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Below is from Nels' notes on his website... see the end of http://www.nelscline.com/coward.html NOTE: I hear that quite few CD trays have immediately fallen out/off of your CD package, the one I was just writing about just now with the fabulous artwork. Recalls/repairs are underway, but some may suffer. The Cryptogramophone IMPRINT is offering sympathy/discounts and will soon provide (YouTube, are you paying attention?) a little film about how you can repair yours, and I will show you the way! After I figure it out myself. Apparently, it involves Krazy Glue...

It's kinda funny that someone told him that Thurston County sounded like Radiohead. Thanks for the link, I always forget about his rather extensive Website. I looking forward to getting this CD. And Louie, be careful opening the CD packaging.

John Kass, of the Chicago Tribune, wrote a bit about LaHood in one of his columns. http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/columni...,4983113.column

Which Dylan covers?

working fine for me.

Dude from band explains.

I think the quality and availability of the 5/8/77 tapes were a large part of the reason why these tapes always topped people's list. I agree that there are better played 77 shows. Plus if you have not heard the show before: it is well worth the listen.

I downloaded it overnight and I listened to parts of it this morning. It is certainly different from the super crisp soundboard. I enjoy the distant yelling, screaming, and whistling during Morning Dew. It's definitely worth the download. The pictures of the venue in the comment section are interesting also, I never saw the venue before. It reminds me of European train station. http://img125.imageshack.us/my.php?image=bartonhallve5.jpg

http://www.deaddisc.com/GDFD_Grateful_Dead.htm http://www.archive.org/details/GratefulDead My introduction was the Skull and Roses and Dead Set records. Dead Set may not be the best, but it's a good introduction for the later phase of their career. The first link is their discography, rather daunting to look at, especially if one is trying to figure out what to purchase. The second link is their live shows that are streaming or and some(the audience recordings) can be downloaded. 1971 and 1972 shows, to me at least, are the most "accessible", though 1972 at times get's out there (

http://www.pitchforkmedia.com/article/reco...e-line-rarities A Pitchfork review of The Memorial Collection and Down the Line.

http://expectingrain.com/ Today, the Expecting Rain site has a decent comprehensive collection of links on The Day the Music Died.

It looks like the original seeder pulled it. Not sure if this link is valid any longer.

http://bt.etree.org/details.php?id=522027

Have not listened to it yet, but it's up @ bt.tree.

It's done. He's out. The vote was 59 for impeachment and zero against.

J.D Salinger can write the liner notes.

Now Dylan's Things have Changed...Liking these tunes. Hopefully Obama is not just passing through.

Thank you, indeed.

Well I guess it's "really" official. Chief Justice Roberts swore in Obama tonight (again) at the White House. I heard Roberts brought a cheat sheet this time.

up at the fest web site now, too. http://www.10klf.com/

It was a bit interesting to me that the Obama's first dance song at these balls was to Etta James' song "At Last". Must admit Beyonce performance with the Obama's dancing was pretty cool. (Is Etta James still performing? Although Beyonce did a great job, why didn't James perform it?) But At the Mid Atlantic gig, the Dead should have been asked to play it while the First couple danced, since the Etta performed with the Grateful Dead in the early 80's (82 new year i believe?). I just streamed it off of Archive a few weeks ago, I never heard it before. It sounded like Etta was having fun on sta

Wow, this is a coincidence. I posted the interview link before I read it all the way through; the below is from end of the interview. LP: If you could move forward 200 years from now and people were interested in knowing what your fondest memories were, what would you tell them? BW: Well, when we were playing in Egypt and let me first say that we really didn't play that well, which was a result of being jet lagged along with other numerous difficulties. The electricity was hit and miss and was very disruptive to our flow. And the first night that we went on stage, we sound checked and t

That made me crack up. True "deadication", to say the least. Do you think people hung out behind Wilco's Loft to see if they can find info on a 2009 residency? Perhaps that's why people in the past were always asking where the Loft is? Uh oh, I hope I didn't give anybody any ideas.

I concur. I heard bits of these shows before I got the Craddle release and the audio of the tapes was not very good. Rhino and the Dead organization did a good job cleaning up the sound. The DVD is great to watch, if nothing else for just having a visual of them play in front of the pyramids. Sure the camera work is a bit erratic but it does not hamper the the viewing much. Garcia is rather animated throughout the performance. There are definitely some clunkers, but worth the purchase. Plus it is fun listening and watching the discs while reading the Compendium write up.

http://www.allaboutjazz.com/php/article.php?id=31645 A rather lengthy Weir interview.