American Beauty 50, Episode 9: Attics Of My Life

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🗓️ 3 December 2020

⏱️ 95 minutes

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Summary

Two episodes in one: we meditate on the harmony tracks and metaphysical overtones of the hymn-like Attics Of My Life, before David Crosby and Steve Silberman return for extended look at how the American Beauty sessions flowed into Croz’s masterpiece, If I Could Only Remember My Name, where Jerry Garcia and the Dead served as supporting musicians and friends.

Bob Weir, David Crosby, Graham Nash, Stephen Barncard, Ira Kaplan, Steve Silberman, Erik Davis, William Tyler, Brian Kehew, David Lemieux, Gary Lambert

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0:00.0	The Good Old Grateful Dead cast, the official podcast of The Grateful Dead.
0:09.9	I'm Rich Mahan with Jesse Jarno, exploring the music and legacy of the Grateful Dead for the committed and the curious.
0:17.0	Welcome to the good old Grateful Deadcast.
0:20.0	Thanks very much for tuning in. We're glad you're here to hear this one which focuses
0:25.2	on the vocal piece to resistance on American Beauty, Attix of my life. And in keeping with
0:31.6	custom like we like to do, we also take a trip down a parallel highway and dive into an album that was born in the same musical delivery room as American Beauty, David Crosby's, if I could only remember my name.
0:45.0	We have two-thirds of CSN here to help us with this one, so grab some popcorn and buckle up.
0:50.8	Want some cool visuals to go along with this auditory trip?
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1:02.0	While you're there, catch up on the episodes from season one
1:04.6	which goes track by track through Working Man's Dead. You can link from there to
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1:13.0	Please help this podcast by subscribing, hitting that like button and if the spirit moves you please leave us a review and thank you very much.
1:21.0	It is the 50th anniversary of American Beauty and The Grateful Dead
1:25.6	had prepared a three-cedes set reissue of this classic album which includes a pristine
1:30.0	remastering of the album's 10 tracks as well as an unreleased live show from
1:34.4	February 18th 1971 at the Capitol Theater. It was mixed from the original
1:40.3	16 track Reel to Real Multitratracks at Bob Weir's TRI Studios.
1:44.7	And along with this impeccably remastered 3-disc set,
1:47.6	which you really do need to hear to believe,
1:50.0	there's also a new batch of Angels Share American Beauty Audio.
1:54.6	Out now, not only the full band acoustic demos for American Beauty,
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