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Oh man, no way! too cool.

Oh you’re very correct about it being conjecture. The research I’ve done has some flaws in it. 1974 was a long time ago now and memories have a tendency to fade. As best as I can interpret, they probably had two sets of scaffolding, and probably cabling. There’s conflicting info out there and it’s a little bit tough to piece it all together now. Overall my takeaway is that they didn’t have two complete touring rigs like big acts do today, but the germ of that idea was there with the dead in the summer of 1974.

Overloading tubes will make them distort to start with. And there's a certain amount of overload before that happens. Which makes them much louder than solid state

I don’t really have a ton of thoughts on the subject. The subject can be so charged with different opinions, my thinking is you should do what you enjoy when it comes to live music. The Fare Thee Well book does a great job unpacking all the different versions of the GD post ‘95. I enjoyed that read a lot, and found it very useful.

Oh, I didn’t know that existed. Thanks for sharing

Thanks so much, great way to put it

lol! That fourth is the effects on/off switch. Jerry added that to all of his OBEL equipped guitars as soon as he went back to wolf.

I will have to try that setting. Generally I like using it as a slow phaser so the one I use, I like-but I’m always up for some experimenting. Thanks for watching!

@@crazylegscabs5659 Did you end up giving the setting I suggested a try? The reason I ask is because from my experience of owning several of these is that the Vactrols get funky with age, especially before they fail. The light dependent resistors inside the Vactrols are fine, it's the LED part that is the issue. My pedals have rebuilt Vactrols and it's a night and day difference. I plugged mine in to play with it against your video and with the same settings you use I get a very different sound. When I have time I'll make a video and upload it.

You can say that again!

Nice, ok gotcha. Sounds like a nice tidy fix.

Oh fantastic! Were you able to make a playlist? If so how’d you do it? I wanted to share something like that but couldn’t manage to get it together.

@@crazylegscabs5659 I took the song from the hard drive folders into a playlist folder and made them M4A files and play them using media monkey. Media Monkey plays all my shows right from a hard drive to my stereo and stream using wiim players. My laptop is my player. Haha, I love this system. 24hr dead all over my house.

@@crazylegscabs5659 I have them all as flac files. I put the songs in a separate folder and made them M4A files(smaller) Open it in mediamonkey and play on my stereo. Number them so they play in order. Use laptop to play that is bluetoothed to a wiim player that goes into my receiver and also wifi'ed around my house. it's a great system.

I’m thrilled you enjoyed. Thanks for watching

I sure hope so.

Oh man, glad you asked. It’s a Black Throated Mercantile. He makes great stuff.

Or start with electrical tape. Don’t want to rip the cone off. Then scotch then ? Just don’t want to start too strong too fast. Get the tape in the pit of the cave and hen work your way out and then gently pull both ends. Long as you’re gentle it’ll be ok.

Glad you enjoy it! Thanks for watching👍

I agree and disagree at the same time. Personally, Garcia was the reason I picked up the guitar in the first place, and it opened up this wide world of other music. Exactly what you mentioned, but more in the Old Timey lane. Elizabeth Cotton, Jimmy Rodgers, Bob Wills, I could keep going. Then there’s the space music side of things: Sun Ra, Ornette ect. Without Garcia I wouldn’t have found my way to half of that stuff. And regarding trying to play dead music with non heads, good luck. I could never make it work. Anyway thanks for the provocative comment. I appreciate it✌️

@@crazylegscabs5659 I hear you, my original inspirations were Jerry and Dickey Betts when I started playing around 1971 and it took me years to develop my own style. My real issue with it is that people who play Jerry, only play what they think Jerry was playing, and don’t play things that he didn’t play, but in reality, his playing was never the cliché that people think, to quote Mickey Hart ‘we are playing notes, but not the notes people suspect”. Sure, Jerry had his rote riffs, and his little tags, but listen to the 7 hour compilations of 73-74 Playin’ jams and he never ONCE falls into a riff, it is all linear improvisation, how you clear your mind in an arena and just listen and play is pire genius for all of them, never falling into a riff, or into a finger position pattern. I have my Jerry rig and my Jerry guitar, and I find with that setup, I can only play like Jerry, I find it very limiting and it actually stifles creativity, and to copy an innovator is like xeroxing the Mona Lisa, but I always have a Dead band ready to go when the mood strikes. Sure, I love to do it and it’s fun, but the Real Music I make comes from inside and is my own conglomeration of all my influences. The Grateful Dead only happened when they were onstage playing together, it wasn’t a formula, it was their musical sensibilities that created a sound, If you have people who can listen and play, you can play this music with anyone, it won’t sound like the tape playing in your head, but it furthers the genre. Anyhow, hey, I am in NJ and would love to jam sometime. Love your channel.

Thanks pal, I'd love that too. I love these kind of discussions because the are so many threads to tug on. Thanks for you support! Listen to the opening solo of the 7/8/78 Warf Rat. Great example of what you're talking about. Jerry is playing OUT just in those few bars. I never hear that kind of improv from anyone who "plays" Garcia, myself included.

79 to 95 is a huge lump to generalize about. There are a dozen great shows in any given year and hundreds over all, and their level of play through 91 was remarkably and consistently high. The myth of the wasted burnt out Jerry of the 80s is disproven by thousands of hours of recordings. And there was then, nor in the years before , no band anywhere that could do what they did 60-80 nights a year, playing a shifting, evolving, accumulating, reviving rotation of over 100 songs in any given year. Virtually all of them are available for listening here and elsewhere on the internet. Check it out for yourself. Jerry lives.

Thank you for the honesty - its rare with such rabid fandom and allegiance. There is much more sadness than meets the eye here.

@@jimpowell6789 thanks jimmy, I was there for over 200 and at least 75 jgb including the sandy Alexander benefit for his kid that fell out a window in the lower east side at the academy of music. I also listen to the show of the day on archive. The man was a dope fiend, that’s a big problem no matter what you do for a living. Very cringe and selfish.

@@jerryakbar6147 I don't think it's my business to judge Jerry's private life. I feel for him, plenty, but I don' presume to know the balances of his heart. I find plenty of delight in his music from all periods. Even in 95, when most of his chops were gone, he could still put the notes in the right place to lift my heart, or break it -- Jerry Band shows at the Warfield, where he cared. To my ears 88-90 and trailing off into 91, was one of the Dead's peak eras. Every show can't be top ten, of course, but then, and in any given year ... Jerry is not the only great artist who got involved with the poppy. Coleridge, Cocteau, Parker, Billie ... What matters is their work. Judge not lest ye be judged.

My first show was at Winterland in October 69. I saw over 250 Dead shows and about 150 with Jerry in other groups -- NRPS, Old and In The Way, all the variations of Jerry Band from Saunders & Garcia forward, Garcia & Kahn and other acoustic configurations, with Dylan and sitting in with Dylan, with Los Lobos ... I'm grateful for every second of it. In my heart always.

Thanks for the thoughtful comment. I'm going to push back a little on the lackluster set list thing tho. One of the main things I'm trying to accomplish with this channel is to provide context as best I can. Weather it's the gear, or the jams, I really feel like putting things into context is key to having a better understanding of The Grateful Dead. Dew was a rarity in May '77 and it was a crowd fav going all the way back to the early days of the band. They had played that one two punch of St. Steven>NFA back in Feb of '77 in Santa Barbara (as well as a few other times). There was a Dew in that set too, it's curious to me that the Santa Barbara set (2/27/77)isn't talked about more, but as a complete show it's only available via audience recordings. Dave's Picks 29 is the night before with "bonus tracks" from the little snippet of Betty Boards that exist of the tail end of the second set of 2/7/77. My guess is had there been sbd's of that night in circulation, that would have been one of the all timer's in terms of legendary dead shows. Why am I going on about 2/27/77, good question! I'm trying to make the point that sure, the set list wasn't a one time only thing. They had trotted out a bunch of those war horse songs on other occosans, but for some reason on that Sunday night in May '77, it all clicked together in a very fine way. The band had developed these big combo and some got played more than others. The St Steven>NFA, Scarlet>Fire, eventually Estimated>Eyes, He's Gone>Truckin' you get the idea. That kind of stuff got more ubiquitous as time went on, but in Spring '77 some of that early hitching up of songs was just beginning to take hold. That's what makes the second set of 5/8/77 special, there was rare stuff along with two song combos both of which had MEGA jams in them. And the Dancin' from the first set can't be overlooked. All stand out performances. And it snowed. Thanks for watching!

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The Ft Lauderdale one is maybe my favorite of the tour, but they are all different and wonderful!