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| Poster: | dead-head_Monte | Date: | Apr 24, 2010 12:02pm |
| Forum: | GratefulDead | Subject: | Re: Staff Requests Suggestions for 'Spotliight Item' |
Thank you - and your gang of volunteers, for keeping so much GD momentum going on here at The Archive. Please note, this task not a thankless job. Thank You.
My Spotlight Item pick for the 1980s would be Lake Placid, NY - Oct 17, 1983
Hunter Seamon's matrix for Lake Placid
They play several long-standing favorites in the 1st set including Friend of The Devil and Bird Song. The Sugaree opener is a legendary performance among Sugaree-lovers. For me, this Sugaree ranks very, very high because of it's start-to-finish performance. It is played flawlessly, beautifully, and powerfully. It is done spectacularly, like they were recording it for a "live album." The boys play it brilliantly. They are improvising as usual, and letting it ebb and flow. But on this version, they're always charging forward as they play it. Notice there's no straying or meandering while it's played, and all 3 Sugaree breaks are orgasmic.
The 1st ends with a very highly-charged Deal. It's another legendary performance for Deal-lovers.
Before the encore, Good Lovin' is played at the end the 2nd set. Note that this time-period is during Ronald Reagan's launch of our now-infamous 30-year decline. Our decline was only 3 years old on this night. But Bobby and the boys are venting some big-time steam over this by now. At 5:00 into Good Lovin', notice what happens. Here's what Bobby says:
I wanna tell ya all about it now.
'cause we gotta make it work some how.
I don't have to tell you what it's like these days.
Sometimes you can't see shit through the smoke and the haze.
You gotta have good lovin'.
Good Lovin' builds brilliantly from there. Listen to what Bobby is saying and what he sings next. The band is standing up for our environment and mother Earth. Sustainable life on Earth is for all of us. They take this theme into the crescendo of Good Lovin'. It's the closing tune for the concert. And then, they come back out and do a tasty encore playing John Lennon's Revolution. It certainly appears to me that they are rebelling against authority and the early Reagan years. They are blowing off some serious steam here. On the other hand, maybe they pulled off one of the biggest PR-stunts in history?
Outside of Sugaree-lovers, Deal-lovers, and 1980s lovers, this show continues to fly under the radar. Reviewers out there will echo this fact.
peace,
Monte
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| Poster: | Stormyfour20 | Date: | Oct 20, 2011 7:21pm |
| Forum: | GratefulDead | Subject: | Re: Staff Requests Suggestions for 'Spotliight Item' |
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| Poster: | midnight sun | Date: | Apr 24, 2010 12:10pm |
| Forum: | GratefulDead | Subject: | Re: Staff Requests Suggestions for 'Spotliight Item' |
coolest venue! held only 7 thou but attendance was barely half capacity...GD must have known they lost a pile of money before that show began (winding their entourage out of the way through those mountains, purportedly the reason they never returned) yet Jer had the biggest smile from ear to ear that night
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| Poster: | dead-head_Monte | Date: | Apr 24, 2010 3:19pm |
| Forum: | GratefulDead | Subject: | Re: Staff Requests Suggestions for 'Spotliight Item' |
| Date | Venue |
| 10-08-83 | Richmond Coliseum, Richmond, Va. |
| 10-09-83 | Greensboro Coliseum, Greensboro, N.C. |
| 10-11-83 | Madison Square Garden, New York, N.Y. |
| 10-12-83 | Madison Square Garden, New York, N.Y. |
| 10-14-83 | Hartford Civic Center, Hartford, Ct. |
| 10-15-83 | Hartford Civic Center, Hartford, Ct. |
| 10-17-83 | Olympic Center, Lake Placid, N.Y. |
| 10-18-83 | Cumberland County Civic Center, Portland, Me. |
| 10-20-83 | The Centrum, Worcester, Ma. |
| 10-21-83 | The Centrum, Worcester, Ma. |
| 10-22-83 | Carrier Dome, Syracuse University, Syracuse, N.Y. |
| 10-30-83 | Marin County Veterans Auditorium, San Rafael, Ca. |
| 10-31-83 | Marin County Veterans Auditorium, San Rafael, Ca. |
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| Poster: | dead-head_Monte | Date: | Jan 17, 2012 11:24am |
| Forum: | GratefulDead | Subject: | Re: Staff Requests Suggestions for 'Spotliight Item' |
Monte's Taper Handbook for The Internet Archive
Several years ago, I started transferring and publishing shows I taped nearly 40 years ago. "I took my own approach" in this process... I'm combining my firsthand experiences back then with a lot of reverse-engineering of archival materials found on the internet today. I do not own, nor have I read, any GD books. My old albums are long gone. Many of my cassette copies of them remain in excellent condition. I'm not a music critic and I try not to rank shows. Thank you "Light into Ashes" for contributing your knowledgeable musical essays. I'm connecting elements across the internet, and threading this rich history into a tapestry as I see it — from the point of view of a Hippie-Cowboy-Trail Grub, GD lover, Taper, soundman, electronics tech, and Broadcast Engineer. I am provoking thought.
Keywords: Grateful Dead; RFK Stadium; Monte Barry; Bill Gadsden; Kevin Tobin; audience recording; sound boards; music collections; bit torrents; eTree trackers; The Bus; Wall of Sound; audio equipment; P A systems; sound systems; sound engineering; sound crew; Owsley Stanley; the Bear; tape recording; reel to reel; cassette decks; portable tape recorders; tapers; Alembic; Ampex; technical audio documentation; photo collection; Dead pics; downloads; live music; AUD; FOB;
Creative Commons license: Attribution — non-commercial use only.
— PEACE —
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Telluride Bluegrass Festival 1985 • Challenger Productions tapes • engineered by Glenn Hill & Monte Barry • videotaped on one-inch reels • June 21-23, 1985 lost video tapes detailsThe 12th Annual Telluride Bluegrass Festival -- June 21-23, 1985 Emmylou Harris and the Hot Band • John Hartford • Seldom Scene • Tony Trischka and Skyline • Hot Rize • Tony Rice • Nashville Bluegrass Band • Chris Daniels and the Kings • New Grass Revival • Doc and Merle Watson • The David Grisman Quintet • Peter Rowan and Crucial Country • Mark O’Connor • Bryan Bowers • Alaska’s Hobo Jim
Bluegrass Alliance band with Vince Gill • WDRB-TV studio tapes • produced by Monte Barry, Mike Harpring, and Steve Doss • videotaped on two-inch quad reels • May, 1976 lost video tapes details
Jerry Garcia Band • Duke University tapes • produced by Duke students • videotaped on three 7-inch reels of ½" video tape, "sitting" in Duke's Archives • April 4, 1976 lost video tapes details
European Tour 1972 • Tivolis Koncertsal • Copenhagen, Denmark • produced and engineered by a Copenhagen TV station • videotaped on two-inch quad reels • April 17, 1972 lost video tapes detailsImportant new videos coming into circulation all of Monte's Items available on The Archive Monte's 'retired Taper' speech: • Old Tapers never die; they just 'Not Fade Away'.Taping is as natural to me as riding a bike.Brewster Kahle, Digital Librarian and Founder of the Internet Archive, asks: What do we do when we hit 1M songs, 100k concerts, 5k bands on the Live Music Archive?
Born to Tape in 1951 - Monte and his dad riding bikes in 1954
These days I'm still riding my bicycle all over the place.
Going to shows and Taping in the audience is like being a Trail Grub.
Monte the Trail Grub - Colorado's Mt. Columbia peak - December, 1980
These days I'm still hiking on trails all over the place.The Archive is giving away Free Swag Hats.
If you uploaded at least 10 shows to the LMA
• Charlie Miller is awarded shnid 100,000! • The Internet Archive Statistics web page - takes a few moments to load
This post was modified by dead-head_Monte on 2012-01-17 19:24:32
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| Poster: | dfrank111 | Date: | May 18, 2011 6:43pm |
| Forum: | GratefulDead | Subject: | Re: Staff Requests Suggestions for 'Spotliight Item' |
Blessings and keep swingin,
Dave Frank
NYC
PS - there are about 12 such classes on youtube and Ustream, all for you for nuttin:)
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| Poster: | splue | Date: | May 18, 2011 5:54pm |
| Forum: | GratefulDead | Subject: | Re: blondies |
This post was modified by splue on 2011-05-19 00:54:45
