WFMU: Testify! with Larry Grogan: Playlist from November 21, 2024

Listener comments!
	🥁 3:00pm Brian in UK: Hello Larry. Remember hearing Uncle John's Band for the first time, fair turned my head.
	3:00pm Funky16Corners: ↳ Brian in UK @3:00 Hi Brian!
	🥁 3:00pm bradford: Hey there Larry & fellow Testifiers!
	🥁 3:00pm Mxter Baba: I am READY!!!
	3:00pm Andrew in Toronto: Hi there, larry, and all other groovers!
	🥁 3:01pm Yvang: Hi Larry and dead heads!
	3:01pm Funky16Corners: ↳ bradford @3:00 Hey bradford!
	3:01pm Funky16Corners: ↳ Mxter Baba @3:00 Welcome Baba!
	3:01pm StringOFperils: FURTHER
	3:01pm Funky16Corners: ↳ Andrew in Toronto @3:00 Hey Andrew!
	3:01pm Funky16Corners: ↳ Yvang @3:01 Yvang!
	3:02pm Funky16Corners: ↳ StringOFperils @3:01 Hi String!
	3:02pm David The Splatter: Good afternoon, Larry, Brian, bradford, Baba, Andrew, Yvang, String and anyone else.
	3:02pm Funky16Corners: ↳ David The Splatter @3:02 Hi David!
	3:03pm Andrew in Toronto: ↳ David The Splatter @3:02 Hi there, David.
	🥁 3:03pm bradford: ↳ David The Splatter @3:02 Howdy David!
	3:03pm Michael C St Lou: afternoon Larry, folks
	3:03pm StringOFperils: Hah! Wow, a Cool Ghoul intro. Great!
	3:03pm Funky16Corners: ↳ Michael C St Lou @3:03 Hey Michael!
	3:04pm Funky16Corners: ↳ StringOFperils @3:03 Yeah, wasn't that cool?
	3:04pm Funky16Corners: For those unfamiliar: en.wikipedia.org...
	3:05pm Erica: Afternoon Larry.
	3:05pm Funky16Corners: ↳ Erica @3:05 Hi Erica!
	3:06pm Erica: More Dead I see.
	3:07pm Funky16Corners: ↳ Erica @3:06 Indeed
	3:07pm doctorjazz: MORE DEAD!!!!! Working, in and out of the range of the "radio", will have to catch up with what I miss later! Hi Larry, Testifiers!
	3:07pm Funky16Corners: ↳ doctorjazz @3:07 Hey Doc!
	3:08pm doctorjazz: Is this Early Dead? I think of 70s as a sort of middle period, got the country/harmony vocals into the mix.
	🥁 3:08pm Brian in UK: I could figure out the singers in the Band but the Dead always caused confusion.
	3:10pm Funky16Corners: ↳ Brian in UK @3:08 I can always pick out Jerry, Bob and Pigpen. Phil not so much.
	🥁 3:10pm listener 126464: Onboard. Hi, Larry & listeners.
	3:10pm doctorjazz: I love the Dead, but, for vocal harmonies, I generally give them an A for effort...(at least live, they managed for the Studio Albums)
	3:11pm doctorjazz: ↳ doctorjazz @3:10 And this is BEFORE Donna...
	3:11pm Funky16Corners: ↳ doctorjazz @3:08 This is 54 years ago, only 5 years into the golden road (four if you don't include the Warlocks). Considering there was another 25 years in the tank, I say early. But your mileage may vary.
	3:11pm Funky16Corners: ↳ listener 126464 @3:10 Hey there listener 126464!
	3:12pm Funky16Corners: ↳ doctorjazz @3:10 Yeah, even in the studio the're about 1,000 miles from the Everly Brothers.
	🥁 3:12pm Brian in UK: ↳ Funky16Corners @3:11 Fair comment. Working Mans Dead was their fourth.
	3:13pm Funky16Corners: ↳ Brian in UK @3:12 I would say that Europe 72 is the end of the "early" Dead.
	3:13pm AMYGDALA: What's the over / under on Colorado being mentioned in each tune? I'm going w/ 3.5
	🥁 3:13pm Brian in UK: ↳ Funky16Corners @3:13 Dark Star was a moment. Then there was John Carpenter's film.
	3:14pm Funky16Corners: ↳ AMYGDALA @3:13 Hi Amygdala. At least once, probably more.
	3:16pm doctorjazz: And I think of the 1st 3 albums, up until Live Dead, as Early Dead. Jerry and the band just have such a different sound by the time of Europe 72. But that's my take, nothing carved in stone, of course.
	3:17pm Funky16Corners: ↳ doctorjazz @3:16 I'll be giving my take in today's intro. It is certainly worth debating. There was a lot going on.
	3:19pm StringOFperils: Amazes me that they even survived the acid tests.
	3:25pm doctorjazz: Got to see them around Europe 72 time, maybe back to 70 (those days are a bit fuzzy, heh heh). Also saw the New Riders, separately (but Garcia had already stopped playing live with them).
	3:25pm zzz: woo hoo!! more Dead!!
	🥁 3:25pm Brian in UK: Dave Nelson?
	3:27pm Funky16Corners: ↳ StringOFperils @3:19 Oddly enough, the one member that did not indulge in psychedelics was dead by 1972...
	3:28pm Funky16Corners: ↳ zzz @3:25 Hey zzz!
	3:28pm Funky16Corners: ↳ Brian in UK @3:25 Yes!
	3:28pm zzz: they nailed the harmonies on workingman's dead and american beauty
	🥁 3:28pm Brian in UK: ↳ Song: "Uncle John's Band" by "Grateful Dead" Mentioning the Band earlier, the Dead seemed to be heading for that timeless musical sound too.
	3:29pm Funky16Corners: ↳ Brian in UK @3:28 Yes, I think they were tapping into the same vibe from a different angle.
	🥁 3:31pm Brian in UK: ↳ Song: "Uncle John's Band" by "Grateful Dead" First time I heard this was early on a Saturday night. Then went out on my old BSA & sidecars with some mates to see the sppedway at Wembley stadium.
	3:31pm zzz: ↳ Brian in UK @3:28 can never get enough of the Festival Express footage with the Band and the Dead (and Janis!!) whn they all toured together on a train in canada. Rick Danko and Bob Weir are babies. Jerry and Janis chumming it up are amazing together
	3:32pm Funky16Corners: ↳ zzz @3:31 I love that documentary
	🥁 3:33pm Brian in UK: ↳ zzz @3:31 That sounds more than dangerous. Danko's voice is embedded into my brain.
	🥁 3:33pm PAULS: ↳ Song: "Uncle John's Band" by "Grateful Dead" Uncle John's Band = New City Ramblers? "Uncle" John Cohen
	3:33pm AMYGDALA: ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ ⭐⭐⭐⭐ ⭐⭐⭐ ⭐⭐ ⭐ Solid tunes - love this album! (Great show Larry!)
	3:33pm Funky16Corners: ↳ PAULS @3:33 Hi Pauls! I think that's the connection.
	3:33pm doctorjazz: ↳ Funky16Corners @3:27 But he drank...and drank...and drank
	3:34pm Funky16Corners: ↳ AMYGDALA @3:33 Thanks!
	3:34pm Funky16Corners: ↳ doctorjazz @3:33 ...and drank
	3:34pm Funky16Corners: I love steel guitar on this song.
	3:34pm zzz: nice Garcia pedal steel in this era
	3:35pm Funky16Corners: ↳ zzz @3:34 A great musician.
	3:35pm doctorjazz: I did see the Dead and the Band on 1 bill (also the Dead and The Allman Brothers), but didn't see the 3 together (Watkins Glen), or get to Woodstock (was in Summer Camp, strict cerfew that weekend).
	3:37pm Funky16Corners: ↳ doctorjazz @3:35 I saw the Band a few times, post-Robbie, and the Dead a bunch of times in the late 80s, early 90s. Never got to see the ABB
	🥁 3:37pm Brian in UK: Fifty five years give or take & still sound so good. Fifty five years backwards, it is 1915, first world war. Timeless.
	3:37pm doctorjazz: I do love Workingman's Dead!
	3:38pm doctorjazz: ↳ Funky16Corners @3:37 When the Allman Brothers played with the Dead (RFK Stadium), it was just shortly after Dwayne passed (never got to see them with Dwayne).
	3:39pm Funky16Corners: ↳ doctorjazz @3:35 I had an older cousin that headed to Woodstock only to get stuck on Rt17.
	🥁 3:39pm Brian in UK: ↳ Song: "New Speedway Boogie" by "Grateful Dead" Ah that smell of Castrol R as the bikes came round the speedway track.
	3:39pm zzz: ↳ Funky16Corners @3:37 i am the opposite. was able to see ABB a bunch of times in the 90s and 2000s but never the Dead!!
	3:40pm doctorjazz: (One of those shows it doesn't pay to individually clicky-star the tunes, just the whole show, though I am still clicking the songs...)
	3:41pm zzz: ↳ doctorjazz @3:38 www.discogs.com...
	3:43pm Funky16Corners: ↳ Song: "Cumberland Blues" by "Grateful Dead" I love the interplay of the acoustic guitar and the banjo
	3:43pm zzz: ↳ Song: "Cumberland Blues" by "Grateful Dead" never really heard the banjo (?) on here so prominent, cool!!!
	3:44pm Funky16Corners: ↳ Song: "Black Peter" by "Grateful Dead" One of my fave GD songs. I got to see them do it at Giants Stadium with Bruce Hornsby on keyboards
	🥁 3:45pm Brian in UK: ↳ zzz @3:43 Garcia's roots surfacing.
	3:45pm Funky16Corners: ↳ zzz @3:43 This is the mix released on the Golden Road boxed set
	🥁 3:47pm Brian in UK: ↳ Funky16Corners @3:44 That ambient keyboard is so vital to the sound.
	3:48pm Funky16Corners: ↳ Brian in UK @3:47 Subtle work by Pigpen
	3:49pm zzz: ↳ Song: "Black Peter" by "Grateful Dead" love that bridge -- see here how everything...
	🥁 3:50pm Brian in UK: Has the singer got a cold, snuffling like that at the beginning?
	3:51pm Funky16Corners: ↳ Brian in UK @3:50 Yes...that's it...a COLD
	3:51pm doctorjazz: ↳ zzz @3:41 Yup, that's the show (Stork played the whole concert once on his show, I went nuts)!
	3:52pm Erica: I couldn't sing if I had a cold.
	3:53pm Funky16Corners: ↳ Erica @3:52 Back in the 80s I played one show with my band where I'm almost certain I had walking pneumonia. It was not great.
	🥁 3:53pm Brian in UK: ↳ Erica @3:52 I cannot sing, full stop. Hey Erica.
	3:55pm Erica: ↳ Brian in UK @3:53 Hey Brian. I've been listening but not chatting. My cat was bothering me.
	3:55pm Funky16Corners: ↳ Song: "Box of Rain" by "Grateful Dead" RIP Phil...
	🥁 3:56pm Brian in UK: ↳ Erica @3:55 That is their job. Hassle for food. Jump on the bed first thing in the morning.
	3:57pm doctorjazz: ↳ Song: "Box of Rain" by "Grateful Dead" Ahhh, Phil, nice! (really interestingly put together tune...)
	3:58pm Funky16Corners: Dave Nelson on guitar, Jerry on piano!
	3:58pm doctorjazz: ↳ zzz @3:49 Me too-great chords, key vagueness...
	🥁 3:58pm Brian in UK: Larry, s'funny I only ever bought these two albums you are playing now. It satisfied my Dead needs it would seem.
	3:59pm Funky16Corners: ↳ Brian in UK @3:58 I think it did the same for a lot of people. This is where the Dead begin and end for a lot of people.
	4:01pm doctorjazz: Used to play all these tunes on my Martin (which I rarely touch these days), man...
	🥁 4:04pm Brian in UK: All these lyrics are on the tip of my toneless tongue. Jimmie Dale Gilmore's take on Ripple is a beauty.
	4:05pm Funky16Corners: ↳ Brian in UK @4:04 I'll have to look for that.
	4:07pm doctorjazz: ↳ Song: "Sugar Magnolia" by "Grateful Dead" This is one that's cute in the studio version, but killer live! Much more energy!
	🥁 4:07pm Brian in UK: Larry, a peerless album from a high lonesome voice. en.wikipedia.org...
	4:07pm doctorjazz: ↳ Brian in UK @4:04 I've heard that, it is indeed a beauty (but Jimmy Dale Gilmore could sing a phone book, and it'd be gorgeous).
	4:08pm Fred R: Afternoon Larry and everyone! Feeling the American Beauty this afternoon
	4:08pm Funky16Corners: ↳ Fred R @4:08 Hi Fred!
	4:09pm AMYGDALA: ↳ Song: "Sugar Magnolia" by "Grateful Dead" Allison - my teenage sweetheart - her fav. tune! Brings back sweet memories of fun times from days gone by!
	4:10pm Funky16Corners: ↳ AMYGDALA @4:09 It's kid of the unofficial/official song of hippie girls dancing at Dead shows
	4:11pm doctorjazz: What happened to Brokedown Palace?
	4:12pm Funky16Corners: ↳ doctorjazz @4:11 Saving it for another day. Going to play more live stuff in the last set.
	🥁 4:14pm Brian in UK: ↳ doctorjazz @4:11 It went the same way as George Harrison's tribute to Lord Buckley; Crackerbox Palace. There will be another day.
	🥁 4:16pm Brian in UK: Larry, this is a delightful reminder to dig out the records. Trouble is every time I go to the records or compact discs, Callie the dog wants to help me.
	4:16pm Funky16Corners: ↳ Brian in UK @4:16 Callie has good taste.
	4:18pm doctorjazz: ↳ Brian in UK @4:16 We mostly lock puppy Laila out of the Living Room (with the stereo), for all sorts of reasons (including that she'd love to chew on my speaker cables).
	4:18pm doctorjazz: Office light today, getting to listen to most of the show, YAY!
	4:19pm Funky16Corners: ↳ doctorjazz @4:18 TURN IT UP!
	🥁 4:20pm listener 126464: ↳ Song: "Attics of My Life" by "Grateful Dead" At seated shows, Row, Jimmy Row or Stella Blue was my cue to see what was happening in the lobby, bathroom, etc.
	4:20pm Erica: ↳ Brian in UK @4:16 Good dog.
	4:27pm Funky16Corners: ↳ Song: "Truckin'" by "Grateful Dead" I forgot to mention, the organ on Truckin' was played by Howard Wales!
	4:31pm StringOFperils: Their collective sense of harmonics is so odd. It sounds like just intonation, or shape-note singing. Unusual in music post-Bach, that sound.
	4:32pm doctorjazz: ↳ Song: "Cumberland Blues (Live)" by "Grateful Dead" Ragged but right!
	4:32pm doctorjazz: ↳ StringOFperils @4:31 They shift keys with no warning, love the writing!
	4:33pm StringOFperils: This and 'Summertime' by The Jamies. Weird to the modern ear.
	4:33pm doctorjazz: ↳ doctorjazz @4:32 But musically coherently, not just sudden shocking key jumps.
	🥁 4:33pm Brian in UK: ↳ Song: "Black Peter (Live)" by "Grateful Dead" This is such a plaintive song.
	4:34pm Funky16Corners: ↳ StringOFperils @4:31 I think it came to them naturally, as opposed to people that had been trained chorally to sing harmony. They just kind of FOUND it.
	4:35pm StringOFperils: ↳ Funky16Corners @4:34 Oh absolutely! I love it. I love R. L. Burnside. I love Joseph Spence. Subject to their own unique systems
	4:36pm Funky16Corners: ↳ StringOFperils @4:35 It's like listening to hill country singers on old 78s. None of them had a particularly strong voice, but they make it work with the music.
	4:37pm Funky16Corners: ↳ Brian in UK @4:33 I hope this CD is in reach when I take to my death bed...
	🥁 4:37pm Brian in UK: ↳ Funky16Corners @4:36 Robert Hunter did capture this so well.
	4:38pm StringOFperils: ↳ Funky16Corners @4:36 I hope to make half as much progress before I plotz. Ha ha.
	🥁 4:40pm Brian in UK: ↳ Funky16Corners @4:37 Would that be the 'live' version.
	4:40pm Funky16Corners: ↳ Brian in UK @4:40 Studio
	4:42pm Discotech Underground: Good afternoon, Dead heads! Stay tuned after Larry for Discotech Underground! Next on the Drummer Stream! wfmu.org...
	4:42pm Funky16Corners: ↳ Discotech Underground @4:42 Hey Kip!
	🥁 4:43pm Brian in UK: Here is an artifact which was triggered by this track being at Fillmore East. (Note Love's Four Sail is on the right). www.theneweuropean.co.uk...
	🥁 4:45pm Brian in UK: Larry, you have made an old man happy this evening. Thanks.
	4:45pm Funky16Corners: ↳ Brian in UK @4:43 One of my favorite things ever is the scene in the documentary 'Fillmore' where Bill Graham kicks Mike Wilhelm out of his office and chases him down the stairs.
	4:46pm Funky16Corners: ↳ Brian in UK @4:45 I'm glad you enjoyed it Brian!
	4:48pm doctorjazz: ↳ Song: "Truckin' (Live)" by "Grateful Dead" Garcia sounding hot (tone wise, as well as his playing)!
	4:49pm doctorjazz: Thanks, Larry, Clicky-stars galore!
	4:49pm Funky16Corners: ↳ doctorjazz @4:49 Thanks Doc! Glad you dug it.
	4:49pm doctorjazz: I think Crosby Stills and Nash had an influence on them wanting to harmonize...
	4:50pm Funky16Corners: ↳ doctorjazz @4:49 I've read that it was Stills staying at their farm that got them into it
	4:50pm doctorjazz: ↳ Song: "Truckin' (Live)" by "Grateful Dead" Go Jerry!
	4:51pm StringOFperils: Robert Hunter's writing was/is a literary event. A great American idiom that probably deserves even more respect than it has. The words AND this music are so great together.
	4:51pm Funky16Corners: This is from 12/26, almost exactly the end of 1970!
	4:52pm doctorjazz: ↳ StringOFperils @4:51 Amen!
	4:52pm Funky16Corners: ↳ StringOFperils @4:51 The age of bands with permanent, non-playing members who wrote lyrics
	4:52pm doctorjazz: ↳ Song: "Truckin' (Live)" by "Grateful Dead" (somebody forgot the lyric they were up to...)
	4:52pm Andrew in Toronto: What an excellent show! Thanks, larry!
	4:52pm StringOFperils: The more talent the better! Works for me!
	4:53pm Funky16Corners: ↳ Andrew in Toronto @4:52 Thanks Andrew!
	🥁 4:53pm Brian in UK: ↳ Funky16Corners @4:52 Pete Sinfield passed away last week, King Crimson.
	4:54pm StringOFperils: ↳ Brian in UK @4:53 The walls on which the prophets wrote are cracking at the seams...
	4:55pm zzz: thanks @F16C!!
	4:56pm Erica: Thanks Larry!
	🥁 4:56pm listener 126464: Thanks for another informative GD show, Larry.
	🥁 4:56pm Brian in UK: ↳ StringOFperils @4:54 The fire witch returns.
	4:56pm Erica: Next week is Thanksgiving.
	🥁 4:56pm PAULS: Thanks Larry!
	4:57pm Erica: Hahahaha.
	4:57pm AMYGDALA: Awesome selections today selector Larry – bravo – so good! Brought back tons of sweet memories of fun times. Many thanks!
	4:57pm Michael C St Lou: dug it! Great show, thank you. happy thanksgiving
	4:57pm Funky16Corners: ↳ Erica @4:56 Yes! I almost forgot!
	4:57pm StringOFperils: Thanks Larry. Keep on truckin' errbody!
	🥁 4:57pm Yvang: Thanks Larry. As Alice Cooper sings: I love the Dead!
	4:57pm Funky16Corners: Thanks for listening everyone!
	4:57pm Erica: ↳ Funky16Corners @4:57 You deserve to be with family next week Larry.
	4:58pm Funky16Corners: ↳ Erica @4:57 Thanks Erica! I hope you have a nice day, too.
	4:59pm Erica: ↳ Funky16Corners @4:58 I wish. It's gonna be hard without both parents.
	5:00pm Funky16Corners: ↳ Erica @4:59 I know the feeling. I'll be thinking about you.
	🥁 5:04pm bradford: Thanks, Larry. Have a great Thanksgiving!

Testify! with Larry Grogan: Playlist from November 21, 2024

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November 21, 2024: Testify! - Early Dead Part 3 - 1970

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Artist	Track	Album	Label	Year	Format	Comments	Approx. start time
Funky16Corners	Testify! Intro "Testify! Intro" by "Funky16Corners"	Best of Funky16Corners Volume One	Funky16Corners	2017	MP3		0:00:00 (Pop-up)
Grateful Dead	Zacherle Intro "Zacherle Intro" by "Grateful Dead"	Dicks Picks Vol 4 Fillmore East, NYC 2/13/70	Grateful Dead	1970	CD		0:01:26 (Pop-up)
Grateful Dead	Me and My Uncle "Me and My Uncle" by "Grateful Dead"	Dicks Picks Vol 4 Fillmore East, NYC 2/13/70	Grateful Dead	1970	CD		0:03:28 (Pop-up)
Grateful Dead	I Know You Rider "I Know You Rider" by "Grateful Dead"	Dicks Picks Vol 8 Harpur College, Binghampton NY 5/2/70	Grateful Dead	1970	CD		0:06:43 (Pop-up)
Grateful Dead	Hard To Handle "Hard To Handle" by "Grateful Dead"	Download Series Family Dog at the Great Highway 7/4/70	Grateful Dead	1970	CD		0:13:43 (Pop-up)

Grateful Dead	Workingman's Dead Radio Promo	Workingman's Dead	Warner Brothers	1970	CD		0:26:25 (Pop-up)
Grateful Dead	Uncle John's Band "Uncle John's Band" by "Grateful Dead"	Workingman's Dead	Warner Brothers	1970	CD		0:26:47 (Pop-up)
Grateful Dead	High Time "High Time" by "Grateful Dead"	Workingman's Dead	Warner Brothers	1970	CD		0:31:29 (Pop-up)
Grateful Dead	New Speedway Boogie	Workingman's Dead	Warner Brothers	1970	CD		0:36:42 (Pop-up)
Grateful Dead	Cumberland Blues "Cumberland Blues" by "Grateful Dead"	Workingman's Dead	Warner Brothers	1970	CD		0:40:40 (Pop-up)
Grateful Dead	Black Peter "Black Peter" by "Grateful Dead"	Workingman's Dead	Warner Brothers	1970	CD		0:43:55 (Pop-up)
Grateful Dead	Casey Jones "Casey Jones" by "Grateful Dead"	Workingman's Dead	Warner Brothers	1970	CD		0:49:53 (Pop-up)
Grateful Dead	American Beauty Radio Spot	American Beauty	Warner Brothers	1970	CD		0:54:08 (Pop-up)
Grateful Dead	Box of Rain "Box of Rain" by "Grateful Dead"	American Beauty	Warner Brothers	1970	CD		0:55:05 (Pop-up)
Grateful Dead	Friend of the Devil	American Beauty	Warner Brothers	1970	CD		1:00:22 (Pop-up)
Grateful Dead	Sugar Magnolia "Sugar Magnolia" by "Grateful Dead"	American Beauty	Warner Brothers	1970	CD		1:03:44 (Pop-up)
Grateful Dead	Ripple "Ripple" by "Grateful Dead"	American Beauty	Warner Brothers	1970	CD		1:06:53 (Pop-up)
Grateful Dead	Attics of My Life "Attics of My Life" by "Grateful Dead"	American Beauty	Warner Brothers	1970	CD		1:11:03 (Pop-up)
Grateful Dead	Truckin' "Truckin'" by "Grateful Dead"	American Beauty	Warner Brothers	1970	CD		1:16:11 (Pop-up)

Grateful Dead	Cumberland Blues (Live)	Workingman's Dead	Warner Brothers	1970	CD	Oregon State University. 1/17/70	1:26:56 (Pop-up)
Grateful Dead	Black Peter (Live) "Black Peter (Live)" by "Grateful Dead"	Workingman's Dead	Warner Brothers	1970	CD	Golden Hall Community Concourse, San Diego CA 1/10/70	1:31:42 (Pop-up)
Grateful Dead	Friend of the Devil (Live)	American Beauty	Warner Brothers	1970	CD	Fillmore East 5/15/70	1:40:48 (Pop-up)
Grateful Dead	Truckin' (Live) "Truckin' (Live)" by "Grateful Dead"	American Beauty	Warner Brothers	1970	CD	Legion Stadium, El Monte CA 12/26/70	1:45:06 (Pop-up)

Rex Garvin and the Mighty Cravers	I Gotta Go Now (Up On the Floor)	45RPM Single	Like	1966	45		1:56:42 (Pop-up)

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Listener comments!
	🥁 3:00pm Brian in UK: Hello Larry. Remember hearing Uncle John's Band for the first time, fair turned my head.
	3:00pm Funky16Corners: ↳ Brian in UK @3:00 Hi Brian!
	🥁 3:00pm bradford: Hey there Larry & fellow Testifiers!
	🥁 3:00pm Mxter Baba: I am READY!!!
	3:00pm Andrew in Toronto: Hi there, larry, and all other groovers!
	🥁 3:01pm Yvang: Hi Larry and dead heads!
	3:01pm Funky16Corners: ↳ bradford @3:00 Hey bradford!
	3:01pm Funky16Corners: ↳ Mxter Baba @3:00 Welcome Baba!
	3:01pm StringOFperils: FURTHER
	3:01pm Funky16Corners: ↳ Andrew in Toronto @3:00 Hey Andrew!
	3:01pm Funky16Corners: ↳ Yvang @3:01 Yvang!
	3:02pm Funky16Corners: ↳ StringOFperils @3:01 Hi String!
	3:02pm David The Splatter: Good afternoon, Larry, Brian, bradford, Baba, Andrew, Yvang, String and anyone else.
	3:02pm Funky16Corners: ↳ David The Splatter @3:02 Hi David!
	3:03pm Andrew in Toronto: ↳ David The Splatter @3:02 Hi there, David.
	🥁 3:03pm bradford: ↳ David The Splatter @3:02 Howdy David!
	3:03pm Michael C St Lou: afternoon Larry, folks
	3:03pm StringOFperils: Hah! Wow, a Cool Ghoul intro. Great!
	3:03pm Funky16Corners: ↳ Michael C St Lou @3:03 Hey Michael!
	3:04pm Funky16Corners: ↳ StringOFperils @3:03 Yeah, wasn't that cool?
	3:04pm Funky16Corners: For those unfamiliar: en.wikipedia.org...
	3:05pm Erica: Afternoon Larry.
	3:05pm Funky16Corners: ↳ Erica @3:05 Hi Erica!
	3:06pm Erica: More Dead I see.
	3:07pm Funky16Corners: ↳ Erica @3:06 Indeed
	3:07pm doctorjazz: MORE DEAD!!!!! Working, in and out of the range of the "radio", will have to catch up with what I miss later! Hi Larry, Testifiers!
	3:07pm Funky16Corners: ↳ doctorjazz @3:07 Hey Doc!
	3:08pm doctorjazz: Is this Early Dead? I think of 70s as a sort of middle period, got the country/harmony vocals into the mix.
	🥁 3:08pm Brian in UK: I could figure out the singers in the Band but the Dead always caused confusion.
	3:10pm Funky16Corners: ↳ Brian in UK @3:08 I can always pick out Jerry, Bob and Pigpen. Phil not so much.
	🥁 3:10pm listener 126464: Onboard. Hi, Larry & listeners.
	3:10pm doctorjazz: I love the Dead, but, for vocal harmonies, I generally give them an A for effort...(at least live, they managed for the Studio Albums)
	3:11pm doctorjazz: ↳ doctorjazz @3:10 And this is BEFORE Donna...
	3:11pm Funky16Corners: ↳ doctorjazz @3:08 This is 54 years ago, only 5 years into the golden road (four if you don't include the Warlocks). Considering there was another 25 years in the tank, I say early. But your mileage may vary.
	3:11pm Funky16Corners: ↳ listener 126464 @3:10 Hey there listener 126464!
	3:12pm Funky16Corners: ↳ doctorjazz @3:10 Yeah, even in the studio the're about 1,000 miles from the Everly Brothers.
	🥁 3:12pm Brian in UK: ↳ Funky16Corners @3:11 Fair comment. Working Mans Dead was their fourth.
	3:13pm Funky16Corners: ↳ Brian in UK @3:12 I would say that Europe 72 is the end of the "early" Dead.
	3:13pm AMYGDALA: What's the over / under on Colorado being mentioned in each tune? I'm going w/ 3.5
	🥁 3:13pm Brian in UK: ↳ Funky16Corners @3:13 Dark Star was a moment. Then there was John Carpenter's film.
	3:14pm Funky16Corners: ↳ AMYGDALA @3:13 Hi Amygdala. At least once, probably more.
	3:16pm doctorjazz: And I think of the 1st 3 albums, up until Live Dead, as Early Dead. Jerry and the band just have such a different sound by the time of Europe 72. But that's my take, nothing carved in stone, of course.
	3:17pm Funky16Corners: ↳ doctorjazz @3:16 I'll be giving my take in today's intro. It is certainly worth debating. There was a lot going on.
	3:19pm StringOFperils: Amazes me that they even survived the acid tests.
	3:25pm doctorjazz: Got to see them around Europe 72 time, maybe back to 70 (those days are a bit fuzzy, heh heh). Also saw the New Riders, separately (but Garcia had already stopped playing live with them).
	3:25pm zzz: woo hoo!! more Dead!!
	🥁 3:25pm Brian in UK: Dave Nelson?
	3:27pm Funky16Corners: ↳ StringOFperils @3:19 Oddly enough, the one member that did not indulge in psychedelics was dead by 1972...
	3:28pm Funky16Corners: ↳ zzz @3:25 Hey zzz!
	3:28pm Funky16Corners: ↳ Brian in UK @3:25 Yes!
	3:28pm zzz: they nailed the harmonies on workingman's dead and american beauty
	🥁 3:28pm Brian in UK: ↳ Song: "Uncle John's Band" by "Grateful Dead" Mentioning the Band earlier, the Dead seemed to be heading for that timeless musical sound too.
	3:29pm Funky16Corners: ↳ Brian in UK @3:28 Yes, I think they were tapping into the same vibe from a different angle.
	🥁 3:31pm Brian in UK: ↳ Song: "Uncle John's Band" by "Grateful Dead" First time I heard this was early on a Saturday night. Then went out on my old BSA & sidecars with some mates to see the sppedway at Wembley stadium.
	3:31pm zzz: ↳ Brian in UK @3:28 can never get enough of the Festival Express footage with the Band and the Dead (and Janis!!) whn they all toured together on a train in canada. Rick Danko and Bob Weir are babies. Jerry and Janis chumming it up are amazing together
	3:32pm Funky16Corners: ↳ zzz @3:31 I love that documentary
	🥁 3:33pm Brian in UK: ↳ zzz @3:31 That sounds more than dangerous. Danko's voice is embedded into my brain.
	🥁 3:33pm PAULS: ↳ Song: "Uncle John's Band" by "Grateful Dead" Uncle John's Band = New City Ramblers? "Uncle" John Cohen
	3:33pm AMYGDALA: ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ ⭐⭐⭐⭐ ⭐⭐⭐ ⭐⭐ ⭐ Solid tunes - love this album! (Great show Larry!)
	3:33pm Funky16Corners: ↳ PAULS @3:33 Hi Pauls! I think that's the connection.
	3:33pm doctorjazz: ↳ Funky16Corners @3:27 But he drank...and drank...and drank
	3:34pm Funky16Corners: ↳ AMYGDALA @3:33 Thanks!
	3:34pm Funky16Corners: ↳ doctorjazz @3:33 ...and drank
	3:34pm Funky16Corners: I love steel guitar on this song.
	3:34pm zzz: nice Garcia pedal steel in this era
	3:35pm Funky16Corners: ↳ zzz @3:34 A great musician.
	3:35pm doctorjazz: I did see the Dead and the Band on 1 bill (also the Dead and The Allman Brothers), but didn't see the 3 together (Watkins Glen), or get to Woodstock (was in Summer Camp, strict cerfew that weekend).
	3:37pm Funky16Corners: ↳ doctorjazz @3:35 I saw the Band a few times, post-Robbie, and the Dead a bunch of times in the late 80s, early 90s. Never got to see the ABB
	🥁 3:37pm Brian in UK: Fifty five years give or take & still sound so good. Fifty five years backwards, it is 1915, first world war. Timeless.
	3:37pm doctorjazz: I do love Workingman's Dead!
	3:38pm doctorjazz: ↳ Funky16Corners @3:37 When the Allman Brothers played with the Dead (RFK Stadium), it was just shortly after Dwayne passed (never got to see them with Dwayne).
	3:39pm Funky16Corners: ↳ doctorjazz @3:35 I had an older cousin that headed to Woodstock only to get stuck on Rt17.
	🥁 3:39pm Brian in UK: ↳ Song: "New Speedway Boogie" by "Grateful Dead" Ah that smell of Castrol R as the bikes came round the speedway track.
	3:39pm zzz: ↳ Funky16Corners @3:37 i am the opposite. was able to see ABB a bunch of times in the 90s and 2000s but never the Dead!!
	3:40pm doctorjazz: (One of those shows it doesn't pay to individually clicky-star the tunes, just the whole show, though I am still clicking the songs...)
	3:41pm zzz: ↳ doctorjazz @3:38 www.discogs.com...
	3:43pm Funky16Corners: ↳ Song: "Cumberland Blues" by "Grateful Dead" I love the interplay of the acoustic guitar and the banjo
	3:43pm zzz: ↳ Song: "Cumberland Blues" by "Grateful Dead" never really heard the banjo (?) on here so prominent, cool!!!
	3:44pm Funky16Corners: ↳ Song: "Black Peter" by "Grateful Dead" One of my fave GD songs. I got to see them do it at Giants Stadium with Bruce Hornsby on keyboards
	🥁 3:45pm Brian in UK: ↳ zzz @3:43 Garcia's roots surfacing.
	3:45pm Funky16Corners: ↳ zzz @3:43 This is the mix released on the Golden Road boxed set
	🥁 3:47pm Brian in UK: ↳ Funky16Corners @3:44 That ambient keyboard is so vital to the sound.
	3:48pm Funky16Corners: ↳ Brian in UK @3:47 Subtle work by Pigpen
	3:49pm zzz: ↳ Song: "Black Peter" by "Grateful Dead" love that bridge -- see here how everything...
	🥁 3:50pm Brian in UK: Has the singer got a cold, snuffling like that at the beginning?
	3:51pm Funky16Corners: ↳ Brian in UK @3:50 Yes...that's it...a COLD
	3:51pm doctorjazz: ↳ zzz @3:41 Yup, that's the show (Stork played the whole concert once on his show, I went nuts)!
	3:52pm Erica: I couldn't sing if I had a cold.
	3:53pm Funky16Corners: ↳ Erica @3:52 Back in the 80s I played one show with my band where I'm almost certain I had walking pneumonia. It was not great.
	🥁 3:53pm Brian in UK: ↳ Erica @3:52 I cannot sing, full stop. Hey Erica.
	3:55pm Erica: ↳ Brian in UK @3:53 Hey Brian. I've been listening but not chatting. My cat was bothering me.
	3:55pm Funky16Corners: ↳ Song: "Box of Rain" by "Grateful Dead" RIP Phil...
	🥁 3:56pm Brian in UK: ↳ Erica @3:55 That is their job. Hassle for food. Jump on the bed first thing in the morning.
	3:57pm doctorjazz: ↳ Song: "Box of Rain" by "Grateful Dead" Ahhh, Phil, nice! (really interestingly put together tune...)
	3:58pm Funky16Corners: Dave Nelson on guitar, Jerry on piano!
	3:58pm doctorjazz: ↳ zzz @3:49 Me too-great chords, key vagueness...
	🥁 3:58pm Brian in UK: Larry, s'funny I only ever bought these two albums you are playing now. It satisfied my Dead needs it would seem.
	3:59pm Funky16Corners: ↳ Brian in UK @3:58 I think it did the same for a lot of people. This is where the Dead begin and end for a lot of people.
	4:01pm doctorjazz: Used to play all these tunes on my Martin (which I rarely touch these days), man...
	🥁 4:04pm Brian in UK: All these lyrics are on the tip of my toneless tongue. Jimmie Dale Gilmore's take on Ripple is a beauty.
	4:05pm Funky16Corners: ↳ Brian in UK @4:04 I'll have to look for that.
	4:07pm doctorjazz: ↳ Song: "Sugar Magnolia" by "Grateful Dead" This is one that's cute in the studio version, but killer live! Much more energy!
	🥁 4:07pm Brian in UK: Larry, a peerless album from a high lonesome voice. en.wikipedia.org...
	4:07pm doctorjazz: ↳ Brian in UK @4:04 I've heard that, it is indeed a beauty (but Jimmy Dale Gilmore could sing a phone book, and it'd be gorgeous).
	4:08pm Fred R: Afternoon Larry and everyone! Feeling the American Beauty this afternoon
	4:08pm Funky16Corners: ↳ Fred R @4:08 Hi Fred!
	4:09pm AMYGDALA: ↳ Song: "Sugar Magnolia" by "Grateful Dead" Allison - my teenage sweetheart - her fav. tune! Brings back sweet memories of fun times from days gone by!
	4:10pm Funky16Corners: ↳ AMYGDALA @4:09 It's kid of the unofficial/official song of hippie girls dancing at Dead shows
	4:11pm doctorjazz: What happened to Brokedown Palace?
	4:12pm Funky16Corners: ↳ doctorjazz @4:11 Saving it for another day. Going to play more live stuff in the last set.
	🥁 4:14pm Brian in UK: ↳ doctorjazz @4:11 It went the same way as George Harrison's tribute to Lord Buckley; Crackerbox Palace. There will be another day.
	🥁 4:16pm Brian in UK: Larry, this is a delightful reminder to dig out the records. Trouble is every time I go to the records or compact discs, Callie the dog wants to help me.
	4:16pm Funky16Corners: ↳ Brian in UK @4:16 Callie has good taste.
	4:18pm doctorjazz: ↳ Brian in UK @4:16 We mostly lock puppy Laila out of the Living Room (with the stereo), for all sorts of reasons (including that she'd love to chew on my speaker cables).
	4:18pm doctorjazz: Office light today, getting to listen to most of the show, YAY!
	4:19pm Funky16Corners: ↳ doctorjazz @4:18 TURN IT UP!
	🥁 4:20pm listener 126464: ↳ Song: "Attics of My Life" by "Grateful Dead" At seated shows, Row, Jimmy Row or Stella Blue was my cue to see what was happening in the lobby, bathroom, etc.
	4:20pm Erica: ↳ Brian in UK @4:16 Good dog.
	4:27pm Funky16Corners: ↳ Song: "Truckin'" by "Grateful Dead" I forgot to mention, the organ on Truckin' was played by Howard Wales!
	4:31pm StringOFperils: Their collective sense of harmonics is so odd. It sounds like just intonation, or shape-note singing. Unusual in music post-Bach, that sound.
	4:32pm doctorjazz: ↳ Song: "Cumberland Blues (Live)" by "Grateful Dead" Ragged but right!
	4:32pm doctorjazz: ↳ StringOFperils @4:31 They shift keys with no warning, love the writing!
	4:33pm StringOFperils: This and 'Summertime' by The Jamies. Weird to the modern ear.
	4:33pm doctorjazz: ↳ doctorjazz @4:32 But musically coherently, not just sudden shocking key jumps.
	🥁 4:33pm Brian in UK: ↳ Song: "Black Peter (Live)" by "Grateful Dead" This is such a plaintive song.
	4:34pm Funky16Corners: ↳ StringOFperils @4:31 I think it came to them naturally, as opposed to people that had been trained chorally to sing harmony. They just kind of FOUND it.
	4:35pm StringOFperils: ↳ Funky16Corners @4:34 Oh absolutely! I love it. I love R. L. Burnside. I love Joseph Spence. Subject to their own unique systems
	4:36pm Funky16Corners: ↳ StringOFperils @4:35 It's like listening to hill country singers on old 78s. None of them had a particularly strong voice, but they make it work with the music.
	4:37pm Funky16Corners: ↳ Brian in UK @4:33 I hope this CD is in reach when I take to my death bed...
	🥁 4:37pm Brian in UK: ↳ Funky16Corners @4:36 Robert Hunter did capture this so well.
	4:38pm StringOFperils: ↳ Funky16Corners @4:36 I hope to make half as much progress before I plotz. Ha ha.
	🥁 4:40pm Brian in UK: ↳ Funky16Corners @4:37 Would that be the 'live' version.
	4:40pm Funky16Corners: ↳ Brian in UK @4:40 Studio
	4:42pm Discotech Underground: Good afternoon, Dead heads! Stay tuned after Larry for Discotech Underground! Next on the Drummer Stream! wfmu.org...
	4:42pm Funky16Corners: ↳ Discotech Underground @4:42 Hey Kip!
	🥁 4:43pm Brian in UK: Here is an artifact which was triggered by this track being at Fillmore East. (Note Love's Four Sail is on the right). www.theneweuropean.co.uk...
	🥁 4:45pm Brian in UK: Larry, you have made an old man happy this evening. Thanks.
	4:45pm Funky16Corners: ↳ Brian in UK @4:43 One of my favorite things ever is the scene in the documentary 'Fillmore' where Bill Graham kicks Mike Wilhelm out of his office and chases him down the stairs.
	4:46pm Funky16Corners: ↳ Brian in UK @4:45 I'm glad you enjoyed it Brian!
	4:48pm doctorjazz: ↳ Song: "Truckin' (Live)" by "Grateful Dead" Garcia sounding hot (tone wise, as well as his playing)!
	4:49pm doctorjazz: Thanks, Larry, Clicky-stars galore!
	4:49pm Funky16Corners: ↳ doctorjazz @4:49 Thanks Doc! Glad you dug it.
	4:49pm doctorjazz: I think Crosby Stills and Nash had an influence on them wanting to harmonize...
	4:50pm Funky16Corners: ↳ doctorjazz @4:49 I've read that it was Stills staying at their farm that got them into it
	4:50pm doctorjazz: ↳ Song: "Truckin' (Live)" by "Grateful Dead" Go Jerry!
	4:51pm StringOFperils: Robert Hunter's writing was/is a literary event. A great American idiom that probably deserves even more respect than it has. The words AND this music are so great together.
	4:51pm Funky16Corners: This is from 12/26, almost exactly the end of 1970!
	4:52pm doctorjazz: ↳ StringOFperils @4:51 Amen!
	4:52pm Funky16Corners: ↳ StringOFperils @4:51 The age of bands with permanent, non-playing members who wrote lyrics
	4:52pm doctorjazz: ↳ Song: "Truckin' (Live)" by "Grateful Dead" (somebody forgot the lyric they were up to...)
	4:52pm Andrew in Toronto: What an excellent show! Thanks, larry!
	4:52pm StringOFperils: The more talent the better! Works for me!
	4:53pm Funky16Corners: ↳ Andrew in Toronto @4:52 Thanks Andrew!
	🥁 4:53pm Brian in UK: ↳ Funky16Corners @4:52 Pete Sinfield passed away last week, King Crimson.
	4:54pm StringOFperils: ↳ Brian in UK @4:53 The walls on which the prophets wrote are cracking at the seams...
	4:55pm zzz: thanks @F16C!!
	4:56pm Erica: Thanks Larry!
	🥁 4:56pm listener 126464: Thanks for another informative GD show, Larry.
	🥁 4:56pm Brian in UK: ↳ StringOFperils @4:54 The fire witch returns.
	4:56pm Erica: Next week is Thanksgiving.
	🥁 4:56pm PAULS: Thanks Larry!
	4:57pm Erica: Hahahaha.
	4:57pm AMYGDALA: Awesome selections today selector Larry – bravo – so good! Brought back tons of sweet memories of fun times. Many thanks!
	4:57pm Michael C St Lou: dug it! Great show, thank you. happy thanksgiving
	4:57pm Funky16Corners: ↳ Erica @4:56 Yes! I almost forgot!
	4:57pm StringOFperils: Thanks Larry. Keep on truckin' errbody!
	🥁 4:57pm Yvang: Thanks Larry. As Alice Cooper sings: I love the Dead!
	4:57pm Funky16Corners: Thanks for listening everyone!
	4:57pm Erica: ↳ Funky16Corners @4:57 You deserve to be with family next week Larry.
	4:58pm Funky16Corners: ↳ Erica @4:57 Thanks Erica! I hope you have a nice day, too.
	4:59pm Erica: ↳ Funky16Corners @4:58 I wish. It's gonna be hard without both parents.
	5:00pm Funky16Corners: ↳ Erica @4:59 I know the feeling. I'll be thinking about you.
	🥁 5:04pm bradford: Thanks, Larry. Have a great Thanksgiving!

Testify! with Larry Grogan: Playlist from November 21, 2024

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