4CPcomics

4CPcomics, 10 months ago to jazz

The new Summer 1973 Grateful Dead boxed set brushes up against the brief flourishing of what's come to be known as "The Phil Jazz Jam." It's probably as close as the band ever came to an organized approach to a Davis/Coltrane zone. This is my favorite version (6/24/73 Portland). #gratefuldead #jazz

4CPcomics, 1 month ago to random

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

4CPcomics, 3 days ago to random

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

5/19/74 Portland, OR

4CPcomics, 7 months ago to random

Because this platform lets me, I’m posting this edit of “Eyes of the World” from a generally terrible Spring 1994 Florida run. With the vocal sections surgically removed, it still runs to more than 17 minutes. What do you call this? Grateful Dead yacht rock? Garcia is never bored or boring, the collective groove is snug, but nothing really changes throughout. It is possibly the widest expanse of pleasing Dead wallpaper music I’ve ever found.

4CPcomics, 1 day ago to random

There really ought to be an established nomenclature to distinguish among types of #gratefuldead 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.

4CPcomics, 7 months ago to random

LET’S DISCUSS 1990s GRATEFUL DEAD!

Week 1: Thematic Jamming Part One

Assigned Listening: “Terraplayin’ Jams (1993-1994)”

Stream on YouTube:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tFWKiI_YRDc&t=255s

Download mp3s:
https://saveyourface.posthaven.com/the-grateful-dead-terraplayin-jams-1993-1994

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4CPcomics, 3 months ago to random

Listening tonight to #gratefuldead 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

4CPcomics, 27 days ago to random

It's currently the sweetest, softest Spring-into-Summer evening where I am... Great weekend so far. Biked the neighborhood yard sale Friday, collecting little treasures to give to the 1-3 year-olds we saw at brunch and a bbq today. Brunch hosted by someone we met when she was nine. BBQ hosted by our young neighbors, whose toddler is letting us try out being grandparents. Spring + humans vibing together is an amazing reminder of the reasons to be hopeful.

#gratefuldead improv 6/18/94

4CPcomics, 3 months ago to random

Grateful Dead: Tones (1969)

What's the earliest instance of “space” territory in #gratefuldead 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

4CPcomics, 16 days ago to random

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

4CPcomics, 2 months ago to random

Grateful Dead '94
Song of the Day

Bertha
3/21/94, Richfield, OH

4CPcomics, 26 days ago to random

I am once again considering printing out stickers to put on the spines of my official #gratefuldead CDs.

4CPcomics, 1 month ago to random

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?

4CPcomics, 5 months ago to random

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?

4CPcomics, 7 months ago to random

The Grateful Dead's approach to releasing music is really off the rails: "It's all delivered with such precision that we've had to come up with some overtime for disc three. There you'll find 75+ minutes of music from the Kiel Opera House, St. Louis, MO, 10/24/70, with the rest of the show due sometime in the near future."

4CPcomics, 4 months ago to random

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

4CPcomics, 9 months ago to random

Still unreleased! Grateful Dead 8/1/73 Roosevelt Stadium, Jersey City, NJ. If you haven't listened to the hour that starts with Dark Star in a while...

https://relisten.net/grateful-dead/1973/08/01/dark-star?source=336581

4CPcomics, 10 months ago to random

A short Grateful Dead performance, presented without identification. What's your quality rating, 1-to-10, and why?

4CPcomics, 9 months ago to random

For your convenience: The three recent, astounding, archival CAN live 1975-1976 releases, with the 1975 and 1977 live tracks from “Can Box” threaded in. Top tier jam band, or improv prog band, or jazz-funk band, or whatever.

https://open.spotify.com/playlist/6TGmaVKwflKXEwMMc3F8Xq?si=40323022df244acb

4CPcomics, 10 months ago to random

Too much navel gazing on this platform. Debating the merits of numerous blogging platforms, rather than blogging interesting content, is smooth brain behavior.

4CPcomics, 2 months ago to random

Grateful Dead ’94 Highlights #2
Dylan Covers

If you’re looking for a way into appreciating the sound and character of 1994 #gratefuldead, 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

4CPcomics, 5 months ago to random

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

4CPcomics, 3 months ago to random

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

4CPcomics, 6 months ago to random

You say you’re a fan of really drifty, diffuse Dark Stars from 1973-1974, wherein the band flows like cloud forms, and Bill Kreutzman may be the subtlest jazz drummer you’ve ever heard?

Here are two hours of Dark Star passages like that.

Track-indexed stream:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0IhRoLh_saU&t=2334s

Notes and mp3s:
https://saveyourface.posthaven.com/grateful-dead-pouring-light-into-jazzes-1973-1974

Art: Manipulated detail from a painting by Leo Morey.

4CPcomics, 4 months ago to random

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.