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488.1 | Hell's Angels for security...oxymoron here?? | CSLALL::LEBLANC_C | All good things in all good time | Wed Sep 27 1995 10:39 | 2 |
| Jerry's description of the Altamont scene made the place sound worse
than any deer creek riot coulda been
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488.2 | | AWATS::WESTERVELT | split open & melt | Wed Sep 27 1995 10:57 | 10 |
|
Really... he said it was a nice afternoon in hell. Even the
light was weird... Dec 1969 end of the sixties.
I didn't realize the importance of the scene until I saw this...
things went to hell pretty quickly after the Summer of Love.
Country Joe was pretty funny.
Tom
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488.3 | excellently done! | QUOIN::BELKIN | RIP Jerome J. Garcia | Wed Sep 27 1995 11:11 | 48 |
| I take back 100% of what I said about the current PBS Rock & Roll 10 part
series being the same one as the R & R history that was on some other
channel about 8-9 months ago.
Its a different series, but I think some of the talking head interview clips
are common.
Last night's 2 episodes were both excellent. I loved the anecdotes that the
performers all told, always with a keen twinkle in their eye!
Jerry on the hellish atmospherics at Altamont, and Phil admitting that maybe
the GD should have played in the late afternoon just to help fill up the
time because the Stones were waiting till darkness to take the stage for
filming.
Rock Scully on how they were always trying to dose the A&R men who came out
to San Fran, so that they could turn them on to the scene.
Grace saying she has a limited range (demonstrates wonderfully squeaky attempt
at lullaby) but says she's a screamer and could blow the camera away.
Phil describing the Flood at their Woodstock "performance", and how the
Air Force radio comm's started coming out of his bass amp, and puts his
hand to his mouth and mimes the effect :-). I never heard _that_ story
before, though I'd heard the one about Bobby putting his mouth to his mike
and getting shocked.
Crosby about the huge Woodstock crowd: "Your mind just goes, one, two,
three..._many_", and how they didn't care about the crowd in front so much
as the crowd of their peers back stage. "Ok, you made the record, but
can you sound that good live?"
Eric, Jeff and Jimmy on their Yardbirds days. Jeff on his Yardbirds audition!
Noel Redding on Jimi - "he played 8-9 hours a day, it was no accident he was
that good", and how Jimi could memorize the one good lick another guitarist
might play in a night's mediocre playing.
Van grousing about how the Stones had "their own operation" but Van and his
band had no money, staying in B & B's and sleeping in their bus.
The Stone's pilgramage to 2120 South Michigan Ave, and sitting at Howling
Wolf's feet while he belts out "How Many More Years". I'd seen that clip
before (its in the Stone's excellent rockumentary "20x5") but I still love it.
Bill Wyman about how Andrew Loog Oldham bought the band suits, but the boys
conviently lost bits and pieces of them.
Josh
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488.4 | | AWATS::WESTERVELT | split open & melt | Wed Sep 27 1995 11:47 | 17 |
|
>Phil describing the Flood at their Woodstock "performance", and how the
>Air Force radio comm's started coming out of his bass amp, and puts his
>hand to his mouth and mimes the effect :-).
I also cracked up at the story about putting the screen up (during the
rainstorm) on the back of the stage, for the visuals. All of a sudden
the wind blows and the stage starts heading down the hill! They pull
out their knives and rip it to shreds to save the stage... incredible.
>Crosby about the huge Woodstock crowd: "Your mind just goes, one, two,
>three..._many_", and how they didn't care about the crowd in front so much
>as the crowd of their peers back stage. "Ok, you made the record, but
>can you sound that good live?"
Yeah, they couldn't!
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488.5 | | STAR::ECOMAN::DEBESS | a leaf of all colors plays... | Wed Sep 27 1995 12:50 | 14 |
| oh man, that was so, so sweet...
lots of Jerry - happy, laughing Jerry
my favorite quotes:
Ken Kesey (about the Acid Tests and the Dead): they were a hairy,
bad-looking bunch a guys. I wasn't that interested in their music but
I sure thought that they were on their way to no good ;-)
Jerry:what we did was R&B plus large amounts of weirdness in it, ya
know. ane we didn't seem to be able to NOT do it ;-)
that show made me smile a LOT!
Debess
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488.6 | | HELIX::CLARK | | Wed Sep 27 1995 13:08 | 41 |
| Noone's yet mentioned the first 2 episodes...
The first was excellent, starting with a scene of someone in a car
searching for a radio station. Past Patty (Patti?) Page, past Perry Como,
on to Wynonie Harris belting "Good Rockin' Tonight" - stop - .
That is, it begins with the late 40s folks who simplified, streamlined,
bluesified and boogiefied jazz & pop sources and fashioned the early model
for R&B and rock -- Wynonie Harris, Louis Jordan, ...
A nice nod to that southern radio station (WLAC?), whose signal reached
into the midwest and down to Jamaica & the islands, seeding 50s blues and
R&B across the country, into early island styles, starting a current that
carried as far as Europe and Africa (echoed in today's African pop
styles). Talk about ripple in still waters... The cumulative impact over
time seems to me almost beyond comprehension. American roots music became
world music.
Onto New Orleans (Fats Domino, Little Richard), Chuck Berry, Elvis, ...
Making all the connections, showing the seething cross pollination.
I'm forgetting where episode 1 ended and 2 began... I think 2 picked up
with Leiber & Stoller (Coasters, Drifters, Ben E. King, Elvis, etc.), then
the other Brill Building successes (Goffin-King, etc.), in connection with
early R&B groups. Then Phil Spector, who emerged out of the Brill scene,
then his stable (Ronnettes, Darlene Love, Righteous Bros., ...), then girl
groups in general. Then Brian Wilson and the Beach Boys.
Finally, comments from Leiber-Stoller, Ben E. King, Brian Wilson, and the
others on the "invasion" of the Beatles -- viewed with no little
resentment. Brian couldn't understand the reaction they were getting ("'I
Want to Hold Your Hand' isn't that great a song", he says). Ben E. King
says the American R&B wave was about to become "something really big",
then the Beatles and other British invaders turned the market in a
different direction. Many many examples are given of hits, opportunities,
and gigs drying up... Some reference is made to the Beatles roots in
skiffle, which derived from Amercian folk, etc. etc. Foreshadowing the
treatment of Dylan and the Beatles in espisode 3.
Not to repeat myself but, I think this series is excelling at illuminating
connections and relationships between everything that was happening. - Jay
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488.7 | Uncle Bobo? | BINKLY::CEPARSKI | Were They Ever Here At All? | Wed Sep 27 1995 13:13 | 7 |
| Talk on last night's episode of a business man who showed up at one of
the acid tests and asked what was going on, eventually joined in the
celebration and began looking and his shadow and saying things like
"Now the king is walking".
Was this a reference to Bill Graham - kind of surprised he wasn't
mentioned a bit more? MAJOR player in getting that whole scene noticed.
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488.8 | | FOUNDR::OUIMETTE | Eyes of the World | Wed Sep 27 1995 13:15 | 12 |
| > Was this a reference to Bill Graham - kind of surprised he wasn't
> mentioned a bit more? MAJOR player in getting that whole scene noticed.
Since Kesey said something like "he always wondered whatever
happened to that businessman after that night", I assume it wasn't
Bill G, who Kesey no doubt knew... Or did I miss an invisible smiley in
.-1? :^)
Chuck- who as a youth worked at the Cow Palace, and had as his proudest
posession a "STAFF- Bill Graham Presents a Day on the Green" T-shirt
which he wore until it was more shreds than shirt :^)
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488.9 | | BINKLY::CEPARSKI | Were They Ever Here At All? | Wed Sep 27 1995 13:40 | 5 |
| >>Since Kesey said something like "he always wondered whatever
>>happened to that businessman after that night", I assume it wasn't
I musta missed that part.
Strange then that Bill wasn't mentioned.
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488.10 | I tend to agree | QUOIN::BELKIN | RIP Jerome J. Garcia | Wed Sep 27 1995 14:12 | 10 |
| Eric Clapton wanted out of the Yardbirds because they going too pop for him,
and he was going deeper into the blues. Eric compared the Yardbirds as
turning into something like 10CC, and he said it with no small amount of
disgust!
Near the end of the blues episode, while showing scenes of Led Zep getting
into the heavy fuzz/sustain/distortion thing and away from blues, the
narrator noted how Led Zep spawned a host of derivative bands such as
Deep Purple etc, again, said in such a way as to make clear the producers
think the original bands (Stones etc) were far far better!
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488.11 | | GRANPA::TDAVIS | | Wed Sep 27 1995 15:36 | 4 |
| I only got to catch a few minutes but I saw Ravi Shankar (sp),
with the Situar (sp), who was the group sitting and listening
to him play, it didn't look the Beatles, who was the dude in the
white suit asking the questions? I thought it was Keith Moon.f
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488.12 | ohm... farad...henry...amp...volt | QUOIN::BELKIN | RIP Jerome J. Garcia | Wed Sep 27 1995 17:04 | 6 |
| > with the Situar (sp), who was the group sitting and listening
> to him play, it didn't look the Beatles, who was the dude in the
> white suit asking the questions? I thought it was Keith Moon.f
Not sure about what group that was, maybe just a random assortment of
American and Brit pop stars :-). I think the white suit was just a reporter?
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488.13 | | HELIX::CLARK | | Thu Sep 28 1995 12:32 | 21 |
| I thought "episodes" 7 and 8 were well-done (not that anyone asked...).
7 was rock deriving from Velvet Underground, Doors, and Iggy Pop (leading
through David Bowie, Alice Cooper, etc., setting the stage for arena &
alternative genres about to be covered, I'm sure). This is a set of
genres I personally choose not to embrace -- the narcissism gets to me.
But I own and like albums by all of 'em (esp. Velvet/Doors/Iggy), &
enjoyed the hour.
8 was the funk one, from JB through Sly to George Clinton & P/Funk, then
derivatives (maturing of Marvin Gaye and Stevie Wonder, Gamble & Huff,
EWF's light funk, disco, etc.). Which sets the stage for hip-hop and
crossovers like Prince, probably about to be covered in the last pair of
episodes.
My only gripe -- they needed a killer cut to "sell" P/Funk, really show
their humor, friendliness, openness to all music and everyone (Garcia like
qualities all). I don't think they quite nailed it. P & Funk were always
great guitar bands (Hendrix disciples, but w/ their own stamp). Some of
those 10 to 20 minutes guitar jams had to be Dead infleunced... Oh well.
- Jay
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488.14 | Close to the Edge | WILLEE::OSTIGUY | the eyes of man have not set foot | Thu Sep 28 1995 12:35 | 10 |
| Do any of these episodes cover the "Progressive" rock genre of the
early 70's, mostly of the english ilk, like Genesis, Yes, ELP, Floyd,
Gentle Giant, King Crimson etc??? probably not, for some reason, this
genre seems to be overlooked...well, IMO...
but then again, are any of these acts in the R&R Hall of Fame? Jethro
Tull maybe? 'tis a shame for all these outstanding musicians to be so
ignored
Wes_undying_fan_of_early_70's_English_progressive_rock
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488.15 | don't miss tonight's New Wave/Punk/Reggae episode! | QUOIN::BELKIN | RIP Jerome J. Garcia | Thu Sep 28 1995 13:57 | 24 |
| Episode 7 highlghts:
Newspaper review of Andy Worhol's Exploding Plastic Inevitable, with the
Velvet Underground: "Three ring psychosis".
Mo Tucker drumming her hands in the "Waiting for My Man" beat - "the whole
band did the beat, like a train".
a dour-looking (do you expect him to look any other way? :-) Lou Reed, on
working with David Bowie: "He's great, but when he gets drunk he thinks he's
Ziggy".
Someone on the genesis of Bowie into Ziggy Stardust: "Once he got that haircut,
that was IT".
Bowie, telling the story of the Thin White Duke tour, first time out on
the cherrypicker 40' over the audience - the cherrypicker gets stuck and he's
out there for like 3-4 songs. "How do I get down? Hmmm well I could dive
the audience, but Ziggy's already done that".
Tony Visconti on the three mikes they used on Bowie's vocal on "Heroes" -
then the song cues up and you can really hear the effect!
Josh
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488.16 | if you blinked, you missed the progressive bands | RICKS::CALCAGNI | salsa shark | Thu Sep 28 1995 14:48 | 14 |
| The guy in the white suit asking questions of Ravi looked like the lead
singer of the Yardbirds; Keith <something>
The series does seem to slight the progressive bands. Only two
mentions I can think of. Pink Floyd got some coverage as the British
side of the psychedelic era segment. I guess it's really stretching it
to call Pink Floyd "progressive", but they were sorta lumped into that
movement at the time. The other mention was last night when they got
into "stadium" rock. The mention? An ariel shot of three tractor
trailers, one with "Emerson" painted on top, one with "Lake" and one
with "Palmer".
/rick
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488.17 | educated guesses... | QUARRY::petert | rigidly defined areas of doubt and uncertainty | Thu Sep 28 1995 15:10 | 8 |
| As I understand it, a lot of the people they wanted to cover, they were
unable to do because of access to the material. In some of the latter
segments, I guess tonight, they will cover U2, but only got permission
at the last moment after long negotiations. A friend of mine was
wondering "Where's the Who, the Kink's, etc" and I'm just guessing that
they ran into some problems there.
PeterT
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488.18 | | WILLEE::OSTIGUY | the eyes of man have not set foot | Thu Sep 28 1995 15:17 | 2 |
| Keith Relf was the lead singer for the Yardbirds...electrocuted on
stage I believe...
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488.19 | the celebrated chicken | AWATS::WESTERVELT | split open & melt | Thu Sep 28 1995 16:34 | 4 |
|
what a way to go! (Relf)
Loved Alice Cooper's story about the chicken.
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488.20 | | HELIX::CLARK | | Fri Sep 29 1995 13:26 | 16 |
| Next year's crop of R&R hall of fame inductees will include those who began
recording in 1971 (as in, 1996 minus 25 years minimum passage of time).
So you might begin to see some of those "progressive" groups in there.
Or not. (Tull's first 3 albums, my favorites, would've made 'em eligible
a couple of years ago.)
The makers of the series obviously decided not to focus on the 2nd British
wave, including The Who, The Kinks, etc. At least Clapton got attention
because of the blues connection... Wasn't much about Buddy Holly either,
was there? They made such a big deal about Brian Wilson ditching the
Capitol-assigned engineer or producer and assering creative control --
Buddy Holly controlled more aspects of the fruit of his labors than most...
Anyway - Obviously they couldn't cover everyone. Tried to cover a little
too much as it was. - Jay
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488.21 | Buddy | TECWT2::BOUDREAU | | Fri Sep 29 1995 16:27 | 18 |
| > (Tull's first 3 albums, my favorites
Yes, especially Stand Up. Excellent.
>Wasn't much about Buddy Holly either,
was there? They made such a big deal about Brian Wilson ditching the
Capitol-assigned engineer or producer and assering creative control --
Buddy Holly controlled more aspects of the fruit of his labors than most...
In my opinion, there's never enough said about Buddy Holly in any of these
documentaries. "Rock and Roll's been going downhill ever since Buddy Holly
died." - American Grafiti, set in 1962. That was a fact until the Beatles
hit the charts.
Brian Wilson makes me ill. He never says anything good about other musicians,
and he appears to have had no influences. He just seems like a bitter old
resentful has been. Again, that's my opinion.
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488.22 | | WILLEE::OSTIGUY | the eyes of man have not set foot | Fri Sep 29 1995 16:42 | 7 |
| ya know, I wonder what Brian Wilson's problem is too... he has admitted
that The Beatles' Rubber Soul influenced him to write the Pet Sounds
album, which is a Fantastic album...that in turn influenced McCartney
to write Sgt. Peppers, which blew Wilson (along with everybody else)
AWAY...so now he's got this attitude...dunno why, he wrote some great
songs way back when, and as an amateur songwriter, ya gotta be
influenced by SOMEone's writing...
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488.23 | | CXDOCS::BARNES | | Fri Sep 29 1995 16:52 | 8 |
| didn't Wilson go thru a mental problem stage? Seems I rememebr things
like him having a truck laod of sand dumped in his living room cause he
didn't want to go out to go to the beach, so he had the beach brought
to him...
rfb
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488.24 | | LASSIE::TRAMP::GRADY | Subvert the dominant pair of dimes | Fri Sep 29 1995 17:11 | 13 |
| > didn't Wilson go thru a mental problem stage? Seems I rememebr things
> like him having a truck laod of sand dumped in his living room cause he
> didn't want to go out to go to the beach, so he had the beach brought
> to him...
Yeah, I think it was depression and drug abuse - "In My Room" was where he
lived for years... I saw him when he first came back out of his room and
went on tour in 1977. He looked and sounded like sh&t. It was still
amazing, though, how good their vocals could sound.
Didn't know he was also a putz.
tim
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488.25 | things I've read re Brian and the Beatles | RICKS::CALCAGNI | salsa shark | Fri Sep 29 1995 17:17 | 16 |
| on top of the mental problems, Brian was supposedly obsessed with what
he saw as competition between him and the Beatles. A lot had to do
with the image of the Beatles as "serious" musicians as opposed to the
lightweight beach-bubble gum image his band was saddled with, and which
he was trying to change. The next record after Pet Sounds, "Smile",
was supposed to be the groundbreaking work that "Sgt Pepper" eventually was.
It was a concept album and made revolutionary use of the studio, like
Pepper, and would've been released 6 months before Pepper. Had it been
released then, it could have dramatically changed the course of the
group and perhaps (as some like to think) rock history itself. But it
got tied up in domestic squabbles within the group and never saw the
light of day. The release of Pepper and it's subsequent exaltation
in the music world was supposedly seen by Brian as a terrible defeat
and loss of a prize he felt should have been his.
/rick
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488.26 | | CXDOCS::BARNES | | Fri Sep 29 1995 17:22 | 3 |
| so, was SMILE ever released??
rfb
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488.27 | Bo Diddley singing "Bo Diddley" - cool! | CSLALL::GORMLEY_TJ | Mixed up confusion | Fri Sep 29 1995 17:48 | 5 |
|
Good series - highlights for me were the first episode (Bo Diddley
on Ed Sullivan) and the Dylan/Beatles and Altamont episodes...
Tim G.
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488.28 | | ARBEIT::DEMARSE | | Fri Sep 29 1995 18:35 | 7 |
| Brian Wilson played on one of the late-night talk shows last night
(David Letterman?)...one of his daughters (not Chynna (sp?) or Carny,
the other one) was a backup vocalist.
I was half asleep, the song was 'ok', but nothing memorable.
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488.29 | | RICKS::CALCAGNI | salsa shark | Mon Oct 02 1995 10:36 | 6 |
| re .26
No, Smile was never released. Some of the tracks have surfaced here
and there; a couple on "Surf's Up" and on "Smiley Smile", although I
believe even these aren't in their original form.
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488.30 | | HELIX::CLARK | | Mon Oct 02 1995 14:00 | 6 |
| Most of a disc of the Beach Boys 5-CD box is devoted to pieces of "Smile".
(Some pieces were irretrievably lost of course, but a lot of what remains
is there.)
The annotators recommend you Randomize the disc to get an idea of what
"Smile" might've been like... - Jay
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488.31 | Not Fade Away special | PCBUOA::LEBLANCC | All good things in all good time | Tue Feb 06 1996 08:12 | 5 |
| anyone catch the special on Buddy Holly on TNN last night..
not that I am a faithful TNN viewer but my mom and i caught the
beginning as we were looking at her taxes
sounded pretty cool
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488.32 | | TEPTAE::WESTERVELT | | Tue Feb 06 1996 09:36 | 8 |
|
Speaking of TV, the Playboy Channel will be airing (on a "special
edition" of Hot Rocks) the Dead's appearance on Playboy After
Hours. sometime in February, I haven't seen a specific date yet
but I'm watching for it.
In other good news, I'm a Nielsen family starting Thursday!
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488.33 | | SPECXN::BARNES | | Tue Feb 06 1996 10:38 | 5 |
| wow. I would like a copy of the Playboy after Dark thing, if someone
could accomidate...
rfb_playboy blocked out
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488.34 | | NAC::TRAMP::GRADY | Subvert the dominant pair of dimes | Tue Feb 06 1996 11:04 | 5 |
| Me too. Reading Scully's account of what happened, it's one of the
funniest Dead stories I've ever heard. If I get the chance, I'll post it
here...
tim
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488.35 | pardon, me, but I couldn't pass up the oppotunity | QUARRY::petert | rigidly defined areas of doubt and uncertainty | Tue Feb 06 1996 13:57 | 19 |
| > In other good news, I'm a Nielsen family starting Thursday!
Gee, do you take requests?! (Watch Babylon 5... watch Babylon 5 ;-)
Of course you may not like science fiction, and I don't know if you're
in the general Massachusetts area, but while many places have good
ratings for this show, ch 38 continuely complains about low ratings
for the show. Lots of people write to the station, but Neilsen ratings
really grab their attention. And Walter Koenig (Star Trek's Chekov)
is reprising his role as Bester, the Psi-Cop (a very different and
dark role for him as compared to his Ensign Chekov stuff) this week.
Not to unduly influence you or anything ;-) And of course, only
mark it down if you actually watch it. Hmmmm, how do they take account
of taping things to watch later??
PeterT
ps: And how do you get selected for this stuff? Is it random?
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488.36 | | TEPTAE::WESTERVELT | | Tue Feb 06 1996 14:46 | 10 |
|
Actually, I do.. for a price! ;-) 1 dead tape per show reported ;-)
I've been meaning to watch B5, anyway. This is a good excuse.
When's it on? (Yeah, I'm in Massachusetts, LKG actually.)
I asked the lady if they had a category for channel surfing (no)
and she said it was a very male-type question (how about that Tim!).
Tom
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488.37 | | TEPTAE::WESTERVELT | | Tue Feb 06 1996 14:54 | 4 |
|
I wonder how many actual tv's I represent?
hmmm... POWER cackle cackle
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488.38 | | AWECIM::RUSSO | claimin! | Tue Feb 06 1996 15:02 | 9 |
|
>>Me too. Reading Scully's account of what happened, it's one of the
>>funniest Dead stories I've ever heard. If I get the chance, I'll
>>post it here...
My thoughts exactly, as soon as I read that account I wanted to see
that show!!
Hogan
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488.39 | :))) | WILLEE::OSTIGUY | the eyes of man have not set foot | Tue Feb 06 1996 15:08 | 4 |
| Tom, watch some Bruins games on TV38 to boost their ratings...I don't
think you've graduated to NESN yet, right?!?!?!
yer buddy Wes
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488.40 | | NAC::TRAMP::GRADY | Subvert the dominant pair of dimes | Tue Feb 06 1996 15:27 | 1 |
| I thought Nielsen families were supposed to be secret...
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488.41 | | SPECXN::BARNES | | Tue Feb 06 1996 15:33 | 5 |
| man, I would not admit to being related to Leslie Nielson....those
stupid cop movies and all................%^)
rfb
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488.42 | | QUARRY::petert | rigidly defined areas of doubt and uncertainty | Wed Feb 07 1996 13:34 | 8 |
| Tom, Babylon 5 is on at the extremely convient time of saturday night/sunday
morning 2AM, which is a repeat of the first showing of Sunday 10:30 PM on
ch 38 (a somewhat less inconvient time ;-). Possibly moved around for sports
depending on Bruin's and Celtics schedule. I can't remember if there is
a conflict this coming Sunday (I think there were supposed to be one
or two in February.) Send me email for my tape list ;-)
PeterT
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488.43 | | TEPTAE::WESTERVELT | | Wed Feb 07 1996 14:31 | 7 |
|
Cool, well all I have to do now is figure out when the Playboy show
is to be broadcast. So far they have refused to divulge the date.
Evidently they want me to tune in nonstop to their cheesy softcore
porn and report that to the Nielsens too. Of course, I don't really
have the Playboy channel. It's really a friend of mine who has it.
Yeah, that's the ticket.
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488.44 | And yes to hardcore S&M! | PCBUOA::LEBLANCC | All good things in all good time | Wed Feb 07 1996 14:34 | 1 |
| Just say no to cheesy softcore porn!!!
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488.45 | got it | TEPTAE::WESTERVELT | | Tue Feb 13 1996 09:50 | 84 |
|
The "Playboy After Dark" clip got aired Friday night. I got
it on tape.
Beautiful People stroll around the living room. Hef is in his
evening wear standing with Barbi Benton and a rather bored looking
Michael Caine. Jerry Garcia is across the bar. His eye hosts the
usual Garcia twinkle. I was amused enough by the conversation to
transcribe it here.
Hef: Jerry, the GD has been a part of the San Francisco scene
for about 4 or 5 years.
Jer: Right.
Hef: Is the hippie scene changing now? I understand that
Jer: Yeah, well we're all _big_ people now.
Hef: Certainly big in terms of publicity, etc, but I understand the
Haight/Ashbury scene has changed a good deal.
Jer: Well haight/ashbury is just a place, you know, it's just a
street, it's not really the thing, it never was the thing
that was going on.
Hef: That was just the thing that got the publicity.
Jer: Right, right, that's the thing that people could talk about
because it's, like, easy to remember.
Hef: Well they held like, what, about a summer ago, they held a funeral
for hippiedom.
Jer: Right, and that was, like, that was all of us saying we're not going to
tell anybody anymore what we're doing.
Hef: Start enjoying it again, eh?
Jer: Right, right.
Hef: Well I notice that with your own group you've got kind of a stereo
effect going on here with drums, you've got two complete sets of
drums and two drummers, obviously for a purpose.
Jer: Right, mutual annihilation.
Hef: I see, in other words the guys kind of compete with one other?
Jer: Well, they more chase each other around. It's like the serpent that
eats its own tail and it goes around and around like that [motions
with his hands]; if you can stand between them they make big figure
eights on their sides in your head.
Hef: I don't think I'm going to stand between them, I think I'll stay back a
little ways. [Barbi laughs nervously]
Jer: Take your pick.
Hef: But I notice the guys are near their instruments here, and the kids have
kind of settled down, I wonder if we could get you to do a number for
us?
Jer: Absolutely not.
Jerry takes the stage with an acoustic guitar, somebody else (who would
that be? I don't recognize all the guys yet) on harpsichord, and says
Jer: Mountains of the Moon, that's the big one up there
Nice mellow performance.
After that song, then everybody's on stage and they launch into a killer
rendition of "St. Stephen". The video is marred by cheesy (there's that
word again) pseudo-psychedelic "effects" and WORST OF ALL right in the
middle of a blazing jam the clip ends! The whole thing clocks in at 10
minutes. Evidently you can't go more than 10 minutes without showing
a naked breast on Playboy. They cut out of the most intense part of
the song in order to go to a new video featuring a topless guitarist.
It's unbelievable, I guess when the jam starts some people consider
that the song is finished. Too bad. They were smokin'! I wonder if
some collector's got his hands on an unedited cut of this.
Tom
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488.46 | | MKOTS3::JOLLIMORE | On the threshold of a dream | Tue Feb 13 1996 10:01 | 7 |
| thanks, tom.
i love hearing his voice in my head as i read his words :-)
too bad it got cut like that.
how were the breasts, tho? ;-) ;-)
siriusly, i'd like to see this, but i'd love to see the uncut
version.
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488.47 | | AWECIM::HANNAN | Beyond description... | Tue Feb 13 1996 10:21 | 10 |
| Thanks for transcribing that... I got the audio part
of that show a long time ago, and always liked Jerry's
description of the drummers ;-) I'd love to see it
(and tape it ;-).
That kbd/harpsicord player was TC.
The whole scene is further described in Living with the Dead.
/Ken
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488.48 | | STAR::OCTOBR::DEBESS | Wake Now, Discover... | Tue Feb 13 1996 10:24 | 10 |
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that was Tom Constanten (TC) playing the harpsichord, I imagine.
He was only with the band for a year or so.
too funny, Tom, your remarks about "how could they cut the jam
just to show a topless guitarist" ;-)...I mean, not many guys
would say such a thing...but here in GRATEFUL, well, we understand...
completely!
Debess
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488.49 | | TEPTAE::WESTERVELT | | Tue Feb 13 1996 10:39 | 5 |
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I can bring it to Tim's taping party for everyone to enjoy.
audio / video dubs are available on request.
Tom
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488.50 | | NAC::TRAMP::GRADY | Subvert the dominant pair of dimes | Tue Feb 13 1996 13:35 | 16 |
| Great. I've got a stereo VCR that we could dub from if someone has another.
"Mutual annihilation". What a great line!
According to the Scully book, somewhere about halfway into the show, the acid
kicks in on everyone but Hef, who managed to avoid the coffee urn that Owsley
had dosed because they wouldn't let him do the sound, and the whole scene went
nuts. I was hoping some of it might have been preserved on tape. According to
Scully, suddenly one of the bunnies decides to strip, live on camera, and the
boom cameraman can't focus on anything but her, from above, for the rest of the
show...the book is hilarious...then again, maybe that IS what you have on
tape..;-)
Thanks, Tom.
tim
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488.51 | | SPECXN::BARNES | | Tue Feb 13 1996 13:38 | 4 |
| parties like that were the good ole days.......
rfb_remembers times like those in Arizona as a "happy freak"
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488.52 | | TEPTAE::WESTERVELT | | Tue Feb 13 1996 13:56 | 12 |
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After reading your reply Tim I'm feeling worse than ever
that they cut it off! Man those guys at Playboy would have
a major ratings grabber if they'd air the whole thing. You
can bet they have the tape.
I can bring my VCR, too. No big deal. As I say, too
bad it's only 10 minutes from start to finish. But it's
better than nothing. btw can tell me the date
it was recorded?
Tom
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488.53 | | TEPTAE::WESTERVELT | | Thu Feb 15 1996 10:16 | 33 |
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Courtesy of Debess, here's the reputed dates for the airing on
Playboy of the *complete* Playboy After Dark appearance. [And
if they air the stripping bunny, they'll even meet their
naked breast quota! ;-) ]
If you have cable, you may be able to order Playboy for a
short period (like a day or a week), if you want this show.
Also, I'll make an effort to catch this as many times as
possible so I can provide folks who want it with original
rather than dubbed copies.
>HOT ROCKS: GRATEFUL DEAD (#96-02)
>February 9, 12, 19, 22, 24, 28
>60 min
>Rare, exclusive footage of The Grateful Dead, featuring the
>songs "Mountains of the Moon," and "St. Stephen," as well
>as a special valentine to the band, JUS LUV featuring their
>songs, "Sex All Day" and "Trance Dance."
>
>Feb 9 - 8 am, Noon, 4 pm, Midnight, 4 am
>
>Feb 12 - 1 pm, 9 pm, 5 am
>
>Feb 19 - Noon, 8 pm, 4 am
>
>Feb 22 - 1 pm, 9 pm, 5 am
>
>Feb 24 - Noon, 8 pm, 4 am
>
>Feb 28 - 9 am, 5 pm, 1 am
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488.54 | | TEPTAE::WESTERVELT | | Tue Feb 20 1996 09:21 | 6 |
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re -.1
I don't think the whole show is going to be aired.
It says "60 min" but last night, again, the dead clip
was just 10 minutes out of the whole 60 minute show.
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