A cover of the Young Rascals' "Good Lovin'" gets into similarly breathless Garcia territory, though the band doesn't push it as far. The jam makes its way into deeply spaced jazz, Garcia especially wearing his John Coltrane love (and his study, like Coltrane, of Nicolas Slonimsky's "Thesaurus of Scales and Melodic Patterns") on his sleeve. Though the set has no real centerpiece - minus the perennial "China Cat Sunflower"/"I Know You Rider," there are no segues, odd by the Dead's standards - the highlight is unquestionably a 13-plus minute version of Martha & the Vandellas' "Dancing in the Street." Garcia, Bob Weir, and Phil Lesh's harmonies are big and enthused, the San Francisco ballroom scene encapsulated in one vocal arrangement. Only one tune from either of the band's soon-to-be-recorded classics gets played here, the stunning, month-old "Black Peter" - more bar-bandy and less dirge-like than usual - though they also charge through a six-minute take of the new (and rare) "Mason's Children." The short-lived garage psych number was written (along with Workingman's "New Speedway Boogie") as a response to the Altamont festival still only a month in the past, "Mason's" would be abandoned by February's end, but here manages to touch on a short psychedelic solo from Garcia. Indeed, six of the nine tunes the band perform - in front of a virtual hometown audience of Merry Prankster diaspora - are covers. The Dead are clearly comfy on the (presumably) tiny bar stage. The third show in a quick jaunt to the Pacific Northwest, including a gig two nights earlier at the same Portland bar, the Dead were in the process of introducing the LSD C&W that would define the two albums they recorded later that year, Workingman's Dead and American Beauty.
I am (still) waiting for a response on this from previously uncirculated gig from the Grateful Dead's tape vault - a good, not exceptional, show from Januat Springer's Inn in Portland, OR - marks the Dead's second digital-only release. Obviously, if the source files for the FLAC offering are 16/44.1 HDCD-encoded, lossless encoding will preserve the HDCD functionality, and the buyer can maintain HDCD compatibility either by burning CDs or by sourcing the (decompressed) files from a server through an HDCD decoder to a DAC (as per other HDCD threads in this forum).
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The Store now has two complete show download-only offerings which are "Road Trips Full Show" titles (in 256k mp3 and FLAC) these are shows which were represented by a few tracks on Road Trips Vol 1 No 1. It seems the strategy with the "Road Trips" CD releases is moving forward: looks like those CDs are being issued as a "teaser" for full-show downloads (or more precisely, the CDs were issued, and now associated full-show downloads are appearing in the Store on ).įor those not aware, the "Road Trips" titles are not complete concerts, but rather collections of songs from various live performances under a certain theme (ie "Fall 79").Īll of these CDs, as with other recent Grateful Dead releases, are HDCD encoded, generally using most of the HDCD encoding process capabilities (ie, these are not just discs where the HDCD flag gets set because a Pacific Microsonics converter is present in the mastering chain data stream).
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