tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-508596483308849125.post6334802986036577608..comments2024-03-17T11:10:04.872-07:00Comments on Grateful Dead Guide: Live vs. Studio Dead 1967-69Light Into Asheshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06943335142002007213noreply@blogger.comBlogger68125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-508596483308849125.post-1452439890748772252018-07-31T14:08:46.228-07:002018-07-31T14:08:46.228-07:00From the "R&R Crusader" column in th...From the "R&R Crusader" column in the 4/1/67 Detroit Sun, an underground paper: <br /><br />"Big news for rock freaks: the first Grateful Dead album is out, from Warner Brothers records, and what is important about the record aside from the music is that the Grateful Dead didn't kiss anybody's ass to get the record made. They just dropped a lot of acid, played a lot of Light Into Asheshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06943335142002007213noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-508596483308849125.post-53555517369970581842018-06-20T13:27:59.341-07:002018-06-20T13:27:59.341-07:00Ralph Gleason championed the Dead early and often ...Ralph Gleason championed the Dead early and often in his Chronicle articles, and in one February '67 piece he talked about the just-recorded album: <br /><br />"The Dead are the most consistently excellent rock group around, their instrumental work is beautiful, they swing like angels and Warner Brothers has apparently gotten this wonderful feeling on the tapes of the sessions. Dave Light Into Asheshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06943335142002007213noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-508596483308849125.post-31532561572216361972018-06-12T21:12:51.671-07:002018-06-12T21:12:51.671-07:00Looking back at my account of the fall 1967 Anthem...Looking back at my account of the fall 1967 Anthem studio sessions here, there are a few mistakes: <br />- what circulated as studio versions of Alligator>Caution & the Other One suite, I now believe are from a live show; a different, genuine instrumental studio outtake of the Other One does circulate; <br />- the "11/19/67" Lovelight rehearsal tape actually comes from July or Light Into Asheshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06943335142002007213noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-508596483308849125.post-61926504732003623252018-05-08T19:57:40.029-07:002018-05-08T19:57:40.029-07:00JGMF found a report in the 8/16/68 San Francisco C...JGMF found a report in the 8/16/68 San Francisco Chronicle on the "Return of Grateful Dead":<br /><br />"The Grateful Dead...will return to the Fillmore West on Tuesday after an absence of more than a year. <br />The Dead's new album on Warner Brothers has just been released; they will record another during the three night engagement."<br /><br />It's interesting that Light Into Asheshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06943335142002007213noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-508596483308849125.post-71968052355029042972018-04-04T18:43:53.948-07:002018-04-04T18:43:53.948-07:00From Peter Simon's 1975 interview with Garcia ...From Peter Simon's 1975 interview with Garcia - Simon asks whether Garcia prefers playing live or in the studio.<br />"Oh, I prefer playing live to playing in the studio, for sure, just as an experience it's definitely richer, because it's continuous - I mean, you play a note and you can see where it goes, you can see what the response is, what the reaction is - it's Light Into Asheshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06943335142002007213noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-508596483308849125.post-61952933495002639662018-03-01T17:43:46.313-08:002018-03-01T17:43:46.313-08:00In 1969, Ron Wickersham wrote an article for Elect...In 1969, Ron Wickersham wrote an article for Electronics World magazine, "Multichannel Recording for Creating the 'NEW SOUND'." It ran in their September 1969 issue, which is here: <br />http://www.americanradiohistory.com/Archive-Electronics-World/60s/1969/Electronics-World-1969-09.pdf (pages 38-39, 77 in the magazine)<br />Wickersham was the engineer at Pacific Recording Light Into Asheshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06943335142002007213noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-508596483308849125.post-3478152497365133002017-10-19T23:54:11.313-07:002017-10-19T23:54:11.313-07:00An article on Coast Recorders in the 5/6/67 issue ...An article on Coast Recorders in the 5/6/67 issue of Billboard mentioned, "The Grateful Dead's all-night record-in, with locked doors, was the most unusual session thus far booked by a newly emerging local group."Light Into Asheshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06943335142002007213noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-508596483308849125.post-84287274301067663752017-10-19T20:00:16.378-07:002017-10-19T20:00:16.378-07:00A comic Warners ad from the 11/22/69 Billboard:
...A comic Warners ad from the 11/22/69 Billboard: <br /><br />GRATEFUL DEAD RE-ENLIST <br />Lovable San Francisco mop tops, the Grateful Dead, have re-enlisted for another hitch with the Warner Bros. Records Happy Family, continuing their long, mutually rewarding, artistically satisfying and emotionally stimulating relationship. <br />The fourth Grateful Dead album, released November 10, is a Light Into Asheshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06943335142002007213noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-508596483308849125.post-7588132875656041752017-10-11T03:04:21.442-07:002017-10-11T03:04:21.442-07:00Cashbox had a very brief report in its 1/3/70 issu...Cashbox had a very brief report in its 1/3/70 issue: <br />"The Grateful Dead have renewed their recording contract with Warner Brothers in a deal closed between their manager Lenny Hart with WB-7a general manager Joe Smith... The group's new 2-record album "Live Dead" has already broken loose with sales cementing the deal." <br />There's a picture of Lenny and Joe Light Into Asheshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06943335142002007213noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-508596483308849125.post-30439769361333089252016-09-15T08:58:48.467-07:002016-09-15T08:58:48.467-07:00I don't understand why they hold back some of ...I don't understand why they hold back some of this stuff, especially in this case. Maybe there are technical hurdles I don't understand, but we are not talking about a remix or remaster in this case, just a CD release. They do these various live releases with limited runs, do they think they wouldn't sell out 5000 copies of the Aoxomoxoa original mix on CD? <br /><br />It seems ianua ditisnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-508596483308849125.post-46447412309413651912016-05-21T21:35:06.558-07:002016-05-21T21:35:06.558-07:00The original mix was only released in the vinyl bo...The original mix was only released in the vinyl box set; I also hope they can release it on CD, along with some of the many outtakes from the Aoxomoxoa sessions. <br />But I suspect alternate mixes & studio outtakes aren't what they're interested in releasing.Light Into Asheshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06943335142002007213noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-508596483308849125.post-39445497005906259942016-05-20T20:05:44.390-07:002016-05-20T20:05:44.390-07:00Thanks for this info - based on your article I goo...Thanks for this info - based on your article I googled and found the original mix for Aoxomoxoa. I'm listening to it right now, the choir on Mts. of the Moon...<br /><br />It's always neat to hear something I've heard one way over the last 20 years with fresh ears.<br /><br />I know it was released on the box set, they should make it part of the standard CD release, or do a double CDAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-508596483308849125.post-83309391989344780952016-04-05T18:47:37.346-07:002016-04-05T18:47:37.346-07:00...Then again, maybe there was a taped version aft......Then again, maybe there was a taped version after all. <br />The Aoxomoxoa outtakes tape on the Archive has an unknown guitar & drums instrumental (very non-Dead-like) which may well be a rhythm track for 'Cortical Five.' At least, it's easy to imagine Hunter's lyrics over this track. <br />https://archive.org/details/gd69-xx-xx.sbd.dodd.16760.sbeok.shnf <br /><br />The Light Into Asheshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06943335142002007213noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-508596483308849125.post-5467477817605998722016-01-30T08:13:14.012-08:002016-01-30T08:13:14.012-08:00Thanks for finding that!
This lost song raises an...Thanks for finding that! <br />This lost song raises an interesting question... Hunter says it was written in 1970 (and the lyrics look like it), but here's the title in a 1968 song-list. It's also unusual, I think, for Garcia to have gone as far as writing the music for a song for PERRO, only to have it disappear with no known version taped (either by PERRO or the Dead).Light Into Asheshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06943335142002007213noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-508596483308849125.post-36713946894688506082016-01-30T03:01:19.192-08:002016-01-30T03:01:19.192-08:00The "Cortical" in the 'setlist' ...The "Cortical" in the 'setlist' is "Cortical Five" (there's a hard-to-make-out figure 5 in the manuscript). This song was in Hunter's 'Box Of Rain' lyrics book. See http://www.whitegum.com/songfile/CORTICAL.HTM Hunter says:<br /><br />"This piece was written in 1970, to music by Garcia, for an album which never materialized, to be titled Planet Alex Allanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12853776731974624148noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-508596483308849125.post-52454490476407612392016-01-26T23:33:24.039-08:002016-01-26T23:33:24.039-08:00(Comments from my Golden Road post, cross-posted h...(Comments from my Golden Road post, cross-posted here.)<br /><br />Garcia & others talked about the Golden Road recording session in a couple of radio interviews in early '67.<br /><br />With Larry Miller, March '67 -<br />Garcia: This was recorded after we recorded the body of the album, and the actual song is a new song; we were thinking specifically of a single, so we just played Light Into Asheshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06943335142002007213noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-508596483308849125.post-13553409515187586932016-01-14T20:45:44.709-08:002016-01-14T20:45:44.709-08:00We also know Bob Matthews recorded 2/11/69 at the ...We also know Bob Matthews recorded 2/11/69 at the Fillmore East (and probably 2/12 too) on 8-track, presumably because they couldn't get the 16-track to New York. <br />It's interesting that they'd consider taping these short opening sets for the album - and apparently, just like the Avalon rehearsal on 1/23/69, there was also a pre-taping rehearsal at the Fillmore East. <br />Allan Light Into Asheshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06943335142002007213noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-508596483308849125.post-23131178679082191222016-01-14T20:21:22.327-08:002016-01-14T20:21:22.327-08:00Rock Scully talked more about this in an interview...Rock Scully talked more about this in an interview for This Is All A Dream We Dreamed: <br />Rock wanted Lenny to have "nothing to do with renegotiating a contract with Warner Bros - absolutely nothing. I [told him] that Danny and I are doing the booking, and I've got the relationship with the record company. I was already talking with Clive Davis [about signing with Columbia]. He was toLight Into Asheshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06943335142002007213noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-508596483308849125.post-90646016390515400752016-01-14T20:13:03.333-08:002016-01-14T20:13:03.333-08:00With no tape of the early Live/Dead mix played on ...With no tape of the early Live/Dead mix played on KSAN available, it's still a small mystery what mix was used - was it the same version that was later released? <br /><br />I mentioned in the post (from Grateful Dead Gear, I think) that the Dead initially mixed Live/Dead themselves, but Bob Matthews wasn't happy with their mix ("it didn't work"), so he remixed it. Matthews Light Into Asheshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06943335142002007213noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-508596483308849125.post-68829534477038304122016-01-14T19:59:30.250-08:002016-01-14T19:59:30.250-08:00There are some funny descriptions of the Anthem of...There are some funny descriptions of the Anthem of the Sun recording sessions in This Is All A Dream We Dreamed, p.89-94. <br />One engineer at Century Sound in New York, Brooks Arthur, recalls, "I'd never seen anything like the Dead before...family and children and friends and roadies and breastfeeding ladies and people sitting on the floor...flowers, peace symbols, beads, bells...pot Light Into Asheshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06943335142002007213noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-508596483308849125.post-33661002785213266032016-01-14T19:41:07.990-08:002016-01-14T19:41:07.990-08:00Mountain Girl and Rosie McGee give amusing perspec...Mountain Girl and Rosie McGee give amusing perspectives on recording the first album in This Is All A Dream We Dreamed (p.67-68). <br />Mountain Girl recalls, "They were taking my diet pills at the time, and that's why there are accelerated tempos on the album." Dave Hassinger was "this typical LA guy," and "they couldn't handle him at all, but he was trying to beLight Into Asheshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06943335142002007213noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-508596483308849125.post-47245979044434631122016-01-14T19:18:22.358-08:002016-01-14T19:18:22.358-08:00Tom Constanten on Aoxomoxoa: "The way most of...Tom Constanten on Aoxomoxoa: "The way most of it was put together is, we would put down the rhythm section first, then guitars, then keyboards, and the vocals last." This fits a lot of the basic tracks we hear on the outtakes. <br />Constanten referred to the 16-track mania: "We filled those tracks pretty quickly." <br /><br />He also saw Garcia as the head of the sessions: &Light Into Asheshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06943335142002007213noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-508596483308849125.post-69628222579034923282016-01-14T19:03:35.285-08:002016-01-14T19:03:35.285-08:00Bob Matthews' own account of recording Aoxomox...Bob Matthews' own account of recording Aoxomoxoa is in This Is All A Dream We Dreamed, p.123-25. He doesn't mention the clutter of engineers, but regards the sessions as a learning experience: <br />"I was hired by Brian Rohan on behalf of Mercury Records to do one-session demos for Bay Area bands that were being considered for record contracts. I got experience recording at this Light Into Asheshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06943335142002007213noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-508596483308849125.post-67833124266256569172016-01-14T18:41:34.184-08:002016-01-14T18:41:34.184-08:00Bob Matthews says a little more in This Is All A D...Bob Matthews says a little more in This Is All A Dream We Dreamed about going through studios during the Anthem of the Sun sessions: <br />In fall '67, "We went to LA and got thrown out of Sunset Sound, where the Doors had recorded, for smoking pot. We never taped anything there. We went to American [Recording in LA] and did some recording. Hassinger was there, Dan [Healy] was there, andLight Into Asheshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06943335142002007213noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-508596483308849125.post-57264600213669156322016-01-14T18:31:23.727-08:002016-01-14T18:31:23.727-08:00A comment from Garcia, characteristically dismissi...A comment from Garcia, characteristically dismissing the Dead's studio albums, in 1974: <br />"We're not the band that makes our albums - that's just a guise we adopt to get by in the studio. As soon as they invent a means of putting [out] five hours of music at a time at some kind of realistic price, we'll release all of our shows. <br />I've always felt the Grateful Light Into Asheshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06943335142002007213noreply@blogger.com