the “loose lucy” episode of the good ol’ #GratefulDead is up today & it is our delight! another dip into the CBS multitracks, plus we hit the road with the dead in june ’74. go under the hood of phil lesh’s new quad bass, hang out by the FREE STUF booth, & have a private lunch at the bank of boston with jerry garcia & ron rakow. (that’s our buddy steve brown behind the table in front of the custom courtenay pollack tie-dyes.) https://www.dead.net/deadcast/mars-hotel-50-loose-lucy /1
in the newest #GratefulDead-cast, we get way into phil lesh’s quad bass, built as part of the new sound system. one of my fascinations is when people started using “wall of sound” to refer to the dead’s 1974 speaker set-up. there’s a news clip from ’74 that uses it but (in the new deadcast, thanks to a @dgans interview) we learn that phil lesh was still calling it the “gantry system” in the early ‘80s because it looked like the rigging used to launch rockets. https://www.dead.net/deadcast/mars-hotel-50-loose-lucy /2
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