Grateful Dead - Jack Straw Montage (1972, 1980, 1987, 1989, 1993) LoloYodel скачать в хорошем качестве

Grateful Dead - Jack Straw Montage (1972, 1980, 1987, 1989, 1993) LoloYodel

"Jack Straw" : a LoloYodel video montage using 6 concerts (see below) First performed live on October 19, 1971 (Northrop Auditorium, U. Of Minn), it was played 473 times over the following 24 years (except notably in 1976 ! and understandably 1975). David Dodd wrote : Of all the greatest of the Grateful Dead's great story songs, "Jack Straw" might deserve some kind of an award for managing to be the most fully-fleshed-out and the most enigmatic of all. And I think the enigma revolves around the ambiguity in one line in particular. The performance evolution of "Jack Straw" is unique among Grateful Dead songs. When it was first performed, on October 19, 1971 (along with five other first-time performances) at Northrup Auditorium, Univ. of Minnesota, the song's various characters were sung entirely by Bob Weir. Hunter's lyrics, however, clearly called for a differentiation in voice, and so, beginning in Paris on May 3, 1972, Garcia stepped in and the song became a dramatic telling featuring two distinct character voices, plus a narrator. Weir, in a couple of interviews, tells about the origin of "Jack Straw": "I had just read Of Mice and Men for about the tenth time. I was completely smitten by that story. I took a step back in time into the Depression, and that era, and this story emerged between me and Hunter about these two guys on the lam... ne'er-do-wells... victims of the Depression." (March 2004) "I don't watch much TV, but one night I was home, it was late, and an old version of Steinbeck's 'Of Mice and Men' came on. I was mesmerized. We were coming out of the Workingman's Dead phase, and Hunter had this lyric. I grabbed it, and we came with a little sketch of heartland Americana, a balled about two ne'er-do-wells. It was patterned on Of Mice and Men, but we tried to put a twist or two on it. Same story, different context." (May 2007). The two "ne'er-do-wells" are named in the song as Shannon (Garcia) and Jack Straw (Weir). Here's how the dialogue shakes out. Note that besides the two characters, who each sings his own lines as appropriate, there is a third person, the narrator, who is sung by Weir, Garcia, and Lesh. The song includes a number of motifs and themes common throughout the repertoire: trains, down-and-out characters, gambling, weather, birds... It's a bleak vision, but the playing lends it a great deal of energy. Going back to that first Brent Mydland show at Spartan Stadium in San Jose, his first song with the band was "Jack Straw," and the jam leading up to "Jack Straw from Wichita, cut his buddy down," was a juggernaut of thundering intensity. It's unfortunate that the opening lines of the song are often taken by listeners at face value—I always felt very strange about the roar that would emerge at the lines "we can share the women, we can share the wine." In fact, as has been pointed out, that attitude led our pair of ne'er-do-wells onto a path of self-destruction. I'd be interested in hearing if anyone else heard that at shows—that inappropriate roar of approval—kind of like the line in "Baba O'Riley": "You're all wasted!" Hmmmm...and that's a good thing? But maybe I'm projecting my own values a bit too much. Once again, it's up to the listener to decide. Regardless, this song frequently brought a shot of adrenaline to a show, and its message of friendship gone astray and lives wasted might make us pause. And hey—it pays to read Steinbeck! (Or at least watch movies of his books on TV...) " ------------------------- The audio comes from the concert played 7-9-1989 at Giants Stadium, East Rutherford, NJ. Videos : 8-27-1972 Old Renaissance Fairgrounds, Veneta, Oregon 10-30-1980 Radio City Music Hall, New York, NY 7-24-1987 Oakland Coliseum Stadium, Oakland, Ca 7-9-1989 Giants Stadium, East Rutherford, NJ 6-6-1991 Deer Creek Music Center, Noblesville, IN 3-24-1993 Dean Smith Center, Chapel Hill, NC Buy all of those commercially available GD Vault videos. Under Law of Fair Use. For educational purposes only. No copyrights infringements intended*** For noncommercial, educational, and archival purposes under Law of Fair Use as provided for in section 107 of the US copyright law. No copyrights infringements intended***