Grateful Dead - Dick's Picks 1
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Free Music Notes for Dick's Picks 1
Free Music Review: There's a reason why this was DP #1!
Hit: 5 Stars
As a new Deadhead, when I first heard this, I was perplexed why this would be chosen as DP #1. After several listenings, I "got it." This was recorded live in Tampa in December, 1973, in the period between "Wake of the Flood" and "Mars Hotel". It's a jazzier, more exploratory dead. The tone of the jams in Weather Report Suite and Playing in the Band, particularly, is light, trippy and optimistic.
Keith and Donna were very very good on this release. I keep reading complaints that she shreiks but that's just Southern soul gospel coming through and all I can say is that it worked here. Having just lost Pigpen earlier in the year, what I am hearing in these grooves is emotional commitment to the music and to each other.
I remember being in the car, kind of thinking that maybe they shouldn't have made this DP #1, when it hit me that this Weather Report Suite and Playing in the Band are both really tight. They were just soaring.
Disk 2's laconic, lilting He's Gone flows effortlessly. The disk reaches a high point with Nobody's Fault But Mine and the Jam preceding The Other One which reveal the band at an artistic and emotional high point.
DP 1 is jazzy where it has to be jazzy, twangy where it has to be twangy, and it rocks in all the right places. The tape hiss is quickly forgotten once you get into the quality of the performances...Turn up your bass a little bit to correct the problem one reviewer mentioned with Phil being a little too low. You may also want to crank up your treble since it's a bit muddy in the high range. It's a DP, after all, and not a perfect recording but overall a very good recording, and as deserving as any to be called DP #1.
Free Music Review: Exceptional
Hit: 5 Stars
Soundboard recordings offer a unique perspective, just as one often has while listening slightly off-center in an actual concert setting. It allows for a unique listening experience, something that is a hallmark of the Dick's Picks releases. In Tampa the band features intricate interplay between the two guitars and piano, seamless song transitions, and a bent toward jamming throughout the night. Favorites are "Here Comes Sunshine" and the long jam that wraps around "The Other One" (beginning with "Nobody's Fault But Mine")which could easily have been taken from the psychedelic explorations of 69 rather than the "countrified" 1973(my favorite dead period. Especially inventive is the feedback section of that jam.
A special word about Keith Godchaux. The soundboard level or mike placement)really features him on these discs, especially disc two. Too often Keith flew under the radar, but not here. Whether on acoustic piano or Fender Rhodes, Godchaux helps drive this music, and his constantly varied runs and fills really help to shape what was then a new Dead sound.
Free Music Review: Give Bobby a chance!
Hit: 5 Stars
The first time I truly "got" this CD was one night listening with headphones. Bobby stabs, jabs, and rakes with amazing creativity. When listening to the Dead, we get really comfortable listening to Jerry, and with good reason. But when you tune in to what Bobby is doing on this album, you will be struck by the beauty of his playing. He shows a whimsical ability to play very jazzy fills that stand on their own as an overlooked and underrated part of the band's sound. Chordal extensions and rhythmic originality are all over the place, especially in the jams. And of course, the rest of the band is right there with him. Highly recommended listening. Headphones, after midnight!Free Music Review: yup, this is the one
Hit: 5 Stars
wow. right now i am listening to the jam/other one and my whole apartment is melting. and i'm not even on drugs! this one features the dead at their "almost-acme." it is something to truely behold, somebody chain up phil, already. the here comes sunshine, the playin in the band, the truckin, quickly it becomes clear, this is the penultimate release of the pickin' dick. whoa and right now is the time people, honk your horns and listen to it. jam has never tasted so good.Free Music Review: Awsome
Hit: 5 Stars
I have all the Dick's picks and always come back to this one for the version of Here comes Sunshine. DP#1 delivers. For another great show, check out DP#8. the first set is all acoustic and will blow you away. Keep Jamming.
DeadHead Phil. SC.
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