Shakedown Street

vapviking

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Bakin4Life said:
Help / Slip / Frank has got to be one of the greatest mashups ever (I won't use the word 'medley', here, since the songs are played to completion)
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Funny! I've never thought of either of those words in a Dead set context.

Transition?
How about segue?

"As a noun, segue means the act of transitioning smoothly from one state or situation to another.
Here are some examples of segue in a sentence:
"The band smoothly segued from one song to the next".

But agreed, nobody did it better than these intrepid travellers.
Bakin4Life said:
It's a funny thing... as involved as I (used to be) with music, I learned to appreciate the Dead later in life, after Jerry passed.
Same for the Beatles, probably after Lennon died.
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Sometimes you don't miss your water til the well runs dry. 🎶

I know I miss Jerry and John terribly, both too long gone.

EDIT to add
I just found this great summary of the day Jerry and John met.
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Aces Back To Back

The story of Jerry turning down John Lennon's request to sit in with him during a Garcia-Merl Saunders show at New York’s fabled Bottom Line on November 5, 1974 is a rare tale that can be told...
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Bakin4Life

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vapviking said:
Funny! I've never thought of either of those words in a Dead set context.

Transition?
How about segue?

"As a noun, segue means the act of transitioning smoothly from one state or situation to another.
Here are some examples of segue in a sentence:
"The band smoothly segued from one song to the next".

But agreed, nobody did it better than these intrepid travellers.

Sometimes you don't miss your water til the well runs dry. 🎶

I know I miss Jerry and John terribly, both too long gone.
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Well, sir... your reply prompted me to do a little sleuthing...

We're going to call this a suite, thanks to Google AI, Ethan Hein, and the query result of 'help slip frank', with no other context...
It also explains why I particularly like this suite...

Rather than type, here's a copypasta, for reference...
::sigh... I wish this site accepted clipboard images (or whatever it's called... ) :: :mad:

“Help>Slip>Frank” is the most jazz-fusion-inspired of the suites, and the middle section is the most complex thing Jerry ever wrote. Tricky though it is, the ingredients are simple: arpeggiated minor seventh and diminished chords.Jul 13, 2020

Help on the Way -> Slipknot! -> Franklin's Tower

The Ethan Hein Blog
https://www.ethanhein.com › help-on-the-way-slipknot-f...
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(note: bold and color emphasis above is mine)

It's a very accurate description, IMO, as Slipknot! is definitely my favorite part.


Now, for the (hopefully) more amusing part...

So... 'mashup' is a musical term, but it has absolutely nothing to do with combining songs linearly. Rather, it's combining them *with each other*, in what is a new composition, as a result.

Normally, I'm much more exacting in my written word choices, thanks to education, work, and habit... so why did I botch this one up so much?
Well... that's one of the blessings of the herb, friend. In addition to helping me psychologically, it also opens up the DGAF valve in my brain, so that caution, inhibitions, etc., sail blissfully away. That's especially true when I'm reading / responding here. :D
 
vapviking

vapviking

Old & In the Way
In 1972-3, I played with a band my buddy and I pulled together.
About half of our material was Dead and New Riders covers, or covers of their covers like, "Second That Emotion," etc.

At one point we wrote to the Dead asking for copies of lyrics to 2 of their songs. We wrote to the address on the inside cover of the Skull & Roses album, the one that asked, "Dead Freaks Unite!" There were no Deadheads yet, not by that name.

From Wikipedia,

On the Inside the gatefold of the original LP, the band reached out directly to its burgeoning fan base, which had begun to attend multiple concerts in a row and collect live audio tapes of each concert, with a message reading:

Dead Freaks Unite: Who are you? Where are you? How are you?
Send us your name and address and we'll keep you informed.
Dead Heads, P.O. Box 1065, San Rafael, California 94901.
The mailing address is no longer valid.

We got a response in the mail about 3 weeks later, enclosed were the two pages below

China Cat Sunflower

Jack Straw
 
coolbreeze

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2014 Ratdog. I didn't see any of these shows but the tapes at the time had me groovin'. What a lineup!
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Ratdog Live at Tower Theatre on 2014-02-14 : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive

Taped from row jj seat 112, just left of centre aisle. About 25 feet back from stage. Set I 01 The Music Never Stopped > 02 Standing On Shaky Ground...
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Bob Weir - guitars, vocals
Steve Kimock - guitars
Robin Sylvester - electric bass, vocals
Rob Wasserman - double bass
Jeff Chimenti - keyboards
Jay Lane - drums, vocals
 
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More Solstice goodness, here's an incredible audience tape of Night 2:
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Phil Lesh and Friends Live at Warfield Theater on 2004-12-18 : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive

Just Another Whistle Stop Dire Wolf Peggy-O Lonesome Valley 40 Days No More Do I It Hurts Me Too Casey Jones This Wheels On Fire Black Peter Wiser Time Dark...
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Cheers!
 
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vapviking

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Watched the Kennedy Center Honors on Sunday, with the Dead among the honorees. I thought the whole thing was rather sad.
Even the band, and all those guys have been playng Dead for decades, sounded more like a wedding band.
Nary a wisp of smoke in the house, apparently...

On a bright note, daughter has tix for us to go see the Dylan movie this afternoon!
I do hope this Chalamet kid doesn't fuck this up by, like, acting...
 
Polarbearboy

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Tokin' Away Since 1968
Bob Weir and Wolf Bros. playin' Shakedown Street two days ago in Ft. Lauderdale.


GD were in my top 20 groups, sorry not the top!, but until earlier this year I'd never heard the song Shakedown Street. Now its one of my favorites. Can 76 year olds have new favorite songs that first came out more than 50 years ago? Yes!
 
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Polarbearboy said:
Bob Weir and Wolf Bros. playin' Shakedown Street two days ago in Ft. Lauderdale.


GD were in my top 20 groups, sorry not the top!, but until earlier this year I'd never heard the song Shakedown Street. Now its one of my favorites. Can 76 year olds have new favorite songs that first came out more than 50 years ago? Yes!
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Hell of a disco band, weren't they? ; )
 
vapviking

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@Polarbearboy glad something struck a chord with you, that was a great performance, I flipped it onto my tv, with the good soundbar!
Pedal steel handling a lot of the load! Very cool, in the background.

Maybe give this a whirl, from early on, it is an excerpt from The Grateful Dead movie, 1974.

Note the microphones are doubled. This is one innovative (and complicated!) aspect of their Wall of Sound ststem.

I played this song with an acoustic guitar, with a sing-along chorus, at my brother's memorial service a few years ago.

 
Flotsam

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I would be curious just from this thread how many times some people have seen multiple Dead shows. (i guess off shoot bands would count too!)


For me it would be just one: saw the Dead at Spectrum in Philly in 1981. Fun show especially spending most time down by the tapers. The only let down was Jerry forgot the words to Terrapin Station.
 
coolbreeze

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Flotsam said:
I would be curious just from this thread how many times some people have seen multiple Dead shows. (i guess off shoot bands would count too!)


For me it would be just one: saw the Dead at Spectrum in Philly in 1981. Fun show especially spending most time down by the tapers. The only let down was Jerry forgot the words to Terrapin Station.
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My first show was the Rubber Bowl July '86, right before Jerry's coma. I never was able to tour but I saw them 3 dozen times mostly in the Midwest, from Pittsburgh to Madison. I saw The Other Ones/Dead a couple times, Phil and Friends 6 or 8 times, Ratdog about the same, Furthur a few times, and D&C a few times. I count myself lucky to have been able to do any of it, it really brought a lot of wonderful people into my life and solidified much of what I valued. And it was a damn good time.

I got into online tape trading in the dial-up days and have collected all the GD shows, almost all of Jerry's live shows, tons of Phil and Bob's post-GD shows, almost all direct first-gen copies of the soundboard or audience tapes in at least CD quality. It's been kind of nutty but...some folks really like licorice! (~);-}
 
vapviking

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Flotsam said:
I would be curious just from this thread how many times some people have seen multiple Dead shows. (i guess off shoot bands would count too!)


For me it would be just one: saw the Dead at Spectrum in Philly in 1981. Fun show especially spending most time down by the tapers. The only let down was Jerry forgot the words to Terrapin Station.
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I've never seen the Dead live in any configuration that did not include Jerry Garcia.
I had stopped going to shows when they reached Arena proportions. Though I did get to the big Watkins Glen gathering of the tribes. And once in the late 80's at Giant Stadium with my two very young daughters.
I think that I saw them, roughly, a dozen times.
Smallest venue? A Catholic Youth Center gym in Scranton, PA (70 or 71...). That was as intimate a concert as anyone in the room wanted it to be. I was tripping my brains out and mostly stayed planted in the bleachers!

A pivotal moment in my life can be pegged to a show at the Felt Forum, a small (2,000 seat) theater attached to Madison Square Garden. December 7, 1971. A good friend went paranoid/schizo, which led to four of us chasing him through 4 states for 2 days trying to keep him from killing himself. (Some 35 years later, he suceeded). From that trial by fire, a relationship with my wife instantly and unexpectedly began. We now have four grand kids!
 
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