If you don’t go listen to 1/22/78 from Oregon right now, then we can’t be friends anymore. I know you’ve heard it before; go listen again. Let your children fend for themselves, or lock them outdoors: listen to this now.
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I only listened to the first few songs and then the Terrapin lol
I am disappoint.
Hey now, I’ll check it out again once this lecture is over.
Bargaining is the third stage of grief, you know.
http://pages.uoregon.edu/jlund/grateful%20duck.jpg
– In 1978, the Grateful Dead played one of the best shows of the year at McArthur Court in Eugene, OR. The second set is awesome. The Terrapin > Drums > Other One > Close Encounters Space > St. Stephen ….. classic!
This Jack Straw will break your door down with an axe and take your liquor
DeadCo Jack Straw will pour you a Chardonnay, slip a Xanax under your tongue and lull you to sleep — in slo-mo.
Let’s keep Bill Cosby out of this
I’m still glowing from the second set of 11/11/1973. It was so good, I loaned myself a toothbrush and took myself out to breakfast in the clothes I wore last night at the bar,
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Macarthur Court 1978
McArthur…
is that Dylan waiting for a miracle?
all the sweet green icing flowing down
superb find
That place is overgrown with vegetation it looks abandoned. Why are they holding up feather dusters or pom poms..
Complete. What is the next assignment, please?
(A nice compact show. Did it appear to you, as it did to me, that the second set was somewhat, uh, diminished?)
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A good Other One in a year of good Other Ones.
http://www.dead.net/sites/default/files/images/19780122_1817.jpg
Garcia’s voice is shot; Weir gives master course in rhythm guitar; band dynamic is . . . dynamic. Loved this one: http://relisten.net/grateful-dead/1978/1/22/peggy-o
It’s off the hook. Mon Dieu.
Also, I loves me a late-era St. Stephen.
That tone when Jerry rips into St. Stephen? Exhibit A in the case for Wolf as his best guitar.
That is a magical moment. Not sure what concatenation of 70s-era electronics made those sounds, but to me it’s like a church organ.
specifically the late-seventies rebuild of the Wolf with new electronics and a different amp
late 70s Wolf > Alligator > a bunch of other guitars that are good too
Definitely, have always felt that Fall Tour 77 and its extension to February 78 had the best Jerry tone ever. I’m thinking particularly here of the weird set of pedals used on the Close Encounters jam, some of which stayed on as he dropped into the Stephen. Sounds like some kind of octave unit, and an envelope or phaser? I know a little about effects but not too much, but it’s definitely a unique sound in this show.
yeah it’s like every setting on every part of the MuTron unit maxed out. Octave divider I think, plus a ton of filter? not sure, but it’s one of the greatest sounds ever. Incredibly evolved filter tones in the famous DP18 Scarlet > Fire (really the Fire solos) as well…
late ’77/early ’78 Estimated outro jams are another spot to look for really crazy gnarly filter tones, like the 12.30.77 Estimated outro.
Thanks for the recommendations, checking these out. Love me some gnarly tone Jerry. Of course, when you listen to 12/30/77, you have to listen to the Let It Grow, just by rule, for its incredibly balance of delicate fleetness and agility with Jerry’s balls to the wall shredding meltdowns.
absolutely, and watching it on video is even more incredible, with “assume the formation” jamming (guitar players clustered in front of the drums working through all the changes together)
Effects aside, let’s not forget the damn volume! His rig had power and he could project tones clearly a long way. In a lot of matrix and AUD recordings from this time, you can hear the sound smacking off the hall’s back rafters. Sometimes it almost sounds like he’s playing off those with some of his angular Estimated lines.
funny you mention that, the effect of slapback on the musicians’ performance is one of those things that’s so impossible to capture accurately on any tape that among some of my friends it’s become a term for any X-factor that influences the music in an invisible or inexplicable way
sooooooo check out this audience tape from the Mac Court show, just for the Close Encounters solo
http://relisten.net/grateful-dead/1978/1/22-3/close-encounter-space
you can hear that echoey old room in the decay of the notes. pretty sweet
Man I was digging that Peggy O then Mourning Deuce had to post that pic and I got all dazed and confused looking at Bobby and Mickey and trying to pick who had the stupidest face? I hate when that happens.
Focus on this disaster from when they came back to Eugene in 81: http://www.eugeneweekly.com/sites/default/files/uploads/20150702coverstory6.jpg
Good God, Lemon.
Phil looks like the neighbor from down the street that comes to your barbecue but wasn’t really invited, brings a six-pack but finishes it himself and then drinks a few of yours, gets rib sauce all over his face and hands and then passes out in a lawn chair, and you’re not sure whether to leave him out there when it starts raining or not, though you think to yourself that a shower wouldn’t kill him.
You are holding out your private stash, maaaaan.
I have not seen this before. Very neat.
Oh I have no stash, this was just pure Google Imaging trying to find more photos of the show in question. Looks like this was a Fare Thee Well-timed release from the Oregon paper that probably took it originally: http://www.eugeneweekly.com/20150702/lead-story/bring-out-your-dead
The Fender Jazz Bass era.
http://www.gankmore.com/cc/pictures/Phil_Lesh-Greek_81-1.jpg
Man this NFA is stinky good.