tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-508596483308849125.post7978680747150114045..comments2024-03-17T11:10:04.872-07:00Comments on Grateful Dead Guide: Hendrix and the DeadLight Into Asheshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06943335142002007213noreply@blogger.comBlogger33125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-508596483308849125.post-56402829498539383502023-11-06T19:51:05.743-08:002023-11-06T19:51:05.743-08:00Henrix did say he could do Schoogirl with Pigpen, ...Henrix did say he could do Schoogirl with Pigpen, but met a girl and never showed up. He waanted to jam with the Dead, as he was friends with Jack Cassidy and Jorma.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-508596483308849125.post-66313288491051371852021-04-05T14:12:36.284-07:002021-04-05T14:12:36.284-07:00That's the most retarded shit I've read on...That's the most retarded shit I've read on this blog, dude.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-508596483308849125.post-72978542019440341672019-09-25T01:10:31.328-07:002019-09-25T01:10:31.328-07:00Yes, see the comment in March 2011 below.
This is...Yes, see the comment in March 2011 below. <br />This is one of those posts where the comment thread is much longer than the original post!Light Into Asheshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06943335142002007213noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-508596483308849125.post-88707983344655634822019-09-24T11:29:08.708-07:002019-09-24T11:29:08.708-07:00In McNally's book he mentions that Weir briefl...In McNally's book he mentions that Weir briefly jammed with Jimi at an Amp maker's booth at Monterey. Adam Sarmientohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15493760674465631161noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-508596483308849125.post-64700742042932563152019-01-24T12:03:30.445-08:002019-01-24T12:03:30.445-08:00I didn't mention in the post that even though ...I didn't mention in the post that even though Garcia never jammed with Hendrix, Weir did. <br />Weir said, “I found myself jamming with him at the Monterey Pop Festival backstage. I didn’t know who he was, and I don’t think he knew who I was. But we were plugged into the same amplifier and had a great time together basically destroying that amplifier. And we became friends after that.” <br />Light Into Asheshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06943335142002007213noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-508596483308849125.post-45292631160236073082018-08-23T23:06:38.935-07:002018-08-23T23:06:38.935-07:00This particular reviewer prefers "clean notes...This particular reviewer prefers "clean notes" and smooth fingering, so he's dismayed that Hendrix is moving "into the realm of pure sound." Writing about the Hendrix/Albert King concerts, it seems King stole the show with his "blues power," which reminds me of negative comments King made about Hendrix relying on buttons and amplifiers in his playing: <br />"Light Into Asheshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06943335142002007213noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-508596483308849125.post-53761166950775995372018-08-23T23:05:46.568-07:002018-08-23T23:05:46.568-07:00(Cross-posted from the Cream comments.)
An April...(Cross-posted from the Cream comments.) <br /><br />An April '68 article from the Seed, a Chicago underground paper, reporting on the San Francisco music scene circa Feb/March '68: <br /><br />"The Cream returned to San Francisco and again demonstrated its ability to destroy minds at random; aside from the newly grown mustaches on Jack Bruce and Eric Clapton, the only major Light Into Asheshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06943335142002007213noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-508596483308849125.post-9179293666071905302017-06-15T12:26:47.983-07:002017-06-15T12:26:47.983-07:00Jimi was more of a musical visionary than anybody ...Jimi was more of a musical visionary than anybody in rock music. Jerry had entirely different, more modest ambitions. Possibly if Jerry had grown up in, say, Kentucky, he would have become a well-known bluegrass banjo star. But his main creative work was within the Dead, and his work outside the Dead wasn't very groundbreaking. Jimi was much more of a "solo" artist as well as Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-508596483308849125.post-21708425365885226242017-06-12T19:59:11.840-07:002017-06-12T19:59:11.840-07:00I'd say the biggest stylistic difference was J...I'd say the biggest stylistic difference was Jerry's foundation in bluegrass. Obviously, Jimi was a musical sponge, but as a black kid growing up in the 1950s, it's hard to imagine him having any interest in rural white music. He was captivated by showmanship, which naturally led to his eventual gigs with Little Richard, the Isleys, etc. Once that began to bore him, he gravitated Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13137833042059028507noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-508596483308849125.post-78664051932743888832017-04-11T21:50:52.910-07:002017-04-11T21:50:52.910-07:00B/c Jeffrey knew he was about to get fired, hence,...B/c Jeffrey knew he was about to get fired, hence, losing his source of cash flow, which he routinely robbed Hendrix of. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-508596483308849125.post-29352570049538224142016-11-27T16:41:28.188-08:002016-11-27T16:41:28.188-08:00I agree it is a generic jam that can't be iden...I agree it is a generic jam that can't be identified as a particular song, although it is a similar feeling to a few Hendrix songs. However, it does sound to me like Jerry starting the jam, with Bob and the rest of the band joining, and towards the end Jerry solos briefly while Bob continues playing rhythm.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-508596483308849125.post-71525307363152619692016-11-25T09:15:13.864-08:002016-11-25T09:15:13.864-08:00Sorry, that is NOT Up From The Skies, and it' ...Sorry, that is NOT Up From The Skies, and it' s not Jerry, it's Bob who starts playing the jazzy chords. Those are generic jazzy-blues chords played in a shuffle rhythm and in fact if you were going to compare it to a Jimi song it would be "Rainy Day, Dream Away", not "Up From The Skies".JWhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03561479357079121163noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-508596483308849125.post-12057155804546872582016-08-07T22:11:54.170-07:002016-08-07T22:11:54.170-07:00Hendrix was valuable to too many people. There was...Hendrix was valuable to too many people. There was no reason to kill him. He wasn't a threat to anyone and nobody had anything to gain from him dying. Wouldn't Mike Jeffrey want the albums, tours, and money to keep rolling in? Jobriath Handlebarshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04276710056000800543noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-508596483308849125.post-74544676105073238122016-02-25T13:10:04.498-08:002016-02-25T13:10:04.498-08:00I'm glad there are other people investigating ...I'm glad there are other people investigating these little mysteries of the Dead! Much remains to be discovered... Light Into Asheshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06943335142002007213noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-508596483308849125.post-41827950143387681612016-02-25T08:27:36.000-08:002016-02-25T08:27:36.000-08:00LIA,
Thanks for the reference to the RH where he t...LIA,<br />Thanks for the reference to the RH where he talks about WBOTB. That's really great to know about. But I think you're right to be dubious of RH's recollection for the reasons you give. Another point is that Mountains of the Moon is not a minuet, which are pretty much defined by being in triple meter. Mountains of the Moon is, however, definitely in duple. I think he might Incornsyucopiahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15194586063192261829noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-508596483308849125.post-22519119321381708852015-12-03T22:31:59.917-08:002015-12-03T22:31:59.917-08:00Garcia on Hendrix, 1991:
"I remember watchin...Garcia on Hendrix, 1991: <br />"I remember watching Jimi play - we played a lot of shows together - and there were times when the guitar wouldn't do what he wanted it to do. It was sad or embarrassing, because it wouldn't do all that magic stuff. Sometimes it was just the instrument or the humidity - who knows? The stuff he was doing had so much to do with weird, fringey kinds of Light Into Asheshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06943335142002007213noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-508596483308849125.post-17551784985706321612013-05-22T17:09:17.108-07:002013-05-22T17:09:17.108-07:00This quote is from a comment on my Cream post, but...This quote is from a comment on my Cream post, but it's also relevant here. Frank Kofsky interviewed Garcia in early September 1967 (published in the recent book Dead Studies vol. 1) - Garcia had just seen Cream at the Fillmore and was still in shock. Kofsky also asked him about Hendrix...but Garcia felt Hendrix wasn't in the same league as Cream.<br /><br />KOFSKY: Who have you learned Light Into Asheshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06943335142002007213noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-508596483308849125.post-3952968377548057382013-03-13T15:43:45.476-07:002013-03-13T15:43:45.476-07:00I would add to the above: it seems to me that Garc...I would add to the above: it seems to me that Garcia sustains more listening in the long run than Hendrix, for a few reasons - one is the simple issue of number of performances. With Hendrix, the number of shows & alternate performances soon runs dry (even as often as he recorded) while you can keep finding new Garcia/Dead shows for years. <br />Hendrix also had a much smaller body of songs Light Into Asheshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06943335142002007213noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-508596483308849125.post-32378873603105389182013-01-23T00:49:41.839-08:002013-01-23T00:49:41.839-08:00(continued...)
Though he sometimes played a Gibs...(continued...) <br /><br />Though he sometimes played a Gibson, Hendix mostly preferred to use a Stratocaster. Garcia was more of a magpie with guitars, starting out with Gibsons in the '60s, switching to a Stratocaster in the early '70s, then moving on to customized guitars. But Hendrix would sometimes switch guitars in a show (for instance, getting a Gibson to play Red House), while Light Into Asheshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06943335142002007213noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-508596483308849125.post-79865663859562468472013-01-23T00:49:13.005-08:002013-01-23T00:49:13.005-08:00I was asked to compare Garcia & Hendrix's ...I was asked to compare Garcia & Hendrix's playing styles more, something I didn't really do in this post. Someone more knowledgeable would have to make a close comparison, since I'm not really qualified, but I'll make a few comments. <br /><br />Stylistically they were extremely different - Hendrix was so much more into hard rock, R&B and blues, and hardly at all into Light Into Asheshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06943335142002007213noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-508596483308849125.post-87121918063276890372012-12-20T20:01:42.097-08:002012-12-20T20:01:42.097-08:00I agree that he was creative every time he picked ...I agree that he was creative every time he picked up the guitar, but can't agree that there were no bad gigs...some, at least, were much better than others. While I wouldn't say there were any gigs where he "didn't care," there are definitely a few where he's really not in the mood & is struggling. <br />At any rate, I do greatly prefer the 1970 American shows Light Into Asheshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06943335142002007213noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-508596483308849125.post-12220465645579866992012-12-20T00:04:22.095-08:002012-12-20T00:04:22.095-08:00I decided to check out this bootleg which I had in...I decided to check out this bootleg which I had in my collection already but hadn't listened to yet. I had a pretty good feeling that this was not a bad gig. There were no bad gigs for Jimi. <br /><br />The way his musical brain worked, he was always creating musically offstage and onstage. There was no off switch for him. He was creative every time he picked up the guitar. So a bad gig for Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-508596483308849125.post-44100442367193874652012-10-15T16:25:46.968-07:002012-10-15T16:25:46.968-07:00That is no doubt Up From the Skies,it's so int...That is no doubt Up From the Skies,it's so interesting to hear Jerry riffing on Jimi.I rarely listen to those tuning tracks and now I see what I could be missing.It is only a vamp,but it is a treat and a little window into the musical machinations of Jerry's brain. jerlouvisnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-508596483308849125.post-12948209645546179222012-07-13T20:13:58.416-07:002012-07-13T20:13:58.416-07:00It's probably coincidental, but the Dead play ...It's probably coincidental, but the Dead play a little 20-second vamp before Truckin' in this show (track 14) that sounds just like Up From The Skies.<br />http://archive.org/details/gd1970-10-30.121125.sbd.deluca.digitalrbb.miller.flac1648Light Into Asheshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06943335142002007213noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-508596483308849125.post-89421865750284423382012-03-01T20:52:00.393-08:002012-03-01T20:52:00.393-08:00More information has come up, in the latest commen...More information has come up, in the latest comments here: <br />http://lostlivedead.blogspot.com/2010/06/october-12-1968-avalon-ballroom-san.html <br /><br />Robert Hunter gave a show in Seattle where he mentioned a no-show from Hendrix: <br />http://www.archive.org/details/rh2003-06-11.aud.unk.flac16 <br />“A lot of people don’t realize that What's Become of the Baby is a very beautiful Light Into Asheshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06943335142002007213noreply@blogger.com