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20 October 2006

Speaking of Music, I have a story.→[More:]

In 1976 I had one of my Grateful Dead shark-jump moments. A show at the Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles. October 15, to be exact. Second night of a two-night stand. Towards the end of the first set, they launched into Sugaree and the whole facility seemed to levitate. In my between-15-and-20 Dead shows, I have never before of since experienced that.

So I found it and downloaded it. Of course, one can never go back and it's not as good as I remembered (I even worked on a short story called "The Perfect Sugaree," about this) but to my ears it's still pretty damned good.

I pass it onto you. Don't all thank me at once. No really, it's OK.

post by: danf at: 15:25 | 3 comments

It is good. As was the first time I heard "Man Smart, Woman Smarter"... and spent 5 years trying to find the closest match to what I'd heard that night back in 1993. So I understand, oh, yes indeedy, what it's like to go through life looking for your perfect "Sugaree" and my perfect "Man Smart".

So thanks, thanks again, and now I'm off to find my perfect "Diamonds On The Soles Of Her Shoes" because well, when Paul did it on his Obvious Child tour, it lasted about 35 minutes, and was perfect with many Brazilian beats and drums and musical joy.

posted by disclaimer 20 October | 15:49

when i saw the dead in las vegas in '92, clouds started to roll in during their second set. when they launched into their "space" thing, it started to rain (which was good - it was hotter than hell out, and it was a welcome relief), and by the time the rest of the band left the stage to let mickey hart and bill kreutzman do their drum solo, the rain turned into a thunderstorm. mickey hart was hitting a timpani in sync with the thunder! it kept on for about twenty minutes or so, and when the rest of the dead came back on, the thunder stopped. a few songs later, when they started playing "one more saturday night", the clouds broke.

i am not making this up.

posted by syntax 20 October | 16:32

Disclaimer, is could be this one, or this one.

Or maybe Madison Square Garden, which I cannot get to download for me.

posted by danf 20 October | 17:31

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