4CPcomics

4CPcomics, 1 day ago

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

4CPcomics, 1 day 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, 1 day 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, 1 day 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, 1 day ago

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

4CPcomics, 1 day 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, 1 day ago (edited 1 day 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, 3 days ago

Is there any comparable full-speed-ahead, fast-improv, continuous, 30-minute jazz Dead flow that is as dense and breakneck thrilling as this?

4CPcomics, 3 days ago

@mrcompletely Acrobatic. I'm always astounded. Turning corners so fast and frequently that there are no corners. The songs are almost incidental to the flow of the playing.

4CPcomics, 3 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, 2 days ago

@mrcompletely @caravan

4CPcomics, 2 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, 2 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.