But it definitely has to do… you have to be alert, in a certain way. There are times when we feel like we're really clicking into something here. Again, this is one of those things - it's a totally subjective kind of experience. JERRY GARCIA : It finds structure, it finds expression if we're lucky. JESSE: But it’s also pretty hard to hold space for genuine chaos. JERRY GARCIA : We want to maintain some areas absolutely unstructured - absolutely, totally unstructured. JESSE: This is Jerry Garcia talking to Howard Rheingold in 1990. But on a performance level, it's an orchestrated piece of music, as is everything they do, “Wharf Rat” and everything. Whereas if they did “China”/”Rider” three times on that tour, they're not identical, the energy would be different.
And every night was different in “Drums/Space,” dramatically. Grateful Dead archivist and legacy manager David Lemieux.ĭAVID LEMIEUX: That's the moment when the Grateful Dead, with their big label of being an improv band, truly got to improvise. A punchline to some, but a nightly cosmic portal to many others, it was where some of their most inspired music occurred.
The music on Infrared Roses emerged from the part of Dead shows labeled “Drums/Space,” the point about halfway through the second set when they left the songs behind. JESSE: The Grateful Dead, of course, kept writing songs after Built To Last, but they also kept developing in other ways, and Infrared Roses was a progress report from their improvisational group mind - created at the cutting edge of technology, just the way Live/Dead was more than 20 years earlier. Here’s some of the title track.ĪUDIO: “Infrared Roses” (0:42-1:14). JESSE: Here’s a Grateful Dead trivia question that’s not actually that trivial: What was the last album of original Grateful Dead music? True, the Dead put out Built To Last in 1989, but the answer to the question-and the subject and springboard for today’s episode-is Infrared Roses, released in 1991, 30 years ago this fall, and now streaming for the first time. Bill Kreutzmann & Bob Bralove, Grateful Dead Hour #169, 1991.
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