The Grateful Dead - Stella Blue

Stella Blue

For the 50th Anniversary of the Grateful Dead’s album “Wake of the Flood.”

To honor the 50th Anniversary, I have used the separate tracks of the song “Stella Blue” from the “Wake of the flood” album from Dead.net and applied the audio to a Blender file I made consisting of similar skeleton characters I have used my in other music videos for Bluebird Bridge with animations from Mixamo.com that I have edited myself. For this music video I created a model of the “Wall of Sound” speaker system and the dual microphones the Dead used to prevent feedback.

The audio for this music video is a remix of the separate tracks into a 5.1 surround file. That 5.1 surround video can be found at this link. This mp4 file can be downloaded, copied to a thumb drive and played through a surround sound system.

https://archive.org/details/surround-...

Playing in the Band and Wake of the Flood separate tracks can be found here.

https://www.dead.net/playingintheband


I always loved the song “Stella Blue” from the first time I heard it. It was one of my favorite songs on the “Wake of the flood” album. This song had to be heard live. I first heard it live at The Philadelphia Civic Center on August 5th, 1974. I’m sure of that date because I looked it up on Setlist.fm to confirm it. That night the Grateful Dead played through the full Wall of Sound. They played two nights at the civic center and the second night after “Space” when the Wall of Sound was mixed to perfection, they played “Stella Blue.” This sound system did not hurt your ears like other concerts at that time. The Dead could play really soft and then loud enough to shake the floor without any distortion. The audio was crystal clear and the sound generated a feeling that was so intense. When they played “Stella Blue,” it evoked the sincerest humility and awe in my being as if I were in a capsule far out in space looking back at this fragile lonely planet, we call Earth and wondering if I would get back home. Yet, I was home. I was listening to the Grateful Dead play live.

As the late Bill Graham said, “There is nothing like a Grateful Dead concert.”

I remember after Jerry died, I heard that Owsley Stanley said, “Who will play ‘Stella Blue’ now that Jerry’s gone.”


Philadelphia Civic Center - Philadelphia, PA 08/05/1974
Soundboard
https://archive.org/details/gd1974-08...
Audience
https://archive.org/details/gd74-08-0...

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