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Live at the Great American Music Hall 1979

The David Grisman Quintet

Album · 2011 · Acoustic Disc ACD-88

Live at the Great American Music Hall 1979 is the David Grisman Quintet recorded over two nights, March 5 and 6, 1979, at the San Francisco hall, issued by Grisman's own Acoustic Disc label as a download in 2011 and on CD in 2018. It catches the group weeks after Hot Dawg reached the shops, in the lineup that defined it: David Grisman and Mike Marshall on mandolins, Tony Rice on guitar, Darol Anger on fiddle and Todd Phillips on bass, with Anger and Marshall swapping to cello and mandola for a tune or two. Twenty-seven tracks cover both sets, so the staples ("16/16," "Minor Swing," "Dawg's Rag," "Devlin") appear twice, alongside "Janice," "Neon Tetra," "Dawgology," "Pneumonia" and a run through "Limehouse Blues." It is the fullest document of the first quintet on stage, and the playing is as clean as the studio records.

Tracklist

  1. 1 16/16 alt version 5:36
  2. 2 Waiting on Vassar alt version 5:09
  3. 3 DEVLIN 5:11
  4. 4 Janice Source Recording David Grisman · key D · 133 bpm 4:46
  5. 5 Minor Swing alt version 2:59
  6. 6 BAND INTRO 3:01
  7. 7 PNEUMONIA 6:45
  8. 8 RICHOCHET 2:34
  9. 9 INTRO 0:27
  10. 10 NEON TETRA 6:03
  11. 11 Key Signator alt version 5:11
  12. 12 MOONLIGHT WALTZ 2:55
  13. 13 Dawg’s Rag alt version 8:58
  14. 14 Limehouse Blues alt version 1:20
  15. 15 16/16 4:28
  16. 16 WAITING ON VASSAR 5:56
  17. 17 MINOR SWING 3:57
  18. 18 BAND INTROS 2:02
  19. 19 PNEUMONIA 6:46
  20. 20 INTRO 0:42
  21. 21 KEY SIGNATOR 5:04
  22. 22 DEVLIN 5:38
  23. 23 EMD alt version 2:41
  24. 24 Swing 51 alt version 4:28
  25. 25 DAWGOLOGY 7:25
  26. 26 FISHSCALE 9:29
  27. 27 Dawg’s Bull alt version 4:14

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