Grateful Dead - Dick's Picks, Vol. 11: Stanley Theatre, Jersey City, NJ, 9/27/72
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Artist: Grateful DeadEdition: Music CD
Audio: English (Unknown)
Format: Limited Edition, Live
CD Release Date: 2000-07-11
Music Label: Arista
Soundtracks:
Music CD 1
- Morning Dew - Grateful Dead
- Beat It on Down the Line (3:35)
- Friend of the Devil (4:06)
- Black-Throated Wind (6:53)
- Tennessee Jed (8:09)
- Mexicali Blues - Grateful Dead
- Bird Song (11:47)
- Big River (4:52)
- Brokedown Palace - Grateful Dead
- El Paso - Grateful Dead
- China Cat Sunflower (7:25)
- I Know You Rider (5:26)
- Playing in the Band (16:14)
- He's Gone (13:31)
- Me and My Uncle (3:39)
- Deal (4:52)
- Greatest Story Ever Told (5:29)
- Ramble on Rose (6:28)
- Dark Star (30:50)
- Cumberland Blues (6:56)
- Attics of my Life (5:11)
- Promised Land (3:04)
- Uncle John's Band (8:44)
- Casey Jones (7:29)
- Around and Around (5:18)
Free Music Notes for Dick's Picks, Vol. 11: Stanley Theatre, Jersey City, NJ, 9/27/72
Free Music Review: Nothing Left To Do But Smile, Smile, Smile.
Hit: 5 Stars
My musical tastes continue to expand and broaden. I constantly search for new music, new genres, new approaches. But, then, there is my Comfort Music. Like a bowl of matzo ball soup when I've got a cold, there are some things that will always need to be there for me. The Grateful Dead is my Comfort Music, mother's milk for my ears (if that isn't too disturbing of an analogy).
When I'm on call, lying in the call room trying to get to sleep, I have the sounds of the cardiac ICU, with all the bells and beeps, in the not so distant background. I have my pagers lying next to me, and the constant fear that comes with them, the knowledge that they can go off at any second and ruin my night. And ruin my next day. A rough call can throw me off for several days actually, and it is difficult to describe the angst that goes along with that, even on a quiet night.
But there's always Jerry and the rest of the boys. Putting on a bootleg and letting myself get lost in a good spacey jam is the perfect antidote. I can clear my mind and try to follow nothing but the music.
I'm not a snob about sound quality. Better quality beats bad quality, but short of that I don't worry about it too much. I have plenty of distant generation bootleg tapes complete with hisses, clicks, static, and feedback (not too mention Donna's wailing). But, like listening to the snaps and pops of an old Bessie Smith blues recording, sometimes the poor sound quality can become part of the musical ambience. Don't try to listen around it, just listen through and within it.
The Dick's Picks series has been great for me. I don't have time anymore to trade tapes or to figure out all this online MP3 stuff. Dick had a good ear for shows, and I'm always happy to put on a Dick's Pick, listen to that first wall of crowd noise as the band tunes up, and get that contact tingle. I may change from day to day but volume 11 always stays at the top of my list. 1972 was a great period for the Dead, musically at least if not personally, with the sound moving into a jazzier direction. The show opens with Morning Dew, which already tells you that something special is going to happen. There's a Mexicali Blues, Tennessee Jed, Bird Song, and strong Friend of the Devil as well, all good solid Set One tunes. CD 2 has a great China > Rider, Playing in the Band, and He's Gone, back when Jerry could still sing "nothing left to do but smile, smile, smile" in one breath. The Dark Star on CD 3 is magical, into a Cumberland Blues. We also get a Casey Jones, and Uncle John's Band. There's a nice Attics as well (a special song for me, I was at the Shoreline show when they revived Attics in the Vince era).
Reading other reviews just goes to show how subjective this stuff is. It could have to do with where I was and what I was doing, what the music initially did for me when I first heard, but for me, Dick's Picks 11, 10, 3, 8, 12 are my favorites, and I haven't even heard any since the mid-twenties. But I enjoy them all, good, bad, or mediocre, full shows or composites, just let me close my eyes and lose myself in the hum of the crowd.
Nothing left to do...
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