Long Strange Trip

And I’ll add this clip (if it works). The live album from which it is taken is worth a listen.


ETA: only allowed a small clip. Here is a different version of the whole song (fearueing Chuck Leavell on piano — forester, and musical director of The Rolling Stones since the early 1980’s) :

 
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I used to see Col. Bruce Hampton and the Aquarium Rescue Unit almost every Wednesday night at the Cotton Club in Atlanta. Here is a bass tablature of Oteil (also with the scat singing) on a typical song:


(Other members went on to play with Widespread Panic, The Other Ones, the Allman Bros., etc.)
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That was soooo good. Loved following the bass along with the written music.
 
I don't know if you listen to the The Good Ol Grateful Deadcast (podcast found everywhere) but Season 10 has just started and is called Friend of the Devils. The season is chronicaling the 1978 year and, I think, the next one that will be released (probably in two weeks) is all about them being at Duke (if they are going in chronological order). The podcast has plenty of music, but it is mostly the narrative of how they concerts went down and stories about the people there, many 1st hand accounts.

The first episode in Season 10 was their swing down to Florida for 3 concerts, and features a first hand account of a UNC med school student, Dr. Bob Wagner, who taped many of their concerts. He mentions that he first heard the Dead on WDBS, the Duke radio station, on a show called the Grateful Dead Orgy.

The second episode is the Fox Theatre shows in Atlanta, and features a long interview with Glen Phillips, the guitarist in the Hampton Grease Band, that I thought was interesting. The podcasts are long, so I haven't made it through this entire episode yet.

But, since the Georgia concerts were 4/10 and 4/11/78, and Duke was 4/12, I thought you might be interested in checking out at least the next episode. I saw another string that the Duke CD (or vinyl) will be coming out about the same time. And Duke paraphernalia for sale: https://store.dead.net/en/grateful-dead/special-collections/friend-of-the-devils/

Cheers!
 
I was literally "late to the party", but tonight the Grateful Dead Youtube channel is featuring a Cameron Indoor watch party.

Here's the premise (and link). It does sound great.
"The Duke '78 show had been floating around in video tape trading circles going back to the 1980s. It wasn't great, but being from such an underrepresented video period in the Dead's history, it was a holy grail. The sound and audio mix wasn't very good on the original video, and we're thrilled to offer you this restored version of the video synced with Jeffrey Norman's newly mastered audio from the Betty Cantor-Jackson reels. Kudos to the restoration team that painstakingly synced the new audio to the original video as well as can be. It's not perfect, but it's much better than we've seen and heard in the past. And a special thanks to Christopher Hazard for providing us with the best video of the show." - David Lemieux
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I never knew that Jerry would join in on Drums.

One of the most bizarre (and great Drums)...Big Steve Parish is on stage too, as well as someone playing a pair of pots and pans.
 
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I read comments that the pots and pans guy was the tour chef. You can find him around the 2:35:00 mark, he's hilarious. You can tell the whole band was having lots of fan that night. I've never seen Jerry dance much but he was getting down and lifting his feet on Good Lovin. Ha! (I've seen the video before, but the sound wasn't great so I had never bothered watching the whole show.)
Great set list.
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Grateful Dead Setlist at Cameron Indoor Stadium, Durham

Get the Grateful Dead Setlist of the concert at Cameron Indoor Stadium, Durham, NC, USA on April 12, 1978 and other Grateful Dead Setlists for free on setlist.fm!
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The Chronicle has an article today about the Dead at Duke, focusing primarily on the 1978 show. As a former Chronicle writer, I have to admit that this is not The Chronicle's best work - the article is really dry, particularly given the subject. It is pretty clear the author knew nothing about the Dead before writing this. But it has some interesting nuggets so is worth a few minutes of your time.

www.dukechronicle.com

Duke and the Dead: Cameron, Deadheads and Blue Devils

The Dead have a unique relationship with Duke, which resulted in them performing on campus five times between 1971 and 1982. “The Good Ol’ Grateful Deadcast,” the official Grateful Dead podcast, explores the music and mythology of the Grateful Dead. Their newest episode explores both past and...
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I only managed to see one Grateful Dead show over the years, “Dark Star” I think they called that one in Hampton, Va back in the late 80’s.

What I recall of that evening was not so much the music, which I do remember as unusual, but the feel of the crowd. It was definitely a happy, enjoyable experience and fun group of people everywhere we went.

One of my buddies, Tony, was a true “Dead Head”, he’d seen them a bunch of times, and he talked all us beach bums into going. I was living single on the outer banks at the time so we piled about 8 people in a van and headed out to that show, Tony driving, which should have been a red flag, but we were feeling particularly free spirited and bullet proof that night so there weren’t many thoughts of practicality.

I recall that when we arrived in the parking lot, we were approached by a street vendor selling balloons of nitrous oxide, that set the tone and before I knew it, Tony was off dancing and running through the crowd, disappearing without a care in the world.

I remember thinking, how will we ever find him again in the crowd of 10,000 or whatever it was to get a ride home?

No worries, it seemed we saw him everywhere we went all night, even in that big coliseum, always skipping around, smiling and laughing, while hugging on somebody.

I still don’t remember how we made it back to the OBX.
 
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I only managed to see one Grateful Dead show over the years, “Dark Star” I think they called that one in Hampton, Va back in the late 80’s.

What I recall of that evening was not so much the music, which I do remember as unusual, but the feel of the crowd. It was definitely a happy, enjoyable experience and fun group of people everywhere we went.

One of my buddies, Tony, was a true “Dead Head”, he’d seen them a bunch of times, and he talked all us beach bums into going. I was living single on the outer banks at the time so we piled about 8 people in a van and headed out to that show, Tony driving, which should have been a red flag, but we were feeling particularly free spirited and bullet proof that night so there weren’t many thoughts of practicality.

I recall that when we arrived in the parking lot, we were approached by a street vendor selling balloons of nitrous oxide, that set the tone and before I knew it, Tony was off dancing and running through the crowd, disappearing without a care in the world.

I remember thinking, how will we ever find him again in the crowd of 10,000 or whatever it was to get a ride home?

No worries, it seemed we saw him everywhere we went all night, even in that big coliseum, always skipping around, smiling and laughing, while hugging on somebody.

I still don’t remember how we made it back to the OBX.
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That sounds like a great experience, and you may have been at the legendary “Warlocks” ‘89 show. All shows in Hampton were special though.

Dead shows were far more than the music. It was the whole ride. Fireworks, calliopes, and clowns. The parking lot scene was as much of the experience as the scene in the venue.

Glad you got to experience it, and that the experience was generally positive.
 
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