Jerry Garcia’s Name-Claiming Journey Beyond the Grateful Dead
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LN Reconstruction May 19, 1979 Old Waldorf, set II
Corry attended the Reconstruction show at the Old Waldorf on May 19, 1979, and has written it up very nicely from all of the angles that matter. He saw the 1st set. The second set, probably most of it, circulates from a very nice but unattributed audience recording. It’s not the best Reconstruction set around,…
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Review of Legion of Mary 12/15/74 EMU Ballroom
With the release of this show, thought I’d post the review that I have in my collection. The release sounds fantastic, and I am loving it so far. If I had time to blog, I’d analyze the liner notes and the music and the gigs and all that. But, no time. Deaddisc has an entry…
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It’s not that bad, given how much Persian he was doing
LN jg1984-08-24.jgb.s1.aud-GEMS.124940.flac1644 There are lots of ways to interpret this performance. One reasonable way would be to say that this is just about the nadir of Garcia’s performing career (perhaps 8/26/84), a professional embarrassment shocking only because playing at least competently for a paying audience formed perhaps the only real commitment in his life, a…
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Rare GD Post: 1976 vs. 1977, DNC, ca. early 2000s
DNCers will recognize. By Chimbley, with his apologies to Berkeley Breathed. Thanks to SC for sharing.
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Happy Birthday, Croz!
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“You can’t improvise on nothing, man.”
–Charles Mingus to Timothy Leary Santoro, George. 2000.Myself When I am Real : The Life and Music of Charles Mingus. Oxford: Oxford University Press. Via Google Books, URL http://books.google.com/books?id=qdWqrp9z5isC&lpg=PA270&pg=PA270#v=onepage&q&f=false, accessed 7/5/2013. Sometimes appended with “You’ve got to improvise on something.” http://secondlanguage.blogspot.com/2008/07/between-bullshit-and-plagiarism.html.
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Collective Improvisation
Kernfield, Barry. 1995. What To Listen For In Jazz. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press.
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Whiskey Tango Foxtrot?
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Eye, Ear and Brain Candy
http://vimeo.com/bsarles/review/67766989/7f649e0f5a Nicely done, it seems to me. Well-chosen material! h/t yellowshark Feed Your Head: The Psychedelic Era From Kesey’s early “Acid Tests,” to the San Francisco’s Fillmore and Avalon ballrooms, Monterey, LA’s Sunset Strip, and London’s UFO club, culminating with the Woodstock Festival, the birth and evolution of psychedelic music is explored in this documentary…
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NRPS: November 26, 1969, Poppycock, Palo Alto
A few years ago Corry uncovered a whole trove of previously unknown NRPS shows in 1969. Among others, these included gigs in their old Palo Alto stomping grounds, playing the Poppycock (135 University Avenue, Palo Alto, CA, 94301) on consecutive Thursdays in November (November 13, 1969 and November 20, 1969). I am still hiatus, so…