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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xx oo thanks for everything you gave.....
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You can find four other DJ Fundi tribute mixes to Garcia at www.podcastcafe.org/episodes/files/category-grateful.html
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Like a Road : Garcia on Stage 3
Jerry Garcia was born on August 1 and passed away 53 years later on August 9. The Podcast Cafe has been celebrating his vast musical legacy these past few weeks with the release of several Jerry-lovin' podcasts: High Time: Garcia on Stage 1, Lazy River Road: Garcia in the Studio, Dark Star : Garcia on Stage 2 and now this, the third mix of our very favorite live Jerry jams. Such sweet kindness!
We'd also like to remind our listeners that we've posted other Jerry-related offerings in years past that you can still access, including some archival recordings of a call-in radio show on KLCC:
I was living in Bend, Oregon at the time, and was awoken out of bed with the bad news. After contacting beloved friends with whom I had shared many a Dead show, I tuned the stereo to KLCC 89.7 FM, the Dead-friendly college radio station broadcasting from Eugene. They were playing nothing but Jerry's music, and we listened through the day. For some reason, I dropped a cassette tape in and hit record. This podcast is drawn from that dusty old tape, recently found in the archives deep in the garage and brought in to the 21st century by way of modern technology.
Acess part one here and part two here.
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Loser
Jam
Days Between
Ship of Fools
Eyes of the World
Big Railroad Blues
To Lay Me Down
West L.A. Fadeaway
Like a Road
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Dark Star : Garcia on Stage 2
The second installment in my "Jerry Garcia on Stage" tribute series -- something about summer just brings on that Jerry jones! With a deep love for the man, and a profound respect for the gift of these live performances, Fundi has curated something special here, and we hope you dig it as much as we do. (You can find the first episode in the "Garcia On Stage" series right here, and a bonus "Garcia in the Studio" show over here.)
Set list:
After Midnight 76
Brown Eyed Women 76
Spanish Jam 68
Wharf Rat 71
Ain't No Bread in the Breadbox 90s
When the Hunter Gets Captured by the Game 90s
Bertha 71
Standing on the Moon 91
Jam 90s
Dark Star 68
Morning Dew 68
The Maker 90s
Dark Star (reprise) 90
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Lazy River Road : Garcia in the Studio
This is the second in a multi-part series of Garcia mixes -- we have several hours of our very favorite Jerry jams to share with you over the spring and summer as we draw near to the anniversaries of Jerry's birthday and expiration date. This episode focuses on Jerry's studio work, as opposed to his home on the stage, and features a wide range of alternate takes, spontaneous jams, obscure tracks and unreleased goodies. With a deep love for the man, and a profound respect for the gift of these studio performances, Fundi has curated something special here, and we hope you dig it as much as we do. (You can find the first installment in the Garcia series on the Podcast Cafe right here.)
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High Time : Garcia on Stage I
Happy 4/20 to all the friends of the Podcast Cafe! Here's a special treat for you on this special day: an hour-and-a-half of live performances from Jerry Garcia, drawn from Grateful Dead and JGB shows from across the decades, mixed up and served just right by DJ Fundi.
This is the first in a multi-part series of Garcia mixes -- we have several hours of our very favorite Jerry jams to share with you over the spring and summer as we draw near to the anniversaries of Jerry's birthday and death date. As you'd expect, DJ Fundi has conducted deep research in to creating these grateful journeys -- finding out what is considered the kindest version of "Scarlet Begonias" into "Fire on the Mountain", for example, and then hunting down that performace to share with you. With a deep love for the man, and a profound respect for the gift of these live performances, Fundi has curated something special here, and we hope you dig it as much as we do.
To download, subscribe to the Podcast Cafe via iTunes or enter this RSS Feed in to iTunes: Advanced > Subscribe to Podcast: feed://podcastcafe.org/episodes/files/RSSfeed.xml.
Feedback: djfundi@podcastcafe.org