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Mastodon outpost for the Save Your Face mixtape blog.
Notes and mp3s: https://saveyourface.posthaven.com/
Streams of most of the Grateful Dead mixes: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL8yyM8q9j5gYkJCSTEeciFyUItDQjFxcK

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There really ought to be an established nomenclature to distinguish among types of instrumental playing.

“Jam” obscures a basic distinction that Phish fans have managed: Type 1 (related to a song) and Type 2 (unrelated to a song).

Dead setlist culture tends to make Type 2/pure improv invisible, esp. in the 1972-1974 period.

For example - 12/31/72: “Truckin’ > The Other One > Morning Dew” is not adequate or helpful.

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This is how the same music is named/indexed for the Clugston/Miller SBD on archive.org

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@mrcompletely On the spot, oy vey! Anything nameable should be named, including something like Hard to Handle > Tighten Up Jam > Hard to Handle. I don’t see why that’s different from Playin > UJB > Playin. Stand-alone improv (“Type 2”) should be given a name and noted, as in Playin > Type 2 > Playin. 1/2

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@mrcompletely I’d open up a broad category of “Space” for abstract passages at least back to 1972, with the intention of gradually sub-categorizing. Watkins Glen: Type 2 > Space > Type 2. Jerrybase is an opportunity to make everything rational and transparent, eventually. Fun/challenging to think about naming in this context. 2/2

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@mrcompletely I think “type 2,” full-band improv is self-evident throughout their history (if you’re willing to break it out). However, distinctions get dicey in the long “Space” era. I have curated what I consider to many “type 2s” inside partial-band Space passages, but breaking those out in an index of Dead music would likely slide into hopeless subjectivity. Where is that line?!

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@mrcompletely But what is the base data layer, versus annotations? What counts as a primary, separate musical occurrence?

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@mrcompletely Petering out into drums is, I think, part of the previous song. It's not hard to discern whether or not there's something you'd index separately, in my experience.

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@mrcompletely There is a zone of interstitial that is too short or unformed to matter. My rubric is that if you can't break it out as a passage that can stand on its own, it's not worth indexing as an event. No one cares, and it's not historically important, if you'd never listen to it by itself.

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Can't believe I missed the 50th anniversary of one of the top 10 events of all time!

5/19/74 Portland, OR

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Is there any comparable full-speed-ahead, fast-improv, continuous, 30-minute jazz Dead flow that is as dense and breakneck thrilling as this?

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@mrcompletely Acrobatic. I'm always astounded. Turning corners so fast and frequently that there are no corners. The songs are almost incidental to the flow of the playing.

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@mrcompletely @caravan Exactly the same at our house: The PNW box is displayed in the living room, while the rest are on top of a shelf in my office.

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The official 3-CD reduction of the Pacific Northwest box seems very on point. A great archive release to keep in print as a canonical "album."

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@mrcompletely Agreed! More a statistical novelty than peak Dead. See my other post from tonight. Vancouver is the version I'd have included. Nonetheless, I understand why Seattle is included.

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Grateful Dead: 1976 Improvisation

This 1976 mix - the contents of which were not defined by me - has become a mainstay of my Dead listening.

It's a fantastic and unexpected version of "jazz Dead" unlike any other, and a beguiling calling card from 1976 that asks you to listen more closely to the whole year.

"Out of Nowhere Jams," 1976, based on Dead Notes' detective work.

Indexed stream:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4RaE2_wHDGw&t=498s

Notes and mp3s:
https://saveyourface.posthaven.com/grateful-dead-out-of-nowhere-jams-1976

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Grateful Dead: May 1976 Rehearsals

Ahead of their June 1976 return to touring, rehearsed seriously enough to produce beautiful recordings of numerous songs. (Reggae-inflected “Attics!”) This mix includes notable as-recorded takes, plus multi-take edits of Supplication and Eyes.

Could have been a radio/tour-supporting promo album. So good.

Indexed stream:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vn5CHV959_E

Notes and mp3s:
https://saveyourface.posthaven.com/grateful-dead-on-returning-may-1976-rehearsals

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Using just your ears, what year is this Dark Star passage from?

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It's from 7/18/76, between Let It Grow and Wharf Rat.

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@mrcompletely Not a year I know well.

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@mrcompletely This is what the date spread looks like for the list of 1976 "out of nowhere jams" compiled by Light Into Ashes.

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@mrcompletely There must be a lot of Playing jams that could count, in terms of measuring use of open spaces. Maybe also those dissolving Slipknots.

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@mrcompletely I played a '76 Dave's Picks on a drive to pick up a cousin from a distant train station and thought that it was boring as a show, and also that it would be interesting to take the vocals out of a bunch of 1976 material and create a long "sleepy Dead" (minimalist?) instrumental mix.

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@mrcompletely Looking at my CDs now, and I can't remember. Maybe if it had distinctive cover art...

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LOST LITTLE FEAT SOUL-JAZZ-FUNK ALBUM (1969-1975)

Here’s an imaginary studio Little Feat soul-jazz-funk studio album. It does not include anything from the seven Lowell George-era studio albums. It shuffles together selections from recordings with jazz drummer Chico Hamilton (1973) and singer Robert Palmer (1975) with relevant, officially-released Feat studio outtakes (1972-1975, with two 1969 outliers).

Sadly, this mix does not stream.

Explanations and mp3s:
https://saveyourface.posthaven.com/little-feat-surprise-1969-1975

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