Grateful Dead Spring 1990 Highlights 1
January/12/2013 Filed in: Grateful
The Grateful Dead released an excellent box set last fall that highlights their Spring 1990 tour, featuring six complete shows remastered and remojo'd on 18 CDs. Many Deadhead aficionados consider this period to be one of the last great musical peaks for the band, post-In The Dark with Jerry in good health and the band firing on all cylinders night after night. It is also a noteworthy period as Brett Mydland will not live to see the next year :( .
The sound of these shows is as good as it gets: clean and crisp with great instrument separation and a depth to the frequencies; crank it up on your home stereo and you can imagine the Dead are right there playing for you! BTW, their double-disc live release Without A Net features music from this era as well, and has long been one of my favorite official live releases since it came out in the early 1990s, when I was but a young, earnest, newly-enamored Deadhead.
Shows from the box set are 3/16/90 Capital Centre (Landover , MD), 3/19/90 Hartford Civic Center, 3/22/90 Copps Coliseum (Hamilton, Ontario), 3/26/90 Knickerbocker Arena (Albany, NY), 3/30/90 Nassau Coliseum (Uniondale, NY) and 4/2/90 The Omni (Atlanta, GA).
DJ Fundi took it upon himself to comb through the more than 20 hours of live Dead, finding favorite moments, sweet ballads and stellar jams, then blending them together in to two different "highlight mixes" that present favorite Dead songs played extremely well. It is sequenced and mixed so as to emulate what you might hear at a show, though it is a fantasy show jam-packed with all of the goodies and none of the….less likable or tired songs. Lots of Jerry here, as you might imagine, alongside Bobby, Phil and Brett singing their best songs too. Everyone sounds just great here.
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We'll release Part Two in a couple weeks with two more hours of Grateful nuggets!
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Roots Blend: N'Awlinz & Beyond
For our 81st episode, we're going on a road trip to New Orleans. Down in the Crescent City, we'll take in some of the music finest purveyors of cajun funk, swamp blues and street jazz. "Roots Blend" explores a wide variety of down-home music from NOLA and beyond, starting with the propulsive get-down music of Galactic and touching on related moods found in hip-hop, James Brown-inspired grooves, jazzy funk and funky jazz, from new to old and in-between.
Artists featured include Galactic * De La Soul * Quantic & Mr. Scruff * Brothers Johnson * Dr. John * Fred Wesley & the Horny Horns * Wynton Marsalis * Taj Mahal * Dirty Dozen Brass Band * The Roots * Bill Withers * Garage a Trois * Stevie Wonder * Jimmy McGriff * Spoon * Medeski Scofield Martin & Wood * Gary Clark Jr. and John Lennon!
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The Backfloating Hedgehog
December/31/2011 Filed in: Free-range
A free-range mix in one sitting, featuring Quantic / Steel Pulse / Lee "Scratch" Perry / Rashaan Roland Kirk / Four Tet / Radiohead / Tom Waits / Yo-Yo Ma / The Spinners / The B-52's / The Beatles / Nirvana / Johnny Cash / Medeski Martin & Wood / Willie Nelson / Phish / Art Blakeley / Pearl Jam / Ziggy Marley / Prince!
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Widespread Panic * Highlights from the 25th Anniversary Shows * 2/11/11
March/07/2011 Filed in: JamBand
Here is the promised second podcast featuring highlights of the recent Widespread Panic 25th anniversary shows at the Classic Center in Atlanta, GA. This episode hones in on the most unforgettable jams of February 11, 2011. You can listen to and download February 10 highlights here. And if this sampler isn’t enough to satiate your appetite, go forth and purchase both shows in their glorious entirety at www.livewidespreadpanic.com.
Track listing: Barstools & Dreamers, Knights in White Satin (The Moody Blues), Blue Indian, New Speedway Boogie (Grateful Dead), Fishwater, Conrad the Caterpillar, Don’t Be Denied (Neil Young), Postcard, Driving Song, Porch Song.
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Here’s a review of the 2/11/11 show from Honest Tune: The Southern Journal of Jam:
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Widespread Panic * Highlights from the 25th Anniversary Shows * 2/10/11
February/22/2011 Filed in: JamBand
For your jamtastic listening pleasure, DJ Fundi has put together a 2-part mix featuring highlights of the recent Widespread Panic 25th anniversary shows at the Classic Center in Atlanta, GA. This episode features my favorite moments from the February 10, 2011 show -- we’ll post highlights from the following night next week. I know that purists will be horrified to hear a Panic show edited and blended in this fashion, but oh well -- one can purchase the shows in their glorious entirety at www.livewidespreadpanic.com. Get ready for some amazing jams, funky grooves and southern soul in these transmissions, and we hope you enjoy them as much as we do! Panic is sounding frickin’ awesome 25 years later...no small feat.
Track listing: For What It’s Worth (Buffalo Springfield; first since 11/22/88), You’ll Be Fine (first since 11/12/01), Proving Ground, Arleen (with Randall Bramblett on saxophone) > Drums > Fire on the Mountain (Grateful Dead; first since 10/2/88) > Space Wrangler > Coconut, Bowlegged Woman, Heaven (Talking Heads).
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Interesting to note that Panic opened up their very first show with Buffalo Springfield’s “For What It’s Worth” 25 years ago (almost to the day) at the Mad Hatter Ballroom on 2/6/86!
Here’s a review of the 2-night stand, from Honest Tune: The Southern Journal of Jam:
“How many bands can you think of that have made it 25 years, continuing to enamor their fans? The first groups that likely come to mind are bands as highly regarded as the Grateful Dead, Allman Brothers Band, or the Rolling Stones; both of whom have persevered through the loss of key members, addiction, health issues, and an ever changing standard of what is considered "good" music. The lesser known Widespread Panic is a recent addition to this list and in their 25 years together, they have experienced momentous highs and endured through unthinkable lows. To the delight of a nation of devoted fans, "The Boys" who met in Athens, GA back in 1986 chose to celebrate the occasion by playing three unforgettable shows at two historic venues.”
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