Possibly the worse GD related album?
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I think the first song is definitely one of the worse "back up" efforts ever.....the Jack a Roe is ok...the rest is rather uninspired.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OkB9sRzRkjw
A Joan Baez studio album, with the Grateful Dead backing her, which was recorded in 1980, but never released.
Produced by Mickey Hart (Baez was dating Hart at the time). Recorded at the Barn, Novato, CA 1980.
1. (For The) Children Of The Eighties (0:00) 2. Don’t Blame My Mother (5:41) 3. Marriott, USA (9:43) 4. Happy Birthday, Leonid Brezhnev (15:33) 5. Lady Di (20:16) 6. Lucifer’s Eyes (25:29) 7. Warriors of the Sun (29:38) 8. Jack-a-Roe (38:17)
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thought I was being harsh on
thought I was being harsh on the album and revisited, and realized it being 1980 Joan's career may have had J Starship envy, thus the Dead's participation and:
Ah
but our lives have just begun
we are the warriors of the sun.
We're the golden boys and the golden girls
For a better world.
We are the children of the eighties haven't we grown
I'm guessing that she did not get Hunter to pen for her as I doubt he'd rhyme Jello
We take a leatherjacket and a single golden earring.
Hang out at Discos
Rock shows
lose our hearing
Take uppers
downers
blues and reds and yellows.
Our brains are turning to jello
We are looking forward to the days when we live inside of a purple haze.
And the salvation of the soul is Rock and Roll
I also guess they didn't figure Happy Birthday, Leonid Brezhnev would get a lot of radio play, so... unreleased
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If an album is recorded, but
If an album is recorded, but never released, does it make any sound?
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Now, the article doesn't make
Now, the article doesn't make it clear how close these activities were in time. Simultaneous? but it could explain this album
She had used quaaludes in the 1970s ...During her time with the Dead, she took “a little tiny line” of cocaine. Anything else? “Stuffed some opium up my ass,” she says, then pauses quizzically. “Is that possible?”
But by the more apolitical 1980s, Baez hit the first of many rough patches, finding herself adrift without a record deal. She tried cutting an album with members of the Grateful Dead (she was dating Mickey Hart at the time), but it didn’t work out, partly because Jerry Garcia was deep into heroin at the time. “He couldn’t play comfortably because he wasn’t sitting close enough to the bathroom,” she recalls. “He wanted access. I didn’t realize why.”
https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-features/joan-baezs-fighting-si...
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about that album:
about that album:
Joan Baez -. "One time he was hours late and claimed he'd gotten lost in the fog on the way north. Baez had a feeling he wasn't comfortable in the situation but couldn't find out why. Garcia didn't end up sticking around for long, and later work shifted to a different studio where Garcia would finally attempt to put down a guitar part for a song they were finishing."
Joan Baez "He was way out there. He would noodle and get lost and start finding the part and go off into outer space, and it had nothing to do with that song."
Joan asked Mickey what was up with Jerry. Mick: "You're getting a contact low."
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As usual, Lost Live Dead has a most interesting read about the Baez Dead connection:
http://lostlivedead.blogspot.com/2011/03/december-12-1981-fiesta-hall-sa...
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Steal Your Face is still
Steal Your Face is still pretty bad.
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And that 2nd Midnites release
And that 2nd Midnites release.
[shudder]
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There and Back Again is a
There and Back Again is a shit album.
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That one I like. I suggest
That one I like. I suggest playing Leave Me Out Of This very loud while centered between the speakers.
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Actually the musicianship on
Actually the musicianship on the 2nd B&M album is pretty good. Helluva band.
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Good musicianship does not
Good musicianship does not make a good album. Those Midnight's albums (and you can throw Heaven Help the Fool in as well) were windows into Bob's true nature.
I remember reading a quote from Joan where she basically said that she had to get away from the Dead scene because of all the drugs.
In 1980 Jerry wasn't that strung out so my guess is that he just didn't want to be doing it but felt an obligation to Mickey.
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Shout out to "Infrared Roses"
Shout out to "Infrared Roses"
The greatest hits of Space
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"Uptown", that Neville
"Uptown", the 1987 Neville Brothers record that Jerry plays on, gets my vote. Even though that record had Garcia, Keith Richards and Carlos Santana on it, it has a horrible 1980's sterile, digital production. One of the worst in the Neville's mostly great catalogue. They hooked up with Daniel Lanois the next year for the excellent Yellow Moon, but this one was a stinker.
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Those were all fun shows when
Those were all fun shows when Joan sat in with the Grateful Dead, as I recall.
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Well wasn't there but I
Well wasn't there but I distinctly remember sitting in motel room after the 82 Kansas City show and this girl was bitching about how Mickey's girlfriend ruined the New Years shows that year. Something about Joan going on about how people shouldn't use drugs. Strange the things I remember.
12/31/81
Oakland Auditorium Arena - Oakland, CA
Set 1:
Me And Bobby McGee
Bye Bye Love
Lucifer's Eyes
Children Of The Eighties
Banks Of Ohio
Set 2:
Shakedown Street
Me And My Uncle
Mexicali Blues
Cold Rain And Snow
C.C. Rider
It Must Have Been The Roses
Beat It On Down The Line
Big Boss Man
New Minglewood Blues
Don't Ease Me In
Set 3:
Iko Iko
Playin' In The Band
Terrapin Station
Playin' In The Band
Drums
The Other One
Not Fade Away
Goin' Down The Road Feeling Bad
Morning Dew
Encore:
Dark Star
Bertha
Good Lovin'
Baby Blue
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Bobby and the midnights?
Bobby and the midnights?
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Mr. for the win
Mr. for the win
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https://www.youtube.com/watch
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dWscxdleZzI
May he forever blush for this shit! Butt will still get tail!
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Bob Rivers Twisted Christmas
Bob Rivers Twisted Christmas Songs
O Come All Ye Grateful Dead-Heads