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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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I gave mid-1970s live CAN my highest rating this week by upgrading to physical copies of these revelatory releases. You like improv? You like grooves? You appreciate the German take on the 1970s? A feast awaits you.

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Listening tonight to improvisation from Texas in November 1972 (Austin, San Antonio, and Dallas). The explosion of jazz Dead immediately following Pigpen’s departure is a peak season for me - a disciplined band lighting out for the territories. It is a shame so many Fall 1972 tapes are terrible.

Texas ’72 improv stream:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PsPhMZ4fkog&t=5131s

Texas ’72 improv mp3s and notes:
https://saveyourface.posthaven.com/grateful-dead-texas-72-improvisation-november-22-26

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I think my affinity with or indifference to a lot of music that is theoretically in my wheelhouse depends on the lead guitarist being compellingly melodic. Jerry Garcia is obv the king, but someone like BOC's Donald Roeser also stands very tall among guitar storytellers. My Phish "meh" is mostly about this element.

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KISS Solo Albums Revisited (1978)

I bought the solo albums on release and was definitely into them in 1978, but I hadn’t gone back until this week.

Gonna go out on a limb and say that if they’d been curated into a double album - “The KISS Projects” - the KISS “White Album” - it likely would have been regarded as an ambitious and suitable sequel to “Love Gun” - rather than the thin-broth, four-LP money grab that it was.

90 minute Spotify mix:
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/3DIpy7vjtoTuYq0ziL3568?si=ce12c39c869547d3&pt=631fa42af5d93d740c6b544be72c841c

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I've drilled down to a hypothetical 1978 KISS album that pleases me very much. 45 minutes. 12 songs. https://open.spotify.com/playlist/3SydDhAyzLNepaiO267P9m?si=8dc4e97b634e480c&pt=c038b1b384d23157dc276047b39793dd

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Surmising that there aren't that many Deadheads who also had a forrthright KISS moment in their youth. I'm guessing it's like being into Taylor Swift and Bob Weir's Wolfpack in 2024.

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@mrcompletely I think we all had our musical moments of adolescent true love, before we found our reliable paths and aesthetics. You mostly can't hate the indefensible bands you once loved, because they're woven into the fabric of your life and almost certainly had merit on some basis.

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@mrcompletely Early Alice Cooper, early Blue Oyster Cult, Aerosmith through "Rocks," and AC/DC through "Highway to Hell" all remain as crucial to my endorsement of that era as anything else.

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“PLAYBACK” #7 - Columbia promo - late 1971

“Playback” was an interesting Columbia Records approach to promoting material and gathering feedback. For a few dollars a year, you’d receive monthly 7-inches containing up to six sample tracks from new albums, a fold-out card (later full booklet), and a card to return with your ratings and reviews.

#7 features Jerry Garcia and Howard Wales (for “Hooteroll?”) and the signing of Blue Oyster Cult.

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A song about the Grateful Dead found on a 1991 answering machine message tape. I have no idea who left the message! Is this a known song, or an original by the caller?

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It's a Christmas miracle! Our favorite elf has made a streaming version of the new Save Your Face mixtape of 1992-1994 Dark Stars.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sHAy0G4Geys

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Final-years Dark Star cake getting more layers. What is Dark Star in any era but an exploration of the melodic theme + additional improvisational excursions? In the 1990s, those other parts happened in Space, rather than within or directly adjacent to Dark Star. So…

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I'm looking for a favor from someone who's gotten pleasure from the Save Your Face mixtapes. There's a concert recording I can only find on YouTube. Is there someone who has the ability and willingness to turn it into an audio file for me? Thank you!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BY2FG3s5Xis

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@mrcompletely @arghdos Thank you! I'm also interested in that Traders Den show, but I don't do torrents anymore (they were addictive time-sinks for me). All help much appreciated! - John

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Grateful Dead: Lesh is More Concrète (December 1973)

Here's a new Save Your Face mix inspired by Jesse Jarnow noticing the wild things Phil Lesh does across half-a-dozen December '73 shows.

https://saveyourface.posthaven.com/grateful-dead-lesh-is-more-concrete-december-1973

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Recombinant Dead: Weather Report (Stem Edit Two)

Lesh/Godchaux duo (bass, Rhodes keyboard), sounding something like church music and something like opiated jazz.

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@mrcompletely I find every sidelong glance at Dead music fun. It's just such an infinity of pleasures, in whole or sliced and diced.

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50 years ago tonight, the in . another wonderfully articulated mix with classic jams, though skipped on “dick’s picks 14.” late fall ’73, show , with a fun little bit of the soundcheck. https://archive.org/details/gd1973-12-01.sbd.miller.112205.flac16 [1/5]

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@bourgwick If you've ever wondered what an instrumental WRS Prelude > Part 1 would sound like, I tried that edit out for this show's version and it worked really well.

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@bourgwick This is so cool! I totally missed the remixing tool. Having a great time with it now!

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@mrcompletely @bourgwick How do you capture web-based sounds traveling through your computer? I seem to have no way to select "internal sound card" (or whatever) as an input for my audio software.

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@mrcompletely @bourgwick What software is needed to create mixes with stems?

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@mrcompletely @bourgwick This is ecstatically great. The heavens open!

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@mrcompletely @bourgwick
Here’s Weather Report Prelude > Part 1 noodled to become a pedal steel and organ conversation.

Vocals, drums, and Rhodes omitted. Pedal steel and organ raised up in the mix, plus the volume of each manually equalized to amplify the quiet parts of each, so they stay paired.

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GRATEFUL DEAD QUESTION

Excluding 1965-1967, 1975, and 1995, what are the four (4) calendar years of Grateful Dead you have listened to the least, across your entire life?

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@mrcompletely Right there with you!

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@mrcompletely I respect the process, and I'm the last person to suggest that listening to all of 1994 is a good idea - while also being a person who is glad he did, in terms of the resulting mixes.

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