Official Grateful Dead Thread
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mfrench
Addicted Member
I bagged this from a recent tapers forum post, and thought y'all might appreciate it.
It's the latest "Dave's Picks," but that's not what this post is about.
How about photos of an actual '74 Dead taping in progress?
This source:
http://archive.org/details/gd1974-07-31.115499.aud-anderson.bershaw-berger.flac16
From James Anderson's photography site:
http://www.photog.com/gdead/70s/74/7-31/index.html
Let me introduce you to Bennie, on the left. Our silent, always listening Binaural Friend. His ears are fitted with AKG D-200E Microphones which output was plugged into a Sony TC-152SC and provided the sonic energy to produce our recording of this show. How he works: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Binaural_recording
Sony TC-152SD Cassette Deck recording the Grateful Dead Concert at Dillon Stadium on 31 July 1974. My Camera bag is at my right foot, a cooler and some of my friends legs & feet. Photograph taken with a Hasselblad Camera with Kodak Tri-X B&W film. At this time the deck of choice was the Sony 152 (levels look about right here). That machine is in my studio right now. Pete Z has the masters.
Bennie the Binaural Head with the Grateful Dead Live at Dillon Stadium, Hartford, CT 31 July 1974. Featuring the Wall of Sound. Summer weekday show, one of the longest ever played by The Dead.
Mystic
We're all born mad
mfrench - thanks for posting the pics.
Last night I fell into a Dead Jones thing and fired up a compilation tape, long-since digitized, of "Pig Highlights", a set of recordings that span 1966 (Avalon) to 1972 (Copenhagen -the '72 Euro Tour). Man, but that boy could sure bark a convincing blues when he wished it. Approximately 2.5 hours of screaming and monaing the blues. Reminded me also how adept Jerry was at getting to Muddy's "bumble bee" left hand technique.
-M
Last night I fell into a Dead Jones thing and fired up a compilation tape, long-since digitized, of "Pig Highlights", a set of recordings that span 1966 (Avalon) to 1972 (Copenhagen -the '72 Euro Tour). Man, but that boy could sure bark a convincing blues when he wished it. Approximately 2.5 hours of screaming and monaing the blues. Reminded me also how adept Jerry was at getting to Muddy's "bumble bee" left hand technique.
-M
7/31/74 Charlie Miller SB @ bt.etree.org http://bt.etree.org/details.php?id=523690
It has a few seeders and was just cruising in @ about a half mb/sec
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Mystic
We're all born mad
A "best Dead show ever" fr me would have to have occurred between 1969 and 1972, for Pig's presence was essential and, in my opinion, Jerry's soloing was more focused, particularly around those '72 dates. Plus Bob was finally good enough that Betty &/or Bob turned him up in the mix.
But as a healthy Pig was even better than a failing and fading Pig, I'll opt for one or more of the excellent performances from 1969-1971. (NOTE: during the WOS period there was something "distant' in the sound of the band, almost as if the notes weren't blending, thus the Dead's "accidental chord" mastery was undermined by that costly arrangement)
libertycaps
Analogue "AAA" vinyl.
:thmbsp: I need to read this entire thing. :thmbsp:
One of my fave bands, obviously.
One of my fave bands, obviously.
kruisin
keep on given’r
Thus far I got no complaints :thmbsp:. I’ve had it for about a month and this is its first spin. I can’t give an honest review because I'm doing a pre clean up for our Canada Day party tomorrow so I'm not paying real close attention to detail (just doing a lot of singing along)
ssmith3046
Super Member
I agree with the post commenting on the excellent sound quality of the new Skull and Roses release by MFSL. In The Dark will be delivered Monday. The last few MFSL releases that I have bought, The Basement Tapes and Music From Big Pink, have been very good.
BlindBoyGrnt
Nullius in verba
Happy Canada Day, Kruisin, and I hope your party is like the Kim Mitchell song where "nobody drowns, and nobody dies"
