I think my last Grateful Dead shows were the CSU Dominguez Hills shows in May of '90. I skipped all the iterations of the band after that for various reasons.
For my reintroduction I was lucky enough to catch Furthur on Phil's 70th bday celebration up at what used to be the SF Civic Auditorium--awesome show with many special guests and even a Mardi Gras float parade to the middle of the floor. Visually stunning to say the least from where I sat at the top row--and most recently here in San Diego last week.
One of the things that caught my attention, aside from how much tighter the band was/is (dare I say better?), and to the point of my post, were the new arrangements for some old classics. For example, the bridge in Scarlet Begonias now repeated the "look at it right" line ascending along with the guitar figure. Another would be the added measures between lyrics in The Other One. These two examples are pretty simple, straight forward additions that, while not earth shattering, were nice changes.
But last week in San Diego a couple more changes caught my ear that were a bit more interesting. The end of Eyes had a sort of counter melody that was harmonized and then a tight ending. I thought is was really cool. The others are escaping me at the moment so I thought we could list them and maybe point to their origin (Phil, Bobby, both, some sort of time frame).
john in san diego
For my reintroduction I was lucky enough to catch Furthur on Phil's 70th bday celebration up at what used to be the SF Civic Auditorium--awesome show with many special guests and even a Mardi Gras float parade to the middle of the floor. Visually stunning to say the least from where I sat at the top row--and most recently here in San Diego last week.
One of the things that caught my attention, aside from how much tighter the band was/is (dare I say better?), and to the point of my post, were the new arrangements for some old classics. For example, the bridge in Scarlet Begonias now repeated the "look at it right" line ascending along with the guitar figure. Another would be the added measures between lyrics in The Other One. These two examples are pretty simple, straight forward additions that, while not earth shattering, were nice changes.
But last week in San Diego a couple more changes caught my ear that were a bit more interesting. The end of Eyes had a sort of counter melody that was harmonized and then a tight ending. I thought is was really cool. The others are escaping me at the moment so I thought we could list them and maybe point to their origin (Phil, Bobby, both, some sort of time frame).
john in san diego
john in san diego