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Phil Lesh and Jack Casady Chatting last night

silvertone

silvertone

Nov 6, 2007
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Fantastic Photographer Jay Blakesberg chats with and interviews Jack and Phil prior to the Phil & Friends show at Terrapin covering the 2/28/73 Salt Palace GD show.

Jay, Phil and Jack talk about Alembic, Alembic Bass #1, Low Impedance Pickups, Ron Wickersham, Guild Starfires, Owsley, Hendrix and more!

The show that follows is fairly remarkable for the current cast of GD involved players with Rob Eaton and Rob Baracco of DSO alongside Stu Allen and Phil.

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Enjoy!

I'll be there tonight for the 1974 show!
(Last night I was playing bass.)
 
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As a first hand witness to the music made by these two mad geniuses of the bass I can earnestly say they kick serious ass as working bass players. I saw hundreds of GD shows and right now Phil has never been more vital or more interesting. Jack has always been a bass God....
 
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I really think it's time they're beamed up to have their phasers recharged. There was a time that they avoided like the Devil, photo op's like this.. and all the tension has disappeared from their performance too. Leaning on each other over some overbuilt over designed over priced instrument is a show of the collective weakness of the evolution of SF Hippie Rock. Frankly, both of them sounded best and made their most important and primary musical contributions playing stock Fenders and Guilds, and in my humble opinion.
 
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Mr. PC - Respect your opinion but it's worthless to me.
I've seen Phil play live on a nearly weekly basis at Terrapin for the past 5 years and he seem to me to be just getting better.
I see jack play several times a year.
The proof is in being in the room.

Still you have a right to your opinion.
 
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Well, listening to the interview, and hearing the Terrapin Station crowd cheer (I guess that would include you) when it's mentioned that Jack used to rehearse in the same space that Jim Jones started the Peoples Temple in..that confirmed my opinion that Lesh could play nothing on stage and the fans would find a way to say his performance was brilliant, better than the last one. So your opinion is worth even less than nothing to me. Jack is a shell of the performing musician he used to be. Same as Lesh.
 
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silvertone said:
Last night's 1974 show with Interview and some great jamming...
Phil talks about the Wall of Sound, his Quad Bass Big Brown and More.
Monday night, for the 1975 show he will be playing Big Brown!
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Interesting that he's waiting until the '75 show to break out Big Brown. I would have thought it would have been used for '72, '73, or '74, as he actually played it back then. I'd love to make it out there for one of these.
 
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silvertone said:
Mr. PC - Respect your opinion but it's worthless to me.
I've seen Phil play live on a nearly weekly basis at Terrapin for the past 5 years and he seem to me to be just getting better.
I see jack play several times a year.
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What if I told you I listened to both of these guys in the Panhandle when the S*** was really being made, when what they talk about in this vapid talk show style interview was being conceived and invented..those were the most exciting times. In their golden years those guys are really just cashing in on their laurels. For Lesh, he doesn't need the $$ the way Jack might. It's like a fireside chat where the exploration becomes bigger than it really was, tall tales about skinning bears and finding nuggets as big as kneecaps. That's what's happening now. Phil has been blessed with life extension through medical technology..Jack by comparison isn't looking to good lately, especially since his beloved Diana passed . Jack's interview with Tom Ribbeke concerning the Diana Bass Project is probably the most comprehensive and passionate interview he's ever given in his entire career. He is truly engaged with the subject and interested in what he's talking about there.
 
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Nice try....you probably don't remember or know, or even care about what happened at Jonestown. I do. Or maybe you are right, it's OK to make a joke out of it. It's interesting that the GD scene became so elitist in nature to the point that the original members could be jailed and up for first degree, and the hard core fans would just about kill anyone who witnessed the truth. Very repurposing, very cult like behavior.
 

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