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First time hearing about the Temple Release --- thanks. I wonder how much more is in the vault? from Amazon.

Listening to it now and it's not ringing a bell -- only hit 74 in the States --- 14 in the UK. Whatever happen to Des'ree.

We named our kid Ezra (who is now 4) --- a nurse when she saw the name on his tag, said "Hey, Better than Ezra" - it made my wife and I chuckle. Terence Trent D'Arby comes to mind for me -- enjoyed that Wishing Well when it came out and then pretty much nothing.

You might want to pick up Live in Seattle, if you want to hear Jones and Tyner play with Coltrane in his later stage (in a live setting).

Yeah I guess --- would you say the Beatles Sgt. Peppers, too, then? The Beatles touched on the theme with Tomorrow Never Knows, I guess. The closest song to a psychedelic song for the Stone prior to Request was "Have You Seen Your Mother, Baby, Standing in the Shadow?"

It's rather amazing that you never heard the 5.8.77 show before - it's a good one. I just had a conversation about this show last week at a jazz show.

http://ultimateclassicrock.com/rich-robinson-woodstock/ Nice piece on Rich's Woodstock session.

Did you end up getting it? --- I listened to the set again after you posted --- Leo is the stand out track for me. I started to listen to the set while at work (no one was around) and finished it at home, while the kids and I were picking up the around the house. Its a great set for back ground music or sit around with head phones. I definitely miss Tyner - Alice Coltrane is okay, but she doesn't add too, too much to the music. Ali is great though and I always enjoy listening to Sanders.

I just would have wrote, 'I wonder what John McLaughlin thoughts were on Rush Limbaugh's Operation Chaos in 2008. ' - since all the linked stories are about McLaughlin --- that's all - it's all a mute point. I am guessing McLaughlin will be looking for a new line of work soon ---- probably as a FOX commentator- if he isn't one already, that is.

To be fair - so far Cantor is blaming ol' Cooter (yet) - his pollster is.

I used 'the jerry site' countless times over the years --- it was a great resource. http://www.thejerrysite.com/

You should just make it to Chicago and see them both at the same stage on the same day. It just a hop, skip, and a jump from your area. (The wife and I did briefly think about taking a family trip to Pittsburgh for the Tweedy' 6/6/14 show - for some reason recently - prior to the Tweedy Pittsburgh show announcement - I have been wanting to take trip to that area)

I know the Stones stayed at Still's house in CA for a time in 69 to rehearse. They may have spent more time there during the recording of Exile, too. The below shot was taken at Still's house. I just recently read that the girl in the photo was one of Still's house maids.

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.