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- From: Mike.Swartzbeck@p816.f70.n109.z1.fidonet.org (Mike Swartzbeck)
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- Newsgroups: rec.music.gdead
- Subject: Yay! Dead not as popular?!?
- Message-ID: <725518852.AA00000@blkcat.UUCP>
- Date: Sun, 27 Dec 1992 12:21:04 -0500
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- In a SubSpace transmission on stardate 12/26/92, Rangaswamy Keshavan stated:
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- RK> From: rangok@wpi.WPI.EDU (Rangaswamy Keshavan) Newsgroups:
- RK> rec.music.gdead Organization: Worcester Polytechnic Institute
- RK>
- RK> They haven't been touring as much this year because of JG's problem.
- RK> But we can only hope! I remember a show in 81 where I had extra
- RK> tickets but couldn't even give them away (in Providence) because they
- RK> weren't that great, and plenty of good seats were still available! We
- RK> can only pray and hope that the Touch of Grey crowd has gotten sick of
- RK> the drums and space enough to stop coming to the shows and chatting so
- RK> loud during them that they ruin the whole thing! I remember at the
- RK> Boston Garden show in 91 the crowd murmur got so loud as a function of
- RK> how spacey Garcia was playing (the spacier they got, the more the
- RK> crowd murmer got louder). I couldn't believe it! For me the drums
- RK> and the space is the best part of the show, where they take apart
- RK> everything and then
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- ...and then re-assemble it, piece by piece, like rebuilding a '72 Beetle engine
- on your kitchen table in the dark? I guess that's what you were about to say;
- your msg got chopped off.
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- Yeah, man. I really get a charge when they jam hard on some straight-ahead rock
- & roll numbers, but the Drums/Space really separates the men from the boys. It's
- where you find out who's been listening to Miles, Coltrane, Zappa and Hendrix
- and who's been listening to Michael Bolton and Whitney Houston.
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