@wharfy Same thing happened to Badfinger they sold I can't live, if living is without you.
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 -Gawd, yes!!! What a tragic story. And they were great. I have a greatest hits and listen to it on average, once a month-Baby Blue, Day After Day, No Matter What. For some time I thought Without You was written by Harry Nilsson. |
The previous "free, free, free" story reminded me of my aunt, who was slowly dying of brain cancer, going through a stage of repeating over and over again "free, free, free" ad infinitum. She used it conversationally with pauses, various inflections, conversational sounding emphases; so we just kept up conversations with her. After awhile of "conversation" it felt as though she was seeing something we could not and wished we could. |
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