wait.. LeeIsFree playing a Dead set in Chicago July 3??
 

I want to see this almost more than the actual dead show! I hope as fuck that somebody tapes this...

Lee, you're the shit yo

Post the set list

I think I'm going to be out of town
:(

On my way to see the Fare Thee Well show in San Francisco... loving it. Gonna dose when we get there..

pics of Lee/Dead
http://www.glidemagazine.com/139036/...winery-photos/
I hope a recording of this surfaces. Did a rainbow appear?

pics by Lee at The Dead show
https://instagram.com/leeranaldo/

audio of all The Dead 2015 shows
https://archive.org/details/TheDead?sort=-date&and[]=year%3A%222015%22

Someone needs to make a Steal Your Face logo with Lee's infinity symbol replacing or encircling the lightning bolt.

Take it easy SuchFriends, hope you've got someone to take the wheel when you're seeing double

Usually im the one who grabs the wheel, indeed even last weekend i had to mildly orchestrate the chaos but it was a wonderful gift the Dead gave us.

Lee tell us what songs you played!

Damn DeadHeads doing the honorable thing! There was a bad ass version on youtube of June 27 both sets.. guy made it private out of respect of Dead's taping policy. Dead don't mind sharing, but they don't let people share what they are offering for sale, and there will eventually be an official release of the shows, and I'll probably buy them too, but until then what am I going to listen to while I wait?
Archive.org used to have soundboard shows, but the Dead asked them to stop, so they did, and now all they post are poor quality recordings.

A few breif clips of the Lee/Dead show:
https://instagram.com/faronheit/

I love how excited Lee looks in all his posts about these shows.. such a reverse of roles, nice to see the showman so enjoying a show

Lee Ranaldo on His Grateful Dead Fare Thee Well Experience: High Times in Chicago
http://www.billboard.com/articles/ne...hee-well-essay

Looks sorta Satanic...

L

Outstanding. And I'm not even a huge Grateful Dead fan. Lee, you rule the Via Lactea.

Lee your reflection in Billboard was spot in.. in santa clara we were definitely celebrating and yes, during Morning Dew to close the night i also got teary eyed at what we've all been able to accomplish together with the dead...

I been part of a lot of scenes, been in some fun bands, but the Dead scene is family.

 

Steal Your Scriptures

 

Between The Dead And The Ghosts

 

Crazy Fingers


...more to come...

Wow these are all so great!!

L

'Tis but a small repayment in exchange for you blowing my mind a thousand times over, and improving my quality of life by playing awesomely adventurous music. Hope we get a Sonic Youth 50th, understand if we don't & grateful for all the times I did see you, excited to see the Dust again. Really want to hear that City Winery show, Kyle of Little Wings is a long lost friend. I've posted before about a Dark Star>Space>Diamond Sea>feedback medley I can only imagine.

Steal Your Etchings (Savage Pencil on Halloween II via Chris Lawrence's Mustang Archive)

 

Steal Your Death (DV69 12inch label, maybe Savage Pencil again?)

 

Steal Your Boots (Walls Have Ears semi-bootleg)

 

Steal Your Centuries (So Many Storms, So Many Roads)

 

 

Steal Your Eternal

 

Okay, found part of the City Winery show, set II only though, doesn't seem to have Lee's guest spot based on setlist. Haven't had a chance to listen yet. Lets keep asking them to upload all sets!:

http://www.relix.com/blogs/detail/live_at_relix_alex_bleeker_and_the_freaks_friends_ play_the_grateful_dead

Edit: Oh, I guess this is a recording from the Brooklyn Bowl earlier in the year... I'm not getting enough sleep these days! Here is a review/setlist for the City Winery show, sounds like Lee played on Sugaree, Dark Star, Bertha, & Not Fade Away:

http://www.jambands.com/news/2015/07...aks-in-chicago

Lee tell us the set you played!

I love this thread.

+1. All hail hirsute_biped!

Cheers, thanks, but part of me feels like you might be facetious, as I know how deep anti-Dead sentiment can run in punk-related circles. If anything, these bands have taught us to embrace a wide musical spectrum. This article in Wired is interesting in that it shows how even if you can't stand their music, the Dead really reshaped the modern music scene as we know it. We as a network of passionate music fans and traders of live concert recordings are standing on the shoulders of Deadheads who pioneered and refined these practices at every stage of technological evolution. http://www.wired.com/2015/07/gratefu...tech-pioneers/
Makes me wonder if the contents of the late great Utkonos archive of live SY recordings could eventually end up on the archive.org Live Music Archive site, as it seems they have stable servers and decent semi-organisation. There is a lot of Dead material and crummy third rate jam band music on there ("one and the same" I imagine some of you say), but also Godspeed, Mogwai, Tortoise, Low, & probably other SYG approved artists I've been sleeping on, so it is not without precedent. I believe it would take direct permission from the band to do so.

I (a) always felt sonic youth has their own musical version of what the Dead due, (b) love sonic youth bootlegs with a similar passion to my extensive Dead library and (c) did in fact tell Lee at the Filter Party Show here in LA a few years back (ok, it may have been ten years but eh) that show had the communal feeling of a classic Dead show at the Fillmore. Sonic Yoth like the Dead always felt like a band in tune and interconnected with the community of their fans

http://pitchfork.com/thepitch/844-fa...s-final-shows/

so wait.. Lee played DARK STAR!!! I want this, does it exist anywhere?

yes it does


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2i6qyL7UwzU

That's the City Winery setlist. I played Sugaree (w Jenny Lewis on backing vocals), Dark Star (I took first verse, Ira took second verse), and Bertha. It was a total blast, as was the whole weekend... I have the three songs I did on video, complete I think. Might be fun to post Dark Star...

-L

You must spread some Reputation around before giving it to Lee is Free again.

You can't not post Dark Star now...
Any thoughts on Sonic Youth and/or Lee solo live recordings (be they audience or soundboard) becoming part of Archive.org's Live music Archive?

Oh man, Lee with Jenny - absolutely BITCHEN.

Doing sugaree at that??

what can I add. everything in this thread is amazing!

You showing up improved the amazing yo

http://https://youtu.be/vrrTzh8XAgI

dark star it's a nice trip to improv.

Lee's 2013-ish review of the theatrical showing of Sunshine Daydream (August 27, 1972, Old Renaissance Fairgrounds, Veneta, OR) http://thetalkhouse.com/music/talks/...hine-daydream/

...and an upload of the film in question (warning: contains naked hippies)https://youtu.be/ANF6qanEB7s Dark Star starts at 50:00 on the nose

start to see the dead doc...should i smoke something to follow this musical trip ?

Lee shows up for a few seconds in the new Bob Weir documentary The Other One (on Netflix), talking about admiring and endeavoring to imitate Bob's rhythm guitar style. Bob talks about imitating jazz pianists chordal inversions, especially McCoy Tyner's work in the Coltrane quartet. It made me realize another commonality between the Youth and the Dead is seeking out harmonic complexity in a rock context. The Dead did it via jazz techniques applied to rock, the Youth did it via radical tuning via Branca, Chatham, and Fahey. Both embraced a fluid dynamic between song structure and improvisation, though with only a little stylisitic overlap.