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(Almost) Blues For Allah Live
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Compilation
01 Help On The Way > 75-09-28
02 Slipknot! > 76-06-10
03 Franklin's Tower 76-06-14
04 King Solomon's Marbles > *& 75-03-23
Part I: Stronger Than Dirt *
Part II: Milkin' The Turkey *
05 The Music Never Stopped 76-10-02
06 Crazy Fingers 75-06-17
07 Sage and Spirit 80-10-31
08 Blues For Allah 75-06-17
Sand Castles and Glass Camels #
Unusual Occurrences In The Desert #
bonus tracks from album rehearsals at Club Front 75-03-xx
09 Help On The Way (instrumental version)
10 Franklin's Tower
released : September 1, 1975
on some releases the tracks marked with asterisks are listed as;
* King Solomon's Marbles
* Stronger Than Dirt or Milkin' The Turkey
# not included as no versions, other than those officially released, are available
& I decided to "shrink" the drums segment as I wanted to bring out the full force of the jamming. I think it works!
there will be disagreement with the versions I've chosen, so be it, but I had great fun putting this together. The harmonies on Franklin's are just about perfect, sends a shiver down my spine.
all tracks have been changed in some way for the purpose of this compilation
this is for Paul who can now stop bugging me ;-)
SIRMick
July 2006
Compilation -- Blues for Allah Live (Almost)
Compilation
Compilation
(Almost) Blues For Allah Live
Grateful Dead
01 Help On The Way > 75-09-28
02 Slipknot! > 76-06-10
03 Franklin's Tower 76-06-14
04 King Solomon's Marbles > *& 75-03-23
Part I: Stronger Than Dirt *
Part II: Milkin' The Turkey *
05 The Music Never Stopped 76-10-02
06 Crazy Fingers 75-06-17
07 Sage and Spirit 80-10-31
08 Blues For Allah 75-06-17
Sand Castles and Glass Camels #
Unusual Occurrences In The Desert #
bonus tracks from album rehearsals at Club Front 75-03-xx
09 Help On The Way (instrumental version)
10 Franklin's Tower
released : September 1, 1975
on some releases the tracks marked with asterisks are listed as;
* King Solomon's Marbles
* Stronger Than Dirt or Milkin' The Turkey
# not included as no versions, other than those officially released, are available
& I decided to "shrink" the drums segment as I wanted to bring out the full force of the jamming. I think it works!
there will be disagreement with the versions I've chosen, so be it, but I had great fun putting this together. The harmonies on Franklin's are just about perfect, sends a shiver down my spine.
all tracks have been changed in some way for the purpose of this compilation
this is for Paul who can now stop bugging me ;-)
SIRMick
July 2006
Bob Weir's Studio
Mill Valley
CA
Disc 1 of 4
June 7, 1975
1. (x) Crazy Fingers (instr.) (ends with long reverb
and then faint studio talk in background (6.56)
2. Crazy Fingers (instr.) (6.57)
3. J. Garcia: "(x) zhuuum, ah 1, 2, 3, 4..." >
Franklin's Tower (with vocals) >
J. Garcia: "Huh?" (6.44)
4. Lazy Lightning (instr.) (5.03)
5. (x) The Music Never Stopped (instr.) (x) (6.08)
6. (x) Jam (funky stylish?) (fadeout) (6.46)
7. drum intro > Help On The Way (instr., one
drummer, played fast) (7.27) >
8. Slipknot (x) (0.56)
disc 2 ( 64.59 ) of 4
1. (x) Slipknot (x) (overlap with ending of track 8 on
disc 1 of 4 above) (0.17)
2. Spacely Noodling jam (23.01) >
3. Staccato jam (x) (7.25)
4. (x) Stronger Than Dirt jam (1.15) >
5. drummers (BK: "Mick! 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7.") >
Stronger Than Dirt jam (with J. Garcia playing
Stronger Than Dirt riff) (3.41) >
6. Stronger Than Dirt jam (with J. Garcia soloing
over jam) (4.46) >
7. Stronger Than Dirt riff (only J. Garcia) (0.25)
8. (x) J. Garcia playing Stronger Than Dirt riff >
drummers > J. Garcia playing short Stronger
Than Dirt riffs (1.03)
9. Stronger Than Dirt (riffs by J. Garcia with band
joining in randomly) jam (5.21)
Blues For Allah rehearsal - March xx 1975
10. J. Garcia soloing > "Yeah, that's where I meant that
to be in relations to the nine." > "Nines" jam (x) (1.11)
11. tape rewind (0.08)
12. (x) "Nines" jam (8.36) >
13. Spacely jam (2.12) >
14. "Nines" jam (1.50) >
15. Space and Out jam > faint cheers in studio (3.54)
disc 3 ( 66.58 ) of 4
Blues For Allah rehearsals - March xx 1975
1. (x) Blues For Allah intro-like jam (3.03) >
2. Jam (0.43) >
3. Stronger Than Dirt Jam (0.42) >
4. Slipknot! Jam (4.06) >
5. Jam (3.20) >
6. Jam (0.45) >
7. Jam (4.47) >
8. Blues For Allah outro (2.42)
9. (x) Staccato Jam (6.16) >
10. Jam (4.52) >
11. Jam (5.38) (total = )
12. JG: "1, 2, ah, 1, 2, 3, 4." >
Help On The Way > Slipknot (8.25)
13. (slight 60Hz hum in L channel at start)
Help On The Way > Slipknot (6.11)
14. (x) noodling > Help On The Way > Slipknot (7.20) >
15. Franklin's Tower (v) > JG: "Stunning." (8.13)
disc 4 ( 63.02 ) of 4
March xx 1975
1. (x) Slipknot-type jam (3.07) >
2. Slipknot jam (4.14) >
3. Slipknot jam (1.54) >
4. Slipknot jam 0.53) >>
5. Slipknot-spacely jam 1.21) >
6. J. Garcia and drums (x) (1.32)
7. (x) lazy lightning (fadeout) (0.16)
8. J. Garcia: "ah two, ah, one, two, three, four." >
Franklin's Tower (v) > "Show (?)" and "A-ow! (?)
at end while still playing > "Well, tha (x)." (4.52)>.
9. (x) tape rewind > J. Garcia: "two, three, four." >
Franklin's Tower (V) > just guitars (x) (4.49) >
10. (x) Franklin's Tower (v) > just guitars and talk (x) (4.48)
06-07-75
11. (x) noodling > Help On The Way > Slipknot (7.15) >
12. Franklin's Tower (v) > JG: "Stunning." (7.58)
13. J. Garcia: "one, two, ah one, two, three, four." >>
Help On The Way > Slipknot (8.00)
14. Lazy Lightning (instr.) (4.50)
15. (x) The Music Never Stopped (instr.) (x) (5.56)
16. Jam (funky stylish?) (fadeout) (6.30)
March xx 1975
17. J. Garcia: "ah two, ah, one, two, three, four." >
Franklin's Tower (v) > "Show (?)" and "A-ow! (?)
at end while still playing > "Well, tha (x)." (4.54)>
Survival of the Loudest
Mill Valley
CA
1975-xx-xx
"Survival of the Loudest"
Blues for Allah session
Ace's, Mill Valley, CA
Parts I-IV
- Sessions Part I -
01 - banter
02 - tuning/changes (Phil/acoustic)
03 - changes/banter (multiple takes)
04 - Habanera/banter
05 - changes/jam
06 - changes/banter (multiple takes)
07 - changes/banter (multiple takes, cuts out)
-Sessions Part II -
01 - tuning/changes (Phil/acoustic)
02 - tuning/banter/Distorto (multiple takes)
03 - banter/tuning/Distorto/banter/noodling (multiple takes)
04 - banter over joint
05 - tuning/changes/banter (Phil/acoustic)
06 - jam/banter
07 - banter/changes (Phil/acoustic)
08 - banter (He's Gone)
09 - banter (Jerry's got an idea)
- Sessions Part III -
01 - jam/banter (multiple takes)
02 - Blues for Allah/banter (multiple takes)
03 - Blues for Allah/banter
04 - Blues for Allah/banter
05 - drums/jam/banter
06 - drums/jam/banter
07 - drums/banter/drums (multiple takes)
08 - banter
09 - Help on the Way (multiple takes w/banter)
10 - Help on the Way (multiple takes w/banter)
11 - Help on the Way (multiple takes w/banter)
12 - banter/tuning/jam -> Blues for Allah
- Sessions Part IV -
01 - tuning -> jam -> Blues for Allah -> jam -> banter
02 - banter -> tuning -> Blues for Allah (melody)
03 - tuning -> Blues for Allah/banter
04 - Blues for Allah -> jam -> Blues for Allah
05 - tuning/banter
06 - Blues for Allah
07 - banter/jam/banter/tuning
08 - banter/tuning (Phil/solo/electric guitar) (fades out)
09 - tuning/changes (Phil/solo/electric guitar) (fades in)
10 - banter/whistling/dead air/piano/dead air
11 - Slipknot! (demo playback) banter/dead air/banter
12 - tuning/Phil practicing changes on electric guitar (fades out)
13 - tuning/dead air/banter/tuning(Phil, bass)/banter (fades in)
14 - coffee brewing/tuning/Sage & Spirit/banter/tuning
15 - tuning/noodling (Garcia - the hip kind)
16 - banter/tuning/banter
17 - tuning/The Music Never Stopped/tuning/banter
18 - The Music Never Stopped/banter/tuning
19 - The Music Never Stopped (blues jam)
20 - The Music Never Stopped jam
21 - banter/tuning/playback/dead air
22 - playback/Otis/drums
23 - piano/banter/Otis
24 - [Otis dropping dimes]
25 - banter/tuning
26 - tuning/jam (multiple takes)
27 - Lazy Lightnin' (early progressions, multiple takes)
28 - tuning/banter/Lazy Lightnin'
29 - banter/tuning/Phil's tune
30 - tuning/Phil's tune
Precursor:
As far as I can tell the diligence leads me to conclude that these sessions have never been widely circulated before. These are not the SNACK Sessions as David Crosby, Merl Sanders & or Ned Lagin are not present. All tracks are instrumental which leaves no work for Donna. Mickey, as far as I can tell is not present either. The month and day are not given on any of the information provided. Listening to s2t14, using deduction, puts us somewhere in the month of March.
Session I starts out with the boys talking nicely amongst themself round the, on strike, coffee pot. It's not on strike, no one bothered to turn it on. After "properly" caffeinating themselves they begin to practice. First up is a new piece from Phil. First, Phil works on the changes using a six string acoustic guitar, then one by one the band joins in & eventually Phil goes to his bass. Part II has Phil working the chord progression & changes for another new, untitled theme. Phil continues to work the changes on an acoustic guitar.
Sessions III & IV are all electric workings of Blues for Allah material.
- s1t01 Deserves transcription! Topics include; chroming Tokyo, guitar holders for chairs for armless players with real hands, preparations for live music in outer space, death by..., super balls, The Vatican's view on souls, Henry the VIII, DaVinci's mistakes, [Vatican's] murders secrets, [Vatican suppression], Galileo, Church of England, cookies, spring in Mordor, pets, cloning Ramrod, Mona's Gorilla Lounge, customizing Billy's kit, testing electricity, the Grateful Dead finally getting some discipline, etc.,
- s1t04 Habanera from Carmen, Georges Bizet. 'Name that Tune' goes to SIRMick.
- s2t03 (2:55 - 4:15) sporadic d/o's repaired.
- s2t12 learning Phil's new song
- s2t14 has a fair amount of dead air as the fellas copy Phil's hyroglifics (left intact)
- s2t14 Jerry learns Lenny Hart recently passed "month or so ago" according to Weir, Phil then says, same weekend as my car wreck." Lenny died in the month of February making the month of the recording likely March.
- s3t07 getting Billy's drums mixed into headphones properly
- s3t08 boys talk about getting paid while ordering hamburgers
- s4t11 has some priceless banter. Topics include; transmitters, Lucille Ball, average hair on the human head vs toy poodles & mastiffs, song clicks as identifiers, chippies, the schedule, jam at Nelson's with Grateful Dead, Rolling Stones & Bob Dylan, the sinister fan, accommodating the B3, premo headphones, etc.,
- s4t15 approximately eight & a half minutes of complete dead air was cut
- s4t16 banter includes a discussion on pick-ups
- s4t20 had a 0:24 cut in it
- s4t23 Bob taught Otis to answer the phone but not to drop a dime
- s4t30 unreleased material written by Phil
Jerry Garcia; electric guitar
Phil lesh; acoustic guitar, bass
Bob Weir; acoustic & electric guitar
Billy Kreutzmann; drums
Keith Godchaux, electric piano, grand piano
Dan Healy; mix