Grateful Dead

Labels, to me, always seem to devalue the people they are designed to describe.

Nyuk nyuk

...."awake to social injustice and
racial persecution". I guess I'm woke. Poor me. How will I survive.
The GOP is too busy butting heads to even care.
Good for them I guess.
Anywho. Walking the dogs on a very nice evening here.
Ledded. I went and saw Metallica streamed live from a Dallas concert at a movie theater this past weekend. They are actually mixing up sets! And they've been practicing. Ignore Lars's tongue. Thank God it wasn't in 3D.
They played Leper Messiah and Orion. Always welcome. Enjoy Hollywood. Buy a flower from the street vendors. I did.

Heading out to LA to see Metallica at SoFi Friday night. I'm not crazy about Pantera but I'm down to see Ed's kid again. He's a special one. Doing dumb tourist shit like hiking up to the Hollywood sign, hanging out at Capitol Records and getting loaded at the Rainbow. Hitting Norm's Rare Guitars. Say what you will, Hollywood is never boring.

Speaking as a dirty old man, Taylor Swift has really nice thighs. I'm not woke and I will not apologize for that, ever. Go ahead and cancel me I never cared about anyone who does anyway. About the highest backhanded compliment I can pay her. Actually, she seems like a decent human but the disconnect between my reality and her product is ocean-sized. The Swiftie phenomenon is just like Trumpism - there's nothing there but mass hypnosis and needy people needing to belong. That being said, I'd vote for her and her thighs to be President over Dump every time.

There's a "desert island top 5" going around another site I peruse. My biggest hang-up is, can one include box sets? Because if one was a) on a desert island, where does the electricity and playback apparatus come from? and b) I guess this assumes "name only 5 albums you can listen to for the rest of your life."

I think this puts box sets out... I mean, a 17 disc Dead box is kind of cheating, isn't it?

I'm going to cheat anyway, sort of, with my first pick which, by the way, would be the one Dead album I'd choose over all others ever if I could only have one. But it fits in a double wide cd case which is the limit for this exercise.

Desert island top 5:

Ladies and Gentlemen... the Grateful Dead - Grateful Dead
Best of the Doors - The Doors
Aerosmith's Greatest Hits - Aerosmith
Kind of Blue - Miles Davis
Wish You Were Here - Pink Floyd

I think there's enough rock, enough jazz and enough space to get me through... hopefully I'll find a Wilson volleyball and learn to like eating fish before it's all said and done.

Peace.

\m/

....that their flood benefit shows this weekend at SPAC will be streamed for free.
Those nerds from Vermont are pretty cool.

Y'all be cool

Love..."When a Man Loves a Woman." I very much enjoy her discussions on the documentary "Muscle Shoals." "From the Heart of Me" lyrics sound so close to what she described in the documentary. So a huge "Happy Birthday" to you this day. Been a while since I went to Muscle Shoals, wonder if you still live around there or hang around there...also loved her on "In the Ghetto" "Kentucky Rain" and "Suspicious Minds."

Saw the Swampers a few years back (like spring 2016, maybe 17) back when they played kind of ending show for/with Cowboy at a local watering hole. It was really good!

....don't listen to the haters.

I'll look for that soundtrack.
Better check my collection first, lol.
Cheers
Just ordered newly reissued vinyl from RGM: Aereo-Plain by John Hartford.
Considered the first "newgrass" album by none other than Sam Bush.
"Without Aereo-Plain there would be no newgrass."
Has Vassar, Tut Taylor, Norman Blake, and Randy Scruggs on it.

Great article on Panther, she is quite the work of art! Thanks! I am also on email list for Meyer Sound.

Quote from Article: Company founders John and Helen Meyer, who attended the final shows in San Francisco, celebrated their past relationships but also looked forward to new possibilities. “This final tour closes an important chapter in the story of the Dead in its many forms,” says Executive Vice President Helen Meyer. “But it’s not the end of the book. There’s still more to come, with the people and the music"

I am also on Meyer Sound's mailing list, need to see if Ultrasound has a mailing list.

My rocknroll fantasy: Work for Meyer or Ultrasound. Both engineering Monsters!