Word: anthems
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...electrical sound and adding a second drummer into the group. The two drummers were to become a much initiated rock convention, most effectively exploited by Carlos Santana and the late Duane Allman. The Dead throbbed with a will to create and their second album was an endeavor unpretentiously titled Anthem of the Sun. And if you don't think that that work is a genuinely artistic statement--a portrait of the energy source of both nature's world and (excuse the philosophic indulgence) the world of the soul I'd advise you to listen to it again...
...none other than Donald Duck. Zappa and Co-Director Tony Palmer, shooting with video tape, overindulge in elaborate color effects that give the movie the touchingly antiquated look of a psychedelic record jacket. The craziness climaxes, fittingly enough, with full cast and chorus raising their voices in an irreverent anthem: "Lord, have mercy on the fate of this movie/ And God bless the mind of the man in the street." Mothers fans will be ecstatic, but the man in the street will need more than prayer to pull him through 200 Motels...
There is one cut that the Dead have recorded before: "The Other One," first released on Anthem of the Sun. The number merely demonstrates how much the Dead have been limited by the loss of Hart and Constanten. The opening drum solo shows that Bill Kreutzmann, in spite of his technical skill, is unable to fashion a solo with enough continuity and development to hold the listener's attention. Without Constanten's classically-influenced keyboard work to give the number structure, the remaining instrumental portion of the song degenerates into a rather aimless, formless guitar exhibition by Garcia and Weir...
...those of us who came to the Dead by way of Anthem of the Sun or Live Dead, this country nonsense was a little hard to take. We barely kept ourselves together the first time. When next we saw it, we were tolerant. By the third time, the New Riders were the most consistent "ups", as it were, of the show. Then the message came: these dudes were all right. We frequented the Coop--Discount Records, Sam Goody's Record Hunter and Dayton's Department Store--every two days, just to ask when the Riders album was coming...
Thus far the most popular amusement attraction is the Mickey Mouse Review, in which an automated air-driven Mickey Mouse leads 86 mechanical Disney characters through all the Disney hits, including "Three Caballeros" and "Who's Afraid of the Big Bad Wolf?", and winds up with the Disney Anthem, the Mickey Mouse Club song. Running the review a close second is the Country Bear Jamboree: 18 cleverly animated bear robots, highlighted by a paunchy, off-key, gravel-voiced grizzly named Big Al, that grind out country music and rural humor. Like the robots in the Mickey Mouse Review...