Wednesday, July 14, 2004

this Dead song "Estimated Prophet"... I guess it's a classic Deed song, but I wasn't listening to the Dead when it appeared... I have a live mp3... the odd takeover of the group by Bob Weir... who really took singing seriously but alas... Pigpen was the strongest singer, in straight ahead r&b style... Jerry's voice was warm but he lost it totally real quick... Weir's voice is uninteresting, and even when he belts it out, it sounds weak or thin... and he's styling, ick... but 3 minutes in, Jerry solos, and it has to be one of the sweetest solos he ever... built measuredly on a simple riff, it just bubbles.. but then Weir sings again... then Jerry takes an extended solo which is, ugh, 'jazzy'... in the sense of drifty, looking around... fade out...

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