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Poster: | bluedevil | Date: | Nov 8, 2010 12:34pm |
Forum: | GratefulDead | Subject: | "Interview" with the archivist at UCSC |
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Poster: | William Tell | Date: | Nov 8, 2010 8:29pm |
Forum: | GratefulDead | Subject: | Re: 'Interview' with the archivist at UCSC |
Sorry, Flow; no offence--realized you said you know the guy!
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Poster: | SomeDarkHollow | Date: | Nov 8, 2010 1:23pm |
Forum: | GratefulDead | Subject: | Re: 'Interview' with the archivist at UCSC |
"My contention is that if that they should have chose Steve Kimock and paid him well and let everything else go. He’s the only guitarist for my money that can do Jerry without floundering."
Thank you. No offense to everyone else.
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Poster: | cousinkix1953 | Date: | Nov 8, 2010 7:56pm |
Forum: | GratefulDead | Subject: | Re: 'Interview' with the archivist at UCSC |
This post was modified by cousinkix1953 on 2010-11-09 03:56:00
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Poster: | jjoops | Date: | Nov 9, 2010 7:10am |
Forum: | GratefulDead | Subject: | Re: 'Interview' with the archivist at UCSC |
Among other things, they needed someone to take the high harmonies, and Melvin doesn't sing.
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Poster: | Jim F | Date: | Nov 9, 2010 12:59am |
Forum: | GratefulDead | Subject: | Re: 'Interview' with the archivist at UCSC |
I used to be pretty involved in that whole Schwag scene...hell for all I know we might know each other...were I still as involved as I was I would ask Melvin himself about it, but I dropped out of that scene a year or so ago. Looks like they're not going to have a "scene" anymore anyway, as their 400 acre campground got raided by various federal agencies, primarily the IRS, just last Monday, just after the festival where these recordings were made.
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Poster: | robthewordsmith | Date: | Nov 8, 2010 2:14pm |
Forum: | GratefulDead | Subject: | Re: 'Interview' with the archivist at UCSC |
Here's an extract from an interview SK did in 1998:
You've had to deal with people pigeonholing you, or people coming from a perspective where they never heard Terry Haggerty, let's say, they never heard John Cipollina, they're fifteen years old! but they heard the Dead, or they went on tour, so they hear you and that's their only reference point.
SK
But I still have to answer to myself. I still have my own integrity, if there's anything you hear in my music that makes any sense to you. If nowhere else in my life, I've got some integrity there in my music. It's not about the audience perception about what's the deal with the Jerry Garcia thing. I have nothing to prove to those people. I'm just going to go play, and I think it's appropriate that I do that, and if anybody else thinks it's appropriate that I do that, fine. And if they think it's inappropriate to do that, fine, I'm going to play anyway. I have every expectation of going out there and doing a good job, and I have every expectation of being out on my ass in the snow when the thing is over. I have every expectation of not allowing any of that to bother me, and to continue playing.
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Would you make a point of not playing any of that material again, outside of that context, or could some of that stuff enter your repertoire or influence the way you play?
SK
I've never willingly played that material. When I did the gig with Bob Weir and he wanted to do one of those tunes, I'd say OK, because that's my job. Right? And when I did the gig with Merl, if he wanted to play Bertha or something like that then I'd play that. When I did the gig with Vince, if he wanted to play a Dead tune, it was like, OK. But for exactly the same reasons I've had to stay away from that, because that's not it.
I think it's OK that I play in that style. It's a style, and I look up to those guys, and I look up to what they did. It's great and I'm not trying to copy what they did. I'm not even so presumptuous to think that I could add something to what they did. I just happen to think that that's a cool way to play, and that's where it wound up. It didn't get there the same way, and it's not going to wind up going the same place, but it's in that style. And there's not a lot of guys that played that.
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Poster: | SomeDarkHollow | Date: | Nov 8, 2010 2:27pm |
Forum: | GratefulDead | Subject: | Re: 'Interview' with the archivist at UCSC |
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Poster: | robthewordsmith | Date: | Nov 8, 2010 2:47pm |
Forum: | GratefulDead | Subject: | Re: 'Interview' with the archivist at UCSC |
What you can do is treat the Dead's legacy as a body of work to be explored and developed. Like Phil said, he started doing the Friends shows "as way to tap into the vast subculture of musicians who love and perform GD music as if it were a 'repertory' body of work, like Shakespeare or Beethoven." The people who best serve the music aren't the slavish copycats, but the ones like Kimock, Hornsby, Herring and Greene who embrace the possibilities and make it their own. Honestly, it's what Garcia would have expected - after all didn't he take a few songs from other people and give them a little something extra?
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Poster: | bluedevil | Date: | Nov 8, 2010 2:53pm |
Forum: | GratefulDead | Subject: | Re: 'Interview' with the archivist at UCSC |
http://paxamrecords.com/
Just think he should get mentioned in any post about non-slavish "copiers" adding a little something extra...
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Poster: | robthewordsmith | Date: | Nov 8, 2010 3:12pm |
Forum: | GratefulDead | Subject: | Re: 'Interview' with the archivist at UCSC |
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Poster: | high flow | Date: | Nov 8, 2010 3:09pm |
Forum: | GratefulDead | Subject: | Re: 'Interview' with the archivist at UCSC |
Typo-errors tend to distract one from the information being presented. That is the case here. I hope knowledge of his background will help you look past his flawed presentation. He's a real music lover and long-time Deadhead.
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Poster: | robthewordsmith | Date: | Nov 8, 2010 3:19pm |
Forum: | GratefulDead | Subject: | Re: 'Interview' with the archivist at UCSC |
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Poster: | high flow | Date: | Nov 8, 2010 3:44pm |
Forum: | GratefulDead | Subject: | Re: 'Interview' with the archivist at UCSC |
This post was modified by high flow on 2010-11-08 23:44:16
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Poster: | SomeDarkHollow | Date: | Nov 9, 2010 6:11am |
Forum: | GratefulDead | Subject: | Re: 'Interview' with the archivist at UCSC |
I guess you could draw a parallel and say that SRV "did Hendrix" when playing Voodo Chile or Red House; bringing the same unbridled energy and joy to the songs, but in a way that was completely his own.
Maybe I'm not explaining this as well as I would like, but I hope you get the drift.
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Poster: | robthewordsmith | Date: | Nov 9, 2010 6:37am |
Forum: | GratefulDead | Subject: | Re: 'Interview' with the archivist at UCSC |
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Poster: | SomeDarkHollow | Date: | Nov 9, 2010 7:02am |
Forum: | GratefulDead | Subject: | Re: 'Interview' with the archivist at UCSC |
And, yes, the fat man could plan.