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[rv_bass]

“ Out on the road today
I saw a deadhead sticker on a cadillac
A little voice inside my head said:
"Don't look back, you can never look back"”

[lbpesq]

“Don’t look back, something might be gaining on you.”

Satchel Paige

Bill, tgo

[cozmik_cowboy]

OK, I listened to "Dark Star".

First: You're right, Bill - that just ain't a Weir-vocal song!

Second:  Anybody else notice how, every day now, Bob looks more like Wolf?

And on to the the meat of the matter:  When Mayer was inducting Stevie Rave On into the R&RHoF (and - excuse the vent, but - who the F is this kid to induct SRV and Albert King???  That calls its legitimacy into as much question as Donna Summer &  the Beastie Boys being in it!) he said Stevie taught him how to "say no to every drink and  drug I've ever been offered".  Maybe it would help if he dropped with the boys a time or 2000; there's no group mind that I can ascertain.  On the best (and even the mediocrest) "Dark Star" nights, the Dead were about "Let's see how far out we can pilot this starship together & still get back!"  This seemed more like "Let's all jump in 6 different spaceships and take off in 12 different directions".  If John heard anything anybody else was playing, I sure couldn't tell.  There would seem to be a reason all the other Dead & Co. stuff I've heard was (to put it in the bluntest of terms)  more Z.Z. Topp then Grateful Dead.  But at this point, the best I can say for John in this setting is at least he's not Trey.......

Or, maybe it was a bad night for "Dark Star"; it's been known to happen.

Wish I could have heard the Jerry@trics do it, Bill & Wolf!

Peter (who will readily admit that he is the least musically knowledgeable and adept person here - but who has heard enough bands not working from the other side of the soundboard to recognize "not working" when he hears it)

[lbpesq]

Bobby looking like Wolf?  Actually I think he looks like the Schweppes Commander!

Bill, tgo

[cozmik_cowboy]

Bobby looking like Wolf?  Actually I think he looks like the Schweppes Commander!

Bill, tgo

A year or two ago, sure.  In the "DS" above, I think he's much more Wolf -like.

Peter

[lbpesq]

O.K. Peter, you asked for it.  Here's the Dark Star we did at the end of a jam last month.  Two guitars, bass, and drums.  No keys.  The organ you here is my Mooer Organ pedal, (a rip-off of the EHX B-9).  The recording has some warts, but I think we really hit it at times.   The beginning is like the end of Jackson Browne’s “Cocaine” from “Running On Empty” - turn it up to hear the dialog (and if you’ve never done this with “Cocaine”, stop everything and do it right now!)

https://soundcloud.com/lbpesq/dark-star

Bill, tgo

[rv_bass]

I saw the first two Fare Thee Well shows that took place in Santa Clara and thought Trey did a fine job, especially the first night.  I think Steve Kimock fits in best as a guitarist sitting in with post GD bands.  I saw this show in Denver in 1999, check out A Love Supreme, among others:

https://archive.org/details/1999-10-22.paf.bk4011.unknown.26775.sbeok.flacf

[cozmik_cowboy]

I saw the first two Fare Thee Well shows that took place in Santa Clara and thought Trey did a fine job, especially the first night.

See attached image......

I think Steve Kimock fits in best as a guitarist sitting in with post GD bands.

For my money, it was Jimmy Herring; saw "The Dead" with him & Joan Osborne, and it was almost there.


Peter

[cozmik_cowboy]

O.K. Peter, you asked for it.  Here's the Dark Star we did at the end of a jam last month.  Two guitars, bass, and drums.  No keys.  The organ you here is my Mooer Organ pedal, (a rip-off of the EHX B-9).  The recording has some warts, but I think we really hit it at times.   The beginning is like the end of Jackson Browne’s “Cocaine” from “Running On Empty” - turn it up to hear the dialog (and if you’ve never done this with “Cocaine”, stop everything and do it right now!)

https://soundcloud.com/lbpesq/dark-star


Thanks, Bill.  I have run out right now to get Italian bread, pepperoni, and Fontinella cheese for Her & our visiting #2 son to munch during the Bears game, but I'll give it a listen while they watch.

Peter
Bill, tgo

[rv_bass]

Nice Dark Star Bill et al.

I saw Jimmy Herring play with the Dixie Dregs, he’s certainly a master of the art...

[lbpesq]

Peter, love the pic - and I didn’t realize until I super-sized it that it is blotter art!  The Italian bread, pepperoni and cheese sounds yummy!   As for football, I get to take the week off as my 49ers have a bye.

Rob, thanks!  The personnel include Wolf (“Sonicus”) on bass and our friends Steve on guitar and Rich on drums.  We’ve all played with each other in various configurations over the years and have recently decided to try and put something a little more organized and consistent together.   For this jam, Wolf was on his 5-string Essence, as I recall, and I’m playing a guitar I put together using an Alembic Strat pickup set with an added Q switch.


And Jimmy Herring is a monster player.   
 
Bill, tgo

[cozmik_cowboy]

Well, I misspoke; the Bears, of course, are done for the year; they're watching the Vikings/Saints game - which shows (in the latter part of that statement) how much attention I pay these days, and (in the earlier part) why. 


I came to Illinois for college in '74, and was in a dorm with a bunch of Chicagoans, so I became a Bears fan.  A Bears fan - in 1974.  For the next decade I watched a metric s***load of really bad football.  Then in '84, they got really good.  And in '85, they were the best team in the history of the game; I was excited!  Dynasty time!!  And in "86, they were really good.  And by '87 they sucked again, and I said "That's it, I'm done.  If the McCaskey family doesn't care enough to hold a good thing together, I don't care either."  She still watches, but I have not intentionally watched in 23 years........


The gummy is kicking in, so the cans are now going on for the Jerry@trics' "Dark Star"; I'll be back later.


Peter

[cozmik_cowboy]

OK, now that was a "Dark Star"!  Most excellent, guys.


Bill, is that the Warmoth/Modulus/Alembic Strat that I "played" with you & Wolf?  I have long held "Alembic" and "bass" to be synonymous, but that was first time I'd had the opportunity to lay hands (and ears) on an Alembic-powered guitar (or, for that matter, a graphite-necked one - except for a few all-graphite acoustics); I would have quite happily taken that one home with me  .


Peter

[lbpesq]

Thanks Peter.   I think this line-up has real potential.  We plan on adding another friend who plays keys and sings, and a female vocalist.  And yes, I'm playing the Warmoth/Modulus/Alembic/Babicz guitar you are referring to.   It can be seen here, before I added the string retainer: http://club.alembic.com/index.php?topic=16621.msg167889#msg167889

Bill, tgo

[sonicus]

Dr. Graeme M Boone wrote an interesting  musical analysis paper on DARK STAR in 1997
I find it fasciating !   
 Here it is : http://www.lipscomb.umn.edu/rock/docs/Boone1997_GratefulDead.pdf

Wolf AKA Sonicus