Fate Music

Category: misc

  • San Francisco Sessions, 1969

    update: changed title 20160319 San Francisco Sessions Series San Francisco Sessions, 1967-1968 San Francisco Sessions, 1969 San Francisco Sessions, 1970 San Francisco Sessions, 1971 San Francisco Sessions, 1972  Moving through the Garciaverse, I pick up lots of pieces that are more degrees of separation out from Jerry than I can ever have real occasion to…

  • San Francisco Sessions, 1967-1968

    updated title 20160319 San Francisco Sessions Series San Francisco Sessions, 1967-1968 San Francisco Sessions, 1969 San Francisco Sessions, 1970 San Francisco Sessions, 1971 San Francisco Sessions, 1972  In the course of my research into Jerry Garcia’s musical life outside the Grateful Dead, I have gathered up, well, an awful lot of stuff. Sometimes I can’t…

  • light blogging

    Odds are that blogging will continue to be light for awhile. I like to do more during the summer, but circumstances just don’t permit right now. Click some tags and sniff around here, or the allied blogs such as Lost Live Dead, Hooterollin Around, Grateful Dead Guide, Dead Sources, etc. Links are to the right.…

  • Insomnia, anxiety, break-ups … musicians on the dark side of touring

    http://www.theguardian.com/music/2015/jun/25/musicians-touring-psychological-dangers-willis-earl-beal-kate-nash

  • Tonsorial Undertakings

    http://www.vox.com/2015/6/24/8834319/wikipedias-most-edited-pages Wonder why WWE wrestler the Undertaker is on the list? He may not be as historically significant as Hitler, but his fans’ devotion more than makes up for it (sample edit note: “This is notable in that it was the first time he was seen as the Deadman without his long hair”).

  • Deadthinking

    http://deadthinking.blogspot.com/ Check it out.

  • Underground Press Syndicate Meeting, Boulder, 1973

    http://www.undergroundpressarchive.us/gallery/album-01/Index1.html

  • Free Caravaggio

    There are a bunch of Caravaggios in Rome, but the stunning thing is that four of them can be seen for free. I am certainly no art critic, but I don’t let that stop me, strolling from north to south. On the Piazza del Popolo is Santa Maria del Popolo, which is just bursting at…

  • Biblical Serendipity Alert

    Let’s start by recognizing that, insofar as the probability of a given event happening is the product of the individual probabilities of all of the events needed to produce it, we certainly shouldn’t be here. Everything is impossible. It’s nonetheless funny when individually improbable streams cross, which is what’s happening when we talk about serendipity.…

  • Prosopography

    “the investigation of the common background characteristics of a group of actors inhistory by means of a collective study of their lives” (Stone, 1971: 46). Stone, L. (1971). “Prosopography,” Daedalus 100(1): 46–79.