I just picked up _____ on vinyl!

Loujoe

mrussel1 said:

Loujoe said:

Maybe you smoked a cigarette on a street corner under a streetlight with Jerry and didn't know it

Lot's of deadhead friends here. As an East coast far from haight street kid, and I never went to a show. I was not really into them back then. More of a metal punk hardcore industrial experimentalhwad.  You could find me avoiding a dangerous pit in CBGBs though.

I think you'd really like 'Dead Set' Brian. Very enjoyable not super far out live dead. My go to cd. 

Dead Set is very good.  I do prefer its accompaniment, Reckoning.  That's all acoustic and was released at the same time as Dead Set.  Both were also re-released on vinyl in the last year or two and they both sound phenomenal, particularly Reckoning.  The instruments are so lush, separate, clear, etc.  Really well engineered.  

Thx will get a hold of that sucker

DC29940

Some Christmas gifts and recent pickups. Got that Coltrane 5LP set for $35. 

brianlux

Loujoe said:

Maybe you smoked a cigarette on a street corner under a streetlight with Jerry and didn't know it

Lot's of deadhead friends here. As an East coast far from haight street kid, and I never went to a show. I was not really into them back then. More of a metal punk hardcore industrial experimentalhwad.  You could find me avoiding a dangerous pit in CBGBs though.

I think you'd really like 'Dead Set' Brian. Very enjoyable not super far out live dead. My go to cd. 

Haha!  I see what you did there.        

I do know this, I never ran into Jerry down by the river. 

I'll check out Dead Set, thanks!

brianlux

mrussel1 said:

brianlux said:

mrussel1 said:

brianlux said:

I'm not the biggest Dead fan around (although I do have and love American Beauty and Working Man's Dead), but I sure do like the artwork on the Dead's album covers.  These ^^^ are very cool!

It's the art and it's the brand.  I mean, is there anything in music more recognizable than the Dead's skull (SYF)?  Or the dancing bears?  They were really great about that.  

I know you were in the Bay area in this time.  Did you ever get a chance to see them in the early days, like in the streets or at Winterland, etc?

I'm always astounded by my answer to this question:  No. 

I know, unreal!  I was born in Berkeley in '51 and from age 11 months old, grew up 25 minutes south of San Francisco.  I had an aunt and uncle and two cousins in the Upper Haight through the 50s, 60s and 70's and we went up to the city and saw them often.  I lived in the upper Haight myself from 1969 to 1973 for cryin' out loud.  I saw any number of Bay Area bands, lots of shows at Fillmore West, Winterland, Keystone, and other clubs.  But did I ever see the Dead... even just once... or even see any of them around town?  Amazingly, no, no.  Craziness!  

 

You're my hero... I would have loved to have been in the Bay area in this era.  I'm sure there was an undercurrent of menace like there is in every movement and moment in time, but the music and culture of the late 60's in Haight would have been awesome.  

Yeah, to tell you the truth, being there on a day to day living basis, it really got to be a mixed bag.  The upsides were great- the music, the literature coming out of that time, the explosion of all kinds of new approaches to life and thinking.  The downsides were also rather potent as well, especially as the 60s morphed into the 70s. The mid to late 60s truly were like a renaissance.  By the early 70's, the whole scene itself had kind of overloaded and imploded.  

Thankfully, even though I moved out of the city in mid 1973, I lived close enough and spent lot of time there to witness a whole new era that, though less remembered in cultural history, to me was just as exciting.  That cultural resurgence took place during much of the early to mid 80s was when post punk, new wave, paisley underground, and art rock took off, as well as a surge in gay and lesbian acceptance which created an interesting intermixing of straight and gay culture.  As "mellow" and "groovy" as the San Francisco 60s were, the S.F. 80s were high energy and fast paced.  

And both were often quite fun!  I was lucky to experience both.  And I can only imagine how cool the late 70's and 80s NYC scene which gave birth to all of that new counter-culture must have been.  Of course, that too was a mixed bag, and there are some great books that cover that era including tow favorites- Kris Need Dream Baby Dream: Suicide, A New York Story, and Thurston Moore's Sonic Life.

Oh to have been in two places at once, lol!