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Thanks for your kind remarks. I am retired so I took the time needed to learn how to use some of Blender's features. I have much more to learn. For example you can use Blender to map a video so that you can insert 3D objects into it. I need to learn that from some RUclips Blender Tutorial. Bobby says they are not capable of rendering video in the Sphere that has been animated with the band's audio in real time. I am not sure that is completely true if they were to use MIDI to animate. In The Grateful Dead Jerry had a MIDI pickup on his guitar and I think Bobby used a MIDI guitar too. But I don't know. I rendered this video in 1920 x 1080 pixels. It took 14 hours to render 6.5 minutes of music at 30 frames per second. The Sphere boasts 1.2 million pixels.

Thank You very much. We really appreciate that you listed to our music and watched our video. Peace!🐦

Thanks so much for watching. "Bluebird Bridge" is the name of our two member husband and wife band. I chose this show because Dead.net posted the separate tracks of all the boys and Donna. I can use the audio of each of the tracks to animate in the video. It was a blast for me to create this and it's one of my favorites. I don't know why it didn't get as much attention as the music videos I made the same way from "Eyes of the World," "Mississippi Half Step," "Stella Blue" and "China Cat Sunflower." The jam is just incredible in this version of "Playing in the Band." Anyway, The Grateful Dead taught me about many realities and now I can try to create them and give something back at the same time. My only problem now is I have to think of the next surreal video.🐦

I was there imbibing too. I finally finished school at 50 years old and many of the teachers I had, who were my age, understood that the Grateful Dead was a great band musically but the young students not so much. Twenty years later, there seems to be more interest from the young people. But, back in the day you even had to be careful what you said about them.🐦

I didn't know this at the time. When I first saw the Grateful Dead in 1973 Vassar Clements and, of course Jerry, were playing in the band "Old and in the Way" at various clubs around the DC area. The Grateful Dead were playing all night shows with the Allman Brothers the weekend we saw them while Jerry played in a band with Vassar. Jerry was an incredibly busy guy.🐦

Wow, I did not know that. Thanks, for pointing it out. I always loved Dylan's songs. Especially, when the Grateful Dead played them. We saw Dylan once or twice at Merriweather Post Pavilion in Columbia in the 1990s or 2000s. We also saw Dylan and the Dead at RFK in the late 1980s. They all were excellent shows.🐦

I just listened to Dylan singing "Stella Blue" in Rochester, NY Oct 23, 2023. I love Dylan and he sang it well, but, he rushes the lyric for me. Jerry sang it perfectly in my mind. I had to go listen to a Jerry version from the 1970s to cleanse my palette. 🐦

Yeah, the lyrics of this song takes that feeling you describe into one of deep solitude. "Stella Blue" always made me feel so alone without words to describe reality because words are just mere metaphors. And then, "when you hear that song..." I begin to feel connected again.🐦

Good idea, I've thought about that for years. There is one big problem and that is latency. There will be a delay that jamming musicians cannot tolerate in the audio. As I understand it today, you have to be physically very close to the other musicians for the delay to be minimal. I watched a live stream of Wolf Bros concert from Bobby's Tri-Studios a year ago. The delay between the band and the audience was over 30 seconds. I have often thought about using MIDI instead of audio. Maybe, in the future when everyone has a fiber internet connection it will happen.🐦

Thank you for commenting on our music. The Grateful Dead concerts taught us well. My wife and I love to jam. It's like an argument with notes and rhythm.🐦

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Thank you for your observation. I like to hear from anyone who is attentive to the details. Mickey Hart didn't play on the "Wake of the Flood" album. He was away from the band for a couple of years in the early 1970s and there was no Mickey track to use for animation.

Thank you for your nice comment. I use the program called Blender at Blender.org that I have learned how to use over the past few years since I retired. There are thousands of Blender Tutorials on RUclips. From these tutorials I learned out how to animate the skeletons using Mixamo.com animations. I have also added some animations of my own. Blender allows an audio file to move or animate anything. You can animate the arms of the skeletons or the colors in the kaleidoscopes. Once I have the Blender file created it is rendered frame-by-frame which usually takes 12 hours to make the movie on my PC. Once these Blender files are created they can be added to and reused for other music. I also use Cakewalk Sonar for audio mixing. I learned how to use that a long time ago to make music with my wife. I really just wanted to make music videos of our music but then The Grateful Dead put out that "Separate Tracks" on Dead.net - www.dead.net/playingintheband so I used the tracks in the same way. Actually, the animations for our music are a little better because I have more detailed audio recordings and I have a MIDI track for the piano.🐦

Mucho Gracias! No hablo español lo siento.🐦

@@BluebirdBridge usa la función de traductor embebida y te quitas de broncas

No hablo español así que utilicé el traductor de Google. Muchas gracias por tu lindo comentario. Please, check out the Bluebird Bridge music video of "So Early in the Spring." The animation of the piano player (my wife) is even better. I used MIDI to make the arms move left to right. Gracias!🐦

Thank you very much. As you may know, the music is from the Grateful Dead as indicated above.

@@BluebirdBridge kind friend...I'm over 50 years old,,,, I've been to over 250 shows ... I've driven all over this country,,,I was trying to give you a compliment bra🌹🦩🌹

@@hendrix1ishWow, 250 shows. I haven't been to that many, maybe 100 or so. Your right, this is a great piece of music. I am just retired and bored so I learned to use Blender. I am glad folks like these videos. To that end, I'm making another but it's long and may take 18hrs to render. It'll be awhile.

@@BluebirdBridge welcome to the rest of your life 🌹 I like meeting people....I would shake your hand Strangers helping strangers 🌹🦩🌹

@@hendrix1ishWell, we are in the virtual world here. Consider your hand has been shook by another Dead Head. When was your first show?

Thank you for watching. It's one of those Grateful Dead songs that is far beyond the words to praise it.

@@BluebirdBridge Yes.

If ya got 'em, drop 'em.

I is

@@jimmyjames7941Then try this - ruclips.net/video/NIprPI1F8qM/видео.htmlsi=s-DyAODSIsuirknp 🐦

@@jimmyjames7941 not cool man- share the land brother; I’m right here in Jersey. 🙏🏻🤙

Thanks, for watching and noticing details. I checked that out on the album "Sunshine Daydream." The album only lists Bill Kreutzmann. The separate tracks on Dead.net did not have a Mickey Hart track either. I think Mickey was playing with them at the time and I am a big Mickey fan but, for whatever reason, he wasn't at this show.🐦

Bill was playing, no Mickey

mickey did not play with the band from february 1971 until october 1974

Nope not missing anyone.

What ever makes you dance like noone is watchin 🌹

@@hendrix1ishThe dance is within all of us. That, my good friend, is the real dance.🐦

That’s awesome BBBridge. 🍄

@@skelley164Thank you for watching this music video. I appreciate your comments.🐦

I was there, and at Watkins Glen that same summer.. Damn it was hot in DC that day.

Thank you for watching! Oops, I should have put a PA on the barge. I didn't make the Wall of Sound PA until the next Grateful Dead video. At least I got the piano.

Thank you! We had some snow down here too but not as much as in NJ and NY. I love Eyes of the World too. In fact we just recorded our version in space and put it here - ruclips.net/video/OjSFy4q1sn8/видео.html. This isn't AI. Don't get me started on an AI rant. As Michio Kaku says, "AI is nothing but playback from a tape recorder." I used a free program called Blender - www.blender.org/. It's 3D software that allows you to animate. I have been learning how to use it in retirement for the last couple of years. Blender is math heavy though. I use a sine wave to animate the bending of the wings for example. Blender handles all the math needed for the cloth dress and the hair. This video took 13 hours to render on my PC. The audio from the separate tracks on Dead.net - www.dead.net/playingintheband is used to animate the lower jaws of the singers and the hands of the musicians. The rugs are kaleidoscopes that are simple to make and the audio changes the shapes as the kaleidoscope rotates. The Dead used something similar on the big screens behind the stage at their concerts in the 90's.

Thank you for all the information and the hard work. I can see the similarities of the rugs and the band’s background show. All cool!

Thank you so much. My wife and I also have practiced Knowledge (aka Raja Yoga) for fifty years this July. www.youtube.com/@wopgyt

Thank you so much. We both really appreciate that you experienced our music video as intended.

I agree wholeheartedly! The first time I played it on the guitar myself it sounded so good. It's a song that just draws you into it's sonic beauty. But, those lyrics, they pull you in further and your left unable to do anything. You just dream.

Well said, and thank you for your comments.

I fkn love Ben and Jerry's

Thank you very much. I made them in Blender. I first created a 12 segmented UV sphere. I structured the UV map of the texture that colors the object in a triangle so that when the texture is rotated in makes a kaleidoscope. Then I used a Wave modifier to make the stars ripple. I saw kaleidoscope music videos on RUclips a couple of years ago and I just had to figure out how to make them using Blender. The Grateful Dead used to put up colorful displays with kaleidoscopes back in the 1980's and 1990' at their concerts on a big screen behind the stage. It was ahead of the times then.

This old hippie and wife here, Weir both gonna wish you well. Thanks, Susie!🐦

I have long wished I could write a lyric like Robert Hunter. He is the best. He can draw you into a song, twist and turn it so you have no idea what he meant and then leave the you feeling as if some grand wisdom was imparted. That wisdom is given many times over and can be of a different nature upon listening to (or singing) that same song again and again. 🐦

I thought that typing the credits that way would imply that Jerry Garcia wrote the music and Robert Hunter the lyrics. Although, I always heard that it was a collaboration. Sometimes, I have read, that Robert Hunter had music and lyrics to a song already written and Jerry added more to the music.

Well, they are skeletons. Were you expecting something else?

No, the video was created using Blender. The keyboard player and guitar players hands were animated with the audio from the separate tracks posted on Dead.net. There is a "Bake Sound to f-curve" feature in Blender that can move any 3D object. The violin players bow swings back and forth with a sine wave and then the audio track of Vassar Clements is added to the movement. AI uses heuristics which generally use Bayesian probability calculations.

@BluebirdBridge Very nice video.. I will have to check out blender. Are

Are you blending your vocals with Jerry's vox? The vox are very cool. Well done!

I am not sure what you mean by "vox." I did remix everything from the separate tracks on Dead.net (www.dead.net/playingintheband). I mixed in using Sonar which is now distributed free by Bandlab. My mix uses some compression on the vocals but no other effects. I always make a 5.1 surround version mixed with Sonar which can be found at this link on Archive.org - archive.org/details/surround-music-videos-with-music-from-the-grateful-dead . @@timothyryan6018

I noticed all movements were in sync to the audio too. That would have been a nightmare to hand keyframe everything in something like Poser. But the audio speech function in that program is similar to how you did it using waveforms. I've also used a home brew motion capture system using 2 Xbox 360 Kenect sensors with some success, but it doesn't track hands.

You're quite welcome.

Thank you. It's all love man. We just don't look at it enough.

I could watch and listen to this a million times and still not tire of it. You've created a beautiful piece of magic here and I thank you with all my heart and soul!

Forgot to say... what a cool story behind the ultimate creation! :D Synchronicity = magic.

Thank you @@zephmarie55! What a nice compliment. Your words inspire to create more of these music videos. However, it's really the song "Stella Blue" that generates the magic here isn't it. I am just an old retired and bored Dead Head trying to give back a very little bit of the incredible amount of magic they gave me in song over the years.

@@BluebirdBridge You're welcome! You've done what you set out to do. I think you should do another if/when you are so inspired to do so! I only get YT messages on gmail which I don't use much and just happened to check today and saw your reply. Glad I did! 💗

Yeah, I am all for using computers to create. I'm working on Wake of the Flood's Stella Blue. I just finished the Wall of Sound in Blender.

@@BluebirdBridge Stella Blue is a favorite - love the Wake of the Flood album cover. The first time I turned it sideways and saw the cloud was a shrouded skull, it blue my mind, lol!

Yeah, thanks for reminding me of that Skull Cloud @@DaveNarn. In the Acid tests they put colored oil on the platen of an overhead projector and displayed it on a screen. We don't need AI. If you're interested, I made a new China Cat video that premieres tonight at 8pm - www.youtube.com/@BluebirdBridge/videos.