Joe, I was fortunate enough to see the Grateful Dead in concert in Berkeley, CA on Halloween night in the mid-sixties. Unfortunately we didn't have the now ubiquitous video camera and to tell you the truth I can't remember much of the concert. Of course that was true even the day after the concert.
...Bill! --- In [email protected], "Joe" <desert_woodworker@...> wrote: > > Bill!, > > Subject-line brings to mind our Bodhisattva corporate behavior. > > Guitar-sounds again. But I'm also very impressed and happy to see how happy > Jerry looks! In the video, from 02:30 to 05:00, he is such an exemplary > happy looking performer. And it's infectious, if this tea is not too strong > or weak for you. I like his playing so typically an octave high on the > strings. And the instrument is a beauty. Of course, Bob is on the other > guitar, and Phil is the white-shirt on the right on Bass. There's the > drummer Mickey, and I think Ms. Godchaux with the backing vocals and movement. > > The Grateful Dead -- Scarlet (Begonias): > > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WoG4uQUiTcs > > This performance is at the closing of Winterland in New York City on Dec. 31, > 1978. I was in town, but not at the concert. Sad event, the closing, but > you couldn't tell it in Jerry's face. > > The videographer and editor must be guitarists, because we get to see a lot > of Jerry's fingering pretty closely, without a lot of cutting. Helpful to me. > > Bill!, if you don't play electric, this may get you to have second thoughts > about that reticence (?). ;-) > > Jerry looks like a younger Sensei Bernie Glassman, but with hair! And he > preaches the Dharma like Glassman bakes bread. > > Jerry's instrument is so pretty, and I think a Lacewood body, probably a > one-off custom unit, with the double hum-bucker pickups and neck pickup. > > But a super-quality, agile, functional one almost like Jerry's, with a fast > neck, and very lightweight compared with my Strat, is here: > > http://www.musiciansfriend.com/guitars/dean-vendetta-xm-electric-guitar > > I play one of these, the warm wood-grained one. It is fine. > > "Strangers stopping strangers, just to shake a hand... ". > > So the song goes. > > My bed-time music tonite, it happens. > > With a smile, > > --Joe > ------------------------------------ Current Book Discussion: any Zen book that you recently have read or are reading! Talk about it today!Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Zen_Forum/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Zen_Forum/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: [email protected] [email protected] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [email protected] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
