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From: mayfield@ucbvax.ARPA (Jim Mayfield)
Newsgroups: net.music.gdead
Subject: Re: Twenty Years So Far
Message-ID: <8330@ucbvax.ARPA>
Date: Wed, 19-Jun-85 22:19:18 EDT
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Posted: Wed Jun 19 22:19:18 1985
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Summary: Random assorted comments

> 
> 	"Smokestack Lightning" surprised everyone.  I haven't talked to
> 	anyone who remembers them doing this in recent years.  Bobby sang
> 	it, of course.  It seems as if he might be ready to take some
> 	more chances on material which Pigpen would have done in the past.

They played Smokestack at the Berkeley Community Theater last year
(2 Nov 1984 -- currently at the top of my wish list; anybody wanna
trade?), as well as a couple of other times on the east coast.

> There was a Jerry song that I haven't heard before.  I don't know whether
> it's a new song or a traditional folk song--part of the lyrics are "Comes a
> time when a blind man takes your hand and says `Don't you see?'"  Anybody
> out there have any info on this one?

It's called, appropriately enough, "Comes A Time."  I don't think they've
played it since '80.  It's on Jerry's "Reflections" album.  The chorus goes:

	Comes a time when the blind man takes your hand
	Says "Don't you see?  Gotta make it somehow
	On the dreams you still believe
	Don't give it up.  You've got an empty cup
	Only love can fill.  Only love can fill."

What the heck, here are the verses:

	Been walking all morning; went walking all night.
	Can't see much difference between the dark and light
	I feel the wind, and I taste the rain
	Never in my mind to cause so much pain

	<chorus>

	From day to day, just letting it ride
	You get so far away from how it feels inside
	You can't let go cause you're afraid to fall
	But the day may come when you can't feel at all

	<chorus>

> ........................................................... Due to the
> extra volume and residual irritation/ringing in my ears from the night
> before, I heard most of Sunday's show with tissue stuffed in my ears.  I'd
> like to hear from other people about this--did you also have problems with
> Sunday's sound?  Where were you sitting?

They certainly played louder on Sunday than the previous two days.  I as
usual had cotton in my ears during all three shows.  Cries of wimp abound,
but I don't like ringing ears.  I highly recommend it as part of the
standard concert kit.  If you don't like what it does to the highs,
try placing some in the lower part of your ear so as to only partially
cover your "earhole" (is there a technical name for earhole?).  Another
thing to try is sticking your fingers in your ears at the very end of
songs, when the band tends to play its loudest, and the audience is
screaming its head off as well.  Not only does this filter out the
very loudest noises, but usually I find that I can hear what they're
playing better that way.

						- Jim Mayfield