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| | Weir Here: The Best of Bob Weir | | | Music Artist : | | Bob Weir | | Music Style : | | Album-Oriented Rock (AOR) | | Record Label : | | Hybrid Recordings | | Release Date : | | 2004-03-23 | | Discs : | | 2 | | Store Price : | | $18.98 | | Artistopia's Price: $18.98 | | Usually ships in 24 hours | | |
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CD Tracks/Songs
Disc 11. Cassidy - Bob Weir
2. Mexicali Blues - Bob Weir
3. Looks Like Rain - Bob Weir
4. Playing In The Band - Bob Weir
5. One More Saturday Night - Bob Weir
6. Lazy Lightnin' - Kingfish
7. Supplication - Kingfish
8. Feel Like A Stranger - Grateful Dead
9. Easy To Slip - Bob Weir
10. Wrong Way Feelin' - Bob Weir
11. Shade Of Grey - Bob Weir
12. I Want To (Fly Away) - Bobby & the Midnights
13. Easy Answers - Rob Wasserman/Bob Weir/Neil Young
14. Two Djinn - Ratdog
15. Ashes And Glass - Ratdog
16. Wabash Cannonball - Dan Zanes & Bob Weir
Disc 21. Truckin' - Grateful Dead
2. Estimated Prophet - Grateful Dead
3. Hell In A Bucket - Grateful Dead
4. Me & Bobby McGee - Grateful Dead
5. New Minglewood Blues - Grateful Dead
6. Man Smart, Woman Smarter - Grateful Dead
7. Jack Straw - Grateful Dead
8. Sugar Magnolia - Grateful Dead
9. Throwing Stones - Grateful Dead
10. The Music Never Stopped - Grateful Dead
11. Masters Of War - Ratdog
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Customer Reviews of This Album/CD |
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 Another dead head review
Submitted on: 2009-01-15 |
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Yes, I have been a Dead Head for over 30 years. So if you are not, maybe this won't be worth reading. Between the times I saw the Grateful Dead, and the times I saw Bobby and the Midnights and Ratdog, it is safe to say that Bob Weir is the one musician I have seen in concert more than anyone else. Of course I have so many albums, cassettes, CD's, bootlegs, etc. to listen to. So why purchase this double album on CD? Well, why not? I can't afford to go out and purchase all of these songs on their respective CD's.
The first CD really has a nice collection of Bobby's album tracks. I especially appreciated "Looks like Rain" and "Lazy Lightnin'." It would be good to supplement this collection with the most excellent Ratdog CD "Evening Moods." Or of course Bobby's masterpiece "Ace."
The second CD has a good collection of live material. It would certainly be easy to say that this or that should have been done differently in this collection. However, it is well worth purchasing for any Bob Weir fan. I'm looking forward to another collection in the future. Hopefully one with "Samson and Delilah" and "I Need a Miracle." |
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Weir Dead
Submitted on: 2008-02-09 |
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This generously apportioned double-CD set features Bob Weir's work both within the Grateful Dead and apart, the first disc comprising studio recordings while the second disc is live. Bob Weir was a founder member of the Dead as a co-lead vocalist and rhythm guitarist, having been in previous incarnations of the band dating back to Mother McCree's Uptown Jug Champions in early 1964. His earliest solo composition for the Dead is Born Cross-Eyed, though this is not represented on this set. The autobiographical Dead anthem Truckin', however, for which he co-wrote the music, opens the second disc in a rousing 1971 Grateful Dead live version; along with Sugar Magnolia the earliest recordings on the set.
CD1 is a trawl through Bob Weir's side projects: a couple by Kingfish and RatDog, one by Bobby and The Midnites, a few from solo albums and collaborations with Dan Zanes, Rob Wasserman and Neil Young and the like. There is one less than classic track from a Grateful Dead album, Feel Like A Stranger from 1980's Go to Heaven, but the lion's share of the disc comes from the excellent album Ace, which opens CD1. In fact, apart from the first three tracks, all of Ace is included. This is both a good and bad thing as Ace has dated far better than some of the late seventies/eighties recordings, and songs like Cassidy and Looks Like Rain are magnificent. Although conceived as a solo project for some new Bob Weir/John Barlow songs, it is to all intents and purposes a hidden Grateful Dead album as the entire band turned out to play on it. It is a bad thing only in that whereas the other tracks might serve as samplers for the albums from which they come, so much of Ace is represented that few will go on to actually acquire the full thing.
If bought as a substitute for Ace, which awaits re-release, the second disc is ample compensation for those missing tracks. Apart from one rehearsal run-through of Masters Of War played by RatDog, everything is from the vast archive of live Grateful Dead concerts recorded between 1971 and 1990, some of it made available on retrospective live albums released between 1997 and 2003, which only avid collectors will have, but over half an hour of it previously unreleased. All of it has been chosen to effectively illustrate the roles Bob Weir played within the band. The new stuff includes a memorable eleven minute version of Estimated Prophet, a 1989 return to the New Minglewood Blues and a vintage interpretation of Me And Bobby McGee. Probably the greatest live band in the world, a 1989 performance of Man Smart, Woman Smarter sits quite organically beside Jack Straw from 1972.
The strong feeling that arises from playing this representative 2CD set is that the Dead were a collective, and that sometimes the light should be all shining on Bob Weir. |
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 As a singer and songwriter he's a great rhythm guitar player
Submitted on: 2006-04-27 |
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| Jerry Garcia was a stone cold genius. The Grateful Dead was his backup band. Bob Weir's solo work is easily as good as the solo work of Bill Wyman, Keith Moon, Dave Davies, and Clarence Clemmons. From a 40 year career this is the "best" they could come up with? |
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 Wrong Way Feelin?!?!?!
Submitted on: 2005-08-13 |
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| Heaven Help The Fool is my personal favorite Bobby solo album (you can't really count Ace). It's so self-referentially 70s poseur, but so musically wonderful in Weir's idiosyncratic way, that it's a classic. Except for Wrong Way Feelin--while the words are hilarious, it's easily the most awkward and lamest tune on the album. Which makes the absence of Heaven Help the Fool and Bombs Away, that much more painful and inexplicable. I mean, I'm sure Weir finds it a little embarrassing, perhaps to self-analytical, but, hell, if he can be play the role of the "Estimated Prophet," then why can't he be the Fool? |
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 Bob and the Dead at their Best
Submitted on: 2005-06-16 |
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| This is one heck of an album but theres one problem the first five songs ["Cassidy", 'Mexicali Blues", "Looks Like Rain", "Playin in the Band", and One More Saturday Night]from "ACE" all have The Grateful Dead as the back up musicians. Its a VERY BEST OF BOB WEIR not THE GRATEFUL DEAD.The next two songs [ "Lazy Lightnin" and "Supplication"] come from Bobby's second album "KINGFISH". in my opinion they should have put "Big Iron" [also from "KINGFISH"] on too. The next song [Feel like a Stranger] comes from the Grateful Dead album "GO to HEAVEN" Easy to Slip,Wrong way Feelin,and Shade of Gray all come fom Bobs third album HEAVEN HELP THE FOOL. From BOBBY AND THE MIDNITES comes "I Want to Fly Away". Also in my opinion they should have put "Book of Rules" aswell. Between BOBBY AND THE MIDNITES and TRIOS came WHERE THE BEAT MEETS THE STREET also by BOBBY AND THE MIDNITES but it was totaly overlooked. "Easy Answers" comes from Rob Wassermans album TRIOS [Neil Young palys guitar on this song also.] "Two Djinn" and "Ashes and Glass" both come from EVENING MOODS by RATDOG. Finally [on the first side that is] comes "Wabash Cannonball" from a Childrens album entitled, Dan Zanes and Friends,House Party. Disk one would have to be my favorite disk because most of it is from Bobbys solo career. Disk two, which is dominated by the GRATEFUL DEAD, starts with "Truckin" from LADIES AND GRNTLEMEN...THE GRATEFUL DEAD. The second through fifth songs ["Estimated Prophet", "Hell in a Bucket", "Me and Bobby McGee", "New Minglewood Blues", and "Men Smart Woman Smarter"] are all previousley unrelesed versions. Note: This is Man Smart, Woman Smarters offical realese. "Jack Straw" comes from STEPPIN OUT WIYH THE GRATEFUL DEAD. "Sugar Magnolia" comes LADIES AND GENTLEMEN also. "Throwing Stones" comes from VIEW FROM THE VAULT FOUR. "The Music Never Stopped" from FALLOUT FROM THE PHIL ZONE. And finaly "Masters of War",is a previously unrelesed song from a RATDOG rehersal. I hope this helped in your chosing of this album. Support BOB WEIR. |
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