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Epic opening band:
Miles on the experience: "An eye-opening concert for me … The place was packed with these real spacey, high white people … … After that concert, every time I would play out there in San Francisco, a lot of young white people showed up at the gigs.”
He goes on to talk about Jerry: "So it was through Bill that I met the Grateful Dead. Jerry Garcia, their guitar player, and I hit it off great, talking about music - what they liked and what I liked - and I think we all learned something, grew some. Jerry Garcia loved jazz, and I found out that he loved my music and had been listening to it for a long time. He loved other jazz musicians, too, like Ornette Coleman and Bill Evans.”
Phil on the experience: “As I listened, leaning over the amps with my jaw hanging agape, trying to comprehend the forces that Miles was unleashing onstage, I was thinking, What’s the use? How can we possibly play after this? We should just go home and try to digest this unbelievable shit. This was our first encounter with Miles’ new direction. ‘Bitches Brew’ had only just been released, but I know I hadn’t yet heard any of it… In some ways, it was similar to what we were trying to do in our free jamming, but ever so much more dense with ideas, and seemingly controlled with an iron fist, even at its most alarmingly intense moments. Of us all, only Jerry had the nerve to go back and meet Miles, with whom he struck up a warm conversation. Miles was surprised and delighted to know that we knew and loved his music.”
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Miles set: https://www
Miles: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cUx4nqLMgKI
GD: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J2U9iSWLGJ4
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Aside from the experiences
Beyond the experiences had by all, I love David Singer's posters.
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I agree with Phil - it would
I agree with Phil - it would have been a very difficult act to follow.
Great David Singer poster.
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I was lucky to catch Davis in
I was lucky to catch Davis in Tampa on the Pangea tour. All time top five.
Thanks for posting.
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I don't suppose any
I don't suppose any Vivalaazoners were in attendance?
I'm listening to the miles set now. Gotta be one of the greatest double bookings ever. Unbelievable incredible etc.......
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Didn't see them together, but
Didn't see them together, but my first GD show was in Dec. 1969 and my first Miles show was in June 1970, neatly bracketing the show in question.
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My only Miles show was in Nov
My only Miles show was in Nov 1982 @ the Irvine in Philly
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Surfdead I truly envy you!
Surfdead I truly envy you!
Of all the GD shows you saw do you have one that stands apart from all the others?
thanks for the response.
Also Voodoo thats totally epic as well.
I never got to see Miles play live but if I was paying attention I could have seen one of the last shows in 1991 before he passed. I was newly 21 and if i knew what was up i could have gone 4/24/91 at Prince's Glam Slam:
https://www.concertarchives.org/concerts/miles-davis--3165363
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i was a busboy at a supper
i was a busboy at a supper club and saw miles play.
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Damn
Damn
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Summer of 91 I remember Miles
Summer of 91 I remember Miles played at the Concord Pavilion. I did not go. Dumb choice on my part.
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>>>>>do you have one that
>>>>>do you have one that stands apart from all the others?
Well, I really don't. In the first place, I haven't really been to that many GD shows compared to a bunch of other folks - less than 100. They have been spread over 25 years, but only a few per year. Secondly, my brain doesn't work that way. - I don't generally try to rank things unless forced to. After all these years the music kinda merges together into a whole something., and it's difficult to tease it apart.
I do remember various incidents, both musical and non. The Watkins Glen sound check jam was pretty incredible, but my memory of it is also informed by the weirdness and effort it took getting there. My first DS/SS at my second show in Boston April 1971 was pretty mind blowing, but so was the dose I took that night - first at a Dead show. I felt closest to the band (mentally) at the Boston Music Hall '73, but in retrospect it was an average show from that era. I had an out of body experience while Phil was dropping huge bombs during the jam in Throwing Stones at one of the Autzen shows in the early 90s.
Like that.
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Oops - the 73 Boston show was
Oops - the spring 73 Boston show was at the" Gahden" (Boston Garden); the Music Hall show was in Dec. of that year