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crobbins
Junior
Username: crobbins

Post Number: 23
Registered: 6-2004
Posted on Tuesday, August 09, 2005 - 12:39 am:   Edit Post

Rest in Peace.............
jacko
Advanced Member
Username: jacko

Post Number: 272
Registered: 10-2002
Posted on Tuesday, August 09, 2005 - 5:23 am:   Edit Post

Ten years today ! Doesn't seem that long.

Graeme
lbpesq
Senior Member
Username: lbpesq

Post Number: 572
Registered: 7-2004
Posted on Tuesday, August 09, 2005 - 6:16 am:   Edit Post

His words still glow with the gold of sunshine.
His tunes still play on the harp unstrung.
Thanks for all the music. We miss you, Jerry.

Bill, tgo
kmh364
Senior Member
Username: kmh364

Post Number: 930
Registered: 9-2003
Posted on Tuesday, August 09, 2005 - 6:58 am:   Edit Post

Q104.3 in the NY/NJ Metro area is doing a big tribute with Dead tunes every hour, a "get the Dead out" segment tonight with Carol Miller, and a JGB concert recording tonight as well.

Faretheewell, Jerry!
the_mule
Senior Member
Username: the_mule

Post Number: 542
Registered: 1-2004
Posted on Tuesday, August 09, 2005 - 8:55 am:   Edit Post

A true American Beauty. Jerry R.I.P.

Wilfred
hollis
Senior Member
Username: hollis

Post Number: 632
Registered: 11-2003
Posted on Tuesday, August 09, 2005 - 9:15 am:   Edit Post

Like a steam locomotive rolling down the track.....

Jerry's guitar playing had and continues to have the most influence of anyone on my own technique.

His vibe lives on!
george_wright
Junior
Username: george_wright

Post Number: 13
Registered: 3-2005
Posted on Tuesday, August 09, 2005 - 9:27 am:   Edit Post

Even the Wall Street Journal (the voice of the capitalist establishment of the U.S., for you non-U.S. folks) acknowledges the anniversary of Jerry's death. This image:

WSJ Editorial Page

May well be the first time Jerry has appeared on the WSJ editorial page. The article isn't about him; it's about Netscape's initial public offering. The implication is that the opening price caused Jerry's heart attack. The article begins...


quote:

What a short, strange trip it's been.

Ten years ago today, the Grateful Dead's Jerry Garcia died of a massive heart attack. His last words were rumored to be: "Netscape opened at WHAT?"




Now that may seem tacky, but.... I like to think a WSJ writer wanted to figure out a way to pay his own tribute.
tom_z
Intermediate Member
Username: tom_z

Post Number: 165
Registered: 7-2004
Posted on Tuesday, August 09, 2005 - 12:13 pm:   Edit Post

". . . Listen to the river sing sweet songs to rock my soul . . ."

Rock On Jerry -
grateful
Member
Username: grateful

Post Number: 93
Registered: 12-2004
Posted on Tuesday, August 09, 2005 - 12:39 pm:   Edit Post

"In the end there's still that song. . . "

What a player.
laytonco
Junior
Username: laytonco

Post Number: 19
Registered: 3-2005
Posted on Tuesday, August 09, 2005 - 2:09 pm:   Edit Post

....and the music will NEVER stop.....
jerico
New
Username: jerico

Post Number: 6
Registered: 7-2005
Posted on Tuesday, August 09, 2005 - 2:39 pm:   Edit Post

10yrs... what a depressing day.

"One way or another, this darkness got to give."


JC
57basstra
Member
Username: 57basstra

Post Number: 67
Registered: 4-2005
Posted on Tuesday, August 09, 2005 - 2:43 pm:   Edit Post

"Lately it occurs to me
What a long strange trip it's been.....

Truckin' I'm a going home
Whoa, whoa, baby, back where I belong
Back home, sit down and patch my bones
And get back truckin' on....."
cosmic
Junior
Username: cosmic

Post Number: 16
Registered: 5-2005
Posted on Tuesday, August 09, 2005 - 2:46 pm:   Edit Post

Lay down my dear brother, lay down and take your rest,
Won't you lay your head upon your savior's chest,
I love you all, but Jesus loves you the best
And we bid you goodnight, goodnight, goodnight.
blazer
Member
Username: blazer

Post Number: 66
Registered: 12-2003
Posted on Tuesday, August 09, 2005 - 4:52 pm:   Edit Post

Slightly off topic but I bought the "Ibanez the untold story" book two weeks ago and it had some funny Tibits on the Relationship between The Dead and the Ibanez company.

Bob Weir became an Ibanez endorser and the company also wanted to have Jerry in their ranks so they made him a prototype guitar based on the Musician series with his name at the twelveth fret.

Unfortunately in the Japanese Language the letter R and the Letter L are interchangable so the Japanese workers who made the guitar inlayed it with "Jelly Garcia"

Despite that amusing little blunder Garcia happily recieved the custom guitar but didn't really use it much, remaining faithful to his Dog ear shaped custom guitars and instead used Ibanez amplification and Stompboxes out of the endorsement deal.


Jerry using the "Jelly"
jacko
Advanced Member
Username: jacko

Post Number: 274
Registered: 10-2002
Posted on Wednesday, August 10, 2005 - 12:49 am:   Edit Post

Also slightly off topic, I put Live Dead on the turntable last night and aside from some Maudlin thoughts, I couldn't get over how well Phils' Bass was recorded. It's especially good on 'Lovelight'.

Graeme
kmh364
Senior Member
Username: kmh364

Post Number: 933
Registered: 9-2003
Posted on Wednesday, August 10, 2005 - 7:42 am:   Edit Post

That's because it was recorded by Ron and Susan Wickersham. While I prefer analogue to digital (I'll never give up my vinyl), the remastered "Live Dead" CD is quite good. The piece de resistance has yet to come though: the Dead is finally releasing the ENTIRE '69 Filmore West run that the "Live Dead" album was culled from. We'll get to hear Ron's (et al) documentation of what could arguably be the Dead's finest run in it's entirety, warts and all. Ck my link (below) from my thread on this topic in the "miscellaneous" section of the club site.

http://alembic.com/club/messages/449/20040.html?1122684628

I still maintain that "Live Dead" is the commercial release that comes closest to the real thing. While the is NOTHING like a Grateful Dead concert, Ron's work is as close as it gets...and it's got Pig Pen too, LOL!

Cheers,

Kevin
jerico
New
Username: jerico

Post Number: 7
Registered: 7-2005
Posted on Wednesday, August 10, 2005 - 4:32 pm:   Edit Post

On yet another bit of a tangent, this is one of my favorite Dead/music-related websites (just in case some of you haven't seen it - it's WAY better than gdlive or nugs.net):

http://www.archive.org/audio/etreelisting-browse.php?collection=etree&cat=Grateful%20Dead

Check out the stuff from other artists too, there are tons of gems... and from tape-friendly bands.

Justin
glocke
Member
Username: glocke

Post Number: 58
Registered: 9-2002
Posted on Thursday, August 11, 2005 - 3:09 am:   Edit Post

ditto the Live Dead comment.....

Europe 72 is another good one, although there are overdubs in some places, I still think it probably one of the top 5 live albums around....I have a copy of that one on the shows that came from, and it is simply amazing..

Phils bass sounds amazing on that one...

sigh....too bad its all over...
lbpesq
Senior Member
Username: lbpesq

Post Number: 576
Registered: 7-2004
Posted on Thursday, August 11, 2005 - 6:29 am:   Edit Post

IIRC, all of the vocals on Europe 72 were done in the studio, so it is really a half-live album. Still great though. I'm another Live/Dead fan. The closest to the concert experience. Skullf**k, a.k.a. the Skull & Roses album, is also pretty good.

Bill, tgo
kmh364
Senior Member
Username: kmh364

Post Number: 940
Registered: 9-2003
Posted on Thursday, August 11, 2005 - 6:40 am:   Edit Post

SF (S&R)is a great album, but the sound is not up to snuff. More Pig Pen though!
lbpesq
Senior Member
Username: lbpesq

Post Number: 577
Registered: 7-2004
Posted on Thursday, August 11, 2005 - 6:58 am:   Edit Post

I don't know about the sound not being "up to snuff". Snuff was one of the few substances I never used at a Dead show. hehehehe

Bill, tgo
hollis
Senior Member
Username: hollis

Post Number: 635
Registered: 11-2003
Posted on Thursday, August 11, 2005 - 9:34 am:   Edit Post

It was, I assure you, up to sniff......

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