[NashvilleMike]

I can't think of 10 songs I was unhappy to hear but here are a few.

BTW - First there was Chuck Berry who taught us to dance then Dylan who taught us to think.


Not Fade Away
Around and Around
Stuck in Mobile
Day Job

that about does it

[tigerstrat]

I can't think of 10 songs I was unhappy to hear but here are a few.

BTW - First there was Chuck Berry who taught us to dance then Dylan who taught us to think.


Not Fade Away
Around and Around
Stuck in Mobile
Day Job

that about does it

They never recorded any of those songs in the studio.

[NashvilleMike]

Once again I miss the point...

[ebick]

1. What's Become Of The Baby (is that even a tune?)
2. Blues For Allah
3. Easy To Love
4. From The Heart Of Me
5. Victim Or The Crime
6. Picasso Moon
7. Blow Away
8.Let Me Sing Your Blues Away

That's all I got...... Other songs I am not a huge fan of, but under the heading "a bad day fishing...."

[bodiddley]

Oh, we got off the "in the studio" topic a long time back...Anything goes now!

Not Fade Away? Are you nuts? That song was an integral staple of so many shows. What they could do with that simple tune was amazing.

[NashvilleMike]

Not Fade Away? Are you nuts? That song was an integral staple of so many shows. What they could do with that simple tune was amazing.

With a name like bodiddley I would expect you to defend NFA. But I just found it played waaaay to often and it became predictable after Throwin' Stones. I do love the Space>NFA from Greeks 82 I think. I also just didn't like the clapping and chanting that went on and on and on. And another thing was when Weir would do his choreographed "moves" when singing it.

So here is a summary of the things wrong with NFA:

predictable
repetitive
boring
sing along
clap along
lame choreography

It is a GREAT Buddy Holly song though!!

Just my opinion, I'm probably wrong. What a great way to waste a Friday at work with RUKind.

[Tennessee Jedi]

Not Fade Away? Are you nuts? That song was an integral staple of so many shows. What they could do with that simple tune was amazing.

With a name like bodiddley I would expect you to defend NFA. But I just found it played waaaay to often and it became predictable after Throwin' Stones. I do love the Space>NFA from Greeks 82 I think. I also just didn't like the clapping and chanting that went on and on and on. And another thing was when Weir would do his choreographed "moves" when singing it.

So here is a summary of the things wrong with NFA:

predictable
repetitive
boring
sing along
clap along
lame choreography

It is a GREAT Buddy Holly song though!!

Just my opinion, I'm probably wrong. What a great way to waste a Friday at work with RUKind.

Opinions are never right or wrong ...
I think its been one of the Best covers they have ever done.
Its been a launching pad for many a great Jerry solo /band jam.
Any interaction a band has between itself and its audience like that is cool in my book.
People wanna dance and be a part of the show.
I think for the most part Jerry and Co. fed off it too.

[Emoto]

The inherent syncopation is what is so good about it.

[bodiddley]

I hear ya on some of your complaints about it and tend to agree on some of them, all too often in the late 80's ya just knew what was coming. Though There's just so many versions that completely kick ass. 9-3-77 and the Eugene Close Encounters show immediatley come to mind.

[Rusty the Scoob]

It's a nice mental break after an intense set 2 with a big Terrapin or Playin'.

[tigerstrat]

Yeah NFA kinda kicks butt. My favorite lead break Jerry ever did on it is the 1st break in 2/27/81... positively vorpal! Snicker-snack. Top that off with the 2-3 teased out blues boogie jams...

OK, no rules- worst 10 songs I had to sit through at shows attended 85-95... oh man, that's hard. Only ones that really spring to mind (other than one-off clunkers like w/Fogerty 11/3/91) are Long Way To Go Home, Shoe Fits, and Childhood's End...

There's a question of context, some songs are great in the middle of the 1st set, but would be a downer if placed post-drums or as a closer. I guess I could 'fess up and say Touch, Foolish, Bucket and Victim were never on my list of choice 2nd set openers. Then again, these 4 were all 2nd set openers in some of the most amazing shows I ever saw!

For tunes I never saw them play, I might add: uhhhh... I guess I can't imagine not being stoked to hear any GD live just once, even Donna's tunes or Walk In The Sunshine, or Let Me Sing... Geh-geh-geh-gentlmen start, gentlemen start your engines... (saw Brent do it, not the GD)

[NashvilleMike]

The inherent syncopation is what is so good about it.

AKA clapping along? - I love terms like that

and the Eugene Close Encounters show immediatley come to mind.

This is new to me. What is the "Close encounters show?"

positively vorpal! Snicker-snack. Top that off with the 2-3 teased out blues boogie jams...

Tigerstrat I value your input more and more. I had a 1 hour discussion just yesterday with another guitar player about your quote - "Free your mind and your ass will follow" as it relates to musicianship. It is a heavy and important lesson to be learned.

PS - Have a great weekend and thanks for the hospitality!

[ebick]

This is new to me. What is the "Close encounters show?"

01/22/78 (Sun) University of Oregon - McArthur Court - Eugene, OR

Set 1: Minglewood Blues, Dire Wolf, Cassidy, Peggy-O, El Paso, Tennessee Jed, Jack Straw, Row Jimmy, Music Never Stopped

Set 2: Bertha > Good Lovin', Ship of Fools, Samson & Delilah, Terrapin Station > Drums > The Other One > Close Encounters > St. Stephen > Not Fade Away > Around and Around, E: U.S. Blues

[Emoto]

The inherent syncopation is what is so good about it.

AKA clapping along? - I love terms like that

Maybe you're making a joke about how well people keep the beat when they clap along?

If not, then I just mean I like the Bo Diddley beat for what I think of (perhaps incorrectly?) as its built-in syncopation:

syncopation

in music, the displacement of regular accents associated with given metrical patterns, resulting in a disruption of the listener's expectations and the arousal of a desire for the reestablishment of metric normality; hence the characteristic "forward drive" of highly syncopated music. Syncopation may be effected by accenting normally weak beats in a measure, by resting on a normal accented beat, or by tying over a note to the next measure

[NashvilleMike]

Syncopation may be effected by accenting normally weak beats in a measure,

Is this what BW did when late he sang "Bop, Bop, Bop Bop" off time?

What time signature is NFA anyway?

We should have more percussion discussions here.