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How about Eric Clapton and Duane Allman ripping up a Jimi Hendrix tune.



No way would this happen these days as all the "artists" would be worried about getting paid.
 
Auggie said:
SRV is a top 5 but that #1 spot belongs to Jimi Hendrix.
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All subjective obviously. But SRV plays Jimi's own songs better than he did. ;)

All I can say is I hope this stuff is still semi popular or people still know about it in 50 years or the world is going to be so damn shtty. RIP to both of them





 
ronnie mund said:


Gives me chills. Really unfortunate their aren't any guitar players like this around anymore.
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Legend has it that George Clinton told Eddie Hazel to imagine he had been told his mother was dead, but then learned that it was not true. One of the greatest guitar songs of all time.

George Clinton had many excellent guitarists come through the P-Funk ranks, Eddie was probably the best but he had demons and his tenure was short lived. Michael Hampton was the one who is most closely associated with the live act and also has an excellent take of Maggot Brain on the One Nation Under a Groove Album. Here is Michael Hampton and Gary Shider tearing through Cosmic Slop from back in the day.

 
Auggie said:
Another deep Bowie cut worth a listen.

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This quote was Bowie's intro to the song, from the November '72 show at Public Hall in Cleveland.

This is the bit where all the people with the tape recorders have to leave, because I'm gonna do a new number and you mustn't record it.... I'll tell you where we wrote this. We wrote this from Phoenix down to Seattle—no, see, it's the other way around, isn't it—from Seattle down to Phoenix, and it was about the future, and it's about a future where people have forgotten how to make love, so they go back onto video-films that they have kept from this century. This is after a catastrophe of some kind, and some people are living on the streets and some people are living in domes, and they borrow from one another and try to learn how to pick up the pieces. And it's called "Drive-In Saturday."
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Putting this on for the first time.

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I've had the record for quite awhile but am now just getting around to listening to it.
 
Kind of in a blue mood... The early '70s produced some of the most haunting love songs of all time>





 
Auggie my buddy's been trying to get me into the Dead recently. I think I finally broke through tonight after listening to Carousel Ballroom 2/14/68. What an amazing show.

 
ronnie mund said:
Auggie my buddy's been trying to get me into the Dead recently. I think I finally broke through tonight after listening to Carousel Ballroom 2/14/68. What an amazing show.

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Love the '68 Dead sound, this was when they were at the height of their Ballroom era where they had shows every weekend in these cool 1930s era venues that were perfect for live rock shows. What a time if you loved live rock music. You could see Janis Joplin, The Airplane and The Dead play from 8:00 PM to 8:00 AM then the following weekend it was Country Joe, Santana, and the Doors would come up from LA.

2/14/68 is a well known show and probably a top 10 all time in their live show catalog. A lot of great versions of early GD classic but probably best known for a 45 minute suite of songs/jams at the end of the 2nd set that is pure psychedelic rock. Definitely not for everyone but here is the "Caution" portion of that suite.

 
Yeah I just got done listening to Big Brother and the Holding Company at Carousel 1968. Really top notch stuff.



What are the Dead's best shows you would recommend? I'm currently going off a list I found someone post on another site. I think I'm gonna' give 3/1/69 a listen next.
 
ronnie mund said:
Yeah I just got done listening to Big Brother and the Holding Company at Carousel 1968. Really top notch stuff.



What are the Dead's best shows you would recommend? I'm currently going off a list I found someone post on another site. I think I'm gonna' give 3/1/69 a listen next.
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'69 and the "Live Dead" sound is really good but you have a taste of that with the '68 show. Here is where I would head for now to get some different stuff>

12/9/81, Events Center at Univ of Colorado. My 1st tape and a typical show with regards to the structure. As good a place to get you started> https://archive.org/details/gd81-12-09.sbd.clugston.13061.sbeok.shnf

5/8/77, Barton Hall. For the longest time the tape to have. High energy performance with an incredible sounding tape.
https://archive.org/details/gd77-05-08.sbd.hicks.4982.sbeok.shnf

5/11/72, Rotterdam Civic Hall. Now you go deeper. Spring '72 in Europe was probably their best tour and any show sounds great. I like the set list for this one> https://archive.org/details/gd72-05-11.sbd.ashley-bertha.7364.sbefail.shnf

12/6/73, Cleveland Public Hall. Show is know for the 43+ minute Dark Star which does get too much out there for me but the balance is very well played> https://archive.org/details/gd73-12-06.sbd.kaplan-fink-hamilton.4452.sbeok.shnf

3/27/88, Hampton Coliseum. What other band would jam a little Miles Davis to warm up for a set? https://archive.org/details/gd88-03-27.matrix.braverman.17262.sbeok.shnf

3/24/90, Knickerbocker Arena. Spring/summer '90 was their last great run. Excellent example of the big arena sound from that time. https://archive.org/details/gd1990-03-24.sbd.miller.107873.flac16

Bonus>

8/6/71, Hollywood Palladium. God bless the hippy who made this tape. This person got a great sounding recording from a high energy show 40+ years ago. You cannot download sound board tapes but you can audience tapes. Put this on your favorite device and crank it up> https://archive.org/details/gd71-08-06.aud.bertrando.yerys.129.sbeok.shnf
 
While checking out some of the vids for the 2/14/68 show I came across this interesting slice of history>

 
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