PresentationScript / Outline for DeadCon04
Intro
I am a storyteller. This will be to some extent extemporaneous.
Chronological Hooks
[ 1974 HamboneHambone ]
1985 IreneGoodnight (GoodnightIrene)
1994? AllenToussaint and DrJohn
(take photo of poster, make reproduction)
Discuss (4min)
TheQuest
tracking it down
BlairJackson's book excerpts.
for context
two very hip guys teaching each other songs and arrangements
what actually happened. rehearsals, recordings made and available. john kahn provenance of best-known tapes.
Clip2 (3min) ListenAtMe (BrothersKeeper?)
0:00-3:09
"chords, jerry, give me some chords"
Wrapup (5min)
the gigs. "sugaree"
tryout. hippie manners. crazy vs. crazy
imagine: dead with this keybist
contrast 1976 quaalude era dead energy
Booker recorded great album, Junco Pardner in 1976 and Classified (in 1975?)
this is just post 1975... the gospel and organ influences that show up later.
for booker fans, a well recorded, well played intimate portrayal of the maestro at work
for jerry fans, hearing him workout on new material, hearing him in his playing prime when he was feeling adventurous, origin of goonight, irene and advent of the TicoTico "tuning" (/fingering exercise, compare with Weir's SageandSpirit) [Zero w/Jerry Goodnight Irene, deadheaf's call it Irene Goodnight
lyrics used in Kesey's book title
booker's arranged vocal scattings, emotionalism of his singing
talent vs. sanity
thing about new material, new changes for jerry to explore. the old he's still alive if there's something i haven't heard yet thing
if you have head this before, my ulterior motive is to bring you out of the woodwork so i can have someone to discuss it with. i want your insights to flesh out my own instincts and reactions. communal apprecation of improvised music, which is about life.
Clip3 (6min)
classified jam?
3:33-9:45? 6:12
leaves 1:48 for other clips...
3 minutes to 8 minutes?
booker's dense playing style
jerry's hunger for "color"
Dead and gone,
I may be dead and gone,
Just under the ground rottin',
But the truth will live on.
It (We?) won't never be forgotten.
15 minutes:
12 minutes of remarks
3 one-minute music clips
20 minutes:
12 minutes of remarks
2 one-minute music clips
1 six-minute music clips