Grateful Dead

Those lucky folks in the legal states are always talking about their sources and strains.. :D

I think they should keep the March '77 Winterland Shows together are release as box.. much like they SHOULD have done with Winterland 74 (and Berkeley 72 for that matter).

If anyone wants the Winterland Spring run.. I am happy to send them your way. Just figure out a way to either PM me or have a friend PM me.. Until they fix PMs this whole contact thing is kinda awkward.

I have unofficial copies of March 77 Winterland from my "source", a very generous soul.

writing about Winterland as Metallica describes being "trapped under ice".

Great author. I love High Fidelity. Both the book and the movie.

I will now sell five copies of "The Three EPs" by the Beta Band.

Ian McEwan is another author that comes to mind. Atonement was a fantastic book.

I thought it was funny how killing the dog gets a worse punishment than killing the kid and your crime drama novels

Hey, 3/18/77 isn't released is it? You wrote that you were listening to disc three. Same with 3/20/77. Thanks

I generally like cheap action, I like good to win and bad to lose, and bad should lose.... badly. Kill the wife deserves a beating and a head shot. Kill the kid and maybe a good impaling. Kill the dog,,,, impaling, while being feed into a furnace.

Any of the real literature is generally too depressing, that's why I read the newspaper.

In real literature, I like Phillip Roth. I Married a Communist was my fave. I liked Ayn Rand's Atlas Shrugged. W Somerset Maugham's The Razor's Edge.

Real reader in family is my wife and she only reads real literature, no supermarket authors for her! Her monster book was Infinite Jest, said the footnotes were as long as the book.

And as some said about Moby Dick, my brother-in-law also complained about how much raw detail there was on cutting up whales!

The "new" Garcia release dropped into my mailbox this week, 1/23/73 from The Boarding House in SF. It's decent, much better than what I felt was a low-energy and disappointing Eel set. This one is funky and has great live sound.

After awhile, I go back to and prefer actual Grateful Dead over Garcia band, primarily because the music is more diverse and interesting. JGB is always the same, in a way, like jazz: first they play the head, then everyone in the band solos, then they reel it back in and finish off what was a three minute pop song in, like, 13 minutes. It doesn't suck, but it feels like it was just an excuse for Jerry to go out and get paid to play every night.

The Garcia family will obviously keep releasing these shows as long as they sell. It's not much different than what the Hendrix family does. I see Tom Petty's wife and daughters just reconciled over financial issues relating to his estate. And Chris Cornell's wife is suing Soundgarden.

It's always the same, and I suppose not unlike when the head of a well-to-do family passes on without a proper will and all the siblings fight over it, with half the money going to lawyers. Not a good look for anyone, but hardly a surprise.

best book of all time

imho

I read Ulysses. Just so I could say that in a public setting. Thanks for the opportunity.

Re: AJS. Dostoevsky is my favorite author. Demons is hilarious, terrifying, and perhaps the most prophetic novel ever.

"Call me Ishmael." Greatest first line in literature.

Read Bram stokers dracula. It's a scary and great read. Also the Oddesy is a great one too. Peace.