There's been a few feisty discussions about the merits of Dead/Heads on here. I'm eternally on the fence, but even when I hate them I usually admire their taste in music and obsessive collecting jag.
This guy's blog is a perfect example. Nothing too deep but I've been picking him clean for a week or so. Lot's of good hippy-dippy classic rock and a few nice jazz boxes, the Curtis Fuller, Lee Morgan & Wayne Shorter Mosaic sets are pretty essential stuff.
Best of all it is all Hotfile so none of that Rapidshare too bad you haven't paid gotta wait nonsense.
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That is a funny set of music (Whitesnake to Ornette in less than a month.
Zink may or may not back me up, but one of the singular joys in life was selling--or more accurately, not selling--Grateful Dead concert tickets to college dead heads. We didn't take credit cards and invariably several of these kids would wait hours and hours in line only to try to purchase with a credit card. "NO DEAD FOR YOU!" It was soul reclaiming for me.
I've heard that story before from one of you, the thought of you & Zink as Dead Nazis warms my heart.
Soundboards of all last year's Phish shows , maaaaaan!
I'm actually half serious on that one, i heard those shows were pretty good.
I used to hate on the Dead when I was in college, and I still say they are the most over-rated band in history; I'm a border-line insomniac and I literally fell asleep at both Dead shows I went to (and I wasn't all that fucked up...). But now when I hear the Dead, in particular in summer, I find I mostly like it and it takes me back to funky smelling dorm rooms. I am still not crazy about Jerry Garcia, dude had the worst tone, so trebly and thin.
I checked out the blog briefly and got some lame Al Kooper album, but have to dig deeper, sounds like some other good stuff on there.
I got a sweet Syd Barrett 3 CD box set.
There is a pretty good looking Floyd box with 70s outtakes I might check out today.
Al Kooper? Even I passed on that and I feel like I'm the biggest dinosaur here.
Rootless I'm with you on the Jerry tone, dude had more shit going on behind him gear wise than anyone I can think of and mostly he just sounded like he was plugging straight in to the board.
Can't vouch for the Dead/jamband stuff on there. Actually if anyone come across something worthwhile I'd appreciate a heads up.
Hahaha, that Al Kooper album was so bad I'm going to delete it from my collection, and I tend to keep everything.
Making generalizations about the Dead and Garcia that hold water is hard to do because the output is so vast - especially Garcia.
Jerry's tone changed considerably throughout the 30+ years he played. Certainly through the 90s his tone suffered for various reasons - including carpal tunnel, arthritis and being 3/4th dead on stage, pun intended. I don't listen to much 80s dead but for sure there are times when his tone sounds brittle....maybe that's why I don't listen to that era.
I've probably gone though this before on here but I mainly listen to the Grateful Dead from 65-74 with a smattering of 76-77. With the Garcia solo stuff I tend to listen to 74, 76 and 81.
I've been in full on reggae mode for a while now so I haven't listened to the dead in close to a year.
Disclaimer: I love the tone he got in 76-77 with the Travis Bean guitar that a lot people describe as an icepick to the eardrums so take my opinion with a massive grain of salt.
Yeah, Clark - selling those Dead tickets was quite an experience. I was the loud one, so I always got to run the line. Most of the time the lines ran from Karma down Indiana to Grant, from Grant to Dunn, and halfway back up Dunn. And it didn't freaking matter if I went up to each and every Deadhead personally and told them it was cash only, someone would wait in that line and try to pay with a card, at which point Clark would yell out "NO DEAD FOR YOU!" and I would yell "NEXT!". We got called Nazis all the time by those trust fund deadheads. And they always tried to appeal to the deadhead nature they assumed that I had because of my long hair and beard. They, of course, couldn't more wrong about that.
Before I went off the deep end musically (post Zeppelin, pre Black Flag), I made a concerted effort to like the Dead. I was in college, and I figured it was the thing to do. I had a roommate who had an extensive Dead collection, and I went all the way through it several times. It didn't stick. To this day I can't remember what any of those albums (except for American Beauty) sound like.
You guys aren't kind.
What happend to Jerry in 1975??
That Rudy Van Gelder-produced Dexter Gordon slab looks tasty. I'm a fan of Sonny Clark and Billy Higgins, who are on this.
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