Alembic Guitars Club
Connecting => Miscellaneous => Topic started by: edwardofhuncote on February 23, 2017, 04:48:05 AM
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Thought some of you might enjoy this: https://bluegrasstoday.com/grateful-ball-live-video-for-althea/
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This is great Gregory! Althea is one of my favorites
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Another Dead/Bluegrass hybrid - Scarlet Begonias from the wonderful album "Pickin' On The Grateful Dead".
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5SS4t5aX5jI (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5SS4t5aX5jI)
Bill, tgo
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Those 'Pickin' On' projects were pretty great Bill. :)
There's been a connection between Grateful Dead music and Bluegrass ever since that second generation came along playing new songs with their old instruments. It comes and goes within mainstream bluegrass anymore, but it's been there all along. I think the exchange is healthy, and apparently I'm not the only one.
I'm often amused thinking about it now... my busiest gig these days is subbing on bass with a group of 30-somethings that cover Grateful Dead tunes Bluegrass style. But when I was their age and a little younger, the Grateful Dead were covering Bluegrass tunes their way. Funny how things go... here I am at 47 trying to figure out what Phil Lesh played on Cold Rain and Snow, to punch up a version of a really old tune, which is kinda' what the 'Dead were doing too. It's like a weird, deja-vu thing... like the Land-o-Lakes butter box, with the picture of a little Indian girl, holding a box of butter, with a picture of a little Indian girl holding a box of butter... ;D
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Thanks Greg; will have to watch more of that.