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- Thread starter Chad-Chicago
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1989 Steel Wheels tour, saw them in Cincy, 3rd row center [in front of Charlie's kick, for $28.00].
being a bootleg hound from 1970 I knew enuf about The Great White Wonder and Basement Tapes to compare the mental / time investment to the Grateful Dead and stay away from them all until later in life when I had more focus, availability, and informed retrospection*, the internet made that accommodating, tho I still don't like The Band other than full appreciation of their whole scene. combined with the Bard however turns it into something incredible as the transformation of a resurrecting Dylan is stunning and they create masterpiece after masterpiece, which Jerry Garcia picked up on and made it half of his life. takes on some of those tunes are epic in the many Jerry Garcia Band shows.
*fortunately, we've got it in spades with the upcoming document film, just the few minutes of trailer emotes the power developing within their union, the creativity was exploding, and with recent tech advancements they turn it all into an amazing listen whereas BITD it was merely half as good and I wouldn't have dug it as much. Bob is still a fascinating creature, doing his thing like nobody ever will.
*fortunately, we've got it in spades with the upcoming document film, just the few minutes of trailer emotes the power developing within their union, the creativity was exploding, and with recent tech advancements they turn it all into an amazing listen whereas BITD it was merely half as good and I wouldn't have dug it as much. Bob is still a fascinating creature, doing his thing like nobody ever will.
THE IMMEDIATE FAMILY FEATURING DANNY KORTCHMAR, WADDY WACHTEL, LELAND SKLAR, RUSS KUNKEL AND STEVE POSTELL
saw most of that at '70s Troubadour shows where they were the house band; The SectionTHE IMMEDIATE FAMILY FEATURING DANNY KORTCHMAR, WADDY WACHTEL, LELAND SKLAR, RUSS KUNKEL AND STEVE POSTELL
Jerry to Bob's rescue!
"Everything was smashed, my own songs had become strangers to me, I didn't have the skill to touch the right nerves, couldn't penetrate the surfaces. It wasn't my moment of history anymore." Following a tour with Tom Petty and The Heartbreakers, Dylan came to a realization: "Tom was at the top of his game and I was at the bottom of mine." The singer was suddenly ready to retire, however, he was scheduled to do some shows with the Grateful Dead who'd invited him out to San Rafael to rehearse as one unit and beef up their chances of a good showing. "After an hour or so, it became clear to me that the band wanted to rehearse more and do different songs than I had been used to doing with Petty, they wanted to run over all the songs, the ones they liked, the seldom-seen ones." Garcia remarked it was "beautiful mad stuff, and that turned us all on, we couldn't believe it." That kind of mutual fandom was something even Dylan wasn't used to, especially coupled with the group's ability to break down any notion of superiority between the two factions. "I found myself in a peculiar position and I could hear the brakes screech, if I had known this to begin with I might not have taken the dates. There were so many songs that I couldn't tell which was which, I might even get the words to some mixed up with others." He left the studio determined to never return until a run-in with a jazz band made him reconsider, still yet Dylan & The Dead, as the live show and subsequent album was already titled, arrived as a frightening concept for the singer, "then miraculously, something internal came unhinged." It was the breakthrough he'd been needing. "I played these shows with the Dead and never had to think twice about it, maybe they just dropped something in my drink, I can't say, but anything they wanted to do was fine with me."
Bob Dylan pays tribute to Grateful Dead's Jerry Garcia. – Rolling Stone
"Everything was smashed, my own songs had become strangers to me, I didn't have the skill to touch the right nerves, couldn't penetrate the surfaces. It wasn't my moment of history anymore." Following a tour with Tom Petty and The Heartbreakers, Dylan came to a realization: "Tom was at the top of his game and I was at the bottom of mine." The singer was suddenly ready to retire, however, he was scheduled to do some shows with the Grateful Dead who'd invited him out to San Rafael to rehearse as one unit and beef up their chances of a good showing. "After an hour or so, it became clear to me that the band wanted to rehearse more and do different songs than I had been used to doing with Petty, they wanted to run over all the songs, the ones they liked, the seldom-seen ones." Garcia remarked it was "beautiful mad stuff, and that turned us all on, we couldn't believe it." That kind of mutual fandom was something even Dylan wasn't used to, especially coupled with the group's ability to break down any notion of superiority between the two factions. "I found myself in a peculiar position and I could hear the brakes screech, if I had known this to begin with I might not have taken the dates. There were so many songs that I couldn't tell which was which, I might even get the words to some mixed up with others." He left the studio determined to never return until a run-in with a jazz band made him reconsider, still yet Dylan & The Dead, as the live show and subsequent album was already titled, arrived as a frightening concept for the singer, "then miraculously, something internal came unhinged." It was the breakthrough he'd been needing. "I played these shows with the Dead and never had to think twice about it, maybe they just dropped something in my drink, I can't say, but anything they wanted to do was fine with me."
Bob Dylan pays tribute to Grateful Dead's Jerry Garcia. – Rolling Stone
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with both parties loathe to playing anything the same way twice you'd think this long overdue matchup would either be magical or the biggest train wreck ever. turns out they were up for the mutual improve shenanigans and the results were sublime with Jerry getting plenty of solo excursion time and Bob in command the whole way. not enuf can be said of the stellar quality musicianship of each Dead member, it's like they'd been ready for these jams since first hearing Dylan. it's hand in glove, classic '60s telepathic ease. a perfect pairing.
