Grateful Dead

Absolutely!!!
Wanted to thank all for kind words a couple of weeks ago in regard to the passing of my mother.

Ole Pops is looking pretty weak. Oh well.

Not sure I'll post part 2, as it is an example one who failed the test...

It's the taking part that counts.

I found a bunch of new copies Now available of Dave’s picks CD sets numbers #36 thru #44 for $25 each! Mint, sealed and individually numbered.
I Also found a Dicks picks # 19 vinyl Boxset . )Mint/sealed & hand numbered for a $100 !
And a copy of the Grateful Dead’s RSD 2023 vinyl Boxset. Mint/sealed! For $100 !
If anyone has any questions or needs more information please feel free to send me a message ! Have a grateful day & holiday weekend everyone! Be safe be kind & don’t forget to “Smile Smile Smile” Rock On! 💀🌹

Alexandra Palace is 150 years old today. Birthday party is in progress outside the venerable venue.

….but even my dumb ass knows “my” bird isn’t a morning Dove. It actually makes many woo woo sounds in quick almost staccato succession and extended duration often as they take flight. The pitch rises a bit and then falls over the course of the song. I’ve never been able to see any as their usually only active at night, or dusk.
BUT!! via my good bird brained amigos here at DN I now have the Merlin app on device and ready to capture my prey if you will, hopefully this evening…though I’m not sure their fully arrived yet. I briefly heard one recently, but that’s it. Eventually they will fill the night air for their somewhat short visit. Certainly not the best Bird Song ever but pretty sweet (see, got the dead connection in there ; )

Now if the VGN can just tidy things up this evening….

....last Five.
Phish - Spartanburg, SC 10.29.94. Latest archival release.
GOGD - Giants Stadium 7.9.89.
Metal Church - Congegration Of Annihilation.
King Gizzard - Quarters!
Steely Dan - Pretzel Logic.

Oro, be careful after dark, some people claim birds came from dinosaurs... why they have lizard feet. Since the next guess with the woowoo and time of day would be owls, it's obviously not owls...? If you want to hear some weird sounds, check out calls various juvenile owls make, also found in Merlin.

are you, who, who, who, who!
Nah, not Owls, we have several of those at times.
One of the golf courses I worked at had some huge nesting owls right near the cart barn. And after hanging out together alone with them on many a summers eve, I could actually get them to talk with me….oh, what did they say you ask? “Drive for show, putt for doe, gotta work on that short game Hoss!”
Perhaps the coolest of our local birds are all the different big raptors we have, though the. huge Turkey Vultures are most impressive.
We’re fortunate to have a wetlands close by that they’ve been fixing up and depending on time of year it’s a veritable treasure trove of our winged friends. I look forward to utilizing the app to learn more about them, cept beware the moors at night…

....but we have bats.
Finches. Some doves. Lots of pigeons.
They're petty good at waiting until the last second before being run over.
I have a birdbath out front.
I've always said, if reincarnation is a thing, I wanna be a peregrine falcon.
Zoooom!!!

More than one cuckoo

DaveRock... meant to say can you pass the test, are you kind. Natural memory made me add the acid.

I am on board with your Knights!!!

Seen some damn good hockey, but at times, you can tell with the long season and real grind at the end that there is some real tiredness also. Just my casual observation.

Disney now floating that espn could be streaming only in a few years. I wish I could by a season ticket for the Predators, and maybe the Atlanta Braves as i do not get bally sports regional channels any more. Makes me :(

And Birds, we have owls, doves like crazy, but also Bald Eagles and Red Tail Hawks. With no hunting, their populations are starting to get pretty big.

....saving my duckets for a finals game.

Interested in copy of DP #43-any available?

Sports...oy...

....he was all over it.

I never went to the Alexandra Palace - although as it is still standing, there is still time. Apart from the Dead's performances there, it is most known to me for the legendary "14 Hour Technicolour Dream" festival that took place in Spring 1967. Featuring many of the new at the time psychedelic bands, and culminating with Pink Floyd in the early hours of the morning. There is a documentary of all this on dvd - sometimes misleadingly advertised as being of Pink Floyd's set. Which it's not - it's mainly made up of interviews as I remember it. Interesting, though.

Is like a drug to me. Like oxygen, I need it to live. I’m struggling with a spouse who just is not on board with my passion. It’s sad, and quite frustrating.
Anybody else ever have to deal with this??
It feels like someone intentionally trying to snuff out my pilot light.

Anyway, I don’t want to bring anyone down on a beautiful Sunday morning. So, me and the cats are the only ones awake right now so, I’m gonna listen to WHATEVER I WANT TO!!
Wishing everyone peace & peace of mind as we remember the brave souls who allowed us to live free and enjoy the beauty of this blue rock.
First up, the new Paul Simon album. I hear it’s good!! After that, it’s Thelma time, bonus disc first!!

Check out the thread under Families titled:
They Love Each Other, But...
We are not alone.
I'm a music is the best entertainment guy (by far) and she's into movies.
We make it work though. And hangin' with the cats is great.
Cheers

The Other One is a book junkie, full on needle to the vain…BUT!
Considering how much of a music junkie I am, and I don’t do cans, so overall she’s a good sport, though there are times…ahem
. Issues usually arise from more specific grievances: “it’s too loud” or “oh no, not that phuching Bob Weirdo again” being the most common. I’m fortunate to have different rooms to go listen, but the uninsulated cardboard walls are no match and almost non existent for the wall of sound lol.
But after being happily unmarried for 26 years ya learn to adjust or go bust…
So tips!
Number one, if she’s getting to read, than I can usually get away with whatever, within reason lol.
If both of us are hanging in the living room I try to pick stuff we both like, though she’ll tolerate some dead. She likes Jer for the most part but is sick of Tennessee Jed after all these years. But Bob, well lol, that’s another story. She’s more sick of Me and my Uncle than even I am so that gets skipped a lot, and if I mute parts of PITD, especially the “murderd cat” part, that helps. The key I find is to feel, intuit or know when I can slide a show in, or when to break out the Bill Evens! Sometimes I’ll pop in some crap I know she really likes, that she knows I don’t like, either just after a show if I feel reparations are required, or sometimes just before I’m thinking of blasting off to soften her up.
Otherwise, it’s best to retreat to the stereo room, but keep it on 6 instead of 11…(ugggg, like having a Porsche that you can only drive in a 30 mph zone)
But sometimes….sorry Tutz. Sometimes ya just gotta let er rip. Fortunately she understands that for the safety and overall well being of the planet this occasionally needs to happen.
Perhaps it just comes down to two junkies tolerating as part of the enabling ; )

Someday, when they put me in some horrible place, and am not allowed to have anymore possessions, I will have to succumb to some nice cans and the sweetest portable rig I can have smuggled in and hid inside my toilet top, cause music is really the best, and life is pointless without it!
So hang in there Mr Ones, we feel yer pain, we are everywhere!
Ps, sounds like you need some cans!

Hard choices amigos, 100 Db of pure crystal clear multitrack dead versus serene but boring communal existence…
When in doubt, happy wife, happy life usually works ; )

I heard my bird briefly last night but not long enough to grab my Merlin app…the hunt is on…

But my neighbour doesn't like my guitar playing. She says she doesn't understand it. I'm not sure I do, to be honest.

As long as I fast forward through Bob's slide solos and Estimated screaming(aptly qualified here as histrionics), nobody gets hurt.
Actually I do FF through these, regardless of who is within earshot.
Oh, and no Slayer/Megadeth/RKL/Anthrax/Misfits etc. when she's around.

Tell em that my wifes friend had to deal with her ex husband bringing HOOKERS INTO THEIR HOME.

Hopefully Bob Phuking Weirdo seems pretty tolerable

Possibly interested in the Dave's Picks CDs. Where did you find them? And did you find a Dave's Picks 1?

For all the advice and support. It helps more than you know.
The Paul Simon album actually led me to a Micheal Hedges sidetrack. The first song on P. Simon REALLY reminded me of Ragamuffin from Michael Hedges’ 2nd album “Aerial Boundaries”. From there I went straight to my favorite Hedges album, Taproot. This album is not for everyone, but it was the 1st Michael Hedges album to feature multiple instruments on most cuts. Plus, the last song is an ee cummings poem set to music, with a Crosby/Nash backing vocal. Beautiful stuff!!

Tomorrow is another day. Best Memorial Day wishes/memories to all.

You guys (and gals) are always awesome!!

Oro - my 2 bits are on it being a Poorwill. If its active at dusk into night that pretty much limits it to a handful of species - basically owls and nightjars like Poorwill and Nighthawk. Though they're common def not a Nighthawk based on description and consistently hearing an owl species other than a Great Horned seems a stretch. Saying that, there's some lesser known owls that have pretty unusual calls, e.g. Saw-whets, Northern Pygmy, and Flammulated. Many years ago Ex (still a close friend) and I once experienced a beautiful moonlit night in the junipers out in SE Oregon near Malheur with a migrating flock of Saw-whets - pure magic.

....I'm in the same category. Wife is not into music much anymore. She used to be back in the day. But people change I guess.
I haven't.
She calls me her stubborn mule sometimes.
Then smiles and rolls her eyes.
Rock on.
Kingfishers are pretty cool birds.
Fun fact. Michael Hedges toured with Leo Kottke.
Michael Gordon tours with him every now and then currently.
"He likes it! Hey Mikey"!

....by King Gizzard is a really, really good, psychedelic song.
Check it out. It's on Quarters!
Four songs. Each 10:10 long.
It's my newest favorite thing.
Boom.
I need to see these guys.
Looks like they are playing the Hollywood Bown on a Wednesday in June. Shucks. The Hollywood Bowl is top shelf no question.

Hendrix songs: Voodoo Chile Slight Return, Bold as Love, Burning the Midnight Lamp.

The first one that came to mind was Stone Free, but how about....Gypsy Eyes, House Burning Down and Roomful of Mirrors. Hang on....I've changed my mind already.

Franklin D., I dm’d your inbox….Numb

HF that is, so to play favorite Jimis, Red House is it's own blues universe, Manic Depression, Third Stone, One Rainy Wish. Important to play these at volume minimum 90db.

DMCVT, like Beetlejuice lol.
Best three….pffffffffff not sure that’s possible?
EXP, Spanish Castle Magic, 6 was 9, Castles Made of Sand, Third Stone From the Sun, Dolly Dagger, Easy Rider, Hear My Train, Machine Gun, And the Gods Made Love, VooDoo Chile!!, but probably my favorite sequence is Rainy Day Dream Away>>1983>>Moon, Turn the Tides>>Still Raining, Still Dreaming….yeah, can’t do it!

Bet HF would say “all of em” lol

PROUDFOOT: misses says she has to think about that one lol…

BLUECROW et el: haven’t captured our prey yet, but I did spend all morning listening to Bird Songs, sans JG that is ; )
Though I haven’t found anything exact, so far the Boreal Owl comes closest…thanks for the recommendations.

My favourite sequence, and my favourite piece of music by Jimi Hendrix is from Woodstock - Star Spangled Banner- Purple Haze-Woodstock Improvisation-Villanova Junction.

....tough call. Does Watchtower count?
I'm going to be lazy and go with Oro's list. Makes sense to me.

Your boys are back to their old form. Fast and aggressive. On to Florida.

Congratulations.

a few of the favorites -
Third Stone
Wind Cries Mary
Little Wing
Electric Ladyland - fronttobackwholeenchiladaeverydamnsong
Pali Gap
Hey Baby (New Rising Sun)

edit - how can I forget The Star Spangled Banner

Too young to see Jimi. So some simple pleasure memories are these. I had to work a Memorial Day Weekend in Farmington NM ca. 2014. A little street fair along the river that weekend. One of the bands laid down Third Stone > Tomorrow Never Knows - way very cool. Nearly 39 years ago at the Chicago Blues Festival in Grant Park with some way strong boomers on board (6/7/85). Stevie Ray Vaughn blasting Voodoo Child and Come On (Part 1). Time travel and all that, that night. And Alpine '87 first night - opening chords of Watchtower out of The Wheel- holyshit.

A Boreal Owl? That would be something.

"Lucky"

Go GKs!

....Knights in 6.
Vegas came out on 🔥 and didn't let up on the gas.
That win is for the Oct 1 victims.
Lets do it again.

NÉE….NÉE, NEE, NÉE, NI, NÉE, NI!
That’s Vegas for splat the rats!

....he's conveniently talking about the weather in Sacramento.
It's going to be 77 degrees tomorrow. Yeah. Thanks.

Rock You!
No, not an inane nod to “Classic Rock” radio, but to the Glittering Knights! Congrats VGuy. Credit due to Las Vegas: that is quite a team for guys have. On to Florida!

A guy I used to work with, who was 10 years older than me had the opportunity to see the Jimi Hendrix Experience in London in early 1967. He passed it by...reason being he didn't like pop music - just jazz. A bit of a conversation stopper. He looked at me as though to say "And was I wrong?" How to break it to him.
Just goes to show you can be the right age, in the right place, in the right year...and still miss out on the action.

Jimi Hendrix was supposed to play at the Frost Amphitheatre on July 4th 1970, but the show got cancelled. I was to young to go, but my brother would have gone.

A few years ago I went to a high school football state tournament playoff game. A student from one of the schools played the Star Spangled Banner Hendrix style before the game. He did a good enough job that he received a standing ovation. I'm not sure the other high school students even knew what he was doing but me and my friend enjoyed it immensely. Pretty cool for a high school kid.

So, I have decided to root for the Golden Knights because I have to back my man VGUY!!

Also, I did catch that Leo Kottke/Michael Hedges tour. It was sublime. I saw Mr. Hedges approx. 40 times, mostly in the '80's when he would do a lot of local shows due to his being a student at the Peabody Conservatory of Music.

Speaking of birds, A female duck (not sure which genus) has decided to lay and hatch eggs behind our house in the mulch we put down. I'll Keep Y'all posted on developments.

If it's 3 OF my favorite Hendrix tunes and not MY ABSOLUTE 3 favorites, i can do that:

Are You Experienced
If 6 Was 9
Jam Back At The House-As it appeared on the Woodstock 2 S/T- This is more a childhood memory thing, always LOVED hearing this from the Woodstock 2 Soundtrack!!
That was easy!!

Go Knights!!
Music is the Best!!

The only time I heard Michael Hedges live was when he opened for JGB in December 1984 in Seattle.

sheetmon. 38.5 years ago.

I remember Jerry looking...rather unhealthy.

....Stanley Cup finals here we come!!
The bad news. Cheapest tickets are $600!?
No vinyl for me next month.

uh...no.

With an extra $600 I could get that boxed set.
We all have our priorities. To each his own.
Cheers and good luck VGK and Vguy. Will be fun.