>>>>>There are a few Google hits for ["viv phillips" "road manager"] and ["vivian phillips" "road manager"].
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>>>>Traffic in '74?
>>>Before and after.
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>>>>I wore the grooves out of "Low Spark of High Heeled Boys" and "Shootout at the Fantasy Factory"
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>>>That was the era of 1/2 hr jams on stage (g)
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>>And audiences who loved it. I was at a Grateful Dead concert where there was a 58 minute "Dark Star" that includes about a 20 minute percussion solo <g> You've got to do have a *lot* of acid or psilocybin coursing through the crowd to make that work.
>LOL
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>>Without Owsley, Garcia would have been regulated to playing jug band with Old and in the Way.
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>>Of course an uncle told me of a Benny Goodman concert where in the middle of Sing Sing Sing the band just left the stage while Krupa burned off the benzadrine for what seemed like hours
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yj-4FN2umsk>>
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IOVZ1gZDexo&feature=related>>
>>oh, man I can't leave out the 1938 Carnegie Hall recording. It don't get no better than this
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dbzXS49937A&feature=related>
>Bit lost on me since I'm not a greart jazz fan I'm afraid....
Yeah, but listen to Krupa ! That's not jazz, that's just ... drums ! like they'd never been played before and have seldom been played since. And the beginnings of the percussion jam.
If you start back with Dixieland (or klezmer ) and go through big band and the pre-Bop combos, it's a smooth path into the long-jam sets of rock bands in the 60s and 70s. ( and in jazz they even go beyond 3 chords <g> )
Really, not even Brubeck?
BTW, if HBO's series Treme ( set in New Orleans after Katrina ) plays there, don't miss it.
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