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Lee shows up for a few seconds in the new Bob Weir documentary The Other One (on Netflix), talking about admiring and endeavoring to imitate Bob's rhythm guitar style. Bob talks about imitating jazz pianists chordal inversions, especially McCoy Tyner's work in the Coltrane quartet. It made me realize another commonality between the Youth and the Dead is seeking out harmonic complexity in a rock context. The Dead did it via jazz techniques applied to rock, the Youth did it via radical tuning via Branca, Chatham, and Fahey. Both embraced a fluid dynamic between song structure and improvisation, though with only a little stylisitic overlap.
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