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Grateful Dead - American Beauties

Posted by frightwig on Friday, March 7th, 2008 at 12:01 am

For E-6, a couple favorites from the classic album, American Beauty.


"Ripple"
Live at Radio City Music Hall, Halloween 1980.


"Friend of the Devil"
Jerry Garcia and David Grisman on The Late Show with David Letterman, 1992.


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E-6
E-6 replied on March 7th, 2008 at 12:00 pm

That's some real pretty mandolin that Grisman plays on the second clip.

The first one, however, illustrates my point about their fans. Here's the band playing a sweet acoustic number, yet throughout the song, some idiots insist on whistling and yelling (whooing?) for it's entirety. STFU, already.

I think some of those kids dosage might've been a little too high.

frightwig
frightwig replied on March 7th, 2008 at 1:39 pm

Here's the band playing a sweet acoustic number, yet throughout the song, some idiots insist on whistling and yelling (whooing?) for it's entirety.

Well, that isn't unique to Deadheads; and, at that time, kids at punk shows were as likely to be throwing beer cans/bottles or spitting towards the stage. What can you say? People just suck all over.

American Beauty is my favorite Dead album, but Workingman's Dead is almost as fine, and I think Aoxomoxoa still stands as one of the great psychedelic rock albums of the late '60s. Those three records from '69-70 may be their only essential studio albums, at least to me, but it's more than most bands can claim, and it's enough to form the foundation for one of the more interesting and lucrative live music careers in rock music history. Not a bad legacy. If the string of three Wilco albums including Being There, Summerteeth, and Yankee Hotel Foxtrot serves the same function for the Tweedy/Cline Band over the next 20-some years, Jeff Tweedy should count himself a lucky and wealthy man in his old age.

 
 
E-6
E-6 replied on March 7th, 2008 at 1:45 pm

What can you say? People just suck all over.

I won't argue with you.

frightwig
frightwig replied on March 7th, 2008 at 2:06 pm

Btw, I think AMR once described me as the guy who looks like Jerry Garcia in a Mariners shirt, and when my daughter sees Jerry in the "Ripple" clip, she points and says, "Daddy!" So there you have it.

Here's a picture of me and Kate last summer, when she was 8-9 months old. She's the one who doesn't need a shave.

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SBG
SBG replied on March 7th, 2008 at 2:10 pm

Looks like your little girl enjoys being held upside down about as much as mine. Makes her laugh out loud!

frightwig
frightwig replied on March 7th, 2008 at 2:21 pm

Yeah, she's a little daredevil. She loves to be held upside-down, or tossed in the air (she laughs and says "'Gin!"), and if you hold her on your hip and spin around she leans waaaay back to maximize the head rush like she's on a carnival ride.

 
 
E-6
E-6 replied on March 7th, 2008 at 2:25 pm

Whoa! When that baby (your beard, not your daughter) goes gray, look out! The freaks of Portland will think they've seen a ghost...

:)

 
 
 
frightwig
frightwig replied on March 7th, 2008 at 2:38 pm

I was just checking out reviews of some Wilco albums at the Rate Your Music site, and this one for Summerteeth made me laugh:

Listening to most of Wilco’s albums is like going to a Grateful Dead Show on an off night for the band. They put out some perfectly fine tunes, carefully constructed, thoughtful and well balanced ... but then there are always eight or so songs that just don’t make any sense to me at all. And believe me I’ve tried, I own all of their material, that’s how good I think they are.

Wilco are probably the only group where I have to give a high rating simply on the strength of a couple of songs ... the four songs I’ve mentioned are for real and worth while ... dig them and let the rest slip until they make sense, if ever.

E-6
E-6 replied on March 7th, 2008 at 2:47 pm

Beyond laughable. Hokey dad-pop-by-numbers that makes Wings sound like Seupltura.

Note: If you decide to grab just one song from this steaming platter, be sure to choose track 15. It consists of twenty-three seconds of silence. It's the only track that won't make you feel completely swindled.

While I don't agree with the content, that's some quality snark.

 
 

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