A Grate Spl Interview

[August West]

REST IN PEACE SCOTT.....AND THANK YOU!!!!

http://vermontreview.tripod.com/Interviews/dso.htm

[August West]

SPL:"We heard, through word of mouth,Phil knows what were doing.

A prophet on the burning shore.

[emmanation]

Thanks Greg, it was nice to read again, and pretty powerful to have Scott's voice in my head again.

spl forever

[Rusty the Scoob]

Great interview! This paragraph is awesome:

VR: Say if you did a show like that or any show for that matter, there is a fine line between pure improvisation and re-creation. During one of your performances, how much of it is improvisation?

SL: It kind comes naturally both ways you look at it. We try to get the sound that they had in that year and jam in a certain style that they were doing at that time. Once you try talking in that language, you find yourself saying some of the same stuff. By using the same vocabulary that they use in certain jams, it just happens. We kind of know how it should sound, and all of a sudden, we end up sounding like it. In a certain way, even when we are improvising, we are probably doing some sort of mimicking but there is a lot of improvising. Like with the 1973 show last night, certain tunes were much longer than we are used to doing them.

This is what the DSO-haters will never understand. Learning the language is a great analogy - you learn the Dead's language and then decide what you want to say.

[chuckvegas]

As I sit here in the airport on the way to see my family for the weekend, this made a timely and timeless read. What Emma said.

[fishman]

Thanks Greg , that was a great read. RIP SCOTT

[Dr. Vapor]

I can hear his laugh now....we all miss him greatly and I am sure he is playing the B3 with some cool cats somewhere.....Dr.V