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- Newsgroups: rec.music.gdead
- Path: sparky!uunet!vicorp!mc
- From: mc@vicorp.com (Mark Charalambous)
- Subject: Re: Phil seals Vault
- Message-ID: <1992Dec21.233746.14662@vicorp.com>
- Organization: V. I. Corporation, Northampton, Massachusetts
- References: <1992Dec16.090821.10039@uvaarpa.Virginia.EDU> <1992Dec16.181718.8164@ptdcs2.intel.com>
- Date: Mon, 21 Dec 1992 23:37:46 GMT
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- kstewart@ptdcs2.intel.com (Kent Stewart) writes:
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- >>>Yeah, ole Phil sure did a bang up job on Steal Your Face. <belch> ;-)
- >>>Let's see you use impeccable taste and Steal Your Face in the same
- >>>sentence!
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- >>Actually, wasn't it Phil who suggested they change the name of the album
- >>to Steal Your Money? ...or was it The Grateful Dead: Zits and All?
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- >>Which leads to the next question: If it wasn't Phil, who the hell was
- >>responsible for that (I hesitate to say) "album" ???
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- >As I understand it, Bear was responsible for the tapes being *so* bad,
- >but Ron Rackow was responsible for legally obligating the Dead to release
- >it. You can't blame Phil, he had a gun to his head. He knew the tapes
- >were shitty. It took a lot of work just to make them as listenable as
- >SYF is. I remember some of the stuff the band said about this fiasco.
- >Racow was insisting they had "really good material" there, and the band
- >was thinking this guy "wouldn't know good material if it bit him in the ass."
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- Well, there may have been *some* decent material from the set of shows, but
- none of it was picked for the release. I thought the shows were weak, and
- thought how unfortunate it was because just a few weeks/months earlier the
- Dead had played some great stuff (Philly in Aug, Providence, Boston, Miami
- in June, etc...). Still, a decent trio of LPs could've been culled from the run.
- I'd have gone with most of the stuff from the first night myself.
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- --Mark
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