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Poster: | robthewordsmith | Date: | Mar 5, 2009 8:04am |
Forum: | GratefulDead | Subject: | 04-27-71 - so nearly one of the greats |
For the first two-thirds the band are pumped up and jumping and making a glorious noise. A storming Truckin' makes their intentions clear in no uncertain fashion. Pigpen is on top form - the renditions of Next Time You See Me and Hard to Handle are among the finest you'll hear anywhere; China-Rider blazes; and with Casey, Sugar Mags, Deal and a fair old smattering of cowboy tunes - you just cannot sit still for this one.
And then... the Beach Boys.
Who thought that this was a good idea? The whole thing comes to a shuddering, grinding halt. It's like seeing a big truck that one second was rolling smoothly down the highway go sliding into the ditch. The Dead leave the stage and we're left with several minutes of Beach Boys piffle that changes the mood completely. And someone should really have taken a hammer to that fucking Moog they brought with them.
When they Dead return the momentum has been lost and they just can't get the show back on the road again. Sing Me Back Home is lacklustre, Uncle John nothing special, and Pigpen's unstructured extended Lovelight rapping never did that much for me anyway. And that's it. Thank you and goodnight.
I can't help but feel that, minus the Beach Boys, they'd have powered on into something really good, like The Other One, or maybe a St Stephen. Who knows? It could have been great.
Damn Beach Boys.
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Poster: | dead-head_Monte | Date: | Mar 5, 2009 9:04am |
Forum: | GratefulDead | Subject: | Re: 04-27-71 - so nearly one of the greats |
NRPS w/Jer at Fillmore East - April 25 - 29, 1971
"Ladies and Gentlemen... The Grateful Dead"
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Poster: | SkyDawg | Date: | Mar 5, 2009 11:39am |
Forum: | GratefulDead | Subject: | Re: 04-27-71 - so nearly one of the greats |
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Poster: | robthewordsmith | Date: | Mar 5, 2009 12:16pm |
Forum: | GratefulDead | Subject: | Re: 04-27-71 - so nearly one of the greats |
Still, it these disagreements that keep the wheels spinning in this place!
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Poster: | johnnyonthespot | Date: | Mar 5, 2009 12:47pm |
Forum: | GratefulDead | Subject: | Re: 04-27-71 - so nearly one of the greats |
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Poster: | bluedevil | Date: | Mar 5, 2009 12:52pm |
Forum: | GratefulDead | Subject: | Re: 04-27-71 - so nearly one of the greats |
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FldePHd1abA
or early alternative?
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Poster: | johnnyonthespot | Date: | Mar 5, 2009 2:00pm |
Forum: | GratefulDead | Subject: | Re: 04-27-71 - so nearly one of the greats |
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Poster: | bluedevil | Date: | Mar 5, 2009 2:04pm |
Forum: | GratefulDead | Subject: | Re: 04-27-71 - so nearly one of the greats |
I like random pairings, like Donny Osmond with Peter Gabriel.
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Poster: | elbow1126 | Date: | Mar 5, 2009 7:04pm |
Forum: | GratefulDead | Subject: | Re: 04-27-71 - so nearly one of the greats |
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Poster: | Cliff Hucker | Date: | Mar 5, 2009 8:11am |
Forum: | GratefulDead | Subject: | Re: 04-27-71 - so nearly one of the greats |
It was a five night stand, considering the magic on the next two nights there had to be lull in the action, turns out it was the calm before the storm...
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Poster: | light into ashes | Date: | Mar 5, 2009 11:59am |
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Poster: | elbow1126 | Date: | Mar 5, 2009 7:06pm |
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Poster: | robthewordsmith | Date: | Mar 5, 2009 8:28am |
Forum: | GratefulDead | Subject: | Re: 04-27-71 - so nearly one of the greats |
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Poster: | William Tell | Date: | Mar 5, 2009 9:45am |
Forum: | GratefulDead | Subject: | Re: 04-27-71 - so nearly one of the greats |
Will have to get these Apr (and Dec given the other thread) shows out and give them a whirl.
Man cannot live by 68 alone, right? Well, actually, just like the nut (pun intended?) that lived on peanuts and sweet potatoes for two yrs to prove they provied adequate nutrition (ahem, only if you eat roughly five lbs of pot's with the skins covered in dirt for minerals, etc.), I have established that it is possible if you allow for lapses of +/- 2 yrs for a little variety...