4CPcomics

4CPcomics, 25 days ago

@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.

4CPcomics, 25 days ago

@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.

4CPcomics, 25 days ago

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 #gratefuldead "album."

4CPcomics, 25 days ago

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4CPcomics, 12 days ago

@mrcompletely @noah_s I just dropped the needle into the first verse of all the Cassidys from those final two June '76 runs, and I'd say that 6/29 is pretty clearly where the Bobby/Donna vocals come across and together the best. https://relisten.net/grateful-dead/1976/06/29/gd76-06-29-t03-cassidy?source=337017

4CPcomics, 12 days ago

@mrcompletely Encore of the last show - Might as Well - incendiary and Donna prominent. (Yes, a little band burp.) Methinks the challenge is to find the best-sung/recorded version of every "small" song from June '76 and then winnow from there.

4CPcomics, 12 days ago

@mrcompletely I agree about the mighty status of Crazy Fingers as a composition. Plus, it seems perfectly suited to the mood/pace/vocal precision of '76 Dead. I'm going to educate myself.

4CPcomics, 12 days ago

@mrcompletely The only 6/76 Dead I'm fluent in anymore are the Slipknot, St. Stephen, and "out of nowhere" jams. (SYF compilations.)

4CPcomics, 12 days ago

@mrcompletely Thanks for those leads. And the best "little songs" is what I'm curious about. Subplot would be to begin to take notes for a Donna '76 mix - songs/arrangements where her parts are crucial and the mixes present her whole voice.

4CPcomics, 12 days ago

@mrcompletely Help out someone who rarely hears June '76 or April '78: What are the first five songs you think of as Donna showpieces at either or both times?

4CPcomics, 12 days ago

@mrcompletely Row Jimmy seems pretty nice for Jerry/Donna harmonizing. https://relisten.net/grateful-dead/1976/06/29/gd76-06-29-t11-row-jimmy?source=337017

4CPcomics, 24 days ago

@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

4CPcomics, 24 days ago

@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

4CPcomics, 24 days ago

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

4CPcomics, 24 days ago (edited 24 days ago)

@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.

4CPcomics, 24 days ago

@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.

4CPcomics, 24 days ago

@mrcompletely I think #gratefuldead “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?!

4CPcomics, 24 days ago

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

4CPcomics, 16 days ago

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