tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6100854883581054455.post6207619996503604846..comments2024-03-21T13:25:32.848-07:00Comments on Cryptical Developments: Grateful Dead, Sufi Choir, Whirling Dervish Dancers and Yogi Bhajan. Winterland, 3/24/71.cryptdevhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13944617292210813801noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6100854883581054455.post-59477061824156456442017-09-29T10:55:01.035-07:002017-09-29T10:55:01.035-07:00Sam Cutler just posted the newspaper article on hi...Sam Cutler just posted the newspaper article on his Facebook. I posted a link to this page below it. Great pictures and review!! I wish I was there!Chris Nhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10330725822232035026noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6100854883581054455.post-46996812621039805912017-09-29T10:53:54.982-07:002017-09-29T10:53:54.982-07:00Sam Cutler just posted this review on his facebook...Sam Cutler just posted this review on his facebook page, and I posted a link to this page under the article. Great review. I wish I was there!!Chris Nhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10330725822232035026noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6100854883581054455.post-89175499985464578972014-02-16T13:35:26.264-08:002014-02-16T13:35:26.264-08:00Thanks JGBDP! I never saw this review. We got the ...Thanks JGBDP! I never saw this review. We got the Chronicle, but not the Examiner, back then. I wonder if the Sufi Choir has a recording of the collaboration? cryptdevhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13944617292210813801noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6100854883581054455.post-90130829862701167032014-02-16T13:06:59.260-08:002014-02-16T13:06:59.260-08:00GRATEFUL DEAD MIX MUSIC AND MYSTICISM
"There ...GRATEFUL DEAD MIX MUSIC AND MYSTICISM<br />"There were some mighty strange doings at Winterland last night - Yogi Bhajan, Sufi dancers and choir, and members of Kailas Shugendo all mingling and performing on stage. <br />Plus the good ol' Grateful Dead. <br />And about 4000 miscellaneous characters - Dead fans, freaks, mystics, religionists, spiritualists, and few semi-straights who apparently came in expecting a typical night with the Grateful Dead in concert. <br />Of course, in many ways it was a typical Jerry Garcia-Grateful Dead affair, since the strange, incongruous, and sometimes outrageous are all part of the Dead's daily life style. <br />Garcia's long tenure as our town's purest rock artist has brought him in contact with various religious sects and beliefs. Last night's function was his way of raising some money for such friends, many of whom are neighbors up Novato way where the Grateful Dead's farm is located. <br />Local members of Kailas Shugendo, a Buddhist sect dressed in oriental-style hiking attire, presented ritual segments, including their fire-walk, and were followed by Yogi Bhajan, dozens (at least) of whose disciples were in the audience, chanting and swaying. <br />"I get high just listening to him," a mesmerized young lady whispered to me, eyes closed, following the incantations. More than half the huge crowd got deeply into Bhajan's thing. <br />Then a long set by the Sufis, not looking much like their mystic Moslem spiritual forebears, but nonetheless a dedicated and quite captivating bunch of folk. <br />The rock-oriented portion of the audience, after a couple of hours of all this, got noisy and restless, clapping in unison and yelping, "we want the Dead." <br />So out came the Grateful Dead, immediately plunging into electric accompaniment for the Sufi choir (about 25 voices). It was a glorious, wonderful combination."(14)<br /><br /><br />14.)^Elwood, Phillip, Grateful Dead Mix Music and Mysticism, 1971-03-25, San Francisco Examiner, http://deadsources.blogspot.com/2012/07/march-24-1971-winterland.html<br />Jerry's Brokendown Palaceshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06451361448230329754noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6100854883581054455.post-60695124537648947292014-01-26T00:12:26.208-08:002014-01-26T00:12:26.208-08:00It's a shame the brief Dead accompaniment to t...It's a shame the brief Dead accompaniment to the Sufi Choir wasn't taped, as far as I know. <br /><br />One audience member wrote on the Archive, "The Sufi choir and dancers were kind of cool; they came out first, it was dark with drums and some kind of fire on stage. They had some middle eastern music, and as it was kind of winding down, there was that familiar guitar sneaking in from behind - Jerry kind of hiding in the back. The audience perked up." <br />The highlight of the Dead's show for him was Hard to Handle: "It was not on any records at that time but we had heard it at a couple of previous concerts and were hoping they would play it. Well, they played it alright. To this day it was my most memorable GD experience. It was just such an awesome jam, and loud!"Light Into Asheshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06943335142002007213noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6100854883581054455.post-89303228842319484332014-01-20T18:43:15.095-08:002014-01-20T18:43:15.095-08:00It was a weird custom built Rick Turner job that h...It was a weird custom built Rick Turner job that he only played for a couple of months. Here's a quote from him from Blair Jackson's Graetfuk Dead Gear book: "Jerry saw a guitar one day in our shop, and he liked it, so I sold it to him. I have no idea what happened to that guitar, although I would like to track it down… It could be in a roadie's closet for all I know. It does represent an evolutionary step both toward Alembic and then the later Turner Model 1 (from his early post-Alembic period), which shares the body shape, except for the addition of the cutaway." <br /><br />cryptdevhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13944617292210813801noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6100854883581054455.post-47084331570736443232014-01-20T17:43:28.401-08:002014-01-20T17:43:28.401-08:00What's with that guitar that Garcia is playing...What's with that guitar that Garcia is playing? I've never seen a picture of that one! Mark Pino On Drumshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07338995261730415980noreply@blogger.com