Posted on 02/26/2007 9:03:45 PM PST by opbuzz
A great video that you wouldn't expect.
Hi Lurker.
Have a nice day!
I love Phil Lesh's sweet voice on that. Also "Unbroken Chain".
You are so right. I met the Dead backstage on two occasions in the 1980s, and Bob Weir struck me first as a chatterbox and then as kind of a jerk in how he treated others. By contrast, Phil Lesh was very nice and courteous, and Jerry cracked very funny jokes the whole time. My only wish was that Weir wasn't there, because he interrupted the flow.
It could have been the interminable 'jamming' that went on without the slightest thought to melody, rhythym, or chord structure.
It could have been the fact that their instruments weren't in tune.
It could have been the hideously off key vocals.
LOL! Well, to each their own. I'm just glad you never saw the Sun Ra Arkestra (I assume). If you hated the Dead that much, the Arkestra might have driven you to start killing off the musicians and then I might have missed out on some shows!
1980s or 1990s I would guess. They hit their peak around 1975-77.
Wow. That was good. Makes me want to like baseball.
Nicely done.
I really liked them up until 1988 or so. Then they got too popular, the venues got bigger, the crowds got younger and more bullheaded, the shows got a bit more processed, Jerry got way strung out and started sucking much more frequently, the newer material sucked, etc. I saw about 75 shows altogether, from '78 to '90, and then maybe one or two thereafter. Mostly in the Bay Area. The Greek Theater at Cal and Frost Amphitheater at Stanford were the best. Also Oakland Auditorium (later renamed Kaiser Auditorium) was great, and Berkeley Community Theater and S.F. Civic a few times each as well. Good times were had, there is no doubt about it!
Simply awful. I mean painfully, horribly, tear your hair out, show me the exit, please dear God let it be over bad.
And the smell from the crowd....sweet Jesus in a manger was it foul. It's like the very concept of 'soap' hadn't even entered the collective zeitgeist of the fans, let alone actually touched any of their bodies in living memory.
Couple that with the smells of varying grades of marijuana, rotting Patchouli oil, stale peanut butter and jelly sandwiches, burned grilled cheese, (how in the Hell can one not be able to fashion a grilled cheese sandwich FGS?), and the stench of half combusted gasoline exhaust from barely functioning VW bus engines it was absolutely unbearable.
And don't even get me started on the yards and yards of unwashed armpit hair on the women! Had they been darted, held down, and shaved one could have knit an afghan the size of Rhode Island from the females alone.
Not that anyone in their right minds would have the courage to actually put their hands in there, let alone actually touch the stuff once they'd finished shearing them. I swear the sight of it would have made the bravest Aussie drover faint dead away and beg for mercy once he regained consciousness.
I have frightening dreams about it to this very day.
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I have been looking for this for a long, long time. Saw it in some rockumentary years ago.
Thanks for posting it.
That was wonderful. Thanks so much.
Gosh did not expect that it gave me chills!
Just goes to shows we are all Gods children!
Just to correct the record, tman73 was right, it was 1993.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but I believe the same can be said about Jim Morrison and Jimi Hendrix. I know Jimi was anti-communist and not anti-Vietnam, and I think I've read that Morrison was the same way. The surviving Doors have made political statements recently, though.
I heard that too. Even Bob Dylan was averse to being used as the hippies' poster boy for "peace" and anti- americanism.
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Many thanks. I heard this one on KVI in Seattle one time and have been looking for it since.
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FANTASTIC!
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