#row jimmy

[krispyweiss]

Song Review: Grateful Dead - “Row Jimmy” (Live, June 14, 1991)

Musical and vocal train wrecks aside - and there are a few of them - “Row Jimmy” made it out of the station and back home mostly intact when the Grateful Dead played it on June 14, 1991, in Washington, D.C.

Characteristically languid but extra-busy owing to Jerry Garcia’s MIDI toys and the two-keyboard lineup the band was sporting at the time, the song benefits from bassist Phil Lesh and pianist Bruce Hornsby’s decisions to essentially solo throughout the 10-minute runtime. Garcia, too, gets in some licks, both on MIDI flute and with pure-guitar sounds; his resolving solo seems poised to push the song into must-hear territory, but then the thing nearly falls apart and never fully recovers.

But the first seven minutes are divine.

This latest video in the band’s “All the Years Live” video series is therefore presumably a bump in what Sound Bites remembers as a high-quality, post-Brent Mydland-era show.

Grade card: Grateful Dead - “Row Jimmy” (Live - 6/14/91) - B-

Read Sound Bites’ previous “All the Years Live” coverage here.

7/18/24

[euthyami]

ghost vs ghost, who would win?

(it's danny. danny kicked timmy's ass to the ghost zone and back)

just a little smth to celebrate me finishing shadow showdown 100%

[kevinvoncrastenburg]

Yet another Urbz x Sims photoset. ✨

Did you know the Urbz turned 20 this year? Feel free to share your favourite memories and thoughts of it. I'd love to hear them!

[letters-to-rosie]

I talk a lot about systemic issues in the Arcane setting, but you know what?

if Piltover had a proper school system for all their kids, Silco wouldn't have been able to get in his child labor bag

[jestroer]

What I love about Jimmy being out first every single time Is that it's not even that he is so bad at the game, he is just so fucking unlucky at all times. Like, the best example I can give is Last Life, where he spawned with two lives, which is in itself very unlucky, didn't gain any and still he died seconds before Mumbo who spawned with 4 and in the same ep as the others who had more lives than him. Like, he barely ever died in some epic battle where his PvP skills just weren't good enough, it's always some shit like falling from somewhere, traps not meant for him, accidently looking at an enderman. It's always a chance he dies first and the chance somehow is always against Jimmy. Like I know we love calling Jimmy bad at the game but for me it's much more interesting that his skills are genuinely not the main reason he dies first. Bad luck omen as well as death omen he's not fucking beating those allegations boys

[mcybree]

I’ve been thinking a lot about how merciless scott was towards joel in limited life specifically during the session where joel was outwardly grieving jimmy in this messy violent desperate way that made him appear mad. and I’ve been thinking about scott’s own relationship towards the concept of grief, what grief “should” look like, and his tendency to act as though he is above letting his emotions consume him. and i’ve been thinking about scott stating that joel “deserves it” shortly before taking him out of the series. do we think that scott judged joel so severely for grieving jimmy in such a raw way that he killed that fucker four times to get rid of him. because of his own standards for what correct grief looks like. and how any reflection of scott’s own emotions needs to be eliminated. i personally dont think so but I think the concept goes hard as fuck anyways

[tubbytarchia]

I've been having a little bit of fun with tomodachi life. Just a little though

[henk-heijmans]

Jimmy Dodds at his pigeon cree on Albion Row Allotments, Byker, England, 1980 - by Sirkka-Liisa Konttinen (1948), Finnish/English

[hermitshell]

Thinking about Bigb winning wild life very very hard so it comes true

[phoenixtherobot]

Hermittober Day 7: Fall!

I like to imagine Joel tripped a little when he got shot so he could fit the theme of all of the Bread Boys Falling

[bghavva82]

Peter Pan🍏 and James Hook🍎

Father-son relationship

Neverland (2011)

[krispyweiss]

Grateful Dead Turn the Tape Back to ’78 on Latest Friend of the Devils Preview

- “New Minglewood Blues,” “Loser” and “Row Jimmy” find band in fighting shape

“Row Jimmy” as performed April 12, 1978, in North Carolina is the very essence of Grateful Dead groupthink.

Every member of the septet is locked in to Jerry Garcia’s cascading ballad to the point that each musician’s contributions are individually audible even as they make up the greater whole. It’s an astounding sonic display of what the band called the X factor.

“Jimmy” is out alongside show mates “New Minglewood Blues” and “Loser” as the latest generous sampler from the Dead’s forthcoming (Sept. 20) Friend of the Devils: April 1978 boxset.

These song, too, find the Gratefuls marking the spot in a laid-back yet fully engaged fashion that finds Garcia’s guitar and Keith Godchaux’s piano engaged in wordless conversation on “Minglewood” and bassist Phil Lesh subtly nudging his bandmates toward fire on “Loser.” And as Garcia runs through the resolving solo, they jump right in it.

This is the post-retirement Godchaux lineup in full flower - the kind of stuff that makes it hard to believe the pianist and his vocalist wife, Donna Jean, would be gone in less than a year.

Hear the latest sampler here and read Sound Bites’ previous Friend of the Devils coverage here and here.

8/30/24

[euthyami]

even in your dreams, i'll protect you

[strangledwires]

The Urbz: Central Station, Gasoline Row, Skyline Beach, and Southside Bridge thumbnails

[kerfuffleddingus]

I am having thoughts about the canary curse.

So canaries. We’ve all seen the posts. There’s a few that stand out to me, one being that the canaries didn’t actually die (or weren’t supposed to) . The guy that devised the canary method ( John Haldane ) was concerned for the birds welfare, so they had a little machine to revive the bird once it fell over/ stoped singing.

This is what’s happening for the first few deaths in the life series. Everyone’s being revived at this point, no one’s actually dying, but…. No one’s leaving the fucking coal mine.

A key point in using a canary in the first place is that it warns you, tells you hey this place is dangerous stop going!

They keep going.

Jim’s death each season (sans secret life) is the turning point because he’s the first one to permadie.

He’s not the warning. He’s the result of ignoring it.

[mosswoodmc]

THE DEVIL WORKS HARD BUT THE WATCHERS WORK HARDER!