Re: Grateful Dead ? (and why I miss my vinyl..)

"Willy Eyenine" <billyeye9@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message 
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> The folks I know who've seen them...both Deadheads...have been ranting 
> about them.
> For instance, they say that the gal who they have doing the backing
vocals 
> is way better
> than who the head doing them (early 70s?)..

Well, that wouldn't take a whole lot, Donna wasn't the greatest singer. 
Fantastic hair, though ...

..and that sometimes they even
> out****ne
> the original since there isn't the factor of substance abuse marring a 
> show.

Ha! I suppose that could be a factor. Although I've still yet to hear a
bad 
Grateful Dead show, I'm sure there were some. Maybe the drugs helped!

> But that's just the opinion of two...and I'm a bit wary of praise that 
> says something
> surp***** the original.   I mean, to be the original and to be 
> copied...that would seem
> like 9/10 of the genius to begin with...

I'm real wary. Pretty tough to surpass Mr. Garcia doing Grateful Dead
songs.
I wonder if they play each concert, note-for-note? I mean, each note of 
noodling and improvisation transcribed from the original? I'm guessing
they 
do, hence the name "Orchestra". If they read it from sheet music, "The
Other 
One">"The Eleven" alone must be as thick as War And Peace!
Do they do '72 and earlier with a Pigpen singer? '79 and after with a
Brent 
Mydland singer? Now you've got me curious.