i mean i looooooooooove the allmans and the new riders and poco and cowboy and quicksilver and a zillion other also-ran mutton chop motherfuckers, but the band...i better stop or stormy davis will come beat me up or something.
― scott seward, Wednesday, 20 April 2011 17:03 (thirteen years ago) link
Actually, I'll let it lie. The Fall comparison above makes sense - I love the Fall, and can never wholly dislike anyone else who does, since getting MES strikes me as pretty good for humanity/ interestingness index bonus points. But I know and like people who don't, and while I regret it, I understand they're not bad, and their taste isn't consequently suspect in every other respect. So maybe I just don't 'get' it (if there is an 'it')
― I'm Street but I Know my Roots (sonofstan), Wednesday, 20 April 2011 17:06 (thirteen years ago) link
right there w/ ya scott...watched The Last Waltz and didn't really get all the hubbub...the only Band I like is when Helm & Danko guest-starred on 70s Neil Young albums
― music loves drugs (Drugs A. Money), Wednesday, 20 April 2011 17:11 (thirteen years ago) link
scott otm
― wk, Wednesday, 20 April 2011 17:12 (thirteen years ago) link
you dirty hippies should give the band another chance
― tylerw, Wednesday, 20 April 2011 17:13 (thirteen years ago) link
Sorry to say I'm with Scott, Drugs and wk on this one. Great musicians when backing someone else, but I'm bored by the Band stuff.
― EZ Snappin, Wednesday, 20 April 2011 17:17 (thirteen years ago) link
maybe i just listen to too much actual country music too? i dunno. i used to have a problem with a lot of acting-80-when-you're-30 music that i probably like now. like the dead. i haven't actually listened to every band album though. i kinda liked cahoots at one point i think? and someone mentioned little feat, man, i can listen to them all day long. so maybe its just a vocal thing. i don't really have a specific problem with the band. i just never listen to them! i can't listen to everything. though i try.
― scott seward, Wednesday, 20 April 2011 17:18 (thirteen years ago) link
The Band, The Dead, they both really do it for me...I kind of like the hokey, folksy kind of thing the Band has but can understand favoring one over the other. Personally, I would love to hear Garcia, Danko & Manuel sing together...and I love the idea of the 2 bands swapping material
― VegemiteGrrl, Wednesday, 20 April 2011 17:22 (thirteen years ago) link
http://www.lyricshunt.com/img/posters/35/PF_2370181.jpg
― tylerw, Wednesday, 20 April 2011 17:26 (thirteen years ago) link
Let's do it. Let's go.
― cia never wore tie-dyes (kkvgz), Wednesday, 20 April 2011 17:27 (thirteen years ago) link
i'd see that show for $10, totally.
― tylerw, Wednesday, 20 April 2011 17:28 (thirteen years ago) link
I'll warm up the time machine
― VegemiteGrrl, Wednesday, 20 April 2011 17:28 (thirteen years ago) link
lol at (what I think is) a 1966 photo of the Dead for a 1973 show
― the wages of sin is about tree fiddy (WmC), Wednesday, 20 April 2011 17:28 (thirteen years ago) link
$10 for concert, parking AND camping :D
we should bring weed from here tho, weed back then pretty much sucked huh
― VegemiteGrrl, Wednesday, 20 April 2011 17:30 (thirteen years ago) link
seward to thread in re: modern weed being too much to really enjoy life w/
― five gone cats from Boston (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Wednesday, 20 April 2011 17:32 (thirteen years ago) link
the dude who owns the bbq joint in my town actually went to this festival. he has a story about showing up with a vanload of friends and then literally never seeing his friends again the whole weekend. 600,000 people!
― tylerw, Wednesday, 20 April 2011 17:32 (thirteen years ago) link
he was also like, "yeah there was music ... couldn't really hear any of it, though."
― tylerw, Wednesday, 20 April 2011 17:33 (thirteen years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZgYp9RM2xp8
get to Watkins Glen a day early for soundcheck to catch one of the all-time killer live Dead jams
― herbal bert (herb albert), Wednesday, 20 April 2011 17:35 (thirteen years ago) link
600,000?
um...I need to rethink this
― VegemiteGrrl, Wednesday, 20 April 2011 17:36 (thirteen years ago) link
we should bring weed from here tho,
maybe you guys should bring mobile phones from here too, then?
― I'm Street but I Know my Roots (sonofstan), Wednesday, 20 April 2011 17:37 (thirteen years ago) link
mobile phones get totally confusing while high ime
― tylerw, Wednesday, 20 April 2011 17:38 (thirteen years ago) link
ok so it seems to be consensus, i should download Europe 72 first if i've never really heard non-studio dead?
i have anthem of the sun, that is pretty ok
― O da Huge Manatee (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, 20 April 2011 17:38 (thirteen years ago) link
Then we'll have to bring the towers too. This is getting complicated.
― 'what are you, the Hymen Protection League of America?' (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Wednesday, 20 April 2011 17:38 (thirteen years ago) link
Bring walkie-talkies, ppl!
― Periblepsis occasioned by homoeoteleuton (Michael White), Wednesday, 20 April 2011 17:39 (thirteen years ago) link
i have a vw bus ILX can get a ride to watkin's glen from me :)
― O da Huge Manatee (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, 20 April 2011 17:39 (thirteen years ago) link
but you know, ass, gas, or cash, nobody rides for free
― O da Huge Manatee (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, 20 April 2011 17:40 (thirteen years ago) link
Though, what with the mushrooms you'll get, you guys'll be communicating telepathically anyhow.
― Periblepsis occasioned by homoeoteleuton (Michael White), Wednesday, 20 April 2011 17:40 (thirteen years ago) link
this one m@tt http://so-many-roads-boots.blogspot.com/2010/08/grateful-dead-1972-08-27-veneta-or-sbd.html
― tylerw, Wednesday, 20 April 2011 17:41 (thirteen years ago) link
Time travel project scuppered by inability to get phone mast into Tardis.
― I'm Street but I Know my Roots (sonofstan), Wednesday, 20 April 2011 17:41 (thirteen years ago) link
sweet
walkie talkies the way to goarrive early for soundcheckshould we bring good beers from the future or drink whatever's going?
― VegemiteGrrl, Wednesday, 20 April 2011 17:42 (thirteen years ago) link
I haven't heard Europe 72, I should check that out. Love Live/Dead and the 3CD version of the Fillmore West 1969 shows.
― the wages of sin is about tree fiddy (WmC), Wednesday, 20 April 2011 17:42 (thirteen years ago) link
thanks tyler
― O da Huge Manatee (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, 20 April 2011 17:44 (thirteen years ago) link
Excerpt from "AQUARIUS RISING" by Robert Santelli
Part 1
The largest crowd that ever gathered for a rock festival did so at Watkins Glen, New York, in July of 1973. Outdrawing the previous high at Woodstock almost two to one, more than 600,000 young people sardined themselves into the Watkins Glen Grand Prix Raceway for a single-day festival known as the Summer Jam. Featured groups were the Grateful Dead, the Allman Brothers, and the Band. Time travelers arrived early for the killer soundcheck with excellent weed, walkie talkies and hella good microbrews.
― tylerw, Wednesday, 20 April 2011 17:45 (thirteen years ago) link
So that's what the Doctor Who in America episodes are about.
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 20 April 2011 17:55 (thirteen years ago) link
lol tyler :)
― VegemiteGrrl, Wednesday, 20 April 2011 17:55 (thirteen years ago) link
i. someone explain "seastones" to meHere is an explanation via Mutant Sounds, of all placeshttp://mutant-sounds.blogspot.com/2007/04/phil-lesh-ned-lagin-seastoneslpcd197519.html
― Trip Maker, Wednesday, 20 April 2011 17:58 (thirteen years ago) link
Seastones sounds greaat!
― music loves drugs (Drugs A. Money), Wednesday, 20 April 2011 18:20 (thirteen years ago) link
it is. the Dead vault on archive.org has Seastones sets for some of those shows 1974-75 iirc
― herbal bert (herb albert), Wednesday, 20 April 2011 18:24 (thirteen years ago) link
RE: Veneta, I wasn't aware you could post a 36 minute video on youtube, but here ya go:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KJIS97uuSWY
― Hardcore Bangage (Dan Peterson), Wednesday, 20 April 2011 18:27 (thirteen years ago) link
listening to the dead set tyler told me to get.
p good so far
funny, after all the fighting, the first thing that's struck me is how much "sugaree" sounds like The Band
― O da Huge Manatee (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, 20 April 2011 18:40 (thirteen years ago) link
totally, matt! I brought up the Band yesterday b/c it was the hook my friend used to get me into the Dead (via Europe 72)
― Euler, Wednesday, 20 April 2011 18:55 (thirteen years ago) link
Reading some of Scott's fantasies upthread is totally making me wish Richard Manuel had a shot at "Candyman".
― Handjobs for a sport (C. Grisso/McCain), Wednesday, 20 April 2011 18:59 (thirteen years ago) link
I'm thinking about making the friend who showed me The Last Waltz sit through at least the first disc of Europe 72
― music loves drugs (Drugs A. Money), Wednesday, 20 April 2011 19:08 (thirteen years ago) link
i would not introduce someone to the band through the last waltz fwiw
― O da Huge Manatee (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, 20 April 2011 19:11 (thirteen years ago) link
The footage of the Dead from Festival Express is incredible imo.Great footage of The Band, too, actually.
― Trip Maker, Wednesday, 20 April 2011 19:13 (thirteen years ago) link
― Handjobs for a sport (C. Grisso/McCain), Wednesday, April 20, 2011 1:59 PM
I wuz robbed!
should i give the grateful dead a chance?
― the wages of sin is about tree fiddy (WmC), Wednesday, 20 April 2011 19:14 (thirteen years ago) link
black throated wind is good
― O da Huge Manatee (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, 20 April 2011 19:15 (thirteen years ago) link
hahahaha the OP benton was an old school sockpuppet, maybe one of the first.
― it's time for the fish in the perculator (Steve Shasta), Wednesday, 20 April 2011 19:16 (thirteen years ago) link
yours?
― the wages of sin is about tree fiddy (WmC), Wednesday, 20 April 2011 19:17 (thirteen years ago) link
My bad, WmC.
― Handjobs for a sport (C. Grisso/McCain), Wednesday, 20 April 2011 19:18 (thirteen years ago) link