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| SteveSw |
2009-06-13 16:27:08 |
Here we are at the end of the DttC road. Not such a strange trip, but certainly a long one! Glad youall came along. For the next few weeks, feel free to send me an email if you'd like some specific DttC torrent reseeded, and I'll see if I can send some bandwidth your way.
I have to imagine that the shows from these last few years are mentioned there in the back of DttC for completeness sake. I'm sure many of you had a great time at shows in 1994 and 1995, but compared to what this band was capable of, even the highlights from these years are pretty mediocre. 94-10-17 from the fall MSG run is a good example. Looking for highlights in the first set, for instance, I'm left pointing to the fact that "New Minglewood Blues" is actually energetic, and that this version of "Eternity" suggests that the song might have grown into a BirdSong/Cassidy sort of first set jam vehicle if there had been time and interest. Eric selects this show for us because of the unusually long Eyes. The intro jam builds and builds for ten minutes because (the compendium reviewer tells us) Jerry broke a string, and so he was playing on five strings while someone kneeled beside him and repaired the sixth. I'm attracted to it because it's more on the interesting and less on the rockin' side, a quality I miss in a lot of 1994. The jam out of Eyes into the Wheel is particularly nice, and then the Estimated ROCKS! The Rainy Day Women encore is the last time that Dylan performed with the Dead.
95-03-27 is a very odd show: the set list looks unusually short (14 songs for the whole show), but it's unusually jammed out for 1995, and so it has interest. The five songs in the first set last almost 55 minutes. The "Sugaree" is one of those that keeps seeming like it's about to end, and then it builds on to another level: surely a highlight here. The "All Over Now" is rollicking, the "So Many Roads" is quite emotionally engaging, and the "Let It Grow" is big and bold and bouncy. The "Aiko Aiko" in the second set is a new arrangement that certainly has bounce. The jamming in Playin' > Uncle John is distant, everyone on a different moon of Jupiter playing back to the home planet according to the swirls they see in the atmosphere. The most interesting bit is the transition from Uncle John's into Drums, a jam that starts all bouncy sweetness, has a nervous breakdown, and ends up huddled in a corner of the venue. Drums and Space both work very well here, and the Days Between is another emotional connection (in 1995, Jerry seemed most engaged in the slow sad tunes).
A lot of jamming came down on 95-05-26, a sunny Sunday in Seattle (if only I had moved to Seattle two years earlier...). This is the last time we got so many of the old war-horses trotted out for the same show. It's also the show I recommend that people listen to if they say they dislike all of 1995. Listening at this remove, it almost sounds like the rest of the band has decided to take Jerry out for one last visit of the grounds around the castle of their musical lives: the band solicitous, Jerry old and feeble and distracted. Phil and then Bob are out front for the opening Help On The Way, Phil setting the energy level and pace, Bob flitting in and around interestingly, like a nervous tropical fish in an aquarium. Jerry starts talking in Slipknot!, almost to himself: both Vince and Phil pick up his themes and keep him moving forward. By the time Franklin's comes around the energy is bubbling, and Jerry bobs in the sunlight: his jam towards the end of the song is quite beautiful. What a set-opener! The rest of the set is solid: the Eternity is another version that's well-jammed and shows the potential of the song. The Scarlet > Fire that opens the second set follows the same pattern: Phil is the engine at the beginning, and then as Jerry starts picking up the energy, Phil and Vince are both there at his side, holding his arm when he needs it, keeping him pointed towards the sun. Jerry offers up a couple of intersting observations, each of which is immediately picked up and elaborated by Phil. There's some good momentum built up as things round into Fire. Here Bob's drugged hummingbird rhythm stuff makes another welcome appearance, then Jerry uses the synthesizer interestingly, everyone converses with Jerry -- yes, yes, those are all great ideas! -- and it's Vince walking with Jerry as things round out quite nicely. Woof, that worked too! says the band, and so they try it a third time: Phil kicks off Playin' and anchors the boat as it moves into the current. Jerry is starting to get vague, but Phil will have none of that and insists on more angles, and soon Jerry is playing with tempo too as they ride away on their intertubes, bouncing off cosmic rocks, finally meeting up with Uncle John's Band there by the riverside. The Drums is OK, and then in Space the pattern repeats again! it's Phil establishing a slow, quiet frame in which Jerry explores. Suddenly the inside is outside, the frame dissolves, and Jerry and Phil kind of talk about it quietly. The space lasts a good long time: it seems like someone wants to play Dark Star!, but Bob wants Easy Answers, and he gets it. And so it went, and it ended: there wasn't another show like that.
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A couple of these shows are available on very good audience tapes:
http://www.archive.org/details/gd1994-10-17.aud.laporte.98175.flac16
http://www.archive.org/details/gd1995-05-26.pzm.russjcan.97643.flac16
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You can use this link to keep track of the project, look for folks who need reseeds, check for torrents you missed, and so on:
http://bt.etree.org/?searches=SteveSw&cat=0&incldead=1
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This project is a musical adjunct to and a book review of Eric Wybenga's _Dead To The Core_. I'm going to seed a copy of all the music mentioned in the book except for the stuff that has been commercially released. You might want to pick up a copy of the book and read along with me while I'm seeding -- I think it'll be worth your while. Here are some of the many places you can find one:
POWELLS: http://tinyurl.com/5vv7k6
ABEBOOKS: http://tinyurl.com/5jbejx
AMAZON: http://tinyurl.com/5hbq36
B&N: http://tinyurl.com/5gyxpl
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| lather |
2009-06-13 16:39:27 |
| Thanks so much for all your work on this project! |
| raksharoo |
2009-06-13 16:50:49 |
| Wow...thanks for all the work you have done putting this series together. I've loved the comments you included...even if I already had a show and did not download it, I always read your comments. |
| james1234567 |
2009-06-13 17:13:20 |
Seems like yesterday I just got DttC001 now here we are at 110. Thanks for the series and everything you did to put this thing together. I thank you and Im sure a whole lot of others thank you as well.
Peace
james |
| mike999 |
2009-06-13 17:43:21 |
1000 and 1 cheers for your work and time! Now it's time to get
caught up and listen!
Thanks a ton! |
| wisewiz |
2009-06-13 18:22:30 |
We can't begin to thank you and whoever else was involved with making this project happen!! It's been fun waiting to see what would be in the next installment. Someone earlier said now it's time to Listen! Thanks for everything!!
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| toomanycds |
2009-06-13 18:28:05 |
Agreed, the commentary has been "just exactly perfect" for the selections. What a tremendous effort to seed 110 sets of shows in and of itself, not to mention the labor of love it must have been to track down the sbds and the replacements for officially released materials,
Will you write a book of your own on Phil, Ratdog, TOO, The Dead, BK3, Hart, and torrent the best of please? |
| wazoo2u |
2009-06-13 19:04:48 |
| Many thanks again Steve. Great job !! |
| JJ Zero |
2009-06-13 21:38:14 |
| Thanx so much for sharing and for your excellent comments. I still cannot beleive my luck in finding this and I will be forever grateful. |
| moniker |
2009-06-13 22:49:55 |
Congratulations on reaching your goal. I'd say you bit off a lot to chew, but seemed to enjoy the journey. Nice work.
I add my thanks to the pile. |
| jeroin |
2009-06-13 23:30:59 |
| great stuff. nice to see a show i was at (MSG) in the last offering. you were always spot-on, and it was always a pleasure to see what would come down the pike next. Hope you enjoyed it as much as we all did. how about an encore...you could "turn it up to dttc 111"... thanks again, and get some rest! |
| fairtomydland |
2009-06-14 00:29:38 |
THANK YOU!!
Seriously, I've really enjoyed reading your comments Steve, and the 80's AUD recommendations were awesome. It's sad to know that the road has ended. . .but I still have a lot of shows to still download. It'll live forever! |
| okelnard |
2009-06-14 00:34:45 |
| thanks. what a long strange trip it's been... |
| gratefulbagel |
2009-06-14 03:12:26 |
Hello Steve,
Once Again you have filled a lot of people's hard drive's with some of the best music around. I love your passion for the music and for spreading it around. Have a great summer and as alway until next time, take care.
Chris |
| rsterrapin |
2009-06-14 07:54:09 |
| Many thanks for seeding all these great shows !! |
| jonesgang |
2009-06-14 08:55:23 |
Thanks for your hard work and effort. These shows will be appreciated for centuries to come!!!!
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| lather |
2009-06-14 15:20:40 |
| Someone should figure out exactly how many DttC books you helped sell :) I knew of the book but never even thought of buying it untill I found your project. Not that the hapiness of filling up our hard drives with awesome tunes isn't reward enough :) But the publishing company should probably give you any books they print that you want, it's what skateboard equipment companies do, why not publishing houses? |
| SteveSw |
2009-06-14 20:21:47 |
i would be more interested in learning if Eric is still into the Grateful Dead, and what he thought about all this. i'm not sure why, but it would be interesting. heck, if another 500 books were sold, maybe he made as much as $100! so he should be greatful (lol).
there may need to be one more DttC. A guy nicknamed Archibald J Leach over at Lossess Legs gathered up all my initial comments from the DttC series, cleaned up spelling mistakes, and made them into a single document. perhaps i'll do another DttC (maybe with some Garcia OAITW recordings?), and include those comments as well.
thanks to everyone. it was a fun project, it got the music out, what else could you ask for? |
| bluegirl5669 |
2009-06-15 00:38:38 |
| Thanks, what an awesome collection!!! |
| supp |
2009-06-15 16:59:37 |
| thank you so much for this great ride brother. this has been alot of fun with the anticipation of the next torrent. i hope the fun you gave us is returned 100 fold. |
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