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    One more Saturday night at Winterland! Yes, we're back to home base for DAVE'S PICKS VOLUME 42, the complete show from Winterland, San Francisco, 2/23/74. The one that featured the earliest amalgamation of what would soon become the Wall of Sound, the one that is so "loud, clear, and defined," it's been ripe for release for quite some time and we're glad it's finally getting its due.

    First set or second, there are no wrong answers here. From the unique show opener of Chuck Berry's "Around And Around" and an incredible "Here Comes Sunshine" that would then disappear for 18 years, to a medley of WAKE OF THE FLOOD tracks - "Row Jimmy," "Weather Report Suite," and "Stella Blue" - cementing their status in the canon and an unstoppable hour through the classic 1973-1974 Dead that is “He’s Gone”>“Truckin’”>“Drums”>“The Other One”>“Eyes Of The World,” it's all exceptionally hot.

    Limited to 25,000 numbered copies, DAVE’S PICKS VOLUME 42: WINTERLAND, SAN FRANCISCO, 2/23/74 was recorded by Kidd Candelario and has been mastered to HDCD specs by Jeffrey Norman at Mockingbird Mastering. Grab a copy while you can.

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  • #351
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    Herbie, Jerry & Merle

    Herbie Hancock is about the only one of the artists on your list that I have already, Oro. I have Maiden Voyage, Empyrean Isles, Head Hunters, Sextant, Thrust, and Man Child. I find all to be enjoyable.

    1973-1974 Jerry and Merle is a sweet spot, lots of soul and jazz influences showing up in their stuff from that time, those Keystone Encores box set shows in particular are phenomenal. And an absolute highlight of the Merle and Jerry Collaborations would be Merle Saunders and Friends CD Fire Up +, that disc is on fire from start to finish, incorporating tunes that are straight soul like Lonely Avenue and Expressway to Your Heart, other stuff that is more jazzy like Save Mother Earth and Man Child, and some funky stuff like My Problems Got Problems and the phenomenal Welcome to the Basement. Merle Saunders, Jerry Garcia, Tom Fogerty, John Kahn and Bill Vitt tear it up. An album well worth tracking down if you don't have it already, just peak Jerry and Merle. CD was Released in 1992 and is includes most of the songs from the 1970s albums Fire Up and Heavy Turbulence, I think.

    Another gem is Hooteroll?, a jazz fusion masterpiece from Jerry Garcia and Howard Wales. That is a great album, great to listen to from start to finish, cohesive and gorgeous music.

    I think it was something in the air, 'cause there were just a lot of musical styles and genres being mixed together or teased apart into something new during that period from the late '60s to the mid-'70s. Funk flowing out of soul, jazz fusion explorations by a bunch of artists, the emergence of electronica with stuff like I Feel Love, lots of cool stuff all happening in a relatively short fertile time. Musical forms are constantly shifting, blending, and distilling new stuff through time, but that late '60s to mid '70s period seems like a particularly fertile time, especially for the mixing of jazz, soul, funk, blues, and rock and roll into new forms combining elements of each and taking them in new directions.

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    Still going with Boston Garden '91.

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    VGUY, that should be awesome. I read about it in Bass Player magazine. Interviews with both Les Claypool and Geddy Lee. They asked Geddy what he thought of Les trying to do this and Geddy teasingly said he was nuts!
    Hopefully they’ll be a big brown beaver sighting?

    CHARLIE: interesting how you heard of SJ. Even more so how many of us come to certain music, fascinating really.
    I heard if it after reading an article by Michael Chabon in Rolling Stone about his at the time new book Telegraph Ave (which I liked), but in this article he gets into this Soul Jazz that I’d never heard of, and I’ve been into lots of Jazz fir quite some time. It’s hard to pinpoint and like many styles or genres it casts a wide range: from syrupy string laden Mizel brothers productions all the way to more standard Jazz played by more recognizable names. The sweet spot to me is very much like what Merl and Jerry do on say 9/1/74, or the recent GarciaLive Vol 18, or on Fire Up and Heavy Turbulence etc. I like the oft used description of “Jazz with a backbeat”.
    I have maybe 2-3 dozen albums but would say these are good ones to start with:
    Donald Byrd: Black Bird
    Charles Earland: Black Talk and Leaving this Planet with Freddie Hubbard and Joe Henderson
    Idris Muhammad: Power of Soul (title track is awesome Hendrix cover), and a (2 for 1) of Black Rhythm Revolution, and Peace & Rhythm.
    Deodato: Prelude
    Grover Washington Jr.: I like Inner City Blues and Mister Magic the best. Earth Tones off Magic is nice groovy mellow almost new age like? One of my favorites of his. I think Magic is a good first choice. Soul Box is pretty good too. I’d say ya might not like all the tracks on all the albums depending how your pleasure tends, but if you made an 80 minute best of from the three you’d have a super cd. If that helps? But I’d advise anyone interested to check out stuff online first.
    There’s a good series of compilations out called the Legends of Acid Jazz that has some good treatments of many of the main cats, like genre guitar go to’ Melvin Sparks, and Leon Spencer, George Benson dabbles around the Soul Jazz edges. Jimmy Smith Back at the Chicken Shack is old school, and Dr Lonnie Smith is another of many keyboard/organists. One of the cool things is how like jazz, so many of the main dudes play on each other’s albums.
    Many more but those are good starts.
    The cool thing is it’s easy to Segway into things like MMW: End of the World Party and Uninvisble, and even on to the Beastie Boys, yes those Beasties Boys: The In Sound From Way Out and The Mix Up. I think of Curtis/Superfly as another cousin to all this. Herbie Hancock Head Hunters fits too.
    To me SJ is like another kind of jazz fusion. Not the scorching Miles or Return To Forever etc, which is more rock like to my ears, but like a funky soul stew of jazz, soul and rock. Perhaps like some Motown cats played jazz?
    As I say, sometimes hard to pin point, and certainly not for everyone, but to me it’s like the Garcia/licorice story.
    Not everyone will like it, but those who do will love it!

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    ....yea. Primus will be playing it. Contemplating taking some fungus along 🤔.

  • #355
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    My exposure to soul jazz or acid jazz is limited and mainly consists of listening to Fusion FM hosted by Roy Ayers in Grand Theft Auto IV in Liberty City, not sure if that's exactly on point. Nice stuff, a mellow, jazzy, psychedelic vibe to some of it as I recall. Mister Magic by Grover Washington Jr is on my list of future acquisitions, maybe some Roy Ayers as well, who knows once I get started in that direction, just haven't picked it up yet. Hopefully Mister Magic is before the transition to Kenny G. that you describe, Oro. Grand Theft Auto in its various iterations actually turned me on to a bunch of great stuff on the various radio stations. Cool to just drive around listening to the radio, sparking the occasional police chase or just looking for hidden stuff. Don't knock it if you haven't tried it. Not a bad option as far as an option for a time vacuum. You know you're hitting the GTA a little hard when you start to notice all the unique stunt jumps when you're driving around in the real world. (GTA fiends may get it, the rest of you will just have to play the game excessively, then take a drive in the real world.)

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    Mary says the tech team is looking in to why you can’t post.

    Thanks Mary!

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    Saw Sugar Pie DeSanto and Etta James both play at the S.F. Blues Festival, also saw Etta James play with the Dead in 1982. Next box is gonna be something from 90,91, 92, possibly Winterland March 1977. I hope its something from 1969/1970 with acoustic material included.

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    To quote the great Chris Berman!
    What a game! Now that was sports worth watching.
    The outcome does not surprise me. The Bolts are like a bad case of the clap that just won’t go away, and I mean that as a complement!

    AJS: well said as usual. I agree. Pretty much sums it all up.
    MIKE: LOL. and yeah, Kadri’s “enthusiasm” can sometimes be a little nerve racking.
    PF: love the cup jokes etc, and the energizer bunny, hell last night I felt like I was doing speed!
    Dark-Star: good to see ya xxoo. Sounds like your the drunk yelling from the arm chair. I’m just showing solidarity for my fellow Americans, and VGUY, STOLZTY, PANCHO, PT BARNUM etc.
    VGUY/PRIMUS: will they be doing Farewell to Kings? Either way should be cool! Have Fun!

    CHARLIE: cool stuff, thanks for the good read! Brought up so many awesome aural memories. You guys ever check out Soul or Acid Jazz (prefer Soul as Acid is not really appropriate). Charles Earland, Donald Byrd, Idris Muhammad, Melvin Sparks, Deodato, Jimmy Smith, Dr Lonnie Smith, Grover Washington Jr. (before he went all Kenny G) and so many more. Fits right next to Curtis the Superfly Pusherman etc, GOOD SHEET MON!
    Lots of crossover between Soul, Motown Jazz etc. I always felt much of what Merl and Jerry were up to fit in this category. And Disco is perhaps cousins to all this? I like to make my own sorta best of CDs, and I made a killer 2 disc version for a friends young daughter who loved disco. But we like it too, it can be fun stuff, hell folks used to dis The Bee Gees but if you really check out their music it’s pretty solid (and those boys burned like chimneys. My cousin worked on their studio and said no burned like the BeeGees) and I Feel Love, that was my opening track! And what a great stoner song. Put that on a big stereo set up with good stereo imaging, get prepped ; ) , and sit in the sweet spot and check it out. It sounds amazing and that cool auto pan stuff is right outta Healy and Mickeys bag of tricks.

    Ah yes, Music, sweet, sweet music, the antidote to what ails ya and the ills of the world.
    As Mr Ones would say, Music is the best! Crazy how much great music there is…

    CONEKID: almost forgot ya. I can understand your ongoing feud. Took us awhile to get over the Wings lol.
    And as a life long Buffalo fan for good or for Ill, it’s still hard to like the Dolphins (sorry vguy) Dallas, and I’m not sure I’ll ever be able to root for the Patsies, even without Brady and Gronk!
    I’m just curious, is because of the overall war that was that great rivalry or perhaps just the Lemieux issues?
    I’m trying to remember, I’ll have to look for that show you mentioned.

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    Ah, soul

    Hahaha. See what I did there. 🤭

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    You are correct, DaveRock, Donna Summer's I Feel Love is great, if I'm in the mood for some Donna it's either that track or Love to Love You Baby more often than not.

    Sugar Pie DeSanto is awesome, one of my favorites. Soulful Dress is a great tune and she has a lot more just as good, or in a couple cases even better. I picked up a couple of CD's by her and Go Go Power, the complete Chess Singles is a smoker from start to finish, the better of the two that I picked up. Soulful Dress, Do I Make Myself Clear, In The Basement (with Etta James) and Mama Didn't Raise No Fools stand out in my memory at the moment as highlights of that collection. Do I Make Myself Clear is absolutely on fire.

    And, yeah, the Stax boxes, the first three were an early acquisition for me in my soul collection, but there is also a fourth Stax Box - Rarities and the Best of the Rest - that covers some soul rarities, some gospel, and some of the other stuff released on Stax and related labels that ranges outside the soul category. That fourth one is not quite as consistently good as the first three, but it does have a few things that got in my head and my completist nature left me no choice but to pick it up.

    For something from this century that sounds like it could have been released in the 1970's, check out Charles Bradley, particularly the track Ain't It a Sin. If you can watch him do Ain't It a Sin online on the you post it video site and not want to pick up some of his stuff I would be surprised. Started checking Charles out when I saw an article about his soulful cover of Black Sabbath's Changes, good stuff, cool version of the song.

    And Curtis Mayfield, started checking him out when a friend suggested the Superfly soundtrack, and all it took was the song Pusherman to get me seeking out more Curtis, not to mention my dawning realization that the HBO show the Wire had a bunch of Curtis playing at various points and I dug it. Give Pusherman a listen and see if you can sit still. There's a good box set - Curtis, Keep On Keeping On, Curtis Mayfield Studio Albums 1970-974, a good way to get all his albums at once for a great price. The HBO show the Sopranos also had a bunch of soul tunes scattered throughout, I'm still looking to track down a copy of the song Sally Go 'Round the Roses by the Jaynettes. Or rather, I just picked up a copy this morning, further support for the hypothesis that I have an online shopping problem and a near pathological need to expand my CD collection.

    I'll try and shut up now, but once I start down the soul rabbit-hole I can't stop.

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One more Saturday night at Winterland! Yes, we're back to home base for DAVE'S PICKS VOLUME 42, the complete show from Winterland, San Francisco, 2/23/74. The one that featured the earliest amalgamation of what would soon become the Wall of Sound, the one that is so "loud, clear, and defined," it's been ripe for release for quite some time and we're glad it's finally getting its due.

First set or second, there are no wrong answers here. From the unique show opener of Chuck Berry's "Around And Around" and an incredible "Here Comes Sunshine" that would then disappear for 18 years, to a medley of WAKE OF THE FLOOD tracks - "Row Jimmy," "Weather Report Suite," and "Stella Blue" - cementing their status in the canon and an unstoppable hour through the classic 1973-1974 Dead that is “He’s Gone”>“Truckin’”>“Drums”>“The Other One”>“Eyes Of The World,” it's all exceptionally hot.

Limited to 25,000 numbered copies, DAVE’S PICKS VOLUME 42: WINTERLAND, SAN FRANCISCO, 2/23/74 was recorded by Kidd Candelario and has been mastered to HDCD specs by Jeffrey Norman at Mockingbird Mastering. Grab a copy while you can.

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Submitted by Slow Dog Noodle on Sun, 06/19/2022 - 19:53

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IMO that’s the problem with cryptocurrency - no one can really explain it. Based on what I know it sits somewhere in the middle of at least three really complex domains - technology, finance/economics, and governmental policy/politics. You hear a lot of people from any one of the three give you a really great explanation of why its the next big thing (mainly the tech folks from my experience), but they are completely out of their depth when talking about the other fields (monetary or governmental aspects for the tech people).

I have a 0.0001% understanding of the tech side, and I believe people when they tell me that the blockchain is truly novel development. But I don’t think anyone has developed a killer app for it yet. Cryptocurrencies in particular - the most well known blockchain application, float somewhere between fixing a problem that doesn’t exist (if you’re in the US at least - replacing the dollar, or really any other currency), and acting as a facilitator for laundering money and financing illegal activity. But those actions will never be sanctioned by any modern, western government anyway. And those are the governments in whose money real, productive actors can trust, and no one has any logical explanation for why the US government would encourage or facilitate a competitor to the US dollar - it’s dominance and the immense soft power that comes along with it are not going to be relinquished.

I look at crypto/blockchain/NFTs now kind of like the internet in the early 90s. A fair bit of it may be useful and the technology will develop and eventually be used in productive endeavors. But to try to guess which ones those will be at this point is incredibly risky. If you want to try to invest in it I would suggest trying to cast as wide a net as possible to take part in a moonshot perhaps, but also be in a lot of duds along with it.

BTW, revisiting 1-22-78, McArthur Court - what a great show. High energy hard rocking stuff, from Minglewood on. I took a pause at Terrapin; hope to finish off the show doing some yard work tomorrow.

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Submitted by Mr. Ones on Mon, 06/20/2022 - 07:03

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Let me first state this: I am an idiot.
Having gotten that out of the way, I would no more invest in crypto than I would transition my music collection to an all streaming model. My question is…what do I own?? I can’t see it, can’t touch it, can’t even show it to you. I realize that I am a luddite, but could someone please explain this to me. What the f*€k do I own?? Where is it?? Why can’t I touch it??

You may now resume your total enjoyment of the McArthur Court show.
This has been an editorial from the idiots for democracy group.

The most shocking thing I've heard recently is that half the power in the world will be used keeping the "secret" number!

Even more shocking was the majority of electricity will be used in streaming!!!

I'm an idiot also and would probably never buy any (never say never). But they install a crypto machine at the store. People come in and shove cash into this machine and get some form of "coin". We believe they're drug dealers!

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Submitted by lebowski99 on Mon, 06/20/2022 - 08:07

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Someone smarter and more ambitious - not to mention someone less troubled by pesky things like ethics - needs to develop the God Coin. I'm pretty sure they'd be the richest person on the planet inside of a year.

If any of you want to take this idea and run with it, just remember to tithe me my 10%.

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Submitted by hendrixfreak on Mon, 06/20/2022 - 08:44

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First, Vguy generously suggests that "there are some really smart people on here," and I'm thinking, "Well, why don't they post any comments?"

Then several smart(asses) reintroduce themselves using the opening line: "I'm an idiot," before demonstrating that they have common sense, which, as we all know, is in short supply these days.

I mean, I'm good -- unless this confessional thing catches on and I begin to spew. There's just so much you folks don't want to know! After polluting this forum with endless "stories," I still haven't even scratched the surface. (Depravity R Us...)

Ah, the Dutch tulip craze. It's one of the main chapters in another book I recommend: Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds by Charles MacKay (1841) -- sadly, a remarkable work of insights for our times, only 180 years old.

I know only one or two things about crypto: you can't touch it and it's going down, down, down. What Freddie King coulda done with those lyrics. Oh, wait...

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Submitted by billy the kiddd on Mon, 06/20/2022 - 09:10

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53 years ago today, Aoxomoxoa was released. It's one of my favorite Dead albums. Aoxomoxoa & Anthem of the Sun, are my two favorite 50th anniversary releases so far. I like the original version so much more then the remixed version. It would have been nice if he Dead would have brought back Mts of the Moon. and Doin that Rag. Also on this date, the Dead started a great 3 day run at the Fillmore East that would make a great box set.

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Submitted by wadeocu on Mon, 06/20/2022 - 09:37

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Mr. Proudfus - thanks once again for your recommendations. I listened to 11-19-72 this weekend at your urging and yes it is spectacular. I listened to the jam two more time over the weekend.

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Submitted by That Mike on Mon, 06/20/2022 - 09:40

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I’m not trying to bankrupt you, but the Miles Davis site is offering “What It Is - Montreal 7/7/83” as a 2 LP record store release, $25. Not sure if it is limited edition, but while you had your wallet out…

As for crypto, I think Slow Dog Noodle said it best, how it lurks at the vector of three powerful societal forces, with just enough ambiguity and lack of clarity to make it an investment only for the most daring, or insiders. To me, it always seems like something dreamed up by illegitimate cartels and bad actors to finance and hide their illicit and nefarious deeds. I have enough trouble managing a retirement portfolio of blue chippers and emerging companies, with full public disclosure, and lawful accounting practices; Cryptocurrency is just a little too shadowy for my risk appetite.

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Submitted by simonrob on Mon, 06/20/2022 - 09:56

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Coz I used to understand things. One is either born an idiot or one is not. If you weren't born an idiot, then you won't become one. I used to understand things but now there are plenty of new-fangled things that I don't understand so there is something else at work here, like senility or some other form of brain-rot. Or maybe the things I don't understand are so half-assed that they cannot be understood by any sentient being. Like ephemeral moolah. Why is it called crypto and where is the crypt anyway? Nobody seems willing or able to explain that. How hard can it be? Try asking the government of El Salvador who made the stuff legal. They even spent bazillions of taxpayers real money buying it and suddenly it's lost 2/3 of it's value. Somehow they still have the same amount of shitcoins but most of their real money has disappeared. Try explaining that to the masses when they turn up at the gates of the government building demanding to know why the coffers are almost empty.
As for NFTs, what is that? Non Fungal Tokes or something like that, but again it appears to be something you can buy for a buttload of money and at the end of the day you have nothing to show for it. A fool and his money... etc. I managed just fine before these things were imagined and I'm still doing all right without them. I suspect that it's a creation of the devil and as such can best be given a wide berth. So there.

Why I outta…
I resent, er a, resemble that remark! ; )

HF, oh do tell, ya know ya gotta get it out, and some of us old duffs are bored off our asses with life so need some vicarious hijinks (not to be confused with the adventures of mr jinks)

Dutch Tulip craze: who knows how that might of shook out if they’d had ole Tiny Tim around?

CRYPTO: the great Sgt. Shultz nails it yet again, “Col.Hooooggaaaan, I know nothing”

Holy Guacamole Batman, this Garcia!Live Vol 18 is a real Bobbie Dazzler!
Good tight lineup perhaps at their peak, good set list, only recall Tough Mama having some hiccups, awesome Beatty board that sounds great after brief initial tape anomalies (do they plangent these? I’ll have to look…)
I’m sure some folks prefer more of the “normal” stuff that came later, but these early seventies local gigs with this lineup playing Soul Jazz and Jazz are some of my favorite all time Garcia.

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Submitted by daverock on Mon, 06/20/2022 - 10:49

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Some people are born idiots, some achieve idiocy and some have idiocy thrust upon them. In my case, it's a combination of all three. My period of maximum lucidity and connectedness with society occurred when I was between the ages of 30 and 50 roughly. Things were a bit confusing before and after then. But on the whole, I think I am happier in the state of idiocy.
No idea what cryptogram is, obviously. I'd much rather improve my guitar playing skills than learn about stuff like that.

Listening to 5/19/74 and reading the positive comments about Garcia Live 18 -which I think is from the same sort of timespan - makes me feel tempted to seek it out. I haven't kept up with live Garcia releases.

Best record I have played today-"My World Is Empty Without You" by The Supremes. My God.

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Submitted by PT Barnum on Mon, 06/20/2022 - 11:00

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What a guy, just looking at him made you laugh. Way better than Curly Joe.

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Submitted by Dennis on Mon, 06/20/2022 - 11:08

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I saw and ordered that one last night. Jeff just said it's on the way.

I was really hoping to find a digital copy (cd), so I can listen.

Like Jimmy Castor sings,,,, "gotta find a turntable, gotta find a turntable, gotta find a turntable".

I could just reach in a grab one and say "come here"
(a little novelty blast from the past. Never a blast from the future?)

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Submitted by That Mike on Mon, 06/20/2022 - 11:15

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I knew you’d get it! You got great taste, Dennis! If you get your hands on a turntable, or a friend with a turntable and a great sound system that wants to hear The Master Play, I’d like to hear your scouting report on it.
I’m hoping the estate has a lot more stuff to release, too. Maybe our own Dave Lemieux…

like centavos??? Discerning idiots want to know...starting in 1969 me and three other friends (who strangely enough are still kicking it) were labelled "The Blockheads" (From Gumby of course)...my pal Huntz had a snazzy Corvair ('63 maybe?)...we went everywhere in it so we named it buckets as "we came in buckets" an old R Crumb line....

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Submitted by nappyrags on Mon, 06/20/2022 - 15:46

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the 55th Anniversary of the Monterey Pop Festival just passed us by...I was 16 and I asked my Pop if there was any chance of my being able to go...he looked at me over his Bo Diddley glasses and said "Are you Fuckin' crazy???''...HA much less what Mom would've said...

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Submitted by proudfoot on Mon, 06/20/2022 - 18:52

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HOT af

Nice place though

Go to RiversideCA to the Cheech
Museum of Chicano art

Veeeeeery cool

Was a great year for music generally. Maybe the last year when singles were more important than albums. Plus you had Batman on the telly - with Julie Newmar as Catwoman.

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Submitted by topchinacat on Tue, 06/21/2022 - 05:45

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I live full time in the Coachella Valley and can vouch for the heat in the summer (well, winter too, at least relatively speaking). We've only had a handful of days over 110 this year, so the REAL heat is still on the horizon.

On a different note, 11-19-72 is one of my favorites... I've had a soundboard cassette for 40 years ... Birdy, Box, Stars and Stripes Jam, but mostly that Dark Star with the Weather Report tease into 1/2 step.... not sure why, but it gets me every time!

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Submitted by hendrixfreak on Tue, 06/21/2022 - 07:12

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This is real and it is a feature of high desert soil in the American West and, apparently, known worldwide. Cyanobacteria and other organisms build vertical "castles made of sand" that can reach 4-6 inches in height and are amazing to examine up close. They serve to hold soil together in arid regions where vascular plants are too few and far between to hold the surface together so that it all doesn't just blow away in the wind. Serves the larger ecosystem in that way. It's like the Earth's skin. A few years back I was examining some really impressive examples and then reached for my walking stick, which I had laid on the ground. My pal warned me that a scorpion had scuttered under the stick and, indeed, without that warning, I'd have been bitten. (I always stand the stick upright now and use dead trees to stash my boots, sox, etc. when backpacking.)

Now, the scorpion is an amazing critter that has about 450 million years of evolutionary history on Earth without undergoing much change. That means it has survived a dozen or so major extinction events and come out stinging. Around here, they're an inch or two long. In the South Africa, they grow to 8 inches in length. Get this: in the Devonian period, 400 million years ago, sea scorpions grew to 8 FEET in length, but perished 150 million years later, though, obviously, this life form has survived in myriad forms. Today's lesson: not all "crypto" is for idiots...

Next up, Oro: a few truly salacious tales of misspent youth........

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Submitted by nappyrags on Tue, 06/21/2022 - 07:14

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Please check your messages Señor Hendrixfreak....

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Submitted by Angry Jack Straw on Tue, 06/21/2022 - 07:44

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Good luck tomorrow night. I think game four decides the series. If the Avs, win, the Cup is yours. If the Bolts tie it, I think they win in 7. That being said, it all depends on Kucherov. If he is out with an injury, it's over. These two teams are awesome to watch. Just a reminder of my prediction back in April which is posted below.

Yes. I think Colorado is the team to beat.

The President’s trophy winner rarely brings home the Cup. Say goodbye to the Panthers.

It’s extraordinarily difficult to win the Cup three times in a row. Say goodbye to the Lightning.

We all know how the teams from Canadaland have performed over the last 25 years or so. I’ll be backing the Oilers in the west and the Leafs in the east. I’m truly hoping this is the year the Cup heads across the border. It’s been way too long. Regardless, say goodbye to our brothers to the north. All of them.

That leaves Colorado. Good luck to your local boys.

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Submitted by Vguy72 on Tue, 06/21/2022 - 07:46

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....King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard. Band from Australia. Styles all over the place. These guys are pretty damn good. Any of you ever check em out?

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Submitted by 1stshow70878 on Tue, 06/21/2022 - 08:00

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Greek or Latin for hidden marriage? Still have my first hand drawn warning pamphlet from a visit in 1980 to the Needles District in Canyonlands. The Park Service was new on this thing to protect the integrity of the soil. No big ranger station then, just a beat up single wide trailer that was closed when we got there around sunset. Didn't get a map or even see the brochures. Navigated from our own topos. A 3 day, 35 mile trek all the way down to the Colorado River (below the confluence with the Green R.) and back up through the lanes (Devil's Lane is a must see) and the slot canyons. The most spectacular and colorful terrain I have ever hiked through. Confession time: We bushwhacked many times off trail and had two dogs with us, a big no-no. We had to lower the dogs down some sections with a short rope and our belts as they aren't that good at rappelling. Had to drink boiled water from potholes as we totally underestimated the scale of our endeavor. Practically a death march down to Spanish Bottoms where we filtered the muddy water through bandanas before boiling. Camped at the bottoms across from the pull-in for some really big rafts with lots of customers. We were so jealous eating our freeze dried or ramen while we could hear an outrageous party across the din of the river and smell their steaks cooking. I think there's a big rapid right below there. Long story short we felt pretty bad when we were leaving and picked up the brochures stating no dogs and no bushwhacking. Luckily we did not harm the cryptogamic soil as one of the group was a biologist and future lifelong Park Service and Forest Service employee. I have hiked that area many more times but all day hiking. Got to see the Yellow Man pictograph on one a couple years later. It inspired my wife to become an archaeologist and a published author (her graduate studies thesis) of a study of the rock art of Nine Mile Canyon in N.E. Utah. We still go to the Needles District as often as we can and stay in the Squaw Flats campground (will they rename that now?) at a campsite we call Mushroom Rock for obvious reasons.
Cheers, summer's here and the time is right for dancin' in the streets!

P.S. Just read an encouraging article about the beautiful Utah red rock country: Tribal Leaders and Feds Reestablish Bears Ears Commission. Hope they can undo the damage caused by Zinke et.al.

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Submitted by proudfoot on Tue, 06/21/2022 - 09:37

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9 2 83

Like a frozen pizza instead of Blondie's

Good enough but not mindblowing

I hope the upcoming Daves is a "real cracker" (thank you to MPFC for that one)

On to 6 17 76
So far a tasty show

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Submitted by Vguy72 on Tue, 06/21/2022 - 09:51

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....Trey Anastasio played a solo acoustic show last night in Grand Rapids and a seven year old girl was holding up a sign saying "Can I sing Bug with you?" with a heart. And he invited her on stage and she nailed it.
Shit like this gives me hope in this crazy world. Thank you Trey. You made me tear up watching that. Class. Act.

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Submitted by proudfoot on Tue, 06/21/2022 - 10:12

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cool

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Submitted by Oroborous on Tue, 06/21/2022 - 11:17

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I concur, it’s do or die time.
Game 4 should be a biggy!
Boys seemed a little mortal, or flat last night, and Kuemper was just plain no bueno!
Getting a little nervous. I know the AVs aren’t the Rangers, but the Bolts game back from down 2 games in the final, so…would love to see the AVs win it for game five at home for the fans etc. there’d be one hell of a party in LoDo on Friday night, but holding my breath until when/if I actually get to watch MacKinnon hoist that puppy.

EDIT: that Bug video made my morning! Got both me and the other half choked up.

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Submitted by bluecrow on Tue, 06/21/2022 - 17:18

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Nothing I see can be taken from me

Thanks for sharing that VGuy. Beautiful.

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Submitted by proudfoot on Tue, 06/21/2022 - 18:05

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Kid singin with Trey

I dont know the song but that is a beautiful moment

Thank you for the tip Vguy

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Submitted by cdrtree on Tue, 06/21/2022 - 19:19

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Thanks, Oro for pushing Garcia vol 18. I needed some nudging to put this one on, and it truly is one dazzling show, esp the second set. It’s just my humble opinion, but it is one heck of a showcase for Paul Humphrey. His drumming just makes this show. Gonna go pull out Hot Rats - Gumbo Variations, anyone?

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Submitted by Strider 808808 on Wed, 06/22/2022 - 06:08

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I lived and worked there from February 1979 to end of April of 79. Then had to double back to northern Montana and take my old job again in the backcountry of Glacier National Park.
I still walk several miles a day here in the mountains of southern New Mexico. I do have an old nickname of over 40 years to uphold.
Monsoons arrived in force.
Libre Fuerza Aerea Mexicana!

I dont have the gumbo variations
But I do have hot rats regular
At top volume as I prep the house for guests

Excellent suggestion

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Submitted by daverock on Wed, 06/22/2022 - 11:02

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Fascinating glimpse into the Free Festival movement in England in the 1980's with a rare screening of "Hawkwind Live at Stonehenge- Summer Solstice 1984". It was shown in the early hours this morning, and it is on again on Sunday on Sky Arts.
Compared to what festival sites look like now, it all seems very poverty stricken and a little seedy. Bedraggled looking people huddled round camp fires, humble tents, blackboards with the names of all manner of drugs chalked on them. Probably similar to what's on offer at the big corporate events of today, thinking about it - but now it's the norm - then it was very alternative.
The music is weird and wacky - but not really too good, unfortunately.

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Submitted by nitecat on Wed, 06/22/2022 - 12:11

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Funny, I prefer the first set as a set. Although I love Freedom Jazz Dance from the second, Merle's Wondering Why goes on and on and doesn't do much for me. I'll give it another listen. We were all dancin' during the first set last night while I cooked dinner.

I’m hi-curious! ; )

Good question PF, I know it usually drops around the first of august so probably not until 2-3 weeks before : (

Maybe we will know 7/18

The 40th anni of my first show

When an actual time machine is invented, one of my first adventures will be 7/18/82

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Submitted by proudfoot on Wed, 06/22/2022 - 13:36

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Day Job has some alternate lyrics. Most of you won't care, but it's cool nonetheless.

Killer filler from 9 2 80

I haven't a Day Job in weeks

But that will change soon

:)))

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Submitted by nappyrags on Wed, 06/22/2022 - 21:35

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the past few days was the 53rd Anniversary of the Newport Pop Festival in Northridge CA 1969...Jimi played twice, Spirit tore it up as did Johnny Winter & Jethro Tull...over the three days I don't think we slept over 6 hrs total...some fun....and the doses were free!

Is incredible too. Maybe a bit light on long jams - the one coming out of Truckin' may be the centre piece, but every song is played really well, and Jerry's guitar sounds superb.

It's probably been mentioned before, but I wonder how loud these 1974 shows were if you were actually there. They sound very quite, listening at home. Almost delicate. Especially compared to live shows I saw at that time-Black Sabbath, Deep Purple, etc who were so loud you couldn't hear for a week. I have just played the live 1973 show from Sabbath's Volume 4 super deluxe bollocks - a show I attended, as it goes - and even playing the cd quietly, you can sense how loud it was in the hall. The Dead sound almost acoustic by comparison.

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