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I need some help here. My wife is a huge Dead fan and had seen them quite a bit in the eighties and nineties. I want to put together some discs of shows she's been to and need to know if there are good sources out there for live recordings.
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I need some help here. My wife is a huge Dead fan and had seen them quite a bit in the eighties and nineties. I want to put together some discs of shows she's been to and need to know if there are good sources out there for live recordings.
Just cause it soundboard doesn't make it better. There are alot of great audience sources out there for dead shows. Get a list of the ones you need and check the Archive. Get ready, its a rabbit hole.
So, 11/30/80 is getting an official release, should be a good one.
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E.H. Ruddock wrote:
I need some help here. My wife is a huge Dead fan and had seen them quite a bit in the eighties and nineties. I want to put together some discs of shows she's been to and need to know if there are good sources out there for live recordings.
Disc 3 of this set is off the chain--highly melodic, almost telepathic improvisation, particularly on a few extended jams in the form of ''Dark Star'' > ''Mind Left Body'' and ''Eyes of the World'' > ''Stella Blue.'' On his best nights Garcia was just untouchable as a guitarist, on par with the finest jazzmen and rock guitar gods. But more and more I'm convinced that the Dead's secret weapon was the tasteful, jazz-flavored drumming of Bill Kreutzmann--propulsive and conversational during the extended improvs, relaxed and unintrusive during the gentler moments, but always contributing these little accents in unexpected spots, perfectly in sync with the more melodic components of the music. I would have picked him for the Dream Band tournament in a heartbeat.
I should probably get some more Dead. I only have a handful of material with a little bit of live stuff, and some studio stuff. That includes: Europe '72, What A Long Strange Trip It's Been Disc 1 (no idea where disc 2 is), American Beauty, Dick's Picks Volume 8, and Shakedown Street. What should I get next? I'm leaning towards Workingman's Dead.
8 has the acoustic set which is pretty cool. June 70 has se great opening acoustic sets , 7/7/70 comes to mind. DP 12 came on the shuffle today, that might be in my top 5 shows of all time.
Yeah, that's a favorite of mine too. That long improv after ''Weather Report Suite'' is awesome.
Yeah, pretty much every note from that show is perfect.
But if anyone is looking for a good studio record, I can't reccomend Garcia's Reflections LP enough.
The first half is pretty much the Dead as the backing the band and the second side is JGB. I'd say it nudges Garcia as my favorite solo record, but it totally holds its own with the other GD studio efforts.
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