Grateful Dead

I read one of Mountain Girl's Primo Plant books back in the mid-eighties, interesting to see your reference. No real skin off my back what someone calls their weed, but I can't help think of the scene in Pineapple express where the main dealer was coming up with random strain names for the products he had in stock. Spanish Trampoline anyone?

Perhaps.. Mountain Girl was quite the grower back in the day.. even authored and coauthored a couple books on the subject.

Here's one.
https://books.google.com/books?id=ujwJULUMtzkC&printsec=frontcover&sour…

I can see Leds point.. but something about it just doesn't feel right. Anyway.. not super important, it beats the alternative where nobody is growing and it's still illegal.

I'm gonna guess that they put their name on a strain some botanist bred over a period of multiple generations. Undoubtedly grown, trimmed and cured without any real contribution by the celebrity name on the strain.

Glenn Miller, he was pretty durn good. I dig on some of that old swing music.

Never heard of Jim Pepper.

Jerry Garcia weed doesn't bother me at all. Snoop Dogg and Willie Nelson and God knows who else have their own strains. Is it really any worse than Cherry Garcia ice cream? I mean, Garcia heroin might be in slight bad taste, but to each his own. Ever since The Who started sponsoring their tours and selling their songs to car commercials, nothing has been sacred.

Last five:

GD Complete Live Rarities Collection (ok, most of it over the past 24 hours)
GD To Terrapin 5/28/77 Hartford, CT
ZZ Top Live In Germany 1980
Wes Montgomery Echoes Of Indiana Avenue
AC/DC Let There Be Rock

Jerry Weed. No. No. No. Just no.

I thought I had a problem, what with 2000 CDs, and more arriving almost daily lately. This December splurging has made the collection outgrow the 1500-disc rack that sits in the living room. (there are about 300 GD CDs in their own special "shrine" rack, plus a few dozen box sets of various artists that can't reside on the 1500-disc rack)

Last Five--
Grieg: Lyric Pieces (Emil Gilels)
The Smith Quartet--Ghost Stories (AMAZING collection of eerie and evocative modern string quartet pieces)
Tal Farlow--Best Of
Barbara Dennerlein--Hot Stuff (German jazz Hammond player)
Cassandra Wilson--Blue Light 'Til Dawn

Recent Dead: Dick's Picks 28 (2/26 & 28/73). Wow.
Giants Box; 7/10/89. First time through, and loving it! This box is soooo Grate! The SOUND . . .!! I'm enjoying many of the post-Keith shows more than I'm enjoying some 70's shows.

Speaking of sound, the other day I ran a digital optical cable from the Denon 2910 disc spinner to the Maverick D2 Tube Magic DAC, then A/B'd between that and the analogue out from the Denon. Whoa. I thought there was good sound before, but the optical through the DAC opened up the soundstage about 15%.

The Denon has been rejecting a disc or two here and there, including D3 of Garcia Live Vol. 6 (7/5/73--listening to get in the mood for Vol. 12--any day), which sometimes means a failing laser. So I broke down and purchased a new Marantz HD-CD1, which should arrive any day. (two places had it severely discounted for a few days, but no longer) No, the new player does not have HDCD, but I've found that my ears don't hear any difference between that and the Redbook layer, nor do my ears hear any difference between the SACD and redbook layer on hybrid discs. Today's DACs are so good that I think the hi-rez formats have no purpose, if they ever did. When I listened to 7/10/89 via the Denon's HDCD decoder through the analogue out, it wasn't as good to me as the non-HDCD version pumping through the DAC. (the DAC does not utilize HDCD decoding) YMMV.

Jerry Christmas and a Happy New Weir to all!

Nice Billy Joel reference Mr. Ones, I actually just listened to the Glass Houses album recently for the first time in a while. Gave Turnstiles a spin as well, sometimes I just want to hear New York State of Mind. Love all the wide ranging musical references on these threads, really a great reference for things to consider checking out.

I recently was exposed to him (within the last five years or so). They played Witchi Tai To a couple times on SiriusXM, probably Deep Tracks.. I was so intrigued.. had never heard anything like it and it captivated me. So I did a little research and explored more of his music.. I know most of you know this.. but if it you don't it's got such an interesting history. Witchi Tai To is a traditional Native American Peyote chanting song that he learned from his Grandfather, who was a Native American. I think it was a spiritual song, similar to a church song in their culture.

Anyway.. cool story, cool song, great artist who left this world way too young. Cross a great Jazz saxophonist with some family history and a traditional Native American Mescaline Church Chanting Song, stir it up in a pot and that's what you get.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YnBdaYKqMUs

I think a bunch of us should put our collections together and open a museum. Share the music with all who care. Jim Pepper cd Pepper's Pow Wow cost me $60.00, but was worth every penny.
Dennis, I'm just talking about the Coltrane "new release" Blue World, which are all newly released recordings (some of songs 'Trane already recorded). It's only 1 or 2 new songs, but any unheard Coltrane music, I need. It's only a single disc, but my local cd store sells "used" (read promo copies), for $8 or $9 bucks, so I'd rather pay that than $13-$15 dollars, since it's not something I have to hear RIGHT NOW.
Y'all can prolly figure out why my lovely bride thinks I'm sick. She may be right, I may be crazy, but it just may be a lunatic she's looking for!!

P.S. Now listening to London-5/26/'72......Sooooo good!!

Loved his Gumbo.

You are correct sir.