tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5195590583641426943.post7445553374955158113..comments2024-03-26T23:10:34.814-07:00Comments on Grateful Dead Sources: February 1971: Capitol Theater & Bob Weir InterviewLight Into Asheshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06943335142002007213noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5195590583641426943.post-11011286026887729792020-07-17T15:28:14.974-07:002020-07-17T15:28:14.974-07:00I hadn't assimilated that they were so openly,...I hadn't assimilated that they were so openly, and so early, looking to ease Jerry off and ease Buddy on to the NRPS pedal steel bench.Fate Musichttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05648291938690043423noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5195590583641426943.post-17489440803202896012012-08-03T22:54:37.568-07:002012-08-03T22:54:37.568-07:00Another note on the planetarium idea - Mickey Hart...Another note on the planetarium idea - Mickey Hart, from Drumming at the Edge of Magic: <br />"Back in the sixties there were often moments of fantasy when we would imagine playing in the most incredible places - the Grateful Dead on the moon, the Grateful Dead at Versailles, the Grateful Dead at the Pyramids. To have one of these suddenly coming true lifted everyone's hearts."Light Into Asheshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06943335142002007213noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5195590583641426943.post-1197149853362310252012-07-24T23:46:27.294-07:002012-07-24T23:46:27.294-07:00One more minor comment - I think the term "De...One more minor comment - I think the term "Dead Head" wasn't used yet. As I've seen a few times in these articles, "Dead Freak" was the common term at the time. (In fact, it's the term the Dead used on Skullfuck: "Dead Freaks Unite." "Dead Heads" was used as the address label, but that soon became the name for the fans.)<br /><br />Also, as we see, there was not yet any thought of Garcia or Weir solo albums. Hooteroll would end up preceding Garcia in the stores by a few months, in fall '71.Light Into Asheshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06943335142002007213noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5195590583641426943.post-88198929211334549482012-07-24T23:28:10.523-07:002012-07-24T23:28:10.523-07:00CONTINUED -
Vintage Dead: Weir's reaction is...CONTINUED - <br /><br />Vintage Dead: Weir's reaction is hilarious - a "most unfortunate" album! The Taping Compendium p. 116 talks about how the record came about - Bob Cohen called it "an ill-fated nightmare" and it is indeed a sad story. I'll be posting an article with more details later. <br /><br />Huey Newton: The Dead had met him on a plane trip in fall 1970, and actually played a benefit for Huey & the Black Panthers the next month on 3/5/71, which did not go very well - <br />http://lostlivedead.blogspot.com/2010/02/march-5-1971-oakland-auditorium-oakland.html <br /><br />The New Riders: Looks like they had their eye on Buddy Cage for quite some time. In a way it's surprising it took until fall '71 for Garcia to finally give up the pedal-steel seat to Cage. (Did Cage have other commitments?) <br /><br />Weir remarks that "I would like to see Jerry back us on pedal steel and we could do a few country numbers." The Dead had done this back in summer '69, but wouldn't do it again, with the exception of the early performances of Weir's Looks Like Rain in spring '72.<br /><br />Long Range Plans: McIntire's notion of having the Dead tour just a couple months a year and release two albums a year was quite unrealistic! <br />That said, they had released two studio albums in 1970 (for the only time ever), and they did succeed in reducing their touring significantly in 1971 as they got out of debt.<br /><br />Television: The quadrophonic shows McIntire talks about were 10/4/70 and 12/31/70. It's quite a shame that the video does not survive for either show. (Those were, of course, the days before many people had home videotape recorders, as he mentions!) <br />Anyway, it's a surprise that the Dead were thinking of editing the footage of those shows into a TV show. But as it turned out, the Dead wouldn't bother with TV again for a long time. <br />"What's really happening is holographic video cassettes!" <br /><br />Playing in a planetarium: Playing under the pyramids would be the next-best thing...Light Into Asheshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06943335142002007213noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5195590583641426943.post-6779480100782487902012-07-24T23:27:30.718-07:002012-07-24T23:27:30.718-07:00Quite a few things to comment on here!
It's ...Quite a few things to comment on here! <br /><br />It's rare to have such a lengthy Weir interview from so early on. (I guess the rest of the Dead were doing something else that afternoon!) It's interesting to see some parallels with his later interviews.<br /><br />The Capitol shows mentioned were 2/19 and 2/20, the first shows without Mickey. However the writers don't say much about the shows (except to praise Johnny B Goode). <br /><br />Hooteroll is said to already be finished; Pigpen is supposedly "just starting work on" his solo album. Unfortunately he was always "just starting work" on it til he died, and it always remained a theoretical album.<br /><br />Some notes on the interview: <br /><br />Live Album - The Dead decided not to use anything from the Capitol recordings (the new songs were, perhaps, just too new), instead using mostly later April tapes for the record. Though it did turn out to be a double album, it wouldn't be released til September.<br /><br />Rehearsals: The Dead had just had a month off, but apparently spent most of it resting. We have one set of studio rehearsals from this month - http://archive.org/details/gd1971-02-01.sbd.Studio.Rehearsal.120486.flac16 <br /><br />Mickey: "He's under the weather or something, I'm not sure what." The Dead seem to have decided to keep a public lid of silence on Mickey's troubles. Weir said much the same onstage at the 2/21 show.<br /><br />New Songs: The Dead didn't do any more new Pigpen songs until that summer. What's surprising is to hear that "Bill's got some up his sleeves"! (He did get co-credited for The Wheel, hmm...)<br /><br />Studio Album: As it turned out, the Dead wouldn't do another studio album for another 2 1/2 years. Weir would do a "solo" album with his new songs just one year later in Jan '72, though, seeing as he was more anxious to record. <br /><br />Tom Constanten: Garcia has a quote very much like this on TC's departure in an interview round this time, though I can't quite remember just where... <br /><br />The first album inscription: Garcia said much the same thing to Ralph Gleason in the 1967 interview - "They were going to put that really ostentatious oriental 'Egyptian Book of the Dead' quotation on the top, but we [disapproved]."<br /><br />Old Songs: Cold Rain & Snow had actually come back to the Dead's sets in spring '69, along with many other old songs; I have trouble recalling any that came back in 1970.Light Into Asheshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06943335142002007213noreply@blogger.com