NEMD Grateful Dead Appreciation Thread

hey again,
looks like some knowledgeable heads online here. i have a very specific archive/download question for anyone out there. as you probably know, you can only download AUD recordings off archive now. i used to grab boards by several methods but all those routes are not working anymore. sometimes i just need a board or matrix (doesn't everyone?) and it is really frustrating to not be able to download them. so, does anyone have a trick up their sleeve for downloading boards/matrixes off the archive?? would love to hear/try anything at this point. if you'd rather speak offline, you can reach me at [email protected]
let the good times roll!
 
http://stash.nugs.net/attics/frames.asp?page=/vault/show.asp&artist=1&show=60&cmd=shows

time for a keith-centric show imo. this is an odd show but truly one of my all-time favorites, its one of those where they sound totally different than any other night. its definitely one of the jazziest dead shows ever played, jerry and keith sound almost like coltrane and mccoy tyner. phil taps into this bouncy upbeat groove that pulls it all together perfectly and bobby is playing solid but recognizes that something really special is happening between jerry and keith and manages to stay out of the way enough to not interrupt it (which is one of bobby's biggest talents imo, he knows when to play upfront and when to stay out of the way because he's always listening very closely to what's happening). this is one-drummer era of course, and bill falls back on his jazz roots heavily here.

but most importantly, this is the best china>rider transition ever played. maybe not the best china>rider overall (though it's up there), but the transition is just heavenly.

enjoy!
 
Glad I found this, as a guitar player, jerry is a helluva inspiration, and without a lot of their music....well, dude, I just don't know lol..

I'm about to go plug in my 2013 Gibson LP standard and play along with some Cream, in memory of the late, great bassist and vocalist, Jack fuckin' Bruce.....

This next bowl and tunes following goes to Jack, thanks for your music bro, it's an inspiration, there's some hella mean basslines buried in Cream albums....he's know joined the great gig in the sky, jamming along with Jerry, SRV, Ronnie van Zandt, Hank, Harrison, Hendrix, Buddy Miles( until Ginger Baker O.d's on heroin, sad day that will be..).

Someday, the streets of heaven will be covered with Cream..and Dead, and all the other great bands that went too soon, or even pretty late but still too soon, may peace be with them, and with you all..

Goodnight bluelight, and good luck..
 
Documentary Film Offers 50 Years of the Grateful Dead
By ALLAN KOZINN OCTOBER 24, 2014

Martin Scorsese will be the executive producer of a documentary about the Grateful Dead, to be directed by Amir Bar-Lev, and expected sometime in 2015, the 50th anniversary of the band’s formation. The film is being made with the participation of the band’s surviving members, and the filmmakers will have access to the Dead’s extensive vault of audio and video recordings.

David Lemieux, the group’s archivist, will be the music supervisor for the film, which is expected to include unseen performance footage, as well as interviews filmed throughout the band’s career. Phil Lesh, Bob Weir and Bill Kreutzmann, the Dead’s founding bassist, guitarist and drummer, as well as Mickey Hart, who joined the band in 1967, are contributing new interviews, as are others who were part of the Dead’s orbit during its heyday. (The band split up after the death of Jerry Garcia in 1995, but has reconvened several times, sometimes under other names, since then.)

“Millions of stories have been told about the Grateful Dead,” Mr. Hart, Mr. Kreutzmann, Mr. Lesh and Mr. Weir said in a statement. “With our 50th anniversary coming up, we thought it might just be time to tell one ourselves and Amir is the perfect guy to help us do it. Needless to say, we are humbled to be collaborating with Martin Scorsese.”

Mr. Bar-Lev, who was born in 1972, when the Grateful Dead was at the height of its powers, said that he has wanted to make a film about the group for a decade. He has directed a varied collection of documentaries that include “Fighter” (2000), about a concentration camp survivor and a war refugee who revisit Europe; “My Kid Could Paint That” (2007), about the abstract painter Marla Olmstead; and “The Tillman Story” (2010), about the cover-up surrounding the death of the football player-turned-soldier Pat Tillman in Afghanistan in 2004.

For Mr. Scorsese, the still untitled film will add to a substantial portfolio of authorized rock and roll documentaries and concert films that stands alongside his estimable list of feature films. His rock productions include “The Last Waltz,” with the Band and friends (1978); a Bob Dylan documentary, “No Direction Home” (2005); a Rolling Stones concert film, “Shine a Light” (2008); and “George Harrison: Living in the Material World” (2011). He also oversaw “Martin Scorsese Presents: The Blues,” a seven-part PBS series (2003).

“The Grateful Dead were more than just a band,” Mr. Scorsese said in a statement. “They were their own planet, populated by millions of devoted fans.”

http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2...the-grateful-dead/?_php=true&_type=blogs&_r=0


Well this should be pretty damn sick:D
 
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I searched this thread for "Blues From the Rainforest" perhaps it was mentioned but nothing came up in my search.

This meditative record is a departure from the bluesier and funkier organ work for which Merl Saunders is best known. Experimenting with a number of synthesized sonic textures, Saunders establishes a peaceful mood that borders at times on New Age, but is anchored significantly by Jerry Garcia's guitar. Garcia again shows his ability to be comfortable in a variety of musical settings, and his playing here is inventive and interesting without ever disturbing the mellow atmosphere. Saunders calls it "environmental earth music" and the sounds are both inspired by and in honor of the rainforest. A lovely record that offers ample rewards even without undivided attention. --Marc Greilsamer
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another vid:
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I can appreciate that no matter what, it's basically impossible to write worse music than the dead.

Except for dub step of course, but that's barely music.

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Any heads read the recent interview with Bob, he mentions Jer's use, and alludes to a pain pill issue. Pretty good read.
 
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Dude the memories I have with this poster... A good friend of mine who I used to trip with all the time at his apartment was a big Dead Head. He had this poster on his wall and I used to sit there staring at it and it would turn into the most beautiful things. It was better than watching TV lol.
 
mabzie55 said:
I can appreciate that no matter what, it's basically impossible to write worse music than the dead.
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hey man, that's your opinion and it's cool that the dead aren't your thing, but i disagree strongly. they have at least 50 songs that rank as some of the best songs ever written, and another 100 or so that are also pretty good. bob hunter was one of the greatest lyricists that has ever lived. it's hard for me to fathom how a musically literate person could say that "american beauty" or "workingman's dead" aren't full of solid songwriting.

i'm curious, what is your level of musical literacy? have you ever written anything yourself? and how much grateful dead music have you actually listened to?
 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wx6OAfvlxTs

I love this version of St. Stephen..look at mickey on those drums...looks like his PH level was a little low if you get my drift! Very acidic looking guy, tho Kreutzman looks more tense probably because he's carrying the main rythym here..

I got a really shitty drum kit set up in my quasi-studio room, and I listen to 'St. Stephen" while playing along with Bill and Mickey...I'm a guitarist first, but I sure love me some well-played, groovy percussion, From Bonzo to Levon...
Anyway I drank me a good 100mg hydro cwe and banged the hell out of them things for about an hour...I love being able to add another little side rythym, being that they had 2 drummers on a lot of tracks, I just kinda come in sorta loosey goosey playing some pretty far out rythym (at least it must sound pretty far out to anybody that hears my drums alone, because i'm eating the serpent that's eating it's OWN tail....really is genious how they do that with 2 drum kits vs. just playing the same thing like lots of drummers do)..

Anyway, enjoy this Gem, if it hasn't been posted already...
 
Roger&Me said:
hey man, that's your opinion and it's cool that the dead aren't your thing, but i disagree strongly. they have at least 50 songs that rank as some of the best songs ever written, and another 100 or so that are also pretty good. bob hunter was one of the greatest lyricists that has ever lived. it's hard for me to fathom how a musically literate person could say that "american beauty" or "workingman's dead" aren't full of solid songwriting.

i'm curious, what is your level of musical literacy? have you ever written anything yourself? and how much grateful dead music have you actually listened to?
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Lol getting trolled here too. That maybzie guy is a moron kid that has probably never picked up an instrument. I hear operator in my head just randomly the random content matter of the song and the melody just makes you nostalgic and appreciative of the time it was written.
 
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