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vapviking

vapviking

Old & In the Way
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.
www.facebook.com

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

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
 
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