What is the correct setlist for #GratefulDead's Rockin' The Rhein? Wikipedia mentions a third set, the archive.org has the same ordering as the official release, and deadlists begs to differ. :/
@mrcompletely@chooban@InstituteJerry fascinating, i don't remember the specifics, but jeremy berg & janelle west did a presentation (as i recall) about how the musicbrainz data fields didn't smoothly accommodate the metadata for a dead show, though not sure how far deep they were going. vaguely recall it causing confusion when there were 2 "versions" of a song in the same file set. https://heads.social/@bourgwick/109916839026558170
david grisman & richard greene’s great american string band opens, featuring garcia on banjo & (replacing taj mahal on bass) buell neidlinger, cecil taylor/archie shepp collaborator (!!). photos & some silent footage, but no tapes seem to have survived. according to some lore, it was a day/period when the roadies were still busting tapers, but see below... [3/10]
@mrcompletely@bookstodon yup, & quite present (unlike, sadly, greatdismal). and, yeah, i meant just dialogue/vibe wise, the way most pre-star wars sci-fi movies feel/look different (even though this is technically post neuromancer).
friends, we’ve the reached the “scarlet begonias” episode of the good ol’ #GratefulDead-cast & it is W-I-L-D. alongside the studio multitracks (& a supercut thereof) & excellent jams, we’ve got vampire weekend’s chris tomson, the story of how robert hunter met the woman in scarlet begonias, and... https://www.dead.net/deadcast/mars-hotel-50-scarlet-begonias#podcast /1
today’s deadcast includes an interview with one of the 2 people in this photograph! photographer/filmmaker lee jaffe (& ron rakow) on the never-told true story of how the the #GratefulDead came legitimately close to signing #BobMarley to their own record company in early 1974?! (not hallucinated by a chatbot!) https://www.dead.net/deadcast/mars-hotel-50-scarlet-begonias#reggae /2
50 years ago tonight, television (in their original lineup with richard hell) tape an appearance on the underground tonight show at cafe wha?, alongside #PattiSmith & david peel & jackie curtis & others, aired on #nyc public access #television sometime later that year, surfaced incredibly in 2022: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gLlhYiN4gmU#punk [1/2]
5/22/74 cafe wha?: amazing 3 minutes of television on #television, playing verlaine’s HARD ON LOVE & making excellent rock faces (as is one of the hippies on the side of the stage, also doing some great gesticulating, visible behind hell). apparently john lennon saw it when it aired. as punk as they ever sounded. #tvfreaksunite#tv052274 [2/2]
5/21/74 seattle: 1st set includes almost an hour of material introduced in past year & change. IT MUST HAVE BEEN THE ROSES feeling more elegant with each performance. 5-minute SCARLET BEGONIAS slightly longer than previous, sweet quiet donna vocalizing, almost karen dalton-y. final version of MONEY MONEY is tightest yet, but good riddance to some gross lyrics. 23-minute WEATHER REPORT SUITE > CHINA DOLL is understated set closer & wish they’d closed on quiet note more often. [2/4]
46-minute PLAYING IN THE BAND is wondrous monster, one of the longest standalone pieces in the band’s history. gets a bit abstract/free/noisy early before (mostly) focusing on fast-flashing attention-holding conversation. moves towards end-space a few times, but someone picks up thread. 34-minute EYES OF THE WORLD > STELLA BLUE > SUGAR MAGNOLIA. powerful EYES with aggressive bass solo leading into 7/8 outro. nice musical pause before SUGAR MAGNOLIA, which gets a bit tattered as it goes. [3/4]
rode with neil young & crazy horse again in #bridgeport & so happy i did. got tons of songs i didn't catch tuesday ("barstool blues"! "down by the river"! "dangerbird"! "fuckin' up"!), tour debuts ("when you dance"! "big time"!), & what felt like even deeper #jams ("powderfinger"! "love & only love"!). molina & talbot have always had their own special pocket & it's so rare/cool to hear a rhythm section age with their singer into something even heavier, if less nimble. also, a j. mascis sighting.
@PaulInRainCity ugh, yeah, i'm sorry you have to choose like that. both shows i saw were seated with a surprising amount standing for the whole show (& more surprising, no "sit down!!" wars), but can't imagine a full GA neil show at this point. there have to be others in your situation. call/ask venue? you probably qualify for seating!
Anyone know if Discogs is a good place to work? They're hiring. They're not like doomed for some reason or anything, or just laid off all the good people or something? I feel like the #vinyl#music people here might know
5/14/74 missoula: without the washoe zephyr blowing, a much tighter show. potent LOSER, “sweet susie” returns. 2nd SCARLET BEGONIAS finds a little flight with cool wah-wah rhodes & donna vocalizing over jam, though very much (to my ears) about having a fun new weir-involved rhythmic/harmonic conversation; all working together to click it to fresh space, before landing in IT MUST HAVE BEEN THE ROSES. casually brilliant k. godchaux throughout, especially 21-minute PLAYING IN THE BAND. [2/6]
centerpiece of the show is 48-minute WEATHER REPORT SUITE > DARK STAR > CHINA DOLL, elegant ’74 dead. LET IT GROW widens & dissolves into restless pre-verse DARK STAR jamming, nearly dissolving into ’69-ish arpeggio diamonds. post-verse noise blossoms, opening from garcia’s thick fuzztone into free freakout that opens to 5+ minutes of kreutzmann-led jazz dancing. the wild fuzz returns for CHINA DOLL via a psychedelic split guitar signal, the clean tone running in parallel. [3/6]