tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-508596483308849125.post7514680700647304344..comments2024-03-28T17:56:00.841-07:00Comments on Grateful Dead Guide: Did The Dead Like Their Live Albums?Light Into Asheshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06943335142002007213noreply@blogger.comBlogger12125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-508596483308849125.post-23767103949143284362021-10-10T20:52:36.415-07:002021-10-10T20:52:36.415-07:00Everything has been covered here except one thing ...Everything has been covered here except one thing I have an issue with. The number of '80s shows represented even now is pitiful. The bias towards '70s stuff is a little overwhelming. Probably most of the '80s masters are on cassette, but properly mastered would sound better than half of the live albums released. They should focus more on runs, that is how you catch the magic. Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17433516199816308031noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-508596483308849125.post-74128979030609306692020-07-15T02:09:49.603-07:002020-07-15T02:09:49.603-07:00There's also a Dick Latvala post here with mor...There's also a Dick Latvala post here with more on the background of the Dick's Picks series. <br />But before then, the Dead faced a number of hurdles with their live releases: <br />- the nature of vinyl, mandating short sides, <br />- the desire to put "new" work on the albums and not repeat previous live releases, <br />- the selection process favored clean, correct playing Light Into Asheshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06943335142002007213noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-508596483308849125.post-83378622514379545842020-07-12T10:22:38.485-07:002020-07-12T10:22:38.485-07:00As for the post Europe '72 albums, the less sa...As for the post Europe '72 albums, the less said about Steal Your Face, the better. I will note thatI disagree with Bear's assessment of the October '74 recordings and the film. OK, maybe they weren't recorded very well, to me they sound fine, but that's maybe just my tastes on "live sound", or maybe it's because I've spent too many years listening to much Kohntarkoszhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05174220652971790074noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-508596483308849125.post-59494721653175087302020-07-12T09:57:34.211-07:002020-07-12T09:57:34.211-07:00The Dead's live albums, including the archival...The Dead's live albums, including the archival releases of the last 30 (!!!) years, are rather frustrating, to me, in comparison to the live tapes. Live/Dead, I think, represents the best of the official releases, just because you've got the full Dark Star/St Stephen/The Eleven suite (albeit pieced together from two different shows). But then one eventually learns that the scrap of Kohntarkoszhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05174220652971790074noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-508596483308849125.post-10730004888754197562019-02-27T20:58:47.362-08:002019-02-27T20:58:47.362-08:00Commenter runonguinness found a similar statement ...Commenter runonguinness found a similar statement Hunter gave to the Edinburgh magazine Hot Wacks in 1979: <br />"If they want to use something on a live album, firstly they'll go through five or six different versions of the same song and they won't pick the one that's got the most juice, they'll pick the one where nothing's out of tune and where no one's made any Light Into Asheshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06943335142002007213noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-508596483308849125.post-1418222687109694592019-02-06T17:15:35.238-08:002019-02-06T17:15:35.238-08:00Many people feel that the shows it was drawn from ...Many people feel that the shows it was drawn from are better listens than the poor song selection & mix on the album. For instance, this show: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ayOGcnn01OQ <br /><br />A couple "alternate albums" from the shows: <br />https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZiilqZ1WWQ4 (with gaps) <br />http://albumsthatneverwere.blogspot.com/2018/05/Light Into Asheshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06943335142002007213noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-508596483308849125.post-27911860724151427352019-02-04T16:47:16.864-08:002019-02-04T16:47:16.864-08:00I have always been a staunch supporter of the “Dyl...I have always been a staunch supporter of the “Dylan & the Dead” album. I don’t understand why people think it’s bad. The version of “Joey” is amazing and even better than the one on “Desire.” Every other song sounds just as good to my ears. I just wish it was a bit longer. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-508596483308849125.post-39313174451524642252018-07-12T10:05:08.106-07:002018-07-12T10:05:08.106-07:00Third best Dylan album of the 80s is sort of like ...Third best Dylan album of the 80s is sort of like third longest-lived Dead keyboardist...Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-508596483308849125.post-27190631709419356052014-06-26T23:22:59.158-07:002014-06-26T23:22:59.158-07:00From Robert Hunter's interview with the UK mag...From Robert Hunter's interview with the UK magazine Dark Star, August 1980: <br /><br />"Steal Your Face was the Grateful Dead at their worst, as a coordinated studio unit. (Q: It wasn't a studio album.) Well it was eventually! They get down and run through all these tapes. You get this tape that's just honking along - this tune is going so fine, and someone will say, 'Oh, noLight Into Asheshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06943335142002007213noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-508596483308849125.post-18928770708413179372013-06-13T07:53:23.987-07:002013-06-13T07:53:23.987-07:00Dylan & Dead.The Dead is mixed too low in favo...Dylan & Dead.The Dead is mixed too low in favor of Dylan and...Check Sugarmegs if you really want to hear what D&D sounded like live.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-508596483308849125.post-24313123476582891892012-09-27T16:09:34.449-07:002012-09-27T16:09:34.449-07:00I'm a fan of the "Dylan & The Dead&qu...I'm a fan of the "Dylan & The Dead" album. I don't understand why it gets so much bad press. I think it's Dylan's third best album of the 80s after "Infidels" and "Slow Train Coming."Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-508596483308849125.post-67502461199699809992010-03-02T00:50:18.627-08:002010-03-02T00:50:18.627-08:00Dick Latvala asked Bear about the selection on Bea...Dick Latvala asked Bear about the selection on Bear's Choice: <br />"I said, 'How come you chose tunes that were the *least* exciting parts of these two shows?' And he said, 'I submitted over a hundred different ideas, and every one was rejected, and this was the one that got through.'" <br /><br />The same was true of the early Dick's Picks and Vault releases...Light Into Asheshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06943335142002007213noreply@blogger.com