{"id":1180,"date":"2007-12-01T15:56:52","date_gmt":"2007-12-01T19:56:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/?p=1180"},"modified":"2007-12-01T15:56:52","modified_gmt":"2007-12-01T19:56:52","slug":"after-the-drugs-ran-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/?p=1180","title":{"rendered":"After the drugs ran out"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It turns out the Quicksilver Messenger Service still sounded great. The last three and a half songs<sup class=\"footnote\"><a href=\"#fn1\">1<\/a><\/sup> on <a href=\"http:\/\/concerts.wolfgangsvault.com\/dt\/quicksilver-messenger-service-concert\/604-5673.html\">this concert vault recording<\/a> are a treasure for anyone who likes inventive hippie music. Much better than almost everything on <em>Happy Trails,<\/em> though that seems to have been recorded on the same run.<\/p>\n\n<p>There is quite a nice explanation for the erratic quality of their recordings in a long, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.penncen.com\/quicksilver\/freiberg\/interview.html\">verbatim interview transcript<\/a> with David Freiberg I just stumbled on:<\/p>\n\n<blockquote><p>Q: how do you get into those long jams that are instrumental?<br \/>\nDF: Question is &#8220;how do you get <span class=\"caps\">OUT <\/span>of them?&#8221; [laughs] I don&#8217;t know&#8230;the audience would go for anything we wanted to&#8230;[do]. I used to be really worried when I was at the Avalon. You know, John&#8217;s guitar was &#8230;he used the skinniest strings he could. He always used his Bigsby, which would put the strings out of tune, and so he&#8217;d never be in-tune you know. After every song, every note he played he use the Bigsby&#8230; So he&#8217;d be out of tune after every song, so he&#8217;d have to tune&#8230;. right And it would take him&#8230;we&#8217;d be standing there five&#8230;ten minutes. Waiting for him to get in tune, I used to worry about it&#8230;&#8221;Come on &#8230;we gotta get going&#8230;&#8221;&#8230;and all of a sudden&#8230;One time I was at the Avalon, really stoned and watching. I looked at the audience and they were enthralled watching John trying to tune his guitar&#8230;completely entertained. So I realized&#8230; &#8220;Oh, we can do anything we want. Why worry about it.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n<p class=\"footnote\" id=\"fn1\"><sup>1<\/sup> That is to say the last three songs, and the last half of the one before.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It turns out the Quicksilver Messenger Service still sounded great. The last three and a half songs1 on this concert vault recording are a treasure for anyone who likes inventive hippie music. Much better than almost everything on Happy Trails, &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/?p=1180\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/?p=1180\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1180"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1180"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1180\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1180"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1180"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1180"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}