tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5195590583641426943.post9001468065960105236..comments2024-03-26T23:10:34.814-07:00Comments on Grateful Dead Sources: December 9, 1966: Fillmore Auditorium, SFLight Into Asheshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06943335142002007213noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5195590583641426943.post-12974958671966215052013-06-27T16:51:32.724-07:002013-06-27T16:51:32.724-07:00By late 1966, Gleason was already a big fan of the...By late 1966, Gleason was already a big fan of the Dead, here calling them "magnificent...some of the most exciting instrumental rock music anywhere." In his 9/11/66 review, he singled out Pigpen in Midnight Hour as "one of the best blues singers of his generation."<br />His comment about Pigpen being an original who "sings like himself...is not imitation" anticipates what Garcia would tell him in an interview the next year: "Pigpen has his own style, that is perhaps the sum of lots of styles, but it's nonetheless consistently Pigpen."<br /><br />Here John Hammond Jr is compared unfavorably to Pigpen - see also the review of the 4/25/70 show, where Hammond opened for the Dead, and the reviewer found him "simplistic, unimaginative," tiresome & bad. <br />(However, the JGMF site notes that in an uncirculated review of 4/24/70, Pigpen played harmonica & guitar with Hammond as an encore, so Pigpen must not have found Hammond that bad!)Light Into Asheshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06943335142002007213noreply@blogger.com