tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8189740927119210874.post6533983284017493982..comments2024-02-29T09:38:39.945-05:00Comments on deadthinking: 11/12/93: David Murray's bluesUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8189740927119210874.post-57249664779718103122018-05-22T23:27:26.428-04:002018-05-22T23:27:26.428-04:00Thank you for the kind word, David, and thanks for...Thank you for the kind word, David, and thanks for sharing that story. You're right, it may be too much of a stretch to think he was purposefully not invited back in '94. I'm still a little blown away that he sat in with a Dead cover band on the same night as an actual Dead show, though.<br /><br />As for the discordance, you may be right. Based on the crowd response to most of his solos, he may have been doing something right that I'm just not hearing.Nickhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11628132999021385676noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8189740927119210874.post-8302656108001565722018-05-22T08:42:54.549-04:002018-05-22T08:42:54.549-04:00Thanks for this post. Really enjoy your blog. Here...Thanks for this post. Really enjoy your blog. Here is a story perhaps apropos to nothing at all. I joined some friends in Weir's suite after the 9/22/93 show and Murray was there. It was a pretty low key scene and I eventually found myself sitting next to Murray. When I pulled out a joint, he said "finally something to blow." We had a good rap and would eventually leave at the same time. On the street, as we were parting he said, "hey man I'll see you again soon." Two months later at the Garden he was right. I don't remember the show as discordant as it seems on tape, so YMMV.<br /><br />As for Murray not playing the next time the Dead were in town, I am not sure you can read too much into that. After Branford's transcendant set at Nassau in 1990, he didn't show up at the next NYC gigs (although he did sit in 18 months later at the Garden [5 NYC gig cycles later] and of course at NYE). but the history of the band is littered with one off guests.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04272412177545415108noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8189740927119210874.post-85420404295104401032018-05-20T11:35:35.388-04:002018-05-20T11:35:35.388-04:00Thanks! Ultimately I don't know what to make ...Thanks! Ultimately I don't know what to make of it, which is part of why this show is intriguing rather than just bad. I'm hesitant to assert that he was inconsiderately overplaying like an inexperienced hotshot, since his jazz pedigree is so deep -- I'm inclined to look for some other explanation, but that may just be my pro-jazz bias (I'm also shying away from the idea that he was on something, or dosed, but who knows?) His style certainly lends itself to a "freer" (i.e. squonkier) approach, but imho he plays with way more engagement and sensitivity at the 9/22/93 GD show. Here it just sounds like he cranks it up and lets it rip. Even if he couldn't hear himself over the rest of the band at all, a musician of his experience would presumably know to play *less*, not more.<br /><br />I'm not surprised by that '95 rumor. I think Murray was doing a project with Bob Weir about Satchel Paige that never panned out (save for the one track on Murray's Dark Star album), so maybe that was part of his return? The '95 GD show actually isn't too bad by 94-95 standards -- Murray is in high octane squonk mode for much of it, albeit on material that better allows for it.Nickhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11628132999021385676noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8189740927119210874.post-40608484904500982912018-05-20T11:10:32.816-04:002018-05-20T11:10:32.816-04:00Awesome post!
The rumors at the time, from the WE...Awesome post!<br /><br />The rumors at the time, from the WELL, were that Garcia greatly resisted having Murray sit in again in '95, had to be cajoled and whatnot. FWIW.<br /><br />So, what's your analysis, that DM couldn't hear himself? Or that he just overplayed because ... why?Fate Musichttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05648291938690043423noreply@blogger.com