Fallout From the Phil Zone [Live]

Disc: 1
1. Dancing in the Streets
2. New Speedway Boogie
3. Viola Lee Blues
4. Easy Wind
5. Mason's Children
6. Hard to Handle
Disc: 2
1. Music Never Stopped
2. Jack-A-Roe
3. In the Midnight Hour
4. Visions of Johanna
5. Box of Rain

Tracks:

Dancin' In The Streets
New Speedy Boogie
Viola Lee Blues
Easy Wind
Mason's Children
Hard To Handle

Tracks:

The Music Never Stopped
Jack-A-Roe
In The Midnight Hour
Visions Of Johanna
Box Of Rain

Customer Reviews:

Has Some Nice Stuff.......2003-07-18

It's a good idea - put out a release with interesting versions of songs, many from the band's early years, where the whole show won't ever be coming out for one reason or another.

You get to hear some early Dead here, and it's generally enjoyable. You get a hard-rocking "Hard to Handle" that transcends in energy if not sound quality the other versions that I've heard. You get a very nice "Visions of Johanna".

A great medley of peak Grateful Dead recordings.......2003-05-27

This 2-cd set is a sort of GD sampler platter, selected by bassist Phil Lesh from 30 years of live performances. The half-hour "In the Midnight Hour" is hilarious (at one point, Pig tries to get Bobby to dance with a girl in the audience!). There is also a tearfully beautiful version of Dylan's "Visions of Johanna" recorded just a few months before Jerry's death - the way he pours his own pain into the song is simply heartbreaking. There's not a single track that I don't like in this set, and some, such as "Hard to Handle" and "Jack-a-Roe," are my favorite versions in my collection. There's not much continuity in the album - you would never mistake this for a recording of a single concert - but the playing is outstanding throughout.

Hard to Handle.......2003-02-15

This CD is a strange mix of great Dead songs, you can tell each track is really significant to Phil. Great versions of New Speedway Boogie, Viola Lee Blues, Music Never Stopped, and a 30 minute Midnight Hour with Pigpen at the top of his game. However, the highlight of this 2 disc set is by far, HARD TO HANDLE, containing one of the best Jerry solos captured on tape.

Phil has damn good taste.......2002-07-10

I don't buy a bunch of Grateful Dead Concert tapes or the CDs that are being made from them now. My main interest in the group is the early days, before the taping became a big part of the concerts and when the band played every night as if it might be their last. I bought this set because it was cheap - at a used books store, and because there was a live version of "Viola Lee's Blues" to be heard.
On at least three occasions when I lived in San Francisco I watched the Dead fail to get through this monster they Jerry built onto a Cannon's Jug Stompers blues without at least one painful halt. It always became a major guitar pile up on the freeway of psychodelia. (If you have the 12 cd set you can listen to four or five crashes in one 25 minute version included as an extra on the first Greatful Dead cd). I'd also heard a few taped versions over the years and didn't expect this would be any different. But as I said before it was cheap and there were a couple Pigpen tunes I wanted to have, so I shelled out.
Now I suspect I'm going to end up shelling out a lot more (yes I bought the 12 CD set but I have an excuse for that), even though I doubt I'll find much better. The three Pigpen songs are all excellent although the sound is rough. The version of "Dancin' in the Streets" sounds like my memory of the old Sunflower bootlegs I wore out 25 years ago and there is a nice version of the "girl who disguises as a man to join her love at war" song(s) called Jack-a-Roe.
The last 2 cuts on the second cd are both weak. Garcia's voice was shot long before 1995, and listening to him gasp out "Visions of Joanna" is truly painful. "Box of Rain" was always a song that started with a few good solo verses and ended with several choruses of the thinest weakest harmony singing the Dead ever did (and that's saying a lot). A live version has the added disadvantage of the same weak harmonies being sung terribly out of tune. It ain't a pretty picture.

But those are the only losers in about 2 hours of music - and they do come at the very end so you can hit the old remote and move on to something else or go back and play "The Midnight Hour" again, and again, and again...
Thank you Phil - good album. I've taken up residence in The Phil Zone

Road Trippin' Blues.......2002-05-12

This has to be one of the best road trippin' CDs ever. Buy it if you're a Dead fan, if you like Ron "Pig Pen" McKernan, or if you're one to let music take you someplace surreal. This has the best versions of "Easy Wind" and "Midnight Hour" I've ever heard (and believe me I've heard a lot).

Average customer rating:

CD is good, Too Hard To Handle Is Incredible

Fallout from the Phil Zone
Grateful Dead
Manufacturer: Grateful Dead / Wea
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B0002SPPUK
Release Date: 2004-09-14

Tracks:

Dancing in the Streets
New Speedway Boogie
Viola Lee Blues
Easy Wind
Mason's Children
Hard to Handle

Tracks:

Music Never Stopped
Jack-A-Roe
In the Midnight Hour
Visions of Johanna
Box of Rain

Customer Reviews:

CD is good, Too Hard To Handle Is Incredible.......2007-07-13

There are some nice selections on this disk (the first Jack A Roe performed by the Dead), but nothing that is a truly must have, other than the Too Hard To Handle. The track is from an audience mic of a 1971 performance and the sound quality is exceptional. I grew up going to Dead shows in the 80's and was accustomed to the crowd interaction when the crowd had a well versed familiarity with the Dead's material. Here there is this raw excitement you can hear from the crowd's reaction. The way that they respond to Jerry's solo is just like an old fashioned revival - the energy just keeps escalating in the crowd response and Jerry in turn just keeps ratcheting up his playing until the house sounds like it going to come down. Amazing!

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