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  5. String Cheese Incident

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    I really like SCI's mixture of jamrock and bluegrass. I second the Carnival recommendation...it's mostly very upbeat, joyous music. They also release most of their shows on CD, at a very reasonable 15 bucks for 3-disc sets.

    Why don't more rock bands have a banjo player????

    Dunno. SCI doesn't have one, either...

  6. String Cheese Incident

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    Posted · Edited by gdogus

    Heck yeah!

    I have about 130 live SCI shows (released to the trading community with the band's blessing, of course). Bill Nershi is a great guitar picker, Michael Travis an amazing percussionist, and the others are powerful players, too. Michael Kang's electric mandolin and fiddle are a great unique touch. Forget the studio stuff, and find some of those sweet soundboards from Fall 2000!

  7. I love piano trios!

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    Someone mentioned Frank Kimbrough much earlier, but I wanted to put in a more notable plug...

    Kimbrough's work as pianist with the Herbie Nichols Project and as a sideman on various recordings by Jazz Composers Collective artists has been very impressive. I've also very much admired his trio albums - particularly:

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    Chant (Igmod, 1998), with Ben Allison (b) and Jeff Ballard (d)

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    Quickening (OmniTone, 2003), with Ben Allison (b) and Jeff Ballard (d)

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    Lullabluebye (Palmetto, 2004), with Ben Allison (b) and Matt Wilson (d)

    Inventive and carefully constructed originals on all of these. Kimbrough is a terrific post-bop pianist, Ben Allison a fantastic player, and Ballard and Wilson bring different tones to the gigs. Highly recommended!

  9. www.music.com

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    AMG sells their database to various other music sites as well as, iirc, various music retailers and distributors. In fact, their on-line presense is supposedly for them something of an afterthought - it's not their "primary" purpose.

    But, if they're using allmusic's database, is music.com really an alternative the the allmusic "disaster," as .:.impossible calls it? What's alternative about it?

  10. www.music.com

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    Posted · Edited by gdogus

    Okay, I'm just wondering: why do y'all think this might be so great? It seems potentially functional, in a barebones kind of way, with the understanding that there are lots of holes to fill. "Hard work to be done," as W. might say. So why the excitement?

    Especially since some (?) of their entries are taken directly from allmusicguide? For example, check the bio/intro text for Grateful Dead on both sites. Or the review of Miles Davis's Kind of Blue. Or the Milt Jackson entry. Exactly the same as allmusicguide's.

  12. Who's giving it away?

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    Greg Osby has some great live stuff up - a few CD's worth - especially from his quartet with Jason Moran, piano; Atsushi (Az'shi) Osada, bass; and Rodney Green, drums. Check it out at http://www.gregosby.com/mp3.html

    And be sure to notice that there are TWO pages of downloads from Osby's site. Page "A" and page "B". (It's easy to overlook page "B".)

    Good catch, Rooster - I had in fact overlooked that. Note the links for pages A and B at the top of the page I linked, near Osby's head.... :ph34r:

  18. The Grateful Dead Dark Star

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    Posted · Edited by gdogus

    This brings up another question-does Weir ever solo? He comes up with a lot of great, complex tunes (Weather Report, Throwing Stones just off the top of my head) but I guess with Garcia in the band you don't need anyone else to solo

    Well, there was that pretty horrifying period (during the early '80's, I think?) when Weir was essentially teaching himself to play slide guitar on stage. The results on any given night were...um..."mixed." :w

  19. The Grateful Dead Dark Star

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    Posted · Edited by gdogus

    so are you saying I should get this Dicks Picks? Because if you are then I will just have to

    Grateful Dead - Dick's Picks 29 CD

    Greg - I think AmirBagachelles is saying that 1977 gave us a lot of great versions of "Help on the Way > Slipknot > Franklin's Tower," and that they can be found in many fine "unofficial" soundboard recordings, available for free online at places like the Internet Live Music Archive. The Dick's Picks you cite sounds terrific, and May 1977 was certainly a banner month for the band, but there's not a single tune from Blues for Allah on any of the six discs...

    Actually, from that album, the only pieces performed live more than two or three times were "Help on the Way > Slipknot > Franklin's Tower," "The Music Never Stopped," and "Crazy Fingers."

  20. The Grateful Dead Dark Star

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    Posted · Edited by gdogus

    Well, it's not too hard to understand. In the Dark had been a very unexpected hit, and they felt some pressure to get another studio album out. Garcia and Weir weren't writing all that much new stuff, so they let Mydland have a larger-than-usual share of the writing space on the follow up.

    That said, I agree that Built to Last is pretty poor stuff. It's by far my least favorite Dead studio effort - in fact, I can't even listen to it.

    :tdown

  21. The Grateful Dead Dark Star

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    Posted · Edited by gdogus

    Now Listening To...(From the Internet Live Music Archive)

    February 26, 1977 - Swing Auditorium - San Bernardino, CA

    Set I:

    Terrapin Station (First Time Played!), New Minglewood Blues, They Love Each Other, Estimated Prophet (First Time Played!), Sugaree, Mama Tried, Deal, Playin' In The Band > The Wheel > Playin' In The Band

    Set II:

    Sampson And Delilah, Tennessee Jed, The Music Never Stopped, Help On The Way > Slipknot! > Franklin's Tower, The Promised Land, Eyes Of The World > Dancin' In The Street > Around And Around

    Encore:

    U.S. Blues

    :alien:

  22. The Grateful Dead Dark Star

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    Posted · Edited by gdogus

    I've read that Garcia's heroin use began during the hiatus while he was editing the Grateful Dead movie.

    This seems to explain the really laid back vibe that settled over the band upon its' 1976 return to touring. I do enjoy late '70's Dead, especially '76 and '77. My guess is the heroin honeymoon lasted for a few years. Garcia was able to handle it, but by the 80's it took over and his playing suffered.

    To me, Garcia was a MONSTER player before the hiatus in '74.

    I actually hadn't listened to all that much fom 1976 until recently, and I'm finding it very, very appealing. I recommend two particular offerings from the Internet Live Music Archive: June 9, 1976 (Second Set) and June 10, 1976 (full show) - both shows from the Boston Music Hall. These are great outings (dig 06.09.1976's St. Stephen > Eyes of the World > Let It Grow!), and boast fantastic sound quality.

  23. The Grateful Dead Dark Star

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    Well. . . the Deadsters have a really effective, for me, marketing approach: those bonus cds that they only offer from the website with an order. I found I just had to have the one that was with the Jerry Garcia box set, and glad that I did order from them, because I LOVE that version of Saint Augustine. And so something happened in my cabeza and I went and ordered the new box set through them so that I could get the bonus cd which looks really good. . . and also the second in the Pure Jerry series which comes with a bonus cd from them.

    My finances are very shaky indeed. . . :huh: Anyone want to buy 25 Duke cds? B-)

    Wish I had your laugh-at-danger esprit, Lon. Best I can do is put The Golden Road and Beyond Description box sets on my Christmas list (along with a couple of Vault releases I haven't picked up yet).

    <_<

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