calvino

Caught the CRB Mountain Jam webcast yesterday - definitely the highlight of the day. Casal is incredibly good.

I did the same thing with Manassas towards the end of last year - the Steven Still box set that came out last year piqued my interest into Manassas --- it is good stuff. My library system had it all, too (including the Stills box - which is pretty good). I had no idea that Bill Wyman was involved with Manassas.

Last night's Mountain Jam performance wasn't the best --- it seem a bit perfunctory, at times. Gregg sounded good, though. Compared to the previous nights Gov't Mule set - which I thought was so, so excellent, ABB set seemed kind of ho-hum. Also I never realized that Maurice Brown was involved with the Tedeschi Truck Band - and writing charts for the band to boot. I use to watch him play at various jazz venues and festival when he just got out of high school in the Chicagoland area. Him and Corey Wilkes were the two young gun trumpet slingers in town in the late 90's and early 2000's.

Not to pile on, but my wife mentioned it, too --- which made me laugh. Winter weight adds up, I guess....The loaded bake potato wasn't going to help matters --- luckily it had sour cream.

Where at?

In addition to the above and sitting in with Ratdog, latter in the night (or I guess technically first thing at 12:30am the next morning) ---- he also had a studio session with Anthony Braxton in the afternoon. (info from the Tales from the Golden Road - a Dead XM radio show). Hopefully, the Braxton session is released, someday.

It's always nice now-a-days to actually have something for this thread: Die Like a Dog Trio (Peter Brotzmann, William Parker, and Hamid Drake)

Wouldn't mind hearing your thoughts--- I haven't gotten around to grab them yet - not sure if I want to buy yet another copy of each.

It was okay -- Nels had a nice solo on the above Lovelight - but Franklin's kinda went nowhere --- thanks by the way - I didn't know anything about this show, until I saw you post about it --- only caught Sugaree on. It was kinda cool because I was able to find channel on my Roku device, so I was able to watch it on my TV, rather then the computer.

Very well could have - he only played on the two song encore -- must have been pushing 12:30am by the time he hit Ratdog stage.

This is the way I view the Grateful Dead legacy, also -- so many various eras that are completely different from each other ---- it all depends on my mood on any given day what I want to listen to. It's great that a band evolves over time and (hopefully) keeps you interested to listen to the current incarnation and have the options (via boots) to visit the past.

Nels on now.

Listening to this one while at work today and this one's a doozy ---- not sure if I ever heard before. (esp. as you mentioned - that Laminated Cat)

During my broadcast (in Chicago) they had a nice little interview with David Lemieux during a break in the movie. I happen to turn it on for about 10 minutes or so.

Dead Ahead. Nice extras in the re-release DVD.

Listening to 6/4/78 ---- I am assuming it's Mickey on the motorcycle going into NFA --- typically Donna doesn't bother me, but she is a bit much during the NFA, even for me --- though the "all over the place levels" on the source doesn't help, though I guess it's hard to temper a women wailing into a microphone. Great, energetic show. https://archive.org/details/gd1978-06-04.sbd.cantor.miller.94407.sbeok.flac16

Are captured audio webcasts typically lossy?

Are webcast's not allowed on etree or other torrent sights?

What back album cover was Love on? My sister- in-law is a big Petty fan - her and my brother see him quite a bit, but I never gotten around to going with them (though I am fan) --- wish I would have saw him back in the 90s, prior to the rise in his ticket prices. They will be seeing him again this summer in Chicago.

Below is an old link to 'Bennett's Best Shows'. I assume many of the ones mentioned in the below link are at Owl and Bear or So Out of Tune. http://viachicago.org/topic/40180-bennetts-best-shows/?p=1336368&do=findComment&comment=1336368

Though I only went through the set once, I am a bigger fan of the Deceiver box set, which consists of 73-74 shows (which is without Lake) then the Court record, which has Lake.

I hardly ever listen to King Crimson ---- I can never get past the vocals --- but over the last few days I have been listening to Court and the Great Deceiver box set. The music is great --- the vocals/lyrics not so much.

All this time I always assumed the Peach Festival was in Georgia. Does any member of the band still live in Georgia?

From the just the little bit of some the new video's that I watched here at work -- they do look and sound great. I assumed the Dead signed off when they signed the contract for Bill Graham concerts they played --- that Graham owns the rights of the video ---- but I could be wrong.

I haven't been to the site in ages, but I believe it is a paid site now ---- It was nice when it was free --- they definitely have some good stuff. Lot's of ABB.