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On Tue, Sep 1, 2009 at 6:33 AM, Per Boysen<perboysen@gmail.com> wrote: > > People talk about The Greatful Dead as "a great jam band" but although > I have been listening to some live recorded stuff I don't find in > there much of the communicative sensibility I tend to like in > improvised music. So maybe "The Dead" is a bad example? I like it when > you clearly hear how musicians are looking for common ground to unite > in harmony or even being obstructive and destroying every component > that could have caused "good music" to form. I'm not a "deadhead" so I'm not familiar with the vast board archives or most of the post-1980 recordings, however, I still rate Live Dead as a stellar example of interaction in music. As the instrumental sections between the songs start moving towards their "close", you can definitely hear the dialog - almost conflict, or a debate - in the guitars as Weir tries to take the music in one direction, Garcia in another, etc. I haven't heard any other Dead recording that comes close to this - they started to play much shorter songs immediately afterwards - but of course, my exposure is limited. But this recording is an absolute must-hear if you're unfamiliar with it. -- Warren Sirota Destroyer of Keyboards http://www.warrensirota.com