" 6/22/67 Grateful Dead Central Park 6/22/69 Grateful Dead PNE Coliseum, Vancouver 6/22/73 Grateful Dead Jai-Alai Fronton, Miami 6/22/74 Grateful Dead Tower Theatre, Pa. 6/22/76 Bob Marley Straffordshire, UK 6/22/78 Lowell George 6/22/79 Happy Friday, y'all!

Louis Armstrong "Hot Fives & Hot Sevens" 6/23/26 Billie Holiday "Complete Colombia Recordings" 6/23/38 Big Brother & the Holding Company featuring Janis Joplin Carousel Ballroom 6/23/68 (Bear's Sonic Journals #1) Invest!!! Grateful Dead Jai-Alai Fronton 6/23/74 Jerry Garcia Santa Rosa High School 6/23/77

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=avK3uV1nQR4 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jtACNmlplKo http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tSCCy6jAgd0&feature=related http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H8iSabTnpYQ&feature=related http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hm3s6v56WSM&feature=related Whilst listening, I smiled as I felt like Jesus. I loved you best! If just for a while as I listened and then I let the duties of another be theirs. Happy Birthday! I love you, xo! more than...

at least one person on this site acknowledged RH's birthday. C'mon people, w/o the words it would have not been possible.

Listening to a good 3/18/71 show from St Louis, MO, on Sirius XM ch 23.

Early Ellington 6/25/28 Roy Eldridge "Little Jazz" 6/25/35 Modern Jazz Quartet "Django" 6/25/53 Clifford Brown "The Beginning & the End" 6/25/56 Thelonious Monk "Monk's Music" 6/25/57 Dave Brubeck "Time Out" 6/25/59 Tina Brooks "True Blue" 6/25/60 Led Zeppelin "How the West Was Won" 6/25/72 Left out a few - Bill, Wes, Andrew & lee - maybe next time.