pas,
the bass tones on that album slay me. What basses do you think are on that record? I hear early Alembic tones(with flats) from both Lesh and Casady. I want to ask Crosby first hand when he comes to my town next month.

It was recorded in '70, released in '71.  I'm guessing that Lesh was using the Godfather & Casady was using the Guild Starfire with Alembic guts.  I don't know about Lesh, but I don't think Casady was using flat wounds.  I'm going to see Hot Tuna on 08/25...I'll ask Jack if he  used flats in the last millenium.

Hey, spose. I'll be at that show next month, wanna jam? I know a monster drummer that lives in Eugene named John Mahalic. Groovy cat, studied alot of Indian drumming and can really groove..  
  My fave studio is Wake of the flood. First album I got of the Dead in 78' I was 9yrs old and my brother gave it to me with There is one in every crowd, by Clapton. I have a cool brother. He also took me to see the Who in 79 or 80 when there was a bit of a seating problem at the Cincinnati, coliseum, and he held me above the fray. Love you Ter.

afrobeat fool
I would love to jam!
 
contact me thru email to set something up.
 
alembicseriesoneplayer at yahoo

I think that If I Could Only Remember My Name was the EB3. I don't think the Godfather was ready until late '71. Jack probably played a Guild of some sort. Probably the one with the magnesium channels.
 
Ace is another great GD album. The Playing jam on it is just about perfect.

As I recall  Phils EB-3  had 2 GUILD / HAGSTROM pick ups installed . Alembic did some work on it .What other ALEMBIC modifications did it have ??    I really liked the sound of that Bass _ yes I have said that before !

Hi pas ,  
            In that era for those Bass players popular flat wound strings as per your post might have been Pyramid Gold,  Framus and Guild
 
     Just may be_______

I loved all of those albums (and have /had them all as well)! Paul  said only 1, but any of these will shake the earth. I think Phil's playing was most amazing (for the period) on Live Dead. Talk about lead bass! He and Jerry were two sides of a twisting, flipping coin! I still don't know how he got that almost sitar-like  sound in the middle of Dark Star.
 
You can see Phil playing the EB-3 on the DVD Festival Express, plus a lot of other great bits of musical history as well.
Mike
 
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I still find as much joy in Dark Star and even more appreciation as a 53 year old , then as the first time I heard it when I was 16.There is always a new treasure to find.

There is much to be discovered within the transitive nightfall of diamonds.
 
Bill, tgo

Their illumination will guide you safely to the gifts of the universe.

That's a big 10-4 on the Dark Star, Wolf - and may I recommend the version form Paris, 5/4/72?  I forget if it was Jerry or Mickey, but I read an interview where one of them said they believed that Dark Star was always playing somewhere in the universe, and sometimes they tapped into it so we could hear.
 
Peter

Peter ,Thanks for the link info!
              I could not get the link to link so I looked at the URL on the server and found it at www. archive.org . Olympia Theater Paris 5/4/72 . I am listening on a separate computer that I use for   this that has a good sounding  sound card as I type on my email computer.  They have not gotten to DARK STAR yet .  I am enjoying the performance from the beginning .__
 
Wolf ____

I like the Skull and Roses album best - even though Mickey is not on it. I believe the original name for the album was Skullf***.

Speaking of the 1972 paris shows, the 5/3/72 show was probably the first show I ever heard of the dead (pn tape, i was 5 when that show happened).   Still one of favorite shows, and contains some of the most pyschedelic jamming Ive ever heard.
 
http://www.archive.org/details/gd1972-05-03.sbd.masse.6453.sbeok.shnf