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| | The Strange Remain | | | Music Artist : | | The Other Ones | | Music Style : | | Psychedelic Rock | | Record Label : | | Arista | | Release Date : | | 1999-02-09 | | Discs : | | 2 | | Store Price : | | $20.98 | | Artistopia's Price: $20.98 | |
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CD Tracks/Songs
Disc 11. St. Stephen/The Eleven
2. Jack Straw
3. Sugaree
4. Corrina
5. Only the Strange Remain
6. White-Wheeled Limousine
7. Estimated Prophet
Disc 21. Playing in the Band
2. Other One
3. Banyan Tree
4. Rainbow's Cadillac
5. Mountains of the Moon
6. Friend of the Devil
7. Baba Jingo
8. China Cat Sunflower/I Know You Rider
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 A Heck of a Fun Recording
Submitted on: 2009-08-03 |
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The Other Ones consists of three core members of the Grateful Dead (percussionist Mickey Hart, guitarist Bob Weir, and bassist Phil Lesh), sometime Dead keyboardist Bruce Hornsby, and some other musicians (saxophonist Dave Ellis, guitarists Steve Kimock and Mark Karan, and drummer John Molo, whose crack drumming has been featured on Bruce Hornsby's solo recordings) who were gathered together to make up a band to tour with the Furthur Festival in the summer of 1998. Not surprisingly, the music featured on this generous two-CD release (two disks with more than 70 minutes each, priced at only about three bucks more than a single CD) is mostly Grateful Dead tunes, with a couple of Bruce Hornsby tunes thrown in.
The set starts off with a riff that David Crosby took credit for in his autobiography--the Dead used it as the foundation of "St. Stephen," while the Airplane used it as the foundation of "Volunteers"--and as soon as you hear it, your mind will flash back to Live/Dead, released three decades ago. But Jerry is no longer around to sing, or play (the guitarists do a good job of sounding like him while not trying to sound just like him), and the sound quality is much cleaner--partially due to advances in recording art, but also due to better setup and equipment as far as the band itself is concerned.
Another difference is in the drumming: 30 years ago, the Dead featured two big trap sets, manned by Hart and Bill Kreutzmann, while the Other Ones feature Molo on the trap set, Hart moving over to play various percussion instruments. Although I sometimes missed the sloppy interplay of the two trap sets, especially on the opening cut, there's no doubt that Molo is a superior drummer, the net result being a net improvement sonically and musically.
Lesh's bass sounds great--full and fat and fine; the vocalists enunciate clearly, even through the PA system; and the net result is a really clean live recording of a band that is really having fun looking back to the past and forward to the future. Of the two Hornsby cuts, "Rainbow's Cadillac" fits right into the program, sounding for all the world like an old Grateful Dead song that could have been penned by Robert Hunter, but "White-Wheeled Limousine" sounds oddly out of place, interrupting the mood of the program. But that is a minor quibble.
All in all, this is a heck of a fun recording. I'm not sure what tie-dyed in the wool Deadheads will think of it, but as one who has liked the Dead ever since he first heard the first few notes of "The Golden Road to Unlimited Devotion" on his mom's console stereo while he was still in high school, this non-Deadhead Dead lover thinks The Other Ones have made a great recording that belongs on the same shelf as his favorite Dead CDs. |
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HUBBA HUBBA
Submitted on: 2009-06-15 |
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Ok... Jerry's gone... Who's that on keyboard's? Bruce Hornsby? Holy Samoly!! "White Wheeled Limousine" and "Rainbow's Cadillac" rock and go outside what The Dead usually play. Saint Steven and The Eleven are the best they've played in ages.
Overall, incredible and fantastic. One of the best shows I've ever been to. Stunning....... Good God Almighty Lord Talk To Me Now!!! |
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 WAY overpriced as of January 2009!
Submitted on: 2009-01-10 |
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| Beware of the prices listed for this CD--especially the "collectible" prices! This disc is STILL available directly through dead.net for $18.00, which makes the $175 and $75 price tags on some of the amazon partner sites purely inexcusable! Just because Amazon isn't carrying it themselves any longer doesn't mean that it's a rarity! |
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Get it
Submitted on: 2004-11-10 |
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| I went to this tour in 1998. Unfortunately I was 9 years old then. This is a great way to remember the things I don't remember. I've listened to most albums by the Grateful Dead and this is the Grateful Dead. The only thing I wish was on the tour/CD was Jerry. The White Wheeled Limousine and St. Stephens were unbelievable. I think this CD captures the more jam band aspect of the Dead, which is what they're known for. If you want to hear good live music from this band, this is the CD to get. |
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good energy, jamming, and true spirit on display
Submitted on: 2004-08-02 |
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Not terrific all the way through, but the standout tracks on here make up for the crap (corinna, phil's vocals, and mickey's "singing" for the most part). It's a known fact that Garcia had a musical connection w/Hornsby-listen to some of the east coast fall '90 run for examples aplenty-and it really is the talent of hornsby and the teamwork of Karan/Kimock that makes this set shine. The Jack Straw>Sugaree is pretty much as good as it gets pre or post jerry (alot of heads will beg to differ, but the only Grateful Dead Sugaree that compares is the 12.10.89 LA Forum version-breathtaking!) However, the Jammed-out conclusion of Jack Straw and the tension-and-release style of jamming on the subsequent Sugaree is not to be missed. The Eleven is really well-done, too, and it's lyrics are kind of tough to phrase correctly but Bobby shines here. The Hornsby contributions, particularly White-wheeled limosine, are killer-and modified a bit to suit the particular taste of picky heads.
Complaints? Mountains of the Moon is a welcome tune, and one that the Dead had abondoned long long ago, but Lesh's singing is horrible to be blunt. And alot of people dig Estimated Prophet, but I for one never felt it was that great-more annoying than anything. But the energy and teamwork on display here is easily worth the price. A worthy live double-disc set for any music fan. |
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