Listen to this.
It should tie you over until there is some political news to comment on. If you know of a more triumphant demonstration of rock guitar playing, post a YouTube of it. I don’t think you can top this performance from May 8th, 1977 at Barton Hall, Cornell University.
Walk me out in the morning dew my honey,
Walk me out in the morning dew today.
I can’t walk you out in the morning dew my honey,
I can’t walk you out in the morning dew today.I thought I heard a baby cry this morning,
I thought I heard a baby cry this today.
You didn’t hear no baby cry this morning,
You didn’t hear no baby cry today.Where have all the people gone my honey,
Where have all the people gone today.
There’s no need for you to be worrying about all those people,
You never see those people anyway.I thought I heard a young man moan this morning,
I thought I heard a young man moan today.
I thought I heard a young man moan this morning,
I can’t walk you out in the morning dew today.Walk me out in the morning dew my honey,
Walk me out in the morning dew today.
I’ll walk you out in the morning dew my honey,
I guess it doesn’t really matter anyway,
I guess it doesn’t matter anyway,
I guess it doesn’t matter anyway,
Guess it doesn’t matter anyway.
seen this? It’s meant to help teach kids how to be thoughtful historians by piecing together real source documents.
Plus the interactive timeline is hella cool!
inspired by discussion here this am
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2010/4/3/853552/-Geithners-stunning-success-at-Treasury
How many guitarists did they have during this performance? For most of it I hear two leads and one rhythm, but sometimes the number seems to vary.
Also, is it Garcia playing both the main lead and singing? Just those two instruments would sound great on their own, but the ethereal piano and hi-hat really bring it up to another level. This is a group sound not really attainable without endless practice together, which I guess was a big part of the Dead as a band. However, I wonder if they have been capable of getting to that level since Garcia passed. Great rock groups are always more than the sum of their parts, but some also really require a key charismatic spark from a specific individual who might have still been successful on their own (like Townshend with the Who, or Morrison with the Doors).
Thanks for sharing this performance.
Actually, Jim Morrison is not a great example of a musician who might have been successful even if the doors had never existed. More likely, he’d have been a failed hippie filmmaker in Los Angeles, although his sad burnout end might have been inevitable anyway. But the Townshend example stands.
It’s Jerry on lead guitar and Bob Weir twanging away on rhythm. That’s one lead guitar!
Maybe, or maybe not, appropriate for this day. This song, and especially kd’s rendition of it, move me like no other. No matter how many times I hear it, there is a certain point on that stairway where my eyes go misty. Every time.
I’m not a KD fan generally, but she sure makes the lyrics pop on this great song. Her range between the sweet highs and aggressive lows combine with the words to induce a definite chill down the spine.
I guess because of movie tie-ins, this has probably become Leonard Cohen’s best-known song, even though it seems like most people don’t hear anything except the title word and imagine it to be some kind of celebratory anthem instead of the complex meditation it is. So complex that it can bring out the best in singers as different as KD and the man himself — at 74 years old, in some ways at the peak of his vocal powers.
Speaking of KD, though, I was just watching this classic performance the other day.
(Sorry, I swear one of these days I’ll learn this imbed thing.)
There aren’t many voices like that, Orbison’s or KD’s. They come with the alignment of the galaxies or something.
On the embed thing, when the segment you want to embed finishes playing, the video will shrink revealing credits and links to similar videos. On the right side of the youtube window will be two text fields: Embed and URL. Click in the embed field and copy. Then go to the comment you want to post it in and paste. Click Preview to make sure you got what you intended.
There is a shortcut in scoop which I can never remember when I need to, but copy & paste from that embed link works pretty well most of the time.
Thanks for the lesson — easy when you know how. I’ll test it out with my candidate for the Dem national anthem:
Well that didn’t work out. But you get the idea.
Well at least you got embedding to work. That’s progress, right?
In all seriousness;
A group of artists paying tribute as only they can, by creating a masterpiece;
Thanks. I’ve been Dead-deprived, only ever heard Rod Stewart sing Morning Dew with Jeff Beck. To my mind, it’s the song – not the guitar.
I kinda liked this – it’s embed disabled.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O_TdkLwQUQs
A Happy Spring to all…
A great tune. But My favorite would be this;
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rmc-eg78gTs
Led Zeppelin playing The Rain Song in 1975. I don’t think Plant’s voice is as good as Jerry Garcia’s. But Page on that guitar…
One of my all time favorites..
One of his lesser-known masterpieces.