Alembic Inc. still exists .
Google Maps indicates it moved from Santa Rosa to Rohnert Park.
Rolling Stone article from a decade ago: https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/dead-wood-is-t...
The Grateful Dead's Wall of Sound (2019)
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That dude is a wizard. A lot of guitar players look down on fancy pedal setups, but watching his rig rundown video on youtube was mind blowing. I've heard Anastasio get tones and effects you just won't hear anywhere else.
I hadn't seen that before ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kZKjKaQdW9w ) but it's lots of fun. It's nice to be able to see what devices he's fiddling with to get his effects (most of the concert videos don't show the effects pedals and stomp boxes in detail). He's making heavy use of a looper- he can play some notes, capture them, and loop them continuously in the background (he uses to create a whole group of backi…
Totally. He constantly messes with his pedals and pickups while playing, and never even looks down, it's impressive. Very important as musician to be that familiar with your gear. I heard you can get a Langeudoc like Trey's for about 60k+ now days. Good luck with that haha.
Emily Hopkins! I've followed her for a while. She just did a collab with Anthony Fantano and I think she blew up with it. Neat stuff. Makes me want a unique instrument to play. I saw Bela Fleck perform with a tribal African band and they had an African ukelele run through a wah pedal. Was super funky and not like anything I'd heard
Re: The Grateful Dead's Wall of Sound (2019)
#113Th' Dead not only allowed taping, they encouraged it: at the shows I attended, there was invariably a small grove of microphones set up near the soundboard, in the middle of the audience. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taper_(concert) (a disadvantage to too much ethology reading: I can't remember "Bill Graham Presents" without thinking of baboon behaviour)
When sending away your money order for tickets, taper section IIRC were either a different request or different box #. Been awhile lol
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To add to this, John Perry Barlow, one of the Dead's two main lyricists, co-founded the Electronic Frontier Foundation.
Barlow wrote the famous "Declaration of the Independence of Cyberspace" ( https://www.eff.org/cyberspace-independence ) in 1996, famous in its time but also somewhat poignant, given the commercialization of the internet not long after. Barlow was also big on the WELL, an early influential time-sharing messaging system ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_WELL a Bay Area legends from a time when the Bay Area dominated…
Awesome, thanks for sharing.
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Hey! I created this website and have been maintaining it along with my friend Alec for the last decade. Fun seeing it pop up here on HN. Thanks for sharing!
Duuuude yes! I adore your app. Do you have a tip jar or something?
Nope, we don't take donations. If you want to contribute back, we recommend donating to Archive.org as they do the bulk legwork that makes this all possible and are a valiant internet library worthy of the support. And of course, we always accept pull requests!
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I'd love to hear more about your experience and observations of taping at the shows. Not only did GD (and particularly Jerry Garcia and John Perry Barlow) eschew the 'intellectual property' model of music, their thought-leadership has lived on to become much of what we today consider fundamental internet technology and methodology. Early decentralized crypto-economics, peer-to-peer file sharing, and the founding of t…
It's almost impossible to talk about The Dead and not talk about LSD. Owsley (wall of sound engineer) was one of the original major LSD manufactures... and a dead show was always where you went to score ACID if you lived on the east coast. This remained true well into the 90's. I'm going to guess that all of those early internet pioneers that you mentioned also have fond stories of LSD. The Dead, Bill graham, hells a…
In a little surfing, I've turned up https://bostonglobe-prod.cdn.arcpublishing.com/resizer/FyeO9... but not a picture from a little later that I know existed in hardcopy (probably from shortly after 29.12.1970?) of Dr. Leary (in the snow?) at a ski station, celebrating the refusal of the request for his extradition.
Who's got my miracle?
Lagniappe: (was this real blotter?) https://m.media-amazon.com/images/M/MV5BYTI5M2YyYTctNDBjZS00...
Re: The Grateful Dead's Wall of Sound (2019)
#117Earlier quoted context omitted.
I'd love to hear more about your experience and observations of taping at the shows. Not only did GD (and particularly Jerry Garcia and John Perry Barlow) eschew the 'intellectual property' model of music, their thought-leadership has lived on to become much of what we today consider fundamental internet technology and methodology. Early decentralized crypto-economics, peer-to-peer file sharing, and the founding of t…
> their thought-leadership has lived on to become much of what we today consider fundamental internet technology and methodology. The FLAC codec was developed by deadhead tapers.
I thought Shorten (.shn) was the lossless codec that came out of that scene?
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While it's true that they did that and why, I'd ultimately chalk it up as more of a flaw than a feature. Vocals never sounded great on wall of sound shows because they could never sing perfectly into one mic. This can be confirmed by listentng to soundboard tapes of the shows, and comparing them with ones a year or two either side - the full on Wall was only used for about a year. While the WoS laid much of the groun…
> It was totally impractical to tour with and they lost money doing so. The whole system travelled in two articulated lorries; but it took so long to set up that eventually they used four lorries, and two systems. One set would be for tonight's gig, the other would be on the road to tomorrow's gig, or starting to set up. I think the mikes for the vocals were three mikes, not two (you can see triple mikes in The Grate…
The problem wasn’t so much the raw amount of gear, is that it was bunch of small components that weren’t particularly well integrated. A lot cabling to run every night, etc. They had to more than doh le the size of their crew,
Which was the biggest expense.
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> Vocals never sounded great at wall of sound shows It was Donna.
hahaha, no better way to be snapped back into reality than hearing the wild calls of a screeching possum
I cannot read this comment without hearing "Playing in the Band". Now that part is stuck in my head all day, thanks.
Re: The Grateful Dead's Wall of Sound (2019)
#120For those wanting to listen to free legal taped audio of Dead shows, head over to https://relisten.net/grateful-dead or install Relisten app for iOS. All fan supported and open source.
Hey! I created this website and have been maintaining it along with my friend Alec for the last decade. Fun seeing it pop up here on HN. Thanks for sharing!
Could you please consider adding a volume control button on the website?