Grateful Dead

Indeed one of the great guitarists. I don't think Quicksilver ever made it across the pond but I was fortunate enough to see the Gravenites - Cipollina Band at Dingwall's Dance Hall in Camden, north London. Two greats in one band! Nick Gravenites has always been a favourite of mine and to see him onstage with Cipollina was a wonderful experience, particularly in a small, intimate venue. With Al Staehely on bass and Marcus David on drums they were a really tight band. As Daverock said, the sound that Cipollina got out of his guitar and rig was awesome.

One of the true greats. He got one of the best sounds out of an electric guitar of anybody I have ever heard - and "Happy Trails" is a great album . Another one to look out for from this lineup of Quicksilver is the "Live at The Fillmore" double cd set from 6/7/68. It's come out in various formats over the years - but that one has the best sound. Similar songs to the ones on "Happy Trails" but with the added bonus of a few songs from their first album. Higher energy than "Happy Trails" but maybe less spacey.
I nearly mentioned the 4 man Quicksilver band - with both John and Gary Duncan in the lineup - as one of the bands I would most like to have seen but didn't.

RIP Bob Barker. Not a music figure, but a legend is a legend.

Also, I happened upon Quicksilver Messenger Service Happy Trails earlier today on that music streaming tube. Now I find out it's John Cippolina's birth date.

Cool. Thank you, JC.

John Cipollina would have been 80 on August 24. He died way too young, on May 29, 1989, at age 45. His cause of death was alpha-1 antitrypsin deficiency, which he suffered from most of his life and which is exacerbated by smoking. I had the honor to interview him twice for Dead Head TV, and he had a wicked sense of humor. Today in his honor, I have re-released the Dead Head TV tribute to John which aired a few months after his death.

Check out the DTV tribute to John Cipollina on dreamswedreamed dot com.

....Are AOK in my book.

Yellow sun is goin' down so slow
(Slow, slow, slow, slow, slow, slow)
Doin' acid and watchin' the light bugs glow
(Glow, glow, glow, glow, glow, glow)
Like tiny spaceships in a row
(Row, row, row, row, row, row)
The coolest thing I'll ever know
(Know, know, know, know)
John's still a greaser
And Tommy's gone off to war
James got busted
And doesn't give a fuck anymore
Oh, my God
Why is it them?
Oh, my God
Now it's me
Orange flowers bursting into bloom
(Bloom, bloom, bloom, bloom)
Neptune, Saturn, Jupiter, the Moon
John's still a greaser
And Tommy's gone off to war
James got busted
And doesn't give a fuck anymore
Oh, my God
Why is it them?
Oh, my God
Now it's me
Oh, my God
Why is it them?
Oh, my God
Now it's me
Hmm, yeah
Alright, cool

Sounded great live.

Just saw the Flaming Lips last night at the Kettlehouse Ampitheater in Bonner Montana. Good show, cool venue, and the pink puppets that Proudfoot saw at the show he peeked in at were supposed to be the pink robots that Yoshimi battled as the first set was a start to finish run through of the Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots album. They put on a good show and, yeah, they are pretty psychedelic, well worth checking out. Lot of cool, genuinely weird and groovy stuff in their catalogue.

I also like Buddy Miles version from his solo album.
Nice horn arrangement on that one.
Did band of Gypsies with Buddy ever cover that I wonder?
Cheers

Alvarhanso - good to see you giving the thumbs up for Donovan. I saw him in 2011, when he played the entire "Sunshine Superman" album live at The Royal Albert Hall. Shawn Phillips played sitar on a number of tracks, and Jimmy Page himself came on for the actual song. A great concert all round.

Very divergent opinions, including a disappointed first show, yet here 44 years later when it's released because he didn't ask Cowboy Neal to let him off at the next stop, up to a top 10 DiP or DaP. I'd call that running the gamut. I myself was in the middle. Agree on the less tinkly piano, but was astonished at why I wasn't really hearing his vocals, because he hadn't gotten that full raspiness, he still sounded sweet. His high harmonies at times sound like there's still a female vocalist. A good show, better than DaP 31, though I was happy for an Althea finally with that one and liked that Jack a Roe with Mickey doing the cannon thing on the drums. I'd be prepared for the next show from this tour to also not be 12/1/79. Dave pretty much gave that away, he's doubling down on turning everybody onto the shows that are better than 12/1. At least that's my somewhat cynical take on it.

Daverock, Donovan was great, and ahead of his time. Taught the Beatles finger picking while they were in India together, quite instrumental in the White Album that followed. Sunshine Superman is one of the earliest, if not the first session to feature Jimmy Page on guitar and John Paul Jones on bass. Page claims playing on half of the songs put out from London in the mid-60s, and JPJ was also a popular session musician, but I think this may have been their earliest together, think I read that somewhere. And of course, There Is a Mountain had such an earworm of a melody that Jerry Garcia would play it in Alligator often, and later occasionally in GDTRFB, think I heard it teased in He's Gone once as well. And Duane and Gregg Allman, opening for the Dead as The Hour Glass caught a few of these, and Duane decided that would be suitable for a jam up to an hour, but typically a good half hour of jamming one little theme. (I suspect New Potato Caboose also caught their ear, because it sounds remarkably like Dreams, which Gregg wrote in LA before coming to Jacksonville.)

Okay, now off to the Phish from Vermont at SPAC. Didn't go last night, and okay with that setlist. Only bummed about Simple, means I will get to 20 shows without seeing one, got to be an insane aberrational stat, like seeing 20 Dead shows and not seeing a Wharf Rat or something of that nature. Oh well, gonna You Enjoy Myself and feel good about Hood and not worry about being a Slave to the Traffic Light, and if I am, can always get a Tweezer to while away the time.