Y’know what? I’ve given it two decades of honest effort, but I just don’t like the song High Time.
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Y’know what? I’ve given it two decades of honest effort, but I just don’t like the song High Time.
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It’s slow. I like it myself, but when they don’t absolutely nail it, it can drag.
Whippersnapper! Two decades – hah! You need to give it at least two decades more.
Compare & contrast with “It Must Have Been the Roses” and “Believe It Or Not.”
Roses –when it went wrong–turned into an entertaining trainwreck. High Time was always such a dirge.
How about BION?
I was hoping you wouldn’t notice that I didn’t mention that one.
I cannot even think of the chorus to that tune right now. What’s a good version?
This one’s pretty good I guess: https://archive.org/details/gd90-03-22.sbd.bertha-ashley.21433.sbeok.shnf
I ask because I think it’s the only other original song in waltz time.
I don’t like High Time either. One of my first GD tapes was a then-recent 2nd set from Hartford ’84 (BASF type II with greenish J-card) which had a remarkably awful version of this song. After a decent if narcotic fingerpicked guitar intro, Garcia completely forgets the first line and sings instead “Uh oh ee uh aye…” before singing the rest in that horizontal head, froggy voice that tells you John Kahn was not far away and John Q Law not far behind…
Fortunately, the next tape was “Make Believe Ballroom” aka 8/13/75 and Hartford ’84 was quickly forgotten.
I was about to become all nerdy-righteous-indignant and bring up El Paso re: the waltz thing, when I reread the sentence.
Well-parsed.
Kinda a sister song to Standing on the Moon, with slightly more clever chords.
Better than High Time, though.
Like.
Speaking of tapes, this is quite the TB for T.
http://www.c-90.org/catalogue/tapes/Basf%20-%20Emtec
You’re dead to me.
Fine, just don’t do weird stuff to my body.
5/17/77….I’ll show you a High Time
High Time needs its pedal steel, making all live versions without it sounding thin and too spare.
China Doll…the Classic Bathroom Break