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'An aphorism, properly stamped and molded, has not been "deciphered" when it has simply been read; rather one has then to begin its interpretation, for which is required an art of interpretation.' -- Nietzsche, 'On the Genealogy of Morals'

Grateful Dead: Visions of Johanna « Previous | |Next »
September 26, 2012

From the Spectrum 03 18 1995. This is in the band’s closing years--- the final stage is '92-95 which saw the band’s increasingly erratic musical performances and Garcia’s ultimate decomposition.

The show sucks. It was nearly the end. Garcia was uninspiring and close to being incompetent. The Grateful Dead had come to the end of the road.

Garcia's vocals on Dylan's Visions of Johanna are forlorn and the interpretation is bitter sweet. Seemingly out of nowhere, Garcia pulled together a strong, beautiful, heartfelt version of the song, the last Dylan song he would ever perform.

I find this interpretation very emotional. It stands out from the sloppy, bored music they were producing.---the band played without a lot of dynamics, so that the overall energy was rather flat.

An earlier version from Berkeley Community Theater show Berkeley, CA (4/22/86). It has better guitar work:

| Posted by Gary Sauer-Thompson at 11:16 PM |