Okay, another "this day in Grateful Dead history" posts ... but as a guitar player, I have always felt this show is grossly overlooked. The link to the full show is below, but here are three snippets that any guitarist can certainly appreciate from this night early in Brent's tenure -- and a real nice audience recording, too, on headphones, you are there in the arena.
Jam out of He's Gone: This is the only time I have ever heard Bobby and Jerry literally playing twin lead guitar lines in harmony together ... just a fantastic few minutes out of the "nothing's gonna bring him back" outro, where Phil goes from the E to the 5th (B) in the bass and it takes off from there, which leads to a frentic Truckin' (with TWO intros) ... but it's the interplay between Garcia and Weir there that is the jewel. One of my all-time favorite Grateful Dead moments and one you may not have heard before.
Click and listen, it's worth it:
https://soundcloud.com/vicderobertis/hes-gone-jam
Jam out of Truckin': We all know the familiar chromatic interplay riff right off the end of the vocals, which goes three times higher and higher and ends with the huge Phil bomb, right? Except this time, Phil misses the first bomb ... so they jam it around again into this incredibly frenetic Other One-tinged interlude that leads to this supercharged peak peak PEAK and then we get the huge Phil bomb ... which leads to a whole series of them, where you can hear Phil basically overloading the PA and shaking the rafters.
https://soundcloud.com/vicderobertis/truckin-jam
Jam out of Wharf Rat: Here we are leaving Wharf Rat, and out of nowhere comes an echo of that peak peak PEAK from Truckin' ... which hits into Around and Around, except Weir won't sing it, so they do the intro three times and Weir launches into Sugar Magnolia.
https://soundcloud.com/vicderobertis/wharf-rat-jam
The entire second set is worth a listen -- a great China Rider -- this was when it was reintroduced into the repertoire and it was a big deal when they played it. Sweet He's Gone with that great jam. And Sugar Magnolia really rocks the house down. What a great show. Wish it existed in a soundboard but the audience is real nice.
https://archive.org/details/gd79-05-09. ... -fixed.shn
Jam out of He's Gone: This is the only time I have ever heard Bobby and Jerry literally playing twin lead guitar lines in harmony together ... just a fantastic few minutes out of the "nothing's gonna bring him back" outro, where Phil goes from the E to the 5th (B) in the bass and it takes off from there, which leads to a frentic Truckin' (with TWO intros) ... but it's the interplay between Garcia and Weir there that is the jewel. One of my all-time favorite Grateful Dead moments and one you may not have heard before.
Click and listen, it's worth it:
https://soundcloud.com/vicderobertis/hes-gone-jam
Jam out of Truckin': We all know the familiar chromatic interplay riff right off the end of the vocals, which goes three times higher and higher and ends with the huge Phil bomb, right? Except this time, Phil misses the first bomb ... so they jam it around again into this incredibly frenetic Other One-tinged interlude that leads to this supercharged peak peak PEAK and then we get the huge Phil bomb ... which leads to a whole series of them, where you can hear Phil basically overloading the PA and shaking the rafters.
https://soundcloud.com/vicderobertis/truckin-jam
Jam out of Wharf Rat: Here we are leaving Wharf Rat, and out of nowhere comes an echo of that peak peak PEAK from Truckin' ... which hits into Around and Around, except Weir won't sing it, so they do the intro three times and Weir launches into Sugar Magnolia.
https://soundcloud.com/vicderobertis/wharf-rat-jam
The entire second set is worth a listen -- a great China Rider -- this was when it was reintroduced into the repertoire and it was a big deal when they played it. Sweet He's Gone with that great jam. And Sugar Magnolia really rocks the house down. What a great show. Wish it existed in a soundboard but the audience is real nice.
https://archive.org/details/gd79-05-09. ... -fixed.shn
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Check out my original record at http://vicderobertis.com
or https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/crook ... d978388845
http://leftyguitarsonly.com
http://www.playingdead.net
