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Dead. Where Is Thy Sting?
Why did the Grateful Dead playing live sound so terrible at times and at other times so spectacular according to audience recollections? Was it the amplification set-up? Quality of drugs available? Whether the band was rested? The crowd vibe? The venue vibe? Did the Dead themselves have a handle on this?
I am not a true DeadHead though I treasure the Garcia/Grisman recordings. Lots of my friends are Heads.Their stories of following the Dead around are full of legend and calamity. They wouldn't have had it any other way. "Off" performances were just Part of Life. That's what they were looking for and preferred that it be unpredictable just like life.
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(....yes, 'Gon, I'm not a bot nor an AI...not that y'all could tell or give an expletive...) *sheesh onna stick* @lordmelton , yeah, QMS was a good listen since the albums I had got lifted by someone more of a fan..... An era of errors, mine and those foisted upon yours unruly.... Saw the GD twice without an acid stomach. The Wall of Sound was a 'philes wildest scheme and Yes you had to adjust your locale to 'get it'. Saw not so long ago someone did a scaled down version that actually could fit a larger living room. Obviously to really enjoy it your neighbors would have the local PD on speed dial... Friends and fiends of the time had plenty of Dead discs so I didn't have to. I had my favs which seemed to be the cuts that had gotten played with finish nail carts to Rice Crispies response on the whatever stereo in house. The audience was half the show, tho'... Remember one soul wandering about in just a pair of shorts with handfuls of tabs, hands stained to the wrists with the same color. Wandering about, obviously a meter above physical grade, mentally not of this earth....muttering "free....free..." Still recall the back of the tongue taste....came down and stayed when everything began to look like polyethylene at rush's' end. When it started getting cut with 'something to make it more intense' made it not so much of interest. "Once upon a Time in the West..." |
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