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Title: RIP Jerry Garcia
Post by: crobbins on August 09, 2005, 12:39:18 AM
Rest in Peace.............
Title: RIP Jerry Garcia
Post by: jacko on August 09, 2005, 05:23:41 AM
Ten years today ! Doesn't seem that long.
 
Graeme
Title: RIP Jerry Garcia
Post by: lbpesq on August 09, 2005, 06:16:43 AM
His words still glow with the gold of sunshine.  
His tunes still play on the harp unstrung.  
Thanks for all the music.  We miss you, Jerry.
 
Bill, tgo
Title: RIP Jerry Garcia
Post by: kmh364 on August 09, 2005, 06:58:07 AM
Q104.3 in the NY/NJ Metro area is doing a big tribute with Dead tunes every hour, a get the Dead out segment tonight with Carol Miller, and a JGB concert recording tonight as well.
 
Faretheewell, Jerry!
Title: RIP Jerry Garcia
Post by: the_mule on August 09, 2005, 08:55:55 AM
A true American Beauty. Jerry R.I.P.
 
Wilfred
Title: RIP Jerry Garcia
Post by: hollis on August 09, 2005, 09:15:03 AM
Like a steam locomotive rolling down the track.....
 
Jerry's guitar playing had and continues to have the most influence of anyone on my own technique.  
 
His vibe lives on!
Title: RIP Jerry Garcia
Post by: george_wright on August 09, 2005, 09:27:15 AM
Even the Wall Street Journal (the voice of the capitalist establishment of the U.S., for you non-U.S. folks) acknowledges the anniversary of Jerry's death.  This image:
 
(http://club.alembic.com/Images/393/20272.jpg)
 
May well be the first time Jerry has appeared on the WSJ editorial page.  The article isn't about him; it's about Netscape's initial public offering.  The implication is that the opening price caused Jerry's heart attack.  The article begins...
 
quote:What a short, strange trip it's been.
 
Ten years ago today, the Grateful Dead's Jerry Garcia died of a massive heart attack. His last words were rumored to be: Netscape opened at WHAT?
 
Now that may seem tacky, but....  I like to think a WSJ writer wanted to figure out a way to pay his own tribute.
Title: RIP Jerry Garcia
Post by: tom_z on August 09, 2005, 12:13:40 PM
. . . Listen to the river sing sweet songs to rock my soul . . .
 
Rock On Jerry -
Title: RIP Jerry Garcia
Post by: grateful on August 09, 2005, 12:39:57 PM
In the end there's still that song. . .  
 
What a player.
Title: RIP Jerry Garcia
Post by: laytonco on August 09, 2005, 02:09:54 PM
....and the music will NEVER stop.....
Title: RIP Jerry Garcia
Post by: jerico on August 09, 2005, 02:39:50 PM
10yrs... what a depressing day.
 
One way or another, this darkness got to give.
 
 
JC
Title: RIP Jerry Garcia
Post by: 57basstra on August 09, 2005, 02:43:42 PM
Lately it occurs to me
What a long strange trip it's been.....
 
Truckin' I'm a going home
Whoa, whoa, baby, back where I belong
Back home, sit down and patch my bones
And get back truckin' on.....
Title: RIP Jerry Garcia
Post by: cosmic on August 09, 2005, 02:46:27 PM
Lay down my dear brother, lay down and take your rest,
Won't you lay your head upon your savior's chest,
I love you all, but Jesus loves you the best
And we bid you goodnight, goodnight, goodnight.
Title: RIP Jerry Garcia
Post by: blazer on August 09, 2005, 04:52:12 PM
Slightly off topic but I bought the Ibanez the untold story book two weeks ago and it had some funny Tibits on the Relationship between The Dead and the Ibanez company.
 
Bob Weir became an Ibanez endorser and the company also wanted to have Jerry in their ranks so they made him a prototype guitar based on the Musician series with his name at the twelveth fret.
 
Unfortunately in the Japanese Language the letter R and the Letter L are interchangable so the Japanese workers who made the guitar inlayed it with Jelly Garcia
 
Despite that amusing little blunder Garcia happily recieved the custom guitar but didn't really use it much, remaining faithful to his Dog ear shaped custom guitars and instead used Ibanez amplification and Stompboxes out of the endorsement deal.  
 
(http://club.alembic.com/Images/393/20276.jpg)
Jerry using the Jelly
Title: RIP Jerry Garcia
Post by: jacko on August 10, 2005, 12:49:34 AM
Also slightly off topic, I put Live Dead on the turntable last night and aside from some Maudlin thoughts, I couldn't get over how well Phils' Bass was recorded. It's especially good on 'Lovelight'.  
 
Graeme
Title: RIP Jerry Garcia
Post by: kmh364 on August 10, 2005, 07:42:15 AM
That's because it was recorded by Ron and Susan Wickersham. While I prefer analogue to digital (I'll never give up my vinyl), the remastered Live Dead CD is quite good. The piece de resistance has yet to come though: the Dead is finally releasing the ENTIRE '69 Filmore West run that the Live Dead album was culled from. We'll get to hear Ron's (et al) documentation of what could arguably be the Dead's finest run in it's entirety, warts and all. Ck my link (below) from my thread on this topic in the miscellaneous section of the club site.
 
http://club.alembic.com/Images/449/20040.html?1122684628 (http://club.alembic.com/index.php?topic=20881)
 
I still maintain that Live Dead is the commercial release that comes closest to the real thing. While the is NOTHING like a Grateful Dead concert, Ron's work is as close as it gets...and it's got Pig Pen too, LOL!
 
Cheers,
 
Kevin
Title: RIP Jerry Garcia
Post by: jerico on August 10, 2005, 04:32:08 PM
On yet another bit of a tangent, this is one of my favorite Dead/music-related websites (just in case some of you haven't seen it - it's WAY better than gdlive or nugs.net):
 
http://www.archive.org/audio/etreelisting-browse.php?collection=etree&cat=Grateful%20Dead (http://www.archive.org/audio/etreelisting-browse.php?collection=etree&cat=Grateful%20Dead)
 
Check out the stuff from other artists too, there are tons of gems... and from tape-friendly bands.
 
Justin
Title: RIP Jerry Garcia
Post by: glocke on August 11, 2005, 03:09:16 AM
ditto the Live Dead comment.....
 
Europe 72 is another good one, although there are overdubs in some places, I still think it probably one of the top 5 live albums around....I have a copy of that one on the shows that came from, and it is simply amazing..
 
Phils bass sounds amazing on that one...
 
sigh....too bad its all over...
Title: RIP Jerry Garcia
Post by: lbpesq on August 11, 2005, 06:29:55 AM
IIRC, all of the vocals on Europe 72 were done in the studio, so it is really a half-live album.  Still great though.  I'm another Live/Dead fan.  The closest to the concert experience.  Skullf**k, a.k.a. the Skull & Roses album, is also pretty good.
 
Bill, tgo
Title: RIP Jerry Garcia
Post by: kmh364 on August 11, 2005, 06:40:26 AM
SF (S&R)is a great album, but the sound is not up to snuff. More Pig Pen though!
Title: RIP Jerry Garcia
Post by: lbpesq on August 11, 2005, 06:58:13 AM
I don't know about the sound not being up to snuff.  Snuff was one of the few substances I never used at a Dead show.  hehehehe
 
Bill, tgo
Title: RIP Jerry Garcia
Post by: hollis on August 11, 2005, 09:34:29 AM
It was, I assure you, up to sniff......