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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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It's the 33rd anniversary of me finally getting what I was looking for.

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@mrcompletely I've hardly begun to listen to the Hornsby era, so your judgement here is good to know. The Greensboro shows are as great as they felt at the time. Best live Dead I ever saw ('88-'93).

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@mrcompletely @thesizzler Super-fine, jazzed out Bird Song as well. When they played it in the first set of 4/1, I assumed Dark Star would be off the menu in the second set. But no! So many boxes checked on those two nights. My little Veneta experience.

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@mrcompletely "Any flaws were rounded down to zero" is a great rubric.

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Here's a fantastic Space improv passage from 30 years ago tomorrow. Jason Crane has identified the source of the vocal sample: "Something Within Me" by Take 6.

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Deadhead question: When assessing the quality of an individual performance of a song, how important is it to you that the song is sung robustly, with accurate lyrics? Do you care if the performance could stand alone to represent the song itself to a new audience, or can the vocals be buried or a whole verse f@cked up, and you'd still call it a good take, because of the jam, solo, third verse, or whatever? What counts as good enough to support as an individual song performance?

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@mrcompletely I agree with this distinction. A (self-bestowed) privilege of the SYF blog is that I can excise anything bad or bland and highlight anything great - amateur Tao Macero Grateful Dead, which I stand behind as a useful role. However, I don't see any official or fan effort aspiring to an identification of as-performed/recorded, perfect/canonical song-takes, which is arguably more important, 30 years after Garcia's death.

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The compilation that inaugurated the Save Your Face mixtape blog in 2016 was a compilation of 26 Hunter/Garcia compositions, selected from a dozen 1972-1974 archival live releases… every song practically perfect in every way.

I’ve recently been digging around in another era’s tapes for a mix of immaculate performances of H/G songs, while also spinning this 72-74 anthology to keep me honest.

The mix isn’t available to stream, but it persists as an mp3 download:
https://saveyourface.posthaven.com/save-your-face-garcia-songs-live-1972-1974

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Grateful Dead '94
Song of the Day

The Dead at their most ambient.

Excerpt from Space 3/23/94, Uniondale, NY

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Grateful Dead '94
Song of the Day

Bertha
3/21/94, Richfield, OH

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@caravan @rowjimmy The "Stella Blue" in the 2nd set of 3/21/94 is an all-timer.

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@caravan Yeah, the 30 year mark is wild. Until six years ago, I hadn't heard any 1992-1995 Dead since my last show in the spring of '93.

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@caravan What was your '94 show?

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@caravan I don't know the '94 Giants Stadium shows (AUD only), and '92 is still a murky zone for me. I was also into Phish at the time. My first Phish show was two months before my last Dead show! Henry Kaiser was playing Dark Star and Mason's Children at the time. Mazzy Star. Supergrass.

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Grateful Dead ’94 Highlights #2
Dylan Covers

If you’re looking for a way into appreciating the sound and character of 1994 , I strongly suggest you start with this mix.

These Dylan covers foreground and benefit from the generally lighter touch that characterizes 1993-1994.

If you can embrace the band’s sound here, you’ll be ready to appreciate a great ’94 version of your favorite Dead song.

Notes and mp3 download
https://saveyourface.posthaven.com/grateful-dead-dead-play-dylan-1994

Indexed Stream
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NZ84GKvQMAE&t=288s

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@mrcompletely What's the best way for us to converse these days? Email?

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@mrcompletely I have lost your email, if I ever had it. Where's the best place to share mine - twitter?

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You can pick ONE solo Beatles song to include on an anthology.

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Grateful Dead: Tones (1969)

What's the earliest instance of “space” territory in music? Possibly “feedback,” but I like to put my finger on the quieter tones, drones, and knob-twiddling that followed feedback in 1969. I think you can find descendants of these classical-music-inflected tones all the way to the Dead’s final show in 1995.

Here’s an anthology of 14 passages from 1969 - 35 minutes:

Indexed stream:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qy5PfXgYmyE&t=14s

Notes and download:
https://saveyourface.posthaven.com/the-grateful-dead-tones-1969

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@mrcompletely It's so great. Jarnow prompted me to do 1969 feedback, and I ended up embracing only the moody conclusions. Ambient jams of the first order! A mood. A distinct Dead zone that came and went. There's a sequel mix if you need it!

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@mrcompletely Absolutely late night music. Since concocting it, I've pretty much listened to it in that context.

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@bourgwick @mrcompletely I think that this has been my purpose, somewhat accidental. Not being a Dead scholar, but rather constructing listening experiences that disclose something about Dead music in an easy to experience format.

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@bourgwick @mrcompletely "Chamber Music 1972-1995."

https://saveyourface.posthaven.com/grateful-dead-chamber-music-1972-1995

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@bourgwick @mrcompletely I already know one of these collages! I so love constructions like this, and they must be preserved. Do you two ever listen to Lethem's "Radio Free Aftermath" radio show, which always has an extended collage passage - the "Aftermath" segment?

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@bourgwick The Garcia Peoples tape is great, though I'm not sure exactly what I'm listening to.

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