Dog 3000
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Edited Aug 08, 2010, 04:07
Grateful Dead AUD REC podcast
Aug 08, 2010, 03:59
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Grateful Dead AUDience RECordings: those tapes Deadheads traded around for decades. This week's radio program features them. If you've never understood the fuss ("why do people say they're psychedelic? sounds like country rock to me!") or if you dig 'em to some extent but have never got far beyond the official albums, feast your ears on this!
Since there's not so many tracks, will put the playlist & links directly in this post. AVAILABLE FOR STREAM/DOWNLOAD ONLY TIL AUGUST 20.
FIRST HOUR: http://www.kosmikradiation.com/kosmikradiation2010.08.06_1.mp3
Set 1: Classic Album of the Week is "Europe '72" -- this is your only "official" recordings of the show.
CHINA CAT SUNFLOWER -> I KNOW YOU RIDER (Lyceum London May 1972)
TRUCKIN' (Olympia Paris May 1972)
Set 2: Watkins Glen Soundcheck -- testing out the massive sound system the day before playing to 600,000 stinky sweaty hippies at a racetrack in New York (July 27, 1973).
UNTITLED JAM -> WHARF RAT
SECOND HOUR: http://www.kosmikradiation.com/kosmikradiation2010.08.06_2.mp3
Set 3: Next day from the actual Watkins Glen Summer Jam festival on July 28, 1973:
PLAYING IN THE BAND
Set 4: From the most legendary AUD REC of them all -- Cornell University in Ithaca, NY on May 8, 1977.
SCARLET BEGONIAS -> FIRE ON THE MOUNTAIN
THIRD HOUR: http://www.kosmikradiation.com/kosmikradiation2010.08.06_3.mp3
Set 5: last hour of the show is an entire 62 minutes' worth of jam from the second set at Roosevelt Stadium in Jersey City, NJ on Jerry Garcia's 31st Birthday (August 1, 1973). For some reason they always played really good at this venue.
A very cool "Dark Star"! (Matt Valentine & Thurston Moore call yr office . . .)
DARK STAR ->
EL PASO ->
EYES OF THE WORLD ->
MORNING DEW
More general listening (last week's show etc.):
http://www.kosmikradiation.com/archive.htm
http://www.kosmikradiation.com/feed.xml
And official playlist page (with pics): http://www.kosmikradiation.com/2010.08.06.htm
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Dog 3000
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Edited Aug 19, 2010, 20:51
Re: Grateful Dead AUD REC podcast
Aug 19, 2010, 20:28
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*bump*
This one's only available for another 24 hours or so . . . last chance!
http://www.kosmikradiation.com/2010.08.06.htm
http://www.kosmikradiation.com/archive.htm
Coming up this week on the show (Aug 20): mostly new music.
Did I mention you can also listen live on the web? Kosmik Radiation airs every week on Friday mornings 8am-11am London time.
WORT live: http://www.wort-fm.org/listen.php
(Station is on 24-7, other intersting shows as well. UK would get folky stuff in the early evening, jazz in the later evening, late night weirdness in the morning!)
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handofdave
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Re: Grateful Dead AUD REC podcast
Aug 20, 2010, 14:54
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Nice, thanks!
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Squid Tempest
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Re: Grateful Dead AUD REC podcast
Aug 20, 2010, 15:00
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Great isn't it? I've listened to it a couple of times this last week or so.
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handofdave
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Re: Grateful Dead AUD REC podcast
Aug 20, 2010, 16:29
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It's great music to work to, socialize, whatever. It's living music, not a sonic monument. It's got an easy, but steady forward momentum and it's not abrasive or demanding.
You rarely feel like you're being beat over the head by a tortured artist with the Grateful Dead, as much as I like that sort of thing.
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Dog 3000
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Edited Aug 20, 2010, 20:11
Re: Grateful Dead AUD REC podcast
Aug 20, 2010, 20:07
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The live stuff is damned addictive . . . but the more I think about it, they really were a shit studio band! Usually just one good track per album. And their best studio moments really only sound like subpar versions of Jefferson Airplane, CSN, Byrds, etc.
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handofdave
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Re: Grateful Dead AUD REC podcast
Aug 20, 2010, 21:23
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Dog 3000 wrote: The live stuff is damned addictive . . . but the more I think about it, they really were a shit studio band! Usually just one good track per album. And their best studio moments really only sound like subpar versions of Jefferson Airplane, CSN, Byrds, etc.
One thing I've learned from my very, very recent adoption of the jam band/festival scene is that this sort of music is tied into the dynamics that arise between the band and the audience. There's a really palpable and visceral energy loop that can really make things interesting. In contrast those studio recordings are just terribly bereft of what ends up being a crucial component of the musical experience.
And this is why the Dead fans are so loyal. It's not just a band, it's a family. It's about shared memories. It's quite beautiful, really, and one reason why it finally broke thru my normally crusty wariness of such openhearted culture.
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IanB
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Re: Grateful Dead AUD REC podcast
Aug 21, 2010, 10:40
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Do you know the Estimated Prophet > Scarlet Begonias > Fire On The Mountain > Terrpain Station sequence from the New York Palladium show on the same tour (May 4th I think or April 5th - never too sure with that perverse US date system!)?
It's definitely in the Cornell show class. Amazing weightless inventive playing - great quacking guitar too. My favourite Dead half an hour next to the seoncd disc of the 5 cd movie sountrack album.
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IanB
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Edited Aug 21, 2010, 10:45
Re: Grateful Dead AUD REC podcast
Aug 21, 2010, 10:44
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Dog 3000 wrote: The live stuff is damned addictive . . . but the more I think about it, they really were a shit studio band! Usually just one good track per album. And their best studio moments really only sound like subpar versions of Jefferson Airplane, CSN, Byrds, etc.
Glad you said that. The cult of American Beauty is a mystery to me. I figure you had to be American to get it but clearly even that is not a guarantee! Compared with all the other artists you mention, who really knew how to make records (The Band too), the Dead sound like recording novices for their entire careers.
I do like the Wake of the Flood and Blues For Allah sessions but no where near as much as the shows from the same era.
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The Sea Cat
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Edited Aug 21, 2010, 11:26
Re: Grateful Dead AUD REC podcast
Aug 21, 2010, 11:26
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I couldn't disagree more. I think their studio albums at least up to and including Blues For Allah contained some genuinely inspired and wonderful music. Of course, when they were live, and ON, it was stratospheric genius that was something else, but mediocre live Dead and worse could be utterly dull noodling. I think American Beauty deserves it's reputation with songs as good as Box Of Rain, Friend Of The Devil,Sugar Magnolia, Ripple and Candyman alone. A bit of filler, sure, but a very good album IMO nontheless.
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