Here's a video talking about setting up the Wall Of Sound. It has some great footage of Phil discussing & playing his Alembic through the Wall.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PODPgBaiFI4&feature=player_embedded (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PODPgBaiFI4&feature=player_embedded)
I've been looking at many Dead photos online, one person graciously created a zip file of 900+ pics
to publicly share. I put them up here (https://onedrive.live.com/redir?resid=2A0A7644FA51B725!126&authkey=!AIKNFsEAh6azqNE&ithint=folder%2cjpg%20target=_blank) .
Some cool pics from '66 (the lead sled in at least one)...all the way up thru the '00s.
As I go through my bookmarks I'll see if I can remember the source.
Just passing along something I learned the other day... and this seemed like an appropriate thread.
The other day on "Today In Grateful Dead History" they didn't have a show for 3/7, so they played 7/8/87, my hometown, Roanoke VA. Probably the most interesting thing was a couple rarer tunes in the first set the first night (they were here two nights); Dupree's Diamond Blues and Big Railroad Blues. Can't say I ever heard either of them. My buddy Shag tried all Summer to get me to go to those two shows. I had a legit excuse - had to work and had a gig.
Anyway, turns out, that wasn't the first time the Dead were in Roanoke. They were here on 7/27/74, with The Wall of Sound. It was one of the shows with that beautiful monstrosity. There's a pretty funny comment about them not being able to fit all their "equipment" in the Roanoke Civic Center.
Jack Straw -
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kj1F3JMUW60
Yeah, that's enough to make one wonder how anyone could think a Precision through an SVT counts as "bass"................
Man, what atone!
Peter
Greg,
Here is the album (one of my favorites) with Duprees...
And the one with Big Railroad Blues (another favorite album)...