Some of the music made it into Apocalypse Now, and the Rhythm Devils released the recording as an album, which Smithsonian Folkways re-released in the early 90s. While screening an early cut of the film, the Rhythm Devils – which included Phil on bass, guitarist Mike Hinton, vocalist Flora Purim, the Brazilian drummer Airto Moreira, Sly and the Family Stone drummer Greg Errico, and percussionists Jim Loveless and Jordan Amarantha – played along, morphing through every emotion, intensity, and exploration imaginable. For the session, the two drummers collected percussion instruments from around the world and also crafted a few new ones, including the beam. After Francis Ford Coppola attended a Dead show, he asked Billy and Mickey if they would record for his movie. Mickey had been using the beam since 1979, when Mickey first created it for the Apocalypse Now Sessions. The boys put away the night and the tour with a fabulous, yet haunting Brokedown. Then Truckin’ – with Weir’s “sex change” lyrics – serves as a hot interlude before a stunning Stella. Out of the horror, though, comes the exquisite rising of a resplendent Wheel. Before long, the beam makes an appearance and then not too much later, the boys come back together for one of the more memorable Spaces: Phil’s trippy Raven Space, going off on Poe in the writer’s hometown. ![]() ![]() Uncharacteristically, the Terrapin is just good, not stratospheric, but it does send the drummers right off into a frenzy once the rest of the band leaves the stage. From there, Bobby takes us into Estimated, which itself heads off into some splendid terrain before transitioning to Terrapin. ![]() Stranger starts them back on the path in the second set, entering into some wild exploration at the end before setting off on a monstrous Franklin’s Tower.
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