May 5, 1982
Oregon State Prison
Salem, Oregon
Jerry Garcia & John Kahn:
Deep Elem Blues
Friend of the Devil
Jack-a-Roe
Oh Babe It Ain't No Lie
It Takes a Lot to Laugh, It Takes a Train to Cry
Run for the Roses
Ripple
Been All Around This World
Valerie
Dire Wolf
Rubin and Cherise
Grateful Dead:
Days Between (Rehearsal, 1993)
So Many Roads (Chicago, 7/9/95)
14 comments:
Thanks, Mike . Nice set ; it'd particularly good to hear the stripped back versions of "friend Of The Devil" and "Dire Wolf". The 'bonus' tracks, too, are excellent but I was wondering if there was a particular reason in choosing them ? I notice they're recorded years apart.
There is a reason actually... yesterday was the 13th anniversary of Jerry's death. The Days Between is the only (as far as I know) studio recording of a song that I like quite a bit, and the So Many Roads is a recording of the last song ever played by the Grateful Dead.
Excuse my ignorance, Mike. Increasingly, these days I need these things signposted!
Those last two songs are excellent, incidentally.
Ha... I've needed things signposted since the day I was born. Glad you liked the tracks!
This music is a signpost to new space
Emmet! How are you, sir ?
Mike,
re: "...and the So Many Roads is a recording of the last song ever played by the Grateful Dead."
Not sure if they played together privately after the final Soldier Field show (doubtful), but the final song played on stage by the Dead was Box of Rain, the 2nd of two songs in a (somewhat rare) double encore at the July 9th 1995 show. Given how badly the tour had gone and how poorly Jerry had played the night before, I think Phil wanted to give the fans one more song before ending the tour. When Black Muddy River ended Phil immediately called the segue into Box of Rain. The two songs together made a beautiful encore, well worth getting the recording if you don't have it.
"Box of Rain" would seem like a good place to end. Curiously, "American Beauty" was the first Grateful Dead album I remember listening to from start to finish, in the same domestic setting as I mentioned in my post on ATV, the other day.
I would like to hear that last encore version sometime.
check out
www.archive.org/details/GratefulDead
you can go rummaging through the backlist get lost on this site!
Nice, thanks for the link, Jason!
Now someone please post the bust-out Box of Rain from Hampton '86
Here is a direct download link to and audience recording of the Box of Rain bust out from '86
http://www.archive.org/download/gd1986-03-20.nak300.damico.87611.flac16/disc109_vbr.mp3
Thanks for the correction anon, and sorry for the misinformation. My brain has been pre-occupied, but that version of So Many Roads should have been the last song ever played by the Dead. That would have been amazing.
actually this one sounds a little bit better...
http://www.archive.org/download/gd86-03-20.sony.lai.3906.sbeok.shnf/gd86-03-20d1t109_vbr.mp3
Who can forget the So Many Roads from Giants '95?
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