Sometimes, I can hear Vince changing sounds three or four times during a solo, as if he were thinking to himself, "Oh GOD NO! Get me out of here!" Blair's book talks about how Jerry was superstitious about having another B-3 organ onstage after Brent died, and the band definitely wanted to try out some different sounds, but I think they were limited technically comparing synths of today with the synths of the early '90s is like comparing the 1990 iMac with today's MacBook Pro. Vince had to work with what Bralove gave him. For instance, I am listening to "Iko Iko" right now, and Vince is playing and blend of samples that sound like a mix between a steel drum and hand bells. The corny electric fiddle that ruined "Jack-a-Roe," the godawful circus organ grinder that turned "Franklin's Tower" into a joke.that was Bralove mixing and sending those samples to Vince's keys from who knows what planet he was residing on at the time. 103624)Īs stated in a couple of the comments below, and in Grateful Dead Gear by Blair Jackson, Bob Bralove-not Vince Welnick-was responsible for the shitty synthesizer samples mixed into the Dead's sound during these early '90s tours. D>S is over 25 minutes long altogether - if you don't like your trip interrupted I'd grab the full version from one of the other recordings on the LAMA ( i.e. Often, after so many years, one can get jaded listening to the Dead over and over, but it's recordings like this of shows like this that remove all doubts, scoffing, and reservations. It's all confident, full-four-alarm, swaggering amazing, this entire thing. Stir it Up really does find the music - makes that '88 version everyone drooled over look downright laughable - throughout the set this huge septet is able to find all the spaces for one another as if it were child's play - listen to Phil especially on that SEARING Other One. Oh, could some kind soul patch up the end of MB? I mean, talk about abrupt. Set 1 - Shakedown can get familiar, but hang on to your hat for this one, folks.I mean, sheeyit.what an opener! That golden, elusive-muse excitement that permeates the rest of the set (check Stagger Lee, Mexicali, DEAL.) is just infectious. I really don't mind this one has a little "Song Remains the Same'-speed going on, because, yeah, it sounds bangin' awesome. ![]() Been wanting to review this show for a while - one of the sheer pleasures of the '90s is this recording of this show, right here, pitch issues and all.
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