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A roadmap that reveals the highways, byways, ley lines and subterranean tunnels connecting rock, soul, pop, folk rock, R&B, garage, punk, funk, jazz, world music, and soundtracks from the twilight of the 1950s to the dawn of the 1970s. Larry Grogan is a DJ, writer, podcaster, collector, and the man behind Funky16Corners.

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Favoriting June 6, 2024: Testify! - Early Dead Part 2 - 1968-1969

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Artist Track Album Label Year Format Approx. start time
Funky16Corners  Testify! Intro   Favoriting Best of Funky16Corners Volume One  Funky16Corners  2017  MP3  0:00:00 (Pop-up)
Grateful Dead  Dark Star   Favoriting Live Dead  Warner Brothers  1969  LP  0:01:24 (Pop-up)
 
Grateful Dead  Dark Star (45)   Favoriting 45RPM Single  WB  1968  45  0:30:01 (Pop-up)
Grateful Dead  That's It for the Other One: A - Cryptical Envelopment, B - Quadlibet for Tender Feet, C - The Faster We Go the Rounder We Get, (IV. We Leave The Castle)   Favoriting Anthem Of the Sun  WB  1968  LP  0:32:39 (Pop-up)
Grateful Dead  New Potato Caboose   Favoriting Anthem of the Sun  WB  1968  LP  0:40:17 (Pop-up)
Grateful Dead  Born Cross Eyed   Favoriting Anthem of the Sun  WB  1968  LP  0:48:40 (Pop-up)
Grateful Dead  Alligator   Favoriting Anthem of the Sun  WB  1968  LP  0:50:48 (Pop-up)
Grateful Dead  Caution Do Not Stop on Tracks   Favoriting Anthem of the Sun  WB  1968  LP  1:02:02 (Pop-up)
 
Grateful Dead  Radio Spot   Favoriting The Golden Road (1965-1973)  WB  1969  CD  1:18:34 (Pop-up)
Grateful Dead  Doin' That Rag (Alt)   Favoriting 1969 Warner-Reprise Record Show  WB  1969  LP  1:19:32 (Pop-up)
Grateful Dead  St Stephen   Favoriting Aoxomoxoa  WB  1969  LP  1:21:49 (Pop-up)
Grateful Dead  Dupress Diamond Blues   Favoriting Aoxomoxoa  WB  1969  LP  1:27:20 (Pop-up)
Grateful Dead  Rosemary   Favoriting Aoxomoxoa  WB  1969  LP  1:29:46 (Pop-up)
Grateful Dead  Doin' That Rag   Favoriting Aoxomoxoa  WB  1969  LP  1:31:41 (Pop-up)
Grateful Dead  Mountains of the Moon   Favoriting Aoxomoxoa  WB  1969  LP  1:36:21 (Pop-up)
Grateful Dead  China Cat Sunflower   Favoriting Aoxomoxoa  WB  1969  LP  1:40:20 (Pop-up)
Grateful Dead  Cosmic Charlie   Favoriting Aoxomoxoa  WB  1969  LP  1:43:54 (Pop-up)
Grateful Dead  And We Bid You Goodnight   Favoriting Live Dead  WB  1969  LP  1:49:24 (Pop-up)
 
Rex Garvin and the Mighty Cravers  I Gotta Go Now (Up On the Floor)   Favoriting 45RPM Single  Like  1966  45  1:54:36 (Pop-up)

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Andrew in Toronto:

Hi there, larry, and all other listeners!
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Funky16Corners:

↳ Andrew in Toronto @3:00
Hey Andrew!
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bradford:

Hey there Larry & all!
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Jeff Ash:

Greetings from Wisconsin, all!
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Yvang:

Hi Larry and testifriends!
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Funky16Corners:

↳ bradford @3:01
Hi bradford!
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Funky16Corners:

↳ Jeff Ash @3:01
Hey Jeff!
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Funky16Corners:

↳ Yvang @3:01
Yvang! Testifriends! I like that!
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listener 126464:

Hi Larry, and all!
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coelacanth∅:

greetings Larry, y'all
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Funky16Corners:

↳ listener 126464 @3:03
Hello listener126464!
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Funky16Corners:

↳ coelacanth∅ @3:03
Hi C!
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doctorjazz:

↳ Song: "Dark Star" by "Grateful Dead"
;- )

Hi Larry!
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Funky16Corners:

↳ doctorjazz @3:05
Hey Doc!
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David The Splatter:

Hey, Larry!
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Funky16Corners:

↳ David The Splatter @3:06
Hi David!
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doctorjazz:

↳ Song: "Dark Star" by "Grateful Dead"
So, the story I've heard is that Branford Marsalis was sitting in with The Dead in concert. They're about to play Dark Star; Jerry Garcia tells Marsalis something like, "it's one chord, but the kids seem to like it..."
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Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

↳ doctorjazz @3:06
...which might be what you tell a Jazz guy...
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holland oats:

↳ Song: "Dark Star" by "Grateful Dead"
did a double take here! 👀 👀
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Funky16Corners:

↳ doctorjazz @3:06
How many chords is 'So What'? It's a sketch meant to begin exploration and improvistion.
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Funky16Corners:

↳ Revolution Rabbit Nov63 @3:07
Hey Rev!
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Funky16Corners:

↳ holland oats @3:07
Hey holland oats!
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still b/p:

It just never happened to me. I never became a fan, follower or appreciator of the band. Saw them once, in '77, enjoyed it. But it didn't entice or convert me. Will there come a day...? A day of turnaround? A day of the Dead?
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Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

...Modal in other words ?...
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Erica:

Hi Larry. Sorry for being a bit late. Had Internet problems.
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Funky16Corners:

↳ still b/p @3:08
It takes time, the proper atmosphere and a willingness to let yourself become part of the organism.
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David The Splatter:

↳ still b/p @3:08
A "Dead Reckoning", perhaps?
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Funky16Corners:

↳ Erica @3:09
Hi Erica!
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coelacanth∅:

wondering who the "one of these things does not belong here" person is in that photo
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Funky16Corners:

↳ coelacanth∅ @3:09
Probably Constanten, but really, it could be ANY of them
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doctorjazz:

↳ Song: "Dark Star" by "Grateful Dead"
I'm always amazed at the edge to Early Garcia's guitar tone!
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Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

↳ Funky16Corners @3:10
HaHa...
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Funky16Corners:

↳ doctorjazz @3:10
It has a bite to it that kind of polished into something different over the years
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coelacanth∅:

↳ Funky16Corners @3:10
it must be. i recognise all the others.
dapper hair, suit, white slacks...
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Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

↳ doctorjazz @3:10
Almost paradoxical to me that as Jerry got more Artisan with his Gittars ...his Tone settled more into that plunky Kuntry sound that is not my absolute favorite...
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Funky16Corners:

Considering his guitar sound is the first thing that identifies a recording as "the Dead", to me, anyway
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listener 126464:

↳ Funky16Corners @3:10
agree
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Funky16Corners:

↳ coelacanth∅ @3:11
Google him some time. He got pretty freaky looking.
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Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

↳ Revolution Rabbit Nov63 @3:11
...inestimable an eminence as Garcia was & remains in several aspects...
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Funky16Corners:

↳ Revolution Rabbit Nov63 @3:11
The level to which the Dead sought out and explored technology/electronics is often overlooked. The amount of money they spent on that gigantic sound system, which almost immediately proved too cumbersome to tour with.
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coelacanth∅:

↳ Funky16Corners @3:13
i should hope so!
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Funky16Corners:

Tech figures into an important aspect of this chapter in the story.
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Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

...but in some of the Earlier recordings - I wonder if maybe he'd just seen Cream the night before or something...
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Amygdala:

↳ Song: "Dark Star" by "Grateful Dead"
As an uninteresting aside, one of all-time favorite jams is on this album... The Eleven. So good!
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Funky16Corners:

↳ Revolution Rabbit Nov63 @3:15
I think he was a much more interesting guitarist that Clapton ever was. His roots are completely different,and he continued to develop over 30 some years, where Clapton flew up his own nose and turned into the boring old man he is today
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Funky16Corners:

↳ Amygdala @3:15
Hi Amygdala!
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Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

↳ Funky16Corners @3:14
Oh yes indeed. The Dead must finally be widely credited as P.A. System pioneers. Along with mad Owsley & the fantastic Fillmores... & that attribute of putting the Resources back into the Trip (instead of treading water & getting rich) is something we adore about them. :)
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Funky16Corners:

↳ Revolution Rabbit Nov63 @3:17
Oddly enough, I compare them to Walt Disney, who plowed most of his money back into the creative end of the enterprise, often causing himself problems.
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Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

↳ Funky16Corners @3:16
Point taken. Note I say 'Cream' (a quite brief time) rather than 'Clapton' per se...
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Funky16Corners:

↳ Revolution Rabbit Nov63 @3:18
True, true...No need throwing out Jack and Ginger with the bathwater
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Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

↳ Funky16Corners @3:18
Imagineers of Rawk Anarchy...
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Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

↳ Funky16Corners @3:19
Tho when I turn on my amp - Clapton in Cream is a certain %age of what wishes it would come out ...but no one need be concerned with this...
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Funky16Corners:

↳ Revolution Rabbit Nov63 @3:19
The Neal Gabler book on Disney is fascinating. Old Walt truly was a visionary, far beyond what the modern suits would do to his company.
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Amygdala:

↳ Funky16Corners @3:17
Hi'ya Funky16!
Great stuff! Very happy I stumbled upon the show just now; blowing off tasks that aren't all that time-sensitive.
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Funky16Corners:

↳ Amygdala @3:21
I hope we please your ears!
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listener 126464:

↳ Song: "Dark Star" by "Grateful Dead"
Double album w/7 songs!
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zzz:

↳ Song: "Dark Star" by "Grateful Dead"
Garcia just soaring in this dark star. also i think one can really hear and appreciate the genius of Weir rhythm improv accompaniment
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listener 126464:

↳ listener 126464 @3:23
Or 'titles'
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zzz:

very underrated player imo (weir)
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Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

↳ Funky16Corners @3:21
Yeah. Tho Walt set the Mouse Empire up to be bowdlerizes of the Folk forms awlready ...& as a staunch AntiUnionist set them on their voraciously acquisitive Corporate way to Disgraceland. Also.
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Funky16Corners:

↳ zzz @3:23
Hey zzz!
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Funky16Corners:

↳ Revolution Rabbit Nov63 @3:23
Agreed.
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Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

↳ Revolution Rabbit Nov63 @3:23
...The Dead ...launching from the Acid Tests across the Broad Landscape of Folk Culture ...also always struggled to this day between the Polarities of the Visionary & the Institutional...
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Erica:

The single version of the song now.
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Funky16Corners:

↳ Revolution Rabbit Nov63 @3:25
Considering how closely they are identified with dirty-hippie-dom, they have always been an experimental unit, taking all manner of chances along the way
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doctorjazz:

↳ Song: "Dark Star (45)" by "Grateful Dead"
WOW, I'd love to see a jukebox with this!
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Funky16Corners:

↳ doctorjazz @3:31
Me too. I'd feed about 50 bucks into it to play it over and over again.
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Funky16Corners:

Ladies and gentlemen, the transformative power of LSD!
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doctorjazz:

Should I clicky-star every track. Sure, why not!
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Funky16Corners:

↳ doctorjazz @3:34
I say, go for it.
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Funky16Corners:

↳ Song: "That's It for the Other One: A - Cryptical Envelo...
Another song that made it's way as a cornerstone of the live repertoire
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Funky16Corners:

I saw them do this with Steve Miller in 1992
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Erica:

↳ Song: "That's It for the Other One: A - Cryptical Envelo...
Considering the long length of this song, this is gonna be one long track.
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Funky16Corners:

Great show: www.setlist.fm...
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Funky16Corners:

↳ Erica @3:37
Just under 8 miniutes
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Funky16Corners:

For the next tune, I suggest 'smoke'em if you got'em' or whatever way you like to light your head up
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Erica:

↳ Funky16Corners @3:37
I'm convinced this is prog.
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Erica:

Ish
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Funky16Corners:

↳ Erica @3:38
This is SIKE-A-DEE-LIA
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Funky16Corners:

↳ Song: "New Potato Caboose" by "Grateful Dead"
One of my all time fave tunes
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Erica:

↳ Funky16Corners @3:40
Psych would eventually transition into prog later.
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arlo:

dark star > cryptical to start my morning...nice
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Funky16Corners:

↳ arlo @3:42
Hey arlo!
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zzz:

↳ Song: "New Potato Caboose" by "Grateful Dead"
unlike “other one,” did not make it as a cornerstone of the live repertoire, BUt the dead cover band i saw almost every wednesday night during high school in the late 90s played it constantly, hah
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Funky16Corners:

↳ zzz @3:43
I would, too!
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zzz:

nice lysergic jazzy groove

double drum mayhem! this time is the best for the drummers
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Funky16Corners:

↳ zzz @3:47
Yes, and their styles really complement each other
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Funky16Corners:

↳ Song: "Born Cross Eyed" by "Grateful Dead"
This was originally the B-side of Dark Star
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coelacanth∅:

↳ Erica @3:41
i think prog was inspired more by classical music than anything else...a natural progression for musicians that liked both rock music and classical.
at it's most musically successful, it's not drug-oriented, like psych
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Funky16Corners:

↳ coelacanth∅ @3:49
I would agree with that assessment, with the caveat that Phil Lesh was a classical guy
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Funky16Corners:

↳ Song: "Alligator" by "Grateful Dead"
The Return of Pigpen!
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northguineahills:

Been listening while working on a friend’s house.
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Funky16Corners:

↳ northguineahills @3:52
Hey NGH!
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Cal Zone!:

Anthem might be my favorite studio lp for these fellers.
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Funky16Corners:

↳ Cal Zone! @3:52
Hey Cal! It's up there for me, but a hard choice to make.
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Erica:

↳ Cal Zone! @3:52
Hi Calzone.
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Cal Zone!:

Hi Larry, Erica, and fellow Groganites!
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Erica:

↳ coelacanth∅ @3:49
But early prog from the late 60s has psychedelic elements though.
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Funky16Corners:

↳ Erica @3:54
There are points where the movements dovetail - especially in the UK - but overall I think they are distinct movements. You could write a treatise on the differences between US and UK psychedelia, both the result of drug experiementation, but with really different contributing elements.
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Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

'People call it Prawg cause they don't wanna admit they're still taking drugs.'
- Mick Farren
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Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

BritPsych :
...'I is having Tea with the Faeries !'...
U.S. Psych :
...'I f*ck my Mother - !!'...
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Erica:

↳ Revolution Rabbit Nov63 @4:00
🤣
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doctorjazz:

↳ Song: "Alligator" by "Grateful Dead"
First there is a mountain, then there is mountain, then there is (quoted)
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Funky16Corners:

↳ Revolution Rabbit Nov63 @4:00
I agree with Part One. I think Part Two is a lot more complicated, unless you're focusing on Jim Morrison.
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Funky16Corners:

↳ doctorjazz @4:00
Carried on by the Allman Bros later!
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Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

↳ coelacanth∅ @3:49
Yeah I think of 'Prawg' as people who take Rawk Seriously - as Art, as Musicians, as Ideas & so forth. But no that doesn't really address the specific Elements of Style.
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coelacanth∅:

↳ Erica @3:54
some does for sure. -and then some kind of *pretends* to! -like vanilla fudge, for example...but that's why i said "most *musically* successful". they were not sophisticated, by any degree, but instead was designed for drug accompaniment.
then there were bands that were great for drug accompaniment that were really not about drugs AT ALL -like the mothers, and the electric prunes...
-but yes there was definitely a lot of crossover.
...even the band Love...and the beatles.
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Funky16Corners:

↳ Revolution Rabbit Nov63 @4:02
The weird thing is, some of the standard bearers of UK prog, Yes and Genesis, both started out with elements of US West Coast vibes (Yes covered Buffalo Springfield)
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coelacanth∅:

↳ Funky16Corners @4:01
yes
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Erica:

↳ Revolution Rabbit Nov63 @4:02
For me psych and prog are in the same music family artistically and experimentally. That's why it's not easy for me to separate the two (when it comes to the Dead anyway).
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Funky16Corners:

↳ coelacanth∅ @4:03
I love Vanilla Fudge, but all things considered I find them closer to professional wrestling than psychedelia
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Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

↳ Revolution Rabbit Nov63 @4:02
...which was enabled by Psychedelia ...but then all the elements of that such as the Chemicals themselves - but also Technology, Business - the pure Demographics of so many Coming of Age @ Once - & everything that happened @ the same time PostWar.
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coelacanth∅:

↳ Revolution Rabbit Nov63 @4:02
yes i agree. 'swhy it's so laughable when people diss prog like a joke... basically revealing their lack of musical knowledge.
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Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

Moody Blues for example I posit as exactly @ the transition of Psych & Prawg. & in fact TheBeatles themselves enabled it - inspired so much by Brian Wilson (above all) to use the Studio as an Instrument. & the real Concept of 'Concept Albums' began as the Medium being the Massage : Your People would be sitting with a new Long Player by you, not just a Single...
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Erica:

↳ coelacanth∅ @4:06
Because that music came out right after psych was dying.
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Funky16Corners:

I think a part of the equation that never gets spoken about, is that the Grateful Dead, despite looking like extras in a Cheech and Chong sketch, were very smart guys, surrounded by other very smart people. That's why they were able to do things like this. This isn't random drug fueled nonsense.
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coelacanth∅:

↳ Funky16Corners @4:04
haha that's a great metaphor!
and i appologise; i had a feeling you liked vanilla fudge when i typed that.
i'm probably in a minority, as usual!
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doctorjazz:

↳ Funky16Corners @4:04
;- )
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Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

↳ Funky16Corners @4:08
Indeed. The magnificent thing about Psychedelics is how they break down boundaries. You gotcher Folk ~ Kuntry guy, yer Avant Classical guy, yer Rawk Kid ...hey let's Get Together.
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Erica:

↳ Funky16Corners @4:08
Sounds like random drug fueled nonsense to the hippies though.
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coelacanth∅:

↳ Erica @4:08
kind of, yes. but again, there is no line. no first prog song. you might say the end by the doors is prog...i don't agree but it's not unreasonable.
you might say good vibrations by the beach boys is prog. it's short like a pop song, created by a pop band; but has time and structure changes like afternoon of a fawn...
but there were songs in the 50s, maybe earlier with those same elements - + the typical "odd" time signatures that some people think defines prog.
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Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

↳ coelacanth∅ @4:15
All that Big Phil Spector type Production ...which was the immediate precedent for Brian Wilson...
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Erica:

↳ coelacanth∅ @4:15
I don't think either were the first prog song. Too poppy.
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Erica:

Step right up. Hurry hurry hurry.
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WLSClark:

Hi Larry and all. NEVER been a Dead fan of any type, but gonna give a listen awhile. a buddy is HUGE fan, so I understand where the Dead Heads come from thru him. KZUM here that I was on in the 80s still has a Dead show weekly and it was on when I was on the air then!
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Funky16Corners:

↳ WLSClark @4:19
Hey Clark!
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WR:

↳ Song: "Radio Spot" by "Grateful Dead"
That advert was cute. Thanks for playing it, Larry.
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Funky16Corners:

↳ WR @4:20
I love stuff like that!
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Erica:

Hi WLS
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Funky16Corners:

Ironically, St Stephen was STONED to death...
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WLSClark:

Hi Erica!
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WLSClark:

↳ Song: "Doin' That Rag (Alt)" by "Grateful Dead"
Those Warner loss leader Lp sets were awesome back in the day.
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Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

Yes. To me the thing about The Dead is how much they were outside the Program of the regular ShowBiz schedule of Record a Hit if you can - get it on the Radio - Tour to support - Repeat Next Year if you could & as long as you were allowed to...
As Jesse Jarnow observed ...TheDead just showed up & played instead - !
A complete end-run around the whole schmeer...
So obviously they occupied a quite unique position in the entire Cultural Landscape.
On one hand - they've only *now* in this Time maybe begun to really be assessed alongside everyone else in terms of their *real* attributes...
& - in a huge paradox - @ the same time ...everyone became Intimate with them & their Works as a true Folk Phenomenon of the People.
Like ...if you walked up to a fire on the beach - you & the people already there might both know Dead Tunes
...or you go into a new Town for you ...& even the Punks there know all about the Dead.
I actually think of this as like Anthropologically remarkable. Yerknow... For all the Punkspeak about 'Anarchy' - it was this Hippiest of Hippe bands that's come closest to an actual Alternative Society...
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doctorjazz:

↳ WLSClark @4:23
Think I got one or 2 (not sure what the heck happened to them).
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doctorjazz:

↳ Song: "St Stephen" by "Grateful Dead"
!!!!!
(One man gathers what another man spills)
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WLSClark:

↳ Revolution Rabbit Nov63 @4:24
Yeah, I agree that it was VERY cool how they didn't care if people taped shows and thus there are so many now. Never into having big sellers or top 40.
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Funky16Corners:

↳ Revolution Rabbit Nov63 @4:24
That's the main reason I'm doing these shows (and hope to do more). I appreciate the Dead in a holistic way, and think they are misunderstood, underestimated etc. They're pretty remarkable, and a great story all the way through.
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WLSClark:

My Dead buddycame over to see my records in 80s and could not believe I had the Dark Star pic sleeve DJ 45. It didn't register as unusual to have it.
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doctorjazz:

↳ WLSClark @4:25
There was actually an area sectioned off at concerts for the tapers! (I could never do the taping thing-bought a Sony Recorder, mics, but could never stand still enough at concerts to get a good sounding tape)
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WLSClark:

↳ Funky16Corners @4:26
My problem is that I am TOO top 40 oriented to give outsiders of that much chance. I am better thanks to FMU, but top 40 pop is still reigning and always will.
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Funky16Corners:

↳ doctorjazz @4:27
The Grateful Dead channel on Sirius/XM plays a lot of great concert recordings
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WLSClark:

↳ doctorjazz @4:27
I understand that. I bought 100 cassettes of live taped shows from a guy in Goldmine for my buddy and he was blown away back then.
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Funky16Corners:

↳ WLSClark @4:29
As the tech got better over the years the sound quality on the boots was great.
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doctorjazz:

↳ WLSClark @4:29
I have a ton of live recordings on my hard drives (a good friend is/was a taper).
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coelacanth∅:

↳ Erica @4:18
i don't think so either, but for different reason.
kansas was prog. there's no question; all the elements are there. but it's very poppy.
"pop prog".
musicians acting like it's a solemn thing is like thinking a buddhist monk can't laugh at a silly t-shirt. it's why people make the ludicrous generalization that prog is "pretentious".
it doesn't have to be serious, just because they're serious about playing their instruments.
the band Love was making 2-minute prog songs in 1966. i still don't think they were the first.
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arlo:

yes! rosemary... only played live once
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zzz:

↳ Song: "Dupress Diamond Blues" by "Grateful Dead"
never lost the old timey thread even in the deep psych era
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Discotech Underground:

Hey Larry! Another FABULOUS early Dead show!

Stay tuned in and turned on for Discotech Underground NEXT on WFMU's "Give The Drummer" Radio!

wfmu.org...
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coelacanth∅:

↳ WLSClark @4:19
hi Clark! -not with any need to convert you to something i am not -a "deadhead"! but i recommend listening to Larry's last week program (part 1)....how the 'dead started.
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Funky16Corners:

↳ Discotech Underground @4:32
Hey Kip!
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Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

↳ coelacanth∅ @4:30
I think this is really pertinent. King Crimson were always really sardonic - but even sarcasm is Humor. They came out of Giles, Giles & Fripp ! ...& ELP has great Humor in it. It's the Musicianship itself they took seriously...
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Funky16Corners:

↳ zzz @4:32
Jerry never put down that banjo!
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Discotech Underground:

↳ Song: "New Potato Caboose" by "Grateful Dead"
My favorite early Dead track! AOTS is my fave LP of their of all time!
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Funky16Corners:

↳ Discotech Underground @4:32
Mine too!
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Asheville Jon:

who are the Grateful Dead, and why do they keep following me?
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Funky16Corners:

↳ Asheville Jon @4:37
Hi Jon! They are but a series of echoes of a bygone age.
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Fred R:

Hey Larry and everyone! Digging another week of Dead set
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Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

↳ Asheville Jon @4:37
www.facebook.com...
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Funky16Corners:

↳ Fred R @4:38
Hey Fred!
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doctorjazz:

↳ Song: "China Cat Sunflower" by "Grateful Dead"
Not always sure Pigpen's organ is quite right for many of the tunes, but really works here!
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Asheville Jon:

↳ Revolution Rabbit Nov63 @4:38
i feel like i read that somewhere before
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Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

↳ Asheville Jon @4:41
Knowing me, probly...
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Funky16Corners:

Wild Robert Hunter lyrics: Look for a while at the china cat sunflower
Proud walking jingle in the midnight sun
Copperdome bodhi drip a silver kimono
Like a crazy quilt star gown through a dream night wind
Na na na, na na na
Na na na, na na na
Ooh, oh, oh
Crazy cat peekin' through a lace bandanna
Like a one-eyed cheshire, like a diamond-eye jack
A leaf of all colors plays a golden-string fiddle
To a double-e waterfall over my back
Na na na, na na na
Na na na, na na na
Ooh, oh, oh
China cat, china cat
China cat, china cat
China cat, china cat
China cat, china cat
Comic book colors on a violin river cryin' leonardo
Words from out a silk trombone
I rang a silent bell, beneath a shower of pearls
In the eagle-winged palace of the queen chinee
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WLSClark:

↳ coelacanth∅ @4:32
Ha, coel. I actually saw that and passed on it right away. Today, I am listening.
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doctorjazz:

↳ Song: "China Cat Sunflower" by "Grateful Dead"
Love the background vocals as well (the live version drops that stuff).
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Asheville Jon:

what's become of the baby???
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Funky16Corners:

↳ doctorjazz @4:44
The live version has a much more relaxed flow.
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Funky16Corners:

↳ Asheville Jon @4:44
Time constraints!
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coelacanth∅:

↳ WLSClark @4:42
their first album, and "vintage dead" are by far my favorite 'dead albums. i do like some '70s stuff, but it's like 2 different bands.
Larry played some pre-dead dead (warlocks) too.
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Discotech Underground:

I like that you played the Dark Star 45 version. I have it with the picture sleeve and it's a prized possession for certain!
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Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

& Robert Hunter must be assessed finally alongside other Songwriters.
There was what I like to call the Back to Earth Movement after peak Psych ...from CCR to 'Let It Be' to what the Stones were doing after BrianJones. Attempting Reentry & to be Grounded again.
& a few people like the Dead for a while (just after today's Playlist, maybe...) & TheBand just then - were Composing things that seemed like Folk Music that had Always Been - from the second it was Released.
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Funky16Corners:

↳ Discotech Underground @4:46
Such a great 45, and considering how the song often goes on for a half an hour, it's a nice, concise package
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Funky16Corners:

↳ Revolution Rabbit Nov63 @4:46
There's a great story about how Robbie Robertson became enamored of CCR because he thought they had arisen from the Louisiana swamps, and was subsequently crestfallen to discover they came from San Francisco
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WLSClark:

↳ Discotech Underground @4:46
Yeah, I mentioned above having it, but never knew it was rare for Dead to have sleeves until 80s.
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Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

↳ Funky16Corners @4:48
HaHa ! ...himself a great Canadian of Americana...
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WLSClark:

I have Tom Donohue playing the Dead's record collection back in 66 or 67 on LA FM, which I thought was pretty cool.
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doctorjazz:

Thanks, Larry, great show!
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coelacanth∅:

Thanks Larry!
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Erica:

Thank you for the 2 part Dead saga Larry.
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coelacanth∅:

you could do a Redding/Pickett playoff!
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WR:

Thank you! Larry!
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Erica:

2 parts of the saga I mean. Thanks!
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Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

~ TY Always DJ LarryG ~
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zzz:

thanks so much @F16C
later, heads ✌️
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Amygdala:

Knowledgeable Larry and knowledgeable listeners – thank you! I thoroughly enjoyed the tunes and all the great info….
Brought back tons of great memories of earlier chapters of my life.
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Funky16Corners:

Thanks for listening everybody! Thank you! Thank you! Thank you! Thank you! Thank you! Thank you! Thank you!
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Asheville Jon:

thanks Larry. looking forward to more Dead later
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WLSClark:

Oh man, have been in other room listening and had no idea it was time to be over. Fun stuff Larry. Teaching old dog new old tricks.....
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Yvang:

↳ Song: "St Stephen" by "Grateful Dead"
Thanks Larry that was fantastic! What a unique band!
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Funky16Corners:

Thanks guys!
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Andrew in Toronto:

What a fabulous show!
Thanks, larry!
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