tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-508596483308849125.post6959738947927725259..comments2024-03-17T11:10:04.872-07:00Comments on Grateful Dead Guide: The Byrds and the DeadLight Into Asheshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06943335142002007213noreply@blogger.comBlogger31125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-508596483308849125.post-68020271185699608232021-06-18T00:30:37.980-07:002021-06-18T00:30:37.980-07:00More on David Crosby - this history of Wall Songs ...More on David Crosby - this history of Wall Songs that Garcia played on is worth a read: <br />https://deadthinking.blogspot.com/2020/11/the-wall-song-short-history.html <br />Garcia played this song a surprising number of times - from studio takes, to the David & the Dorks gigs at the Matrix, to his own early '71 sets with Merl Saunders, to the jam at Mickey's barn.<br /><br />GarciaLight Into Asheshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06943335142002007213noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-508596483308849125.post-70621082966666102222020-08-20T20:44:13.979-07:002020-08-20T20:44:13.979-07:00I intend to do an updated separate post on Dylan &...I intend to do an updated separate post on Dylan & the Dead someday, but in the meantime, here's Jesse Jarnow's writeup from a couple years ago: <br />https://doomandgloomfromthetomb.tumblr.com/post/177555446892/the-ballad-of-spike-jerry-bob-dylan-jerry Light Into Asheshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06943335142002007213noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-508596483308849125.post-51007801858601150572020-08-19T17:18:07.325-07:002020-08-19T17:18:07.325-07:00New long interview with David Crosby about Jerry G...New long interview with David Crosby about Jerry Garcia and the Dead, marking the 25th anniversary of Garcia's death: https://variety.com/2020/music/news/david-crosby-remembers-jerry-garcia-grateful-dead-anniversary-1234729939/Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-508596483308849125.post-58669681128405632302017-05-12T20:44:01.712-07:002017-05-12T20:44:01.712-07:00There's a recording of Crosby & Stills bri...There's a recording of Crosby & Stills briefly talking about the Dead during a fall '69 studio session: <br />https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JyrvIafPbBY <br /><br />Someone has transcribed it: <br /><br />STILLS - (playing the Black Queen riff)<br />CROSBY - I think we ought to rehearse it enough to where we got it really tight. We should definitely do that as one of the songs that Light Into Asheshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06943335142002007213noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-508596483308849125.post-15490191233890436792017-03-10T11:10:34.376-08:002017-03-10T11:10:34.376-08:00I don't think it's been mentioned before, ...I don't think it's been mentioned before, but in the December '70 David & the Dorks Matrix show, the cool riff Garcia drops into Laughing around 7:00 is the same as the acoustic riff at the end of Music Is Love, on Crosby's album.Light Into Asheshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06943335142002007213noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-508596483308849125.post-91442624654418387822017-02-16T21:35:57.655-08:002017-02-16T21:35:57.655-08:00A couple outtakes from the album circulate that we...A couple outtakes from the album circulate that were apparently recorded when the album was mostly finished: <br />Cowboy Movie (w/ Garcia & Neil Young) 11/3/70<br />Tamalpais High (the 'Main Ten' version) 12/13/70<br /><br />Perhaps Crosby kept returning to some songs over the months in search of just the right version, though the earlier versions finally got picked for the album. <Light Into Asheshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06943335142002007213noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-508596483308849125.post-37909629271415319312015-08-21T22:47:25.042-07:002015-08-21T22:47:25.042-07:00Larry Campbell, guitarist in Bob Dylan's band ...Larry Campbell, guitarist in Bob Dylan's band from '97-'04, told Rolling Stone that "Dylan had the band listen to Dead bootlegs as an example of how to cover a song." (8/27/15 issue) <br /><br />Also, following frequent Dylan custom, "for his first three days on the job, Campbell rehearsed old rock and country covers - none of which Dylan ever played live."Light Into Asheshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06943335142002007213noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-508596483308849125.post-46346724659550086692015-07-25T15:21:42.709-07:002015-07-25T15:21:42.709-07:00Sorry..."Rotunda." Here's the link: ...Sorry..."Rotunda." Here's the link: https://twitter.com/thedavidcrosby/status/615258534155055104Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-508596483308849125.post-64126230685473450592015-07-25T15:16:05.274-07:002015-07-25T15:16:05.274-07:00David Crosby has an active Twitter account in whic...David Crosby has an active Twitter account in which he often answers questions from fans. He always has highly complimentary and affectionate things to say about Garcia when asked. He recently mentioned that he and Jerry had a running joke between them that they were going to start a band together called "Rotundo"...Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-508596483308849125.post-7968626708720587422015-06-04T17:39:36.970-07:002015-06-04T17:39:36.970-07:00More on the 4/27/71 Fillmore East show -
From Ro...More on the 4/27/71 Fillmore East show - <br /><br />From Rolling Stone "Random Notes," 5/27/71: <br />"[During the Beach Boys set] Bob Dylan watched from the sound booth commenting, "Fuck, they're damned good." Then the light show flashed the word "Dylan" for an instant, and Bob, his privacy jeopardized again, split out the door."<br /><br />From John Light Into Asheshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06943335142002007213noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-508596483308849125.post-78529479264029332612015-03-05T22:08:30.854-08:002015-03-05T22:08:30.854-08:00Not to be misleading, I should mention that the By...Not to be misleading, I should mention that the Byrds' 'Milestones' sounds not a bit like the Dead (or Miles Davis), but sounds very close to other hard-rock "power trios" of the time like Cream or the Jimi Hendrix Experience: loud, driving, rough & full of feedback. It's not at all what you'd expect from hearing a Byrds album - they play it Cream-style. Light Into Asheshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06943335142002007213noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-508596483308849125.post-89967451449034842522015-03-05T19:21:58.136-08:002015-03-05T19:21:58.136-08:00The Dead's love of Miles Davis & John Colt...The Dead's love of Miles Davis & John Coltrane is well-known, as is the Byrds' tribute to Coltrane's 'India' in 'Eight Miles High.' <br />What's more surprising is that the Byrds did their own cover of 'Milestones.' Their studio version has unfortunately been lost (except for a rehearsal briefly heard in a TV show), but a December 1967 live version fromLight Into Asheshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06943335142002007213noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-508596483308849125.post-92164603729281795772015-03-04T22:20:58.392-08:002015-03-04T22:20:58.392-08:00I've uncovered a few more encounters between G...I've uncovered a few more encounters between Garcia & Dylan; at some point I'll either update the very incomplete Dylan section here or just make a new post of it. <br />As Dylan's famous eulogy shows, Garcia's death hit him hard. He spent a few days with Robert Hunter in August '95. I mentioned that he attended Garcia's funeral service and told Deborah Koons, "HeLight Into Asheshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06943335142002007213noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-508596483308849125.post-1997794307174553962015-03-04T13:09:54.499-08:002015-03-04T13:09:54.499-08:00Oddly, Deadbase reports that the Dead cancelled an...Oddly, Deadbase reports that the Dead cancelled and did not perform the 10/5/69 Houston show, so it's not in Deadbase. <br /><br />Deadbase is wrong, though; in fact, according to deadlists, "Gary Hartman, who attended the show, remembers a Turn On Your Love Light." <br />The show was supposed to be an afternoon event, scheduled from 1-6 pm, with Poco & the Byrds opening for theLight Into Asheshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06943335142002007213noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-508596483308849125.post-48927425103045475892014-07-30T16:12:50.075-07:002014-07-30T16:12:50.075-07:00I wasn't angling you towards an essay for I...I wasn't angling you towards an essay for I'm sure as far as that goes you are in the "I got a head full of ideas,that are driven' me insane" territory as it is.<br /><br />I always felt the guys had to be impressed with The Band for just being talented straight up musicians with no silly agenda or costumes.Writing really good songs in a unique style accompanied by some top jerlouvisnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-508596483308849125.post-15466272727669254962014-07-30T07:25:19.250-07:002014-07-30T07:25:19.250-07:00I haven't written much on the Band/Dead connec...I haven't written much on the Band/Dead connection - I probably should, but don't feel like I could manage more than a few paragraphs on the subject. <br />The "Garcia Record Collection" post has Garcia & Hunter's comments on the Band in the "New Influences 1969-70" section. <br />Hunter named 'The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down' as a specific Light Into Asheshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06943335142002007213noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-508596483308849125.post-61960907227098476102014-07-30T05:04:44.423-07:002014-07-30T05:04:44.423-07:00In re-reading this essay on the Byrds and looking ...In re-reading this essay on the Byrds and looking at the list of bands like Cream,Jimi,Vu,Zep and the Allmans that you have covered in some way as to their connection with the GD it struck me that The Band is absent from the list.I have always wondered to what extent their influence affected the GD's music,approach,etcetera.There seem to be some sensibilities that the groups share and since jerlouvisnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-508596483308849125.post-37769448069216972362014-05-14T03:03:40.532-07:002014-05-14T03:03:40.532-07:00There's a post about that Vanderbilt show here...There's a post about that Vanderbilt show here... <br />http://lostlivedead.blogspot.com/2013/04/october-21-1972-alumni-lawn-vanderbilt.html Light Into Asheshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06943335142002007213noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-508596483308849125.post-1698737671545594322014-05-13T18:48:20.483-07:002014-05-13T18:48:20.483-07:00wow! Talk about three of my favorites, Dead, Dyla...wow! Talk about three of my favorites, Dead, Dylan and Byrds. I saw The Byrds in '65 was 13. Was part of the Dick Clark Cavalcade of Stars (memory may fail me there on what came after "Dick Clark"). From that point, and Dylan's Hwy. 61, Bringing It All Back Home, was a pure folk/country/rock junky. Remember wandering on my hall freshman year (fall of '70), hearing Dire Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-508596483308849125.post-76652720128973705202014-01-01T21:02:05.994-08:002014-01-01T21:02:05.994-08:00Crosby's "If I Could Only Remember My Nam...Crosby's "If I Could Only Remember My Name" was recorded from August - November 1970, at the same time American Beauty & Blows Against the Empire were being recorded in the same studio; so Garcia, Lesh & Kreutzmann would drift from one to the other. <br />As Paul Kantner said in an interview with Steve Silberman, "Wally Heider had three studios, which any number of us Light Into Asheshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06943335142002007213noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-508596483308849125.post-58365298877007874122013-12-25T19:12:00.473-08:002013-12-25T19:12:00.473-08:00Phil Lesh comments on David Crosby, from the liner...Phil Lesh comments on David Crosby, from the liner notes to Crosby's "Voyage" box set: <br />"I first met David at the old Whiskey in L.A., but I'd seen the Byrds play before that - once for dancers at some cheesy go-go club on Broadway in San Francisco, and once at the big Rolling Stones concert at the Cow Palace in '65. (I'll never forget the little blonde who ranLight Into Asheshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06943335142002007213noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-508596483308849125.post-9927181966318064702011-12-22T08:49:16.490-08:002011-12-22T08:49:16.490-08:00Although Mike Clarke didn't seem to know how t...Although Mike Clarke didn't seem to know how to play the drums during the Byrds formative years, I believe he learned fairly quickly. There's a brief shot of him in the movie GIMME SHELTER playing drums when he was part of the Flying Burrito Brothers. He seemed to be doing fairly well. Of course he will be never known as "one of the greatest drummers of all time" <br />I do Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-508596483308849125.post-41000054192586389502011-11-25T19:41:28.561-08:002011-11-25T19:41:28.561-08:00There's a new Lost Live Dead post about the 12...There's a new Lost Live Dead post about the 12/15/70 Crosby/Garcia show at the Matrix here: <br />http://lostlivedead.blogspot.com/2011/11/december-15-1970-matrix-san-francisco.htmlLight Into Asheshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06943335142002007213noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-508596483308849125.post-69929582943890716232011-03-25T21:26:03.051-07:002011-03-25T21:26:03.051-07:00Bob Weir in a recent interview:
“The Byrds were p...Bob Weir in a recent interview: <br />“The Byrds were pretty cool as far as we were concerned. We went and caught them every chance we could.”Light Into Asheshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06943335142002007213noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-508596483308849125.post-61049890263459369082010-12-30T21:38:27.539-08:002010-12-30T21:38:27.539-08:00Here's Garcia's quote on David Crosby, fro...Here's Garcia's quote on David Crosby, from Crosby's book Long Time Gone (which otherwise has barely any mention of the Dead) - <br /><br />"We had a little band called David & the Dorks. He was the star and it was his trip that we were doing and it was right around the time he was doing his If I Could Only Remember My Name album and he was in the Bay Area a lot. One time me Light Into Asheshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06943335142002007213noreply@blogger.com