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Now WTF...?
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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@lordmelton - I loved the first 2 Quicksilver albums; if you're a big fan of Quicksilver, I'd recommend you check out the Welsh band Man, who were making their best records in the 70's, and QS was their primary influence. A few times when they played in San Francisco, John Cippolina joined them on stage; in fact, on the cover of their live album 'Maximum Darkness', that's Cippo's SG on the cover. |
@larsman +1 Spot on, I'm Welsh and Maximum Darkness is one of my favourite albums. If you're into Man check out Live at the Padget Rooms Penarth. Love QSM I'm waiting for their new 7 disc remastered box set which is due to be released on July 10th. |
@lordmelton - You're Welsh? I'd have had no idea; that's great! I like all that incestuous Welsh psychedelic scene with Help Yourself, the Neutrons, Deke, Malcolm, Ken, etc, as well as "newer" bands like the Manics. I've had that double 10 inch Live at the Padget Rooms Penarth for decades; it was a really hard-to-find import for a long time. Also a big fan of some Welsh writers like Niall Griffiths (and Deke Leonard himself!). And we used to have a Welsh pub in San Francisco called Dylan's with a landlord called Titch and Brains on draft! I first saw Man when they opened for Hawkwind on the '1999 Tour' in 1974. Then a local DJ named Ron Sanchez became a super fan of their's and they'd play Man all the time on a radio station in San Jose, KOME, which is why San Francisco became one of two places in the US to really take them into our hearts, the other being Chicago, and they played here a number of times as support and as headliners through the '74 - '76 era, including a couple with Cippo. I've got some great photos of them from a couple of shows here. And Ron Sanchez ended up as producer of 'Call Down the Moon'... In the immortal words of the lads, "I like to eat bananas, because they got no bones... I like marijuana, because it gets me stoned." |
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