Grateful Dead

Another great gone.

Just caught wind via Relix that Rob Eaton (Betty-Saver; Bobby in DSO) seriously fractured/broke his wrist and has some significant medical bills. I found his go fund me account and did what I could.

Just wanted to give folks a heads-up. How scary for someone in The Guitarist profession.
Best wishes to him and I am reminded to applaud all of his Betty efforts and DSO contributions.

Sixtus

today is the 51 anni of 2/11/70

("mmmm, my lips are getting heavy"...quick, cite that reference!)

US BLUES rocks! some diss USB; I love it, every time.

Did someone say books ; ) yeah my wife is an addict..she’s like the Dennis of Books! ; )
Unfortunately/fortunately she’s the Collection Development Librarian where she works. Unfortunate because she gets discounts which encourage over buying, I mean she could only read for the rest of her life and she’d still not get to them all, but alas she things she will... (sounds like us with dead lol) and fortunate because it helps feed her Jones buying all those books for the library. Hmmm, if you could buy all the dead releases for your job, would you still need to buy so many for yourself?...lol She’s basically devoted most of her life to books for good or for ill...
So the girl knows books, and thus buys me all kinds of things Id probably never learn about etc
That’s good for obvious reasons, but bad because I have so many now I can’t remember which all I’ve read and worry I’ll never read em all...and already have a nasty CD habit that I barely manage.

Newer stuff/authors I’ve really dug, especially many from the Northwest...what is it about the North west influence on books and music etc?
Of course most know the old classics by Tom Robbins, but my favorite from the region and perhaps my favorite “modern” writer is Jonathan Evison, especially his epic historical fiction; West of Here. Believe he’s due to release another, can’t wait! Currently reading Jess Walters most recent: Cool Millions (only have about an hour to finish..) Garth Stein and his most recent: A Sudden Light, Amanda Coplin: The Orchardist, several from Jim Lynch, several from Nicholas Evans, especially The Loop, and David Guterson: East of the Mountains.
Other mostly good new Stuff I’ve read over the last several months:
John Staley: Cold Storage Alaska
Lauren Groff: Arcadia
WK Krueger: Ordinary Grace
Vonnegut: Cats Cradle (finally after all these years)
Flea: Acid for the Children
Mick Fleetwood: Play On
JP Griton: Wyoming
and Fourth of July Creek which as LEBOWSKI99 stated was enjoyable.
Oh, and for anyone not familiar with Richard Russo, or perhaps you know the Movies made from his books, he’s another of my favorite newish authors. Especially like the old stuff, such great characters!
FIVEBRANCH: Glad to hear the recommendation for TC Boyle’s: Outside Looking In, since that’s another one on the stack...Being Ram Dass is staring at me on my footstool, but I’ve only picked at it so far.
Weird thing about the pandemic, have more free time, but haven’t really read all that much comparatively.
The wife is really having trouble, can’t concentrating etc which sucks because it’s usually the thing that she really loves. Think it’s why she tolerates so much Dead from me , junkies enabling each other lol.
Down side is the shits starting to really pile up! She already has a room in our new house completely filled, floor to ceiling (ahem, I ONLY have one wall floor to ceiling lol)
Music, books, movies, beer and pizza, oh yeah, and buds! I mean what else do ya need ; )
Onward, er a, I mean, READ ON!

If it is DaP 37 you are waiting on, a good number remain in the delivery system, so a little patience.

If it is DaP 36 you seek, send MaryE a PM and a dozen Scarlet Begonias. She is pretty amazing.

As to if the old hiccups have arisen again, many of us aren’t sure they ever went away.

Good luck, brother!

5/31/80: well the way y’all going on about this one is telling me I need to go there, the problem is time....
After 40+ years, this is the kinda stuff I’m looking for personally. The off the path stuff...Yeah it’s great to hear the biggins’ now and then, but there’s starting to be a lot of that that’s getting stale, so all the more reason to branch out eh?

DENNIS: too funny, once again! unfortunately, the Loo and my memories are what I search most for these days lol

THATMIKE: 😂

SCALPERS: the word will always, immediately make me think of the Spectrum Parking lot, the night before the first show in 87. We camped out there after Harshfird to save a few bucks (is it saving if you don’t have the money?), and we couldn’t check in until the next afternoon at the ole Airport Red Roof (more stories there)...
After I made a beer run over the bridge to Jersey for several of us there..Buying that much beer at a bar at that hour of night was a story in itself...as we and Garth partied on through the night, some Scalpers arrived, the “connected” kind, not some hippies looking for tour funds, and began to hawk, which was not good because,
A) it was the middle of the night, very peaceful, and the only folks there either had tix, or weren’t gonna deal with these sketchy bastards. And,
B) their barking etc was kinda loud and obnoxious and was competing with the cool acoustic jam Prezman etc was providing, complete with sing alongs. I mean the parking lot is huge, but these shitbricks felt they had to be right where a bunch of us were making our happy, happy home.
So first we all sang louder, and more joined in, and then when that didn’t work we eventually started heckling them via song lyrics that Pman was making up on the spot; he was quite good at that but of course we could never remember any of it later lol. Something about Scalpers are Scum etc...
Eventually they started getting pissy with us, but by then our ranks had grown and things got a bit ugly (when you go down to Deep Elem, the DHeads Will put you on the rocks....), and eventually we ran em off! So whenever I see scalper, it makes me smile and remember that night!
And, Scalpers are still scum, only now their the ticket sellers with all their “fees” etc, Scum!

DOC: sorry about your loss, fuggin karma!
Can relate to your whole timeline/process/funnel due to time, and we all know time, and thereby obtaining a narrow but deeper focus. I was Similar about “I don’t need anymore, just the shows I was at” ...then I started really hanging around here with these crazies 😉and several thousand dollars and hours later LOL...
71 IS like 2 different bands; Bakersfield/cowboy and “creamy, smoother” jazz like band. I agree with DAVEROCK that almost right from the get go after KG joined they were much more E72 already versus Skullfuck etc. Crazy how much/often the evolved. Used to get mad, but now think it’s funny when the punters say “nostalgia band that never left the sixties” or some other nonsense...70 and 71 were perhaps the years with the most change within the years themselves. Though I’m digging early 71 more, especially because of those lush multi-tracks we’ve been given, I do prefer the later KG stuff, like the great DP 2 that AJS mentioned, short but sweet and yes, perhaps best stand alone single disc in the cannon? Good topic for debate at least....

And books...

Can anyone or Mayre if you are reading this send me her email or Dr Rhino or someone at DEAD.Net someone to help me out about tracking down my latest Dave's Pick. I have not been on in a while and I am not sure if the HICCUPS are back with people not receiving their Products. Appreciate any help thanks..Kev

The best book I've read this week is "Piranesi" by Susanna Clarke, published last year. The first 70 pages or so are quite puzzling, then you adapt to its strange landscape and its starts to make sense, of a sort.
As Morrissey in The Smiths once wrote - "There's more to life than books, you know. But not much more." Maybe more than usual at the moment.

Appreciate the validation on F/Mac. You are getting to right where I started with the Mystery to Me album. Always loved the Bob Welch California sound which also blended well with Christine's songs. This was high school/early college era for me so I connected with his references to "mysteries" while reading all of Carlos Castaneda's books about the Brujo Don Juan. And of course the required stoner reads like Huxley's Doors of Perception. My older sister had Then Play on, and I was blown away by the early bluesy stuff and sought out more. Still haven't heard them all (Mr. Wonderful) so the study continues. I also need to look up the other guitarist on Mystery, Bob Weston. I know nothing about him. Agreed on the tastes of Jeremy Spencer. I have to skip his cowboy song Blood on the Floor. Second worse Englishman doing a western cowboy accent (Sorry Mick Jagger but you win #1 worst cowboy accent). But Jewel Eyed Judy, Station Man, and Bob Welch's Miles Away and Lay It All Down have to be played loud! Cheers!

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