tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18366371.post3628468102369106141..comments2024-03-15T18:58:45.318-06:00Comments on Jerry Garcia's Middle Finger: The Group In and Around the Sarah Era: Boarding House, 1/24/73Fate Musichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05648291938690043423noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18366371.post-49171719311964548032012-07-24T22:15:48.821-06:002012-07-24T22:15:48.821-06:00Cool. Thanks for reading, digging in with some lis...Cool. Thanks for reading, digging in with some listening, and reporting back!Fate Musichttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05648291938690043423noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18366371.post-63446214020309619232012-07-24T21:55:13.402-06:002012-07-24T21:55:13.402-06:00I got around to tracking down Freddie Scott's ...I got around to tracking down Freddie Scott's original "Are You Lonely For Me?" -- Jerry's vocal delivery seems more patterned after Scott's, though it's no surprise that Jerry's version is considerably slower than either Scott's Al Green's. Ultimately, it seems like 6 to 1, half a dozen to another ultimately, so who knows?<br /><br />On another note, I've also been revisiting both 1/24 and 1/25 over the last few days and have been very pleasantly surprised. I'm another one who doesn't typically go for Sarah's "contributions" to this lineup, but the core band is so good that it's hard to complain. Everything sounds great! Thanks for the inspiration to spend some focused time with both shows.Nickhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11628132999021385676noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18366371.post-70655956958737827902012-07-13T10:41:42.440-06:002012-07-13T10:41:42.440-06:00Fixed, thank you!
I am one of the ones who likes ...Fixed, thank you!<br /><br />I am one of the ones who likes Sarah and appreciates what she tried to bring to the band, and what they were going for by having her. Of course I understand the alternative view.Fate Musichttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05648291938690043423noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18366371.post-18951686167574521082012-07-13T09:12:12.010-06:002012-07-13T09:12:12.010-06:00That's an interesting article although 1973-01...That's an interesting article although 1973-01-25 is still the only January '73 show I can enjoy due to its relative lack of Sarah.<br /><br />One small point, I'm not sure if it's just a spelling correction but it could lead to confusion.<br /><br />That's All Right is not a Jimmy Rodgers tune, it's a Jimmy Rogers tune. <br /><br />Jimmy Rogers was Muddy Waters' rhythm guitar player for much of the 50's. His given name was Lane but he took Rogers after his step-father. He is no relation to "the Singing Brakeman" Jimmie Rodgers author of all those Blue Yodels.Paulnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18366371.post-491355345658748672012-07-10T07:20:14.975-06:002012-07-10T07:20:14.975-06:00I have updated.
Albert King's "Like A Ro...I have updated.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7v8U38kxjZk" rel="nofollow">Albert King's "Like A Road Leading Home" (from <i>Lovejoy</i>)</a> most definitely sounds like an arrangement that ol' Jerry would have liked and might have borrowed from.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QQTT1DT0DBk" rel="nofollow">Al Green's "Are You Lonely For Me"</a> sounds like a very different arrangement, much more uptempo.Fate Musichttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05648291938690043423noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18366371.post-47876533104447414012012-07-10T07:07:42.268-06:002012-07-10T07:07:42.268-06:00nick, I really appreciate your insights.
I was, i...nick, I really appreciate your insights.<br /><br />I was, indeed, suggesting that about Like A Road. Not sure how I arrived there, but I will fix it.<br /><br />AYLF: Interesting, and probably right. One of the things so hard to reconstruct is where the songs came from, who picked them, which of the sometimes-numerous arrangements of a given tune to use, etc.<br /><br />Not having "been there" as a music consumer at the 1973 juncture, it's kind of illuminating, in spinning through Matt Scofield's amazing work at deaddisc.com, to see how many versions of some songs there really were. Coming a little later, I have tended to think of songs in a more band-oriented way (i.e., "a Stones song"), than a song-oriented one ("a Stones version of song x"). Partly that's why I have had to adjust myself to the concept of remixing, though I am coming increasingly to see it as just an explicit version of what has been happening implicitly since the dawn of man.<br /><br />Of course, it's also poses the interpretive challenge: how did Jerry et al. come to bring songs into the band? Did Jerry mostly find inspiration on the radio, or from records? If the latter (which I strongly suspect), where did he shop? I know later on he'd buy records from John Goddard's Village Music in Mill Valley.<br /><br />I'd sure love a chance to catalog Garcia's record collection. I bet it's impressive.Fate Musichttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05648291938690043423noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18366371.post-2656208839974146192012-07-10T05:07:56.463-06:002012-07-10T05:07:56.463-06:00Thanks for another great set of notes! I've n...Thanks for another great set of notes! I've never been a big fan of Sarah's contributions, but your recent posts have made me want to revisit all this material with a fresh pair of ears.<br /><br />Two bits of minutae re song provenance:<br />"Are You Lonely For Me" was also on Al Green's breakthrough lp Al Green Gets Next To You, released Aug 14 1971 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al_Green_Gets_Next_to_You). Given the date (and the fact that it's Al Green), I've always kinda figured that was where Merl or Jerry got the immediate inspiration to do the tune. Also, "Like a Road" was on Albert King's Lovejoy album which came out in 1971 as well (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lovejoy_%28album%29). I don't know if I misread you or not, but Sarah's version wasn't the only recording contemporary to the band -- though it certainly stands to reason that Garcia first heard the tune from Sarah's own recording.Nickhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11628132999021385676noreply@blogger.com