Posted On: Saturday - October 17th 2020 4:31PM MST
In Topics: Music The Dead
It's Joe Biden's ridiculous lie about something his father supposedly said that got this song in my head. OK, The Dead and the Dead Head fans were very tolerant of "free love", other ways of living, and weirdos in general. They'd better have been!
The cultural upheaval in America, called the "Awakening" of the 2nd period in this era in the book that I'll eventually get around to reviewing, Generations, by Strauss & Howe, was in full swing at the time the Grateful Dead established themselves under that name in 1965 and they enjoyed ever minute of it. Even with all that craziness, things just somehow weren't near as stupid as they are today, though. Yeah, that crowd would have tried to get along with a woman who used to be a man, tried not to make fun, and so forth. Maybe a Dead Head Dad WOULD have said to his hippie-child what Joe Biden's Dad is alleged to have said. Did they go around telling the rest of us we must think their way and use their terminology for the weirdness though? Nah, I think they were glad when society left them alone in their counter-culture, is all, except... like, send money, please.
Well, I am just embarrassed as all get out that I have not heard this song ever in its fast version. I believe I know this song off of one of the Dick's Picks CD's that I have (6 or so, of the many). It's the opposite from my original listening to Friend of the Devil in it's fast, bluegrass version, and then later in the much slower version. The slower versions of both of these songs lend themselves to longer and more detailed guitar solos by Jerry.
I really like this fast version of They Love Each Other. It's from a show in Palo Alto, California in February of 1973.
It's so quick that the intro sounds like China Cat Sunflower. Damn, but I like this version. I wish it would have gone on for twice as long!
Comments:
Moderator
Wednesday - October 21st 2020 2:49AM MST
PS: Mr. Blanc, thank you for the commentary. That old way of dealing with things seems like a pretty happy medium. It doesn't involve stonings and throwing of gay people off buildings, but it doesn't make force society to culturally change for the worse either.
Moderator
Wednesday - October 21st 2020 2:47AM MST
PS: Also, Mr. G, I only went to a few shows, and I'm not sure I could get the exact date of two of them to look up the sets. I couldn't remember this song from anywhere but the Dick's Picks with the slow version. I was used to that and liked it fine, but this older, up-tempo version is just great.
Moderator
Wednesday - October 21st 2020 2:45AM MST
PS: Mr. Ganderson, you steered me to the Internet Archive, or at leas one particular site of Dead material. I had that in a browser tab for a while until the computer decided it couldn't deal with 50-odd tabs. I can find that again.
I don't know if I can embed videos (or maybe just the audio) from that site. That's why I put up the youtube ones. As I wrote on Mr. Hail's site - he has a 2nd new post up, I need to get to using bitchute more, not necessarily for the music but for the political stuff. You can't trust 'em.
I don't know if I can embed videos (or maybe just the audio) from that site. That's why I put up the youtube ones. As I wrote on Mr. Hail's site - he has a 2nd new post up, I need to get to using bitchute more, not necessarily for the music but for the political stuff. You can't trust 'em.
MBlanc46
Sunday - October 18th 2020 10:41AM MST
PS The Left didn’t jump on the sexual deviance bandwagon until the very late, 1960s, early 1970s. In my later undergrad days, 1967–68, I hung out with a counter-cultural group, not especially political. I recall one time while we were sitting around, probably passing a joint or a pipe around, the merriest prankster of us suggested that we go and beat up Christine Jorgensen. It wasn’t out of any great malice, but there certainly wasn’t any idea that one couldn’t joke about beating up what we now call a tranny. Regarding homosexuality more generally, my paternal grandparents lived in a residential hotel on the near North Side of Chicago (Grand and Rush for those who know the city) in the late 1950s, early 1960s. There was a nightclub in the basement of the building. It was whispered among the adults that the place was frequented by male homosexuals. I was hardly sure of what that was (that a 15 year-old should be unclear on the concept of homosexuality seems awfully quaint), but it was clear that while my family didn’t think that the denizens of the place should be persecuted, they were of the opinion that what the denizens did should not be done in public. That remains my view. I don’t want them persecuted, but I want them in the closet. Or, at least to never to admit to it. Just about everyone knew that Liberace was a poofter, but he was very careful to never admit it. Don’t rub our noses in it and we’ll leave you alone would be my policy.
Ganderson
Saturday - October 17th 2020 8:14PM MST
PS. CORRECTED VERSION I like the fast version, too. I had it , back in my tape collecting days on a bunch of ‘73 tapes. I was thrilled when it was commercially released on one of the Dick’s picks. While I don’t hate the slow version, I don’t see it as an improvement. Interestingly this song was played a LOT In ‘ 73 (fast version) and ‘77. (slow version), arguably the band’s two best years.
I only saw the band only once in ‘73, at the Iowa State Fairgrounds, (great show, as most were in ‘73) and I inexplicably missed them in February in St. Paul. My mistake. That show featured a fast TLEO, and Wave that Flag, the proto US Blues.
Mr Moderator I dunno if you know about the Internet Archive, but most shows are there, and many of the old tapes have been cleaned up and made listenable. Not that we didn’t listen to the crappy old recordings before...
I only saw the band only once in ‘73, at the Iowa State Fairgrounds, (great show, as most were in ‘73) and I inexplicably missed them in February in St. Paul. My mistake. That show featured a fast TLEO, and Wave that Flag, the proto US Blues.
Mr Moderator I dunno if you know about the Internet Archive, but most shows are there, and many of the old tapes have been cleaned up and made listenable. Not that we didn’t listen to the crappy old recordings before...
Ganderson
Saturday - October 17th 2020 8:11PM MST
PS. I like the fast version, too. I had it , back in my tape collecting days on a bunch of ‘73 tapes. I was thrilled when the it was commercially released on one of the Dick’s picks. While I don’t hate the slow version, I don’t see it as an improvement. Interestingly this song was played a LOT In ‘ 73 (fast version) and ‘77. ( slow version), arguably the band’s two best years.
I only saw the band only once in ‘73, at the Iowa State Fairgrounds, ( great show, as most were in ‘73, and I inexplicably missed them in February in St. Paul. My mistake. That show featured a fast TLEO, and Wave that Flag, the proto US Blues.
Mr Moderator I dunno if you know about the Internet Archive, but most shows are there, and many of the old tapes have been cleaned up and made listenable. Not that we didn’t listen to the crappy old recordings before...
I only saw the band only once in ‘73, at the Iowa State Fairgrounds, ( great show, as most were in ‘73, and I inexplicably missed them in February in St. Paul. My mistake. That show featured a fast TLEO, and Wave that Flag, the proto US Blues.
Mr Moderator I dunno if you know about the Internet Archive, but most shows are there, and many of the old tapes have been cleaned up and made listenable. Not that we didn’t listen to the crappy old recordings before...