should i give the grateful dead a chance?

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prefer the julia set tbh

the event dynamics of power asynchrony (rushomancy), Monday, 11 July 2016 16:52 (seven years ago) link

three weeks pass...

BOB WEIR SIGNS TO COLUMBIA/LEGACY RECORDINGS, SET TO RELEASE BLUE MOUNTAIN SEPTEMBER 30

FIRST ALBUM OF ENTIRELY NEW MATERIAL IN 30 YEARS

WEIR PARTNERS WITH PRODUCER JOSH KAUFMAN,
JOSH RITTER AND AARON DESSNER, BRYCE DESSNER
AND SCOTT DEVENDORF

FALL “CAMPFIRE TOUR” DATES CONFIRMED


For the first time in ten years, Bob Weir will release a new solo record, Blue Mountain, on September 30—marking his debut project since signing with Columbia/Legacy Recordings, a division of Sony Music Entertainment. The release is his first album of entirely original material in thirty years and will be available on CD, 2LP vinyl, and digital. Producer Josh Kaufman partnered with Weir on the album, which features songwriting collaboration with Josh Ritter and performances from guitarists Aaron Dessner and Bryce Dessner and bassist Scott Devendorf. Blue Mountain is now available for pre-order on CD HERE and digital HERE. Weir will be performing in support of the album this fall on his “Campfire Tour.” Pre-sale tickets will be available on August 9 at 10:00am local time and public on-sale on August 12 at 10:00am local time here: www.bobweir.net. Every online ticket order comes with one (1) physical CD of Bob Weir's new album Blue Mountain. A limited amount of Enhanced Experiences are available throughout the tour including two premium tickets in the first 2 rows, an invitation to attend soundcheck and more. For more information visit HERE See below for a full list of dates.

Drawing on his earlier experiences working on a ranch in Wyoming as a teenager, Weir joined with Ritter, the Dessners, Devendorf and Kaufman to celebrate those times with twelve new songs.

Adam Block, President of Legacy Recordings notes, “We’re so pleased to welcome Bob Weir to the Columbia/Legacy family and absolutely thrilled to partner with him to share these stories and this beautiful record with the world.”

Photo credit: Jay Blakesburg
The album was recorded at a variety of locations on both coasts, including studios in Woodstock, NY and San Rafael, CA over the spring and fall of 2015. A host of fellow musicians appear alongside Weir on Blue Mountain including Ray Rizzo (drums, harmonium, harmonica, backup vocals), Joe Russo (drums), Jon Shaw (upright bass, piano), Rob Burger (keyboard, accordion, tuned percussion), Sam Cohen (electric guitar and pedal steel), Nate Martinez (guitars, harmonium, backup vocals), Jay Lane (drums, vocals), Robin Sylvester (upright bass, vocals, hammond organ) and Steve Kimock (Lapsteel). Providing backup vocals are The Bandana Splits, comprised of Annie Nero, Lauren Balthrop and Dawn Landes. Kaufman produced the record with engineering by Dan Goodwin.

Weir is one of the founding members of the legendary Grateful Dead, which received a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award in 2007. The band also appeared on Forbes’ list of top-grossing entertainers and in the early ‘90s were the highest-grossing concert attraction in the U.S. Since establishing the band in 1965, Weir has become one of rock’s finest and most distinctive rhythm guitarists. Earlier this year he received the inaugural Les Paul Spirit Award. Weir has also performed with many other acts including The Other Ones, Kingfish, Bob Weir Band, Bobby and the Midnites, Scaring the Children, Ratdog and Furthur, co-led by former Grateful Dead bassist Phil Lesh. His first solo album, Ace, was released in 1972. Most recently, Weir has been performing with Dead & Company, which features Grateful Dead members Mickey Hart and Bill Kreutzmann along with Grammy-winner John Mayer, Oteil Burbridge and Jeff Chimenti.
2014 saw the release of “The Other One: The Long, Strange Trip of Bob Weir,” created by Netflix which premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival. Additionally, an Amazon film series based on Steve Parish’s 2003 book, “Home Before Midnight: My Life on the Road with the Grateful Dead,” is currently in development with Weir serving as an executive producer.

BLUE MOUNTAIN TRACK LIST
1. Only A River
2. Cottonwood Lullaby
3. Gonesville
4. Lay My Lily Down
5. Gallop On The Run
6. Whatever Happened To Rose
7. What The Ghost Towns Know
8. Darkest Hour
9. Ki-Yi Bossie
10. Storm Country
11. Blue Mountain
12. One More River To Cross

BOB WEIR LIVE
October 7—Marin County Civic Center—San Rafael, CA
October 8—Fox Theater­—Oakland, CA
October 10—The Wiltern—Los Angeles, CA
October 12—Tower Theatre—Upper Darby, PA
October 14 & 15—Kings Theatre—Brooklyn, NY
October 16—The Capitol Theatre—Port Chester, NY
October 19—Ryman Auditorium—Nashville, TN

dow, Friday, 5 August 2016 20:08 (seven years ago) link

Estimated Prophet is all time but generally not a Bob fan

calstars, Friday, 5 August 2016 22:10 (seven years ago) link

Josh fucking Ritter?

Wimmels, Friday, 5 August 2016 23:07 (seven years ago) link

Yeah! All I know, other than his Dead tracks: Ace was unexpectedly good, though not perfect, Heaven Help The Fool was not as good, but he had some good songs w The Other Ones for inst---so I still kinda wonder...

dow, Friday, 5 August 2016 23:12 (seven years ago) link

Wimmels what's yr beef w/Ritter? he's all right.

The bald Phil Collins impersonator cash grab (Joan Crawford Loves Chachi), Saturday, 6 August 2016 00:25 (seven years ago) link

three weeks pass...

just want to say that the instrumental sections on 'sugaree' on dicks picks vol 3 are so very wonderful

global tetrahedron, Tuesday, 30 August 2016 15:48 (seven years ago) link

although i read a recent jesse jarnow bit that suggested the jams always drove towards some big crescendo when mickey hart rejoined which i can kinda see. oh well

global tetrahedron, Tuesday, 30 August 2016 15:49 (seven years ago) link

yeah, 76-77 is when they started doing 10+-minute sugarees I think -- i love those.
i have some weird concept of doing a cover of "heroin" in the style of "sugaree". not sure why.

tylerw, Tuesday, 30 August 2016 15:52 (seven years ago) link

btw the summer of dead rolls on -- tarfumes just contributed an excellent guest post: http://doomandgloomfromthetomb.tumblr.com/tagged/summer-of-dead
i'm listening to some 1985 show as we speak, there are like laser synth sounds on shakedown street.

tylerw, Tuesday, 30 August 2016 16:10 (seven years ago) link

we just moved to a new neighborhood and met some major deadheads who live up the street, they painted a whole dead scene with bears and terrapins and the europe 72 boot on their side fence. they live next to railroad tracks so of course put up a large "terrapin station" sign on their garage. i've had a steal your face sticker on my car for a while and when i introduced our selves the dude was like "oh cool we've been wanting to meet you" lol

marcos, Tuesday, 30 August 2016 16:13 (seven years ago) link

#mellowslow

calstars, Tuesday, 30 August 2016 16:16 (seven years ago) link

and here's the grateful dead covering robyn hitchcock in 1988

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XWaJUpB6-Us

a confederacy of lampreys (rushomancy), Wednesday, 31 August 2016 20:43 (seven years ago) link

haha, yeah that is so random. it's almost pretty good ...

tylerw, Wednesday, 31 August 2016 20:45 (seven years ago) link

OK, that's some names-out-of-a-hat shit. Digging it (and the band seems to know the song...somewhat!)

Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Wednesday, 31 August 2016 20:52 (seven years ago) link

wish somebody had taped their cover of "wading through a ventilator"

a confederacy of lampreys (rushomancy), Wednesday, 31 August 2016 20:53 (seven years ago) link

Weir couldda done a maybe good "Kingdom of Love"...

a full playlist of presidential sex jams (C. Grisso/McCain), Wednesday, 31 August 2016 21:01 (seven years ago) link

one month passes...

everyone around me loves the dead. i've been trying for years to get into this band, mostly because of all they have to offer to their fans in terms of live recordings/rarities... i got Workingman's Dead last year, and just recently American Beauty, Aoxomoxoa, and Anthem of the Sun... I know I have to listen to Europe '72, and other shows - but are there any other studio albums worth checking out first? AB and Aoxomoxoa are my favorites so far, this band is such a slow burn for me...like I just put AB on, and I'm starting to really love it...

flappy bird, Monday, 10 October 2016 20:09 (seven years ago) link

garcia self-titled

brimstead, Monday, 10 October 2016 20:12 (seven years ago) link

also ace

brimstead, Monday, 10 October 2016 20:12 (seven years ago) link

Blues for Allah
This is a no brainer

calstars, Monday, 10 October 2016 21:20 (seven years ago) link

Garcia by Jerry Garcia seconded. Probably my favorite dead-related studio album.
Among proper Dead albums, I also have a big soft spot for Wake of the Flood, too.

methanietanner, Monday, 10 October 2016 21:25 (seven years ago) link

yah get Wake The Flood

kurt schwitterz, Monday, 10 October 2016 21:38 (seven years ago) link

Live Dead

a (waterface), Monday, 10 October 2016 21:38 (seven years ago) link

oh wait u said studio

a (waterface), Monday, 10 October 2016 21:39 (seven years ago) link

The debut is a fun Garage Rock album.

a full playlist of presidential sex jams (C. Grisso/McCain), Monday, 10 October 2016 22:29 (seven years ago) link

...and, y'know, actually better than a lot of 'Legendary Garage Albums'.

a full playlist of presidential sex jams (C. Grisso/McCain), Monday, 10 October 2016 22:30 (seven years ago) link

Yeah it's pretty solid.

"raw buttin' these toilet seats" (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Tuesday, 11 October 2016 00:16 (seven years ago) link

Blues For Allah is very different from AB & Aoxomoxoa, and for me it runs out of gas, but man the studio Franklin's/Help was SUCH a treat the first time I heard it. Like I remember where I was the first time I heard it (in a cab heading to the Newark airport, with headphones on) and the feeling of how it sounded...it's got its ups and downs and is not the equal of the ones you already have, but I'd go with that

though she denies it to the press, (Joan Crawford Loves Chachi), Tuesday, 11 October 2016 01:07 (seven years ago) link

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/0/00/Grateful_Dead_-_From_the_Mars_Hotel.jpg

listened to From the Mars Hotel for the first time tonight. as usual i like about every other song and there are some downright stinkers ("Money Money"). "China Doll" "Unbroken Chain" and "Ship of Fools" are all atmospheric and slightly trippy, but "U.S. Blues" is the most rockin' uptempo thing on here. they are best when they aren't complicating things too much and just doing a southern rock groove.

AdamVania (Adam Bruneau), Friday, 14 October 2016 06:06 (seven years ago) link

"U.S. Blues" is a fun song. makes me think of the Turtles a little. and it has Gerry Garcia saying he's going to steal your wife.

AdamVania (Adam Bruneau), Friday, 14 October 2016 06:09 (seven years ago) link

Jerry

AdamVania (Adam Bruneau), Friday, 14 October 2016 06:09 (seven years ago) link

Unbroken Chain is so relaxed

calstars, Friday, 14 October 2016 13:21 (seven years ago) link

Except for that high pitched tone that pans across the stereo landscape

calstars, Friday, 14 October 2016 13:21 (seven years ago) link

That can be relaxing under certain conditions.

how's life, Friday, 14 October 2016 13:29 (seven years ago) link

I wonder if people with poor hearing notice it all; also what effect does any does it have on animals?

calstars, Friday, 14 October 2016 14:19 (seven years ago) link

this article suggests that weird sound might represent "the song of the saw-whet owl" -- http://artsites.ucsc.edu/GDead/agdl/chain.html

tylerw, Friday, 14 October 2016 14:25 (seven years ago) link

Here's a variety of saw-whet owl sounds. Nothing that sounds like tinkling, sadly. In my experience, the "annotated grateful dead" site has some very random and sometimes incorrect annotations in it. I don't know what Dodd's criteria for inclusion are or how carefully he vets entries.

https://www.allaboutbirds.org/guide/Northern_Saw-whet_Owl/sounds

how's life, Friday, 14 October 2016 14:51 (seven years ago) link

haha, yeah. but it's usually a pretty entertaining site.

tylerw, Friday, 14 October 2016 14:54 (seven years ago) link

Yeah, it's got some entertainment value. I used to read it frequently before he put out the book. Was disappointed when the book came out and it was just a printed version of the website.

how's life, Friday, 14 October 2016 15:10 (seven years ago) link

Anyway, Unbroken Chain rules.

how's life, Friday, 14 October 2016 15:12 (seven years ago) link

i dunno. it's got some really cool parts. one spot even sounds like drum n bass or stereolab for a second. but the basic song is kind of unimpressive. too math rock, too noodly. the high synth is eh, i wayyyyy prefer Hawkwind for that kind of thing.

AdamVania (Adam Bruneau), Friday, 14 October 2016 19:52 (seven years ago) link

i kinda like this
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DzcOtukqoo8

tylerw, Friday, 14 October 2016 19:57 (seven years ago) link

"Loose Lucy" is some southern fried glam. T-Rex via The Allman Brothers.

AdamVania (Adam Bruneau), Friday, 14 October 2016 21:23 (seven years ago) link

Never liked that one. Too loose

calstars, Saturday, 15 October 2016 00:04 (seven years ago) link

Govt Mule/Allman Bros/Phil & Friends' Warren Hayes has also played with the Dead, and this summer he did some of their songs in concerts w symphony orchestras. He comments on several faves here, where we also get videos of GD versions (live & studio):
http://www.rollingstone.com/music/lists/warren-haynes-on-5-grateful-dead-classics-w442312/blues-for-allah-w442318

dow, Friday, 21 October 2016 23:49 (seven years ago) link

Take it to the warren Hayes thread

calstars, Friday, 21 October 2016 23:58 (seven years ago) link

why, when the performances are all Dead

dow, Saturday, 22 October 2016 00:31 (seven years ago) link

Because warren Hayes is a tool?

calstars, Saturday, 22 October 2016 01:15 (seven years ago) link

he's not that bad, he can definitely shred.

brimstead, Saturday, 22 October 2016 02:48 (seven years ago) link


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