First Time Hearing "Morning Dew" | Grateful Dead REACTION

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[@ronmccarty2378]

About the microphones… “The Wall of Sound acted as its own monitoring system, and it was therefore assembled behind the band so the members could hear exactly what their audience was hearing. Because of this, Owsley Stanley and Alembic designed a special microphone system to prevent feedback. This placed matched pairs of condenser microphones spaced 60 mm apart and wired in reverse polarity from each other. The vocalist sang into the top microphone, and the lower mic picked up whatever other sound was present in the stage environment. The signals were added together using a differential summing amp so that the sound common to both mics (the sound from the Wall) was canceled, and only the vocals were amplified.” en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wall_of_Sound_%28Grateful_Dead%29

[@deepdivederek]

Nice!

[@Dr3amtime]

"Morning Dew" wasn't actually written by the Dead or any of their usual lyricists. It's by Bonnie Dobson (Canadian), who has said it's meant to be a conversation between the last man and woman left after an apocalypse. It was inspired by the movie On the Beach, about a nuclear holocaust.

[@cosmonaut9942]

I was at this show in October '74. It was a 5 night run and was made into The Grateful Dead movie. I was 19. Now I'm 70 and still on the bus. Thanks for this.

[@Ann-so2xp]

The grateful dead is one of the greatest bands ever, each song is new every time.....love it

[@carlos_herrera]

10:02 on this particular night one of the Roadies decided that nobody could be on stage without getting dosed with LSD. This tune came at the end of a roughly 2 hour set which started with ~45 minutes of freeform electronic improv colloquially known as Phil and Ned, followed by ~45 minutes of funky jazz fusion in the form of the GD tune Dark Star,

[@haroldjacobs1490]

Thank you for doing this reaction. I am surprised that people have been leaving negative comments...normally deadheads veer towards being "kind"

[@danallshaw1131]

Welcome home, man. Ask as many questions as you like. May you carry the Dead in your heart always.😎🌄

[@cosmonaut9942]

One thing about the haters: they weren't there and if they were they were not part of the scene which was all about spontaneity and appreciation of music without dragging others down It may sound trite but the Dead's music was about peace and love. I'm old but still on the bus and I love that young people are still open minded enough to appreciate an older generation's music. Don't pay attention to the haters.

[@jeffmartin1026]

Give a listen to Row Jimmy from the Cornell show, another "easy" song that is full of delights. Then listen to Morning Dew from that show, a true mind blowing version of it.

[@rhintas]

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grateful_Dead The Wall of Sound was designed to act as its own monitor system, and it was therefore assembled behind the band so the members could hear exactly what their audience was hearing. Because of this, a special microphone system had to be designed to prevent feedback. The Dead used matched pairs of condenser microphones spaced 60 mm apart and run out-of-phase. The vocalist sang into the top microphone, and the lower mic picked up whatever other sound was present in the stage environment. The signals were summed, the sound that was common to both mics (the sound from the Wall) was cancelled, and only the vocals were amplified.

[@neilphelan145]

Thank you for the perfect explanation. I already knew this but most people don't know. Then again a lot of Dead Heads never saw or heard the Wall of Sound.

[@boffo766]

@@neilphelan145 Though I don't think any Heads were unaware of it, or the reason for the mics...always pushing the boundaries of large-venue sound reinforcement...Owsley sure new how to bend minds in more ways than one.

[@deepdivederek]

That's awesome! Also above my pay grade!

[@bobschenkel7921]

Every Dead Head knows this setting and era. This is Winterland, and the shows that were recorded for "The Grateful Dead Movie", which was released in 1977. This "Morning Dew" is from that movie. The only "Morning Dew" more famous than this one is the one at Barton Hall at Cornell University 5/8/77. Derek, you should watch this movie, you will see the real GD, and the construction of "The Wall Of Sound", still the standard by which all live PA Systems are measured.

[@bobschenkel7921]

"Th Wall Of Sound" was powered by 26,000 Watts of McIntosh Amplifiers. To this day they maintain a relationship with The Dead, and have a line of GD inspired products on their web site.

[@samfulford5811]

Deadheads are the opposite of haters. Can be tough but... We love a new person hearing our band. Signed, 99.8% of all Heads

[@JohnMcDonald-ef5gz]

@samfulford5811. I'm 68. My first Dead concert was at The Fillmore East in 1971. Been listening ever since.

[@ddferpaffy3275]

this type of mike was used to cancel out noise and/or possible feedback because one of the mics had inverted polarity from what i gather

[@Hanssologuitars]

Yup they were in front of the “Wall of Sound” which looked like if you made a couple of 5 story buildings by stacking guitar amps on top of eachother. Owsley Stanley (their sound man, live recording engineer, and the creator of most of the LSD in San Francisco) was such an insane genius that he realized if he put a 2nd microphone right underneath, he could get a sound wave vibrating in an opposite phase, canceling out possible feedback from that bonkers wall of speakers. Incredible mind at work.

[@rickc661]

Yea the ' gratefull Dead movie' of which this is part explains it. perhaps the most complicated attempt to improve concert sound. they tried, hard , for the fans. just cost way too much for their constant touring.....

[@spottedcow4024]

The bottom one is there to cancel out the sound coming from the speakers behind the band WALL OF SOUND

[@deepdivederek]

Nice! Thanks!

[@JB-Deadskins]

Actually they're transitioning in Drumz, the drum solo portion of the second set. Jerry, Bob, Phil, and Brent leave the stage and the drummers stretch out

[@rubbertoe2001]

good for you. haters can fuck right off. nobody is better at listening to music than another. as a huge fan of both bands for 30+ years, many phish and GD fans are insufferable.

[@JohnMcDonald-ef5gz]

Best version ever.

[@harlanginsberg7269]

This song is basically from the point of view of a person who survived a nuclear holocaust . He thinks he hears a baby crying but there's no one else etc.. Btw you didn't notice, only one drummer. Micky Hart was on hiatus for a bunch of years in the early 70's.

[@jazzzman8050]

No survivors. The song was inspired by the movie “On The Beach”, in which the last survivors are waiting for the nuclear radiation to reach them, and kill them. The lyrics are a conversation between the young wife and her husband, the baby is their own child. In the book (I assume the movie is similar), they are about to take suicide pills, rather than wait out the long horrible death of radiation poisoning, with no one left to help them. The book is harrowing, so much so that I never watched the movie, but the film inspired Bonnie Rose(?), a young Canadian folk singer, to write this song. The Dead absolutely made it their own though, imbuing it with all the musical drama and emotional heft. They too were children of The Cold War, lived through the Cuban Missile Crisis, etc.

[@robertgrosek1124]

Their entire sound system was behind them. They had no monitors. One of those mics is out of phase so as to counteract feedback

[@HXERkYJclMcKLAWwQW]

The Dead is a cornucopia of music.

[@thesecretjewishspacelaser9959]

There are some good “GD guides” on this comment thread. I think you will like a good China>Rider. Try 5/19/74 from this era or 9/20/90 for a later version.

[@deepdivederek]

Thanks!

[@thesecretjewishspacelaser9959]

@@deepdivederek 9/20/90 is with Bruce Hornsby 🔥 video available on KZbin

[@thesecretjewishspacelaser9959]

9/20/90 has video on KZbin and includes Bruce Hornsby on keys 🔥

[@thesecretjewishspacelaser9959]

My apologies. Bruce Hornsby on grand piano, that is.

[@jiggidyjoshua]

Do the Cornell 77 version too. And try it in the dark with eyes closed. Remember it's about nuclear holocaust. Listen to the tragedy of it all, and the release at the end.

[@rickc661]

Now this is IT. to me of course.... again, ' mood music'. turn the lights down, relax stuff. helps to play 15 min or so before to assimilate..... (** the LP 'Euro 72 has a 10 min tune before this song that fits perfect. ' prelude'. ) thanks be to writer B. Dobson, and the flick ' on the Beach' which inspired (err horrified ) Her. helps to have seen the movie. the A.Perkins flick before ' psycho' > > Couple years after this they did a near Jazz album ' Blues for Allah '

[@haroldjacobs1490]

To answer your question about the microphones....this was a "wall of sound" show so all the amplifiers were in back of the band members...so top Mike was to sing into and the bottom Mike somehow eliminated feedback through some kind of ..I don't know how but Google Grateful Dead wall of sound if you want to see it

[@muskratflats]

The two mics were slightly out of phase with each other which prevented the feedback.

[@JB-Deadskins]

​@@muskratflatsan Owsley Stanley invention

[@hitchhikemike1]

Smoking morning dew thanx!!

[@ZionForman]

I have this on again off again thing with the Grateful Dead. back before there was an internet, if you wanted to hangout and socialize you had to go outside. all the cool kids liked the Grateful Dead and though I have been less enthusiastic about their music, I went to many Grateful Dead concerts over many years. I would hardly say I don't like their music, but I would admit liking some of it very much, and on the other hand some of it I don't like at all. this particular performance of this particular song I would rank as sort of mediocre or in the middle, not their best, not their worst, but this is definitely not where you start if you are just listening to the Grateful Dead for the very first time.

[@JB-Deadskins]

From Mickey Hart's Wikipedia page: He was a member of the Grateful Dead from September 1967 until February 1971, and again from October 1974 until their final show in July 1995. From me: He left the band from 71 to 74, because he was embarrassed that his father, Lenny, who was the band's money manager, embezzled $150K and disappeared. Of course, in true Grateful Dead fashion, they wrote a song about it called He's Gone. "Like I told you, what I said, steal your face right off your head."

[@krypticalenvelopment]

this was "Dew" in October of 1974... our scene has always been MUSIC over TIME... try this "Dew" from September of 1987... enjoy the never ending evolution of the tune kzbin.info/www/bejne/Z4iYlqyboJWNaqMsi=aGJMwDVvbG6qnUuv&t=6509

[@JackCerro]

Very good version of this song from the famed Winterland Ballroom. Avoid the China Cat Sunflower > I Know You Rider from this same run of shows. It's not terrible, but is mid, and who needs a mid China Rider.

[@josephchisholm2654]

I would think the haters are listening to this music wrong. For something different that they wouldn't like, consider listening to the Fare Thee Well shows, maybe the "West LA Fadeaway" on 7/4/15. No Jerry, but you do get Bruce Hornsby and Trey.

[@deepdivederek]

Thanks!

[@g.e.5723]

D-Rock, song is about the last man & woman alive on Earth after Nuclear catastrophe. This video popped up on my screen, suggested by YT. Dude, wasing into The Dead without a "guide" is a daunting task. There are so very many versions of each song and some are, "less than". Hang in there and enjoy the trip!

[@JB-Deadskins]

I totally agree with this assessment. I can be that "guide" for you. Or if you want to explore on your own, Google "All the years Grateful Dead" for videos from the band. Or for just music with no video, go with the live albums, or Dick's Picks series. As for the mics, they are noise cancelling to prevent feedback from the Wall of Sound. Grateful Dead are not just extremely talented musicians, who pioneered the jam band genre of rock and roll, but they are integral to the science of live music technology (speakers and mics). For more on this subject, Google Owsley Stanley, the band's first sound engineer and financier.

[@JB-Deadskins]

Agree with the need a guide comment. For live videos Google All the years Grateful Dead. For live audio, stick to the live albums, or the Dick's Picks series. I posted some good listening in the comments.

[@deepdivederek]

Looking for a GD Sherpa!

[@JB-Deadskins]

@@deepdivederek I'm your man

[@LumpyHeadStudios]

I love both Phish and GD, and for the most part have found an incredible soul-enriching community that I now consider family within both fan bases. However, both fan bases have a good portion of folks who feel they are more “into” the music than others, and will tell you about it every chance they get. Gatekeeping is unfortunately a common thing, especially with the OG deadheads who felt personally hurt when Jerry Garcia’s health and eventually his death brought on a rise in popularity of Phish. To them, another band being in the same conversation is ridiculous. Dont pay them any mind. The majority of both fan bases truly are kind people who love newcomers to the scene.

[@HXERkYJclMcKLAWwQW]

Dude ????????

[@danielconley7042]

I love The Grateful Dead but Truckin' isn't my favorite.

[@christophersontraskys2743]

No one who cares about anything would say those things. I'm so sorry. All I can say rather than push my favorites on you is keep trying. You'll find boogie jam r and b. Stock with it. No hate

[@deepdivederek]

Thanks!