A small blue whale and half a ton of fries.

from last week:

Back in May Big Bob Gibson was inducted into to the BBQ hall of fame. Check out Jose at the end wow!

The American Royal Barbecue Hall of Fame announced its 2024 Hall of Fame class and a Decatur man credited with shaping the landscape of barbecue in Alabama for nearly a century was among those honored.

Bob Gibson made the list as a 2024 Legacy Inductee. Gibson first started Big Bob Gibson Bar-B-Q back in 1925 with the creation of his own pit barbecue technique. Gibson also developed Alabama White Sauce which is on restaurant menus and store shelves all over the world.

Big Bob Gibson Bar-B-Q is in the Alabama BBQ Hall of Fame. His barbecue team received 18 world championships in various categories.

Another 2024 Legacy Inductee was Matt Garner who opened Matt Garner's Bar-B-Q back in 1920. The drive-in barbecue combined Creole flavor influences from Garner's upbringing in Louisiana and techniques of the Southern U.S. brought to Houston by freed slaves. Garner is known for creating the combination of flavor known as East Texas-style barbecue.

Jose "Joe" Romero was another 2024 Legacy Inductee. Romero began by cooking for family and social gatherings in the late 1880s. His so-called "Spanish barbecues" became huge in the region with the largest held in San Francisco which fed 38,000 people with 20,000 pounds of meat.

There's two ways to hear the noise reduction if you're not aware right away - (1) do an A/B comparison to any of the master reel sources on archive (2) listen to the in-between track parts with headphones, very easy to tell

....love.

I know what you mean.. every time I try to launch my new crypto currency and advertise my new Crypto exchange here, I get Hey Now'd.

It's so unfair.

Box is in, haven't opened it yet but that's where I will be going in exactly.... now.

Magically showed up at the post office this am.

Spinning Tampa 4/6 right now - In the timbers of Fennario . . .

The packaging fits into a standard book shelf. Standard slip cases for the discs. All of it well made and designed. That alone makes me glad I didn't go with the all digital.

For the artwork, it now makes sense to me and it works. There's a backwoods swamp feel in the imagery that's appropriate for most of the shows being from the deep south during springtime. The devils remind me of what can be found in folk art from that region- just do a google image search 'Florida Georgia folk art devils'. All that Baptist influence on the subconscious, I guess. And then with the drum actually being a rain stick every time you move the box? That's when your imagination pulls all the pieces together to make it come alive! Pretty cool how that happens.

For the music, I've only listened to the first Tampa show but I'm hearing what I heard when listening to some of the DaP releases from the tour after this release was announced. It's a GD where everyone is rhythmically in synch and magically knows how to follow where the beast wants to go. And primarily from having a centering weight through Phil, Mickey and Bill-- which then allows Keith, Jerry and Bob to easily find room to freely do their stuff. Donna too (who does sound great). Quite often I find grateful dead playing to be like a big drum circle and that's indeed the case what's found here.

If all the shows hold to that style, for me personally, I'll place this at the same level as E '72, May '77 and Spring '90. I think the playing is that good and that unique to the GD vault. Case in point, after listening to one of those prior DaP releases this summer, I put in Veneta right afterward and my ears went, nope, better get back to April '78.

....out for delivery.

It doesn't like the colon punctuation mark, that is two dots above each other, as is sometimes used between hours and minutes. I discovered that last week.

gettin hey now'd again...thought that had been disposed of.

guess not.

sucky