Grateful Dead - Without a Net: Live
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Artist: Grateful DeadEdition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 2004-08-31
Music Label: Grateful Dead / Wea
Soundtracks:
Music CD 1
- Feel Like a Stranger
- Mississippi Half-Step Uptown Toodleloo
- Walkin' Blues
- Althea
- Cassidy
- Bird Song
- Let It Grow
- China Cat Sunflower/I Know You Rider
- Looks Like Rain
- Eyes of the World
- Victim or the Crime
- Help on the Way/Slipknot!/Franklin's Tower
- One More Saturday Night
- Dear Mr. Fantasy
Free Music Notes for Without a Net: Live
Free Music Review: The best of the last of the Dead
Hit: 5 Stars
This might be the most appropriately named album they ever made. Without a Net describes the music they made to a tee... Huge balls, no fear, always pushing the limits, performers on a highwire act with no net below. Though this album title might have been more appropriate for the earlier years, they always played on the tightrope, the borderline of disaster and genius right up to the very last show. Sometimes it all went bad... and sometimes it transcended what I think is possible with a live band.
This album, however, is not a borderline disaster.
This album shows a band that is at it's peak. Very polished, very jazzy, completely confident and focused on what they are trying to achieve. Brent Mydland died after this tour, and it all went downhill for the next 5 years after that. But here you can hear Brent's last call, and see what magic music they were making.
The "first set" of this album contains perfect versions of every song, something that was never achieved in any concert they ever played. Let alone a whole tour. I have listened to almost every concert they have played thanks to the archives, and I can say with quite a bit of confidence that the songs represented here are the best versions they played within 10 years of this album's release (1985-1995).
My favorites are the Walkin Blues, Althea, Birdsong (the midi guitar flute freakin rules) and Cassidy among the perfect renditions of the other songs.
However, the Eyes of the World is beyond the pale and might be the best of the best. Branford Masalis sits in on this song. It will make you think about how he should have been a full time member. It shows his musical genius to just fit right in so perfectly with a maniac band like the Grateful Dead, it is like he had played these songs 5000 times along with Jerry. It really is something to behold. If you enjoy the Eyes of the World as much as I do, be sure to check out the complete show which contains a Dark Star with Branford Marsalis along with the rest of the 2nd set from 3-29-90.
This is the perfect album to give to a friend who is into Jazz, but has never heard the Dead before. It will surely surprise anyone unfamiliar with the Dead, as they have never been a band to meet anyone's preconceptions, or expectations for that matter.
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