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Take the detour for the first solo garcia record. Its crucial. And beautiful.
I like this album better than any dead studio album
Ace is cool cause its pretty much a GD album, but yeah Garcia's you can recommend to anyone, even someone who hates the Dead and they'd be like, ah ok, this is good.
Download Series Vol. 3 - Live at the Palestra, Rochester, NY 10/26/71
So the goal in hitting up this show was to sort of experience a Dead show that I did not see as some sort of essential epic listen. Why? Because I was curious to know them when maybe it wasn’t the most epic night.
This set is a fascinating listen because of the stark difference between the two sets. Set 1 is marred with sound and crowd issues and you can feel the band’s agitation. The songs are shorter and while they are mostly all really good performances, this would not be a tombstone performance. However, the show really takes off in the second set, which is amazing from the get go. Of note is Phil Lesh’s bass jam on Truckin’ which just adds such a neat element to the song that I would never have thought of listening through the studio version.
Set 1: Bertha, Playing in the Band, Sugaree, Me & My Uncle, Tennessee Jed, Jack Straw, Big Railroad Blues, Me & Bobby McGee, Cumberland Blues, Cold Rain and Snow, Mexicali Blues, Loser, El Paso, Comes a Time, One More Saturday Night
Set 2: Ramble on Rose, Sugar Magnolia, Truckin’, Drums, The Other One, Johnnie B. Goode
Thanks to everyone who insisted I jump into this. This is a really great album full of unexpected turns and some great songs. The opening four songs, Deal, Bird Song, Sugaree, and Loser really play like the heart of the album and are all exceptional tracks. To Lay Me Down was also quite solid. The winner for me here however was The Wheel, which is such an epic closer with great sonic textures that just seem to hook you in.
The experimental instrumental tracks were quite something - makes Pink Floyd sound like The Beach Boys in comparison.
Up Next: two mega Dead shows...the first from that Europe run - Europe ‘72 Vol. 22 - London, England 5/26/72. Might take a few days because tomorrow I will certainly focus on the new MMJ album and it’s a pretty long show.
Now there’s a rabbit hole I am falling in. I am queued up for that next show, but then realized after that I can legitimately choose between three other shows - now two I am definitely hitting up. So make it three or four shows from ‘72.
Now there’s a rabbit hole I am falling in. I am queued up for that next show, but then realized after that I can legitimately choose between three other shows - now two I am definitely hitting up. So make it three or four shows from ‘72.
Besides various European shows, I found these 5 titles to be more or less essential...
i've always kinda preferred gd studio vs. live. having said that, i have all the early stuff through american beauty and some 70's albums. i don't have much live, but i also don't feel like taking a deep dive in it like i did with pj (1998 - 2003 particularly). i have live in europe '72 which is really good, and a few of the dick's picks. i'm pretty content with that.
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